Wherever we go, there we are

Cong. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, made an impassioned plea on the House floor today for a "better way," than the path being forged by the Obama administration. Frankly, his plea was a bit muddled.

He called the current situation the "Obama economy" when, of course, the economic implosion really began in the spring of 2008 and the seeds for the meltdown were sewn even earlier. And he urged his colleagues to "work together" for small business, no details, however.

But the best part of his speech was he brandished a copy of today's Bakersfield Californian and quoted one of our headlines about unemployment going to 14.7 percent in June. Cool, we're in the Congressional Record!

Course, everyone seems to forget what Kern's unemployment rate was like for YEARS before the boom...12-15 percent was not unusual. I remember when we dropped below 10 percent for the first time. It was a banner headline on A1. (The article McCarthy referenced, by the way, was on B1)

So, yes, the disasterous economy has hurt us, no doubt...but where were the Congressional speeches about our terrible straits back in the 1990s and early 2000s? Just run of the mill back then, I guess.

Here's a vid of McCarthy's (and The Californian's) moment on the floor.