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President Barack Obama has said the unspoken but truthful words that DC has taken their eyes off the ball.

On Tuesday Obama laid out a series of familiar proposals that compose the “cornerstones” of his second-term economic policy agenda. He  is challenging House Republicans to do something a little uncommon but quite simple, to take action on his ideas.

The proposals he argued would boost middle-class security and enable better economic mobility. Obama also recognizes the political challenges he’s encountered along the way.

A growing number of Republican senators are trying to get things done, like an immigration bill that economists say will boost our economy by more than a trillion dollars,” he said. “But a faction of Republicans in the House won’t even give that bill a vote, and gutted a farm bill that America’s farmers and most vulnerable children depend on.

The policies that Obama discussed on Wednesday are all ideas we have all heard before.

The president called in his remarks for new incentives to encourage manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and for investments to infrastructure, like transportation projects and expanding access to high-speed Internet. Obama also outlined his plans to encourage homeownership and ease the process of saving for retirement. And the president pointed to the importance of health care, extolling the virtues of his signature Affordable Care Act and denouncing a “politically motivated misinformation campaign” for trying to derail the law’s enactment.

There has been an on going battles between Democrats and Republicans fighting for power since GOP won the House in 2010, forcing them to come to a conclusion right before the deadline. 

With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.  And I am here to say this needs to stop. Short-term thinking and stale debates are not what this moment requires,” Obama said. “And as Washington prepares to enter another budget debate, the stakes for our middle class could not be higher.”

Will Republicans and Democrats ever get along?

Source: MSNBC