WE WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN

A new CNN poll shows that the American people aren't fooled by the Republican spin. Asked which party is "more responsible for the country's current economic problems," 41 percent faulted Republicans as opposed to just 28 percent who faulted Democrats.

EVERY SINGLE DAY

Every single day Barack Obama should attend a project or visit a business where new jobs are being created. Because for all the demands of the job perhaps the most demanding aspect is keeping it, as well as the congressional majorities that you rely on to move your agenda. The key to keeping both is never forgetting....IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID!

People are scared and when people get scared they get angry. No matter that the previous president ran the country into the ground. No matter that 8 million people lost their jobs at the hands of the previous incompetent and corrupt administration.  IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID!

The President needs to get out there and reassure the American people and show them that jobs are being created and that due to his policies things are getting better. He needs to have a series of fireside chats with the American people and he might as well do it out amongst them focusing on an issue that they are sure to be receptive to, their pocketbooks.

The President needs to do this consistently, every single day and he needs to do it loudly, utilizing all the advantages that the bully pulpit offers.

We count on you Mr. President to keep us safe from corporate water carrying, christian pandering, Republicans who drove this country into the ground and who have turned our politics into a culture war.

It's the economy Mr. President, don't be stupid.

I GUESS YOU CAN ARGUE WITH SUCCESS

News Item: General Motors pays off its government loans five years ahead of schedule with interest. Not only have the taxpayers been paid in full, they made a tidy profit.

If we would have listened to the likes of Jeff Sessions, Bob Corker and Richard Shelby, republican senators from southern states that host foreign owned, non union, auto manufacturers, we would no longer have a US auto industry. It would have been a terrible mistake.

Clearly their position was not based upon what is good for the whole of America but rather on what is good for them politically and their friends at Toyota et al. They cynically wanted to use the crisis as a way to break the unions who have traditionally supported democratic causes.

News Item: The US Treasury to sell 1.5 billion of the shares it owns in Citigroup at a profit to the taxpayers of just over $2 billion.

The original concept of the tea baggers was put forth by Congressman Ron Paul to stress his support for fiscal conservatism. The idea was then picked up by slick republican operatives who then took it to another level with the help of an avalanche of republican lies and talking points relentlessly pushed by Fixed News. Whipped into a frenzy, the tea party, at it's base, coalesced around their anger over the federal government's bailouts of the financial and automobile industries.

Now there is nothing wrong with being fiscally conservative but a time of spiraling deflation and raging recession demands public investment as a spur to recovery.

If we had followed calls for fiscal conservatism at just the wrong time and failed to act decisively, the results in terms of lost industries, not just individual businesses, would have been catastrophic for the American and indeed the world economy, the effects of which would have been felt for decades.

They say hind sight is 20/20 but aren't we fortunate to have a forward looking leader who has confidence in the future of American Capitalism. A leader who at a time of great economic crisis, not of his own making, understood the need to invest in the future of America and not give in to fear and retrenchment.

So with the taxpayers earning handsome profits on their investments they can thank the President for not only his money management skills on their behalf but also for saving the US auto and financial industries at the same time. It's time for anyone who opposed those investments in America to admit that they were wrong.

The question that comes to mind, at this point is, what is the purpose of the Tea Baggers?

I guess you really can argue with success.