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Subscribe to RSSThe coverage of Obama’s event yesterday from the local Cincy Enquirer: “With the aging Brent Spence Bridge as a backdrop, President Barack Obama issued a challenge Thursday to his top Republican opponents in Congress to pass a bill he says will create jobs by funding projects like the bridge’s $2.4 billion replacement.”
“‘There’s no reason for Republicans in Congress to stand in the way of more construction projects,’ the president said. ‘There’s no reason to stand in the way of more jobs. Mr. Boehner, Mr. McConnell, help us rebuild this bridge. Help us rebuild America. Help us put this country back to work. Pass this jobs bill right away.’”
“The nation’s top military official said Thursday that Pakistan’s spy agency played a direct role in supporting the insurgents who carried out the deadly attack on the American Embassy in Kabul last week. It was the most serious charge that the United States has leveled against Pakistan in the decade that America has been at war in Afghanistan,” the New York Times reports.
Pakistan's foreign minister, Hina Rabani Khar, reacted to reports of Pakistani involvement in the attack on the embassy in a Wednesday interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell.
Said Hina Rabani Khar: "All terrorists which attack innocent civilians or major installations are against both of our interests. We have no qualms in saying that whatsoever. However we need a commonality of approach both in terms of tactics and in terms of overall principles to be able to tackle them effectively."
"If Pakistan, instead of being recognized for the great sacrifices and cost it has paid for this war that we are fighting and that we are at the forefront of, if that is not recognized and instead a blame game is started then we will both lose out."
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"President Barack Obama issued a challenge Thursday to his top Republican opponents in Congress to pass a bill he says will create jobs by funding projects like the bridge’s $2.4 billion replacement.”
Typically, these "shovel ready" jobs to build another bridge wouldn't be available until 2015 at the earliest!!!
So it's so hard and takes so long we should just forget it. Is that how America became the great nation it is? By throwing it's hands up and saying it's to hard. That may be the way you tea people GOP republican do things, but America is better than that.
Mo,
you are clueless. The same Obama progressive zealots who claim that federal stimulus spending will immediately create jobs, also lobby locally to block and delay highway projects, because they 'damage the environment". The tree huggers dont like building roads, yet they support federal stimulus for infrastructure? The progressives like Big Government more than trees, I guess.
The environmental zealotry resulted in Boston's Big Dig becoming a 20 year project. The US is tied down by Bureaucracy. We built the interstate highways in the 1950s at a rapid pace...cant do that today, thanks to environmental lawyers...Hoover Dam in 4 years...but no more.
The progressives environmental bureaucracy like EPA is why there is no such thing as a 'shovel ready project'
Libs also mandated that 10% of highway projects go for "beautification" ! Why dont they change this, if our infrastructure is crumbling.?..
And who pushed for those projects in the 1950s and 60s and today Bob? Oh yea the liberal progressives. And who is and was trying to block them Bob? Oh yea the tea people GOP republicans. America will progress Bob, in spite of you tea people GOP republicans, we always have.
Yea you tell em mo. We need more union and public sector union jobs in order to make sure that the Dems deliver the knockout punch this economy needs. Let's build some bridges, That will fix everything.
Mo knows...very little...so Mo is a liberal.
Mo thinks the Tea Party existed in the 1950s!
Mo doesnt know who was President in the 1950s!
America is regressing under liberal policies, Mo.
President Obama said that if this is class warfare than he is a warrior for the middle class. When was the last time you heard a Teapublican even say the word "middle class?" Yeah, I thought not.
Bob -- There is a road in Vermont that was washed out by the rain and flooding after Irene. It's already rebuilt. The Senator for Vermont is Bernie Sanders. BTW, your beloved Republicans in congress are a bunch of lawyers too. Willima1a -- I suspect you were making an attempt at sarcasm, but since you said the truth I still voted for your post. Ha!
Mo -- The same sorry excuses we see above from the right-wing like how long projects will take are the same straw man arguments as the Million Dollar Babies like Bill O'Really and Sean Insannity saying they pay their taxes (not mentioning at what rate after write-offs) but don't want the money squandered. Eliminating waste is everyone's goal, but everyone knows there will always be some amount of inefficiency in the process. Ergo, an eternal excuse for not paying taxes. Wow.
