Posted on 01/22/2015 5:03:07 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Politics: The State of the Union speech supposedly was chock full of big, brassy new ideas to help the middle class. Truth is, the president offered little that hasn't already been tried and mostly failed.
A "bold call to action" is how the New York Times saw the address. Other news outlets were struck by an "ambitious agenda" full of "major proposals" that exhibited "confident, assertive liberalism." Obama even managed to set the agenda for the 2016 elections, still others concluded.
Really?
When we looked at what Obama actually proposed, all we found was a musty laundry list of liberal programs, most of which already got huge boosts in spending and failed to deliver on their promises.
Take Obama's "ambitious" call to extend the Internet's reach "to every classroom, and every community" — a line that got a big round of applause.
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It’s bold because he is the biggest liar this country has ever seen. And he does it with a straight face.
I guess it’s kinda bold to embrace a nakedly Socialist agenda that even most Democrats have been running from since 1980.
They have to prop him up to make it appear he is still relevant.
Loved Charles Krauthammers comment on his outside of Washington speech.
” He can still pump up a College Crowd”
He’s bold because McConnell and bonehead are in his pocket
It’s bold because they have been covering for Obama, so anything he does is flicking sand into the eyes of the great white Satan.
That was the most petty, childish, and unprofessional speech I have ever seen
And the whining GOP ‘response’ was pathetic. Who taught her that intonation? It was not forceful and decisive, it was “aw we dont like what the president wants wahhhh, I am a regular american, really really I am I wore bread bags on my feet, wahhhhhh”
It’s bold because it tears the Constitution to pieces and glaringly makes obvious his disregard for his oath to uphold it.
IMHO
This president knows nothing of what he proposed will pass. That’s not his goal. His worse fear would be for Congress to pass his proposals.
This, I believe, is a set up. Many of the most recent data points to a downturn. If current trends continue, this will come on the heels of an economy that never recovered it’s full potential.
What he may be doing is attempting to pin that on the GOP congress when and if it comes. He will claim had they passed what he proposed at the SOTU speech, we wouldn’t be in this situation
Knows nothing=knows none
Re: the coming downturn.
You know already, if the GOP manages to elect a President in 2016. . . that by June, 2017, you’ll be hearing the media moaning about “the Bush Depression” . . . .
It's very possible and probable it comes before BHO leaves office. Jobless claims are on the rise, again after going below 300,000 weekly last year.
Here's the scenario. The Press and other BHO’s sycophants will claim that BHO inherited such as mess from the GOP, and they thwarted any of his attempts to fix the economy, while ignoring the stimulus, clash for clunkers, ObamaCare, ect, that he just couldn't do it with such headwinds against him
It is undoable pie-in-the-sky just so he can throw all the blame the republicans for not doing it.
and he enjoys knowing that we know he's lying. Which is why he always has that ugly smirk on his face.
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