{"id":6129,"date":"2011-09-08T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2011-09-08T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T03:00:03","slug":"hey-house-ditch-obamas-jobs-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/hey-house-ditch-obamas-jobs-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey House: Ditch Obama's Jobs Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE: Mother Jones<\/em> writer says no need to watch… see below]
\nHouse Republicans are deserting the Obama jobs speech scheduled for Thursday evening. \u00a0They simply won’t attend. \u00a0 Speaker John Boehner, who stuffed the President on his blatant attempt to summon Congress to sit before him, has now decided that the flimsy $300 billion half-hearted jobs speech is not worth rebutting. \u00a0An increasing number of NBC affiliates won’t even show the speech itself, opting instead to stick with their regularly scheduled Saints-Packers pre-game show. \u00a0It’s a sham, and they know it. \u00a0Obama knows it, and he thinks that we are too dumb. \u00a0He wants to use the Congress as a political prop, and some in Congress aren’t having any of it.<\/p>\n

[Update] Even this writer for Mother Jones knows the speech is likely pointless speechifying, and this guy supports Obama!<\/p>\n

He\u00a0proclaimed<\/a> there was “an urgent need to accelerate job growth in the short term.” And he proposed job-creating initiatives that would cost up to $200 billion and called on Congress to enact these measures quickly.<\/p>\n

That president was Barack Obama\u2014back in December 2009, when his economic advisers feared that the recovery, which had been boosted by the stimulus package passed earlier in the year, was weakening. After months of wrangling in the White House, Obama and his aides had finally concluded that another shot of stimulus\u2014though they didn’t call it that\u2014was necessary. So that month, Obama delivered a\u00a0big speech at the Brookings Institution<\/a> and proclaimed the need for a series of new initiatives. But what came next? Basically, not much.<\/p>\n

— David Corn in Mother Jones<\/a>: You Don’t Have to Watch Obama’s Big Jobs Speech:\u00a0It’s what he does afterward that matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[pullquote]bits and pieces of his plan[\/pullquote]There will be nothing new in the speech, nothing big, and nothing that works. \u00a0What’s more, the President himself has said that the speech on Thursday evening won’t even be the whole plan. \u00a0That’s right, he’s going to release bits and pieces of his plan, as if nothing depended on it even if it were a good idea, throughout the autumn. \u00a0Perhaps in winter too. \u00a0If this were a serous effort at a jobs plan, wouldn’t each day matter? \u00a0This is a transparent manipulation by a clumsy and bungling campaign team who see nothing other than the re-election of the President as worth working for. \u00a0Good thing they’re incompetent.<\/p>\n

There will be a glorious, spectacular exchange of views, but it will be over the weekend, and it will most assuredly come at the expense of the President. \u00a0There goes Obama, in the 44 jersey, fumbling his own hail Mary play, running back, back, back, to catch the hike to himself \u00a0in a forward lateral run-back interception fake blitz…yawn! \u00a0Fourth and 60.<\/p>\n

So House Republicans, please take the day off. \u00a0I sincerely hope you all have some chips and beer, or cigars and whiskey, getting warmed up for the football game that constitutes a truly effective limit on the President’s power. \u00a0He withers without his beloved camera, and it is being removed from him no matter what at 8:30 PM Eastern 5:30 Pacific. \u00a0Check your local affiliate for details. \u00a0Muaahaahaaa.<\/p>\n

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[UPDATE: Mother Jones<\/em> writer says no need to watch… see below]
House Republicans are deserting the Obama jobs speech scheduled for Thursday evening. \u00a0They simply won’t attend. \u00a0 Speaker John Boehner, who stuffed the President on his blatant attempt to summon Congress to sit before him, has now decided that the flimsy $300 billion half-hearted jobs speech is not worth rebutting. \u00a0An increasing number of NBC affiliates won’t even show the speech itself, opting instead to stick with their regularly scheduled Saints-Packers pre-game show. \u00a0It’s a sham, and they know it. \u00a0Obama knows it, and he thinks that we are too dumb. \u00a0He wants to use the Congress as a political prop, and some in Congress aren’t having any of it.<\/p>\n

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