Posted on 09/09/2011 10:45:53 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
President Obama gave one of the most impassioned speeches of his presidency when he addressed a joint session of Congress on Thursday night. Too bad so many in the audience thought it was a big, fat joke.
“You should pass this jobs plan right away!” Obama exhorted. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) chuckled.
.“Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary — an outrage he has asked us to fix,” Obama went on. Widespread laughter broke out on the GOP side of the aisle.
“This isn’t political grandstanding,” Obama said. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) guffawed.
“This isn’t class warfare,” Obama said. More hysterics on the right.
“We’ve identified over 500 [regulatory] reforms, which will save billions of dollars,” the president claimed. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) giggled.
It was, in a way, more insulting than Joe Wilson’s “you lie” eruption during a previous presidential address to Congress. The lawmakers weren’t particularly hostile toward the president — they just regarded the increasingly unpopular Obama as irrelevant. And the inclination not to take the 43-percent president seriously wasn’t entirely limited to the Republicans.
The nation is in an unemployment crisis, and Obama was finally, belatedly, unveiling his proposals, but Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) thought this joint session of Congress would be a good time to ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to autograph a copy of the children’s book “House Mouse, Senate Mouse.”
Former representative David Wu (D-Wash.), forced to resign this summer over accusations of sexual impropriety, nevertheless showed up for the speech (in a business suit rather than his tiger suit) and took a seat among the Democrats.
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Vice President Biden set the tone
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
He's an irrelevant person, of course, but his presidency...? "You dropped a bomb on me, baby..."
OK, I didn’t watch his historic campaign speech. Were the Republican members of Congress openly laughing at him? Because if they were, it was an utterly brilliant move. 0bama’s ego is so big, and he thought he was being so serious, that being openly laughed at in that setting had to just burn him up and must be eating at him today. Which is fine by me.
This will get so much worse, in so many ways, by this time next year. Will the Secret Service need to keep him away from sharp objects - and Michelle?
When a Republican Representative holds up a sign “Drilling = Jobs” during the speech that kinda says they were not listening to Obama’s rehash of his socialist drivel.
This column is full of great vignettes! I'm not too familiar with Dana Milbank's ouvre. Was he calling Obama a god a few years back?
that is the question.
I heard Mark Steyn read this on Rush’s show this morning. I laughed until I cried. If all this is true, as Millbank reports it, we are truly witnessing a sea change.
Conservatives are known for their senses of humor.
On the way to the store today, I tuned in Rush and Mark Steyn is subbing. Some guy named Rene called in to be REALLY upset (in a very slow, kinda retarded monotone) about how Steyn was making fun of the president and his “Pass this plan now” rhetoric. Rene assured Steyn that since Obama is president ... Rene was SURE he could scrape the money together to pay for the bill.
I both laughed ... and was sad for our future, because there are a lot of Renes out there.
Bada boom!
I too forget Dana Milbank’s pedigree. But I do believe he is an Obama cheerleader and/or a run-of-the-mill leftist journalist.
Snap!
I didn’t see it. Is this all true? The “chuckles” etc?
Did someone really hold up a sign during the speech, in-between the laughter?
Dang, maybe I should have watched.
It’s Obama’s version of Carter’s Malaise Speech.
"it is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
Shakespeare must have forseen 0bama
Steyn himself could not have written a more ruthless piece of ridicule. Milbank is writing with the rage of a jilted former lover.
The GOP has finally internalized Saul Alinksy’s book.
Good for them.
That’s how you win.
the democratic party is really a support group for the delusional.
If I knew how to post photos I would. But there is a photo on Hotair.com
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