President Obama turned up his aggressive stance on job creation last week, culminating in an address yesterday where he targeted Republicans for “not getting the message on jobs.” Though this is just the latest barb in the ongoing blame-game between Democrats, the White House, and Congressional republicans, given Obama’s unilateral moves over the past seven days, it seems that he’s putting his executive power where his mouth is. It should be noted that even as Obama criticized Republicans for not moving on his American Jobs Act, the House passed a vote to repeal a 3 percent tax on contractors, a small provision of his AJA.

Obama said on Saturday, of House Republicans, “Over and over, they have refused to even debate the same kind of jobs proposals that Republicans have supported in the past — proposals that today are supported, not just by Democrats, but by independents and Republicans all across America.” The President was referring to recent polls that show a large majority of Americans in support of a surtax on the wealthy (over 80% by some estimates, including the AP/GfK). His new partisan tact was showing when he went on to say that the House GOP was instead focused on “whether or not we should mint coins” and “to celebrate the Baseball Hall of Fame,” Obama said. “Meanwhile, they’re only scheduled to work three more weeks between now and the end of the year.” This according to POLITICO.

The President did fail to mention that the House had passed a vote to repeal a 3 percent tax on contractors, which many hope will stimulate further hiring as infrastructure programs take effect. (Those, by the way, have not passed yet.) Although this is evidence that many congressional Republicans are holding up as evidence that they’re “willing to work with Democrats”, in scope it’s a small provision of the overall bill and one that is ideologically aligned with the GOP agenda.

Two of the largest and more comprehensive (and economists say ‘most effective’) provisions of the American Jobs Act, one to hire more public sector employees like teachers, nurses, law enforcement, and firefighters, as well as another provision to vastly invest in infrastructure development, have been largely opposed by Republicans as a “second stimulus”.

Instead Obama has pushed forward with a number of executive actions over the week, including an order to lower the lifespan and interest rates of student loan debt, to help more homeowners refinance high-interest mortgages, and to put programs in place to help veterans find employment.