Obama, he of the sharp creased slacks, golf clubs in hand, jetting from golf course to fundraiser, scolds Congress for not getting things done whilst he prepares for his 31st fundraiser since January. Mr. President, where is your plan? We have the jet-setting President making his weekly golf outings (while we wage three separate wars), while his Marie Antoinette wife takes the kids on vacation to South Africa to meet with Nelson Mandela. Meanwhile, the country burns. Meanwhile, unemployments remains at over 9%. Meanwhile, people are still being foreclosed on. Meanwhile...
Whither the vineyard?
GOP says Obama must work, too
By ABBY PHILLIP | 06/29/11 4:15 PM Updated: 06/29/11 6:06 PM
President Obama is getting pushback from Republicans for his suggestion that Congress isn’t working hard enough on debt ceiling negotiations, even going so far as to imply that they may need to cancel some of their planned district work days in July to make time for talks.
“If by the end of the week, we have not seen substantial progress, then I think members of Congress need to understand, we're going to, you know, start having to cancel things and stay here until we get it done,” Obama said at a press conference on Wednesday. “You know, they're in one week. They're out one week. And then they're saying, 'Obama's got to step in.' ”
But that pointed criticism may have done as much to raise the bar for Obama’s own activities. Tomorrow he plans to travel to Philadelphia for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on behalf of his reelection campaign — his 31st fundraiser since January. Republicans may now start to scrutinize the Obama calendar’s eclectic mix of stumping and governing (and golfing) even as he tries to ramp up pressure on congressional leaders.
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