NO, you can't drive! And you're no good at mopping either!

President Obama told a Democratic fundraising event in New York late Thursday that despite one of the busiest and most accomplished legislative sessions in recent memory, he witnessed "our friends on the other side of the aisle fall all over themselves to argue otherwise."
 From holding up nominees to proposing frivolous amendments and gumming up committee hearings, the Republicans have tried nearly any tactic they could conceive to block progressive reforms. Last night, President Obama delivered a pointed and sharp political critique of Republicans. The president compared Republicans to bad drivers who once drove the car into a ditch and now want the keys back:

OBAMA: After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want to keys back. No! You can’t drive! We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out.

At the fundraiser, President Obama used one of his routine formulas to describe the antagonism in Washington between the two major political parties.
"We got our mops and our brooms out, we're cleaning stuff out, and they're sitting there saying, 'Hold the broom better. That's not how you mop.'
"Don't tell me how to mop. Pick up a mop! Do some work on behalf of the American people to solve some of these problems," he told some 185 guests gathered at the prestigious St Regis Hotel in Manhattan.
The president accused Republicans of doing "their best to gum up the works; to make things look broken; to say 'no' to every single thing."
Obama has claimed a major victory this year with the passage of historic health care legislation, despite unanimous Republican opposition to the bill.
Republicans this year have successfully used legislative delaying tactics, forcing Obama's fellow Democrats through a tortuous process to pass major legislation.
The president said that with just six months left before crucial mid-term elections in November, Republicans were hoping to sweep several seats in the Senate and House of Representatives through their obstructionism.
"Their basic attitude has been: 'If the Democrats lose, we win.'"

 “You would have thought at a time of historic crisis that Republican leaders would have been more willing to help us find a way out of this mess,” Obama added. “Particularly since they created the mess.” Watch it: