Obama’s debt speech…what will he say?
Our fearless leader will be speaking to us little people tonight about the monstrous debt and what he’sdoing to fix it. I think reality hit him last November when the Tea Party pulled out the coup of the century and helped take back Congress on a “less government, less spending” platform. Obama knows that he’s got to do something about this out-of-control debt our country faces but he doesn’t want to cut too many of his favorite entitlement programs or government agencies. He’s kind of between a rock and a hard place….after all….he’s in 2012 campaign mode now.
Here’s a viewer’s guide to tonight’s speech…
Details, details, details: The biggest unknown going into the speech is how specific — if at all — the president will be about his plans to reduce the deficit. The devil is, quite literally, in the details in these sorts of major proposals — as evidenced by how Ryan’s entire budget was reduced to his proposal to end Medicare as we know it. Obama’s tendency is to avoid talking in too much detail, and early indications suggest he will not outline in a whole lot of detail what he wants to see in the 2012 budget. Expect Republicans to pounce if the speech doesn’t lay out — line by line — how Obama would accomplish debt reduction.
* Tax talk: One thing that everyone watching the speech will be waiting for is whether Obama embraces — whether directly or indirectly — the idea of raising taxes on some portion of the population in order to help close the budget gap. Republicans are already staking out ground in opposition to tax increases; “If the President begins the discussion by saying we must increase taxes on the American people — as his budget does — my response will be clear: tax increases are unacceptable and are a non-starter,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a statement released Tuesday evening. Knowing that, if Obama does take on the tax issue — perhaps by calling for an end to the Bush tax cuts for those making over $250,000 — it is rightly read as a sign that he is willing to take the political fight to the GOP. And if it happens, expect tax talk to dominate the post-speech analysis
What do you guys think?
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Obama’s debt speech…what will he say?
– It's Bush' fault.
– The evil Republicans want to starve the poor, take your Social Security, and make you sick.
– All these deficit reductions? They were mine; Boehner stole them from me.
– Today is the day that the mountains of debt will crumble into the seas, but it's okay, because my divine power will not let the seas rise.
It won't matter what he says. I can't listen to him talk because my mind cannot divorce the fact that he's a bald-face liar who isn't ashamed by anything that he's done and not earned. He expects people to write his speeches, and he pines away for the next vacation, golf outing, and basketball. He reminds me of the snobs who won't do their own work because he's too good for it. In the mean time, he tells us to rail against those who are wealthy, but he hides himself behind his sister's apron, seeking her to speak up against that evil man, Trump, because the man-child has skin only a molecule layered thick.
I don't know if anyone noticed but during Obama's sister's 'chastising' comments about Trump and the birth issue, but even she seemed to have trouble constructing smooth, connective sentences. I felt that she was grasping to find the words to absolve Obama and shame Trump, but it didn't come off that way. It sounded more like even she didn't believe what she was saying in Obama's defense.
You mean people besides the talking heads are actually going to be watching him? At this point, it should be all damage control…
Everyone Please!
Do yourself a favor and DO NOT play the drinking game during Obama's speech.
You know. The drinking game where you take a drink everytime there is something copied, cribbed and cheated from Rand Paul's budget proposals.
Cause you'll be stinking drunk in the first 2 minutes of the speech if you do play it!!!!!
That game would be worst than the "Bob" game from the old Bob Newhart show. LOL!!
LOL Right!!!!!!!
He'll say what ever his new world order puppet masters load into his Teleprompter for him to read.
It is out right in the open now- BRICS- Brazil, Russia, India and China (and S Africa a late add on) is who will reign. Drudge has it top of his page today. There is no longer any mystery.
Japan? not so much
Middle East- descending into chaos, followed by the stone age
Europe and the U.S.? they will try to pit us against each other and here, continue to destroy us.
Our hope? We need to unite against central control, for liberty and not spar against one another, allowing GOODNESS to prevail.
What's he going to say? What's he going to say? He's going up to that podium, and he's going to praise Boener while doing that little one-finger salute he does, then he's going to pump his fist, waggle his behind like Dogbert, and tweet on his Blackberry, "1 4 teh win! Up yrs, T prtyrs"
Yes, but if one were to ask him what he said, he wouldn't remember it because all he had to do was to read the teleprompter.
….what he ended up say was….I am going to double down on stupid because that is all I know….I am stuck on ideology that I absorbed in smoke filled rooms when I was a failing sophmore at college….I got nothing else rattling around in my head than the Marxist garbage I swallowed hook line and sinker and have never looked at with a critical eye since…. And as you can tell from how I act as president…I am stuck emotionally and intellectually at about 18, a young 18.
He got that training whilst still in nappies (diapers).
An 18 year old lecturing a bunch of college kids? Sounds like college to me.
So The Boy King is still singing the same class warfare song. Tax the rich, tax the rich!
Alright! We have 47% of working households that pay NOTHING in Federal Income Tax. The top 25% of income earners pay 86% of our tax bill. The top 50% pay 97% of the tax bill. Why don't we just have the top 25% pay 100% of the tax bill and that way, all the poor people that do the hiring of all of us will have the money to hire more, thus stimulating the heck out of our economy!!! Those pesky rich people just keep all their money for themselves. Everyone needs to pay their fair share and for the "rich" that should be 100%!
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/04/13/text-of-…
Blame Bush…Raise Taxes…Blah..blah..blah…blah…blah. Same old song and dance. And of course he lies throughout so hopefully they will fact check it and show how stupid this is. Nothing new. Just same old campaign nonsense he has been saying. He did not learn ANYTHING from November.
I didn't watch. I just can't stand looking at him anymore. Or listening to him.
I can't believe that at one time I considered him to be a good speaker. Yikes!
