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President Obama said today that next week he will unveil “a series of steps that Congress can take immediately” to help grow the economy and create jobs, his two top priorities.
“That’s our urgent mission,” Obama said as he nominated economist Alan Krueger to head his Council of Economic Advisers. “That’s what I’m fighting for every single day.”
I’m fighting for it every day, the president said, upon ending his nine-day vacation. I’m sure the caddies of the nation thank him.
Obama and aides are working on a major speech for next week centered on the nation’s 9.1% unemployment rate.
Wait, a “major speech”? I thought he promised a “very specific plan.“
The president is likely to discuss items he has pitched before, including an extension of payroll tax cuts, a string of free-trade deals and new infrastructure projects.
Can you feel the excitement?
You're thinking what I'm thinking - if this is something Congress can act on immediately, why do we have to wait for it? The major speech will be about as useful as Ralphie's dad's "major award" in _A Christmas Story_. No, wait - at least the major award provided some light, which O's speeches rarely, if ever, do.
"It says fra-gee-lee - must be Italian."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI need DETAILS!!! How can I set my DVR when I don't know when this MAJOR SPEECH is going to be given???!!! Please report back as soon as you know . . . .
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI've said it before. I'll say it again.
The dude's got nothin'.
Absolutely nothing.
It'd be amusing to watch him flail around like this, except there are millions of people who are bearing the brunt of his incompetence who don't find it funny at all.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYakity, yakity, yak goes the teleprompter.
"Stupid people are ruining America"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHerman Cain 2012
Actually, if these are so easy for Congress, why didn't Obama have Congress do all this stuff (whatever it's going to be) while they had the majority less than a year ago? I'm sure even Obama could have given Nancy Pelosi some directions!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHeadlines after the 'major speech' should read:
OBAMA UNVEILS 'VERY SPECIFIC' JOBS PLAN*
*Specific jobs plan not included
R's should hammer him relentlessly, "Where's the plan?"
Its not like the media will do it.
Speaking of which. We're now in year 3 of Trillion dollar deficits, with expectations of Trillion dollar deficits every year from now on. Where is Obama's plan to balance the budget? Where is the Democrat's plan to balance the budget? Its been nearly 3 years since the Senate Dems have proposed any budget at all (which they're required to do annually, by federal law).
How is it possible that a President well into his 3rd year has never presented a budget plan that EVER envisions some year in the future in which we will have a balanced budget?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf all he's got is another speech, I predict the stock market crashes (again) on the day he delivers it.
"Obama pivots to jobs" is a clear SELL signal to the markets (because he's shown over and over again that he's not serious and has no "plan" for the economy -- everything he does is "merely campaigning.")
He will decry partisanship while blaming everything on republicans. He will be "perfectly clear" that he wants to "win the future", even though "some say" we should not. For how much longer will his supporters be blinded by the smoke from a million burning straw men?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseit is being delayed because this weeks job report is going to be bad news ... they already have the heads up ... they are just trying to find a qiet media space to give the speech in ...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseObama, I think, is suffering from the same problem that Shrub Bush suffered from toward the end of his Presidency: People have tuned him out. I could quite literally watch Obama with the volume turned up to a normal level and not be able to tell you, 2 minutes later, what the man said.
Of course, part of the problem is that much of what Obama says is without meaningful semantic content.
Perhaps if Obama set all his utterances to music, as in the film "The Umbrellas of Cherborg," that would help us remember.
No, never mind. We would only remember the music.
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