{"id":1970,"date":"2009-06-30T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2009-06-30T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T15:44:00","slug":"a-jobs-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"A "Jobs Bill"?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Front-page Daily Kos writer SusanG is exuberant<\/a> about the energy bill that recently passed in the House.<\/p>\n

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In an unprecedented move, the White House retracted yesterday the embargoed text for the president’s usual weekly address, which it generally sends to news outlets the evening before the official Saturday remarks are posted on the White House website. The first address sent was focused on health care reform; the replacement discussed\u2014and praised to the heavens\u2014the energy bill<\/a> that passed the House yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the measure’s passage prompted a nimble switch in presidential priorities for the address, which President Obama often uses as the first salvo in setting messaging for the coming week\u2014and for putting friend and foe alike on notice about what’s on the administration’s upcoming agenda. In fact, he’s so adamant about pushing his slant on the energy bill that today’s weekly address is mostly a reprise<\/a> of a speech he gave earlier in the day yesterday, with a framing he clearly wants to drive home:<\/p>\n

It’s all about the jobs, baby.<\/p>\n

In the very first sentence, in fact, the President doesn’t just refer to the measure as an energy bill\u2014it’s a piece of legislation that "will open the door to a clean energy economy." In fact, this is\u2014make no mistake, he says\u2014a jobs bill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yup, he talked about jobs.  He called it a "jobs bill".  And merely saying that makes things all golden.<\/p>\n

‘Cept he said the same thing about the stimulus package, and we all know how that turned out.  A reminder:<\/p>\n

\"Stimulus-vs-unemployment-may\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yeah, the President called the energy bill "a jobs bill".  After the last "jobs bill", unemployment rose to a point higher that he said we’d hit if we did nothing<\/em>.  <\/p>\n

But hey, he said<\/em> this would be a "jobs bill".  For the Left, it appears that’s all that really matters.  Results?  Meh.  Intentions are everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Front-page Daily Kos writer SusanG is exuberant about the energy bill that recently passed in the House. In an unprecedented move, the White House retracted yesterday the embargoed text for the president’s usual weekly address, which it generally sends to news outlets the evening before the official Saturday remarks are posted on the White House […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t