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NY TimesUsing the runway behind him as a symbol of America’s dilapidated public infrastructure, Mr. Obama assailed the Senate for voting last week to block his $447 billion bill, which he said would have supplied money to repair and widen that runway.
“They said no to putting teachers and construction workers back on the job,” Mr. Obama said to a spirited crowd of several hundred gathered on the tarmac under a giant American flag. “They said no to rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our airports.”
“Essentially,” he declared, “they said no to you.”
Now, Mr. Obama said, his administration was breaking the jobs bill into individual measures on spending and tax cuts — “bite-sized pieces,” as he called them — saying that maybe the Republicans “couldn’t understand the whole thing at once.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/us/politics/obama-hits-road-again-to-push-pieces-of-jobs-bill.html
It is interesting that after some folks attacked Obama for compromising with the GOP, some on DU attacked President Obama for pushing a jobs bill that "he knew the GOP would never accept." Well, here is President Obama continuing push the 112th Congress to take action on improving employment. Of course, after the GOP filbustered the bill on the ground that it was too big of a bill, they will not probably attack President Obama's efforts for being piece meal.
And, why not? The corporate media has conditioned the American public to blame Democrats and give Republicans a free pass. Heck, look at the coverage of the OWS protests. The Tea Party protests were always portrayed as grass roots patriots who were united in their opposition to Democratic reforms, including Financial Reform of all things. Yet, the OWS protests are never portrayed as a reaction to the refusal of elected leaders to even consider tax increases to the rich, i.e., the "job creators."