He ought to be. He is looking at a historic loss.
"Small-business bill sent to Obama; Congress passes long-delayed $40b aid measure" by Andrew Taylor, Associated Press | September 24, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled Congress yesterday sent President Obama a long-delayed bill to help struggling small businesses with easier credit and other incentives to expand and hire more workers.
Related: Senate Cuts Banks $30 Billion Check
Not what we wanted.
The $40 billion-plus bill is the last vestige of the heralded jobs agenda that Obama and Democrats promoted early this year. They ended up delivering only a fraction of what they promised because emboldened Senate Republicans blocked most of the agenda with delaying tactics.
Look at the biased tone of that paragraph.
Yup, the corporate media is telling you its all Republicans fault so you better vote Democrat. I mean, they have been doing such a great job!
The Senate passed the measure last week. The 237-187 House vote yesterday that sent the bill to the president split along party lines as Democrats praised the measure for creating a $30 billion federal fund to help smaller banks issue loans to small businesses and for cutting taxes by $12 billion over the coming decade.
“It combines . . . tax relief with increased access to critical financing so that our nation’s small businesses can move forward on new or delayed expansion plans,’’ said Representative Chellie Pingree, a Maine Democrat. “Small-business growth means job creation.’’
Republicans, poised for big gains in elections just six weeks away, said the new loan fund is just a smaller version of the unpopular 2008 bailout of the financial system.
“What we have today before us is junior TARP,’’ said Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida.
While community bankers enthusiastically support the measure, it is getting only tepid support from GOP-leaning small-business groups, which are more focused on expiring tax cuts.
The vote gives Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress a much-needed, but minor, victory as elections approach.
Earlier this year, Democrats had ambitious designs to boost green jobs, provide new funding for roads, bridges, and other infrastructure projects, pay for a summer jobs program for disadvantaged young people, and renew health insurance subsidies for the jobless.
What was enacted was far smaller: more unemployment checks for the jobless; relief from payroll taxes for companies that hire more workers; and billions of dollars in aid for states and local schools.
They forgot about the $800 billion stimuloot already?
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"President signs measure to help small businesses
WASHINGTON — Scoring a prized political victory five weeks before the Nov. 2 elections, President Obama yesterday signed a bill to help small businesses expand and hire by cutting their taxes and creating a $30 billion loan fund.
Obama said the incentives will help businesses right away. But any hiring may not be enough to help some Democrats before crucial midterm elections in which voters are expected to vent their frustrations over a slow-growing economy and high unemployment....
And nothing in heaven or on earth is going to stop us.
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What was cut from the printed paper:
"Campaigning, Obama embarks on four-state tour
WASHINGTON -- President Obama began a four-state tour yesterday that is expected to feature three more of the backyard visits with voters that have become a campaign staple.
The president flew to Albuquerque, where he planned to spend the night. He will meet this morning with several people at a private home to discuss the economy and education. Obama plans similar backyard visits tomorrow in Des Moines and Richmond.
Yeah, thanks for helping with all the global-warming, taxpayer-funded trips.
He will attend a Democratic campaign rally at the University of Wisconsin in Madison tonight.
The event is organized as more youth-focused pep rally than policy discussion. Popular rock band the National and singer-songwriter Ben Harper are scheduled to warm up the crowd."
Pffft!
And now he is SCOLDING Democrats?
"Obama prods Democrats to get busy for November
ALBUQUERQUE — Buck up. Stop whining. And get to work.
Clearly frustrated by Republicans’ energy — and his own party’s lack of enthusiasm — President Obama scolded fellow Democrats even as he rallied them yesterday in an effort to save the party from big GOP gains in the crucial midterm elections. In the final month of campaigning, he is trying to reenergize young voters, despondent liberals, and other Democrats whose excitement over his election has dissipated.
Well, that is going to happen when you are the THIRD TERM of GEORGE BUSH!
