It’s been 100 days since the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre and President Obama still hasn’t banned guns yet, but he assures us he hasn’t “forgotten about those kids.” We’d begun to suspect he had forgotten, though, about that important three-letter word that used to be thrown around during his first term: J-O-B-S. It has been nearly two years since Obama joked that “shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.”
Tomorrow, though, Obama promises to campaign like it’s 2008 and recalibrate his laser-like focus on the economy during a visit to Miami, Fla.
Tomorrow: Pres Obama travels to Miami to make his case for jobs programs aimed at repairing & expanding nation's infrastructure.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 28, 2013
Pres Obama will tour a tunnel project at PortMiami and then deliver remarks about economic importance of funding infrastructure projects.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 28, 2013
https://twitter.com/ernestine1006/status/317418512484298752
.@ernestine1006 WH promises Pres Obama's budget for FY'14 the week of April 8th.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 28, 2013
We’ll have to wait until tomorrow to learn if “smart, targeted investments” is just another euphemism for “stimulus.”
"We need to make smart, targeted investments to create jobs and boost our economy," says WH spksmn @jearnest44 of the president's proposals,
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 28, 2013
So, has the country’s dad plugged that hole in the economy yet? What’s the plan?
Asked if Pres Obama will unveil new infrastructure proposals, @jearnest44 says "I think that we've got a couple of tricks up our sleeve."
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 28, 2013
@markknoller @jearnest44 Tricks, as in slight of hand, are not exactly what we've been waiting on. We've had those for the last 4+ years.
— Jack (@DSM2) March 28, 2013
@markknoller #tweetsfrom2009 #shovelready
— CTIronman (@CTIronman) March 28, 2013
https://twitter.com/tatboy314/status/317419111720304640
https://twitter.com/MarcLockard/status/317420671481303041
@markknoller kind of like what the 800 billion in surplus was supposed to do 4 years ago
— Erin (@Erinn2ns) March 29, 2013
Patience, please. You can’t change Washington from the inside, after all.
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