Reply #9: Reich succeeds at calling out Republican lies, but [View All]

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this is an absurd argument:

President Obama and Democratic leaders should be standing up for the wages and benefits of ordinary Americans, standing up for unions, and decrying the lie that wage and benefit concessions are necessary to create jobs. The President should be traveling to the Midwest – taking aim at Republican governors in the heartland who are hell bent on destroying the purchasing power of American workers. But he’s doing nothing of the sort.

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Look, the President can’t be everywhere, doing everything. There’s tumult in the Middle East, we’re suddenly at war in Libya, Japan is struggling with the aftermath of disaster, and surely Latin America is an important trading partner.

But nothing is more central to average Americans than jobs and wages. Unless the President forcefully rebuts Republican’s big lies, they’ll soon become conventional wisdom.

The President should not be traveling to the midwest and taking on Scott Walker and the rest. That's absurd, and has been debated to death.

If the case can be made that Kucinich is doing his job in Washington while Kasich succeeds with his assault on unions, why should the President drop everything to travel around the country to take on Republican Governors? How does he do that and engage in the budget battle in Washington?

Congressional Republicans are launching their own assault on social programs and unions, the President needs to deal with those issues.

With Boehner, Cantor and Ryan determined to attack every social program, the minute the President launched such a tour he'd be accused of ignoring the budget battle in Washington.

At least Reich acknowledges that the President can't be everywhere.