Posted on 06/02/2012 9:38:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The bleak jobs report on Friday predictably had heads snapping toward the White House, looking to President Obama to do something. Yet his proposed remedies only underscore how much the president, just five months before he faces voters, is at the mercy of actors in Europe, China and Congress whose political interests often conflict with his own.
That day, Mr. Obama continued his weekly travels around the country, prodding Congressional Republicans to pass his “to-do list” of temporary tax cuts and spending initiatives to help create jobs. The Republicans only mock him, which leaves Mr. Obama free to blame his opponents and their presidential standard-bearer, Mitt Romney. But in doing so, he telegraphs a message of powerlessness that no leader likes to convey—least of all one who ran for office four years ago vowing to bridge Washington’s partisan gulf. …
In his weekly address on Saturday, recorded on Friday at a Honeywell International plant near Minneapolis, the president cited the global woes buffeting the economy. But he singled out Congress for rebuke.
“While we can’t fully control everything that happens in other parts of the world, there are plenty of things we can control here at home,” Mr. Obama said. “There are plenty of steps we can take right now to help create jobs and grow this economy.”
Without mentioning Republicans, Mr. Obama said Congress had not passed measures he had proposed to get jobless construction workers rebuilding roads, bridges and runways; to give small businesses a tax break for new hires; and to help states pay teachers, firefighters and police officers. The steady elimination of public sector jobs has offset increased hiring in the private sector for more than two years.
“So my message to Congress is: Get to work,” he added. …
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Stupid Democrats only remember about a week or so.
Uh, didn’t two of his budgets go down 99-0?
“Yet his proposed remedies only underscore how much the president, just five months before he faces voters, is at the mercy of actors in Europe, China and Congress whose political interests often conflict with his own.”
Yeah, I remember when the NY Times and all the other big papers gave H.W. Bush the same out when the economy had a brief recession in late 91/early 1992. And of course they all pointed out that the economy had rebounded months before the election and that Bill Clinton was talking through his hat. And then magical ponies danced around and each one made a candy rainbow for everyone to enjoy.
/do I really need a sarc tag here?
Those presses can only physically print so much money at a time. It's gonna make his cutting the deficit in half impossible.
People drive the economy and when you make the people uneasy and unhappy “THE MIDDLECLASS” you arrogant pompus a##wipes rule the day and you! Get out the classifieds come november you will need them
I like the way Democrats selectively place blame. It’s congresses fault. Ok, so during 2006-2008 when the rats say the country fell into depression, didnt the rats run congress? And from 2008-2010 the rats had both houses.
But it is Bush’s fault?
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