Obama: No Apologies for “Trying to Fix Stuff That’s Hard”

Thank goodness we live in a Democracy were power is given by the majority to fix America!Republican’s (party of NO) said the Feds (OBAMA) are trying to do too much! Republicans lack of doing anything and failed policies broke America. But praise the Lord, Virginia could drill for oil and natural gas if Obama would let them! Oil is history, the future is hydrogen, sun and wind. Thank The Lord, America woke up in time! “We can’t quit, we can carry the dream forward. We are strong, we are resilient, we are America!”said OBAMA. I might add, How lucky we are he’s in charge!

Obama doing his favorite things–campaigning, talking, spending our money.

For me, last night’s State of the Union address will forever be entwined with next week’s season premiere of Lost, and not just because of the much publicized scheduling conflict between the two, television events. By imploring Congressional Republicans to cooperate with Democrats on confronting the many, critical concerns facing our nation, President Obama echoed the rallying cry of Lost ’s motley crew of castaways: “live together, die alone.”

This pompous ass has no bounds. Honestly, I couldn’t believe my ears when he said- “I will tell you what you need to hear” today. And the fact that people cheered when he said it made me sick to my stomach. I personally don’t need a “daddy” or a “nanny”. No sir Mr. President, we will tell YOU what the people want, not what you think we need to hear. I am personally shocked at the audacity from our elected leaders. Hopefully November will correct this monstrosity of arrogance and elitism.

Posted by: austin | Jan 28, 2010 8:33:56 PM
It was a throw away line. It’ll never happen because what he actually said was:
“And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country.”
He’ll be long gone before anyone can even figure out what a “new generation of safe, clean” means never mind actually build one. It’s like saying we need to discover where Star Trek Enterprise got those dilythium crystals.

Every Senate Democrat voted to raise the debt limit to $14.3 trillion. The vote was 60-40 on straight partisan lines.
$45,000 per American.

“He is a vain egotistical man frantically waving his arms in front of a symphony he can barely hear and claiming to be a conductor”. unknown blogger
I wonder if Obama might be the first president to be removed from office because of a mental breakdown.
This guy is losing touch with reality.
Maybe it’s that freefall from grace that is causing him to lose it.

Live from DC – Maybe you, Palin, Pat Robertson and the rest your like-minded cohorts can form a new country. Show the rest of us how things should be done. Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
Posted by: Lori | Jan 28, 2010 9:39:03 PM
Oh boo hoo. You won. Deal with it.
I’ve been “here” for 57 years and 9 months. I ain’t goin’ anywhere honey! I’m just waitin’ for all those gub’ment entitlements! Just waitin’ for what’s owed me! Yee haw!

“We ran to get the tough stuff done. I make no apology for trying to fix stuff that’s hard. Because, I’ll be honest with you, Joe and I are both pretty smart politicians…the easiest way to keep your poll numbers high is to say nothing and do nothing that offends anyone. You just wave and smile, that’s how ya do it. The minute you actually start doing something, someone’s going to disagree with you. ”
Wow lots of contradictions in this one Obi-Wan
You ran to inflate you oversize ego.
A community organizer and a second from the bottom law school lawyer don’t necassarily rate as smart politicians. Oh thats right your a lawyer too, Hmmm did you practice law or just go harvard to become an organizer?
I guess the way to see your poll numbers tank is to say alot, do nothing and offend everyone that does disagree with and not even have the decency to ask why. Beavis and butthead could do as good a job as you two.

WE’RE GOING TO PUT A FREEZE ON GOVERNMENT SPENDING!!!! (sorry the caps lock on the teleprompter got hung). But, we’re not going to do it until next year…. doing it right now would be trying to fix stuff that’s hard… shhh, keep this last part under wraps until after the election, OK?

It’s time for everyone to start expecting politicians to actually do their job. Let’s see if ANY Republicans vote for any of Obama’s bills this year. Are they willing to cooperate, as they SAY they are? Or is it just about being a lifetime politician and a power-game? Do they REALLY want to improve the ecoonomy? I am just waiting to see if they take ANY action at all. The Bush/Cheney motto of ignore all the problems and hope they go away obviously doesn’t work. Now Obama and Republicans and Democrats have a chance to UNDUE the DEREGULATION NIGHTMARE which was pushed through by former Republican Senator Phil Gramm. Let’s hope there is a chance for some sane people like Obama to try to fix the mess he inherited from Bush/Cheney. If the politicians don’t do their jobs, and I mean COOPERATE, then it’s time to FIRE them all.

