Obama doesn’t need any help “taking down” the economy.

(CNS) — Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) said the “entire agenda” of the Republican-controlled House is to defeat Barack Obama in 2012 even if they “take down” the U.S. economy in the process.

At a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday, Cohen said, “The fact that all these states came up with these laws at the same time was not spontaneous generation, it was Rovian,” referring to state voter ID laws requiring individuals to present photo identification before casting a ballot in an election. (“Rovian” refers to Republican strategist Karl Rove.)

This was an obvious Republican attempt to hurt our vote in 2012 and to hurt the President of the United States’ chances of reelection, which is the entire agenda of the Republican House, is to defeat Barack Obama even if they take down the United States economy while they do it,” said Cohen.