his own because his jobs agenda is stalled in congress. and in another end-around capitol hill, president obama has appointed the former ohio attorney general, richard cordray, as the head of the powerful new consumer financial protection bureau. republican lawmakers plan to, plan to fight that appointment though. here is abc s cecilia vega with more. reporter: this family nearly lost their ohio home to a predatory lender, who offered to make repairs on their old house, but fled, leaving them $80,000 in debt. with president obama and the country s consumer watch dog czar at their dining room table they became the poster family for everything the new agency plans to change. harassment by debt collectors? gone. sky-high fees on supposedly free checking accounts? gone. an endless paper trail of mortgage documents? gone. what can they see right now? what does it look like? in the mortgage area what nay
program in september of this year. and that period he should have been pivoting to more of a jobs agenda. he didn t. it cost him. but he would be in some real danger now anyway because he is sailing into such a stiff wind. so i think he s gotten to a place now where he s playing a bad hand about as well as you could expect. well, when you say it cost him, it wouldn t cost him this election. i mean, he can obviously recover. in fact, he s actually polling pretty well against the republican candidates, whether it be newt or mitt. but why did the president not listen to the base? because they were all saying, you know, the republicans are out to sabotage the economy. the obstructionism was just at a torrid pace. now finally he is admitting it and saying it in interviews. well, he knew all that and he said in interviews in 2010 things like, all i want for christmas is an opposition i can negotiate with.
and when he introduced his jobs program in september of this year. and that period he should have been pivoting to more of a jobs agenda. he didn t. he cost him, but he would be in some real danger now anyway because he is sailing into such a stiff wind. so i think he s gotten to a place now where he s playing a bad hand about as well as you could expect. well, when you say it cost him, it wouldn t cost him this election. i mean, he can obviously recover. in fact, he s actually polling pretty well against the republican candidates, whether it be newt or mitt. but why did the president not listen to the base? because they were all saying, you know, the republicans are out to sabotage the economy. the obstructionism was just at a torrid pace. now finally he is admitting it and saying it in interviews. well, he knew all that and he
and when he introduced his jobs program in september of this year. and that period he should have been pivoting to more of a jobs agenda. he didn t. he cost him, but he would be in some real danger now anyway because he is sailing into such a stiff wind. so i think he s gotten to a place now where he s playing a bad hand about as well as you could expect. well, when you say it cost him, it wouldn t cost him this election. i mean, he can obviously recover. in fact, he s actually polling pretty well against the republican candidates, whether it be newt or mitt. but why did the president not listen to the base? because they were all saying, you know, the republicans are out to sabotage the economy. the obstructionism was just at a torrid pace. now finally he is admitting it and saying it in interviews. well, he knew all that and he said in interviews in 2010 things like, all i want for
grover norquist is. i mean, most people are really still in the grips of a jobs recession and they want this election to be about jobs. and about doing something about jobs. i think the president has bought himself some time now to really sell even a larger jobs agenda than he already has. and i hope he takes advantage of that time and that opportunity. ezra, is the white house talking about any kind of jobs agenda going forward? not beyond the american jobs act but they are talking about the american jobs act. one thing that was interesting in the press conference today was obama was very clear. he said, look, congress has a year, as you mentioned at the beginning, a year to figure out what to do about deficit reduction if they don t want the trigger. they need to do now a payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance because they expire at the end of 2011 and also deal with infrastructure, as he put it, get construction workers back to work. i don t know that they ll be expanding th