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RNC, NRCC Circulate Trib Article: “Obama’s Pittsburgh Job Visit Not Big Draw”

The Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee are pouncing on a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article which details the reluctance of several members of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to join President Obama in Pittsburgh next Tuesday.

“Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Forest Hills, plans to greet the president at Pittsburgh International Airport and then catch a flight to Washington, where the House will be voting on whether to block proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations meant to limit pollution from industrial boilers,” write Mike Wereschagin and Selena Zito.

The story continues: “Democratic Reps. Jason Altmire of McCandless and Mark Critz of Johnstown plan to stay in Washington.  Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Butler, and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh County, say they won’t be in Pittsburgh for Obama’s visit.  Sen. Bob Casey Jr., a Democrat up for re-election next year, hasn’t decided.”

It’s a brutal piece, and a reminder of the president’s low approval in the western part of the state.  Indeed, Wereschagin and Zito note that a Quinnipiac poll released at the end of September found that 54 percent of Keystone State voters disapprove of the job the President is doing (a figure essentially unchanged from an August survey).

“Some of the more specific polls are demonstrating that in the areas where the president enjoyed most of his strength, he doesn’t enjoy that today,” University of Pittsburgh political communications professor Gerald Shuster told the PG. “You couldn’t snub him, but at the same time, I wouldn’t want to be right up front on the platform.”

The President’s visit to the Steel City is a stop on his campaign-style tour aimed at generating support for the proposed $447 billion American Jobs Act.  Obama plans to tour an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers training center, meet with the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, and deliver a speech urging Congress to act on the controversial jobs plan.

5 Responses

  1. Tony, you better make another correction… The Democrats didn’t run both houses of Congress since 1997. Bush and the Repubs had total control of the federal government from Jan of 2001 to Jan of 2007. Over $1 trillion was spent NO WASTED trying to turn 2 independant nations into something they’ll never be. And even more important than the American wealth that was wasted – What about the lives of American soldiers. Has Obama been a disappointment – YES, but the bigger mess started in 2001 and our once great country may never recover.

  2. One minor correction:

    “The results of the 2000 election bore that fact out.” should read:

    “The results of the 2010 election bore that fact out.”

  3. The Democrats ran both Houses of Congress from 1997 until nine months ago. Obama had a super majority in both Houses for two years and instead of creating a climate for job growth he squandered those two years bailing out failed auto companies, banks, unions and propping up bogus “green energy” companies run by his cronies to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. Not to mention cramming the very unpopular Obamacare down America’s throat.

    Obama has become a pariah within his own party — EVERYONE knows he’s a one term loser. The results of the 2000 election bore that fact out. Nobody in his party with a sense of survival wants to be seen with him. Even the most stupid Democrat politicians can read the writing on the wall: the man who made over nine percent unemployment and $3.50+/gallon of gas “the norm” is an albatross around their necks. Obama isn’t just a carton of milk past its expiration date — it’s one with green and black mold growing in it.

    Obama owns every bit of it. Blaming Bush just doesn’t cut it after three continuous years of leadership failure. And the rest of his party knows it. Even rats know when it’s time to abandon a sinking ship.

  4. To me, Obama is failing because he didn’t do 2 things he should have done by now:

    1. Ended the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan

    2. Let the Bush Tax Cuts expire as they were supposed to on 12/31/10.

    If he had ONLY done these 2 things, the deficit would have been shrinking by now and in turn the economic downturn would have started to reverse. But NO, he let the GOP dictate things and he will probably lose to a Republican in 2012 and they will return to their failed policies they enacted under DUBYA.

  5. Is it a Post Gazette Article, or a Trib article? The headline says PG, but the first paragraph says Tribune-Review.

    Which is it? It’s an important point, because a negative article about a Democrat in the Trib hardly warrents a story here.

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