What we are watching:
Jobs bill anytime soon? The Senate Democrats had promised a jobs bill today and obviously due to the weather that will not happen. But an inability to reach a consensus within their own ranks may be the real reason the Democrats miss a self imposed deadline. Disunity is a reoccurring theme for Democrats that threatens to stall Harry Reid’s number one legislative priority.
In the news:
Democrats meet cold reality at DNC meeting. After defeats in VA, NJ and MA it seems that Democrats may finally be realizing that voters aren’t happy with their empty promises and binge spending agenda.
Writing’s on the wall, but Obama remains defiant. Democrats at the DNC winter meeting looked for ways to stay upbeat in the face of legislative and electoral defeat as the President promised to forge ahead with the same agenda items that brought them to this point in the first place.
Division begins at home. As party leader, the President addressed the DNC this past weekend,... More
Feb
When then-Sen. Obama was running for president, he told the American people, “We have a significant stake in ensuring that those who live in fear and want today can live with dignity and opportunity tomorrow,” adding that “the security and well-being of each and every American is tied to the security and well-being of those who live beyond our borders.”
As part of this commitment to what Obama called our “common security,” he pledged to increase funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for
Feb
Posted by: Jeffrey Berkowitz
That’s what Senate Democrats hope to use as an excuse after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pledged that they would move forward today with a motion to proceed on Stimulus II:
Senate Democrats will miss their self-imposed deadline for bringing a jobs bill to the floor Monday, and they’re hoping that the weekend’s epic snowstorm will give them some cover. Senate votes scheduled for Monday evening have been pushed back to Tuesday on account of the storm, but it seems unlikely that
Feb
The Obama White House has trotted out its road show following the State of the Union address and the release of the president’s budget proposal this week to sell its plan to spur job growth. But in their haste to show that they are now focused on jobs after spending a year pushing a failed health care bill, they have missed the fact that the GOP has already offered a common sense, budget neutral jobs plan.
Republicans in the U.S. House have released a jobs plan that deserves to be
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