Posted on 09/02/2011 5:05:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
As President Obama's presidential term has unfolded, he has made it increasingly clear what he meant all those times he haughtily said, "I won." It's his world, and he has no intention of sharing control over it.
This was on stark display when he attempted to pre-empt the Republican debate with a grandiose joint session of Congress called solely for the purpose of delivering another round of economic propaganda.
He would have us believe that his speech will be of monumental import, but everyone knows, Democrats included, that it will be nothing more and nothing less than a sales job. There will be nothing new in this speech, no new ideas, no new information.
There is never anything new in any of his speeches, including the 50-plus orations he delivered on Obamacare, but he nevertheless keeps going back to the well. He has degenerated into a habitual pattern of presenting an idea and, after the public rejects it, making further speeches to convince us that we are the ones who are wrong. With each new speech, no matter the subject, he ends up with fewer supporters of the proposition in question, yet he remains oblivious to the diminishing returns he is achieving.
He's been talking about jobs incessantly since his presidential campaign began. When he presented his stimulus package, he wasn't equivocal; he betrayed no uncertainty. He didn't say to the American people: "Folks, I am recommending bold action. I realize we just spent nearly $1 trillion on TARP, but I'm asking you to trust me with almost another $1 trillion of borrowed money to try something that might strike you as a dangerous gamble. I'm not sure injecting this money into the economy will stimulate growth, but we have to try something, even if it very well may leave us in an even more precarious national debt predicament."
Instead, he assured us, with great confidence, that his plan would work and that it would jump-start the economy and get people back to work. He was so sure of his plan that he even acknowledged that his re-election would depend on its success or failure.
Back then, unlike now, he had enormous political capital and the confidence of a great percentage of the American people, many of whom trusted him.
Today we know the results of his reckless experiment. The economy and jobs are tanking, and our exploding debt portends imminent financial collapse.
But from all appearances, he remains as clueless to his economic failures and the bankruptcy of his ideas as he is to their unpopularity with the public. How much more empirical evidence will he need before he quits shoving us toward the cliff?
Perhaps the only thing more difficult than conceptualizing the sheer magnitude of the number 842 billion is trying to figure how anyone could seriously think that injecting more borrowed money would stimulate the economy when $842 billion didn't. Please ask yourself whether anyone who claims that is an insufficient amount of money to test a theory should have your trust about any subject remotely touching on economics.
And yet that is what the Paul Krugmans and the Obamas would have us believe; the government hasn't spent enough money, and if we just hire more people to dig and refill ditches, we'll get back on the road to recovery.
Obama's reckless experiments would be objectionable enough if the only negative result they generated was to depress an already ailing economy. But he continues to add unconscionable amounts to the national debt as if it's a nonevent.
It would be one thing if he were to demonstrate any openness to ideas that he hasn't already tried, ideas that deviate in any way from his leftist playbook.
But any semblance of newness in his upcoming talk will have nothing to do with substance, only packaging. He's such an inflexible ideologue that he's incapable of entertaining new ideas. Even if he came to believe, correctly, that the only way out of this nightmare would be to radically reduce spending, structurally reform entitlements, streamline the tax code, relax onerous regulations and restore some certainty and predictability in the business environment, he would not act on those beliefs. He will not pursue an agenda that violates his leftist ideas.
So I don't have to be clairvoyant to know that his speech will just be more propaganda designed to divert attention from his failed record and upstage his Republican challengers. That's what makes his stunt to overshadow them all the more reprehensible.
Obama is the one man standing in the way of reversing the economic meltdown and the existential debt threat to this nation. It's time for him to quit playing games with his speeches and join Republicans in taking remedial action to restore America's financial health.
Obama’s speech, for which he called for a joint session of congress, will be a reelection speech, with calls for higher taxes on the “rich”, more spending and scolding the tea party, with maybe a “Bush’s fault” type statement thrown in to boot.
I won’t watch it but will read reports on it. Seeing and/or hearing him any more brings me close to the point of being physically ill, I just don’t have the stomach for it any more. Perhaps it’s my age or perhaps it’s that I hate socialism/communism so much.
You are not alone. I cannot stomach his voice. His ‘speeches’ evoke a visceral reaction from me..and it isn’t pretty.
Good time to clean the cat box.
Back during the campaign, baraq would mock his critics with the words “Just words, Just speeches” implying that his critics think he is just an empty suit. Hannity used to play the sound bite of baraq saying that phrase to make the same point. Turned out to be right.
Obama will indeed give a campaign speech indelicately tarted up to sound like a policy address. He will refer to himself in the first person at least 30 times, and perhaps many more than that.
He will pretend to take a lofty, above-the-battle stance by urging unnamed "others" in Congress to put country above "partisanship", by which we will know he means for Republicans and Tea Party members to sacrifice their principles to his demands.
He will call for "shared sacrifice", by which we will know he means higher taxes on those already paying the lion's share of them.
He will speak of making "investments" in America to help those he refers to as "the middle class and working families", by which we will understand him to mean new government programs and spending on make-work jobs for unionized trades.
He will aver (yet again) how hard he is working for "us" and complain (yet again) how difficult is his job getting the country out of the metaphorical ditch that "they" metaphorically drove us into, and how he could succeed if only "they" stopped hampering his efforts.
And Obama will do all of the above while looking left, looking right, nose in the air, eyes slightly closed but just wide enough to follow the words crawling on his magic screens. Democrats will stand and cheer. Republicans will grimace and sit on their hands.
So, tell me why any of us really need to watch the same crap we've been watching for three years now?
Empty, Stupid, Happy-talk is not policy.
His speech’s even tire him out.
After each one he needs another vacation.
He vacations while we try to pay the bills.
I wish I could afford to take a private and jet on down to Bali in November.Then of course the regular Hawaiin Christmas, where he-—a Christian-—Misses Mass.
must we yet again be exposed to Republicans politely sitting there, being insulted and derided, even occasionally applauding the rhetoric of this empty suit, out of “respect”?
I wish “flu” wuld strike the GOP lawmakers about an hour before this dogless pony show
For Zero, the time for empty talk is never over. It’s all he has.
better yet, the first time this guy tries to blame the republicans or tea party, the pubs should stand up, as a group, and walk out...THAT would be a statement..
the limp dorks are too afraid of being called “rasist” to even roll their eyes
bet on it
this is how despots stay in power - intimidation, spinelessness of men who should be standing up
I fear the American people are banking far too much on free elections in 2012 to resolve this
He will aver (yet again) how hard he is working for "us" and complain (yet again) how difficult is his job getting the country out of the metaphorical ditch that "they" metaphorically drove us into, and how he could succeed if only "they" stopped hampering his efforts
People do not like to hear him whine about his problems while they are hurting.
I love Rush, but I must say his brother writes
extremely well. Concise, to the point, I would
like to see them together tearing apart the
strawmen of this wreck of an administration
some day.
I think that people are beginning to wake up to the realization that Obama substantially views the American people as a means to his ends, and that he becomes annoyed when some of us fail to appreciate his superiority.
How about going all Joe Wilson on him? Everyone shout "you lie" every time he does?
all we need to do is set up a wind turbine on the front lawn of the white house. it will generate enough power to run the white house pelosi’s office reed’s office, the epa admin building, al gore’s office, dept of ed building, and fema office.
yeah- and set up a biomass facility under the US Capitol to operate on what comes down the plumbing
Maybe a small unit would fit into the parking space where Charlie Rangel keeps his mercedes
“Obama substantially views the American people as a means to his end”. Bingo, andy58.
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