Lee: Voters will regret GOP House (Contra Costa Times) 11/5/10
Lee: Voters will regret GOP House
BAY AREA NEWS GROUP
Posted: 11/05/2010 06:35:56 PM PDT
Updated: 11/05/2010 06:35:57 PM PDT
"When the smoke clears, I think people are going to say, 'My God, what have we done?'"
So said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, a few minutes ago, discussing the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives.
"We have to regroup. I hope Speaker Pelosi continues to serve as our minority leader," Lee said. "I think we really have to look at what has been said tonight, the American people are really suffering, they want jobs, they want the quality of life everyone deserves."
But Lee said she believes voters across the nation will soon realize Republicans and tea partyers "totally obstructed the jobs agenda" for the past two years, voting against job-creation measures and unemployment insurance extensions at every turn.
"The frustration and the fact that the economy has not turned around quick enough is what the message has been ... but if we can get money out of the political system and start to bring forward what the Democrats have done and what the Republicans have obstructed, people will begin to realize what the tea party really stands for," Lee said.
-- Josh Richman
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