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Topic Started: Mar 3 2011, 11:12 PM (16,464 Views)
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Obama dares Republicans to block his coming jobs package

The president, visiting the Midwest, pledges to send Congress a plan in September and challenges Republicans to block it. Not all Democrats are comfortable with his hard-line stance.

By James Oliphant, Washington Bureau

August 16, 2011, 6:58 p.m.
Reporting from Davenport, Iowa— After pledging to send a job-creation package to Congress next month and daring Republicans to block it, President Obama offered few specifics Tuesday about the form the plan might take as he stuck to a broad outline of how to improve the economy.

On the second day of Obama's three-day bus tour of the upper Midwest, the president worked off the blueprint he had used the day before, offering proposals such as extending a payroll tax cut, spending money to repair roads and bridges, and ratifying pending trade agreements.
[spend more ...prolly more on green energy than roads!]

And he continued to hammer away at Republicans in Congress, suggesting they stand in the way of economic growth, even as some Democrats expressed discomfort with what they saw as a potentially divisive stance.

"We could do even more if Congress is willing to get in the game," Obama said to a gathering of small-business owners, community leaders and rural development experts at a small college in Peosta, Iowa.

"There are bipartisan ideas — common-sense ideas — that have traditionally been supported by Democrats and Republicans that will put more money in your pockets, that will put our people to work, that will allow us to deal with the legacy of debt that hangs over our economy," he said.

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White House spokesman Jay Carney wouldn't comment on the shape or the scope of the plan or say whether it would take the form of legislation.

But Carney reiterated the president's threat that if Congress failed to act, Obama would not hesitate to leverage that failure politically.

"If they don't do it," Carney said, "he will take his arguments to the American people."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Republicans were waiting to act on pending trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, but he complained that the White House hadn't sent them to Capitol Hill.

Carney said the administration was working with Senate leaders on an agreement for submitting the treaties for ratification.

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I thought the trade deals had been introduced a couple months ago going off how long Obama has been whining about them!

That "take his arguments to the American people" is the preplanning for blame on some bill that could never pass.
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Aug 16 2011, 10:26 PM
I thought the trade deals had been introduced a couple months ago going off how long Obama has been whining about them!

That "take his arguments to the American people" is the preplanning for blame on some bill that could never pass.
ATR, Senator Hatch To Obama: Stop Stalling on Trade Agreements

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) sharply criticized the President’s refusal to submit three pending trade agreements for ratification on Tuesday, reminding the Senate that the agreements would create jobs for American workers and opportunities for American businesses in emerging markets. This position was echoed by Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist in a letter sent to the White House today.

The President has been stalling on submitting the pending Free Trade Agreements for ratification despite strongly expressed bipartisan support, because the Congress has refused to agree to renew or expand the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program. The TAA program, costing $2.4 billion per year, is designed to assist workers who have lost jobs due to import competition. However, studies have shown that workers in such industries have no greater difficulty finding new jobs than other workers, making the TAA program both costly and redundant.

In his speech on the Senate floor, Hatch argued that: “Demanding an expanded TAA as another excuse to delay voting on these important agreements is irresponsible and self-defeating. At the same time, by not submitting these agreements for approval by Congress, the Administration is doing a disservice to the American economy”

Norquist expressed a similar view in his letter to the President, stating that: “With
unemployment at record numbers and the economy still struggling to recover, enacting
policies that will boost trade will do much more in the immediate and long term to grow
the economy and create new jobs than any program that continues government
spending…”...snipped

http://www.atr.org/atr-senator-hatch-obama-stop-stalling-a6226
Edited by Baldo, Aug 16 2011, 10:57 PM.
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Drudge...

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Obama Ag Secretary Vilsack: Food Stamps Are A "Stimulus"

Obama's Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: "Well, obviously, it's putting people to work. Which is why we're going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this morning, we're going have a press conference with Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that's never happened in this country -- something that we think is exciting in terms of job growth. I should point out, when you talk about the SNAP program or the foot stamp program, you have to recognize that it's also an economic stimulus. Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times."


I'm not catching where the stimulus is helping the deficit.
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Aren't they just Nuts?

Don't they know where that money for food stamps comes from? People have to create it. They have to work and create in abundance to pay taxes. I know they don't understand that. They just don't get the concept they are taking away capital from who who can create to give it to those that consume. I am not anti-food stamps, but it is just silly to think it helps the economy. It helps feed people.

They should be wearing dunce hats

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Obama's Magical Misery Tour Bus Made in Canada

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is barnstorming the heartland to boost US jobs in a taxpayer-financed luxury bus the government had custom built -- in Canada, The Post has learned.

The $1.1 million vehicle, one of two that Quebec-based Prevost sold the government, has been tricked out by the Secret Service with state-of-the-art security features and creature comforts.

It's a VIP H3-45 model, the company's top of the line, and is used by major traveling rock bands.

"That's the more luxurious model," Christine Garant of Prevost told The Post....snipped
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/canucklehead_obama_bus_ted_gyztvw89k5MyKNS4B7Qp7O


Brilliant huh? Tour the Midwest complaining about the Republicans stopping jobs in a bus made in Canada.

