AP Touts President Obama’s Openness to Compromise, Ignores Campaign Obama’s Contradiction and New Tattletale Site
Darlene Superville's Associated Press report earlier this evening on President Obama's visit to North Carolina (“Obama touts jobs bill benefits for small business”) had an interesting final paragraph. Concerning Obama's openness to compromise on his “jobs plan” (otherwise known as “spend now, pay for with taxes later”), she wrote: “President Obama has made clear he'd sign a portion of the legislation if that's all Congress could agree on, although he's said he would continue to fight to pass the whole thing.” Someone forgot to tell that to David Axelrod this morning, as Meghashyam Mali at the Hill reported (video is at link): Axelrod: 'We're not in a negotiation' on Obama $447B jobs package Obama's top political adviser David Axelrod said Tuesday that the administration was unwilling to break up the president’s $447 billion jobs plan if Republicans were only receptive to passing certain elements. “We're not in a negotiation to break up the package. It's not an
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