Unemployment so high, US needs jobs bill, Obama says

[struggle4progress]

Unemployment benefits would be extended, payroll taxes cut, and public works projects funded, under Obama's $450 billion jobs bill. GOP calls Obama's effort to keep unemployment from rising a rehash of failed ideas.

By Erica Werner, Associated Press / October 8, 2011
WASHINGTON

President Barack Obama is pushing in his weekly radio and Internet address for Senate passage of his nearly $450 billion jobs bill as senators prepare to vote Tuesday on moving to debate on the measure.

Obama also asked listeners to Saturday's address to tell their senators to support the bill, which he's been lobbying for aggressively against Republican opposition since unveiling it a month ago.

With the economy listless and unemployment stuck above 9 percent moving into the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama said the bill "can help guard against another downturn here in America."

"But if we don't act, the opposite will be true," Obama said. "There will be fewer jobs and weaker growth. So any senator out there who's thinking about voting against this jobs bill needs to explain why they would oppose something that we know would improve our economic situation." ...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1008/Unemployment-so-high-US-needs-jobs-bill-Obama-says

[demosincebirth]

1. Mr. Obama, the wingnuts are not going to work with you, You should know that

by now. So, you'd better open up your arsenal(if you have one) and start using it!

[craticdemo]

2. Finally.

There's been so much capitulation to these people, and he DOESN'T have the pole numbers to show for it.
Being "centrist" won't work, for us or him, IMO.