What’s the over/under on the number of times Mr. Obama will say “if Congress won’t act, I will”, adding the silly “I’ve got a pen and a phone”?
(Politico) President Barack Obama will deliver an “optimistic†State of the Union address Tuesday prodding Congress to address economic mobility and income inequality — or risk an end-run by the White House.
In an email to supporters Saturday, senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer wrote that Obama “will lay out a set of real, concrete, practical proposals to grow the economy, strengthen the middle class, and empower all who hope to join it.â€
No one can possibly believe Obama will do anything other than offer the same hopey-changey generic policy prescriptions, do they?
Obama will then take his message on the road Wednesday for a two-day trip through Prince George’s County in Maryland, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Nashville. When he returns to the White House, Obama will outline new efforts to help the long-term unemployed, Pfeiffer wrote.
So, campaign mode. And it contradicts what second paragraph in the excerpt says in terms of offering concrete proposals during the SOTU. Yet, it wouldn’t matter, because they won’t be any different. Team Obama ran out of ideas sometime in 2009.
“In this year of action, the president will seek out as many opportunities as possible to work with Congress in a bipartisan way,†Pfeiffer wrote. “But when American jobs and livelihoods depend on getting something done, he will not wait for Congress.
We call that “soft tyranny”. He doesn’t seem to grasp that he’s the POTUS, not president of Venezuela or some other dictatorial country.
“President Obama has a pen and he has a phone, and he will use them to take executive action and enlist every American — business owners and workers, mayors and state legislators, young people, veterans, and folks in communities from across the country — in the project to restore opportunity for all,†he said. “It will be an optimistic speech. Thanks to the grit and determination of citizens like you, America has a hard-earned right to that optimism.â€
Yes, he has a pen. Congratulations. How’s that working out? He wrote “It’s. The. Law.” regarding Obamacare, then proceeded to change and delay numerous parts. The phone? He barely calls anyone in his own Party in Congress. And he seems to want to do what he always does: put the work on other people, rather than himself.
As for optimism, they can say it, but it won’t be optimistic, not by a longshot. Expect to hear lots of talking points pre-speech and for the rest of the week from Admin. peeps and Democrat wonks about it being so optimistic. It’ll be petulant, angry, pie-in-the-sky, and hardcore Progressive, with lots of blame and demonizing.
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Agreed: It will be very petulant, angry, petty, and threatening.
What the heck does that mean? “Economic mobility”? Is that when our gov’t creates too much regulation, taxation, and burdens that causes our jobs to mobilize overseas? or to be mobilized right out of the job market as our employer is no longer able to afford to have that position?
Whose incomes are inequal? I say that Congress’ and the President’s are inequal to the jobs that they are doing. They should be tied to the GDP and cut in half. Plus, their salary increases should be based on a vote from their respective state assemblies. Not their own desires.
My income is not equal to my boss’s. Yet, that is understandable and expected. Mine is not equal to the pizza delivery guy’s. That is understandable and expected.
But, don’t expect the GOP to sit on the sidelines on this. They will jump head first in to this morass with their own minimum wage bill and free-citizenship for everyone bill.
Is there nothing the GOP won’t do to help themselves commit political suicide? they’ve got 2014 wrapped up, but they want to make sure they piss everyone else off but the socialists.
I’m expecting even more platitudes from the GOP’s response.