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Boehner: No Response to Obama Speech

Mark Noonan6 Comments

From Fox News:

Republicans have decided they’re not going to give a rebuttal to President Obama’s jobs speech later this week, a decision House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi took as a high affront to the White House.

At least three GOP lawmakers also have announced they’re not going to show up for the presidential address. House Speaker John Boehner’s office then confirmed Tuesday evening that nobody from the party would deliver an official televised response…

Nancy thinks we’re being mean…actually, we’re just being indifferent.  Unless Obama pulls out something really surprising – ie, a complete shift to GOP ideas on the economy – there is just not much to say about his speech.  From what we can tell, the speech will be some hundreds of billions in stimulus – more spending of money we don’t have in service of a policy which has already failed.  Maybe this is all just a strategic smokescreen and Obama will wow us and the whole world with a big policy change…but I’m not counting on it…and I’ll be able to read the speech afterwards if necessary.

As it stands right now, President Obama is a leader who has lost the respect of the American people…even the left is getting testy with him.  Obama has no one but himself to blame for this state of affairs…and if he hadn’t spent the last two and a half years routinely insulting us, things would be different.  Now it is up to Obama to show us different…and if he can’t do it, there is no need for us to try and burnish his image by pretending he’s doing anything worthwhile with this jobs speech.

Obamunism! Worst Recovery, Ever

Mark Noonan13 Comments

From Investors Business Daily:

…By consensus, the most recent recession ended in June 2009, less than six months after Obama took office.

According to the NBER, in the 60 years prior to Obama’s tenure, we had 10 recessions.  In the two years following those respective recessions, average real (inflation-adjusted) quarterly GDP growth was 5%, according to federal government figures. In the two years of Obama’s “recovery,” average real quarterly GDP growth has been just 2.4%, less than half of the historical norm coming out of a recession…

And, honestly, if you take out the bogus effects of money-printing, we’ve probably had little or no real growth.  Obama’s economic policies didn’t get us out of the recession (his policies could not have taken effect quickly enough) but they have ensured that the recovery, such as it was, failed to deliver the necessary growth to restore American prosperity.

And now Obama is proposing more of the same – the news has it that Obama will propose a $300 billion jobs plan, most of which amounts to extending various tax credit already enacted…while, of course, tacking on a few more “shovel ready” jobs (watch the speech – Obama will not say the word “stimulus” nor the phrase “shovel ready”; they have been banned from Democrat talking points…because they failed and Democrats don’t want to admit it).  The GOP will have to respond in some manner so that we’re not tagged as “anti-job”, but whatever it is Obama wants will have to be offset by spending reductions elsewhere.  For the most part, though, I don’t think that the people will care what Obama says…especially as he’ll say nothing new.

2012 can’t get here fast enough…

His Majesty is Not Amused

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Seems like His Majesty, Barry I, isn’t all that happy his speech on jobs was postponed – from Politico:

It seemed like a trivial matter: On Wednesday, House Republicans forced the president to delay his speech to a joint session of Congress by one day.

Who cares? The White House cares. Very much.

“It is a big deal that the House said ‘no’ to the president from our end,” a White House source with intimate knowledge of what took place between the House and the president told me Thursday. “This confirms what we all know: They will do anything in the House to muck us up.”

On Wednesday, the White House staff did not know exactly what President Barack Obama was going to say in his major jobs speech, but it knew exactly where and when he was going to say it…

This is a sign of a floundering White House…they are not only mad about something as trivial as this, but they are letting people know they are mad.  The White House cooked up a plan and, darn it, Congress didn’t meekly go along with it!  The nerve!

Leaving aside the fact that the Congress is not at the beck and call of the President, it speaks volumes about the Obama Administration that they didn’t clear the date in advance with Speaker Boehner.  This shows that they just presume that obedience is automatic…that at the end of the day everyone will defer to The One.  While Obama has lost his luster with the public, it seems that for himself and his closest advisers, the rules of 2008 still apply…and when it is time for the Prophet to speak, everyone else is supposed to tremble and obey.

I’ve got one piece of advice to Obama and his crew – get used to this.  Its not that we disrespect the office of the President, but that we’re not about to follow the Obama script.  Obama is one player among many – certainly an important piece of the puzzle, but in no way does he rule the roost.  And, as an aside, if Obama and his cronies hadn’t so continually insulted us and lied about us, things would be different.