Republican Party demands President Obama stop talking about his jobs bill

[Bennyboy]

Source: KOS

Look who's unhappy about President Obama taking his jobs bill message to the American public:
The Republican National Committee launched a new ad Tuesday criticizing the president's bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia this week as taxpayer-funded campaigning.
The ad, titled the "Debt-End bus tour," features a montage of members of the media describing the president's push for his jobs and tax reform packages as campaign-style.

And John McCain, apparently still bitter about having gotten his ass handed to him in 2008, joins the RNC's lame attack:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday ripped again into President Barack Obama’s three-day bus tour that’s winding through two swing states, accusing his former foe of an unprecedented level of campaigning on taxpayers’ dollars. <...>
“Never do I believe any of us have seen the kind of activity that the president has engaged in, and all of it being charged to the taxpayers of America,” McCain said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “That’s wrong. That’s the wrong thing to do.”

Evoking his failed run for the presidency three years, ago, McCain noted that he “didn’t need a bus to be paid for and built by the government and the taxpayers of the United States.”

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HIGHLY LARRY US.

[juajen]

1. Hope they have more people when the sun comes out. But,

it is happening in Columbia, SC. So, that's probably a good crowd. March on SC.

[CakeGrrl]

2. The GOP hates the road trips. Why?

1. The President gets LOCAL media coverage and does an end-around of the useless MSM. Not only is he making scheduled stops, but stopping along the route.

2. He's explaining to these crowds that the GOP is holding things up.

3. He's telling people to watch for what happens next in Washington, which is to break down the AJA into very basic parts that will expose the GOP's unwillingness to support the middle class if they vote them down.

4. He's doing this in Republican strongholds and is NOT getting the chilly reception the reporter pools try to lie about.

5. He's going to restaurants, high schools and colleges - everyday places frequented by the voters really affected by the economy.


He warned Cantor that he was going to take it to the American people. And he is.

[Skittles]

6. repukes cannot stand anything to do with the "common folk"

[stevedeshazer]

7. What you said.

You're right.

It's twisting the righties in knots.

It's a very smart strategy.

[MrModerate]

3. Fuck off, McCain, et al, Obama's doing the job he was hired to do . . .

Attempting to win support and implement policies and legislation that address the nation's concerns. I'm much happier having him take issues to the people and not sit the the White House praying for divine intervention.

If we needed any further proof that McCain was never qualified for the presidency, this should pretty much put the issue to bed.

[truedelphi]

4. OWS demands that people wake up to how

Neither party has ever intended to bring us jobs.

The same two week period that Obama is all hot and bothered about his jobs bill, the trade agreements went through.

This from a man who pledged to us that he would end NAFTA!

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. +1. nt

[Skittles]

5. LOL

McCain's entire LIFE has been subsidized by taxpayers - he really, truly needs to FUCK OFF

[robdogbucky]

8. WTF was "Mission Accomplished, "if not a taxpayer funded campaign rally? n/t

[gratuitous]

9. Dear Gramps

First off, the President of the United States travels as he's supposed to travel. Yeah, it would be nice if he could just hop a Greyhound and tootle on down to North Carolina, but that's not the way it works and you know it.

Second, you didn't need a bus because you lost your campaign and the other guy won. If you had won, you could travel around in whatever fashion suited you and the Secret Service. But since you lost, you don't get to make that call.

Third, this isn't "campaigning" in the sense that the President isn't running at this time. He's going to Virginia and North Carolina to be sure people (and the media) know that his jobs bill is languishing in Congress because of obstructionist tactics by . . . well, you and your colleagues, not to put too fine a point on it. Do your fucking job, and the President doesn't have to go out on the hustings and embarrass you for not doing your job. Even in your dotage you should be able to grasp this, I should think.

Fourth, I'm not on your lawn, old man. Shut up.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Aw the po' widdo babies

:nopity:

[BadGimp]

12. Yeah thanks Granpa

Now GET OFF OF MY LAWN!!!!

[NNN0LHI]

13. Bunch of whiny assholes aren't they?

[truthisfreedom]

14. Nelson says it best...

[toddwv]

15. They're right though. No other President has used the office to campaign.

Assuming you don't count all the Presidents before Obama...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-01-air-force-one_x.htm

Bush enjoys travel advantage on taxpayer-financed Air Force One
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush is using Air Force One for re-election travel more heavily than any predecessor, wringing maximum political mileage from a perk of office paid for by taxpayers.

While Democratic rival John Kerry digs into his campaign bank account to charter a plane to roam the country, Bush often travels at no cost to his campaign simply by declaring a trip "official" travel rather than "political."

The 68,000 miles Bush has logged this year on Air Force One include five trips to Pennsylvania.

[applegrove]

16. I hope Obama talks about his jobs bill for a year. The GOP under Bush ran

a perpetual campaign. Has McCain forgotten "Mission Accomplished"?