Posted on 09/04/2011 2:22:30 PM PDT by Signalman
After some very public drama this past week about the logistics behind President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on jobs, White House aides are reportedly already trying to downplay the significance of what the president will be talking about Thursday night.
According to Fox News, word is privately spreading that Obama will not be presenting his entire jobs plan:
Aides say Thursday’s speech will be part of a bigger plan the White House will roll out throughout the fall with the president hitting the road for speeches and town hall appearances. Aides have already confirmed that Obama will be traveling to California, Colorado, and Washington state for one three-day swing later this month that will include economic events as well as some fundraising.
The move could be a way to try and lower the stakes for Thursday’s Joint Session appearance, but it could also be an attempt by the administration to show the president is trying to stay all over the economy heading into what will likely be an uphill re-election battle.
“There’s no question the president will want to keep returning to jobs,” one top aide told Fox News. “I don’t want to downplay the speech [next week] — it’s going to be substantial. But the idea that this is the be-all and end-all is wrong.”
Instead, Obama may try to highlight individual proposals on the road, campaign-style, as 2012 GOP hopefuls hit the trails themselves.
Details about what exactly the president plans to present are still very sparse, although he is asking federal agencies to identify potential infrastructure projects that could lend themselves to job creation, The Blaze reported Thursday.
According to Politico, Obama will also challenge the 12-member “congressional supercommittee” during Thursday’s speech to exceed their $1.5 trillion budget savings goal, but won’t present his own promised “very specific” deficit recommendations until afterward.
His speech will come less than a week after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August jobs report that showed no net jobs were created last month, and revised its earlier reports for June and July to show fewer jobs were created during those months than originally thought.
You left out shovel ready.
A few days back, I said Obama would cancel....Of course he’ll have a good reason...like Michelle wants him to wag the dog....I mean walk the dog...
I hope they boo him and walk out the minute Obama starts the partisan blaming and excuse making. It's a campaign speech with a captive audience and worldwide coverage. It would be very disrespectful if he wastes everyone's time and doesn't have anything worthwhile to say.
So basically Barry is wasting the time of the Joint houses of Congress and the American public.
Maybe the chamber will start chanting “Go Pack Go!”.
In other words he doesn’t have a plan but will make it up as he goes.
“we inherited”
downplay?
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A prime time televised speech to a Joint Session of Congress is downplay??
The fact that they're now framing this as part of a larger 'role out' is simply to get his future campaigning stops paid for by taxpayers.
Let’s see. Chairman Zero vs. Packers/Saints.
Death by hanging or death by firing squad. Netflix for me.
Caddy..."Mr President Sir....sorry...but that was not your power stroke that exploded the ball....you teed up on a duck egg.
In other words, all those trial balloons regarding what he “might” say were met with a “not more of this crap” response.
"Leading from behind, again!" obamma is dismal failure as a president! I would rather have Carter any day over this spineless president.
That’s exactly how they play it. Non of them have political principals that can be overtly stated without HUGE public disapproval.
Even if he did, it would still somehow take him 40 minutes and he’d get in a swipe at Republicans, Tea Party members, and ATM machines.
I think he meant "foreplay", 'cause we're about to get screwed again...........
That he will probably qualify as first inning scores.
The chamber should chant “YOU LIE” until Odumbo can’t speak!!
This is simply the big kickoff to Obama 2012.
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