“A Republican, he lamely adds “If I have any good news for you it is that the worst of this comes in 2012 into 2013 and we should be rid of Obama and his minions.”
Like it did FDR?
Uh, the comparable scenario in GD 1 was "If I have any good news for you it is that the worst of this comes in 1932 into 1933 and we should be rid of Hoover and his minions."
As it happens, the worst of it was in early 1933, and we were rid of Hoover...though it turns out that his replacement set up the historical replay 80 years later.