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.
Continue ReadingMoreover, 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.
?Ultimately we need congressional action. ? I want [the American Jobs Act] back. I want to sign it,? Obama told reporters before his Cabinet meeting Monday morning. The president said he planned to talk with Senate leaders on both sides of the aisle soon ? and will be ?insisting that we have a vote on this bill.?
An hour earlier, Obama aides said the president would apply pressure primarily from the outside in, backing up his vow ? made during the disastrous debt ceiling talks ? to take the case directly to the American people. The idea, they said, is to change the atmosphere slowly to the president?s advantage by focusing on nothing other than the jobs measure ? interrupted only, one official joked, by the capture or killing of a terrorist leader.
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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