Setting the narrative: part I

Check out how the President is playing this angle with his tax/stimulus proposal referred to as a ‘jobs bill’ that even many in his own party don’t want to vote on. The MSM are allowing Obama’s narrative to take center stage: those mean ol’ Republicans, especially Cantor, won’t even allow my scrap of paper that I’m holding here to have a vote in the House...nevermind the pro-growth measures that we are finding common ground on.



Meanwhile, as Obama inundates us with his repetitive catch phrase, “pass this bill now,” Mitch McConnell says, ‘ok, you know what, let’s take a vote on this bill in the Senate right now!’ Uh-oh. A panicked Harry Reid is left obfuscating and pulling any excuse imaginable out of his proverbial backside to NOT vote on it now, because he knows very well that it doesn’t have support among enough Democrats…



Who’s not allowing a vote again, Mr. President? Of course, this is the part of the equation that the media is largely leaving out to simply focus on a narrative set by the White House that ‘it’s Republicans fault’. And this passes for reporting.

Don’t let’em snow you, folks.

ADDENDUM: Now The Hill reports that Senate Democrats are abandoning the quarter-of-a-million dollar rich for the more despised millionaire rich to pay for Obama's jobs bill...yeah, I know, taking more from fewer to pay for tax hikes...

Senate Democrats have jettisoned President Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on families making more than $250,000, raising the threshold to $1 million in an attempt to win more Democratic votes.

Democratic leaders say they want to impose a 5 percent surtax on the tax liability of millionaires, which would raise about $445 billion over 10 years — roughly the cost of Obama’s jobs proposal.

Beware of the optics.