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Awww... Pelosi is pissed
Topic Started: Sep 7 2011, 08:47 AM (280 Views)
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Pelosi Peeved Republicans Opt Out of Rebuttal to Obama Speech

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Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said there will be "plenty" of response to the president's speech on Friday, but told Fox News he suspects the reason there's no formal response is "the speaker doesn't expect to hear much to respond to."

He's probably right. No real plan. Just pie in the sky bull-$hit, we've all heard before.
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"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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true...
Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments
and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism.

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Mr. Obama's speech will be filled with such awesomeness that there will be no possible response.

By Friday morning everyone will have a job.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Sep 7 2011, 09:01 AM
By Friday morning everyone will have a job.
Even if I don't want one? :D
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This is a sorry state of affairs. Combined groups of highly trained half-wits have been working on this speech for weeks, crafting something that will say absolutely sweet bugger all in a great many words. Despite this clear lack of ability to generate something even approximating cognitive thought, the other side are so bloody clueless that they can't even summon up the self-confidence to respond.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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NBC station in Wisconsin picks Packers game over another Obama/jobs speech...

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/nbc-picks-packers-over-obama-milwaukee
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Sep 7 2011, 09:07 AM
Copper
Sep 7 2011, 09:01 AM
By Friday morning everyone will have a job.
Even if I don't want one? :D
You get the best jobs of all, of the mandatory volunteer type.
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Sep 7 2011, 10:42 AM
NBC station in Wisconsin picks Packers game over another Obama/jobs speech...

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/nbc-picks-packers-over-obama-milwaukee
No, they picked NFL Pre-Game over Obama.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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Obama's next campaign song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2c9Iyq2UQ&feature=related
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Sep 7 2011, 08:47 AM
Well, then, she'll really hate teh Cheddarheads.

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The NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, WTMJ TV announced yesterday they will not be airing Obama's jobs speech at 7 PM EST Thursday night. instead they are opting for their own pre-game coverage of the Packers Saints game scheduled to kick off at 8 PM. Green Bay's NBC affiliate, NBC 26, will also go with the Packers pre-game show over Obama.
Packers vs Obama.

Simple.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904537404576552731916410772.html

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In everyday life, when you don't have something to say, you avoid the stage. In our nation's capital, by contrast, the world operates like the one Alice found behind the Looking Glass. That's a world where you have to run as hard as you can just to stay still. Which helps explain why President Obama will this week be addressing a joint session of Congress that doesn't really want to hear from him about a jobs plan that he doesn't really have.

Expectations are high, the byproduct of a highly publicized back and forth with Republican Speaker John Boehner over the date of the president's speech. If you're a White House with a message, that's a good thing. Unfortunately for President Obama, he doesn't have one.

How do we know he doesn't? We know it from the White House itself. On Friday, Ed Henry quoted an unnamed presidential aide telling Fox News that while he didn't want to "downplay the speech," he needed to shoot down "the idea that this is the be-all and end-all."

So if this is not the "be-all and end-all" we've been told it was for weeks, why the initial announcement it would be held the same night Republican presidential candidates were holding a televised debate? And why do it before a joint session of Congress?

The answer to the first is that the speech most probably did not start out as a calculated attempt to upstage the Republican candidates. More likely, Thursday night was what White House aides originally had in mind—until they realized it would clash with the NFL's opening day. So they moved it back a day. That backfired because it looked so ungracious, but if you were President Obama, whom would you rather go up against: the GOP or the Green Bay Packers?

The answer to the other question has more to do with our Looking Glass Beltway. In this universe, a bigger stage is often the solution for a lack of substance. Put it this way: Without the backdrop of a joint session of Congress, how many networks would broadcast another Obama jobs speech?

You can't fault the logic. When Mr. Obama entered office, he told us unemployment would not rise over 8% if we passed his stimulus. Now his economic advisers have just told us that unemployment will not fall below the 9% mark through next year. As if to underscore the grim news, the latest jobs report—released in time for Labor Day weekend—shows zero net job growth for August.

The politics requires not only that the president address the economy's dismal jobs performance but that he be seen by the American people to be doing it. And that's where the teleprompter meets the road.

The truth is that there is practically nothing Mr. Obama could do to gin up better jobs numbers before next year's election without massively increasing the deficit—and the Republicans won't let him do that. Even with the word "stimulus" banished from his remarks this week, no one will be fooled by new calls to "invest" in roads and bridges and infrastructure. Or by the expected hodgepodge of other proposals from extending the payroll tax holiday to tax credits for new hires.

The irony is that the president has blown the one chance to do something of substance without looking weak. Back in July when he was negotiating with Speaker Boehner, the two had agreed on a grand bargain that would include real cuts in entitlements. The "give" on the Republican side was that the deal would address "revenues," which to the president means raising taxes and to the speaker means relying on growth to bring in more money to the Treasury's coffers.

For the president, that deal would have allowed him to do something serious about spending—in a highly public and bipartisan way. Even better for him, it might have split the opposition. For such a deal would likely have left Republicans bickering, with some arguing we should wait for a Republican president and others screaming "sellout."

The president, however, got greedy, and killed the deal when he asked for more. That's been his problem all along. Notwithstanding incessant calls to rise above politics, on issue after issue the president has proved himself incapable of matching his large rhetoric with equally large actions.

In music there's a saying about a performance that was "too small for the house." That's becoming true of the president. There was a day when Mr. Obama's taste for the marvelous—a campaign address in Berlin, the faux presidential seal, the Greek columns that surrounded him during his speech accepting the Democratic nomination—all seemed to herald something exciting and historic.

Even inside the Beltway, however, substance ultimately tells. Three years into his presidency, the grander the stage the smaller Mr. Obama comes across.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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This also from the WSJ is interesting also:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904583204576544712358583844.html?mod=opinion_newsreel
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Sep 8 2011, 06:53 AM
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Or is he going to propose the same failed policies—more spending, social engineering, temporary tax cuts and permanent tax hikes?

Don't think there's much doubt as to the answer. Obama believes that the solution is to spend even more.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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Sep 8 2011, 07:35 AM
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Or is he going to propose the same failed policies - more spending, social engineering, temporary tax cuts and permanent tax hikes?

Don't think there's much doubt as to the answer. Obama believes that the solution is to spend even more.
The guy has called the same play the entire game and can't for the life of him, understand why he can't pick up any yardage and in fact, keeps getting sacked over and over.

His season seems to be over. Unless a miracle occurs...
Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments
and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism.

We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
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Although, OT claims all Obie has to do is keep telling the American people he got Bin Laden and he's a shoe-in...

Yea... riiight....

Even a blind dog finds a bone once in a while.
Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments
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Sep 8 2011, 08:17 AM
Although, OT claims all Obie has to do is keep telling the American people he got Bin Laden and he's a shoe-in...
Tell that to George HW Bush. 90% approval after he defeated saddam Hussein. Not much help in the election.

People will be going, "Bin Laden who?" if the economy and unemployment are in the shape They are in now come election day.
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For all the falderal, bin Laden's death was a pretty hollow event. I do believe Obamas real success has been in knocking off Al Qaeda bad guys. All of which, of course, was built on the structures put in place by his predecessor.

All of which is very good except for one thing. He rode to office promising to end all that, not perpetuate it.
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