LaHood feigns being a blocking back before President Obama's
January, 2010 Q&A session with House Republicans (White House photo)
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who served as a Republican in the House before joining the Obama administration,
slams his former colleagues:
The most prominent Republican in the Obama administration is accusing GOP House members of blocking efforts to resolve the nation's problems, partly because they don't want the president to be successful.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was asked at a transportation conference Friday why it was so difficult to get big infrastructure projects built right now.
He responded that "some people don't want Obama to be successful."
He said "a big percentage of the Republicans that were elected this time came here to do zero, and that's what they've done." LaHood says those lawmakers have obstructed other people who want to get things done.
So when John Boehner whines and complains about President Obama allegedly ignoring the Republican jobs plans, that's bull. What's actually happening is that President Obama and his administration are doing everything in their power to call attention to the Republican Party's jobs proposals. The problem is that that those proposals are to sit back and do nothing. If Republicans want to make the case that they are for creating jobs, then they need to stop saying no and they need to put the interests of the public ahead of the GOP's 2012 campaign strategy. In other words, they have no case.