Well, with all due respect, President Obama had a democratic Congress when he arrived in Washington. He passed a stimulus bill which is a bill he and Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats agreed on. And they promised that unemployment would not go above eight percent.
David Gergen discusses the responsibility of President Obama and the Democratic Congress regarding the stimulus bill and unemployment rates.
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Yes, absolutely, Anderson. And in fact, Democrats on the House side are starting on this and of course, Nancy Pelosi is pushing it within the confines of the badly run negotiations.
Mitch McConnell has just thrown down the gauntlet, Anderson. I think we're going to have a titanic fight over this.
Fifty million Americans or more out there believe that he is coming to office by fraud. It seems to me the Democratic Party has a strong interest in pushing back on that theory.
I think it's something that's spontaneous. It's happening in the country where just tons and tons of people are coming out because they feel that democracy is at stake that we're in real trouble here.
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