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.
Report: White House Already Seeking to Downplay Jobs Speech, Obama Will Not Present ‘Be-All and End-All’ Plan
Focused like a laser beam I’m sure...
Translation of Headline:
Obama: “I have absolutely no clue as to how to lower the unemployment rate or get the economy moving again”.
Infrastructure
Schools
Green technology
blah, blah, blah
Cripes! It's a joint session of Congress addressed by the President of the United States. Why in the world would he be doing it unless it were tremendously important? Supposedly, there is no higher drama.
Yes we know his routine.
Keep playing ‘em. You’ll still lose.
he does know how to lead.....thinks leading is campaigning, dividing America
well, that is funny, because on Kelly’s show on Fox, they said they are going to lay out an entire jobs plan but not the entire economic plan.
I was kind of wondering how that is possible unless you were just going to have the feds hire everyone.
he doesn’t know how to lead.....he does know how to divide America though. so this fall, he’ll do what he knows best.
I predict that after demanding the attendance of both houses of Congress in a special session, Zero will read Packers - Saints football score updates off the telemprompter to the assembled officials. Then he will ruminate on the plight of the black athlete in professional sports. After the speech, the MSM will laud the president's profound racial insights, and agree that Republicans are a bunch of racists.
In his heart he knows how to energise the economy. He hates the way the economy could thrive though (unleashing the business sense of those who would never support him). He made a slight pivot on the EPA rules. My guess is he can stand for no more pragmatism.
From Maureene Dowd's column, “One and Done:”MoDo seems to be despondent in her column today. She may be suffering from a bad case of Hopeium withdrawal.
“The issue isn’t the size or the newness of the ideas,” one said. “It’s less the substance than how he says it, whether he seizes the moment.”
Oh come on people.
He’s getting ready to get ready to prepare a possible proposal in which he will propose how to get ready to get ready.
Zer0, planning from behind.
Cheeze, Bammy...
If’n ya got the cards, PLAY ‘EM!
Otherwise, fold, and get outta the game.
“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.”
So it IS a campaign speech.
LOL, I'd forgotten all about Hopeium.
You’re right, on second thought what I predicted would have far more significance than what he will actually say.
Infrastructure
Schools
Green technology
blah, blah, blah
don’t forget a deadline ,has to be done by this date or the world will end
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