Chuck Todd: House GOP not focused on jobs

[JBoy]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/21/5891465-first-thoughts-the-house-gops-first-impression

As President Obama discusses the economy today and taps GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to lead a new White House board (more on that below), the GOP-led House has spent its first two weeks in power focusing on other issues. On Wednesday, it voted to repeal the president’s signature health-care law. On Thursday, it introduced legislation permanently barring taxpayer subsidies for abortion. And today comes the headline that House conservatives want an immediate cut of $100 billion in discretionary spending, a higher amount that GOP leaders have called for, as well as federal outlays to be reduced by $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years. So after spending months talking about how the Obama administration wasn’t talking about jobs, House Republicans are, well, not talking directly about jobs. First impressions are everything in politics. And the House GOP’s first impression has not been jobs.

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Broken clock Todd gets it right.

[meegbear]

1. Broken clock indeed!

[rurallib]

2. haven't been for - well - ever, Chuck

must've hurt to face reality

[liberal N proud]

3. Brilliant deduction there Chuckie

But you will push to get them all re-elected in the next election cycle because that is what you are paid to do.

[louis-t]

4. They're not going to either.

Not in their ideology. Not important to them. Blah blah, trickle down, blah...

[phleshdef]

5. Focusing on jobs would force them to work with the President on something rather than against.

They know that anything they do in regards to jobs, regardless of how effective the policy approach actually is, whether it be more stimulus or more tax cuts, that President Obama will be willing to work with them on it. They aren't interested in that. They want to start the 2012 election now and everything else can be damned between now and then.

[spanone]

6. they are doing precisely what they accused President Obama of doing

ok chuck, thumbs up this time

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. In other breaking news, the sun sets in the west.

D'oh.

[gratuitous]

8. Okay, Todd noticed

Now he can go back to whatever he really does for his fat paycheck, now that he's noticed, in passing, on a Friday afternoon, that the House Republicans are kind of, you know, screw offs. So that, when someone asks him about his poor reporting later, he can proudly point to this one instance and think that proves his bona fides as a journalist.

[booley]

9. IF even Chuck Todd has figured it out

I look at it this way. IF even Chuck Todd can see this, at least some of the people who voted for the GOP might have noticed as well.

[Dawson Leery]

10. The Democrats that did not come out to vote

must be kicking themselves by now as are those "independents" who swung over to the GOP.

[asjr]

11. Chuckles Toad will get over it. He may miss this

month's money under the table given to him by the Republicans.

[sarcasmo]

12. No one is focused on jobs.

[Blue Owl]

13. NFS

No Fuckin' Shit, Chuck...

[butterfly77]

14. Ya,think so chuckie...