“No,” Jennifer Rubin writes this morning, Obama’s jobs proposal “isn’t anything new.” Yesterday, in a speech to union members in Detroit, he signaled that he’ll be proposing “a major infrastructure program and an extension of a payroll tax break in the jobs speech he planned to deliver Thursday before a joint session of Congress.”
He said, “We’ve got roads and bridges across this country that need to be rebuilt”. Um, wasn’t the “stimulus” with all its “shovel-ready” projects supposed to take care of that?
Instead of talking in unifying post-partisan terms, he attempted to bait his partisan adversaries, “We’re going to see if we’ve got some straight shooters in Congress. We’re going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party“. Why can’t this guy just put his proposals forward without questioning the motives of the Republican opposition?
In the speech, he repeated one of his rhetorical tropes, insisting (as if he hadn’t been president for the past 31 months) that the “time for Washington games is over. The time for action is now”.
Alas that the type of action the president favors is at odds with the type of solutions the American people favor. Looking at the most recent Washington Post poll, Jon Cohen and Dan Balz find that
. . . there has been little change in the widespread public perception that Obama favors a bigger federal government that offers more services.
That highlights a major disconnect between Obama and the public. Only 38 percent of those polled say they favor a larger government with more services, while 56 percent say they favor a smaller government with fewer services.
(Post article via Jim Geraghty.)
*nor his partisan game-playing.
When I saw the threads title I thought it was going to about
Barack Michelles Stasha and Marissas spending. The Obamas living like Kings while the country suffers so badly.
We can talk about that spending another day.
If Obama wants new spending cuts, he should pay for it dollar-for-dollar (at least – if not more) with cuts elsewhere in the budget. And not defense cuts.
sorry typo, “If Obama wants new spending -projects-…”
President Obama is not serious about cutting spending; he’s going through the motions to act like he cares. He doesn’t. He is a crack addict when it comes to taxpayer money. He needs to lose in 2012 so he can stop the spending…
He said, “We’ve got roads and bridges across this country that need to be rebuilt”. Um, wasn’t the “stimulus” with all its “shovel-ready” projects supposed to take care of that?
Therein lies the question: “On what did you spend the trillion you already got in 2009 then?”
Republicans should very simply require Obama to publish a full accounting of on what he spent the “stimulus” in 2009 before they will agree to any more spending.
And watch how fast the screaming child Obama refuses to do what even the lowliest of public companies and executives are required to do.
”We’re going to see if we’ve got some straight shooters in Congress. We’re going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party.” Wouldn’t it be better if Obama put country over party first?
Look no real professional pol runs for office to serve for 8 years, whether President or congressperson, to cut or trim spending.
They all want libraries, bridges, freeways bike paths named after them. The key is hiring non polititians.
I don’t ever want to hear another fucking leftard bitch about how their patriotism is being questioned! Obama is flat out calling the GOP unpatriotic for not bending over and giving it to his demands! What an asshole!
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