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Mr. President, Where's the Bill?
9-8-2011 | cc2k

Posted on 09/08/2011 5:19:36 PM PDT by cc2k

I watched the speech tonight. As speeches go, it was interesting.

Mr. Obama repeatedly mentioned his proposed "American Jobs Act." He was telling about all these magical, wonderful things that were in the "American Jobs Act."

He went on to basically demand, "Pass the bill."

Congress can't pass a speech!

I'd like to read the bill before I call my Congress Critter one way or the other.

During the speech, a Google search for the phrase "American Jobs Act" on the whitehouse.gov website. Returned no results at all. By the end of the speech, it returned a single link to a page with a live video feed of some kind. I watched for a bit and am listening to it in the background. So far, I haven't heard anything that Congress can vote on.

Where's the bill, Mr. President?


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Update, Jay Carney is on with O'Reilly right now and says they will submit a bill next week or something like that.

Mr. President, don't stand up in front of a joint session of Congress and tell them they must pass a bill when the bill doesn't yet exist.

1 posted on 09/08/2011 5:19:37 PM PDT by cc2k
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In the Nancy Pelosi tradition, you will need to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. Based on the odor of tonight’s speech, I think we all know what’s in it.


2 posted on 09/08/2011 5:22:02 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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No need.

” JUST PASS IT ! “

Repeat mantra over until all obey.

No committee hearings.

No floor debates.

No CBO scorings.

OBEY

DO AS I COMMAND

JUST PASS IT !


3 posted on 09/08/2011 5:23:03 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: cc2k

You know I thought Obama’s first 5 minutes were really effective. I thought we might be in for a long night. Then his inner college professor came out and started lecturing and gave us the laundry list. Literally within 10 minutes I was relieved, he is toast.


4 posted on 09/08/2011 5:25:18 PM PDT by fatez ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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This should be broken into individual bills for each major piece... Pass the good parts (and there are a couple)... trash the rest.


5 posted on 09/08/2011 5:26:04 PM PDT by Tim n Texas
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To: cc2k
Where's the bill, Mr. President?

Hey? Cut Prez Zero some slack! He was on vacation and didn't have time to address the small detail of joblessness. He will get around to it in a week or two. He said so in the little meeting that he had there tonight! Geez.....

6 posted on 09/08/2011 5:26:57 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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This will be the 2010 Jobs Bill on steroids.

SENATE JOBS BILL

7 posted on 09/08/2011 5:29:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: cc2k

Frankly, I don’t like being yelled at.

By anybody.

FUBO.


8 posted on 09/08/2011 5:32:05 PM PDT by Tigerized
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To: cc2k

Street theater, it’s all this shyster has.


9 posted on 09/08/2011 5:32:38 PM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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Hey, I've got an idea.

How about, first, we have Reid take some of the jobs bills our new Congress has arealy passed - that Reid REFUSES to let be voted on.

They must have merit if Reid is afraid to bring them to a vote - afraid even dems would vote for them.

Why is NO ONE mentioned THESE bills.

They all let the CICINO push the lie that the new Congress has done nothing and the HE is the only one with any plan.

10 posted on 09/08/2011 5:36:25 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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"Jobs plan? What jobs plan? We don't need no stinking jobs plan!"

America needs WEALTH CREATION something government and the leftists can do nothing about except GET OUT OF THE WAY.

11 posted on 09/08/2011 5:37:07 PM PDT by PapaNew
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That’s why afl-cio was sitting in the box with Meeechelle, he is staying in the Lincoln bedroom this week, and will reveal the bill after he writes it, in a week or so.


12 posted on 09/08/2011 5:37:24 PM PDT by swamprebel ( proud SOB?Barbarian/ Hobbit!)
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The White House has released a PRESS RELEASE about what they intend to put in the bill.

But the Bill that President Obama insists that Congress PASS NOW
DOES NOT EXIST!!!!!!

13 posted on 09/08/2011 5:37:24 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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Wow, you actually watched the speech. There is a deafing silence online it is like everyone panned it. He could have phoned this one in. He simply put out ideas he knows Congress will not go for so he can blame the Tea Party racist.


14 posted on 09/08/2011 5:38:04 PM PDT by OldGoatCPO
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It’s all Kabuki.


15 posted on 09/08/2011 5:40:01 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The democratic party is the greatest cargo cult in history.)
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To: Tim n Texas
Pass the good parts (and there are a couple)...

Name one, and state how Obama said it'll be "paid for" without (a)raising taxes or (b)impacting the debt ceiling.

Go ahead, I'll wait ......

16 posted on 09/08/2011 5:40:40 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Boehner should announce he’ll put it up for a vote first thing tomorrow, assuming Zero submits it by then.


17 posted on 09/08/2011 5:40:44 PM PDT by kevao
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Yeah, I got the "Fact Sheet" right before the whitehouse.gov website crashed.

I especially liked this part:

From the White House fact sheet on the American Jobs Act:
Fully Paid for as Part of the President’s Long-Term Deficit Reduction Plan.
So, these proposals aren't paid for, but they will be when the "super committee" finds an additional ~ $450 Billion in spending cuts/revenue enhancements above and beyond their current goal.

Yeah, that will happen.

18 posted on 09/08/2011 5:44:48 PM PDT by cc2k ( If having an "R" makes you conservative, does walking into a barn make you a horse's (_*_)?)
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kevao wrote:
Boehner should announce he’ll put it up for a vote first thing tomorrow, assuming Zero submits it by then.
Boehner should announce that he'll put it up for a vote no sooner than 72 hours after the White House publishes the bill where We the People can read it. Not one hour sooner.
19 posted on 09/08/2011 5:47:29 PM PDT by cc2k ( If having an "R" makes you conservative, does walking into a barn make you a horse's (_*_)?)
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To: eeriegeno
Really, the headline should read, Mr.Bill, Where's the President?
20 posted on 09/08/2011 5:57:31 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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