Maybe he'll start rhyming a bunch of things. Or repeat a catch phrase fifty times. Or just paraphrase Martin Luther King. Maybe he'll do NUMEROLOGY - remember that??? Oh, there are all kinds of things our President can SAY that will help the millions of unemployed people feel nice and jolly and happy again!
That oughta help!
BTW, be sure to read the final line of this excerpt . . .
I've bolded it, and set it in red, for you below.
Obama to call for urgent steps on economy
By Caren Bohan and Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON | Thu Sep 8, 2011 12:07pm EDT
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a jobs package worth more than $300 billon on Thursday, staking his re-election hopes on a call for urgent bipartisan action to revive the faltering American economy.
With his poll numbers at new lows amid voter frustration with 9.1 percent unemployment, Obama will make tax cuts for middle-class households and businesses the centerpiece of the plan and will press for new spending to repair roads, bridges and other deteriorating infrastructure.
He will use his televised speech before a joint session of the U.S. Congress, at 7 p.m. EDT, to urge passage of his "American Jobs Act" by year-end.
If it succeeds, his plan might provide an economic boost quickly enough to help Obama's re-election prospects. If it fails, his strategy will be to paint congressional Republicans as obstructionist and blame them for the stagnating economy.
Already on Thursday morning, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley went on the offensive against what he described as a do-nothing climate on Capitol Hill.
"It's time for Congress, after a five-week vacation, to come back and do something and not just say 'no' to everything that gets proposed in this town," Daley said on CBS.
Surprisingly weak jobs data has heightened fears that the United States may be headed for another recession. The Federal Reserve is considering ways to bolster demand and G7 finance ministers meeting in France on Friday are expected to encourage countries that can afford it to do more to help growth.
Obama is under intense pressure to change perceptions that he has shown weak leadership. His economic stewardship has been criticized by both Republicans and fellow Democrats, casting a cloud over his prospects for re-election in November 2012.
"It's a major leadership moment for Obama," said Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. "He's running out of months before voters settle in on whether his presidency has failed."
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll this week showed Obama was no longer the favorite to win next year.
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