That’s how Obama’s latest TV ad begins. It opens with a portion of a speech President Obama delivered on the economy last week, where he called on Congress to pass his jobs plan and reminded Americans that, despite weak recent jobs numbers, the economy has added nearly 4.3 million private sector jobs over the last 27 consecutive months of private sector job growth. It also knocks Mitt Romney’s comments on Friday that we need less firefighters, less policemen, less teachers and less construction workers in America.
This ad makes clear that the Obama campaign will run against Congressional Republican’s obstruction. Indeed, Moody’s Analytics confirmed in September that if fully implemented, Obama’s American Jobs Act would have added 1.9 million jobs and would have grown the economy by 2%. Wouldn’t that have been nice right now?
Unfortunately for them, every Republican Senator opposed or abstained from voting on the American Jobs Act. The Republican House never took up the bill. So if the economy is stalling right now, guess who you blame? Those who had no plan but to obstruct President Obama’s plans. The ad will be airing in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. It will also be airing on national cable starting next week.