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Jay Carney’s Actual Response to Jobs Council Not Meeting: Obama Has ‘A Lot on His Plate’

Jul. 19, 2012 8:38am Jonathon M. Seidl

Jay Carney is known to give some quote-worthy comments while standing behind the podium in the White House briefing room. And his performance yesterday might be the best this summer. What am I talking about? Well, after being asked about why the president hasn’t met with his jobs council for six months, Carney justified it by saying Obama’s just been too busy.

RealClearPolitics has the transcript:

REPORTER: On the Jobs Council, obviously they’ve reported to haven’t met formally or publicly for six months. Why is exactly is that?

CARNEY: Look, the president solicits and receives input and advice from members of his Jobs Council and others about economic initiatives all the time. And I would point you to the numerous initiatives put forward by the Jobs Council that this administration under the president’s direction has taken action, presidential memorandum of August of last year that selected 14 job creating high-priority infrastructure projects for expedited review. Four of those are already under construction.

In March of this year, just four months ago, an executive order launched interagency effort to cut red tape and improve outcomes for infrastructure projects.

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REPORTER: So there’s no reason they haven’t met publicly?

CARNEY: No, there’s no specific reason except that the president’s obviously got a lot on his plate. But he continues to solicit and receive advice from numerous folks outside the administration about the economy, about ideas he can act on with Congress or administratively to help the economy grow and help it create jobs.

And Politico has the video:

In other words, we can’t meet to talk about the lack of work because Obama has too much of it.* Doh!

*As Mitt Romney pointed out, a lot of the time has been occupied by fundraisers.

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JEANNIEMAC
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:05am
http://www.coachisright.com/more-felons-in-the-white-house-irs-says-tax-cheating-obama-staffers-owe-833970-in-back-taxes/
Obama can’t be bothered to do any real work that might help the citizens. Maybe if his staffers paid their own taxes, that would pay for his and his wife’s numerous vacations.

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- turkey13
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:51am
  Actually they are afraid someone will Talk about all the failed Green energy jobs that never came about or all the people that are with out a job after they all went bellyup(Synlendra)! And then there are those jobs that were created thay cost us $200,000 to $300,000 for one person and only lasted for a year. Someone who has only been a community orginizer and never run a company just don’t get it.
  
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- MittensKittens
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:11am
  Carney is such a goof ball. I hope this whole blows up in their faces and takes them all out.
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:24am
  Lot on his plate alright!
  If he is not giving away our money and country to illegals he is
  Doing fund raisers here and abroad. You can not waste time
  taking care of those of us that are legal American citizens.
  You need a
  Job too bad I’m going to bring in a thousand illegals to replace you
  and give them your share.
  How stupid are you people
  
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- Meyvn
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:39am
  Yeah.
  
  Much of the crap on his plate doesn’t need to be and isn’t necessary. It only is because he’s stirring crap. He’d have a lot less to do and would be getting things done that really need to be done if he wasn’t so obsessed with his communist one world agenda.
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:40am
  I’m not thinking it’s such a bad thin if the jobs council doesn’t meet. Do these guys have a clue how to create a job anyway? President Obama is like an alien being, he doesn’t know how to create a job:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QHyfuV8jvc
  
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- DownWithDems
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:52pm
  See Breitbart.com
  
  YOUNG OBAMA, WALL STREET OUTSOURCING SPECIALIST
  by CHARLES C. JOHNSON 19 Jul 2012, 4:49 AM PDT 46
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 4:39pm
  Obama: Focused on job creation like a laser.
  
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- Obama Been Lauding
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 6:41am
  No Jay, I am not talking about the ‘plate’, at his fundraisers. We know it costs around $35,000 per plate, and who cares how much he gets on his plate. He can demand his private chef on Air Force One, create a meal if he is hungry. We all know he cannot create a Job.
  He can only try to save his own position. (Notice: I didn’t say his ‘Job”, that would imply work)
  
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essay
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:58am
I don’t blame Jay Carney for always looking like he has a full diaper. Look who he has to defend.

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USPATRIOT101
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:46am
Those fund raisers arent’t going to get done by themselves.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:50pm
  “….the president’s obviously got a lot on his plate.”
  
  I’ve heard Obama has about 35,800 things on a plate and that he has many, many plates.
  
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barber2
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:45am
Think what Obama and Carney both have on their plates is a big load of baloney.

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doomytram
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:36am
I – I -I -I – having been focused like a laser beam on my jobs council…. Me – Me -Me-Me thinks the private sector is doing fine…… I – I -I -I have been campaigning for President for six years.

You-You-You-You didn’t build that…. disability case for a sore finger and a case of the blah-blah-blah-blah’s on your own. You-You-You had the help of a good attorney, case worker, and shrink…..

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- JRook
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:44am
  Romney is the PROBLEM, not the SOLUTION. Or do you support individuals who out source jobs from the US and use off shore accounts to shelter their money from disclosure and taxes. Where is honesty, integrity and citizenship in your view of things?
  
  http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/investigating-mitt-romney-offshore-accounts
  
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- M13
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:04am
  We all know that Obama kills jobs and job creation, and gets Border patrol and ICE agents killed with his stupid policies.
  
