Republican Congressman Holds Quiet Protest During Obama’s Jobs Speech

Rep. Jeff Landry held his own quiet little protest last night during President Obama‘s big jobs talk. Following not in the footsteps of Rep. Joe Wilson (who was seated two rows ahead of him), the Louisiana representative sat quietly through the speech, holding a sign that read: “DRILLING = JOBS.”

Landry raised the sign to shoulder-level at the point in the speech when President Obama acknowledged that Republicans might have ideas different than his for the $447 billion package. Certainly a small protest, but one that indicates remaining disagreements despite a concerted effort by President Obama to sell the job’s package as bi-partisan.

While he was not one of many Republicans who had hoped to get out of attending the joint-session address, Rep. Landry has had scrapes with the President in the past. In June, he was the only House Republican to turn down an invitation by President Obama to visit the White House to discuss the deficit crisis, saying: “I don’t intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.”

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