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Obama moves jobs speech after Boehner pushes back – is it politics or a gaffe?
The debate over the date of President Obama's jobs speech has given his opponents plenty to run with.
The President hoped to talk to a joint session of Congress next Wednesday, the same night as a Republican debate. But House Speaker John Boehner pushed back, and the President backed down, rescheduling the speech on Thursday. Now the President's speech will be up against the NFL's opening night.
Today on American Morning, Politico senior political writer Maggie Haberman and CNN contributor John Avlon look at the implications of the uproar over the scheduling. They also discuss Avlon's latest article for the Daily Beast, looking at why so many people continue to urge New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to run for President, despite his repeated statements that he isn't interested.
You can read Avlon's article on Christie here.
Conn. Governor Dannel Malloy: Ron Paul is 'an idiot'
Three days after Hurricane Irene ripped through Connecticut, reports say that about 400,000 people are still without power. Water has just crested this morning from massive flooding that rendered about one thousand roads impassable.
Today on American Morning, Governor Dannel Malloy discusses the damage within the state and the government's relief efforts with Christine Romans. He also responds the political debate over the federal role of disaster response, commenting about Ron Paul's remark that FEMA gets in the way and wastes money.
"I think he's an idiot," Malloys says. "We are spending $900 million a week in wars and he is arguing about whether we should spend some amount of money? FEMA now has currently $900 million budget available to it. This is a ridiculous conversation. I really don't understand what he is talking about and I'm not sure he does."
"Without this system of response, we would not be standing here with as few people who have died in this massive storm," Malloy adds. "For someone in Texas to be talking about FEMA being defunded really does rise to idiocy and hypocrisy. This is pure politics playing out across individuals' misery."
Rep. Kucinich: Immelt should resign from Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is calling for General Electric's CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Immelt to resign as head of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness because, according to reports, GE is sending advanced technology to China.
Rep. Kucinich says GE's selling advanced technology to China was designed to help the company's bottom line and will also help create jobs in China, instead of in the United States.
In an August 24th press release, Rep. Kucinich said, "If he does not resign, the White House should remove him."
Rep. Kucinich talks to American Morning about his call for Immelt to step aside.
Rick Perry, "the eggheads" and election 2012
In a chapter-sized pull-out from his upcoming book, The Victory Lab, Sasha Issenberg goes behind the scenes of Rick Perry's 2006 campaign for Texas governor.
Issenberg talks with American Morning about the new GOP frontrunner's strategy in Texas and how it will translate to the national arena in the 2012 presidential race.
Can Obama get Americans back to work?
With a new jobs plan expected next week, President Obama has announced that Alan Kreuger will be the Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors. Can Kreuger, a labor economist, help Obama get the middle class back to work?
Don Peck, author of "Pinched" and Features Editor for The Atlantic, and Stephen Moore, Sr. Economics Writer for The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page, talk to American Morning about getting America back to work.
Tea Party Express gears up for cross-country bus tour
Just as the Republican campaign for the White House is beginning to take shape, the Tea Party Express is heading across the country to try to rally its base.
The group is kicking off a bus tour this weekend in California that will eventually take them to Florida, just in time for the CNN/Tea Party Express GOP presidential debate in September.
Lloyd Marcus, performer on the Tea Party Express tour and Darcy Van Orden, organizer for the Utah Tea Party, weigh in on politics and FEMA's response to Hurricane Irene with American Morning's Carol Costello.
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