The Senate reconvene at 2 PM today and begin a period of morning business. At 4:30, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to H.J. Res. 66, the Burma sanctions bill, which may be used as a vehicle (no pun intended) for extending authorization for the FAA and highway funding. At 5:30, they will vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to H.J. Res. 66.
At 6:10, members of Congress will gather on the Capitol steps for a remembrance ceremony for the tenth anniversary of the September 1lth terrorist attacks.
Obama Says There's No Time For Political Concerns. But He Continues His Campaign Rhetoric And The DNC Pays For Ads Promoting Obama's Jobs Plan Which Has Yet To Be Published.
In President Obama’s address to Congress last week calling for passage of his latest spending proposal that he’s deemed a jobs bill, the president repeatedly called on Congress to “pass this bill.” He said, “The next election is 14 months away. And the people who sent us here -- the people who hired us to work for them -- they don’t have the luxury of waiting 14 months.” He added, “Regardless of the arguments we’ve had in the past, regardless of the arguments we will have in the future, this plan is the right thing to do right now. You should pass it.”
Yet despite the petulant president’s repeated harangue to “pass this jobs bill” quickly, the AP reported this weekend, “. . . it could be weeks or months before debate begins on the floor of the House or Senate on the president's recommendations.” And, the AP pointed out, “Democratic officials said the White House wanted to allow time for Obama to make the case publicly for his program before formal debate begins in Congress. The president is expected to fly to Ohio and North Carolina next week for appearances along the same lines as the one he made in Richmond — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's district — on Friday.” In other words, the president urges swift passage of his bill, but not before he does a few more campaign-style events about it.
In his address to Congress, President Obama also said, “This isn’t political grandstanding.” And emphasized, “[T]he millions of Americans who are watching right now, they don’t care about politics.” The next day, at an event in Richmond, VA, President Obama said, “Here in Virginia, here in Richmond, people don’t have time for political concerns.” He said Congress should support his proposal and “set politics aside for a moment to deal with America’s problems.”
But according to TPM, “The Democratic National Committee has a new TV ad up promoting President Obama’s jobs bill. The ad shows a clip from Obama’s address to Congress last week: ‘The next election is 14 months away. And the people who sent us here — the people who hired us to work for them — they don’t have the luxury of waiting 14 months.’ On-screen text shows the address for a DNC website promoting the plan, and exhorts viewers: ‘Read it. Fight for it.’”
And CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller reported on Twitter this morning, “To show the political importance the WH places on the jobs bill, It's having the DNC launch a media blitz for the measure.” He noted, “The DNC blitz includes TV ads, online ads and a website . . . .” The Denver Post adds, “The Democratic National Committee is running ads in Denver and a handful of other integral electoral states this week to promote the president’s jobs bill.”
So President Obama says there is no time to waste before passing his bill, but Democrat officials say he wants to hold rallies about it across the country first. And he says there is no “time for political concerns” and “[t]his isn’t political grandstanding.” But the Democratic National Committee is paying for TV ads about the bill in “integral electoral states” and has created a website to promote it. Anyone else tired of the same old "B.S."?
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