My note to President Obama.

Mr. President - you are running out of time.

At this point - a double-dip recession is all but certain - and outside of CEO boardrooms and Wall Street, most Americans never recovered from the first recession.

And to prevent things from getting worse, we hear that you’re going to release a jobs bill next month.

And I - as well as most progressives - and - frankly, I think - most Americans around the nation - - even the Tea Partiers - hope you go big.

Because ultimately - this is your best chance to really boost both your presidency - the progressive movement - and, frankly, to save the United States of America from economic disaster.

You’ve spent the first three years of your presidency trying to be the post-partisan president you promised to be while campaigning - and most of us today, or many of us, wish that that was the campaign promise you'd broken.

Because look where negotiating with Republicans hell-bent on destroying your presidency has gotten us.

It got us a stimulus package in 2009 that your own economic advisors said was far too small to repair the massive multi-trillion dollar hole blown into our economy by the banksters.

A stimulus package that may have worked to prevent a Great Depression for a few years - but was not big enough to trigger an actual economic recovery - and is running dry today - just when the nation needs it the most.

It got us a health reform law - that does a lot of good things - but falls way short of the mark you set on the campaign for real progressive reform - no single payer - no public option - no guarantee that health insurance is a basic human right.

And it’s a health reform law that is now just one Supreme Court ruling shy of being gutted by Ginny Thomas's husband.

It got us a Wall Street reform bill that only started to address the underlying causes of the financial crisis - and then made too big to fail even bigger - and that Republicans today are hard at work trying to repeal.

And compromising with Republicans got us a whole bunch of nothing too
- as in no plan to end the wars
- no plan to close Gitmo
- no plan to solve our energy crisis
- no plan to bring transparency to our elections
- no plan to solve illegal immigration
- and as of right now - no plan to end the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires as you promised.

And we can let a lot of these things slide - most of us couldn't imagine back in 2009 the lengths that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican soldiers would go to in their efforts to sabotage your presidency - even though last year he promised to take you down:

Our top political priority over the next 2 years would be to deny President Obama a second term.

Could any of us REALLY have guessed that the Republican Party would try to crash the economy just to kick you, sir, out of office?

I was predicting it, but people called me a conspiracy nut.

Turns out I was right, and now that we DO know how totally lacking in ethics or patriotism these Republicans are - now that we’ve seen what these Republicans were willing to do in this recent debt-limit debate - that ended with you signing your name to a piece of legislation that John Boehner bragged he got 98% of what he wanted in - that downgraded our credit rating - and that will cost our economy 1.8 million jobs by next year - there are no excuses anymore.

You can no longer afford to negotiate with the hostage-takers and economic terrorists in the Republican Party.

Now is the time to fight - and - with one year to go - turn things around - you have to be bold.

You have to put forward a jobs package that invests trillions of dollars - which is what your first stimulus should have invested.

And trillions of dollars is actually a small amount to undo the damage of literally 30 years of neglect that's left our nation's infrastructure crumbling because of Ronald Reagan's "starve the beast" economics.

Trillions can rebuild our out-dated energy grid - and unleash a green revolution to kick our addiction to dirty fossil fuels - and create millions of jobs in the clean tech industry.

There are scientists and entrepreneurs just waiting to get their technology on to the market - but they need the full force of the government - which is instead giving tens of billions of dollars to big oil - they need that government to change course and get behind new energy.

We're the wealthiest nation on the planet - there's no reason why we should still be depending on a 1970's infrastructure - some of it actually built in the 1910's - in the 21st Century we're depending on that stuff.

And if we're willing to give banksters trillions of dollars to keep them from going bankrupt - we should be willing to make the same investment on Main Street to once again have America lead the world in a solid, safe, and secure middle class.

You know, it's that "Right to life, liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" thing....

Some will say this costs too much money - but there's a real simple way to pay for it all - and the American people are in near total agreement on how to do it....

and that's to tax the rich and our giant transnational corporations that are showing trillions in profits and paying - in many cases - no taxes whatsoever.

You know - those millionaires and billionaires who are enjoying the literally the lowest levels of taxation in 50 years.

Make them pay their fair share - as Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky's plan does - and we can fund everything we need to get this economy back on track.

Of course - there's no way the Republicans will go along with this.

Which is fine - it actually gives you the opportunity - in fact the best opportunity - to not only win re-election - but to get all these Republican bums voted out of office.

And you do that by hitting the Republicans over the head again and again for the next year with this bold jobs proposal.

Make the Republican Party take the position that the they don't believe the United States can compete with the rest of the world.

Make the Republican Party take the position that millionaires and billionaires must have their tax cuts - even if it means throwing overboard kids and seniors.

Make the Republican Party take the position that they don't want to see tens of millions of Americans working and collecting good paychecks.

You know, that's what Harry Truman did to the Republican Congress in 1948 - and he not only won the presidency - but the Republicans didn't control the House of Representatives again for 46 years.

Mr. President - there are millions of people who worked their butts off to get you elected - and haven't given up on you - and are ready to stand behind you - but you have to lead right now.

You have to be the loud voice for progressive change that you were in 2008.

If you do that - if you fight - and fight hard - then we will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and turn this nation around - and put an end to the Tea Party - AND the Republican hostage-takers once and for all.

But if you don't - then one of these guys will be elected President.

That's the choice - drastic times require bold measures.

We've done our part in showing up to get you elected, and even taking back part of Wisconsin and a lot of efforts in a lot of other states.

It's time, Mr. President, for you to do your part in a big way.

Sir, get out there - get active... tag you're it, Mr. President.

That's The Big Picture.