Reid Rakes Republicans Over Jobs

Minutes after President Barack Obama signed a $42 billion small business assistance bill into law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took to the floor to blast the GOP over its opposition to the bill.

“So far we’ve seen little to indicate that our friends on the other side of the aisle have any interest in protecting American jobs. Instead we’ve seen them fight with great enthusiasm to keep corporate tax loopholes as wide open as possible.”

Castle Independent Bid Could Hurt Coons

A new Rasmussen poll out today shows that a write-in campaign on behalf of Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) could take votes away from Delaware Senate candidate Chris Coons (D).

The new “telephone survey of Likely Delaware voters finds Coons with 49% support, while O’Donnell earns 40% of the vote. Castle, a longtime congressman who lost to O’Donnell in the state’s GOP Primary, picks up five percent (5%). Another five percent (5%) remain undecided,” according to a press release that accompanied the poll.

Polls previously showed Coons with a double-digit lead over O’Donnell…

Wisconsin Prepping For Biggest Obama Rally Since ’08

The New York Times reports today that President Barack Obama’s campaign event tomorrow in Madison, Wisconsin will rival the ones he headlined during the 2008 campaign.

According to  Democratic source, “The event would be the biggest political rally since the end of the campaign and is meant to recapture “some of the old excitement and energy from the 2008 campaign that was so essential to Obama’s and Democrats’ success.”

Obama Calls GOP ‘Pledge’ A Joke

Toward the end of a live interview this morning with ‘Today Show’ host Matt Lauer, President Barack Obama responded to a new plan put out last week by House Republicans.

“What I’m seeing out of the Republican leadership over the last several years has been a set of policies that are just irresponsible,” Obama said. “And we saw in their ‘Pledge to America’ a similar set of irresponsible policies.”

The ‘Pledge,’ an outline of policies Republicans would attempt to implement should their party win back Congress this fall, was met with a fair amount of skepticism last week, even by some Republicans, who called the document heavy on rhetoric but light on details.

Republicans, said Obama, “say they want to balance the budget…they propose $4 trillion worth of tax cuts and $16 billion in spending cuts, and then they say we’re going to somehow magically balance the budget. That’s not a serious approach.”

King Blasts Democrats For Inviting Colbert To Hearing

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), the conservative ranking Republican on a House Judiciary subcommitte on immigration, says that the presence of Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert at a hearing this morning weakened the credibility of Democrats who support giving citizenship to illegal immigrant farm workers.

“Amnesty supporters frequently claim that Americans won’t do hard work, a claim which is insulting,” said King in a statement. “Maybe amnesty supporters should spend less time watching Comedy Central and more time considering all the real jobs that are out there that require hard labor and don’t involve sitting behind a desk. If they did, they would realize that every day American workers perform the dirtiest, most difficult, most dangerous jobs that can be thrown at them.”