well then obviously I'm wrong (forgetting I know 3 teachers who lost their jobs from the same school this year). please, he bends over backwards to try to appease the republicans. because someone had to have it shown that they aren't doing shit about anything.
No kidding. Mr. I-Can't-Ship-Jobs-To-China-Quick-Enough sitting right next to the 1st Lady. In light of Obama's speech, that appeared to me to be a dichotomy of sorts.
I always get a kick out of watching all the members gazing around, apparently, looking to see who's clapping/standing.........or not.
He's so done. He's going to go down as the worst president in the 20-21 centuries. Even if spending another $450B did start to turn things around, by the time congress passes the bill, the effect would be too late. In a few short years, social security will be devastated due to the acceleration of it cashing in it's T-Bills to make it's payments. And barfo will be spinning himself even more dizzy than he already is.
PASS THIS BILL!!! Haha. Even the late shows are mocking this crap. We just witnessed the end of the Obama presidency. A joint session of Congress for that crap? How many Dems are going to stand with him now, and how many are going to distance themselves from him?
Man, that's unheard of. This will go down in history as the day when the late shows first mocked something. barfo
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Going out on a limb here, but isn't it possible that he was saying pass the bill that does these things I've said in my speech? The literal interpretation makes a whole lot less sense...especially coming from an ex-con law professor.
He was a "senior lecturer", not a tenured professor. Basically an adjunct professor, which isn't a true professor, nor should he claim to be one.
The speech definitely had more of a Dubya "do what I damn well say" vibe about it. Which is just fine for this liberal. Obama has approached his job to this point as the Compromiser. We on the left have been waiting for him to get angry and start setting a vocal agenda. For 20 years we've heard nothing but "government is bad and tax cuts are good" in this country. Democrats haven't even tried to present an argument to counter that. It's retarded how long it's taken them to get to this point. I have no doubt his bill will never pass. But I like that Democrats finally have something worth running on--a moderate program that focuses on tax cuts, bridges, and keeping teachers/cops/firemen employed. The problem right now is jobs. The problem for the last two years has been jobs. Let Republicans own deficit reduction in the coming elections if they really want to own that. Partisans on the right really care about that issue. The rest of us, I believe, are much more concerned about jobs.
