When President Obama recently addressed Congress on his latest jobs proposal, he seemed to be setting the stage for a Truman like campaign against a “do nothing” legislature.

That suspicion grew as he went around the country to drum up support for his new stimulus plan. And then last Monday he removed all doubt by sending a jobs bill to Congress that is unlikely to be passed (and shouldn’t be in its present form).

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