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- Inlightofthings
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:04am
  Yeh ROOK, and dumping $50 billion into bailing out a company that has 65% of its jobs overseas makes sense to you. If that weren’t enough, you like the idea of screwing the bond holders and handing the equity over to the unions. Your story is contrived and should be one of reforming the tax system, not demonizing individuals that leverage loopholes. Lot’s of people are figuring out they don’t want to go down with the idiotic logic you embrace.
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:06am
  @Rook, AMERICAN WILL SURVIVE IN SPITE OF obama -this article is EXCELLENT!!!!
  
  http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/07/surviving_obama.html
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:14am
  More people are coming down with a sore thumb, painful toe, a case of the crazy’s (for a day to show out to a disability case worker) than ever before. Since disastrous Oblamer took office he has created a net -1.3million jobs while at the same time mysteriously he has added +3.6 million individuals to the Social Security Disability rolls.
  
  JRook the above facts are clearly Romney’s fault do you thintk or are they disastrous O’s?
  
  JRook I don’t know you from a can of Vicks Mentholatum. I’ve never heard of your moniker, and I won’t read your Vanity Fair Link.
  
  If your posting a vanity fair link, then you are either a ridiculous liberal utterly uninformed O-drone, or you one of those O-trolls that have a precious federal (DHS jobs) to debate the Right side of the argument (and a ridiculous, liberal, utterly uninformed O-drone). This thread that you are posting about is about disastrous Oblamer, not Romney. No one with anything resembling a functioning can support an Oblamer second term. Don’t waste your time Obamaunist.
  
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- rickinpa
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:15am
  @ROOK – I live in Pennsylvania and have seen plenty of Obama ads, why do you think Obama is running ads questioning Romney as opposed to talking about what he’s accomplished as president? If Romney did anything illegal the justice department should arrest him if not shut the heck up. Romney’s job as a businessman was to make money, even if he did ship jobs overseas and that is questional at best according to the Washington Post and Factcheck.org he was doing his job and was VERY GOOD at it. AS president his job would be to CREATE JOBS IN AMERICA.
  
  OBama on the other hand has promised multiple times to create jobs and the latest numbers show us going in reverse. It’s laughable that his spokesman’s excuse is it’s the President been busy while he attends multiple fundraisers and plays golf weekly.
  
  It’s also laughable that this same spokesman think starting 29% of in his words “…high-priority infrastructure projects…” in almost a year is a good record or acceptable with our present unemployment rate.
  
  A REAL LEADER FINDS A WAY A REAL LOSER FINDS AN EXCUSE in your heart you know which one OBama is, in your mind I’m not so sure! Fact is historically speaking it would almost be impossible for Romney to do a worse job than obama
  
  Keep making excuses for Obama as our country continues to go downhill
  
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- HolderISaSpook
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:01am
  JROOK or is it JCROCK? You are pointing out what most smart money people have been doing all along to protect their wealth. It is all legal unless you can prove otherwise. Go check with the DNC to get your reply PAL> BTW Why do you covet his wealth. Go out and make your own and then you will understand why you need to work within the law to avoid be a$$ raped by the IRS.
  
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- RedManBlueState
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:11pm
  But Obama IS focused like a laser on jobs! LASERS CUT AND BURN!! And that’s just what’s happening to America’s private-sector jobs.
  
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taxpro4u03
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:32am
Why don’t they just come out and say that ‘jobs’ are outdated as a means for the masses to provide a ‘reasonable’ standard of living and need to be replaced with monthly residual income checks which replace natural resources and production jobs BOTH parties outsourced for ‘shareholder profit enhancement.’ – Native Americans got ‘reservations,’ rancid beef and perpetual ‘broken promises.’ Patriots are on the verge of subprime ‘Fannie/Freddie’ eminent domain ‘seizures,’ Monsanto poisoned EBT cards, GREAT ‘affordable’ healthcare (cough-wheeze-die) and comfy/cozy ‘colony camps’ – Next bubble to bust are the unpayable student loans – which will implode the ‘tenured’ institutions of higher indoctrination. Solutions are easy – we KNOW what works; The Boston Tea party and Whiskey rebellion weren’t just for show… Prohibition didn’t work out too good neither. Perhaps we can get some STUtistics on the number of Hessian/Xe corp troops lurking in the shadows post-Katrina test-run??

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- barber2
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:42am
  Huh ???
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:22am
He’s forgetting those 100, yes count them, 100 fund raisers that he has attended this year alone so far in six months and nineteen days!

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HKS
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:17am
The only thing he has ever had on his plate is re-election, so he and Michele can keep taking those million dollar vacations every month on tax payers dimes.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:20am
  Dont forget his ever constant vacations, golf tours and apology tours.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:32am
  Snow, and vacations.
  
