GOP lawmakers out of step with Americans, Obama says, and may lose their jobs - latimes.com: "By Peter Nicholas
Washington Bureau
November 13, 2011, 11:17 p.m.
Reporting from Honolulu— Republican lawmakers may be smothering his jobs bill, but their intransigence could get them booted out of office, President Obama said.
At a news conference Sunday, Obama said the Republicans opposing his $447-billion jobs package are woefully out of step with an American public that liked the plan and wanted it passed.
Obama's comments came in response to a question about his leadership. More than two months after unveiling his jobs package, and after repeated speeches devoted to getting it approved, the bulk of the legislation is bottled up in Congress. What should Americans conclude about his failure to pass his signature piece of legislation? the president was asked."
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