Posted on 09/19/2011 8:40:22 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Everybody remembers the urgency of President Obama's attitude toward the awful jobs situation.
Back in early August, Obama said the jobs situation was so urgent that he was going to give another speech about it -- in a month or so, in September after his vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
And then in September the president announced he would give his major jobs speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7. But he neglected to check with congressional leaders first. And they suggested the 8th. So, since it was their House, the 8th it was.
"Tonight," the president said in the first 34 of his 4,021 words to a national television audience that night, "we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that has made things worse."
The speech got panned as another political campaign one with Obama announcing, in effect, that.... ...since the first stimulus spending plan of $787 billion hadn't really worked, maybe another $447 billion stimulus spending plan would.
This is the kind of thinking that can make sense within Washington. But since "stimulus" has become a laugh line, he didn't use that word anymore.
And, hey, the debt ceiling had been raised to $16 trillion. (Speaking of which the president speaks on the debt this morning in another speech because he's a Real Good Talker.) So why not spend a half-trillion more to look like he's doing something about the terrible jobs situation with 14+ million unemployed?
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The president was in such a hurry to get this new spending going, everyone remembers, that during that address he said the phrase "right now" seven times. ..
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Pres__ent.. sort of.
“Pass this bill! Right away!”
Why not just wait until February 2013, so it won’t be “Obama’s Jobs Bill” anymore?
If this weren’t so pitiful (and serious), it would be a hoot!
I hope he is visiting the other planets.
L.A. Times?
hee hee hee And his voting record in the Senate was "present". Now I guess he is "progressing" he votes "absent". hee hee hee
I’ve reported this article to . . .
That’s right, AttackWatch.com
The article is cruel and nasty toward Mein Führer
Is Bulger starting tonight for the Rams?
Exactly. Criticism = racism. I’m reporting it also...lmao.
U.S. President Barack Obama talks about cutting the U.S. deficit, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington September 19, 2011. Obama will lay out a plan on Monday to cut the U.S. deficit, striking a populist tone aimed at galvanizing his Democratic Party base ahead of the November 2012 election. REUTERS/Jason Reed
President Barack Obama will call for new deficit cuts of $3.0 trillion but warn Republicans he will veto any bill that trims healthcare for the elderly without hiking taxes on the rich
“The article is cruel and nasty toward Mein Führer”
Don’t say that. Commies also hate the nazis. So call them a bunch of commies. They can’t disagree because that’s what they are but they’ll be put in a bind because they know everyone else hates commies.
BTTT
Obama is one imperious bastard, as that picture clearly shows.
Obama is one imperious bastard, as that picture clearly shows.
LBJ got away with this sort of blatantly political manipulation because there were 3 networks, no internet, and he had successfully implemented the Fairness Doctrine.
Someone needs to tell Barry that it’s not 1968 anymore.
Congress should defund the President. So far he has spent more time at the golf course than he has in the office.
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