State of the Union Address

[kul52]

What do you think???

[kul52]

I'll start with something to think about.

OBAMA: "Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years. Spending related to our national security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will not be affected. But all other discretionary government programs will. Like any cash-strapped family, we will work within a budget to invest in what we need and sacrifice what we don't."
THE FACTS: The anticipated savings from this proposal would amount to less than 1 percent of the deficit — and that's if the president can persuade Congress to go along.
Obama is a convert to the cause of broad spending freezes. In the presidential campaign, he criticized Republican opponent John McCain for suggesting one. "The problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel," he said a month before the election. Now, Obama wants domestic spending held steady in most areas where the government can control year to year costs. The proposal is similar to McCain's.
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OBAMA: "I've called for a bipartisan fiscal commission, modeled on a proposal by Republican Judd Gregg and Democrat Kent Conrad. This can't be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem. The commission will have to provide a specific set of solutions by a certain deadline. Yesterday, the Senate blocked a bill that would have created this commission. So I will issue an executive order that will allow us to go forward, because I refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of Americans."
THE FACTS: Any commission that Obama creates would be a weak substitute for what he really wanted — a commission created by Congress that could force lawmakers to consider unpopular remedies to reduce the debt, including curbing politically sensitive entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. That idea crashed in the Senate this week, defeated by equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. Any commission set up by Obama alone would lack authority to force its recommendations before Congress, and would stand almost no chance of success.
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OBAMA: The president issued a populist broadside against lobbyists, saying they have "outsized influence" over the government. He said his administration has "excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs." He also said it's time to "require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my administration or Congress" and "to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for federal office."
THE FACTS: Obama has limited the hiring of lobbyists for administration jobs, but the ban isn't absolute; seven waivers from the ban have been granted to White House officials alone. Getting lobbyists to report every contact they make with the federal government would be difficult at best; Congress would have to change the law, and that's unlikely to happen. And lobbyists already are subject to strict limits on political giving. Just like every other American, they're limited to giving $2,400 per election to federal candidates, with an overall ceiling of $115,500 every two years.


OBAMA: He called for action by the White House and Congress "to do our work openly, and to give our people the government they deserve."
THE FACTS: Obama skipped past a broken promise from his campaign — to have the negotiations for health care legislation broadcast on C-SPAN "so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies." Instead, Democrats in the White House and Congress have conducted the usual private negotiations, making multibillion-dollar deals with hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other stakeholders behind closed doors. Nor has Obama lived up consistently to his pledge to ensure that legislation is posted online for five days before it's acted upon.

[Snoman]

Just more of the same old :cry2::cry2::cry2:

[blackcat]

Nothing new here except he did say earmarks would be posted on a website so everyone would know who had special interests. Seems like I've heard this BS before. They spent $18,000,000 on a website to report on the stimulus. Only problem is nobody has a clue as to what the "saved jobs" numbers mean. Even his own staff can't tell us......... What a joke!

[AC-INXS]

Just more of the same from the extremist left wing whackos and their spending of 'our' money.

TAX AND SPEND..... it never changes. And the crap about Green jobs,,,I almost :vomit:

Did you see PUlosi and that phoney BS smile on her face? She didn't believe a word of it either,,,,,but she has her nose planted up BO's arce so far she can't pull it out... What a skank,,,she needs voted out.


All I wanted to hear from him was the truth,,,,,,,his first year was a failure,,,didn't happen.

[mopardave]

I didn't bother watching it, but then I have never watched any Presidential address because they are all crap, regardless of the party or President. I watched "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". I figured it was a better fantasy.

[Kruisin Kat]

I'm with Dave. I never watch. Actions speak higher than words.

[MeanCat]

I did not watch it as I have a job. ( 1 0f few)

But I did see the news this morning and after seeing what I saw, I feel we are on the right road to recovery, I feel it is only a matter of a few months before we are where we were 2 years ago.:rll::rll::rll::rll::rll:

OK I was just shitting you.:rll::rll::rll::rll:( were screwed )

[Dixie Cat]

I didn't waste my time watching only to hear more LIES!!

[pumpkin]

It was fun watching all the democrats stand up an clap and the republicans sitting. But best of all watching Nancy Pelosi grinning.

[MIKE S.]

Just a bunch of BS why bother with it I'm feed up with politicians and there spending

[attyedhall]

just a bunch of bs why bother with it i'm feed up with politicians and there spending


me too! i say out with all of them. I will vote against all incumnbents, regardless of party..

Only if we clean house will the message be received.

[Snoman]

me too! i say out with all of them. I will vote against all incumnbents, regardless of party..

Only if we clean house will the message be received.


ME TOO,,,,,,,,,,,, we need to send a message and I will do my part this November :tu: Will You?

[kul52]

too bad only 1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection ion 2010!

[Kruisin Kat]

me too! i say out with all of them. I will vote against all incumnbents, regardless of party..

Only if we clean house will the message be received.


I'm for this plan. Count me in!

:tu::tu::tu:

[AC-INXS]

But best of all watching Nancy Pelosi grinning.


Norm,,,she was only grinning because of her Bill Clinton Vibrator was turned on 'high speed' :eek:

That's the only way that bitch could smile..........OR, when she is screwing the rest of us!

[NDPENDANT]

OBAMA: "I've called for a bipartisan fiscal commission, modeled on a proposal by Republican Judd Gregg and Democrat Kent Conrad. This can't be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem.

A: Dont you F#$(K$%*NG lecture me about bipartisanship when you just tried to ram the largest takeover of the US economy in history straight DOWN PARTISAN LINES. The healthcare bill was purely a partisan effort and would have passed but for the 60th vote being taken away by massacheussets. After that, said, Pelosi and Reid will take the senate version, pass it and then take it to budget reconsiliation committee where they will purely on a PARTISAN effort, take only 50 votes to pass the ADDITIONAL 300 BILLION dollars that the house wants in the bill. So dont you dare F#$(KING lecture me Obama, you FU#(KING hypocrite.

[EssexExport]

I didn't bother watching it, but then I have never watched any Presidential address because they are all crap, regardless of the party or President. I watched "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". I figured it was a better fantasy.
I'm with Dave on this one.

[kat hunter]

ME TOO,,,,,,,,,,,, we need to send a message and I will do my part this November :tu: Will You?


I'm in on this plan also!!!! :tu::tu::tu:

[Hogzilla]

We watched a rented movie District 9. I figure it was more believable then watching a politician talk. When we will wake up and vote all of these losers out??? Come on mid term elections!!!

[Dixie Cat]

:roll:

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"It's all Bush's fault."

[Randy Cobb]

His level of arrogance galls me!