Anybody In Charge Here ??? - White House Still Pushing Full Jobs Package Despite Brief Confusion

[WillyT]

Touchy, Touchy: White House Still Pushing Full Jobs Package Despite Brief Confusion
Susan Crabtree | TPMDC
September 14, 2011, 5:58AM

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The White House is getting a tad bit sensitive about whether it would accept anything less than Congressional passage of the President's full job package. It may be just for rhetorical strategy because there's no way Congress would accept the entire jobs bill lock, stock and barrel. Majority Leader Eric Cantor has already said he would jettison nearly all of the spending provisions. Still, Tuesday afternoon the White House took the unusual step of officially clarifying previous remarks its own spokesman made during a briefing.

A senior administration official, according to pool report, came back to the press cabin while Air Force One was taking off and pointedly countered any notion that the President is willing to settle for piece-by-piece consideration of his jobs plan. "We're going to take this to them every day," said the senior administration official, "and challenge them to pass the whole bill."

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"If Congress were to send a portion of the American Jobs Act, the President would of course not veto it. He would sign it," Carney said. "Then he would return to press Congress to get the rest of the job done."

Although logical, the message must have ruffled some feathers over at Obama campaign headquarters. Earlier Tuesday, Obama's senior campaign adviser David Axelrod told ABC's Good Morning America that they're still pushing Congress to accept the entire package as a whole. "We're not in a negotiation to break up the package," he said. "It's not an a la carte menu."

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Link: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/touchy-touchy-white-house-still-pushing-full-jobs-package-despite-brief-confusion.php

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[elleng]

1. Baloney to make this a story.

[WillyT]

5. OK... I Got The Bread, The Mayo, And The Mustard... Where's The Baloney ???

Seems to me... as it has for the last several years... that the WH does NOT have it's shit together.

This article is just more confirmation.

:shrug:

[ChandlerJr]

2. Meanwhile the "bill" that the President was waving around

Was still not introduced by any Democrat so a Repub introduced his own version this afternoon using the same name.

From the people that brought you #AttackWatch on the Twitter.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Who's in charge? The lobbyists with the big checkbooks, of course.

As they always are.

[The Wizard]

4. Who knew Eric Canker

determined the entire content of bills in the House? Eric Cantor is anal leakage.