Most of Obama’s Jobs Proposals Have Drawn GOP Support in the Past

[TomCADem]

Source: Fox News

President Obama is pitching his newly unveiled $450 billion jobs plan in large part by arguing that all the proposed tax cuts and spending measures have won bipartisan support in the past.

“Now, everything in the American Jobs Act, everything in there is the kind of proposal that’s been supported in the past by both Democrats and Republicans,” the president told a friendly audience on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s home turf Friday at the University of Richmond.

Indeed, most of the proposals have drawn support from some Republicans and a few were even hatched by them. But the proposals have never been combined in one package in an effort to jumpstart a weakening economy and Republicans have asked the president to keep them separate when he sends a legislative text to them next week..

The White House, haunted by criticisms of its projections for its 2009 stimulus, doesn’t plan to forecast job creation in this plan. But Mark Zandi, an economist with Moody’s Analytics, said the plan would create 1.9 million jobs and increase economic growth by 2 percentage points next year.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/10/most-obamas-jobs-proposals-have-drawn-gop-support-in-past/

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Ironically, here is Fox News confirming President Obama's point that some of his proposals have drawn Republican suppport in the past such as an infrastructure bank and even some unemployment benefits such as job training programs. What changed? The Fox News article does not say this, but the obvious change is that President Obama is proposing these programs, which is reason enough for Republicans to oppose them.

Once again, proof that the 112the Congress is uniquely bad in that it is dominated by Republicans who will vote against anything, even programs that they supported in the past, for purely partisan purposes.

Still, in most other articles on Fox, it is dominated by Republicans dismissing the plan as more tax and spend Democratic policies, so here is a rare Fox News article that perhaps unwittingly confirms what the President has said.

[ibegurpard]

1. and yet we're supposed to SUPPORT Republican proposals

because they're coming from him

[rpannier]

2. Yes, but their support has an expiration date

Expires the moment Obama supports any of them

[fasttense]

3. His plan is nothing but a collection of bad RepubliCON ideas and very bad RepubliCON ideas.

Barely a smell of anything progressive or liberal about his jobs plan.

Most of what Obama has proposed wont work because they are bad RepubliCON ideas. Even infrastructure building, which on the surface sounds really progressive, is of absolutely NO Value to the American economy without a Buy America attachment. Yes, infrastructure building can be, and is, outsourced to foreign countries. Just look at the Martin Luther King Memorial. Chinese granite and stone, Chinese designer, Chinese workers who built most of it in China and then the memorial committee brought over hundreds of Chinese workers on special visas (and they didn't get paid until they returned to China.)

President Obama is very much a Herbert Hoover. Unfortunately we have no FDR running against him but if we did.....

[pam4water]

5. +1

[ProSense]

8. Actually,

"His plan is nothing but a collection of bad RepubliCON ideas and very bad RepubliCON ideas."

...wrong!

Congressional Black Caucus statement on the President's jobs proposal

Congressional Progressive Caucus statement on the President's jobs proposal

Elected Democrats respond to the President's jobs proposal

[No Elephants]

9. What people say AFTER Obama announces something has zero to do with the origin of the ideas

Self evident.

[pam4water]

4. Huh republican support? When where who WTF? More faux news.

[No Elephants]

11. Republican ideas. That Republicans refuse to support ANYthing Obama says is a separate issue.

These are still Republican ideas. If you want to make the very best case for them, they are center right. Right is still the opposite of left, though.

[JJW]

6. More tax cuts

because they work so well. Just look at how the tax cuts of Dec to billionaires and millionaires has created so many new jobs.

[alp227]

7. But now they'd rather make him a one-termer and get Rick Perry in office n/t

[Occulus]

10. And water is wet

[Hell Hath No Fury]

12. No wonder I thought they were crappy ideas.

:shrug:

[Fool Count]

13. A better title would be: "Obama's Jobs Proposal is a compilation

of GOP supported measures". Hard to blame him, really, since even that will have very little chance of passing the House.

[Bucky]

14. God, have the Republicans been in charge of the House for only 8 months?

It feels like 3 years for some reason.