TPMDC David Axelrod: September 2011
Barack Obama
Touchy, Touchy: White House Still Pushing Full Jobs Package Despite Brief Confusion
President Obama
The White House is getting a tad bit sensitive about whether it would accept anything less than Congressional passage of the President's full job package.
It may be just for rhetorical strategy because there's no way Congress would accept the entire jobs bill lock, stock and barrel. Majority Leader Eric Cantor has already said he would jettison nearly all of the spending provisions. Still, Tuesday afternoon the White House took the unusual step of officially clarifying previous remarks its own spokesman made during a briefing.
Topics: Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Economy, Eric Cantor, Jay Carney, Jobs, White House
White House
White House On Jobs Bill: 'What On Earth Are We Waiting For?'
The White House turned up the rhetorical heat on House Republicans Tuesday over passing the jobs bill, at one point asking Congress "what on earth are we waiting for?"
During a speech at a newly renovated high school in Speaker John Boehner's home state of Ohio, President Obama called out some House Republicans for pushing their leaders not to pass any of elements of the package in order to deny President Obama a political "win."
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