We need to create jobs in the short-term and long-term. What's the twisted reasoning against that right-wingers? I'm sure you'll come up with some kind of nonsense.
It's not entirely the government's fault our country is in debt. As Americans, we need to spend our money on American products, keeping it within the American economy. What good does a government stimulus do when people just spend it all on foreign products? That money doesn't circulate in our economy stimulating growth; it goes to another country to stimulate its growth. Will it suck only purchasing American products when foreign products are better? Yes. But what else can we do? In the long run, purchasing American products will give American companies more capitol to create more jobs, and spend more money on research and development. Over time, it could be possible that the increase in capitol could mean better American products. When American products become better than foreign products, America will export more, increasing the amount of money in the American economy. But companies can’t just spend moneyAmerican is in debt, we can’t pay off our debt without getting money from other countries. We can’t get money from other counties unless we borrow more money, or find a way to sell products and services that foreign economies are willing to spend their money on. Buy American, and save America.
I agree, Champ
The big three American car companies are all profitable again for the first time since 2004, and that is GOOD NEWS for the American people.
Sorry Champ.
I am enjoying my very generous public sector/ union implemented pension.
I always buy everything at Wallmart. That is where my pension dollars go the furthest. I will never again own an American car or truck. Japanese is where the quality is.
I learned long ago that it's every man for himself. FAIR is a word used by children on the playground, It has no place in the adult world.
I've got mine, now you can try to get yours.
Not sure I get this article. It starts out with obama and a bridge, then goes to growing stress with pakistan. The article should have concluded with the fact that the president has no concept of shovel ready and should shut up and understand that he is over, his agenda is over, his followers movement to socialize this country is over.
The common thread is Obama's cluelessness.
He goes to a bridge already scheduled to be widened- in 2015, after all the bureaucratic nonsense is dealt with, and claims his latest spending bill will fund the work "now".
Our relationship with Pakistan is going to hell in a hand basket, because he is as skilled at foreign relations as he is with economic matters.
We need a special prosecutor for Solyndra, LighSquared, Evergreen,- and all then other donor funded companies Obama repaid with tax dollars.
Then, maybe, he'll quit before he gets unceremoniously dumped by the voters.
Here comes the Poll Dancer with, She knows more about Foreign Policy than people who're actually seeing things in Person.
We also need a Special Prosecuter for War Crimes commited during the Bush/Cheney years(8).NJNB, these 2 thought that paying Pakistan would somehow help in their "War on Terror". Pakistan used the $$ to Set Osama Bin Laden upin a Compound surrounded by Pakistan's version of West Point. President Obama foundout & went into Pakistan & Killed BinLaden, took his Cold Dead Body & Dumped into the Sea for FishBait!
Deal with It !
Rick, don't let your hate cloud your judgement. Give all the credit to your messiah, History will show other wise. Pakistan was on a leash with bush, now they make our policy. If obama had not gone and killed bin laden, we would have found out and he would have been impeached. There is nothing for me to deal with, except for your extreme hate for bush and love for your savior obama.
That's right folks. President Obama is over, his agenda is over, his followers are over -- The Marxist Muslim Messiah is toast! So there's no need to go to the polls in 2012 -- All you Republicans, the "true Americans," can stay home on your comfy couch (wink, wink). Soon the Seven Mountains of global society will come to fruition, and all will be well, Hallelujah!
No hate cloud here. No McCarthyism-style bile here. There's no misogyny in the Republican Party-- It's all love folks, just love.
So, MR wsr, what you're saying is Bush knew where Bin Laden was & did Nothing, so America should drag his Sorry Butt in for Impeachment for Not going after Bin Laden!
Works for me, Lets Do It !
We can put Bush right there with Tricky Dick Nixon as The Only Former Presidents, without their pictures in the WhiteHouse!
TruePatriot, thanks for the sarcasim. One of us will be eating their words come next November. Till then I respect your brillant observations and accept your boldness in declaring obama is toast.
Rick, you read it like you want. I said your hate will blur any truth. Obama had no choice, Bush would have done the same thing if they found him during his term. Please quite being so smart, you may make me convert to socialism.
