Republicans Not Impressed with Obama’s Oval Office Address
ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: First out of the gate responding to the president is Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Tennessean who is spearheading energy legislation for his party. Alexander was not impressed with the president's call to arms.
“The president should spend more time focusing on cleaning up and containing the oil spill and less time trying to pass a national energy tax that will drive jobs overseas looking for cheap energy. After that, Congress can enact legislation to help electrify half our cars and trucks, which is the single best way to reduce our dependence on oil." Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was even more pointed. "I am concerned the administration is attempting to capitalize on public outrage over the spill in order to push through a cap and trade bill that will significantly raise energy prices for all Americans and add more burdens on businesses," she said in a written statement. "Right now, the President’s number one priority needs to be keeping the jobs in the energy sector from going overseas and restoring the Gulf of Mexico.”
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And yet they will give in to his agenda, becuase the more power he has, the more the bureaucrats can suck off of the american people.
Priceless… (Well, at least, for THEM anyway…)
Posted by: CBA | June 16, 2010, 9:48 am 9:48 am
That would be an understatement, I suspect.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | June 16, 2010, 10:15 am 10:15 am
During the 2008 campaign, when he clinched the Democratic nomination, Obama said that night was the moment that the “planet began to heal.”
Few public people in history have ever had such a large gap between ego and actual skills.
Obama’s actual skills seemed confined to (a) reading from a telepromter, (b) finger-pointing, (c) apologizing for the United States, and (d) sensing in just about every event a rationale, no matter how cockeyed, for raising taxes and extending the government control over our lives.
But like his days in Chicago, he never really accomplishes anything. He talks, talks, and talks so more.
He takes a trillion dollars of our future wealth for a “stimulus” plan that stimulates nothing but government hiring, and he strongarms Congress into passing a “healthcare” plan built on a torrent of known falsehoods that are only now emerging.
He contends his strategy with Iran will stop that country’s hateful regime from getting a nuclear weapon. Well, it hasn’t, and any month now Iran will explode one. We all know this. And when Iranians do have one, Obama will, as ever, blame someone else.
He is quick to blame cops, the facts be damned, and he is quick to castigate Britain and Israel, our closest friends. But if you’re a Latin American tinpot dictator or an Arab tyrant committed to Israel’s destruction, Mr. Obama will plant one on your behind.
To himself and his dwindling, purblind supporters, Barack Obama is simply too special and too gifted and too indescribably wonderful to be assigned blame. What else can we expect from a man whose principal output in life before running for president was writing two books about himself?
And when the Democrats lose 70 or more seats this autumn, those same deluded supporters, then just a modest fraction of their current number, and Obama himself will contend that lurking behind the defeat is racism.
They will do the same when Obama loses 35 or more states in 2012, by which the American people will be even more tired of Obama’s self-absorbed personality than they are now.
And when his empty-suited, swelled-head do-nothing is at last tossed from office, the United States of America will begin to heal.
Posted by: JMo | June 16, 2010, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm
Posted by: JMo | Jun 16, 2010 12:51:36 PM
Amen!
Posted by: DJ | June 16, 2010, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
America this so called President and his Crooks are so full of it that the brown is showing through their eyes.
Posted by: Joeray | June 17, 2010, 10:08 am 10:08 am