Obama Hits Road Again to Push Pieces of Jobs Bill

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Times

Using the runway behind him as a symbol of America’s dilapidated public infrastructure, Mr. Obama assailed the Senate for voting last week to block his $447 billion bill, which he said would have supplied money to repair and widen that runway.

“They said no to putting teachers and construction workers back on the job,” Mr. Obama said to a spirited crowd of several hundred gathered on the tarmac under a giant American flag. “They said no to rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our airports.”

“Essentially,” he declared, “they said no to you.”

Now, Mr. Obama said, his administration was breaking the jobs bill into individual measures on spending and tax cuts — “bite-sized pieces,” as he called them — saying that maybe the Republicans “couldn’t understand the whole thing at once.”


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/us/politics/obama-hits-road-again-to-push-pieces-of-jobs-bill.html

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It is interesting that after some folks attacked Obama for compromising with the GOP, some on DU attacked President Obama for pushing a jobs bill that "he knew the GOP would never accept." Well, here is President Obama continuing push the 112th Congress to take action on improving employment. Of course, after the GOP filbustered the bill on the ground that it was too big of a bill, they will not probably attack President Obama's efforts for being piece meal.

And, why not? The corporate media has conditioned the American public to blame Democrats and give Republicans a free pass. Heck, look at the coverage of the OWS protests. The Tea Party protests were always portrayed as grass roots patriots who were united in their opposition to Democratic reforms, including Financial Reform of all things. Yet, the OWS protests are never portrayed as a reaction to the refusal of elected leaders to even consider tax increases to the rich, i.e., the "job creators."

[TheWraith]

1. For some people, it was never really about policy.

It was just rampant dissatisfaction with Obama. If he cut deals, he was being weak; if he pushed a strong bill that was blocked entirely, he was posturing. Some people still seem of the belief that he can get anything he wants just by virtue of being President, and saying "make it happen!"

[TomCADem]

2. I Think The Bigger Problem Is That Republicans Are Not Held Accountable

They can pretty much admit that they are trying to make the President and Country fail and go into default, and the corporate media spins it as smart politics, rather than suicidal partisanship.

The fact that is hiding in plain sight, but which is repeatedly ignored, is that the 112th Congress is perhaps the worst in history. The House in particularly engages in meaningless symbolic efforts designed to appeal their base, yet they make no effort to accomplish the simplest of tasks such as passing disaster relief funding or increasing the debt limit.

Yet, the corporate media protects them by pushing a false equivalency that both parties must be at fault.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

9. Obama pushing offshore drilling was about policy.

Try and talk your way around that one.

[mvd]

3. I didn't complain about pushing the whole thing

The country needed the whole thing, and even that isn't enough. The President is pretty powerful and I don't buy that he can't get things done. Will it be 100% of what we want? No. But I'd have a different approach. It is a good thing to have the Repukes on record for each piece if he's giving up on the whole thing at once.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Obama's already won big on jobs

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2108607

[Harmony Blue]

5. I am 100% in Obama's

corner with what he is trying to do. The key is consistency, and resilience.

[DesertFlower]

6. i agree. nt

[99th_Monkey]

7. Score ONE for Obama

In the "Promises Kept" column.

i.e. Obama said if Congress balked he'd take it to the people,
I like it. Hope it lights a white hot fire under the stooges
in Congress who are actively or passively blocking his jobs bill

[Demeter]

8. Is Obama Going to Come Sell Korean Cars to Detroit, Again?

:eyes: