State of the Union Address

[Magox]

Imagine that, attempting to create a contrast from one of the worst economic minded presidents in U.S history, is considered "bashing"

[Gary M]

Mostly that.

 

And it actually started with Clinton.

 

I think the defining moment was the cigar incursion.

[keepthefaith]

I think that is being misunderstood. My take from that statement is that he is reminding Republican's that the majority of Americans want to handle the deficit, spending and budget cuts the Democratic way and to stop blocking everything they propose. It's time to stop whining about everything and time to start acting and passing budgets to get this country moving forward.

 

What exactly is the Democrat party's solution to deficit reduction and budgeting? What effective measures are the Republicans blocking? I think it's more likely that the majority of the majority of Americans you mention don't have an informed opinion on deficit reduction and/or they don't care. They don't care because the sun rises and sets every day and the government simply borrows or prints what they need.

[IDBillzFan]

I think that is being misunderstood. My take from that statement is that he is reminding Republican's that the majority of Americans want to handle the deficit, spending and budget cuts the Democratic way and to stop blocking everything they propose. It's time to stop whining about everything and time to start acting and passing budgets to get this country moving forward.

 

You realize, of course, specifically who is blocking the president and not presenting budgets, right?

[meazza]

You realize, of course, specifically who is blocking the president and not presenting budgets, right?

 

Word on the street is, Jack Lew didn't pay his taxes.

[B-Man]

Word on the street is, Jack Lew didn't pay his taxes.

 

LOL.

 

 

Its only news when the GOP does it............................

 

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[IDBillzFan]

Word on the street is, Jack Lew didn't pay his taxes.

 

Holy schnikey...Lew got a million dollars from Citigroup's bailout money? How is that possible?

 

Conspiracy Theory! Someone call John Huntsman!!!

[keepthefaith]

 

And I still think Pelosi is hot.

 

Look around, there must be a cure for necrophilia.

[Keukasmallies]

In related news, I'm going to buy a new car, a bigger boat, rehab my cottage and invest significantly in the stock market...and it won't cost me one thin dime.

[Nanker]

In related news, I'm going to buy a new car, a bigger boat, rehab my cottage and invest significantly in the stock market...and it won't cost me one thin dime.

This is core to our reigning dope's economic view. All the spending he could possibly do won't add a single dime to the deficit. That's because he will pay for his excesses by raiding the private treasure of the citizenry. If their elected representatives won't allow the the tax code to be altered so the private citizens cough up the coin, it's not his problem. His spending doesn't cost anything in terms of the deficit. The brazenly selfish lack of paying enough taxes is the reason, not his unbridled spendthrift ways.

[B-Man]

 

The State of Obama

 

by Dan Henninger

 

Here's what has to be understood. It's all about him.

 

A State of the Union speech normally is about relating a president's public policies to conditions in the country. An Obama State of the Union speech is about one thing: the Obama project.

 

It would be unfair to say that everything and everyone else in a complex world are irrelevant. But let's be clear about the priorities: Congress, the Cabinet of courtiers, the press, the people and indeed the national problems described in that State of the Union speech—it's all brick and mortar in the future Obama monument

 

That we are all just riding in Barack Obama's sidecar should have been obvious from day one. His 2008 Denver acceptance speech enveloped nearly everything. The vast, sweeping goals he then laid out in January 2009 are virtually the same ones he described Tuesday night—the climate cleansed, education for all, social justice achieved and the drowning middle-class saved.

 

The Washington Post's Ezra Klein, an Obama admirer, commented without irony right after the State of the Union: "In some ways, what was most noticeable about the speech was what wasn't in it: Nothing."

 

Commentary from right to left after the speech noted the mismatch between its goals and money available in any conceivable federal budget. So why is he doing this? More to the point, what have we gotten ourselves into with this president?

 

Well, it's big. Mr. Obama by his own statements has made clear that he's at the center of something larger than the mere here and now.

