7 February 2009
Case In Point!
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Constitution in Peril; World Economy .
Please read the blog below entitled: Planned Betrayal Coming before reading this…and be amazed.
Obama ratchets up the rhetoric on stimulus plan
When open hand yields nothing, Obama shows GOP a clenched fist on stimulus bill
Charles Babington, Associated Press Writer
Friday February 6, 2009, 5:52 pm EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s soft-sell pitches to Republicans haven’t gotten him very far on his economic stimulus plan, so he’s resorting to a sharper tone that is at odds with his vow to make Washington less partisan.
Stopping just short of a take-it-or-leave-it stand, Obama has mocked the notion that a stimulus bill shouldn’t include huge spending. He’s also defended earmarks as inevitable in such a package. And he’s pointedly reminded Republicans about who won the November election….
“He’s going on offense,” Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said after listening to Obama’s more combative speech Thursday at a House Democrats’ retreat. “I think the president decided that it’s time to lay out the facts to the American people, as he did going into the campaign, and take control of this debate.“…
Obama and his Democratic allies agreed to kill a few such provisions, such as money to resod the National Mall, in hopes of winning some Republican senators’ support. Around midweek, however, Obama began changing his tone. Democrats need not apologize or compromise further except on small items, he said.
Some critics, he said at Thursday’s retreat, contend the bill “is full of pet projects. When was the last time that we saw a bill of this magnitude move out with no earmarks in it? Not one.”
Ratcheting up the sarcasm, the president said: “So then you get the argument, ‘well, this is not a stimulus bill, this is a spending bill.’ What do you think a stimulus is?”
“That’s the whole point,” he said, as the audience hooted and applauded.
Obama warned Republicans not to “come to the table with the same tired arguments and worn ideas that helped to create this crisis.” Americans, he said, “did not vote for the false theories of the past, and they didn’t vote for phony arguments and petty politics.”
“They sent us here to bring change,” he said.
In Weekly Address, President Says Stimulus Plan Needed to Avoid “National Catastrophe”
February 07, 2009 9:50 AM
In his weekly presidential address, President Obama said the abysmal jobs numbers released Friday compel the Senate to pass his stimulus bill or risk a “national catastrophe.”
“Yesterday began with some devastating news with regard to our economic crisis,” he said, invoking “another round of alarming employment figures -– the worst in more than 30 years. Another 600,000 jobs were lost in January. We’ve now lost more than 3.6 million jobs since this recession began.”
That said, the president said he was “pleased to say [the day] ended on a more positive note…by the evening, Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands.”
President Obama then warned, “if we don’t move swiftly to put this plan in motion, our economic crisis could become a national catastrophe. Millions of Americans will lose their jobs, their homes, and their health care. Millions more will have to put their dreams on hold.”
Mr. Obama described his opponents as offering “tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin, and led us into this mess in the first place” and “a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges…”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/in-weekly-addre.html
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