Defiant Obama challenges GOP on jobs bill (but it was Democrat Reid that blocked the "jobs bill")

Yahoo ^ | 10/6/2011 | Ben Feller/ AP

[tobyhill]

Defiant and frustrated, President Barack Obama aggressively challenged Republicans Thursday to get behind his jobs plan or explain why not, declaring that if Congress fails to act "the American people will run them out of town."

The president used a White House news conference to attempt to heighten the pressure he's sought to create on the GOP by traveling around the country, into swing states and onto the home turf of key Republican foes including House Speaker John Boehner and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Giving a bit of ground on his own plan, he endorsed a new proposal by Senate Democrats to tax millionaires to pay for his jobs program. "This is not a game," he said.

Obama made no apologies for his decision to abandon seeking compromise with Republicans in favor of assailing them, sometimes by name. He contended that he'd gone out of his way to try to work with the GOP since becoming president, reaching hard-fought deals to raise the government's borrowing limit and avert a government shutdown, and had gotten nothing in return.

[Made In The USA]

Wow, I really missed that part of the story. Good for them on calling his bluff. Chuckie Schumer would have to defend taxing high earning libs in NYC under this plan! Love it.

[EBH]

The propaganda is thick.

This next year is going to feel like living in an alternate universe.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Didn’t know a bill hadn’t even been submitted"

Harry Reid has agreed to sponsor a bill in the Senate, but he has not yet submitted one, and whatever he finally does submit is changing, even as we speak (the 5% "millionaire surcharge").

In the house, not a single Democrat congressman has even agreed to sponsor the bill, much less submit it.

[q_an_a]

On the Fox Radio news, at 3pm, they told two stories about the press conference. Each lasted 15 seconds each condemded the “Do nothing Republicans.” This is on a Dallas conservative radio station - anyone that thinks Fox is on the right needs their head examined...the talk shows are conservative but the rest look just like NBC, CBS and ABC.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Defiant and frustrated, President Barack Obama aggressively challenged Republicans Thursday to get behind his jobs plan or explain why not, declaring that if Congress fails to act "the American people will run them out of town."

Prediction. If his jobs plan is passed immediately, then it will be his jobs plan and not seasonal hiring that gets credit for the hopeful drop in unemployment. The MSM will do its best to see to that.