President Obama: ‘I will not take no for an answer’

[ProSense]

‘I will not take no for an answer’

By Steve Benen

The White House doesn’t seem especially surprised by Senate Republicans blocking the American Jobs Act this week. Rather, President Obama and his team appear to be executing a p.r. strategy put in place well ahead of action on Capitol Hill, and making a concerted effort to take advantage of the political circumstances.

Here, for example, is a video Obama for America distributed to its list last night.

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For those who can’t watch videos online, it’s a three-minute clip of the president, speaking to OFA supporters from the White House, about what’s transpired. Obama noted, for example, that Senate Republicans “blocked this jobs bill from moving forward,” even though it included measures Republicans have “supported in the past.”

The president added, “Now, a lot of folks in Washington and the media will look at last night’s vote and say, ‘Well, that’s it; the bill is dead. Let’s move on to the next fight.’ I’ve got news for them: not this time, not with so many Americans out of work, not with so many families struggling to get ahead. I will not take no for an answer, and I hope you won’t either.

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[FSogol]

1. K & R. n/t

[Enrique]

2. Benen spreading the WH message again

i'm sure Kevin Drum, Greg Sargent and Ezra Klein will link to it, saying "Steve Benen makes a good point..."

[ProSense]

5. Here's

"Benen spreading the WH message again"

...an excellent NYT editorial

[fasttense]

3. Yeah, yeah, yeah

Obama is so worried about Americans losing their jobs that he pushed through 3 more job killing free trade agreements.

I bet the corporate CEOs ar not worried, as long as they have Obama in office.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. I was going to say that it feels like Obama is taking a backseat to these

protests. He was just here the other day and it was barely noticeable.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Overreaching

Three of Obama's four jobs bills passed last night, certainly his greatest victory since the 2010 elections.

Obama should declare victory and move on.

[ProSense]

6. You

"Three of Obama's four jobs bills passed last night, certainly his greatest victory since the 2010 elections."

...never know!

[Enrique]

7. Touche!

John Kerry support the trade deals, so there! Devastating blue link, ProSense! :sarcasm:

[ProSense]

8. Well

"John Kerry support the trade deals, so there! Devastating blue link, ProSense!"

...Kerry was joined by 20, 31 and 37 Democrats on at least one of the deals.

Kerry's opinion wasn't meant to be "devastating," it was meant to offer another perspective.

[WI_DEM]

10. Of course we knew it wouldn't get anywhere because you need 60 votes to get anything to be voted on

in the Senate (though Obama did get a psychological victory by getting 52 votes--a majority in the Senate) and the House would have for sure defeated it. So, good on Team Obama for keeping the pressure on the GOP for 'killing the jobs bill.'

[democrat_patriot]

11. He's fighting. Do you disagree with his statements?

It's never enough with some people.

Republicans will wait...and wait...and then they will pass it. But it's effects won't be felt until 2013 - so they can get Romney elected and immediately take credit.

[bvar22]

12. The American Jobs Act has as much to do with creating American JOBS...

...as the Clear Skies Initiative had to do with clear skies,
and the Patriot Act had to do with patriotism.


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity99!
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[Robb]

14. Surely you're correct.

That must be why every Republican opposed it, and http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1906966">every major union supported it.

[great white snark]

17. +1

:thumbsup:

[slay]

13. Bhahahah!

thanks for the good laugh. all he does is take NO - or negotiates from a position of weakness - every time! :rofl:

[great white snark]

16. Is nappy time over? Grown-ups negotiate little one.

Your unreasonable expectations are what's laughable.

[slay]

19. Well we know for a fact he won't take no for an answer when it comes to helping Wall Street or the

big banks. guess i should just expect that from a Dem these days huh? helping out the super rich and only coming up with a jobs plan 3 years in when he's up for re-election - a jobs plan he knew would fail anyways. So maybe you need to grow up and take off your blinders when it comes to Obama.

[tledford]

15. I'm curious to see what the President does when he gets "No" for an answer. eom

[Scurrilous]

18. K & R

:thumbsup:

[MFrohike]

20. If so, cheers

If he's finally learning to fight, then I'll have no trouble voting for him again. I just don't take him on faith anymore.

[TheKentuckian]

21. Hell, by the end of his second term he may learn to "fight" for something beneficial

and watch out if he not only gets with productive but actual makes arguments for solutions in the ball park of the scale of the problem.

There are seriously folks in this very thread that are worried the TeaPubliKlans will pass the CoC bill and it will turn the economy around, giving Romney (or whatever clown) the credit.

I have no idea why, after a generation or two of such nonsense right out of the Reich Wing think tanks, it would seem that at least Democrats would get that the whole ideology is failed as failed can be and their "solutions" only function to make matters worse and that a trillion and a half dumbfuck Friedman economists that are always wrong will tout the nonsense.

What is it that folks think is going to move the needle? Is it the failed Social Security de-funding payroll tax break that isn't working (and was never intended to when it was dreamed up years ago) or the tax breaks?

At least there is a bit of infrastructure spending, though even it is fascist public/private based and probably a poison pill to turn over the commons to corporations.

[MFrohike]

22. Amen

I have no fear of the right-wing radical party doing anything positive for America, not even by accident. Their ideology is simply bizarre. They seriously want a return to the Gilded Age, though we're in the second version of it right now, which I find insane. Why trade 150 years of progress for an ideology that mandates you to become a pauper for the good of the rich? It literally makes no sense.

Of course, the best part is that they screw everything up but it's never their fault. If you call them on it, they cry victim so fast you'd think you were in of their fantasies about how "others" act. They're a collective Nero. Set fire, tune fiddle, blame somebody else.