Cheers!
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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Eff You, thug.
Well, if R’s are racists then they’re mean. He’s got a demonization routine for every month of the year.
Take out the pork dems. Republicans are concerned and are calling for a clean war funding measure to be debated without further delay. http://is.gd/cVTCf
Obama sees “the jobless” as a class to be nurtured and catered to. Republicans see “the jobless” as a group we’d like to eliminate.
Cheers!
What is “toubled”? Is that like Hugh and series?
The socialists control the White House. They control the House. They control the Senate. They have a balance in the Supreme Court. Yet it’s still Bush’s fault. Obama is not just shockingly anti-American; he’s also shockingly incompetent if he still can’t “make things better” or stop “the oceans rising” after 16 months with his regime in power.
Its always someones else’s fault.
What a pantywaist of a leader.
Bamster just wants the unemployment checks mailed every Monday. What could be easier.
Yo B’rack? This is what you need to do, asswipe:
He can spout off like this with impunity as long as nobody calls him on it
Ummm - didn’t he already borrow billions of dollars?
Always blaming someone, huh, Jack Squat? How original.....=.=
...the clown just put thousands out of work with his drilling mandate...wait till his census workers hit the bricks
“making life harder for the unemployed”
And you communists are making them comfortable in their poverty.
To paraphrase Ben Franklin.
Man, those Republicans and their majority in the Senate. They’re just keeping the proletariat down.
HOW DARE THEY!!!!!!!!
/sarc
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