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| Obama To Speak Again Tonight |
| 2011-07-25 |
| Saints preserve us. President Obama, continuing to make use of his unique White House bully pulpit, will address the nation on Monday night on the “stalemate over avoiding default and the best approach to cutting deficits,” Jay Carney, the press secretary, announced in a Twitter message late in the afternoon. 'Cause nothing gets highly sensitive negotiations moving more than getting on TV and calling the opposing negotiator a poopypants. The president’s decision to intervene comes after House Republican leaders pushed for a vote Wednesday on a two-step plan that would allow the federal debt limit to immediately be raised by about $1 trillion and tie a second increase next year to the ability of a new joint Congressional committee to produce more deficit reduction. He's either going to announce a dictatorship or merely crush the stock market. |
| Posted by:Matt |
| #13 drudge is showing the pouty lip thingy..... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2011-07-25 23:43 |
| #12 Is there anything in the transcript we have not read him saying before in the past months? |
| Posted by: newc 2011-07-25 23:29 |
| #11 Instapundit links to the transcript. Also to others who actually wAtched the speech and Congressman Boehner's rebuttal. Enjoy! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-25 23:15 |
| #10 Oops. I missed it. "The Closer" is on. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-07-25 21:36 |
| #9 At best, Obama is a crappy lawyer whose only use for executive office is to grant himself an unlimited number of rebuttal arguments, made to a jury that can't leave. If only Boehner had the spine to borrow Vinnie Gambini's opening statement: "Everything that guy just said is bullshit. Thank you." |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-07-25 21:03 |
| #8 "Barb - you got the Randburg Popcorn Concession locked up - can you do a deal for boxcar loads of some kinda migrane medication, until this administration is over?" It's all yours, Sgt. Mom. I've had to order so much extra popcorn I've had to put in an extra siding and still ran out of space. (And we won't even discuss the neighbors getting pissy about the noise and the boxcars blocking their view....) |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-25 20:28 |
| #7 It matters not what he says. You already know what he will do. The exact opposite of what really should be done. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-07-25 20:21 |
| #6 [PAULA "OWG DELILAH-BATHSHEBA = YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER" ABDUL here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-07-25 20:05 |
| #5 "Calling the Opposing Negotiator a POOPYPANTS" > ROFLMAO! I gotta remember this one. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-07-25 20:03 |
| #4 I reached the point a long, long time ago where I simply cannot listen to this man. He's too full of $H|T. If I can't change the channel I'll go sit out on the patio. It's nice out there. You guys will let me know tomorrow if he suspends the Constitution, right? Or, if I can't get to Rantburg, I'll just assume that he did. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-07-25 19:07 |
| #3 Let me guess, "Feel free", and my favorite "Lets be honest". While pointing his finger at us all. I wonder if he will do the pouty lower lip thingy. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-07-25 18:47 |
| #2 And as my daughter exclaimed- "Oh, Gawd, he's going to talk at us some more! That'll work just peachy!"Seriously, people are getting majorly sick of him talking at us. You just know that it's the only damned thing he knows how to do, and he'll keep on doing it until it finally works! Droning on, and on, and on, in that patronizing professorial sort of voice... I'm getting a massive headache even now, just thinking about it. Barb - you got the Randburg Popcorn Concession locked up - can you do a deal for boxcar loads of some kinda migrane medication, until this administration is over? Or until he realizes that everyone else is sick to death of the sound of his voice, and his follow-the-tennis-ball head movements back and forth, and back and forth ... his cheap rhetorical tricks, veiled aggression, pathetic daddy issues ...and just about everything else about him -- and withdraws into Nixonian isolation? November 2012 cannot come soon enough. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2011-07-25 18:42 |
| #1 I don't think he gets it that people are getting sick of this act. They are tired of seeing him run to the cameras to tattle and scold everyone. Hell, even my liberal friends are getting sick of his face and are getting tired of defending him. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-07-25 17:46 |