Obama responds to GOP critics of stimulus bill (only Obama quotes)

[underpants]

Source: AP/Yahoo

"Let's not make the perfect the enemy of the essential," Obama said as Senate Republicans stepped up their criticism of the bill's spending and pressed for additional tax cuts and relief for homeowners. He warned that failure to act quickly "will turn crisis into a catastrophe and guarantee a longer recession."

Obama said the criticisms he has heard "echo the very same failed economic theories that led us into this crisis in the first place, the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems."

"I reject those theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change," said the president, who was elected with an Electoral College landslide last fall and enjoys high public approval ratings at the outset of his term.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_on_go_co/congress_stimulus

[jpak]

1. Fucking A Mr. President

and K&R

[underpants]

3. Link to VIDEO 9:59

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x268206

[maxsolomon]

2. now provide Reid with a spine

to call the GOP's bluff on a filibuster.

[GentryDixon]

4. You have to understand a Mormon man.

Around here we call them "Molly Mormon". They are milquetoast. No backbone, just "Scripture" to quote you and the let's get along mentality. You should go to one of their funerals. They all have the same monotone Reid has and ramble on ad nauseam . :puke:

[Oregone]

5. Does he have words for non-GOP critics of the bill...

people pissed about the gratuitous tax cuts and such?