He does this just as gop was forcing embarrassing vote on jobs bill.
Obama forced them to do this with his ill-advised press conference today.
Bamster’s jobs act was getting deep sixed by DEMOCRATS. it would have
never got 60 votes. Even with Scott Brown, and the two Maine Senators.
Now they only need 50. Plus Biden.
So all the Dems who are on the hook to lose: McCaskill, Ben Nelson,
Bill Nelson, plus Mary Landrieu, Lieberman, can vote no.
It’s still an uphill fight for 50 by my math.
What the Repubicans in the House need to do is take up this stinking bill, but add in every tax increase necessary to fully fund it and fully fund the rest of the Federal budget for FY-12. Let the Democrats vote on their Porkulus III, but make sure they also have to vote on a 50% tax increase for every American in order to make it happen.
The bill would go down 435 to Zero. Then let Obama explain that he wanted the American Jobs Bill passed separately, and the taxes to be imposed automatically two months later.