Obama: Pass This Bill Right Away! — Durbin: We Will Get Around To It Some Time In October…
Durbin: Senate likely won’t act on Obama’s jobs bill until Oct.
The Hill
The Senate likely will not take up President Obama’s plan to create jobs until next month following a planned recess period, the No. 2 Democrat in the chamber said Sunday.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said the Senate would focus on a number of “related issues” to the $400 billion job-creation legislation this week. But he quickly noted on CNN that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has placed the massive jobs bill “on the calendar.”
The Senate is slated to be in recess Sept. 26-30, returning for legislative business on Oct. 3.
Some debate on the measure could begin “this week,” Durbin said. The legislation “is ready,” he said, “and poised.”
“But it’s more realistic it’d be next month,” Durbin said.
Wild Thing’s comment……..
So… the urgency that Obama gave this issue – he promised he’d be all over it when he returned from vacation at Martha’s Vineyard – has given way to a Senatorial yawn? It appears that, despite having pounded the podium and shouted for immediate passage, he hasn’t even gotten his own party members on board for hasty consideration. What happened to “If you love me, you’ll help me get this bill passed!”?
You would think Obama would have coordinated this campaign with Senate Democrats.
A lot of Dems see that obama will have no coat tails in the 2012 elections. Maybe they also see that his enormous spending habits are working against the Dems. Starting to look like the Jimmy Carter meltdown all over again.
Bob, your right, how odd how he keeps going it alone, but then he does act and talk like a dictator. I suppose he thinks he is just that over his fellow dems as well.
Tom, good way to put it. “A lot of Dems see that obama will have no coat tails in the 2012 elections.”