is giving, obama is for jobs and the right is an obstructionist. keep on going. this is one of the best press conferences he has ever had. he s on message and on point. he is telling the senate if you don t vote for this, you need to go home and explain to your constituents what s bad about it. it has everything in it that the republicans have advocated in the past, tax cuts for workers and tax cuts for small businesses. i think it is a home run for the president. he kept coming back to it. it s about jobs and jobs right now. he also outlined what the republicans have been saying in the meetings that he s had with them about things they wanted to do which are good long-term things he has agreed to. but where is their plan right now? they don t have one. and i think the president drove that home today. ed, does it go far enough? i think it goes far enough right now. it s going to be paid for, $447 billion the president also stepped up today and asked
so he s now down to showing the america people, all right, i got this $447 billion deal, i can pay for it, we can pay for it, we can get it done and the republicans are saying no to this too. you be the judge. and at the same time, we both know forget jobs. heavy lift. we ve got health, we ve got learning, we ve got all these things. and there s a sense, if you look at the occupation movement, if you look at the overall frustration that the government doesn t understand doesn t understand maybe is the wrong characterization. that the government is not willing to try to resolve the problems on the magnitude that they actually exist. whether it s our debt, which is in the tens of trillions. whether it s our jobs, which is in the tens of millions. whether it s in the cost and issues with our poverty, which is, as we know, a fifth of our country. how do you think we resolve the sense that we re not getting the scale of response? well, if you were to get the money out of politic
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