Republican Party demands President Obama stop talking about his jobs bill

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Republican Party demands President Obama stop talking about his jobs bill

by Jed Lewison

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Look about President Obama taking his jobs bill message to the American public:

The Republican National Committee launched a new ad Tuesday criticizing the president's bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia this week as taxpayer-funded campaigning.

The ad, titled the "Debt-End bus tour," features a montage of members of the media describing the president's push for his jobs and tax reform packages as campaign-style.

And John McCain, apparently still bitter about having gotten his ass handed to him in 2008, joins the RNC's lame attack:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday ripped again into President Barack Obama’s three-day bus tour that’s winding through two swing states, accusing his former foe of an unprecedented level of campaigning on taxpayers’ dollars. <...>

“Never do I believe any of us have seen the kind of activity that the president has engaged in, and all of it being charged to the taxpayers of America,” McCain said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “That’s wrong. That’s the wrong thing to do.”

Evoking his failed run for the presidency three years, ago, McCain noted that he “didn’t need a bus to be paid for and built by the government and the taxpayers of the United States.”

Sure, President Obama is just like McCain in 2008, except for the part about how Obama's the president, and as such, has unique travel travel requirements. Maybe it would make for a great photo op to put the president on Greyhound or put him on a Southwest Airlines flight, but as long as he's commander-in-chief, that's not going to happen, nor should it. No matter how cranky McCain or his Republican Party gets, every president before Obama (including GOP hero George W. Bush) and every president after Obama will do the exact same thing.

Moreover, Barack Obama isn't trying to win votes—he's trying prod Republicans like John McCain into getting off their collective behind in order to pass legislation to help grow the economy. While Republicans are fighting for jobs for themselves, President Obama is fighting for jobs for Americans.

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[babylonsister]

1. Everyday I have to ask: how low will they go? nt

[Richardo]

4. You'll never keep up.

...Lily Tomlin's line, but so apropos.

[indepat]

9. How low indeed, for they appear already lower that a snake's

belly. :patriot:

[tallahasseedem]

10. I do the same thing...

the sad part is that it actually surprises me how low they are going.

[CakeGrrl]

2. That's because POTUS demands that the Repub party start doing something about jobs

They don't want him talking directly to the people about what obstructionist do-nothings they really are.

Scumbags.

[catbyte]

3. Republicans Demand President:

Stop telling us to do our job! :rofl:

[Rambis]

5. Would somebody have the balls to tell them to fook off!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Didn't President Bush "campaign" for his Social Security "privatization"?

!#@$#$#*$% hypocrites!

:mad:

Maybe members of Congress (mostly Republicans) should just get off their butts and do their jobs and get to work figuring out how to help put the rest of the country back to work?

:shrug:

[badgolfer]

7. McCain

I don't understand why the Senate Democrats don't challenge this guy on the Senate floor. That is where he is trying to sell his bs about Obama.

Bush even had his bus purchased from the same Canadian company and ran all over the country campaigning. But, that isn't a problem for McCain and the republicans?

Are the Senate Democrats so in love with this man that they can't get after him?????

[Scuba]

8. After carefully considering their arguments...

[ClarkUSA]

11. "McCain, apparently still bitter about having gotten his ass handed to him in 2008"

He is not the only bitter sore loser who's still taking lame potshots at this President but he may be the most silly.