Made in Sainte-Claire, Quebec, Canada

So l who owns Prevost? AB Volvo, headquarters in Sweden. Not to be confused with Volvo Auto which is owned by the Geely Holding Group headquartered iHangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Well who owns AB Volvo? Largest single shareholder is Renault which is a French Company which is 15% own by the French Govt!

Vive la Obama!

BTW the Prevost doesn't use American Engines either
Edited by Baldo, Aug 17 2011, 07:46 AM.
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It sounds like the $1.1M tab per bus to that other company might have been just to upgrade the buses...

I think these buses may have cost a lot more than $2.2M...

If they bought from Hemphill for 2.2, then who modified them and what did that cost?

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0411/22_million_pricetag_for_Obamas_new_armored_buses.html
Edited by LTC8K6, Aug 17 2011, 08:24 AM.
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Well we know that Congressman Issa heads the committee going after
Holder and his gun running operation. And we all know that the main
'protector" of Obama's lies is Holder. So what does this administration
do...they get their buddies at the New York Times to attack Congressman
Issa.

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Issa-demands-NYT-retraction/2011/08/19/id/407984?s=al&promo_code=CE17-1
Edited by cfochina, Aug 20 2011, 12:12 PM.
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Obama is just saying the same things over and over.

He stepped out on Vacation and said the same thing to Cameras as he's been saying for about 4-5 days.

1. We can Fix the Economy right now - it only takes some in Congress to

A. adopt Shared Sacrifice

B. Put Country before Party

C. Put the Next Generation before the Next Election

D. Compromise and adopt Obama's plan


This is like something out of a movie. It's obvious a Committee or group picks these points and slogans and then Obama robotically repeats them and executes their plan. His plans fit neatly into bump sticker slogans.


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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/21/washingtons-economic-strategy-wait-it-out-until-2012/
President Obama: I Expect 'To Be Judged in a Year from Now'
Published August 21, 2011
FoxNews.com

President Obama says he understands that it's not satisfying to the jobless to hear him argue that his administration has made the right decisions, so he expects "to be judged in a year from now on whether or not things have continued to get better" in the United States.

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Obama, who's spending the week on Martha's Vineyard with his family before his two girls start the school year, said he's sitting out the month while Congress faces the wrath of voters at home, and until lawmakers begin to understand how much voters want them to cooperate and get something done.

"If all we're doing is the same posturing that we saw before the debt limit vote, that's not gonna encourage anybody," he said.

But blaming the economy on circumstances outside the United States -- like tsunamis and democratic uprisings in the Middle East -- does little to calm Americans, who last week gave Obama the lowest approval rating of his presidency. Asked about the time off, Republican strategist Ed Gillespie said he doesn't fault the president for taking a break.

"Wrecking an economy as large as the United States is exhausting," he said.


snip....
Edited by Kerri P., Aug 21 2011, 11:41 AM.
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U.S. to Resume Lease Sales for Oil Drilling in the Gu

DEBORAH SOLOMON

The Obama administration said Friday it would sell leases for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since last year's oil spill and subsequent six-month drilling ban.

The move comes as part of a broader administration effort to counter critics of its energy policy. The administration said it would almost triple the price of some leases to discourage companies from buying parcels but not actually exploring or developing the leased areas.

The issue of so-called lease squatting is at the center of a dispute between Exxon Mobil Corp. and the Interior Department, which rejected the company's request to extend 10-year leases covering an area in the Gulf that holds an estimated one billion barrels of recoverable oil.

The lease sale could help quell criticism by the oil and gas industry and its allies in Congress that the administration is holding back oil production and contributing to volatility in gasoline prices at the pump by being too slow to issue permits and lease new areas for exploration.

Earlier this month, the Interior Department gave Royal Dutch Shell conditional approval of its plan to drill in the Arctic Ocean next summer. In May, President Barack Obama said the administration would hold annual lease sales in Alaska's National Petroleum reserve.

"The lease sale proves that all of the whining about the government trying to shut down America's energy production is now demonstrably without basis," said Elgie Holstein, senior director for strategic planning at the Environmental Defense Fund.

The American Petroleum Institute, a trade group, welcomed the move but questioned the price increase. "We are hopeful that this does not discourage investment in these vital domestic resources…during this time of economic and regulatory uncertainty," Eric Milito, an API official, said in a statement.

Michael Bromwich, head of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, said in a statement that the increase would help "ensure that areas with the greatest resource potential are developed, and to decrease the amount of leased acreage that is warehoused and goes unexplored." A March Interior Department report said approximately 70% of offshore leases are inactive.

The oil and gas industry, along with some lawmakers, has been pressing the department to hold a lease sale in the Western part of the Gulf this year. Failure to do so would have marked the first time since 1963 the U.S. didn't sell leases in the Gulf.

Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, welcomed the sale but said the "slow pace of new permits in the Gulf places lingering uncertainty over this critical industry, which brings in billions of dollars a year to the U.S. Treasury and employs hundreds of thousands of Louisianians."