Apparently this prez's idea of investing in Green Jobs is like the stimulus. Throw a big pile of taxpayer money at them with no oversight and then stand there with a confused and not a clue look when the money is gone ,no results,and people pleading the 5th. Wonder how many of these guys will turn out to be Obama campaign supporters? Where is the howling media on this crap?
Perhaps the media is stepping away because the "scandal" is likely to backfire the same way the birth certificate did, or the way the electoral college plan in Pennsylvania could, or the way a government shutdown would? How about Teapublicans stop with the machinations and focus on putting country first for a change? Hey, there's a concept!
The media will be "howling" shortly after the spin committee adjourns. The media will then tell us who the dogs are, what the barking means, who let the dogs out, and which side is actually rabid.
(pardon my cynicism)
Lets repeat the same mistakes over and over again so we can drive the country further into debt, destroy the dollars value further than it already is. That way we can increase the poverty rate and make more people dependent on government, like Greece and other European countries. Then Obamas goal of fundamentally transforming America will be complete. A former first world country will now be a third world country.
"Obama agenda: A bridge over troubled waters"- Love the title cause we all know the troubled waters is the GOP and fiscal terrorists in Congress giving $260,000 to squirrels in Tennessee and $200,00 Corvette simulator to Kentucky and $3,100,000 to Georgia for the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Lets not forget Mr. Perry and his state paid vacations costing the people of Texas $294,000 in security detail expenses for out-of-state trips by Gov. Rick Perry or his wife per the Department of Public Safety. They included the Bahamas in January for a family vacation and trips to Amsterdam, Madrid and New York by Anita Perry alone. Perry's spokeswoman Allison Castle said they were for economic development. The economic development for Texans unemployment. Texas's $27B in debt, $17B in stimulus money and the $107M in loans from the Feds. With that kind of spending and waste from the GOP members of Congress and the Gov. of Texas those $16muffins appear to be a bargain. My Senator in Georgia earmarked $7,900,00 for remodeling the Courthouse in Savannah could be included with the Presidents Jobs bill as part of repairing our infrastructure and the $1,3500,000 in earmarks for Atlanta Christian College (ACC), East Point, GA for retraining and could be included with the President's Job bill. My question is why in the world wouldn't my Senator work with the President to have these itims as part of the Presidents Jobs bill. They seem to be what President Obama is talking about. The GOP is more interested in political posturing than really helping America get back on it's feet. In my opinion if the GOP and the fiscal terrorist members of Congress are not following their Constitutional mandate to "Regulate Commerce" at best is dereliction of duty at worst treason against the American public.
Teapublicans, hypocrisy is thy name. MATAL -- You are correct. The only time the GOP/TP are fiscal conservatives is when there is a Democrat in the White House.
You will vote for obama we get it, why do you feel you can run numbers on perry and not your messiah. You sir need to not speak of Texas as some dumb sheep who fall in line. We have seen more and more industry and commerce come into this state than any other. If that means he takes a trip to wine and dine them, so be it. Rather my tax dollars go to that, than your welfare nation.
Obama is not absolutely stupid; a little dim maybe but not W stupid. But he is not W lucky either. Something is going to have to give in order for this run-away train to turn around and go back towards prosperity. There is only one bullitt left in the economic arsenal. Obama is going to have to start deporting illegal aliens to survive reelection. He is going to have to throw Geithner overboard and make job opurtunities by routing the illegal aliens and opening up these low level jobs to Americans. Every time an employer is made to hire Americans two things happen. The position is opened to someone that didn't have a job but we get a new taxpayer because illegal aliens don't pay taxes and the IRS refuses to make them pay taxes. Have you ever heard of an illegal alien being tried for being in the country illegally and the IRS stepping in to charge that person with tax evasion? I rest my case. They don't pay taxes and the IRS doesn't make them. The Obama IRS absolutely refuses to collect taxes from illegal aliens on money made in the U. S. He will be reelected if the Repubs insist on the likes of Perry but you and I loose because he won't have to change anything to beat Perry. After the Republican tantrums of the last few months in congress Perry is nonelectable. Walter Mondale could beat him.