Brian Dickerson: Status quo on jobs could be music to Republicans' ears

[SpartanDem]

The starkest disagreement between America’s two major parties is not over what the federal government should do about unemployment, but over who will pay the biggest price if the government does nothing.

President Barack Obama could not have been more clear about his own position in his address to Congress Thursday night:

“The media has proclaimed that it’s impossible to bridge our differences,” he said. “And maybe some of you have decided that those differences are so great that we can only resolve them at the ballot box.

“But know this: The next election is 14 months away. And the people who sent us here -- the people who hired us to work for them -- they don’t have the luxury of waiting 14 months.”
But in an eye-opening poll of “Republican insiders” — a polyglot of 110 current and former party leaders, nationally recognized strategists, and right-leaning pollsters, more than half those surveyed said it was either “not too important” (36%) or “not at all important” (16%) for the GOP that Congress adopts a major jobs bill by the end of 2011.
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But while some congressional Republicans sincerely believe that passing a jobs bill won’t make any positive difference, a lot more of them seem to be worried that it would.


http://www.freep.com/article/20110909/COL04/110909041/Brian-Dickerson-Status-quo-jobs-could-music-Republicans-ears?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE


In other words Republican plan to do the same things they've been doing since Obama took office

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. It's sad (and sick) that people that some of our so-called leaders

are basing decisions about helping the people (they claim to) represent mostly (if not entirely) on cynical political calculations. :puke: