Obama Rails Against Partisanship

Although President Barrack Obama’s remarks at the Johnson Controls Inc. battery facility on Thursday afternoon touched on fuel efficiency standards and the role of manufacturing in the United States economy, repeated allusions to Congressional struggles on the deficit-reduction bill indicated that past partisanship preoccupied the President’s thoughts. 

“What we’ve seen in Washington the last few months has been the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock –- and that gridlock has undermined public confidence and impeded our efforts to take the steps we need for our economy,” Obama said. “It’s made things worse instead of better.”

The President consistently urged his listeners and supporters to vocalize their frustrations to Congress. He hoped that, “[Congress will] come back to Washington ready to compromise and ready to create jobs and ready to reduce our deficit, ready to do what you sent them here to do.”