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.)
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Thursday, September 3, 2009
The Obamacare Shuffle
The Obamacare Shuffle
As smarmy David Letterboy continues his nightly snide attacks on Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney and in his inimitable lackey fashion defends all things Obama, his hero president is in the process of performing a political imitation of a Step ‘n Fetchit dance routine.
Obama, with the scent of ignominious defeat in his nostrils and the unmistakable sound of a splattering legacy in those ears of his, has apparently decided that since his first set of lies didn’t work, in desperation he’s chosen a new set of Obamacare falsehoods.
With his administration in disarray over the intentional vagaries of “health care reform,” Obama has now, allegedly, taken the capstone of Obamacare, the “public option,” off the table and tossed it into the sewer where it belongs.
Since he would no sooner really abandon that socialistic requisite, which he has long and fervently esposed, than he would admit his affinity for Islam, one suspects that it will be surreptitiously slipped under the table.
Obama, despite his protestations of transparency in government, has often shown that he just loves surreptition.
The chosen tactic? A nationally-televised press conference? Nah, the electorate is already onto the planted questions and questioners and his trusty teleprompter, without which he devolves into a babbling, meandering Joe Biden.
Well, how’s about an address to a joint session of Congress? Hey! That might work what with the gravitas that such an event confers, compounded by national TV coverage! And, said trusty teleprompter would still be on hand to protect against nationally televised flubs.
How to pull it off, though, without making it seem like, well, like just another sleazey tactic?
The following is an exclusive, confidential, verbatim account of recent contacts between the Oval Office and the congressional offices of Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid. We were able to tap into their phone lines, with the help of 16 year old who has also hacked into their computers.
Under no circumstances will I divulge my source, so don’t even try, FBI!
The following is the transcript. “O” is the president, “P” the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, “R” the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid.
O: Hey, Nance!
P: Who is this?
O: It’s Barry, the president, dammit!
P: Oh, sorry. I just had a Botox shot and my brain is a bit numb.
O: No problemo, Nance. We’re used to that over here. (sounds of shuffling and whispering) I mean, I understand Mrs. Speaker.
P: Oh.
O: Ok, look, I want to use a new approach to get the people to accept my health care proposals.
P: Yes?
O: Well, . . . I want you and Harry to pretend you want me to address a joint session.
P: A joint session?
O: I mean a joint session of congress!
P: Yeah, sure, we can do that. Could you also address the benefits of Botox? I mean, my hubby thinks I look 40 and last night he even . . .
O: Umm, Nance, no . . .
P: Well, fine! But he actually . . .
O: Switch me over to Harry, please.
P: Sure! (muffled sounds and what seems to be the N-word) . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com
As smarmy David Letterboy continues his nightly snide attacks on Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney and in his inimitable lackey fashion defends all things Obama, his hero president is in the process of performing a political imitation of a Step ‘n Fetchit dance routine.
Obama, with the scent of ignominious defeat in his nostrils and the unmistakable sound of a splattering legacy in those ears of his, has apparently decided that since his first set of lies didn’t work, in desperation he’s chosen a new set of Obamacare falsehoods.
With his administration in disarray over the intentional vagaries of “health care reform,” Obama has now, allegedly, taken the capstone of Obamacare, the “public option,” off the table and tossed it into the sewer where it belongs.
Since he would no sooner really abandon that socialistic requisite, which he has long and fervently esposed, than he would admit his affinity for Islam, one suspects that it will be surreptitiously slipped under the table.
Obama, despite his protestations of transparency in government, has often shown that he just loves surreptition.
The chosen tactic? A nationally-televised press conference? Nah, the electorate is already onto the planted questions and questioners and his trusty teleprompter, without which he devolves into a babbling, meandering Joe Biden.
Well, how’s about an address to a joint session of Congress? Hey! That might work what with the gravitas that such an event confers, compounded by national TV coverage! And, said trusty teleprompter would still be on hand to protect against nationally televised flubs.
How to pull it off, though, without making it seem like, well, like just another sleazey tactic?
The following is an exclusive, confidential, verbatim account of recent contacts between the Oval Office and the congressional offices of Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid. We were able to tap into their phone lines, with the help of 16 year old who has also hacked into their computers.
Under no circumstances will I divulge my source, so don’t even try, FBI!
The following is the transcript. “O” is the president, “P” the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, “R” the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid.
O: Hey, Nance!
P: Who is this?
O: It’s Barry, the president, dammit!
P: Oh, sorry. I just had a Botox shot and my brain is a bit numb.
O: No problemo, Nance. We’re used to that over here. (sounds of shuffling and whispering) I mean, I understand Mrs. Speaker.
P: Oh.
O: Ok, look, I want to use a new approach to get the people to accept my health care proposals.
P: Yes?
O: Well, . . . I want you and Harry to pretend you want me to address a joint session.
P: A joint session?
O: I mean a joint session of congress!
P: Yeah, sure, we can do that. Could you also address the benefits of Botox? I mean, my hubby thinks I look 40 and last night he even . . .
O: Umm, Nance, no . . .
P: Well, fine! But he actually . . .
O: Switch me over to Harry, please.
P: Sure! (muffled sounds and what seems to be the N-word) . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com
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