After pledging to send a job-creation package to Congress next month and daring Republicans to block it, President Obama offered few specifics Tuesday about the form the plan might take as he stuck to a broad outline of how to improve the economy.
On the second day of Obama's three-day bus tour of the upper Midwest, the president worked off the blueprint he had used the day before, offering proposals such as extending a payroll tax cut, spending money to repair roads and bridges, and ratifying pending trade agreements.
Okay, with you so far.
And he continued to hammer away at Republicans in Congress, suggesting they stand in the way of economic growth, even as some Democrats expressed discomfort with what they saw as a potentially divisive stance.
Wait, what? Democrats have been screaming for President Obama to use the bully pulpit and push jobs. The American voter wants jobs. People are the most worried right now about one thing: jobs. How is pushing a jobs bill a divisive stance? What Democrats are against this?
But one Senate Democrat, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the White House, was troubled by the president's gambit.
Voters are tired of the partisan back-and-forth and it would be a mistake for Obama to present Congress with a large-scale, high-stakes jobs bill and challenge them to pass it, the senator said. A more sensible approach would be for Obama to roll out a series of smaller proposals, the senator said, adding that the public "has very little patience for anything that looks like you're beating up on the other side."
Wait, all this "Democrats divided" stuff is about ONE LOUSY ANONYMOUS SENATOR? You have to be kidding.
To recap, when a Republican Senator bucks their party, they do it openly and are considered brave mavericks. When a Democrat does it, it's a cautionary tale to reign in Angry Black President, and they have to do it anonymously out of fear of White House retribution, or something.
It's very hard for President Obama to fight for anything with the knife in his back at that particular depth and difficult to reach location, not to mention the Village press holding it in there with two hands, you know?
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