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Obama declares 'national emergency' for action on jobs plan
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Posted on 09/14/2011 12:49:01 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama declares 'national emergency' for action on jobs plan

By: Carrie Budoff Brown September 14, 2011 02:08 PM EDT

RALEIGH, N.C. — President Barack Obama opened the sixth day of his jobs push Wednesday with a campaign-style rally at North Carolina State University, saying the country is in the midst of a “national emergency” that requires Congress to act swiftly on his $447 billion plan.

Against the backdrop of more negative poll numbers and two special-election losses for Democrats, Obama called on thousands of college students assembled in the steamy Reynolds Coliseum to mobilize behind the plan, a mix of tax cuts and government spending on infrastructure, jobs programs and construction projects.

The 26-minute speech before a crowd of more than 9,000 echoed his remarks in previous days, with a slightly sharper critique of congressional Republicans for suggesting that they don’t want to give Obama a political “win” and pass his proposal.

“I get fed up with that kind of game plan, and we’ve been seeing it for too long. Too long,” Obama said. “We’re in a national emergency. We’ve been grappling with a crisis for three years, and instead of getting folks to rise up above partisanship in a spirit that says we’re all in this together, we got folks who are purposely dividing, purposely thinking just in terms of how does this play out just in terms of this election.”

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To: Mr. K

Of course he wants it passed before it’s written. That way they can put every micro managing, commie wet dream they’ve ever had in it.


21 posted on 09/14/2011 12:55:51 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby ("To understan' the livin', you gotta commune wit' da dead." Minerva)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama's "national emergency" is that he just realized he doesn't get another vacation until Thanksgiving.

-PJ

22 posted on 09/14/2011 12:56:42 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You mean like a national emergency where you schedule the dang thing? Schedule it after the luxury vacation in the Vineyard, after the golf marathon playing?
>>> “ Folks ain’t buying this crapola.” <<<<


23 posted on 09/14/2011 12:56:42 PM PDT by RitaOK (TEXAS. It's EXHIBIT A for Rick. Perry/Rubio '12)
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To: Sub-Driver

[President Barack Obama opened the sixth day of his jobs push Wednesday ] Maybe on te seventh day he’ll give us all a rest!


24 posted on 09/14/2011 12:56:50 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Sub-Driver

DoughtyOne declares ‘national emergency’ as nation awakens to the lack of a plan, any plan by the Pride of Kenya.


25 posted on 09/14/2011 12:56:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain 5 yrs Left/1 year right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama declares ‘national emergency’............that’s how all dictators start..............


26 posted on 09/14/2011 12:57:22 PM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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To: RexBeach
The word is getting around the way . This buffoon is flailing around the US pushing this stupidity while the last 1/2 billion he gave to that green wet dream went up in smoke. This administration is lost . Princess O is washed up. It only gets worse for him the rest of the way. The great and powerful O has at last been demystified
27 posted on 09/14/2011 12:57:51 PM PDT by fantom (,)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Isn’t it about time for him to go on vacation again?..He is. And has been for three years or so.


28 posted on 09/14/2011 12:58:23 PM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I don’t see why Ozero thinks it is such an “Emergency”..requiring “immediate action”, since he decided that it wasn’t important enough to stop him from his 2 week vacation. No, I think Ozero is just full of crap.


29 posted on 09/14/2011 12:58:38 PM PDT by CardeadInKy ("The problem with Liberalism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" -Marg Thatcher)
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To: Sub-Driver
Is this the "Bill with no name" he's talking about? The bill he named the "American Jobs Act" but never filed with Congress before a Republican stole that name for his own bill? That Bill?

That Bill? The one even Democrats say won't pass the Senate? That bill?

If it's such a national emergency, one would think he'd have it before Congress before someone could change the name. And one would think he'd have had it before Congress long before this. Then again, maybe the only emergency has to do with saving only one specific job: His! That would answer for why this has become such an emergency.

30 posted on 09/14/2011 12:58:38 PM PDT by bcsco
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To: Sub-Driver

The national emergency is getting this guy out of office and stop the thievery of our money for campaign donations.


31 posted on 09/14/2011 12:58:52 PM PDT by RC2
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To: Sub-Driver

Couple this statement with little Timmy Geitner’s Drudge announcement “we are in the early stages of a financial disaster”, and you have a full blown Presidential declaration coming....this asswipe actually may try to seize power he can’t do under normal constitutional aegis.


32 posted on 09/14/2011 12:59:21 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: DaxtonBrown

If you think he’s going to look back on this past week and call it ‘Good’, you’re sorely mistaken. ;^)

Just kidding.

This guy is watching support evaporate by the moment. Desperation is such an ugly thing to have to watch.


33 posted on 09/14/2011 12:59:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain 5 yrs Left/1 year right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

I like your idea!


34 posted on 09/14/2011 12:59:36 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Sub-Driver

Opassthisbillrightnow sounds so ****ing dumb.

I wonder if he even knows he lost the name of his bill since no demorat bothered to intoduced it...


35 posted on 09/14/2011 12:59:57 PM PDT by chris37 (representative)
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To: Mr. K

A week after his big speech, the plan is already DOA


36 posted on 09/14/2011 12:59:57 PM PDT by rokkitapps ( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
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To: Sub-Driver

To this idiot, everything is a crisis. “I have razor stubble - It is a stubble crisis!”


37 posted on 09/14/2011 1:00:17 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: KarlInOhio
I think the bill is S.1549 - American Jobs Act of 2011

As I type this, the text is not available, but in due course (and there is plenty of time, Reid has the Senate tied up with other items, so the Dems are holding up Obama's parade here) it will appear at this link: Text of S.1549.

38 posted on 09/14/2011 1:01:15 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Sub-Driver

There’s an even bigger “National Emergency” than the jobs crises, Mr. Obozo. There is a complete lack of leadership in the White House and the Senate, Mr. Obozo. That lack of leadership begins at your desk.


39 posted on 09/14/2011 1:01:30 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I don’t want to hear no mo talkin from you folks bout his vacations. He gots to play mo gof.


40 posted on 09/14/2011 1:01:41 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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