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The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
Posted September 3, 2010 11:35 AM
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President Obama, surrounded by members of his economic team, speaks in the Rose Garden this morning. (Photo Credit: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Swamp

by Mike Memoli

Spinning this month's jobs report, President Obama announced he would detail a package of new measures aimed at stimulating the economy next week.

"We are confident we are moving in the right direction but we want to keep this recovery moving stronger and accelerate the job growth that is need so desperately all across the country," he said.

But a staple of Republican reaction to the stream of economic indicators in the past month has been to lampoon the administration for what they had advertised as "Recovery Summer."

"President Obama's agenda represented 'change' once, but now it is time for him to change course, abandon his job-killing policies, and find himself a new economic team," House Minority Leader John Boehner said in a statement this morning.

"President Obama's 'Recovery Summer' has ended right where it began, with Americans continuing to lose their jobs and unable to find new ones," RNC chair Michael Steele added.

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