Posted on 06/19/2010 4:06:26 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
WASHINGTON -President Barack Obama on Saturday pinned blame on Republicans for making life harder for the unemployed and for those who could lose their jobs without new federal intervention. He did so even as he sought to distance himself from the "dreary and familiar politics" of Washington.
Capping a week in which the administration scored a victory — a $20 billion fund to be paid by BP for the victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill — Obama reserved his radio and Internet address to focus on the work that didn't get done.
His main concern was the rejection of a bill in the Senate that would have provided more money for the long-term unemployed, aid for strapped state governments and the renewal of popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals.
"If this obstruction continues, unemployed Americans will see their benefits stop," Obama said. "Teachers and firefighters will lose their jobs. Families will pay more for their first home. All we ask for is a simple up or down vote. That's what the American people deserve."
The broad economic bill failed Thursday when Democrats could not muster the 60 votes needed to end debate. The 56-40 vote fell four shy of the total required to break the GOP filibuster. Republicans support many of the policies in the legislation but are demanding changes to shrink its toll on the deficit.
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Like the moratorium that just did in some 145,000 jobs?
Some of those rigs have already whipped out the force majeure clause in their contracts and are headed for different waters. You don't leave $700,000,000 worth of equipment sit idle when it could be bringing in a million dollars a day.
with the truth
Dang, long day
there are no jobless. the obamagastic stimulus plan employed them all.
Obama = Whiny little girl
BUSH’s FAULT!!!!
He is making it hard on the jobless because he is the reason they don’t have jobs. He has done absolutely nothing to put small businesses and corporations at ease to help encourage hiring and investment. Either way people shouldn’t expect unlimited unending unemployment. It encourages them to stall on their job searches. People need to realize that they will have to take jobs that are probably not what they are used to in terms of salary and benefits. Paying them to sit idle is just a ploy by Obama to do exactly what he is doing here which is blame the GOP for not cutting them a check for sitting on their duffs while he does nothing at all to encourage job growth.
The Greeks already have your answer... the GERMANS!!!
I think they are really trying their best to prop up the "O" as opposed to 2008 when they wanted to sink anything with an (R) on it in DC.
I am all in favor of the economy sliding headfirst into the toilet in an election year when the rats are in charge!!
Even olberdork and missy chrissy mathews are saying the emperor is naked now..
Well, he trumps that by being the one to CREATE the jobless!!!
He has spent a year and a half blaming someone else.
And dear leader is making things harder for those who still have jobs and those who provide the very jobs he’s demanding.
“President Barack Obama on Saturday pinned blame on Republicans for making life harder for the unemployed”
Typical. The Kenyan’s failed economic policies have made life harder for everyone.
YEah - makes perfect sense - blame the GOP for balking at even more ineffective and out-of-control spending, while completely ignoring the fact that it is his administration that has come up with the failed policies that have put so many out of work in the first place.
Keep up the good work you thorn in the side of freedom.
We see the work you are doing!
Some of the jobless need life to be a little harder.
I know nothing....
Nothing!!!
“That’s what the American people deserve.”
Uh, No. What the American people DESERVE is someone other than this limp-wristed egotist actually LEADING our Nation!
(And not LEADING it off a cliff!!)
Obama is making more jobless.
yaahh, but I prefer Fizzzies, the ones with cyclamates; I guess the headlines should have read;
Obama says GOP making life harder for the Jokeless.
Subtitle: Obama doesn’t get it, he invited Monty Python will be appearing this week and “…We hope you will enjoy the show…”
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