“It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines,’’ the president declared in a Rolling Stone magazine interview. He said that supposed supporters who are “sitting on their hands complaining’’ are irresponsible because the consequence of Republican congressional victories could be dashed Democratic plans....
Lecturing never works with me. I am likely to do the opposite just out of sheer spite.
It was the first of four large rallies planned for the campaign homestretch as the president tries to rekindle some of his 2008 campaign magic and fire up young supporters and others who helped elect Obama but who Democrats fear might stay home this fall.
You HAD TWO YEARS and NOW you SUDDEN;Y REDISCOVER THEM?
Top lieutenants Vice President Joe Biden, Democratic Party chairman Tim Kaine, and Cabinet members also fanned out on other college campuses to call party foot soldiers to action.
Everything has to have a WAR CONNOTATION in the WAR PAPER!
At Penn State University in State College, Pa., Biden noted he was criticized a day earlier in New Hampshire for urging Democrats to “remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives.’’
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With the elections looming, the White House and Democratic Party are focused primarily on trying to compel their core voters — liberals and minority groups — as well as the ideologically broad coalition that helped elect Obama in 2008 to participate in the first congressional elections of his presidency.
That is usually what we call a losing battle.
They have little choice.
Midterm contests come down largely to which party can get out more of its backers. And polls show that Republicans are far more enthusiastic this year partly because of Tea Party anger. Also, polls show Democrats cannot count on independent voters who carried them to victory in consecutive national elections.
That is why they are staring at MASSIVE LOSSES!
Mindful of that and armed with polling, the White House has said that voters who backed Obama in 2008 must turn out for Democrats this year because the GOP wants to undo what the president has accomplished, that the “hope and change’’ Obama backers embraced two years ago is at risk if Republicans sweep these elections.
I'm out of hope, and we got no change.
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Yup, the more things change....
"On campaign trail, Obama lays blame on GOP
DES MOINES — A priest expressed concern to President Obama about an unemployed parishioner. A businessman criticized Obama’s tax policy. A woman said her son and his friends, once inspired by Obama, “are losing their hope.’’
Ever notice the HATED WARS NEVER COME UP in the POLITICAL DEBATE?
Obama addressed all those concerns, and more, during his two-day, four-state tour that ended yesterday in Richmond. In the middle, he drew raucous cheers at a college rally in Wisconsin.
Despite all his mingling with middle class voters, however, Obama’s chief focus was on people who never showed up: congressional Republicans and their corporate allies who, the president said, are trying to thwart his administration’s progress and turn the clock back to the George W. Bush era.
With his party facing potentially mammoth congressional and gubernatorial losses on Nov. 2, Obama is pouring more time into campaigning....
I wish he would do what we say, run the country, and let us worry about the politics.
With time running short, Obama also showed a plaintive side. He poked fun at himself and practically begged those who voted for him in 2008 to turn out this fall for congressional and gubernatorial Democratic candidates.
Just a DAY AGO he SCOLDED THEM!
“I know times are tough,’’ he told thousands of students at the University of Wisconsin on Tuesday....
“Sometimes it feels a long way from the hope and excitement that we felt on Election Day,’’ he said, but young voters’ involvement “can’t end with the vote that you cast in 2008.’’
Obama acknowledged that his promises to change the culture in Washington have been harder to fulfill than many of his supporters expected. He placed the blame on Republican lawmakers, who he said made a political calculation to oppose nearly all of his policies.
That some change, huh?
It is a strategy Obama said has been “pretty successful’’ given the sentiments of many voters heading into the midterm elections....
The president will meet with top congressional Democrats today for one last strategy session before lawmakers flee town to campaign for reelection.
A Democratic aide said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and other top leaders of the House and Senate will attend the White House meeting. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private gathering.
The session will give the president and his top allies on Capitol Hill a chance to talk politics and discuss their legislative agenda, including plans for a lame-duck session after November’s election.
They DARE DEFY the WILL of the PEOPLE AGAIN?
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Obama chief of staff reportedly to announce resignation today
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It is always better to have one less Mossad mole in the White House.
