red states rule
08-03-2011, 03:11 AM
Once again, Pres Obama blabbed something about being focused jobs and growing the economy. Of course he said that while asking Congress for more spending and higher taxes
How many times has Obama said this?
Mike Allen's note this morning that "Dems plan pivot to jobs" sounded awfully familiar to me, as it apparently did to the Republican National Committee, which promptly turned out a list (http://www.gop.com/index.php/briefing/comments/pivoting_in_circles#ixzz1TuIpe7H6) of 15 occasions on which the White House had allegedly announced a similar pivot.
That number is, shockingly, a bit inflated, but the underlying truth of the presidency is that through a mixture of choice -- health care -- and circumstance -- the Arab Spring, the Japan earthquake -- Obama has spent very little of his presidency publicly driving a conversation about jobs. By far the most serious jobs legislation he passes was the stimulus, but over-optimistic forecasts and implacable Republican opposition put the White House sharply on defense about it almost from the start.
And the story of the Administration is, in no small part, one of a constant attempt to pivot formally to jobs.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0811/The_eternal_pivot.html?showall
and
http://www.gop.com/index.php/briefing/comments/pivoting_in_circles#ixzz1TuIpe7H6
How many times has Obama said this?
Mike Allen's note this morning that "Dems plan pivot to jobs" sounded awfully familiar to me, as it apparently did to the Republican National Committee, which promptly turned out a list (http://www.gop.com/index.php/briefing/comments/pivoting_in_circles#ixzz1TuIpe7H6) of 15 occasions on which the White House had allegedly announced a similar pivot.
That number is, shockingly, a bit inflated, but the underlying truth of the presidency is that through a mixture of choice -- health care -- and circumstance -- the Arab Spring, the Japan earthquake -- Obama has spent very little of his presidency publicly driving a conversation about jobs. By far the most serious jobs legislation he passes was the stimulus, but over-optimistic forecasts and implacable Republican opposition put the White House sharply on defense about it almost from the start.
And the story of the Administration is, in no small part, one of a constant attempt to pivot formally to jobs.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0811/The_eternal_pivot.html?showall
and
http://www.gop.com/index.php/briefing/comments/pivoting_in_circles#ixzz1TuIpe7H6