Posted on 12/23/2009 6:44:37 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama plans for health care delay, new jobs bill By: Mike Allen and Alexander Trowbridge December 23, 2009 09:25 AM EST
The White House privately anticipates health care talks to slip into February past President Barack Obamas first State of the Union address and then plans to make a very hard pivot to a new jobs bill, according to senior administration officials.
Obama has been told that disputes over abortion and the tight schedule are highly likely to delay a final deal, a blow to the president who had hoped to trumpet a health care victory in his big speech to the nation. But he has also been told that House Democratic leaders seem inclined, at least for now, to largely accept the compromise worked out in the Senate, virtually assuring he will eventually get a deal.
Internally, White House aides are plunging into a 2010 plan calling for an early focus on creating jobs, especially in the energy sector, along with starting a conversation about deficit reduction measures, the administration officials said.
Both will be major themes for his first State of the Union speech, which will likely take place on Jan. 26 or Feb. 2. White House aides are in the early stages of planning for the national address, but Obama will not only trumpet what he has described as his B-plus performance in 2009 but also set the stage for the 2010 congressional campaigns.
Obama and Democrats seem in agreement that they want to minimize the number of tough votes moderates in their party must take in the aftermath of the health care debate.
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FREE jobs for everyone!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!
He thinks jobs are created by a piece of paper. I wonder if he knows where Debits and Credits go?
He thinks jobs are created by a piece of paper. I wonder if he knows where Debits and Credits go?
Translation...he doesn’t want to have the HCR passed by the State of the Union because of it’s unpopularity. He’d have to talk about it in the State of the Union, if it passed, and he’d see his numbers fall even more.
How much are these FREE jobs going to cost us? Undoubtedly, they will be greenie jobs.
We have one more month of this nonsense, then 2010 rolls around. It’s an election year and no one in congress likes their prospects.
“He thinks jobs are created by a piece of paper”
They can be, sure. But we have to steal them from our children & grandchildren.
Gv'ment work....it is called growing the government even bigger....small business who are the back bone of JOBS in America can't afford to hire anyone under the Obama rules and regulations.
Exactly.
Here they go. Remember they say his right before you crash and burn.
Obama is important to Obama.
Make these guys accountable.
I don’t believe the part about an Obamacare delay.
Don’t buy this for one second. They are lying right through their teeth.
They lie!
The only jobs government can create are government jobs that don't produce anything - they consume. They hurt more than help.
(Starve the beast, Join Operation Thrift. We can live without Washington's money, but Washington can't live without ours.)
This is good news. I suspected this when the Senate announced a three-week break. This makes it harder for them to get it passed. They have more arms and legs to break.
My translation:
Some more rats left the sinking ship and they don’t have the 60 votes.
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