Boehner double-speaks again:
“The proposals the president outlined tonight merit consideration. We hope he gives serious consideration to our ideas as well,” Boehner, the top congressional Republican, said in a statement released late on Thursday.
The proposal the President presented ALREADY gives consideration to Republican ideas... it is 60% tax cuts! So what Boehner is saying, in my opinion, is that Republicans want it 'all or nothing' AGAIN. Meanwhile Cantor is accusing Obama of being the one wanting 'all or nothing.' Listening to Republicans in Congress is like living in bizarro land where up is down and none of the words have meaning.
Mitch McConnell said (BEFORE the speech) that the President's address wasn't a job's plan, but a re-election plan. And he's correct! But who's fault is that Mr. McConnell? It is because the Republicans have done absolutely ZERO to help this country that the President has had to take this stand. He has proposed an excellent bi-partisan plan that you could have proposed months or years ago. You didn't. So now he has. You can either pass the job's act - in which case our economy will improve by 2012 and Obama will be re-elected; or you can do as you've done since 2008 and filibuster everything. In that case, Republicans will lose seats in Congress while the President wins his re-election. And then a Democratic controlled congress will do in 2013 what the Republicans promised in 2010 but have refused to do to-date: create jobs.
In the meantime, millions of Americans will suffer for another 14 months because of Republican political posturing.