Obama Gets Back on the Bus to Push Jobs Act
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 18th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Obama Gets Back on the Bus to Push Jobs Act
Peter Nicholas, LA Times
President Obama climbs back on board his big, black armored bus this week to shore up his popularity in a couple of battleground states and revert to Plan B in his campaign to pass a $447-billion jobs package, focusing on specific elements of the bill that he wants Congress to approve right away. Obama’s American Jobs Act was blocked by Senate Republicans and two Democrats in a procedural vote last week, setting in motion a plan to salvage the bill by breaking it up and submitting it piece by piece.
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Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media
In 2008, the following was the general right-wing argument against Obama’s candidacy:a) The self-professed “uniter” Obama had, in truth, little record of uniting disparate groups. From community organizing to politics, his preferred modus operandi was rather to praise moderation, but politick more as a radical, and sometimes go after opponents as unreasonable or illiberal. Thus the most partisan voting senator in the Congress, who talked grandly of “working across the aisle,” also urged supporters to “get in their faces”…
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