September 2, 2011 - 12:50 pm
The President’s big jobs speech next week? Meh — maybe not so much. From Fox News:
In what could be a way of lowering expectations for next Thursday’s big economic speech, aides to President Obama are privately spreading word that he will not present his entire jobs plan in his address to a Joint Session of Congress.
I feel like I’m caught in The Matrix: There is no plan.
Thursday’s speech will not reveal any bold, new thinking to Congress. It won’t reveal much at all. This isn’t a joint address, it’s the first stop in yet another campaign swing. This is a press appearance, with 500 or so members of Congress there as props.
Beat me to it.
So, if I’m understanding this correctly, Obama has requested a Joint Session of Congress in order to announce, not a plan, but that he’s planning to have a plan Real Soon Now.
Essentially, Charlie, yes. Although I think you’ve given him too much credit.
I don’t know.
I think the arrogance and lack of planning in announcing the address before it had even been requested indicates a different motive, i.e., that he plans to officially start his 2012 campaign against Congress itself. This is somewhat akin to inviting Ryan to sit in on an address so BHO could look him in the eye as he berated him and lied about his proposal.
Narcissists who suffer from unwarranted self-esteem are bullies. When they’re cornered, they react violently, the way BHO did toward Ryan (et al.). He’s watching his legacy circle the drain and, therefore, desperately needs someone to blame. He’s made abundantly clear that blame will be heaped on Congress.
– “I come before you, to sit behind you, to speak to you of something which I know nothing about…”
Could be.
But he might instead be planning on announcing his pick for the football game.
Football takes too much strategic thinking for Obozo. He just watches basketball and plays golf.
Ahem, you forgot something there Mr. Martin. That should be Real Soon Now(TM). Just like It’s Bush’s Fault(TM), or Jobs Saved Or Created(TM).
Even if he didn’t actually file for honest trademarks, they should just be assigned to him automatically. Anyone who will listen to, watch, or read any of his records in the future are just going to assume he owns those phrases, along with others I’m too tired to list at the moment, considering they inundate every public address he’s ever made.
Whatever the TOTUS says in his speech, he better be done before kickoff, or he’ll lose even more voters.
The Steve Jobs plan. Quit.
If Obozo quits, then he could easily be prosecuted for a lot of the things he has done, or was involved in, during his time in office.
Including Gunwalker.
Just sayin’.
It’s like that scene in the Matrix with the Red & Blue pills. But in this case Neo gets a call from O-Morpheus saying he’ll bring a pill in a month ’cause he’s golfing today. Then he shows up with a bill and Neo says ‘dude’ and O-Morpheus says ‘what? You aren’t going to pick up the check’ and Neo is all like ‘dude, you got me fired remember?’ and so O-Morpheus says ‘fine, you can just owe me, lets go out and get Chinese because my credit is good at this place I know’ and Neo says he can’t and O-Morpheus says ‘Its because I’m black isn’t it?’
+1
This is one of the funniest things I have read all day.
Well then the CBO scoring of the plan should have us rolling on the floor laughing.
If he really wants to turn the economy around and create jobs, his entire speech consist of “effective immediatley, I and my entire cabinet, including TOTUS, Sheriff Joe and all my czars and other assorted payroll appointees will resign from the government of the United States. It’s all your John.”
The stock market will immediately jump and hiring will begin the next day.
anything less will just make things worse.
Whew, Walt, careful there, big guy. I got a bit giddy just IMAGINING such an event.
On the off chance you’re right, I’m investing in some primo alcohol to enhance the drunkblog-reading, er, presidential speechifying experience.
I still think we need to pack the gallery for the speech and provide a laugh track.
Wait, what? If Obama is only bringing a partial plan, or a partial outline for a potential plan, or a pre-plan planning plan, or an outline/plan for creating a plan (or outline), why doesn’t he just tweet the darn thing. 140 characters sounds more than sufficient and we could all get on with our lives that much sooner.
D’Oh! Remember during the debt debacle when he said, tweet your representatives? Maybe tweet-as-speech has been his planny plan-plan all along. (Plus, wouldn’t it be fun to hear everyone’s iPhones and Blackberries go off at the same instant, signalling the incoming plan-tweet?)