How ’bout fixing stuff that’s easy:
Cut the regulations on businesses and manufacturing that are hurting job creation
Cut the taxes that we are muzzled with
Get us off foreign oil by drilling here right now
Cut the monstrosity of federal regulations that are muzzling the commercial fishing industry, farming, ranching, and forestry
Do these things and you’ll see a surge in our economy. Anything else is putting a band-aid on a problem that needs fixing from deep within. But they are easy fixes when you have the power to do them.
Do more of the same and we’ll get more of the same

On November 4th, the final bill resolving the differences was passed by the Senate 90-8,[12] [13] and by the House 362-57.[14] [15] This legislation (whose voting margins, if repeated, would easily have overcome any Presidential veto) was signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.[16] -wikipedia
While the legislation was introduced by Republicans, it received bipartisan support – especially after Republicans made anti-redlining changes in the Community Reinvestment Act.
“Democrats agreed to support the bill after Republicans agreed to strengthen provisions of the anti-redlining Community Reinvestment Act and address certain privacy concerns” -wikipedia

A community organizer and a second from the bottom law school lawyer don’t necassarily rate as smart politicians.
Posted by: formerdem
as opposed to a kid who pretended to be a Texas cowboy,, described as ‘all hat and no cow’,.. his drug and alcohol years leading to his 2nd rate cheer leading position in college that his family gained entrance for him..
whose family bought him in and out of everything he was ever involved with business wise and still failed, whose father’s Saudi connections helped finance the son who never really learned to speak english, laughed while signing execution orders, bought and paid for by republicans to be a puppet leader of America controlled by neo-cons and corporations leading to a mistaken war and the near financial collapse of American economy before he left office.
I’ll take the ‘community organizer’ anyday,

They are tauting the guy who won in Mass. however he ran as an Independent.
Posted by: talmag | Jan 28, 2010 12:54:12 PM
This was on a Wed thread. This is not true. Brown ran as a conservative Republican. You need to read more than the headlines – many of which called him “independent” not “an Independent.”
FYI: I think the term is “touting” not “tauting.”

This President has speaking abilities that make everything he says believable.
He made a lot of things believable when he was running for Office. He is doing this again – the left is all charged up about how he set the reset button, slammed the right – both Bush and the current membership – slammed the Supreme Court and the list goes on and on.
When he doesn’t deliver – and he won’t – will y’all continue to drink the Kool Aid or step on up and call him out?
Like a lot of people I believed him, not enough to vote for him I admit. But like a lot of people I was optimistic that this President was going to change the way Washington works and changed the way the administration does business.
He hasn’t done any of this and there was enough misrepresentation in this State of the Union that he is flat out not believable. He speaks well but he is simply not capable of delivering – he has way too much baggage, way too much predisposition that this is a street fight and he is the leader of the ruling gang.

just ignore that bush wrote: “every Senate Republican today voted against reestablishing “pay-as-you-go” budgeting rules that mandate that any new spending must be paid for. The rule passed on a 60-40 party line vote.”
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And every democrat voted yesterday to steal our credit cards and charge another $2 trillion on it without our permission.
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Ok?

While Obama still plays the ‘blame Bush’ card let’s not forget that the Democrats won the Senate in 2006.
Since 2006 the Democrats have been controlling Congress and crafting our budgets.

What does a high speed rail have to do with economic recovery?
Building, operating, commuting, business travel, tourism– sheesh, none of that could have anything to do with the economy, could it? How short-sighted to be competitive… better to logjam highways with gas guzzlers and remain status quo.

Incompetent Democrats will learn a lesson in November,listen to the people,
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Unfortunately, your focus doesn’t seem to be on incompetent elected officials in general, regardless of party, which is my focus. Repeating past mistakes will leave us with more of the same, and those on the Right seem wholly unprepared to go there– they’re still apologizing for the incompetents they voted for– to the detriment of everyone.

This from the genius President who recently said:
“The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.”

I don’t care how popular you think you are. If the economy is bad, you will be FIRED! Just look at Bush’s daddy if you don’t believe it. He was out in less than a year after Iraq. Come to think of it, Obama may be out after he invades Pakistan. When will they ever learn?