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Obama Puts Joint-Session Jobs Speech Against Republican Debate; Post Paristan President Strikes again!
Topic Started: Aug 31 2011, 12:51 PM (1,735 Views)
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Sep 6 2011, 08:27 PM
Though Obama has said he intends to propose long-term deficit reduction measures to cover the up-front costs of his jobs plan, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama would not lay out a wholesale deficit reduction plan in his speech.
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Sep 6 2011, 11:53 PM
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Sep 6 2011, 08:27 PM
Though Obama has said he intends to propose long-term deficit reduction measures to cover the up-front costs of his jobs plan, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama would not lay out a wholesale deficit reduction plan in his speech.
IOW: he has ideas for the campaign, no plan for the economy. I don't think he has what is takes to stand firm on a complete plan, to spend or cut ...one or the other. Looks like he's playing a little of both sides, absent any finite commitment beyond a speech with the hope that he can blame others.
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The guy that wrote his speech claims it's all paid-for and doesn't add a penny to our obligations - and rumor is that he wants to extend unemployment beyond the current two years and running.


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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/07/republicans-opt-not-to-give-rebuttal-to-obama-speech-ticking-off-pelosi/
Pelosi Peeved Republicans Opt Out of Rebuttal to Obama Speech
Published September 07, 2011

Republicans have decided they're not going to give a rebuttal to President Obama's jobs speech later this week, a decision House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi took as a high affront to the White House.

At least three GOP lawmakers also have announced they're not going to show up for the presidential address. House Speaker John Boehner's office then confirmed Tuesday evening that nobody from the party would deliver an official televised response.

Pelosi said the party's "silence" would "speak volumes about their lack of commitment to creating jobs."

"The Republicans' refusal to respond to the president's proposal on jobs is not only disrespectful to him, but to the American people," Pelosi said.

But Boehner spokesman Mike Steel said Obama's proposals on Thursday "will rise or fall on their own merits," suggesting a GOP response was not needed.

"Republicans are, and have been, entirely focused on job creation. Every member of Congress, and -- more importantly -- the American people, will provide a reaction to the president's address," Steel said.

Some members of Congress, though, won't be there when Obama delivers his address to a Joint Session of Congress.

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said in an interview with ABC News that he's so "frustrated" he doesn't think he'll attend. Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., also said he'd skip, writing on his Twitter page that he has no interest in being a "prop" for Obama's speech. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., reportedly will not attend either.

Dana Perino, former press secretary for George W. Bush, said the lawmakers should attend the session because "you're an elected leader, and it's quite a privilege to be able to be there."

As for a GOP rebuttal, Perino said there is a downside to it in that it always makes the opposition look small in comparison to the president.

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So Pelosi wants the ceremony(!) to be the start of a 'conversation' on Obama's .plan. speech???

Does she feel left out? Still embarrassed about condemning the GOP for fighting the regulations Obama canned himself a few days later?


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The guy that wrote his speech claims it's all paid-for and doesn't add a penny to our obligations - and rumor is that he wants to extend unemployment beyond the current two years and running.


Is it a PLAN we just can't read? You have to slice it from budgeted funds for something else, be it in the budgets for next year or 10 years from now! This should be interesting, IF the speech actually reveals HOW it is paid for.

Some parts of Europe have the forever-unemployment plans. Maybe Obama wants that. Whatever reason Obama may give us, it would be kinda stupid to tell the public his plan for the economy REQUIRES more years of UNEMPLOYMENT!

I hope you've installed that bullet-proof shield for your TV. Viewing segments of news like that would have me blasting away at my Sony!
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I will wait & see his speech.

But I suspect this will just be a 300 Billion Obama Reelection Stimulus Bill
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Sep 7 2011, 11:50 AM
I will wait & see his speech.

