Do more on jobs, Dems tell Obama. Harkin concerned about Obama's approach on jobs.

[Bluebear]

Senior Senate Democrats are growing frustrated by what they see as President Obama’s passivity on the economy, and are beginning to discuss a large infrastructure package funded by tax increases.

Some Democrats, such as Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, who serves as chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, think such a package could lower the unemployment rate by as much as two percentage points.

But the plan is not without political risk — Republicans would be quick to slap Democrats with the old “tax-and-spend liberals” label. And the prospect of passing such a plan through the GOP-led House of Representatives — where conservative freshmen hold significant clout — is slim.

“I am concerned about the Obama administration’s approach on this,” Harkin said. “It always has been about jobs. I think the administration kind of got snookered talking about the deficit and the debt after the last election.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/165731-do-more-on-jobs-dems-tell-obama

[notesdev]

1. Here's a jobs idea

hire 100,000... prosecutors for Wall St.

[Raine]

2. Now THAT would be change I could believe in! nt

:thumbsup:

[girl_interrupted]

4. +1,000

[JVS]

5. Brilliant!

[Tripod]

3. Even our States governors, have given jobs away.

Fuck the Republicans, who got rich on giving American jobs over seas, And want to be fighting for the Presidency. While in his own state of Mass, couldn't bring one job there, He made millions for him self. Fuck Mitt! He is a piece of Shit. Even his state fired him. Do we want him as a President? With his big ego, I think not!!!!!

[Citizen Worker]

6. Nullify the slave trade agreements and millions of jobs will be instantly created. Any "plan" that

refuses to acknowledge the damage done by these agreements is blowin' in the wind.

[pnwmom]

7. Can't members of Congress propose strong jobs bills?

What am I missing here?

[Bluebear]

8. They did. Obama said the Senate jobs bill was "too expensive" & wants the private sector to lead.

(Obama's) comment on the price of the bill is likely to be seized upon by Senate Republicans as a further reason to reject it, and could undermine Senate Democrats' effort to build support for it.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=1258119

[pnwmom]

9. Who's sponsoring it so I can follow up on this?

Thanks.

[Bluebear]

16. Can't find that

Looks like the Democrats in general have been trying to fashion a bill.

[midnight]

10. K&R

[XanaDUer]

11. My heart sank when I heard BO talk about how the private sector

should lead in job creation, not the gov. Why not both?

[iwishiwas]

12. I heard him say that a few weeks ago. Sickening. The 'private'

sectors just wants and gets tax breaks and sits on the money--month after month after month.

[LiberalEsto]

13. The private sector WANTS things to look bad

They are deliberately refraining from hiring, in order to make things suck, in the hope that people will blame the White House and vote repuke next year.

[QC]

15. Is there a single remaining GOP talking point that he hasn't validated?

I can't think of one.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

17. We've tried both. The House passed several jobs bills that died in the Senate.

There were even several small business bills that were filibustered by Republicans.

Obama probably fears that he cannot get ANYTHING through Congress because of the Teabaggers in the House. That's the problem.

Ask Harkin and the others to craft a bill that will get through the House and I'm there with you.

[Bluebear]

18. Obama is the one who said the Senate bill was "too expensive" & private sector should lead

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=1258119

[XanaDUer]

19. Thanks for that

Yeah, I thought that happened, too.

[woo me with science]

14. K&R nt

[hifiguy]

20. t'aint gonna happen, McGee.

He only listens to Geithner and the rest of the Wall Street criminal elite that surround him. And jobs for the peons is definitely NOWHERE on their agenda.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

21. There's that word again: "snookered."

I *ain't* buying that this administration was "snookered."

[TheKentuckian]

22. Seems a little extra unlikely doesn't it?

How would you honestly "not know"?

Think like a traditional Republican is my only guess.