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The Spectacle Blog
So President Obama’s “pass it right away” jobs bill can’t even get the Democratic votes it needs to clear the Senate, but that’s no problem. “Winning in Congress was never really part of the plan.” The objective isn’t to actually pass a jobs bill but to obtain an electoral advantage over the GOP. Politico reports:
In a shift for the White House, the relentless focus on the American Jobs Act wasn’t about racking up a legislative win. It was always about laying the foundation for the only real argument Obama has in 2012: I have a plan to create jobs now and Republicans don’t.
Along the way, a president who hates to lose — on the basketball court, in the voting booth or on Capitol Hill — realized it was his surest strategy for winning.
It was obvious from the president’s speech introducing the then-incomplete American Jobs Act that inflicting political damage on Republicans was the primary goal. It would have been nice to think that creating jobs was at least a secondary concern.
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Pete| 10.12.11 @ 11:03AM
Just once I'd like to see a mainstream media article with the title, "President not concerned with jobs, plays politics with weak bill" or the like.
LC JB | 10.12.11 @ 12:15PM
I hear you there Pete. Unfortunately in spite of this stuttering, miserable failure of a pResident, the MSM will carry even MORE water for him this time around. He is aware of their monolithic socialist ideology and will keep using these most useful idiots.
Flee| 10.12.11 @ 3:04PM
I want the R's to send him back a bill that allows for all his spending requests by subtracting the entire amount from welfare and other sundry programs. PayGo is how they are supposed to operate correct? He claims to be a tax cutter but you can allow him not to cut at this point. Cut spending elsewhere to pay for these brilliant programs. Cut out the feeble attempts at tax reductions and credits that haven't worked at all anyway. Then we can see Obama squirm. Make him tradeoff his welfare votes for union votes. That would be an interesting dilemma for Obama to confront.
Occam's Tool| 10.12.11 @ 4:13PM
This President is happy to see America lose. WE have never been part of HIM.
AVCurmudgeon| 10.12.11 @ 8:46PM
Odd as it may seem, Obama is not just running against Republicans and the Tea Party, he is running against Democrats as well. His mantra is a "do-nothing Congress", and last time I looked both parties have members there.
You get another whiff of this with his statement that he is instructing his satraps to proceed with "jobs" programs without Congress. He has gone from "pass this bill now!" to "bill? I don't need no stinking bill"
Obama is a lone wolf as has recently been described, and he is running as such: it is Obama against the world. It is about "loving" him, while he lies and dissembles and plays games along the border with the lives of US officers and agents.
If an election is all about an individual, then that individual is all about personal power. We must pay attention, because the words he uses are no accident.
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