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...odds with one another. "Maybe there should've been a better job reaching out to the White House," concedes Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. Manley says Reid decided to pull the bill when he couldn't get an agreement from the Republican leadership to proceed despite the bipartisan backing of the bill. "Reid decided to simplify this process and put forth fully paid-for measures that have bipartisan support," Manley says. (Watch a video about why Harry Reid encouraged Obama to run for President...
Ever since Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate race deprived Senate Democrats of their filibuster-proof majority, the White House has made no secret of its fervent desire that majority leader Harry Reid pass some kind of bipartisan legislation. So it was with a bit of fanfare that the White House welcomed Thursday a bipartisan Senate deal on $85 billion jobs legislation forged after weeks of negotiations between Senators Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, and Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican. And it was to more than a bit of confusion that Reid hours later threw out the deal...
...face of growing Republican power and the loss of the Democrats' filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, the White House has been forced to make a midterm correction and attempt to resuscitate the idea of the bipartisan coalitions that candidate Obama once promised. The response to the President's overtures has mostly been cool. Across the board, the GOP leadership, more moderate rank-and-file members, talk-radio hosts and Tea Party activists all agree: stay the course, hope Obama's job-approval numbers sink further and then seize back power when the time is ripe...
...didn't get the prize, something of a two-for-one loss. Now he has a jobs bill that rejects Republican input at a time when voters in the middle are fed up with the partisan gridlock in D.C." Though many of the provisions in the smaller bill are bipartisan - such as one that provided payroll tax breaks to companies with new hires co-authored by New York's Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Senate Democrat, and Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican - the process by which Reid yanked the bill made for a lot of bitter feelings. "To squander...
...were all hoping to see a robust jobs bill, and we're confounded by this action, absolutely confounded." And fellow endangered incumbent, Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat, said in a press release that she hopes Reid "will reconsider. [The Baucus-Grassley] bill was carefully crafted to achieve significant bipartisan support...