The Swamp's Mark Silva has a piece online -- complete with a picture of Joe Biden at President Obama's elbow carrying a caption mocking the President's introduction of Biden -- describing the first steps the new President is taking in an effort to undo the damage of the last eight years to our economy. Go read that first. I'll wait.

Don't miss the way Silva undermines the unions in the opening graf, either.

President Barack Obama, creating a "Task Force on the Middle Class'' today, also signed executive orders aimed at strengthening labor unions - this on a day when the nation's Gross Domestic Product suffered its worst slide in three decades.

Oh, hai. You're back early. The M$M, the Corporate Media, the shills for big money, the cheap-labor conservatives' mouthpieces, will harp on this meme -- unions bad, corporations good -- until the world looks level. They're lying. You'll need to remember that.

No doubt that's one of the more spinnable statements of the young administration. But.
What if that's really what the men mean? What if this administration really sees organized labor as part of the solution?
That's such a huge turnaround, right there on its face, from the Reaganomics BS we've been force-fed since 1980 -- 28 years of slops -- that I'm nearly in tears with joy.
Meanwhile, I'm making a statement here of my own and backing it up with some fair use quotes -- from Silva and other sources, below the fold.

America, that is. Let's see, I think this blurb has it all. Tell me this doesn't sound strangely like someplace you know, fast foward a few years:

Earlier I asked our Bush supporting readers for a little insight into why they think he's doing a Heck of a Job. The response was...crickets chirping. So I'll help you out and give you another chance. Hale spells it out with beauty and clarity, with plenty of live links I'm too lazy to copy:

Ladies and gentlemen, we are living in an undeclared war. The Republicans have allied themselves with the top 10% of income earners, doing everything they can to benefit them while they are still in power. They have created a society for them. Meanwhile, the middle class faces increasing financial pressures. We are already in a class war. And they are winning.

Eat it, middle class people! That's what 99% of Republicans and a depressingly large number of Democrats in Congress said to you last year.