Greg Sargent is highlighting a key change in the negotiating stance of the White House based on an answer by White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer to Check Todd on MSNBC today:
TODD: The bill gets sent to Congress next week. Are you guys assuming that it gets sort of piecemealed, that at the end of the day you’re going to get some of what you want but not all of what you want?
PFEIFFER: No, we’re not assuming that. The president said it 16 times, I’ll say it a 17th time today. He wants them to pass the American Jobs Act. That’s the piece of legislation he’s sending up. It’s a simple thing. Puts the Americans back to work and puts more money into the pockets of working families. Our belief is that everything in this bill is reasonable. Everything in the bill has bipartisan support. Everything will have an effect right now. And so we want them to pass it.
WaPo: the Plum Line: White House doubles down: Pass the WHOLE jobs bill, Republicans
Different negotiating stance now the Republicans do not have a hostage.
I don't think the Republicans will pass this and I think the President understands that.
I hope this continues. The Republicans have paid no real cost for two and half years of obstruction and extortion/hostage taking that harmed a recovery. They need to pay that price in 2012 and the only way to do it is to make sure people understand what Republicans have been and are doing to this nation.