White House disses Senate Dems’ jobs bill because it’s not small enough

[markpkessinger]

From Americablog.com:

The White House today publicly undercut the Senate Democratic effort to pass jobs legislation to address the unemployment crisis in our country - mind you, unemployment just rose to 9.1% last month, and the public is none too happy about it. So what is the White House's concern about the Senate Dems' jobs legislation? It's thinking too big.

Yes, too big.

Lots of folks have been complaining for a while that the White House had no message on jobs. Well, now they do: "Think small."

Read more at: http://www.americablog.com/2011/06/white-house-disses-senate-dems-jobs.html

[librechik]

1. I swear to God if we get another Republican in 2012

I will make plans to leave this human-forsaken country which has no more reason to exist except to make slaves of its people.

[DJ13]

2. How in the Hell did we vote Democratic

and end up with a conservative WH?

[Donnachaidh]

3. and expect the excusers to jump in in 5, 4, 3, 2,....

I know one thing -- it's not going to be the American public who will be blamed for the next shellacking.....

[Fumesucker]

6. No, it'll all be the fault of the professional left..

You know, anyone to the left of Richard M Nixon.

[markpkessinger]

18. LOL = you nailed it! n/t

[CrispyQ]

34. ~lol

I needed that!

[markpkessinger]

17. Exactly . . .

To date the only thing the President has even talked about in terms of addressing the jobs crisis is to propose training for "jobs of the future." That's all well and good for the longer term, but the jobs crisis is occurring right now, and people's economic lives and futures are being destroyed right now. To talk of "job training" for some hypothetical future job that does not even exist at present is the height of keeping one's head up one's ass. BTW, I thought the article's comparison to George H.W. Bush was rather apt.

[Enrique]

4. everyone take a drink

I guess David Plouffe is calling the shots from now on:

"However, the bill would authorize spending levels higher than those requested by the president’s Budget, and the administration believes that the need for smart investments that help America win the future must be balanced with the need to control spending and reduce the deficit," the administration said.

[EFerrari]

20. "Win the future" sounds like a lottery ticket ad, doesn't it?

[ProSense]

5. This makes no sense.

The Senate is trying to push for more than the administration is asking for?

What changed? When the House passed the $174 billion jobs bill that the President supported, the Senate watered it down to $17 billion.

$300 million? The article smells like bullshit.

NAACP applauds Obama's call for jobs bill

There is also the $50 billion infrastructure bank bill, proposed in March, which the President supports. Why isn't the Senate taking that up?

[MineralMan]

10. Oddly enough, the blogger didn't actually name the bill, so

there's no way to check his/her information. I hate when bloggers do that. It'd sure be nice if they provided the links for people to go research, wouldn't it?

[MineralMan]

13. Oh, never mind. It was John Aravosis.

I should have guessed. Obama can do no good in John Aravosis' eyes, no matter what it is.

Sorry I bothered.

[markpkessinger]

33. I guess Aravosis is rather like . . .

. . . those for whom Obama can do no wrong.

[Enrique]

12. does not compute? n/t

[TheKentuckian]

16. The Senate should definitely pass the measure that would at least make up 1% of the infrastructure

deficit that is in the trillions and growing daily.

Until we are assured that the next generation has at the very least, dependable potable water and sewage the deficit discussion is literally crazy talk. No water and sewage, no civilization and what we have is a hundred years old and collapsing.

[MineralMan]

7. What was in the bill?

What's its number? It's really hard to comment without reading the actual bill. I went to the blog at the link, but the blogger didn't say, either.

Does someone have that information. I'll go look at the bill. There just wasn't much info in that blog entry. Not much at all. I've learned not to take random blog entries as gospel without doing some research. Bloggers are not always accurate, nor do they always provide all the pertinent information.

[TheKentuckian]

14. Since whatever the number is, is too small by orders of magnitude it can't possibly matter.

[Enrique]

21. The Economic Development Revitalization Act, S. 782

let us know what you find.

[MineralMan]

23. Thanks.

I'll have a look.

[ProSense]

28. Here

Inhofe is a cosponsor.

[meow mix]

8. that budget might cut into thier war against medical marijuana funds.

prioritys!

[w4rma]

9. I utterly despise Obama's entire economic team. (nt)

[somone]

11. Too big to fit in that bathtub?

[indepat]

15. RW solutions for RW-created disasters will produce only further RW-disasters

and the WH surely knows this simple truism. :patriot:

[LLStarks]

19. This is great. Small, targeted investments are better than unbridled stimulus. nt

[Enrique]

22. yeah that Harry Reid is a wild man

always throwing money around. Good thing Obama's there to bridle him.

[Cali_Democrat]

24. Does Obama even want to be reelected?

What the fuck is going on here?

[BuelahWitch]

25. Sometimes you have to wonder...n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

26. What the hell. Just start another "necessary" war and hire more cannon fodder.

[ProSense]

27. Here is Boxer on the bill in question

Legislation would leverage private sector investment to create thousands of jobs
June 7, 2011

Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke on the Senate floor today as debate began on bipartisan legislation that she introduced to reauthorize the Economic Development Administration (EDA), which provides investments in infrastructure and other projects to economically distressed communities.

The Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011, S. 782, would enable the EDA to continue to support important economic development projects and drive local economic growth. According to EDA, each dollar invested has historically attracted nearly seven dollars in private sector investment. Since January of 2009, EDA has supported projects that have created an estimated 161,500 jobs and saved nearly 45,000 jobs.

The following are Senator Boxer's floor remarks as prepared for delivery:

Mr. President, I rise today in support of S. 782, the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011, which will reauthorize the Economic Development Administration (EDA) at $500 million annually for five years (Fiscal Years 2011 through 2015).

S. 782 has bipartisan support and was reported out of the EPW Committee by voice vote on April 14, 2011. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are cosponsors.

For nearly fifty years, EDA has created jobs and spurred growth in economically hard-hit communities nationwide. S. 782 will ensure that EDA will continue to create employment opportunities, maintain existing jobs, and drive local economic growth.

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[JVS]

29. I think this legislation is not too big enough!

[FiveGoodMen]

30. Obama's on their side not ours.

Repeat it:

Obama's on their side not ours.
Obama's on their side not ours.
Obama's on their side not ours.
Obama's on their side not ours.
Obama's on their side not ours.
Obama's on their side not ours.
Obama's on their side not ours.
Obama's on their side not ours.
Obama's on their side not ours.

Who still hasn't caught on?

[ladjf]

31. The twelve year sequence of Bush followed by Obama has been

,IMO, the worst tag team combo in the 20th and 21st Centuries. There are probably 30 million Americans would could have served us better than those two.

Somehow, we need to run another Dem in the 2012 primaries. I know,"it'll never happen","what Dem could defeat Obama?", "no Dem would try it.". Maybe all true. But, we are going to be in sad shape if either a Republican or Obama is elected.

[OHdem10]

32. White House is going to diss itself right out of a job. Beginning

to remind this Liberal of Bush Senior just before
he lost an election.