Obama’s Combative Save-My-Job Speech

September 9, 2011 07:32


Obama punted the heavy lifting to the super-committee, and pledged to introduce another general deficit plan in twelve days.  How, or if, this will differ from his unanimously-defeated February budget, or his dreadful April deficit speech, is anybody’s guess.  He does give us a big clue, though: It’s “basically the [same ideas] I’ve been advocating for months.”  This likely means very modest changes to unsustainable entitlement programs and big tax hikes on the rich.  Absolutely nothing new.

By Guy Benson at Townhall.com

EXCERPTS:

Two quick examples that illustrate why this entire spectacle was a sham:

(1) Obama lamented teacher layoffs: “While they’re adding teachers in places like South Korea, we’re laying them off in droves.  It’s unfair to our kids.  It undermines their future and ours.  And it has to stop.  Pass this jobs bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.” But later in the speech, he went out of his way to condemn budget fixes like Wisconsin’s, which limited collective bargaining “rights” for government employees, but has saved thousands of teachers’ jobs.

(2) The president demanded swift action on three pending trade agreements, heavily implying that Congress has been dragging its feet on these items: “Now it’s time to clear the way for a series of trade agreements that would make it easier for American companies to sell their products in Panama, Colombia, and South Korea…”  But the reason these agreements have stalled is because he refuses to send them to Congress unless Republicans agree to lard them up with special goodies for labor unions.

Liberals on MSNBC and Twitter seem to be energized by Obama’s aggressive performance.  They think this was just what the doctor ordered, and that Republicans have been put on notice, or something.

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