Posted on 09/19/2011 6:34:48 AM PDT by george76
Everybody remembers the urgency of President Obama's attitude toward the awful jobs situation.
Back in early August, Obama said the jobs situation was so urgent that he was going to give another speech about it -- in a month or so, in September after his vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
...
The president was in such a hurry to get this new spending going, everyone remembers, that during that address he said the phrase "right now" seven times...
But Obama did want to show how really urgent he said the situation was, even though it had taken him 961 days as president to say them. And even though from Day #1 of the brief Obama Era polls had shown jobs and the economy were the No. 1 priority among voters but he pursued healthcare and financial reforms first...
So, given the president's professed urgency, the next day, Sept. 9, everyone asked where was his jobs legislation?
And, well, it seems the urgent jobs bill hadn't actually been written yet but should be ready in a week or two. When the laughter died, the White House said on second thought the legislation would be ready for a photo op the next Monday.
Well, here we are on the next Monday after that next Monday and we've just learned from the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin, that actually it seems that body won't really be seriously getting into the legislation for a while yet. The Senate has some other more important business to handle. And then there's this month's congressional vacation, which in Washington is called "a recess," like elementary school.
...
So, as of right now, "right now" uttered on Sept. 8 really means sometime at least one month later.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
“Focused like a laser beam on creating jobs”
Translated: “Planning my next vacation”.
“President Obama to propose $200 billion for jobs creation
By: CNN White House Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux
Washington (CNN) – President Obama will propose using $200 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to support creating jobs, White House officials confirmed Monda
NOTE ~ THIS IS FROM 12/07/2009
Abraham Lincoln is known as the “Great Emancipator”
Zero will go down in history as the “Great Procrastinator”
Prediction: 0bamao doesn’t want his entire bill to pass. If it all became law, he’d own the economy.
After a shrunken, modified version of it passes, he will blame Republicans for “standing in the way” of “job creation”.
He has no choice but to load it with junk that he knows the GOP will vote down. Then he can blame GOP for the bad economy next year.
It’s all he’s got. It’s his only hope for re-election!
He couldn’t stampede it through with no review,
and knows that any review will cause it to be rejected,
so....
might as well go golfing.
OK Bozo, we got your plan...I have mine: RESIGN NOW.
Obama = der FUBAR
Obama = der FUBAR
THE FIERCE URGENCY OF WHENEVER OBAMA GETS AROUND TO IT!
Perhaps after another vacation, or taxpayer-paid White House Party...
Need a Jobs program just after I go to Martha’s Vineyard and a few rounds of Golf.
no, he said “right away”
Which is a very odd and new phrase for him. Odd that he repeated it so often.
Who wrote that speech? A 5th grader?
Crowd: ___ What Bill ??
Obamah: ___ Sign The Bill Now!
Crowd: ___ What Bill ??
Obamah: ___ If Ya Love Me, Sign The Bill!
Crowd: ___ What Bill ??
I’m starting to believe he just wants to make alot of noise, propose something that could never get passed, and blame the GOP when the job numbers continue to get worse.
Sadly, this strategy may actually work.
for read later
The fierce urgency of next month.
Rats you got to that joke first :0)
As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama’s rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn’t reclaimed them since.
Much of the Obama coverage was orchestrated sychophancy. They glided past his pretensions — when did a presidential candidate before “address the world” from the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin? They ignored his arrogance — “You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” And they averted their eyes from his every gaffe — such as the admission that he didn’t speak “Austrian.”
The media walked right past the decades-long association of Obama with the weird and racist pastor Jermiah Wright. In the midst of the brief stormlet over the issue, one CNN host — inexplicably — decided that CNN was going to be a “Wright-free zone.” He could have hung out a sign: “No bad news about Obama here.”
The media trashed Hillary. They burned Republicans. They ransacked Sarah Palin and her family. But Obama, the cool, the detached, the oracular Obama — he strolled to the presidency.
Palin, in particular, stands out as Obama’s opposite in the media’s eyes. As much as they genuflected to the one, they felt the need to turn rotweiler toward the other. If Obama was sacred , classy, intellectual and cosmopolitan, why then Palin must be malevolent, trashy, dumb and pure backwoods-ignorant.
Every doubt they hid from themselves about Obama, every potential embarrassment they tucked under the blanket of their superior sensibilities, they furiously over-compensated for by their remorseless hounding of Palin — from utterly trivial e-mails, to blogger Andrew Sullivan’s weird speculations about Palin’s womb, musings that put the Obama “Birther” fantasies into a realm near sanity. (We are now seeing an echo of that — with a new book promoting all sorts of unconfirmed gossip about Palin, including her alleged sexual dalliance with a basketball star.)
As a result, the press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President. Under Obama, America’s foreign policies are a mixture of confusion and costly impotence. It is increasingly bypassed or derided; the great approach to the Muslim world, symbolized by the Cairo speech, is in tatters. Its debt and deficits are a weight on the entire global economy. And the office of presidency is less and less a symbol of strength.
To the degree the press neglected its function as watchdog and turned cupbearer to a styrofoam demigod, it is a partner in the flaws and failures of what is turning out to be one of the most miserable performances in the modern history of the American presidency.
Rex Murphy, National Post Rex Murphy offers commentary weekly on CBC TV’s The National, and is host of CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup.
Unveil it on Halloween or, better yet, in November on Turkey Day.
“Um, Harry... Remember that urgent jobs bill I was pushing? Could you, um, write it for me? I just don’t have the time.”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.