The WSJ's Washington Wire, Vice President Joe Biden emerged from his efforts to sell Democrats on the debt and deficit deal and said the sooner the legislation is passed, the sooner the administration will be able to talk about jobs. One of the complaints, and there are many, from rank and file Democratic lawmakers is that the debt ceiling clash has shoved the jobs issue off Washington’s agenda in favor of the Republicans’ No. 1 issue: spending cuts and the debt.
Mr. Biden said passing the debt ceiling deal is the best way to change that. The agreement, he said, “has one overwhelming, redeeming feature. It says the debt issue can’t come up [again] until 2013. This has nothing to do with elections. The moment this passes we will be talking about jobs.”
Republicans say the White House insistence on taking the debt ceiling issue off the table through 2012 has everything to do with politics..
There’s more. Find it at http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/07/31/live-blog-the-u-s-debt-battle-2/
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