Presidential Address could conflict with Packers/Saints

[SkinBasket]

A majority of America developed Obama fatigue early due to his penchant for prime time speeches that amounted to nothing more than a self-aggrandizing poetry jam. Fucking with football, even the pre-game of the season opener, is not going to help that, especially given that his talking points have been delivered to the press and it amounts to a continuation of the same policies that have delivered us to this point with a robust dose of blaming Congress as seasoning. Apparently he plans on voicing his "frustration" with the legislature for not passing any of his zero plans that he's proposed.

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

They need to pay him another visit next year

[pbmax]

You lucky bastards who get access to Packers radio. Of all things Wisconsin I miss that more than any of them with the possible exception of a cold Spotted Cow.

Just say the word and we pack up a case with some dry ice and ship it to you. And when I say we, I mean certainly someone could do this ...

[pbmax]

It still pisses me off that Obama is speaking during the pre-game. A thousand bucks says if the Bears would have won the SB, he wouldn't go on during the pregame and ruin the celebration because the ass hole would BE there!

At least he didn't preempt Two and A Half Men.

[pbmax]

A majority of America developed Obama fatigue early due to his penchant for prime time speeches that amounted to nothing more than a self-aggrandizing poetry jam. Fucking with football, even the pre-game of the season opener, is not going to help that, especially given that his talking points have been delivered to the press and it amounts to a continuation of the same policies that have delivered us to this point with a robust dose of blaming Congress as seasoning. Apparently he plans on voicing his "frustration" with the legislature for not passing any of his zero plans that he's proposed.

Didn't Boenher propose Thursday?

[MJZiggy]

Just say the word and we pack up a case with some dry ice and ship it to you. And when I say we, I mean certainly someone could do this ...

I actually can get Spotted Cow out here. Check with your beer seller, Hoosier. They might be able to order some for you. (this may be the only advantage to living in a place where they don't allow beer and liquor sales in the grocery store.)

[denverYooper]

[SkinBasket]

Didn't Boenher propose Thursday?

I'm sure Boehner would have welcomed the president on just about any day. I guess Congress doesn't come back until Tuesday or whatever, so I'm sure Obama wants to deliver his secret job boosting plan ASAP, but then again maybe he should have done it like two and a half years ago or something.

[HowardRoark]

Text released:

“My fellow Americans, when I came into office, I promised to discard the tired dogmas of the past. I vowed to put partisanship aside. I made a solemn pledge to focus single-mindedly on what works. As I’ve said before, what I admired most in Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was his commitment to ‘bold, persistent experimentation.’

“In May of 1932, President Roosevelt proclaimed, ‘It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.’

“Well, we have tried many things. A few, I believe, have worked, but honesty and the national crisis both compel me to admit, too many have failed.

“I can blame the mistakes of my predecessor all day long, but the simple truth is that the stimulus effort did not do what I or my own economic advisers said it would.

“Worse, many of the programs and policies inherent to the stimulus were built on fictions. Indeed, much of the money we wasted — at the behest of the Democratic congressional leadership at the time — was never even intended to stimulate so much as bail out programs and local governments.

“Moreover, as I have already admitted, ‘shovel-ready jobs’ were a myth.

“Even more dismaying, much of our green-jobs program agenda has been an indefensible failure. In Seattle, we spent $20 million in the hope of creating 2,000 jobs and weatherizing 2,000 homes. We created 14 jobs and weatherized three houses. In Toledo, Kansas City, and Phoenix combined, we allocated $65 million and created 72 jobs. California got $186 million and created just over 500 jobs.

“I passionately believe we must transition to renewable energy, but it is clear the economy is simply not ready and government is ill-equipped to pick successful companies better than the market can.

“Taxpayers gave $58 million to Evergreen Solar in Massachusetts. It cut 800 jobs and is now bankrupt.

“Just last week, a company my administration touted as the crown jewel of the new green economy, Solyndra Inc., announced plans to file for bankruptcy, despite half a billion dollars in loan guarantees from the federal government.

“I’ve said many times that green jobs cannot be sent overseas. But that, it seems, is not true. We subsidize solar panels here in the U.S., and the Chinese build them at pennies on the dollar and sell them to us.

“However, you cannot drill for American oil in China, and you will never find American natural gas in the Middle East.

“No other country in the world refuses to exploit its natural wealth the way we do. This must end.

“We will take the tax-revenue windfall from new oil and gas exploration and invest it in basic energy and sound climate research in the hope of solving our problems through innovation instead of immiseration.

“Let me be clear: The reason there were no shovel-ready jobs is because government rules and regulations make it difficult to hire people. In California, we wasted seven months sorting out prevailing-wage rates before we could hire green workers. And even then, the relevant regulations were so onerous that the costs of weatherization weren’t worth the effort.

“My fellow Americans, I’ve said many times I believe that government can do amazing things. I still believe that. But after more than two years of bold, persistent experimentation, it has become clear that in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

[mraynrand]

“Even more dismaying, much of our green-jobs program agenda has been an indefensible failure."


That's when I knew for sure it was a joke. When did Jonah Goldberg become Obama's speechwriter?

[mraynrand]

In California, we wasted seven months sorting out prevailing-wage rates before we could hire green workers. And even then, the relevant regulations were so onerous that the costs of weatherization weren’t worth the effort.

Waste and inefficiency of this kind make green worker Hulk MAD!

[imscott72]

It still pisses me off that Obama is speaking during the pre-game. A thousand bucks says if the Bears would have won the SB, he wouldn't go on during the pregame and ruin the celebration because the ass hole would BE there!

He wanted to do it on Wednesday. Blame that asshat Boenher on it being Thursday..

[Pugger]

He wanted to do it on Wednesday. Blame that asshat Boenher on it being Thursday..

So Boenher is an asshat because he asked Obama to change it because it would conflict with the GOP debate that had been on the calendar previously? If the tables were turned and a GOP prez came to a Democratic Speaker asking to address Congress when there was already a Democratic candidates' debate on that date I'm pretty sure that Dem Speaker would ask the GOP prez to change the date of his address just like Boenher did. If Obama already has a proposal why is he waiting? And why does he feel the need to address a joint session of congress when he can tell the nation from the Oval Office or another venue in the White House TODAY instead of waiting for Congress to return on Tuesday?

[hoosier]

Just say the word and we pack up a case with some dry ice and ship it to you. And when I say we, I mean certainly someone could do this ...

If our late summer heat wave continues beyond this weekend I will most certainly be sending out a distress signal. Feel free to interprete my S-O-S as S-O-I (Spotted on ice).

Ziggy: can't seem to find it locally. Southern Indiana retailers seem to gravitate toward beers from the Northwest. The selection of brews and wine is downright pathetic. Maybe you could convince Schneiders to open up an outlet here.

[mraynrand]

At least he didn't preempt Two and A Half Men.

He IS two and a half men!!!!