Posted on 07/17/2010 11:38:17 AM PDT by Justaham
President Barack Obama says Senate Republicans are playing politics with bills that would extend benefits to the unemployed and increase lending to small businesses.
Striking a deeply partisan tone in his weekly radio and online address, Obama said the GOP leadership has chosen to "filibuster our recovery and obstruct our progress" by blocking votes on agenda items the president says would breath life into the economic recovery.
"These steps aren't just the right thing to do for those hardest hit by the recession," Obama said. "They're the right thing to do for all of us."
The address was recorded at the White House before Obama flew to Maine on Friday for a weekend family vacation.
Lawmakers have battled for weeks over extending unemployment benefits to workers who have been out of a job for long stretches of time. The last extension ran out at the end of May, leaving about 2.5 million people without benefits.
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Don’t forget Bush too!
Post partisan, post racial, post veracity...
I think what Obama should have said was that the GOP is sick of the free spending like the rest of America and wants it to stop.
Two words: YOU LIE.
The GOP isn’t blocking $hit. More Blame-Game from Obambi and Crew.
After Nancy Pelosi’s recent statement that jobless benefits provide the biggest possible stimulus to the economy that Congress can create, what better way to spend the stimulus money?
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