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August 16, 2011

Very Specific

Obama Promises “Very Specific” Jobs And Deficit Plan In September

President Barack Obama announced Monday night that he will put forward a “very specific” plan on job creation and deficit control in September for Congress to act on when they return from the August recess.

“I’ll be putting forward, when they come back in September, a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs, and to control our deficit,” he said at a town hall in Decorah, Iowa. “And if they don’t get it done, then we’ll be running against a Congress that’s not doing anything for the American people, and the choice will be very stark and will be very clear.”

August 22, 2011

Outliney

Is Obama’s “specific” plan now just an outline?

Last Monday, President Obama made news by promising to give a speech in September detailing, “a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs and to control our deficit.”

But has that “very specific plan” already been downgraded to an outline?

That is, at least, the impression I got watching Obama advisors Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod on yesterday’s Sunday morning shows.

“The president is going to outline a short-term plan to accelerate the economy,” Axelrod said on ABC’s This Week, “in the face of the hits we’ve taken, because of the Arab Spring and oil prices, because of the Japanese earthquake, because of Europe that have slowed down economic growth.

On Meet the Press, Gibbs used similar language, “The president is going to outline some ideas, the president has outlined ideas every day he’s been in the White House.”

August 24, 2011


Let’s be reasonable!

Obama to offer ‘reasonable ideas’ for job creation

President Obama’s post-Labor Day policy speech on job creation will include “some reasonable ideas that can have a tangible impact,” his spokesman says.

The president has been working with his economic team to formulate proposals that should be able to win bipartisan support, White House deputy spokesman Josh Earnest said on Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday.

Among those proposals could be two that Obama discussed with the leaders of his jobs council: efforts to boost the number of college graduates with engineering degrees and put construction workers to work retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency. The council will hold public forums on those topics Aug. 31 and Sept. 1.

And don’t you forget it!

Obama dares Republicans to block his coming jobs package.

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.

Maybe it won’t be so bad to block an outline.

Or some ideas.

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