Obama Embarks on Campaign-style Tour for His Jobs Bill
President Barack Obama could just have spent his leisurely time sitting on a couch, watching a good movie and popping out some popcorn with his nostalgia popcorn maker but he veered away from the temptation and started his campaign-style bus tour on several states in order to get even with the Republicans for hindering his jobs bills. Of course, this move can be considered as part of Obama’s 2012 re-election plans, if there is any.
Kicking off in Virginia and North Carolina, Obama put on a tone which can be identified as populist when he argued that the Congress should take into consideration and pass the $447 billion jobs package. The jobs bill was trashed in its entirety just last week, to the president’s chagrin.
Obama told the cheering audience at the Asheville airport that he is going to give another chance to the members of Congress to “do the right thing” and pass at least some parts of his bill.
Obama’s job bill proposed that the state should give sufficient funds to employ teachers, and Senate Democrats are now preparing to force a vote within this week in favor of one of the president’s proposals. On the other hand, Obama mocked the Republicans who blocked his bill. According to Obama, “Maybe they just couldn’t understand the whole all at once. So we’re going to break it up into bite-size pieces so they can take a thoughtful approach to this legislation.”
Reports have it that the president’s strategy will use force to make the hard-headed Republicans accept his proposals. If the opposing party does not give in, they will be labeled as obstructionists to the economic recovery campaign. Of course, all these brouhaha are part of the November 2012 congressional and presidential elections. As usual, you can expect these kinds of contradictions as the elections draw near and the campaign heats up.
Moreover, Obama told the 2,000 strong audiences in a high school gymnasium in Millers Creek that he needs them to give the Congress a piece of their mind. He added, “Tell them what’s at stake here. There are too many of your fellow Americans hurting and you can’t stand by and do nothing. Now is the time to act.”
Are you wondering why the Republicans have rejected the president’s jobs bill? Well, the opposition found that Obama’s proposal is full of unnecessary expenditures. They also claim that it has counter-productive tax hikes for the richer Americans who would be the nation’s entrepreneurs and job creators. The Republicans imply that if taxes for the business sector will increase, they might not be willing to invest and generate jobs for the people. Democrats and Republicans have really different ways of viewing things, right?
The deadlock which brought the United States on the verge of sovereign default in August rooted from the disagreements between the two political parties. The Democrats and Republicans did not agree on deficit cuts and so a deadlock resulted.