*sigh*
how could you have ever thought he was a good speaker? His voice is grating. His head moves from side to side like he is watching a tennis match. He is just so nauseating.
I believe Obama could pull one of these and no one would notice any more. Or they would hail it as unprecedented. I think he would be less harmful if he did come up with a speech like this.[youtube ve0FQS1DLs4&hd=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0FQS1DLs4&hd=1 youtube]
It could be Dear Leader (sounds like him) – if made over as a contestant on Logo's Ru Paul's Drag Race
Obama says "Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah"
That is what we hear of and think of from the Jetsons whenever we hear Dear Leader read from TOTUS.
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I heard some of his usual blather on the radio today. It is the same old same old “tax the rich” line. How about we cut the fed by 20% and put the Fair Tax in place. If we did that this nation would be a super power again in no time.
I know, dream on, Flash…..dream on.
Well…do you think he is trying to rile up the tea party? Cuz I thought we told him were taxed enough already!
Why does he just not say…'everyone please go find a second job & pay more in taxes so I don't have to do any real hard work…I wanna keep spending on my cool WH credit card & you can't make me stop! I am gonna feed the poor, cure the masses & save the planet…so I will find a comittee to decide how to take more from you while I go golf… come on it is spring…best time for golf!
No sense in really cutting anything…change means more of the same…right?'
Welcome to present OWEbummer's plan…TAX TAX TAX yeah man!
If it is any consolation, our Marxist Prime Minister has stated that we all need to go get a job… charming!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGthv-dJp4
That YouTube would be: "Get A Job-The Silhouettes-original song-1957."
http://www.therightscoop.com/obamas-campaign-spee…
Very exciting speech, Hopey.
Check out the woman behind Biden, she was overcome too!
As Paul Ryan said " Excessively Partisan, Dramatically Inaccurate, and Hopelessly Inadequate" HT The weekly Standard. Or, as the Atlantic's Clive Crook commented "a waste of breath". I can't believe he is still claiming the health care debacle will save a trillion.
I love this man. He pretty much has Øbama's speech nailed.
[youtube ag0x5BXFU4M&feature=player_embedded#at=73 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag0x5BXFU4M&feature=player_embedded#at=73 youtube]
Also Please don't forget the plan that dwarfs Ryan plan – which uses Ryan's plan only as a starting point and builds from there!!!- The best and latest plan to date is from Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, chairman of the influential House Republican Study Committee, titled Honest Solutions: Fiscal Year 2012 Budget –
Please ask yourselves why Boehner and the cocktail party do not even acknowledge this plan even exists …endorsed by all of our favorites…but is shunned by THEIR OWN PARTY!- we think we have our answer after watching the HISTORIC sham by Boehner and crew last Friday!
Another big point – Sarah Palin gave a shout out to Ryan's concepts and proposal – AS A GOOD STARTING POINT!
And he's not afraid to say it!
Transcript:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/obama-de…
I usually follow Obama's speeches on Vodkapundit, butt, they switched it from Prime Time to Soap Opera time, so it was too early for him to start drinking.
With the Obama campaign season on full throttle – we see the Joe Biden snooze as a continuation of last week's Kabuki Theater starring Obama and co-starring Boehner (unwittingly or complicit) leading to the grand act with Biden retiring and Obama naming a "brave" and "historic" replacement VP (to be determined)!
DC, you were the first to point out what a crap-sandwich this 'deal' was, and absolutely right.
I don't trust the R's,and have the bar set real low, thinking maybe they could do something besides betray us again, I was wrong and so disappointed.
Used to be a dem, but when I watched the DNC and it’s groupies shred Hillary, I was so repulsed I became and Indie. Funny, I found out after coming out, as it were being Indie, that many of my friends that I thought were die-hard dems had also become Indie. I guess my point is, you mentioned Barky’s approval rating with us Indies is 40% or below. Among my now out of the closet Indie friends 40% would be breaking the bank for Barky. With us, his approval rating is right around that of the dreaded floating Baby Ruth bar in the country club swimming pool. Can’t get much lower than that, although I’m sure Barky will TRY.
The debt speech is trying to woo Independent voters.
Won’t work. His approval rating is 40% or below with them.
They are not coming back. He in trouble in states such as Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Florida. Florida is probably a lost cause as the rest of the South and just about all of the Mountain West states.
The Peter Principle + Affirmative Action= EFFIN MORONS+ MARXIST A HOLES= EPIC FAIL
Biden was right – the speech was a snore.
dang.missed another one…lol.
are going to get smilies Kevin??
Legal Insurrection nails it.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/04/oba…
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/04/oba…
The speech is on and Rush has broadcast bits. IThe deficit is Bush's fault. Ovomit knows he rolled Bonehead Boehner last Friday & now wants taxes raised, more government spending, bigger deficits, more borrowing, more socialism, and the destruction of the nation to usher in his wet dream marxist utopia. Obaliar has been put in the White House by Gyorgy Schwartz (alias Soros) to destroy America. I fear the fools of the cocktail repubics are going to go along with the destructive move to raise the debt ceiling.
Hyperinflation is inevitable. Buy gold, silver & lead, fill your cupboards with staples, canned goods, even clothing items. Hell is on the way.
the unofficial teaparty response:
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I love Congresswoman Bachmann, she goes after Obama. Congresswoman Bachmann should be our next President like Thatcher she has a degree in tax law and they are both as sharp as a whip.
Bachmann is Thatcher. Thatcher saved Britain from Labour Bachamnn will save America from Obama and the Democrats.
How can he just yesterday say the Country is broke and then say we need to spend more money? How? He agreed with the tax cuts and signed the bill so he can't seriously chastise the Republicans. This makes no sense. The GOP House will never agree to any tax increase so his budget is a fantasy and a non starter. Does he have a split personality?