Obama Taking the Direct Approach With Jobs Bill

President Obama has been doing the legwork to promote the American Jobs Act, hoping to get it past a very divided Congress. He’s also been talking it up like a man on a mission.

Next week he’ll be in Ohio, home state to House Speaker John Boehner, making a visit to the Brent Spence Bridge, which Press Secretary Jay Carney calls “functionally obsolete,” making the case for the infrastructure work included in the act. Perhaps chosen for symbolic effect, the bridge leads to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home state of Kentucky.