The quick reaction from a top congressional Republican suggests the GOP is not outright dismissing all of Obama’s ideas, but certainly is not going to pass the entire $450 billion package in one fell swoop
Note: Eric Cantor (R-Va) is the U.S. House Majority Leader. This is one of many takeaways from President Obama's jobs speech last night before a joint session of Congress. Send your own thoughts or reaction links to the comments below.
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By Jed Lewison
DailyKos
Americans want action on jobs. So now that the President has proposed legislation to address jobs, Eric Cantor says Republicans are willing to move forward on at least some pieces of the American Jobs Act:
I certainly would like to see us be able to peel off some of these ideas, put them on the floor, vote them across the floor and get the senate to join with us so we can actually get something to the president and make some progress as quickly as possible.But:
This is my objection to the message that was delivered tonight. The message was: either accept my package as it is, or I will take it to the American people. I would say that that’s the wrong approach. What we’re here to do is try to transcend differences, not let them get in the way in the areas we can make progress on.Eric Cantor's trying to transcend differences? Ha! More like he's trying to save his own ass. That's why he doesn't want President Obama to take it to the people. And that—Cantor's fear of the public—is the one shot we have of actually getting something good done. Because the one job that Republican congressmen really care about is their own. The more they fear losing it—thanks not just to the President but also to the public—the more we can get done.
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President Obama, as evidenced in his jobs speech, is showing now he is clearly more of a business visionary than the Republican Party. Here's why.
Business owners who are successful know that to make money you have to spend money. It means you take risks. It means you cannot cheap out on 1) technology and resource investment, 2) hiring competent people, 3) advertising if necessary, and you have to 4) provide good customer service to your clients to keep your business running smoothly. And yes, you have to be responsible with debt.
Government should be run like a business - but the business that it was designed to be: a tax-based capitalist funding entity that provides incentives to American entrepreneurs and small business development, as well as to provide protection to citizens from foreign enemies and business abuse.
President Obama's jobs program, finally, is a business decision. It focuses more on small businesses rather than big corporate.
The hypocrite Republicans are being called out on their phony pro-business stance because their ideological response will now show them to be nothing more than Obama-trashing stodgy bureaucrats who are not willing to invest in American workers and America's future.
Now, I'm not so naive to know that some of Obama's jobs bill speech has elements of pre-election politics. But it is also a practical solution to a problem he has failed to make a dent in with his crony too-big-to-jail bank bailouts and his Bernanke designed QE1 and QE2 corporate welfare efforts.
So now the ball is in the Republican Party court. Now we will see whether these elite political lemmings are really the pro-small business and pro-American middle class worker advocates they claim to be.
I have another important thought to follow up my last comment.
As an investment money manager I am sick and tired of all the "helpless" Wall Street pundits - mostly mindless Republicans in my own business - constantly acting and playing the poor victim to everything but their own lack of economic and investment vision.
They always talk about the big bad government or regulations or Fed stimulus or lower taxes or anything other than their own skills and creative thinking -talking trash while waiting around for someone to take care of them.
What a bunch of weak sister business victims.
The stock of Apple, Google, Netflix, etc. is skyrocketing because their business leaders are not waiting around for the big bad government to make it safe for them to make business decisions and expand and come up with innovations.
Locally, my own business is increasing assets under management (my version of growth). I am not getting government bailouts or getting my taxes lowered or my financial regulations decreased.
In fact, I welcome increased financial regulations because more regulation filters out the incompetents and sleazebags from my business. It only makes my skills shine more.
All government haters out there need to stop acting like poor victims by constantly harping about government regulations, taxes, Obama, blah blah, - blaming everyone but themselves for the economic plight they are in (only the unemployed, retired seniors, and working single mothers, and children are real victims).
If being fiscal conservative means you are NOT dependent on government or other welfare programs, yet they are constanly blaming government for their problems, then they are doing a piss-poor job being an empowered and functional fiscal conservative. Hence, they do not deserve the right to call themselves one.
When a libertarian or a Republican plays and acts like victims of government or politicians - especially when they are not, they are worse than the welfare recipients they seem to so easily loathe.
When it all comes down to it, mindless government haters are NOT victims, and should be embarrassed by their victim-like behavior and hypocritical political and economic philosophy.
Who dropped Rocky Boschert on his head? With gas and other commodities almost 3X the price they were when Obama took office, and all that Muslim bowing and scraping--Boschert must have been an abused child to continue to support the Pres. who is succeeding in destroying the US.
Obama stole the GOP thunder.
So now the GOP must try and stall and wait until they can try an beat Obama in 2012 - without looking like that is what they are really doing -before they enact many of the same programs Obama announced in his Jobs Plan speech.
GOP now means "Gone On Prozac."
Anonymous of September 9, 3:51 PM
says:
"...and all that Muslim bowing (by Obama)."
That is the real issue with this religious right extremist.
Ben Bernanke (a white male Republican) of the Federal Reserve Board created the gasoline and commodity inflation by deflating the dollar via two rounds of money printing stimulus to Wall Street and the big banks.
Anyone with knowledge of financial markets knows commodity prices go up when the value of the dollar goes down, created by money printing - just like it did in the latter stages of the Bush Administration (run by white Christian Republicans and facilitated by Ben Bernanke).
Under Bush and Bernanke, gasoline prices hit $4.00 a gallon and helped cause the great recession - all before Obama even came into the office.
That is simply how that particular version of corporate welfare always works.
Please, Anonymous Sir, get your facts clear and honestly admit the real reason you don't like Obama.
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