It's a Poll-tested pledges speech

Pass this right away so we can find out what’s in it because THIS is another of my emergencies. No time for questions.

(OR WHAT I CANNOT SEEM TO HELP ANYWAY WILL HAPPEN, BUT THEN I CAN BLAME IT ON YOU)

And if you do stop what I want, those hurt the most, who will probably be minorities of various colors and nationalities, will know it was the party of the OLD WHITE GUYS who stopped me from helping you, and the Wasserman Schultzes around me have that trumpet warm and ready

Something tells me this is posturing.

Yes, the policies of the past are done, all right.

NATIONAL JOURNAL:

His package, a $447 billion mix of tax cuts and spending, is not as big or bold as his liberal allies wanted. It’s not even quite what Obama’s own economic advisers believe is necessary to put more than a modest dent in the 9 percent unemployment rate.

But it’s something; it would help the unemployed. And it’s big and bold as a political statement: Obama is daring Republicans to fight a package that is loaded with tangible benefits for specific constituencies, that includes measures once backed by the GOP and that would have a do-nothing Washington doing something, anything, about jobs.

Go ahead, he dared Republicans, make me be the reasonable one.

He wants voters to see him as the ringmaster at the circus. Or at least not as another clown.

Listen, more free trade (as currently defined) opening up some more of Latin and South America for American manufacturing cost cutting is NOT GOING TO HELP. FIX FREE TRADE. Equal working conditions in Pune, Mysore, Shenzen, Penang and Pontiac. Otherwise $$ at import equal to the difference. Congress, PASS THAT NOW.

Another year of unemployment compensation will keep the wolf away TEMPORARILY for those who need it, but WE HAVE TO DO IT. WE HAVE TO.

Extended payroll tax cuts will just perform like the cash for clunkers…. when it’s over nothing is different.

Geoffrey Immelt sitting in a guest seat of HONOR is pissing on America. A man who reorganized his multinational company to not only avoid paying tax but also get 3.2 billion from the govt during a speech in which the TOTUS (Teleprompter of the US) blathers about paying a fair share by those more fortunate, and WEEKS after Immelt moves his XRAY operations INCLUDING HQ to CHINA? Pass that now, morons.

Infrastructure repair, fine but it sound like an anagram of SHOVEL READY.

Why were there NO SPECIFICS AT ALL?

It’s all paid for? How, with the saving from Obamacare?

FLAT TAX, no loopholes. Everyone pays the same %. And Warren Buffet, you can write a check anytime you want so GET OFF IT.

The republicans now have to get around this shit without looking like “NO” and then congress has GOT to achieve something.

SOMETHING.

Okay Mr Ryan, Boehner and Cantor…. DO SOMETHING.

The White House insisted that most of the elements of the package have previously been supported by many Republicans and hence are bipartisan. The GOP congressional leadership, however, complained even before Obama spoke that they had not been consulted prior to the speech, which many of them saw as designed primarily to save one job: the president’s.

Of course, Obama wants to save his job. So do GOP lawmakers. Trouble is, voters think they’re all clowns.