Obama Attacks GOP "Pledge to America"
The LA Times reports:
Reporting from Washington —President Obama used his weekly radio address Saturday to rip the GOP's recently unveiled "Pledge to America" manifesto, while a House Republican leader hit back in his own radio remarks.
Obama accused Republicans of wanting "to put special interests back in the driver's seat in Washington," arguing that the latest GOP prescriptions are "grounded in the same worn-out philosophy: Cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires; cut the rules for Wall Street and the special interests; and cut the middle class loose to fend for itself."
Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, Republicans' chief deputy whip and an author of the 21-page manifesto the GOP rolled out last week, responded by blaming Obama for the economic malaise gripping the nation.
"As a result of the economically disastrous policies of the current administration, millions of Americans are out of work today, and our children will be saddled with a deficit and debt that is, by every definition, out of control," McCarthy said.
"The land of opportunity has become the land of shrinking prosperity," he said. "Americans across the country are outraged, and so are we.... Our government has failed us."
The president noted that on Monday economists declared that the recession officially ended in June 2009, meaning the U.S. economy is now growing, albeit modestly.
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