Obama, GOP Spar Over Employment Plan

Source: Wall Street Journal

Obama, GOP Spar Over Employment Plan
White House Meeting Turns Unusually Testy, as Accusations From Both Sides Highlight Partisan Divide

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's push for new job-creation legislation got off to a rocky start at a closed-door White House meeting Wednesday, when he accused Republicans of rooting against recovery and Republicans shot back that his policies had frozen business hiring.

The president's pursuit of a jobs bill that could cost close to $200 billion was never likely to attract bipartisan support. But the contentiousness of a meeting that was called expressly to foster cooperation and on Mr. Obama's home turf was unusual because members of Congress and the president typically mute their disagreements in face-to-face meetings.

One heated exchange came at the beginning of the meeting between the president and congressional leaders from both parties. Mr. Obama said the GOP was fixated on the unemployment rate as Congress enters a midterm-election season, saying Republicans "seem to be almost rooting against recovery," according to two aides briefed on the exchange.
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Republicans pushed Mr. Obama to freeze federal spending, a plea the president answered by repeatedly challenging them to produce an economist who believed that cutting spending now would be a good idea. Republicans also want assurances that taxes won't be raised and that new regulations won't be issued until the unemployment rate falls well below the current 10%.



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then surely they can do a solo act!!

Too bad he can't infuse some of that to certain senate leaders.

Since the program will be adjudicated to be "insufficient." And if it's "insufficient," it may as well just fail, cuz that's how politics works! Yippeee!

Now There's a match!