President Barack Obama waves to people from a golf cart while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard
President Barack Obama speaks with NBA basketball player Stephen Curry while golfing
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The President’s (Yester)-Day Of Golfing
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Charles P. Pierce: …. The only unemployment problem that concerns congressional Republicans at the moment is the problem that Barack Obama is not yet unemployed … Not a single Republican senator voted for this thing….
All of these guys represent states with severe unemployment problems. All of these guys represent states with rotting sewer systems, unstable bridges, and crumbling schools …. Hey, Pat Toomey, congratulations for saving 35,000 Pennsylvania schools from the horrors of modernization. And Marco Rubio acted boldly to rescue Florida from $1.6 billion in highway repairs.
The Republicans, en masse, have decided that, in the interest of doing away with a Democratic president, they will decline even to discuss the most fundamental responsibility of government: keeping the damn country from falling apart. It was an altogether remarkable moment. The president should have known from the second his hand came off the Bible that the other party had no goal except making sure that he failed….
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Steve Benen: With Senate Democrats preparing to push individual votes on the component parts of the American Jobs Act, they do so knowing that the public is on their side.
….. In fact (in the latest NBC News poll), with 63% of Americans supporting the president’s jobs ideas, it appears that the only thing that’s more popular are tax increases on the rich - the NBC/WSJ found 64% believe it’s a “good idea” to ask the wealthy and corporations to pay more …. With poll numbers like these, is it any wonder Democrats intend to keep pushing forward on this?
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James Bouie (The Nation): ….In the parallel world where political actors are held responsible for their actions, headlines would announce that Republicans - acting on mindless hostility to President Obama - kept more than $400 billion in needed stimulus (including $175 billion in tax cuts) from reaching the economy, leaving millions without assistance and pushing the country closer to a second recession.
As it stands, newspaper writers are content to leave Republicans off the hook for their relentless obstructionism. To wit, here’s the New York Times with a description of last night’s action in the Senate:
In a major setback for President Obama, the Senate on Tuesday blocked consideration of his $447 billion jobs bill …. The legislation, announced with fanfare by the president at a joint session of Congress last month, fell short of the 60 needed to overcome procedural hurdles in the Senate.
This use of the passive voice might make sense if legislating were a game of Calvinball, and the AJA was blocked by a sudden and arbitrary new rule. But of course, that’s not what happened. The American Jobs Act failed because Senate Republicans chose to invoke the filibuster and raise the threshold for passage to sixty votes….
Since Obama entered office, media outlets - and newspapers especially - have obscured the locus of Congressional obstruction. The filibuster has become a routine part of Washington, and few people bother to note the extent to which its current use is ahistorical and unprecedented. This refusal to blame Republicans for their actions didn’t make sense to me then, and it doesn’t make sense to me now.
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Original video and transcript here
MSNBC: In an interview with TODAY’s Ann Curry that will air on Tuesday’s show, President Barack Obama said that if he were Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner right now, he would resign…
“I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign,” he said.
“When you get to the point where, because of various personal distractions, you can’t serve as effectively as you need to, at the time when people are worrying about jobs, and their mortgages, and paying the bills — then you should probably step back,’’ Obama said.
Obama added that what Weiner did was “highly inappropriate’’ and that he has “embarrassed himself” and his wife and family, but said it will ultimately come down to a decision by Weiner and his constituents as to whether he will continue in office.
