Mike Hudack is a tumblelog.

We had lost 650,000 jobs in December [2008] - I’m assuming your’e not faulting my policies for that. We had lost, it turns out, 700,000 jobs in January, the month I was sworn in - I’m assuming it wasn’t my administration policies that accounted for that. We had lost another 650,000 jobs the subsequent month, before any of my policies had gone into effect, so I’m assuming that wasn’t as a consequence of our policies. That doesn’t reflect the failure of the Recovery Act.

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I keep asking myself why the Republicans would have agreed to let Obama smack down their nonsense for 90 minutes on live television.  And I keep coming to the same conclusion.  They’ve started to believe their own bullshit.  These people weren’t at all prepared for Obama to cordially decimate their arguments.  They clearly weren’t prepared for the president to come armed with facts gleaned from having actually read their proposals.  They weren’t prepared to go up against a smart, reasonable guy who’s not even a little bit afraid of them.