Following up on Jim’s post [1] from yesterday about the President’s shameful dithering on the economy, Rep. Eric Cantor’s office has created a handy site [2] that allows folks to keep track of the job and economic growth measures the House has passed.
Looking over the Jobs Tracker site, one thing becomes abundantly clear: the House, in bipartisan fashion, has passed a slew of jobs bills, but most of them are sitting on a shelf in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Meanwhile, the President, who made a special trip [3] to Mr. Cantor’s district back in September to talk-up his “must pass” jobs bill, has done precious little to get his former Senate colleagues to move on these measures (with a few happy exceptions, including the long-delayed free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea).
Rather, the President has taken to the campaign trail to rail against congressional (read: Republican) intransigence.
I suggest that if the President, is serious about the economy, he channel his inner LBJ, start working the phones and come up with his own version of “The Johnson Treatment [4].”
But that assumes the President is serious about jobs creation instead of job preservation.
Namely, his own.