Obama to challenge Republican foes economy

The US president,Barack Obama,Wednesday threw down the gauntlet to Republicans on the economy,as the lagging recovery and crippling unemployment threaten Democrats with a mid-team election meltdown.
  Obama was travelling to Cleveland,Ohio in a personal challenge to Republican House of Representatives leader John Boehner, who used a recent visit to the city to demand the president sack his top economic aides.
  In what USA Today newspaper bills as the 'battle of Cleveland,' Obama was highlighting a multi-billion-dollar package of tax breaks for businesses and spending on transport infrastructure meant to spur jobs growth and woo voters.
     His plan,which faces an uncertain fate in Congress with lawmakers fixated on their own political skins ahead of the November
     2 polls , appears to be a bid by Obama strategists to ease their boss's political weakness on the economy.
    'We are in a very political period,people are going to be making choices,'said a senior Obama administration.
    'It is propitious we will be in Cleveland , where Mr Boehner was a couple of weeks ago,unveiling what he said was .