Obama, always the Gentleman and Moderate Bipartisan, leaves the door open to compromise, saying that he wants GOP leaders to tell him what parts of the proposal they would approve, and negotiate in good faith on the rest.
POLITICO.COM
Obama to push his jobs plan outside Washington -- in swing districts
By GLENN THRUSH
October 3, 2011
Obama to push his jobs plan outside Washington -- in swing districts
Some excerpts :
President Barack Obama has had enough of this legislator-in-chief stuff, and will press for his $447 billion jobs bill on the road, far away from the negotiating table — and inside GOP swing districts.
Senior administration officials believe Hill Republicans plan to obstruct or dismantle any plan the president proposes, so the strategy now is for Obama to do the hard, slow work of selling Middle Americans, especially independents, on the package that includes payroll tax cuts and billions in local aid to prevent teacher, police and firefighter layoffs.
Moreover, the White House isn’t ruling out the possibility that some components of the jobs package will be rolled into the supercommittee’s budget bill — should the bipartisan panel ever reach an agreement.
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Obama will travel to Texas and Missouri later this week to make his pitch for the bill and to raise funds for his reelection bid. Next Tuesday, he will hold jobs events in Orlando, Fla., and Pittsburgh, officials say.
His main message will be that Republicans are throwing political spitballs — and have never bothered to create a serious plan to tackle the country’s 9-plus percent unemployment rate.
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“There’s no sense in talking to people who don’t want to talk,” a senior Democrat close to the Obama campaign said last week.
On Monday, senior administration officials reiterated that point and predicted that the outside pressure — particularly the expiration of payroll tax cuts at the end of the year — would ultimately force the GOP to compromise.
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