The Presidents remarks about  Pushing For Up-Or-Down Vote On Help For Our Laid Off Friends & Neighbors are posted on the White House web site.

According to the Los Angeles Times article Obama pushes GOP to extend unemployment benefits:

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio fired back. In a prepared statement, Boehner said: “The president knows that Republicans support extending unemployment insurance, and doing it in a fiscally responsible way by cutting spending elsewhere in the $3-trillion federal budget.”

That has to be the dumbest idea the Republicans have ever had, and there is stiff competition for that honor. Republicans want to take some spending out of the budget that would have been used to hire people to do some useful work so that you can pay people for being unemployed.  I thought Republicans generally don’t favor disincentives to work.

Maybe even more stupid is the failure of any Democrat to harp on the Republican stupidity.

The article Obama’s Done A Lot, But Gets Little Credit For It; Why? appeared on the McClatchy web site.  I posted the following comment on their web site:

It is rather amazing that this story looks all around for explanations but some how missed looking in the mirror.

What role has the media played? What role has Faux Noise played?

How hard has the media worked to counter the obvious fantasy land that the Republican propaganda machine has tried to create. All they seem to do is give us stories of “he said, she said”. They never do any work to look at the objective truth about what “he said, or she said”..

Then the media wonder why they are losing their readers and viewers. Faux Noise claims to be expanding. Is that because they are not bland? They may be 100% wrong, but they are not bland. They are not too afraid to offend, so they can take a strong stand even if it is all a lie. Have the other media outlets tried a counter attack using the truth?