On Saturday, President Obama used his weekly radio address to criticize the Republican Party’s “Pledge to America” manifesto. Obama accused Republicans of wanting to put special interests back in the driver’s seat in Washington.

President Obama: “Now, the Republicans who want to take over Congress offered their own ideas the other day. Many were the very same policies that led to the economic crisis in the first place, which isn’t surprising, since many of their leaders were among the architects of that failed policy. It’s grounded in same worn-out philosophy: cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires, cut the rules for Wall Street and the special interests, and cut the middle class loose to fend for itself. That’s not a prescription for a better future. It’s an echo of a disastrous decade we can’t afford to relive.”