Posted on 09/02/2011 8:17:56 AM PDT by Libloather
Dems want Obama's job speech to contrast with GOP
By JIM KUHNHENN
AP 15 hrs ago
WASHINGTON (AP) The tiff over the timing of President Barack Obama's jobs speech to Congress offers little hope that Republicans and the White House will now find common ground on how to reduce the nation's painfully high unemployment. In fact, some Democrats say it's time Obama stopped trying so hard to negotiate.
On matters large and small, Obama has yielded to House Speaker John Boehner in a string of concessions that have unnerved Democrats and emboldened Republicans. A chorus of Democratic voices is now demanding that the president abandon his attempts at being a compromiser and instead lay out an ideological vision that distinguishes him from Republicans and becomes a template for his re-election.
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Obama must create a clear contrast between what he wants and what the Republicans want, Simon Rosenberg, president of the liberal-leaning think tank NDN, wrote this week. "If the president is to win the election next year, he will have to first win the economic debate with the Republicans, something, to date, he has not done."
Democratic strategist James Carville was even sharper, decrying the spectacle of the president being forced to change the day of his address to a joint session of Congress after Boehner took issue with Obama's initial request.
"The last thing that the White House needed was to appear to cave in to the speaker, and that's what happened," he said Thursday on ABC.
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That would be the one and only reason I can think of to watch Obama’s address to Congress next week: if he were to come right out and propose an overtly socialist agenda, admitting what we all know his band of Marxist kleptocrats want anyway.
Go hyper-partisan in front of a joint session?
Yeah, since his finger wagging at the Supreme Court Justices during the SOTU went over so well. /sarc
bttt
Boehner controls the TV cameras in the House. How about limiting coverage to close ups of Obama and no shots panning the chamber? Cut off his campaign commercial before it happens.
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