Defiant Obama challenges GOP on jobs bill

By Ben Feller

Associated Press

Published: Thursday, Oct. 6 2011 12:00 p.m. MDT

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Defiant and frustrated, President Barack Obama aggressively challenged Republicans Thursday to get behind his jobs plan or explain why not, declaring that if Congress fails to act "the American people will run them out of town."

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Rifleman

Salt Lake City, Utah

The Senate Republicans called Obama's bluff and called for an immediate vote whereupon Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said no, he wasn't ready. Seems that he couldn't get the Senate Democrats to back Obama's phony baloney jobs bill.

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2:13 p.m. Oct. 6, 2011
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NotBuyingIt

MIDVALE, UT

Why do we need a jobs bill? Obama's multi-trillion dollar stimulus program was going to produce millions of "shovel ready" jobs, remember? Of course, as it turns out, the stimulus plan failed in epic fashion. The only thing it created was a More..

2:13 p.m. Oct. 6, 2011
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worf

Mcallen, TX

The last stimulus package could have paid for solar panels placed on every house in the United States, Canada, and Mexico with change.

Green jobs would have shot through the roof.

Good job BO.

9:08 a.m. Oct. 7, 2011
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