An Unanticipated Presidential Jobs Speech

An Unanticipated Presidential Jobs Speech

America, Europe, the universe are all waiting in anxious expectation for–and trepidation over–the president’s long-awaited jobs speech, THE SPEECH before a joint session of Congress.

Well, not really. The White House has been playing down its import, few people care what he has to say, and even fewer expect him to say anything we don’t already know: The economy is down, unemployment is up, and Obama will propose flushing a few hundred billion more down the toilet.

The un-momentous address was unavoidably delayed until Barack Hussein Obama could wrap up his latest vacation and figure out what to do in order to get the 26 million of unemployed and underemployed Americans back to work at jobs that pay more than Mickey D and Wal-Mart. Then those nasty Republicans threw a wrench into the presidential plans–by impertinently scheduling a debate months in advance.

It may not be an important speech but it’s almost unprecedented.

Other than States of the Union addresses, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush each commanded America’s prime-time attention via a joint session only twice each in their eight-year tenures; Obama’s address will be his second in the spanse of a mere 32 months.

The White House may have initially strategized the event as blockbuster of utmost significance but when Obama had to defer to Speaker Boehner due to Boehner’s insistence the pre-arranged Wednesday Republican debate took precedence the significance faded. Suspicions the speech would devolve into a campaign pitch and a dearth of administration employment ideas didn’t help, either. There are just so many un-shovel-ready projects.

Rebuffed by Boehner, the administration then chose to buck the NFL instead, a major mistake. You don’t mess with football in some necks of the American woods.

A few members of the GOP are doing a little bucking as well, by playing hooky and skipping the address. For one, Louisiana Senator David Vitter is opting for a New Orleans Saints party in his home state rather than attend.

There’s so little interest in the speech that, to Nancy Pelosi’s chagrin, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5376.)

Dave Letterman, Hatchet Man for the Democrat Party

Dave Letterman, Hatchet Man for the Democrat Party

CBS’ late night clown David Letterman was reportedly so distraught over 9/11 that he contemplated discontinuing the “Late Show with David Letterman,” reportedly. It would have been a good move.

Nevertheless, Dave braved on.

He eventually married his long-time live-in and mother of his son, Regina Lasko, when son Harry was around six. He evidently didn’t want Harry going through life with that bastard label etched on his back.

He managed well enough to forget his grief, as well as his wife and son, and squeeze in multiple assignations in his coop at the Ed Sullivan Theater, including a long-term affair with his perky intern, Stephanie Birkitt, who was young enough to be his granddaughter.

He seemed to forget his upset over 9/11 when he slandered former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a slut and her daughters as little slut-ettes, for which he caught some flak but for which he was summarily forgiven by the feminist set which only takes offense if abnormal females are maligned.

Since skating on that slander, Letterman has been on a vendetta against Mrs. Palin and her kin ever since Palin told him what to do with his phony apologies. That vengeful blood feud intensified and became a “comic” staple of his show. More so even than he attacks his nemesis, Jay Leno, who beat him out, twice, for Dave’s nirvana, The Tonight Show, Letterman reviles Palin’s appearance, her books, her television show, and her family, all in good fun, of course.

Maybe he feels women are an easier target and/or that she won’t run him over with one of Leno’s classic cars?

Letterman does have an advantage over Leno in one respect. This is not to suggest that Leno is a Republican lackey but Dave, apparently, has been assigned the semi-exclusive right, assignment, and duty to rip the GOP and all its members which duty he fulfills incessantly and redundantly. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3329)