Posted on 01/28/2009 11:29:56 AM PST by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON – Looking beyond expected House approval of an $816 billion economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama said Wednesday the nation is at a "perilous moment" requiring swift and decisive action.
"We don't have a moment to spare," Obama said in the East Room of the White House, just hours before a crucial House roll call vote. The measure intended to steady the ricocheting economy was expected to pass, but likely with little of the bipartisan support that Obama wanted. The issue then goes to the Senate where the new president hopes to draw more GOP backing.
Obama tempered the sense of urgency in his voice with his observation that he and corporate leaders "left our meeting confident that we can still turn our economy around."
His brief remarks were designed to put his stamp on the debate while the action was taking place at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
During his talk and in the earlier Roosevelt Room session with business CEOs, Obama said the people running the companies that are the engine of the American economy are behind him. Asked at one point if he was confident of getting Republican support, he replied only: "I'm confident we're going to get it passed."
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Doom and gloom is now a legislative tactic.
To get something through with minimal exposure to public ridicule.
Bush did this with the bailout, but at least he had foreign leaders screaming to get it through,
Here Obama’s got nothing except presumptiveness.
And the, now worn out, scare tactic of yelling “crisis.”
Mana bisa ... Indonesian for, “How can this be?”
Barry Soetoro’s campaign press secretary, Bill Burton, explained to journalists during the presidential campaign that Soetoro had traveled with a college friend from Karachi, Pakistan after leaving Occidental College, Los Angeles, in 1981. Prior to his trip to Pakistan, Soetoro visited is mother, Stanley Ann Dunham-Obama-Soetoro, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
When did Barry Soetoro legally change his name to Barack Obama? After the usurper loots the Treasury, how will America recover the funds?
“I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say, ‘We’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with ANY administration.’”
Quote attributed to Hillary Clinton.
I watched this video of Premier 0bama:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090128/obama.pass.video/
And I got the sneaking suspicion what Michelle’s next dress will look like.
The Reichstag Fire.
Obambi is a wienie. Obambi is a wienie.
I’ve contacted my senators and told them in no uncertain
terms that I expect a “no” vote from them. The republicans
need to let the democRATS own this so called “stimulus”
bill.
What a joke. It’s just one gigantic pork-barrel spending
spree.
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