Bold action on jobs needed now: Obama aide Sperling

The case for bold action to put Americans back to work is overwhelming, a top White House adviser said on Thursday, and opponents are turning their backs on the millions of the country's long-term unemployed..

Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, said opponents of the bill were "turning a blind eye" to those who have been out of work for six months or more, roughly 45 percent of the 14 million Americans without jobs.

"There is no question that the best thing for our economy right now is to get a large, bold, demand injection through the American jobs act now," Sperling said at the Financial Times' View from the Top conference in New York.

The Senate defeated President Barack Obama's $447 billion job-creation plan earlier this week but the White House says it will keep pushing Congress to do more to help boost hiring.

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Senate GOP poised to scuttle Obama's jobs plan

President Barack Obama's jobs bill, facing a serious test in the Senate, appears likely to fail because Republicans oppose its spending components and its tax supplement on millionaires obama has been waging a campaign style effort to rally public hold behind the $447 billion measure, which was expected to be the subject of a Senate vote Tuesday.

The plan combines payroll tax cuts for workers and businesses with $175 billion in expenditure on roads, school repairs and other infrastructure, as well as unemployment support and help to local governments to avoid layoffs of teachers, firefighters and police officers.

The key elements of the jobs package reprise parts of Obama's $800 billion-plus 2009 stimulus determine and a Social Security payroll tax cut enacted last year unlike the notorious stimulus bill, the jobs measure would be financed by a 5.6 percent surcharge on income more than $1 million, raising more than $450 billion over a decade.

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SPIN METER: Obama disconnects rhetoric, reality

In President Barack Obama's sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two version of actuality the one in his speeches and the one really unfolding in Washington when Obama accuse Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignore the fact that his own party has struggled to unite following the proposal.

When the president says Republicans haven't explain what they oppose in the plan, he skips over the fact that Republicans who control the House really have done that in detail and when he calls on Congress to "pass this bill now," he slides past the point that Democrats organize the Senate and were never prepared to move immediately, given other priorities senators are predictable to vote Tuesday on opening debate on the bill, a month after the president unveil it with a call for its immediate passage.

To be sure, Obama is not the only one attractive in rhetorical excesses but he is the president, and as such, his constant remarks on the bill draw the most concentration and scrutiny the disconnect between what Obama says about his jobs bill and what stands as the following reality flow from his broader aim to rally the public following his cause and get Congress to act, or, if not, to pin blame on Republicans.

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Killing Americans: On uncharted ground in attack

President Barack Obama steered the nation's war machine into unexplored territory Friday when a U.S. drone attack a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had develop into central figures in al-Qaida.

It was believed to be the first instance in which a U.S. citizen was tracked and execute based on secret intelligence and the president's say-so. And it raised main questions about the limitations of presidential power.

Anwar al-Awlaki, the target of the U.S. drone attack, was one of the best-known al-Qaida figures after Osama bin Laden, American intelligence officials had linked him to two nearly catastrophic attacks on U.S.-bound planes, an airliner on Christmas 2009 and cargo planes previous year the second American killed in the drone attack, Samir Kahn, was the editor of Inspire, a slick online publication aimed at al-Qaida sympathizers in the West.

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Election-year ruling looms for health overhaul

President Barack Obama's landmark health care renovate appears headed for a Supreme Court ruling as the presidential election season hits full stride in the coming year the health care law distressing virtually every American is sure to figure highly in President Barack Obama's campaign for re-election republican contenders are already assail it in virtually every debate and speech.

The administration on Wednesday formally appeal a ruling by the federal appeals court in Atlanta that struck down the law's core requirement that Americans buy health insurance or pay a punishment beginning in 2014 the administration said the appeal court decision declare the law's central provision unauthorized was "fundamentally flawed."

At the same time, however, the winners in that appellate case, 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, also asked for high court appraisal Wednesday, saying the entire law, and not just the individual insurance permission should be struck down the Supreme Court almost forever weighs in when a lower court has struck down all or part of a federal law, to say nil of one that aims to extend insurance coverage to additional than 30 million Americans.

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Shutdown averted, but deep differences linger

It's the third time this year a government budget predicament has been averted just in the nick of time and the public seem plain fed up with the hysterically partisanship that led to the nerve-racking close calls.

Rising public disgust turns up in poll after poll showing Congress' approval ratings contain sunk far lower than those of President Barack Obama, whose own numbers have been weighed down by the teetering economy and dour employment numbers yet the political grandstand is likely to carry on even grow.

Since at the heart of every major standoff this year is a deep philosophical disagreement between the parties on the dimension and role of government it encompasses sharp disagreements on spending cuts and taxes, and on whether deficit decrease or more spending to prod a flailing recovery is a higher priority and these are arguments sure to resound more loudly.

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Obama sells jobs plan in Silicon Valley

President Barack Obama is on the road selling his jobs plan and his re-election hope to plugged-in networkers in Silicon Valley and about the country.

He was to appear Monday at a town hall-style event hosted by the career-focused social networking site LinkedIn to pitch his nearly $450 billion jobs proposal as he travels from end to end California scooping up campaign cash.

The town hall, the White House's latest effort to meld old-school campaigning with new media capabilities, will allow Obama to take questions from LinkedIn users online as well as a live spectators at the Computer History Museum close to the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

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Obama making final push to blunt Palestinian bid

Scrambling to head off a diplomatic clash, President Barack Obama will openly push for the Palestinians to fall a statehood bid when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.

Obama will follow up his speech with individual meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders as he seeks to coax both parties back to direct peace talks.

At the same time, U.S. officials are conceding that they most likely cannot prevent Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from going forward with a request to the U.N. Security Council for full Palestinian membership.

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