Apparently he doesn’t like the whole thing being in one piece of legislation — a demand of the Obama Administration, which has insisted it’s all or none. It’s Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), by the way. Obama’s approval rating is down significantly in Casey’s home state of Pennsylvania.

“I’m afraid if we tried to pass one big bill, I think there’s a lot of skepticism about big pieces of legislation with all kinds of different component parts. We should break this up.”…

“Even without presidential politics, it’s complicated by the politics of Washington. You’ve got too many people here that spend their whole day trying to score political points instead of working together.”…

“I believe it would be much more likely if we break it up,” says Casey. “Why not have a series of votes on job creation strategies – five votes, 10 votes, I don’t care if it’s 25 votes.”

And he also says he doesn’t support everything in the bill, which may be why he wants it broken up. Which, again, is contentious because Obama has demanded that the whole bill be passed as one piece of legislation. There will be no negotiations, his administration has said.

Yeah, well, some Senate Democrats apparently disagree.

One proposal Casey specifically supports? Extension of pay roll tax cuts. All it took was abysmal approval ratings for Democrats to have an epiphany on the importance of tax cuts to economic stimulation.