Posted on 08/31/2011 12:15:49 PM PDT by lbryce
President Obama is requesting a joint session of Congress for next Wednesday at 8 p.m. — the same time as a scheduled Republican presidential debate, as it happens — to give a much anticipated speech outlining his proposals to boost employment and the economy.
In a letter to Congressional leaders on Wednesday, Mr. Obama said it was his “intention to lay out a series of bipartisan proposals that the Congress can take immediately to continue to rebuild the American economy by strengthening small businesses, helping Americans get back to work, and putting more money in the paychecks of the middle class and working Americans.”
That Mr. Obama was going to make his speech next week was expected. But it is remarkable that he would choose to do so in such an elevated setting as a joint session, and at the same time that Republican candidates for president will be laying out their own visions for how to get the country out of the economic doldrums. It is a challenging gesture from a president who appears set on laying out as stark a contrast as he can between where he would like to take the country and where the opposition would go.
“Our nation faces unprecedented economic challenges, and millions of hard-working Americans continue to look for jobs,” Mr. Obama said in his letter to Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada. “As I have traveled across our country this summer and spoken with our fellow Americans, I have heard a consistent message: Washington needs to put aside politics and start making decisions based on what is best for our country and not what is best for each of our parties in order to grow the economy and create jobs,
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Lol, much anticipated by whom? And what will this be, Obama Jobs Plan 2.0 or 3.0, or whatever?
Makes sense to me!
How about just re-running the last jobs speech.
Boehner: Just say “NO!!”
He's a lawyer and his psychological games in timing, dress, poise as well as his rhetoric, political maneuvering around people or rules, pinning people up with policy, words etc are all awesome, ***to bad that all his decisions/policies suck.***
...unprecedented ...
“You keep using that word, I don’t think it means what you think it means”
Obummer is such a tool! I wish I could parent-block him automatically ever time he appears on T.V. Now there’s an “App” worth paying paying for. :-D
I’d just as soon the Repubs went to a pub for a beer and let their seats show empty.
The app will be complimentary on January 20, 2013 courtesy of the American electorate.
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