Obama, Democrats turn up heat on Republicans over jobs

[TomCADem]

Source: Reuters

With one eye on the 2012 elections, President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats said on Wednesday that they will force votes on individual pieces of their job-creation package in Congress to convince voters they are a better choice than Republicans to boost the economy.

"We will keep organizing and we will keep voting until this Congress finally meets its responsibilities," Obama said, a day after Republicans blocked the $447 billion plan in the Senate.

One of the party's top strategists said further legislative defeats on the individual components of the Obama package could end up helping Democratic prospects in next year's presidential and congressional elections.

"The idea that Republicans seem to want to block everything and have no ideas, that Tea Party economics is dominating what they do, I think will bode very well for us in 2012," Democratic Senator Charles Schumer said.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/usa-jobs-idUSN1E79B1W920111012

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Most articles I have seen have portrayed the vote in the Senate as an actual vote, rather as part of an ongoing effort by Republicans to filibuster and prevent any votes on bills designed to improve the employment rate. Indeed, this is one of the few articles that actually strays from the media narrative of false equivalency, which faults Democrats for not trying to compromise with Republicans, who have shown no interest in compromising.

[alp227]

1. Let the Republicans vote themselves into angry town halls come 2012!

In order to avoid raising taxes on the millionaires...oh wait job creators bankrolling their campaigns Republicans end up giving Obama new ideas.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Ad yet they are shipping jobs overseas with FTAs. Fucking hypocrites.

Obama, shakes with one hand and shoves a knife in your back with other.

[AverageJoe90]

5. I don't quite see it that way.

I think he really is trying, but that doesn't mean he hasn't made mistakes, though.

[ananda]

10. Three new free trade agreements a "mistake" ???

nt

[Union Scribe]

6. Exactly.

And it was set up just that way. He introduces both the jobs bill and the FTAs, knowing and not caring that the jobs bill will die but that he'll have all kinds of Congresional love for the FTAs. Game's fixed.

[FreeBillClinton]

3. How about you turn up the heat on Ben Nelson?

Oh no, he gets paid for voting with the Republicans: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5025120

[sam11111]

4. permanent WPA

Moore and robert Reich both have called for a new WPA

My idea is to make it permanent. See sig below.

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[laconicsax]

8. Stay classy, Kurmudgeon.

[BR_Parkway]

9. Anyone want to bet they'll start with the tax cuts stuff first? then they claim

"victory" while the jobs lanquish - you know the GOP will go with the tax cuts - force them to vote on the stuff that actually would put people to work first, then they can have their dessert if they eat all their peas