 

In a 2011 CBS interview he said, "I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president—with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR and Lincoln, just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history."

On another occasion: "Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term."

 

"It is our unfinished task to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many," he said Tuesday, "and not just the few." Has anyone noticed how much of the Obama agenda is endlessly "unfinished"? The climate, great schools in every neighborhood, even real economic growth—it's always just over the horizon.

 

Whether any of these laws and spending ideas—Fix-It-First, an Energy Security Trust, Paycheck Fairness—come to life, much less work, doesn't matter. That's not their first purpose. For Mr. Obama, the main thing is to join one or two real achievements, such as ObamaCare, to a laundry list of grandiose intentions and hope future historians conclude that what little he did and all that he dreamed made him a great man. Some might say it's delusional. He'd say that history will judge.

 

As to the American population, beset with anxieties over low growth and persistent unemployment, they're expected to gut it out with their inspirational president. In year five, he's proposing 15 "manufacturing hubs" that he says will be "global centers of high-tech jobs." Anyone who has seen "Annie" on Broadway knows the translation: "The sun will come out—tomorrow."

 

Coverage of the speech described how he'll now "hit the road to sell his ideas to audiences in North Carolina, Georgia and Illinois." It seems normal until you notice he spends little or no time trying to sell any of this to Congress itself. Most of his past high-visibility proposals have underachieved or disappeared in Congress. He prefers instead the wand of solo executive authority. Even Bill Clinton, no stranger to the admiration of crowds, spent presidential capital building support one-on-one with key members of Congress. Hillary or Joe Biden would have done the same.

 

Not this president. It's about him and history. Everything is a function of mobilizing the base on behalf of the Obama project. The now-famous Obama campaign media operation in place the past four years has now reincarnated as Organizing for Action, essentially a mega-flack machine for selling the project.

 

And that's a danger. Barack Obama is indeed in sync with the public will, so much so that he has largely dismissed and devalued the rest of the system, specifically Congress and the courts. In the next four years, that could prove to be a problem.

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323696404578300610621713982.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

[Doc]

I didn't even bother watching the rock-star prez' lies. What was the point?

[Fan in San Diego]

You realize, of course, specifically who is blocking the president and not presenting budgets, right?

 

I hear the democratic plan on the news every night. Eliminate tax loop holes, make moderate spending cuts across the board, etc. I'll take notes the next time I see a broadcast rattle off the democratic plan

[B-Man]

I hear the democratic plan on the news every night. Eliminate tax loop holes, make moderate spending cuts across the board, etc. I'll take notes the next time I see a broadcast rattle off the democratic plan

 

Not the newsbroadcasts of what liberal are saying,

 

Check Congress to see what the democrat 'leaders' are doing.......................you won't need your notebook.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Oxrock]

 

 

Not the newsbroadcasts of what liberal are saying,

 

Check Congress to see what the democrat 'leaders' are doing.......................you won't need your notebook.

 

 

Or read this http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/14/video-senate-dems-to-announce-sequester-replacement-plan-today/

 

 

 

 

Edited February 14, 2013 by Oxrock

[We Come In Peace]

I didn't even bother watching the rock-star prez' lies. What was the point?

 

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle"

[Doc]

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle"

So the prez is my enemy?

[3rdnlng]

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle"

 

 

Some of us don't need a repeat of the last 4 SOTU addresses to know Obama.

[We Come In Peace]

Some of us don't need a repeat of the last 4 SOTU addresses to know Obama.

True. You can just depend on the MSM or blogosphere to tell you what he said. That never goes wrong.

[3rdnlng]

True. You can just depend on the MSM or blogosphere to tell you what he said. That never goes wrong.

 

You are completely out of line. I've listened to Obama, not the MSM or blogosphere, enough to form my opinion of him. His SOTU speeches are all repeats of his original SOTU speech. He's a charlatan, and that is my own learned opinion, not anyone else's. Over and over and over is enough for me. I don't need over and over and over and over.