A quickie here. It just seemed like the timing is appropriate for a little piece of pure pep talk. Obama's new clever slogan has really got me thinking. We should all remember and understand it. For those that haven't heard it, it's in the title.
You know: "R" == Republican and "D" == Democrat
The moral is that now is not the time to let impatience over the economy cloud our judgment - as Republicans want the electorate to think. The Bush administration and his Republican House and Senate spent eight years ruining the economy.
Not only did we come very close to a new national depression, but some states and metropolitans in this country actually did fall into a depression. We didn't just snap out of the Great Depression, and we certainly won't and can't snap out of this recession and localized depression. FDR took the time to do things right, we have to do the same.
19 months is not nearly enough time to reverse 8 years of damage. So keep the gear at "D".