The sale, to be held Dec. 14, comes after a lengthy environmental assessment by the Interior Department and a series of new rules imposed in the wake of the BP PLC oil spill.

The administration lifted a drilling moratorium earlier this year and recently granted a one-year extension for leases affected by the six-month ban.

The U.S. will sell leases covering about 20.6 million acres. A similar sale in 2010 fetched more than $111 million for the U.S. government.


Political ammo to reduce and shift the blame!
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"Is Obama Smarter than Us?" Chris Matthew asked Howard Fineman in 2009.

"Of course he is!"

"One of Barack Obama's qualities - whether you like him or not - is patience." (Fineman)

Thought I'd post this video as a little walk down memory lane.

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/matthews-obama-smarter-us-newsweek’s-fineman-course-he


Then fastforward to July 2011 to Nancy Pelosi's "Obama has the patience of Job!"

"Job is 'no place' compared to this president in terms of patience."

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/07/14/pelosi_obama_more_patient_than_job_of_the_bible,_or_something

"Patience" to the Left is the same thing as voting Present.

Please don't tell me they are going to compare him to Job!
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White House Insider Interview part 3
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"That’s who you see in the room – the real Barack Obama. Pretty f...g unsettling. Those world leaders, they sensed this. They saw through the façade and saw who was running the United States of America, and the word went out – “Don’t count on this American president – he doesn’t have a f...g clue.” And they’re right.

Read more: http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-three-2/#ixzz1Vo05uZ3YNews Flavor
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Aug 22 2011, 07:02 PM
White House Insider Interview part 3
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"That’s who you see in the room – the real Barack Obama. Pretty f...g unsettling. Those world leaders, they sensed this. They saw through the façade and saw who was running the United States of America, and the word went out – “Don’t count on this American president – he doesn’t have a f...g clue.” And they’re right.

Read more: http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-three-2/#ixzz1Vo05uZ3YNews Flavor
Thanks again! Interesting to read, but something what sticks out is this "Insider" should be a Democrat to be there and the article makes it sound like one involved with that party.

The Dem office holders in Congress had the show to run until January of this year, and most that went the Congress and the WH started in Congress. They got just about everything the party wanted, including Obamacare and the Stimulus they were working on before Obama was elected. That tells me there is nothing much about Obama they can be disappointed in him for those innitial 2 years ...either he helped them with what they wanted or didn't get in their way.

So why would this "Insider" be whining about him 7-8 months after Republicans took control of the House?

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Aug 22 2011, 11:22 AM
"Is Obama Smarter than Us?" Chris Matthew asked Howard Fineman in 2009.

"Of course he is!"

"One of Barack Obama's qualities - whether you like him or not - is patience." (Fineman)

Thought I'd post this video as a little walk down memory lane.

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/matthews-obama-smarter-us-newsweek’s-fineman-course-he


Then fastforward to July 2011 to Nancy Pelosi's "Obama has the patience of Job!"

"Job is 'no place' compared to this president in terms of patience."

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/07/14/pelosi_obama_more_patient_than_job_of_the_bible,_or_something

"Patience" to the Left is the same thing as voting Present.

Please don't tell me they are going to compare him to Job!
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Okay, you made me sick with that.



ugly.


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HELL MUST BE FREEZING OVER

Soros Bashes Obama For Following Outdated Keynesian Economics, Says Keynes Would “Definitely” Adjust His Theories If He Were Alive Today…


I think the Soros Express just ran over Barack Obama.

SPIEGEL Interview with George Soros — Spiegel

SPIEGEL: The United States is drowning in even more debt than Europeans. Its economic recovery has been painful. Are we going to see a double-dip recession in the US?

Soros: The indebtedness of the US is not all that high, but if a double-dip recession was in doubt a few weeks ago, it is less in doubt now, because financial markets have a very safe way of predicting the future. They cause it. And the markets have decided that America is going to see a recession, particularly after the recent downgrade of the US by the rating agency Standard & Poor’s.

SPIEGEL: President Barack Obama has been fiercely criticized for his handling of the economy. You were one of his biggest supporters in 2008. Are you happy with his economic policy?

Soros: No, of course not. But the reality is that we have had 25 years of excesses building up in America — a combustible mix of too much credit and too much leverage. You need a long time to reverse that.

SPIEGEL: Obama tried to stimulate growth with a gigantic stimulus program which increased the national debt further. Was that a mistake?

Soros: Obama embraced the ideas of John Maynard Keynes. Basically, the analysis of Keynes is still very relevant — with one big difference between now and the 1930s. In the 1930s, governments had practically no debt and could therefore run deficits. Nowadays, all governments are heavily indebted, and that is a big change.

SPIEGEL: If Keynes were still alive, would he adjust his theory?

Soros: Definitely. He would say governments can still benefit from running fiscal deficits, but the new debt has to be invested in a way that will pay for itself. So the money spent would have to increase productivity.

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/08/22/soros-bashes-obama-for-following-outdated-keynesian-economics-says-keynes-would-definitely-adjust-his-theories-if-he-were-alive-today/

see also: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,780189,00.html
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