HONOLULU — President Barack Obama headed to re-election campaign with a plan to step up his attacks on unpopular Congress, concluded that he was unable to pass major legislation by 2012 because of Republican hostility to the agenda, according to a senior White House officials.
Obama’s election year strategy is an attempt to exploit the last victory on the short-term extension of the payroll tax cuts and increased poll numbers. As the stage is set for November, intends to hammer the theme of economic justice for ordinary Americans than continue to fight with the Republican Congress, said the officials, Joshua Earnest, Deputy Press Secretary, previewed the strategy the White House.
“In terms of its relationship with the Congress President in 2012,” earnest said at the Conference, “the President is no longer bound to the Washington, D.C.” Win a year’s extension of full tax deductions payroll section “must-do” last of the Act at the White House, he said.
But the White House chose to frame Obama’s strategy, the number of young senator wholesale makeover won in 2008 by promising to change the culture of Washington, rise above the partisan fray and look for a compromise.
After three years in Office, Obama’s gamble on the approach to go-it-yourself. In the coming weeks, he will step up his efforts to show the steps that he took on himself to revive the economy, actually said, declining to give details.