I caught the last 20 minutes of Obama’s jobs speech, and from what I saw and gathered, he’s had enough of Congress’s bullshit. Now if the thick-headed Tea Party led Republicans got that heads out of the sand, and realize that the obstructions that they believe in come to a complete stop, and start doing the job they were elected to do, is to work for the people who put them in office, and not do the work for the big corporations, the banks and their millionaire & billionaire friends.
Watching John Boehner, it looked like he didn’t know whether to cry or shit is pants, or both. Whenever he applauded, it was half heartedley, like he it was a big bother to do it.
He did better than I expected. A very decent speech. Now we’ll seee . . . .
Time will only tell, whether it fell on deaf ears or not.
The one thing I liked that I hope he follows through with is his his intent to take the tax breaks and subsidies from wealthy corporations and individuals and use them to pay for his plan to give tax breaks to small businesses the hire new employees and states to school districts that hire back teachers they recently let go.
This would be one more disappointment if he backed down on this.
I agree Larry, hoping it wasn’t all just empty talk.
Yep, some people were clearly hurting in their seats. Listening to “that man”.
But some looked like they were enjoying the prep for slamming down everything he said afterwards. “Yadi yada – more librul spending”. “yes,yes,but where are the jobs”. “the job creators are hurting – give’em more tax cuts”.
I’ve avoided all “reactions” to the speech so far this morning.
I more or less avoided them too.
I can only imagine what fat boy Limbaugh and the dorks on Fox News have been saying about it.
Just stay away from the righty blogsphere today Don – they’re in full outrage mode.
Moe, if Bush or Reagan made that speech last night, the right wingers would be jumping for joy.
Of course – it’s because we’re no longer partisans, we’re tribal.
To be more specific, they are tribal. We are partisan.
He’s growing a pair, but it needs to extend beyond talk.
Time will tell, Spinny!
A good speech, and he clearly put the monkey on the back of Congress … especially the House.
It’s good to see him standing up to the Republicans, and something he should have been doing all along.