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- needmoinfo
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 7:46pm
  He dove right into the money as soon as he got into the White House. Can we afford that again? With no further elections in his future he can golf more, travel more, apologize more, throw more White House parties, give more money to green companies who lay off people and send the jobs overseas instead of hiring, etc, etc. Think how he can devote all his time to quadrupling the damage he did in his first term. Our debt now will look like petty cash if he gets in again. He won’t be inclined to waste any money for unemployment, or anything else. Every last dime to blow as he pleases. He didn’t even restrain himself the first time. If America lets him do this twice they deserve what they get. Just a bunch of sheep.
  
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scuba13
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:12am
Stop eating all those dogs if your plate is full.

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TRILO
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:11am
Come on Blaze….this story is days old.

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leftcoastslut
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:11am
heard that he didn’t have time to attend NAALCP was because he was meeting with Oprah.

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- kat747
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:14am
  Of course, the NAACP was UNnecessary to Barry…..he has the black vote in the bag already, so they were NOT important enough for him to waste his time on…….it was more important to be on Oprah’s show and lure in the liberal housewives.
  
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classicalgas
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:11am
Soooo! He has a lot on his plate. He should be eating humble pie, but Marxists do not do that.

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copatriots
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:07am
But, but, but……….0 wasn’t going to rest until Americans were back to work.

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- copatriots
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:09am
  Nice montage……..
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYSgPZ41WU
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:39am
  COPATRIOTS, Good catch there. God bless Mark Levin.
  
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michael48
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:04am
dem-wits=crap full of stupid…and willing to prove it…

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kevinthewriter
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:01am
Jay, let me get this straight….Obama has taken “numerous initiatives” to remove government red tape in order to promote “infrastructure projects”. So…the president who believes government is the solution, wants government out of the way so more government jobs can be created? Genuis!

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- loriann12
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:16am
  Can you say WPA? It’s gonna be like the Great Depression where the only job you can get is from the guberment. And besides,he had vacations and campaigning to do.
  
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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:01am
He’s gone from having a promisng career to having a career promising within a brief 3.5 years. Somehow he managed to “sneak” in hundreds of fund raisers and a bunch of golf , but not able to meet with his “jobs groups.” This does not indicate one who is focused like a laser on jobs.

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RightUnite
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:55am
Wow! Was that a planned question?? Why did he have the answers to that question in his notes?? How could he have known to have those answers, which obviously were in his notes, which he was reading from, if they didn’t plant that question…..

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Want our country back
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:55am
For once I agree with Carney. obama does have a lot on his plate at the near 200 fundraiser dinners he’s been attending. You’d think he’d put his FORK down and stop attending all these comedy shows, baseball games, concert events at the WH, fundraiser vacations, golf outings and actually do his job….. secretly, we know that HE IS DOING HIS JOB because nobody could be this bad, if it weren’t intentional…. I knew it from day one, didn’t want to believe it but now it’s evident and more and more people are aware of it. AND TODAYS FIRST TIME UNEMPLOYMENTS CLAIMS IS 386,000. STOP FUNDRAISING AND RESIGN!!!!!!!!!

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- Countrygirl1362
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:03am
  Don’t forget golf and vacations. It is a wonder he has the time to work at all. But then again, maybe him not working is a good thing.
  
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- RedDirtTexas
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:08am
  He can’t stop! He’s a professional campaigner. He’s the Campaigner in Chief! It’s what he do!
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:32am
  Minor correction. 0bama has attended 270 fund raisers so far in his first term. A hundred this year alone which is only 6 months, 19 days old so far. W in his two terms attended 173. So, guess where 0bama’s attention is?
  
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contkmi
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:53am
Destroying the country, putting more people on the public dole… You know, a lot on his plate.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:53am
Jay the carney Barker really needs to look into finding another job because he can’t defend the Marxist POS,actually no one can so can’t blame the carney barker he just can’t lie as well as his POS boss.

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- Zipit
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:09am
  Slayer! It is actually easy to defend a Marxist POS, when you yourself are a Marxist POS!!!
  
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Mr Sanders
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:52am
Talking down to people is the new thing for this administration….

The biggest concern for the Man blaming someone else for missing his putt… and working on his backswing.

He’s got a lot on his plate….. woodee wilson!

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rja444
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:47am
Yes, its called a perminent vacation.

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KangarooJack
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:46am
My jaw actually dropped when I heard Carney say this. lol Gee “folks” he’s BUSY!!

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single stack
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:44am
“No, there‘s no specific reason except that the president’s obviously got a lot on his plate.”

BBQ’d Rottweiler?

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:49am
  BBQ’d America.
  
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- Machtyn
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:56am
  101st round of golf
  next high-roller fundraiser
  next hollyweird fundraiser
  next crony fundraiser
  104th round of golf
  meeting— bowing to Egypt’s new government leader
  
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alrunner58
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:44am
Golf, next vacation, apologizing, fund raisers. Looking at the “plate” the economy doesn’t look all that important.

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- mattmo79
  Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:52am
  Hey, you can’t expect him to cancel his tee time to work on saving jobs and the economy. When’s the next vacation coming up?
  
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