Al Hunt Worries that the GOP Congress May ‘Screw up’ the Great Economy

Al Hunt: GOP Congress 'Not Interested in Getting Things Done'; May 'Screw Up' Great Economy (NewsBusters)

In an interview with newly elected Colorado Senator Cory Gardner for PBS's Charlie Rose, Bloomberg View columnist Al Hunt grilled the Republican on conservatives in Congress being obstructionist: "Some of your Republican colleagues, Ted Cruz in the Senate, those twenty-four House members who voted against Speaker Boehner, they're not interested in getting things done as much as they are in putting down markers. Isn't it more likely there'll be a series of confrontations rather than any kind of collaboration?"

Later in the same interview, Hunt cheered how well the economy was doing but worried the new Republican Congress could ruin it: "The report came out Friday morning that we – 600,000 jobs in the last two months, unemployment down to five, six. We are the envy of the world right now. And I guess the question is: Is there any danger Congress will screw it up?"