Posted on 09/14/2011 7:13:07 PM PDT by Frankusa
President Obama anticipated Republican resistance to his jobs program, but he is now meeting increasing pushback from his own party. Many Congressional Democrats, smarting from the fallout over the 2009 stimulus bill, say there is little chance they will be able to support the bill as a single entity, citing an array of elements they cannot abide.
“I think the American people are very skeptical of big pieces of legislation,” Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, said in an interview Wednesday, joining a growing chorus of Democrats who prefer an à la carte version of the bill despite White House resistance to that approach. “For that reason alone I think we should break it up.”...
Democrats... are divided over their objections, which stem from Mr. Obama’s sinking popularity in polls, parochial concerns and the party’s chronic inability to unite around a legislative initiative, even in the face of Republican opposition...
There are also Democrats, some of them senators up for election in 2012, who oppose the bill simply for its mental connection to the stimulus bill, which laid at least part of the foundation for the Republican takeover of the House in 2010.
“I have serious questions about the level of spending that President Obama proposed,” said Senator Joe Manchin III, a Democrat from West Virginia...
As he barnstormed again on Wednesday, Mr. Obama told voters in North Carolina, “If you love me, you’ve got to help me pass this bill,” but even some members of Congress from that state may prefer to stay just friends.
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I wish that Santorum would drop out of the WH race, and go back home and run, and beat Casey...
Balking!
Obama couldn’t get a single Democrat to introduce it!
Me too.
Do You Love Me?
The Contours
You broke my heart
‘Cause I couldn’t dance
You didn’t even want me around
And now I’m back
To let you know
I can really shake ‘em down
Do you love me?(I can really move)
Do you love me?(I’m in the groove)
Ah do you love? (Do you love me)
Now that I can dance (dance)
Watch me now, oh (work, work)
Ah, work it all baby (work, work)
Well, you’re drivin’ me crazy (work, work)
With a little bit of soul now (work)
I can mash-potatoe (I can mash-potatoe)
And I can do the twist (I can do the twist)
Now tell me baby (tell me baby)
Mmm, do you like it like this (do you like it like this)
Tell me (tell me)
Tell me
Do you love me? (Do you love me)
Now, do you love me? (Do you love me)
Now that I can dance (dance)
Now, do you love me? (Do you love me?)
(Now, now, now)(work, work)
Ah, I’m working hard baby (work, work)
Well, you’re driving me crazy (work, work)
And don’t you get lazy (work)(work, work)
Ah, hey hey baby (work, work)
Well, you’re driving me crazy (work, work)
And don’t you get lazy (work)
The Republicans need to start referring to the “bipartisan rejection of the Obama bill.” They should be congratulating Obama on helping to bring about the “new bipartisanship.”
Boehner should let the House vote on this. No one is going to vote for it.
That’s a great song, both from a lyrical and musical standpoint.
......and political....
BUTT!
However, it has not been formally submitted for a Congressional vote. Idiotic demagogue.
That's right....I said it. Go ahead and report me to Attack Watch.
He is just about ready for the padded room he won’t finish his term out He will be 25th out and Biden will step in appoint Hillary VP and and Biden won’t run in 2012 hillary will run and save the Democrats and her pants suit will be on mount rushmore by the middle of the century
25th out?
It makes me think of the old country song:
My hair is still curly and my eyes are still blue,
Why don’t you love me like you used to do?
(of course we’d have to find a rhyme for brown)
“If you love me, you will pass this bill... right away!”
LOL! Pathetic.
FAIL!
Absolutely pathetic. If this came out of any other politician's mouth, I'd pass it off as tongue in cheek. Not with this guy, though.
David Axelrod insisted Obama won’t go piecemeal on jobs plan.
“The president has a package; the package works together. We need to do many things to get this economy moving...We want them [GOP] to pass the plan... We’re not in a negotiation to break up the package. It’s not an a la carte menu. It’s a strategy to get this country moving.” — ABC’s Good Morning America, 9/13
Of course, that was only operative if REPUBLICANS wanted to “break up” the magnificent bill. Now that it’s Democrats going a la carte, I wager Axe will shut his piehole.
These protests are all for show; when the vote comes, they’ll all fall in line. That’s why they’re dim.
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