On the up side, right winger Joe Wilson cannot say “you lie!”.
Democrats lie. That’s how they roll. That won’t change just because you hate Joe Wilson for pointing that out.
Leftists have no valid arguments. Nothing they do ever works. The only way they can “win” is through lying, threats, name-calling, or shouting down their opponents.
What Jobs Plan?
A snow job and its been going on close to 4 years. Time to change the weather system.
Here is how he will announce his jobs plan. He needs to have a sound system pumping out throbbing rock music. He then needs to run out on stage (do they have such a thing in the House Chamber?) strumming an air guitar. He then needs to face the floor and do a couple of push-ups, one handed of course. And he then has jump up and yell out his plan to a wildly cheering crowd, with sweat pouring down his face,
“Developers, developers, developers, developers!”
The plan is the same as usual: hi-speed rail, “shovel ready” projects that his enviro-nut base will quickly bury (hence the name, “shovel ready”), more “green tech investments” that will go bankrupt next year after enriching numerous cronies and when it doesn’t fly, blame the opposition for being the Party of “No”.
There, I just saved everyone two hours of listening to that tedious bore read from his telepromter. You’re welcome.
The Spoon jobs-plan. There is no spoon… and there are no jobs.
I figure he’s going to dress down the Republicans in Congress much as he did SCOTUS in his 2010 State of the Union address or Paul Ryan in his “budget deficit” speech back in April. He loves to torment the opposition when they are a captive audience and can’t talk back. It’s sadistic.
They could always turn their backs on him, and I certainly hope that they do.
Here’s one thing we could do to put Americans back to work: Stop importing foreign tech workers!
Yes, both parties were, and are, at fault in this regard.
The Barak Obama Do It Yourself Speech Kit:
Preamble: this must consist of varying portions or iterations of the following; [Place in any order you choose]
“Folks are hurtin’ out there.” [This must be said with feeling, to show caring and Identification with the unwashed masses / bitter clingers.]
“We have to invest in the future.” [Translation; Spend Spend Spend!]
“We need a balanced approach.” [Remember, this means Tax Increases so make it sound reasonable.]
“My hope and expectation is that we can put country before party and get something done for the American people.”
[This is the crux of the speech, this is where it is emphasized that any disagreement is tantamount to Treason.]
[At this point it is important to have an agenda list that will consist of proposals that have already failed over the last 3 years. Use the following skeleton to introduce each of the agenda items. And by all means, get a thesaurus to find equivalent words to avoid repeats.]
— Obama Introduce a Subject on the Agenda —
“We Must Move Forward with…” [Introduce the Failed Idea with new verbage here.]
“Some would say…” [Insert here a quotation of something No One ever says.]
“let me be perfectly clear…” [This is the place for obfuscation about the subject and any position regarding the subject.]
“We cannot simply just…” [This is where you mention something that would inspire the American People if mentioned by a Republican politician, i.e. "we cannot simply just drill for all the oil we need."]
“make no mistake about…” [Here is where the Exact Opposite of any of the things which are to take place are stated.]
“I reject the false choice that some would…” [Again, reiterate quotations that No One has ever said followed by Him vs. an idiotic extrapolation of any Republican position.]
“I have ordered my team to…” [Doesn't matter what actions you fill in here, they aren't going to do it.]
— Repeat as needed for new subjects —
Then, in closing you must include a reference to the Bush Administration and “The Failed Policies of the Past.” that we cannot go back to.
Great template, jd! All they have to do now is fill in the blanks, program TOTUS, and they’re set for Thursday night. Better get Obama some tee times for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday! Or maybe there’s time for a date night somewhere that has good weather!
His plan is to publicly humiliate and excoriate the conservatives in the audience. And stir up a little more race/class warfare on the side.
Perhaps Obama is delaying his plan because he is trying to think of new ways to trick the voters by not saying “stimulus spending”. Here’s some ideas:
New Voter appreciation plan
Reinvigorated Government Investing Agenda
Keynesian economic anti-contraction plan
Anti-Tea Party campaign