It is the best of times, according to unemployment and stock market figures and the worst of times, according to Republican rhetoric.

It truly is the best of times for the Obama administration, which led us to recovery after the Bush administration had led us to financial collapse, and the worst of times for the Republican Party, whose sound and fury are the mouthings of a political idiot, but they can’t change the facts.

Alan D. Johnson

Portland

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