But I suspect this will just be a 300 Billion Obama Reelection Stimulus Bill
I'll wait and read the text. It's too difficult for me to follow what all he is saying in a speech ....and I feel I (most of us here!) am much more current on the news than probably >75% of Americans are ...and I get upset hearing BS lines!

I have no doubt that there will be a few lines tossed out to fool the general public, let the MSM run with some sort of praise. That campaign is important to work on when not playing golf.
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Republicans Remind Obama: Democrats Are Blocking House-Passed Jobs Bills

Wednesday, September 07, 2011
By Susan Jones

(CNSNews.com) - Republican leaders are reminding President Obama that the House of Representatives has passed more than a dozen "pro-growth" measures to spur job creation, but with one exception, Senate Democrats have refused to consider any of those bills.

In a letter to the president on Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) listed all the House-passed "jobs" bills that are now languishing in the Senate. They include a bill to reduce the regulatory burdens on farmers and small business owners; a bill to block a "job-destroying national energy tax," and a bill to boost offshore energy production.
(See full list below.)

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Good article, worth reading.
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Obama's jobs plan to reflect his more modest ambition

President Obama, an audacious politician in 2008, on Thursday will offer a plan that some say is too timid, but it could set up a political trap for Republicans.

Reporting from Washington— When he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama made a prediction breathtaking in its ambition: Americans would look back at that night in Denver as the moment when "the planet began to heal" and the country began to provide "good jobs to the jobless."

Obama will deliver another speech to the nation Thursday, with his sights significantly lower and the scope sharply curtailed.

He'll roll out a new plan to revive the economy: a mix of tax credits and targeted spending increases for school renovation and job training amounting to about $300 billion. Obama bills it as a sensible proposal that Republicans could conceivably endorse.

Some economists familiar with the plan believe it could move the needle on unemployment over the next few months.

If Congress rejects it, some of Obama's aides believe it could move the political needle in their direction. A defeated plan, they hope, could become a political trap for Republicans, allowing Obama to portray the GOP as so intent on foiling the White House that they would sabotage economic progress.

"The president will present a meaningful, responsible set of ideas to create jobs and grow the economy," a senior White House advisor said. "The Republican Congress will have a choice whether they're going to work with the president to achieve those goals or play politics. If they choose to play politics, the president will go to the country and explain who's stopping progress and why."

But in either case — as an economic proposal that might improve the jobs outlook or as a political stratagem that might help his reelection effort — Thursday's speech is a long step from the vaulting ambitions that accompanied Obama's rise

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Bad news for Obama

Unemployment filing are up this week to 415,000. Economists expected 405,000.
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This too...

http://www.thestate.com/2011/09/08/1962797/reports-bank-of-america-to-shutter.html
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Excellent, watch the video

McConnell: "This Isn't A Jobs Plan, It's A Re-Election Plan"

"This is one question that the White House and a number of Democrats clearly don’t want to answer. That’s why some of them are out there coaching people not to use the word Stimulus when describing the President’s plan. Others are accusing anybody who criticizes it of being unpatriotic or playing politics. Well, as I’ve said, there’s a much simpler reason to oppose the President’s economic policies that has nothing whatsoever to do with politics: they don’t work. Yet, by all accounts, the President’s so-called jobs plan is to try those very same policies again, and then accuse anyone who doesn’t support them this time around of being political or overly partisan, of not doing what’s needed in this moment of crisis.

“This isn’t a jobs plan. It’s a re-election plan. That’s why Republicans will continue to press for policies that empower job creators, not Washington.

“According to The Wall Street Journal, nearly a third of the unemployed have been out of work for more than a year. The average length of unemployment is now greater than 40 weeks, higher than it was even during the Great Depression. As we know, the longer you’re out of a job the harder it is to find one. That means for millions of Americans, this crisis is getting harder every day. It’s getting worse and worse."...snipped

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/08/mcconnell_this_isnt_a_jobs_plan_its_a_re-election_plan.html
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Well, that's what it's all about - getting reelected - and then turning on the Marxism full faucet.

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