The Presidential Planner
Email ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: After receiving his regular rounds of morning briefings, President Obama will travel to Cleveland, Ohio to deliver remarks on the economy at Cuyahoga Community College West Campus. Speaking in the city where Minority Leader Boehner recently detailed the Republican economic agenda, the president, "will lay out the choice between his ideas and the failed policies and failed philosophy that led us into this mess," the White House says.
While the president is expected to elaborate on the three economic proposals already outlined -infrastructure investments, expanding, simplifying and making permanent the R&D tax credit, and allowing companies to fully deduct qualified capital investments through the end of 2011 — the president will talk about the “values” that define each party economically speaking. “The president is not going to Cleveland to make news about these proposals, the proposals are already known,” an administration official said adding thought that he would discuss each proposal in the context of the economic recovery, “he’ll also be talking about where the economy has been, where we are now, and where we’re headed.” The focus will be on economic values – values being the new catchphrase when defining economic policy at the White House. The president will talk about the concepts that Boehner spoke of during his speech and highlight the “different values that animate our thinking about how you build a strong economy.” “The president will be talking about these values and the divergent paths that the two, the two parties are proposing this fall in the speech tomorrow, and that’s largely what the speech will be about," an administration official said Tuesday in advance of today's speech. In the afternoon, the President will return to the White House. -Sunlen Miller
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I hope he tells us about that car in the ditch!! I love that analogy, it just shows how mature and presidential he is. Maybe he can blame Bush and the policies of the last decade too as the reason for his own failed policies.
Posted by: J.R. | September 8, 2010, 8:19 am 8:19 am
“values being the new catchphrase when defining economic policy at the White House.”
Oh please. This regime has no VALUES.
Posted by: wheresmymoney | September 8, 2010, 10:38 am 10:38 am
“In the afternoon, the President will return to the White House.”
Just in time for the Wednesday night party. Who is the entertainment tonight?
Posted by: wheresmymoney | September 8, 2010, 10:49 am 10:49 am
J.R., I hope he talks about the ditch and keeps the Slurpee part he’s added, because there’s something about that that is just so perfect (and I like the “or something” part too; it strikes me as a nod to the couple who always look half in the bag as if they’ve added a little something to their red slurpee, though it may not be)
“It’s as if they drove a car into the ditch and then we had to put on our boots and go down there in the mud, and we’ve been pushing and shoving. And they’ve been standing aside and watching us, and saying, ‘you’re not pushing right, you’re not pushing fast enough. You know, they’re drinking on a Slurpee or something. So we’re huffing and puffing, and we finally get this car out of the ditch, finally have it on level ground. We’re moving forward. And they turn to us and say, ‘we want the keys’…”
Good stuff.
Keep it real, President Obama. I love it!
Posted by: Cara | September 8, 2010, 11:09 am 11:09 am
Ask these guy in 2012.
Tea Partiers may share the Kochs’ detestation of taxes, big government and Obama. But there’s a difference between mainstream conservatism and a fringe agenda that tilts completely toward big business, whether on Wall Street or in the Gulf of Mexico, while dismantling fundamental government safety nets designed to protect the unemployed, public health, workplace safety and the subsistence of the elderly.
Yet inexorably the Koch agenda is morphing into the G.O.P. agenda, as articulated by current Republican members of Congress, including the putative next speaker of the House, John Boehner, and Tea Party Senate candidates like Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, and the new kid on the block, Alaska’s anti-Medicaid, anti-unemployment insurance Palin protégé, Joe Miller. Their program opposes a federal deficit, but has no objection to running up trillions in red ink in tax cuts to corporations and the superrich; apologizes to corporate malefactors like BP and derides money put in escrow for oil spill victims as a “slush fund”; opposes the extension of unemployment benefits; and calls for a freeze on federal regulations in an era when abuses in the oil, financial, mining, pharmaceutical and even egg industries (among others) have been outrageous.
The Koch brothers must be laughing all the way to the bank knowing that working Americans are aiding and abetting their selfish interests. And surely Murdoch is snickering at those protesting the “ground zero mosque.” Last week on “Fox and Friends,” the Bush administration flacks Dan Senor and Dana Perino attacked a supposedly terrorism-tainted Saudi prince whose foundation might contribute to the Islamic center. But as “The Daily Show” keeps pointing out, these Fox bloviators never acknowledge that the evil prince they’re bashing, Walid bin Talal, is not only the biggest non-Murdoch shareholder in Fox News’s parent company (he owns 7 percent of News Corporation) and the recipient of Murdoch mammoth investments in Saudi Arabia but also the subject of lionization elsewhere on Fox.
No less a Murdoch factotum than Neil Cavuto slobbered over bin Talal in a Fox Business Channel interview as recently as January, with nary a question about his supposed terrorist ties. Instead, bin Talal praised Obama’s stance on terrorism and even endorsed the Democrats’ goal of universal health insurance. Do any of the Fox-watching protestors at the “ground zero mosque” know that Fox’s profits are flowing to a Obama-sympathizing Saudi billionaire in bed with Murdoch? As Jon Stewart summed it up, the protestors who want “to cut off funding to the ‘terror mosque’ ” are aiding that funding by watching Fox and enhancing bin Talal’s News Corp. holdings.
Posted by: shirley | September 8, 2010, 11:52 am 11:52 am