Courtesy of The Huffington Post clicking this title will take you to a transcript of Obama's news conference. My rant is posted below.

The initial speech that Obama gives before taking questions is articulate and comprehensive. Once again I am struck by how high our new President has raised the bar for eloquence while communicating with the American people as opposed to his predecessor who often sounded like he was trying to talk to a second grade classroom. And of course failing to do that effectively as well.

My advice is to read the whole speech, as it is quite informative and definitely helps to provide a clearer understanding of just why this package is so important and how the administration will implement it.

However I am going to take a moment to comment on a question that came during the press conference from Chip Reid of CBS News.

Question: Thank you, Mr. President. You have often said that bipartisanship is extraordinarily important, overall and in this stimulus package, but now, when we ask your advisers about the lack of bipartisanship so far -- zero votes in the House, three in the Senate -- they say, "Well, it's not the number of votes that matters; it's the number of jobs that will be created."

Is that a sign that you are moving away -- your White House is moving away from this emphasis on bipartisanship?

And what went wrong? Did you underestimate how hard it would be to change the way Washington works?

Obama: Well, I don't think -- I don't think I underestimated it. I don't think the -- the American people underestimated it. They understand that there have been a lot of bad habits built up here in Washington, and it's going to take time to break down some of those bad habits.

You know, when I made a series of overtures to the Republicans, going over to meet with both Republican caucuses, you know, putting three Republicans in my cabinet -- something that is unprecedented -- making sure that they were invited here to the White House to talk about the economic recovery plan, all those were not designed simply to get some short-term votes. They were designed to try to build up some trust over time.

And I think that, as I continue to make these overtures, over time, hopefully that will be reciprocated.

But understand the bottom line that I've got right now, which is what's happening to the people of Elkhart and what's happening across the country. I can't afford to see Congress play the usual political games. What we have to do right now is deliver for the American people.

So my bottom line when it comes to the recovery package is: Send me a bill that creates or saves 4 million jobs. Because everybody has to be possessed with a sense of urgency about putting people back to work, making sure that folks are staying in their homes, that they can send their kids to college.

That doesn't negate the continuing efforts that I'm going to make to listen and engage with my Republican colleagues. And hopefully the tone that I've taken, which has been consistently civil and respectful, will pay some dividends over the long term. There are going to be areas where we disagree, and there are going to be areas where we agree.

As I said, the one concern I've got on the stimulus package, in terms of the debate and listening to some of what's been said in Congress, is that there seems to be a set of folks who -- I don't doubt their sincerity -- who just believe that we should do nothing.

Now, if that's their opening position or their closing position in negotiations, then we're probably not going to make much progress, because I don't think that's economically sound and I don't think what -- that's what the American people expect, is for us to stand by and do nothing.

There are others who recognize that we've got to do a significant recovery package, but they're concerned about the mix of what's in there. And if they're sincere about it, then I'm happy to have conversations about this tax cut versus that -- that tax cut or this infrastructure project versus that infrastructure project.

But what I've -- what I've been concerned about is some of the language that's been used suggesting that this is full of pork and this is wasteful government spending, so on and so forth.

First of all, when I hear that from folks who presided over a doubling of the national debt, then, you know, I just want them to not engage in some revisionist history. I inherited the deficit that we have right now and the economic crisis that we have right now.

Number two is that, although there are some programs in there that I think are good policy, some of them aren't job-creators. I think it's perfectly legitimate to say that those programs should be out of this particular recovery package and we can deal with them later.

But when they start characterizing this as pork, without acknowledging that there are no earmarks in this package -- something, again, that was pretty rare over the last eight years -- then you get a feeling that maybe we're playing politics instead of actually trying to solve problems for the American people.

(Emphasis mine.)

Okay now here is what I want to address.

President Obama has gone way out of his way to include the Republicans in this process. He has been gracious, open minded, and accessible to these politicians and they have rewarded his efforts by essentially spitting in his face.

President Obam does not owe these people anything! He won his office BECAUSE the Republicans screwed up so badly. Reaching out to them has cost him some support by the more fringe elements of the Democratic party and caused him to weaken his stimulus package to placate these losers.

My advice to President Obama is to say FUCK YOU! He needs to go forward with the stimulus plan that HE thinks is right. I have every confidence it will prove successful.

Let these political infants throw themselves on the floor kicking and screaming about what a bad idea it is, and then when it starts solving our problems they can practice the concession speeches that they will surely need after they lose next election.

The American people are very engaged. They are paying attention. They know who is trying to save their homes and jobs, and who is simply playing partisan political games.

The GOP made a choice here, just let them reap the consequences of that choice. Obama needs to stop trying to include them. If in the future they want to jump on the bandwagon, let them come with hat in hand and publicly apologize for being an obstructionist and beg for the chance to be with the winning team.

Anyhow that is just my two cents. And do you know what, I think Jon Stewart agrees with me a little. So you know I must be right.

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