Tuesday, September 13, 2011
"Obama: The Obsolete 'Post Office President'"
Oh my!
Pundits and analysts DID notice the absurdity of calling vehemently for the passing of something that doesn't even exist yet.
This political ploy may actually be harmful...
Pundits and analysts DID notice the absurdity of calling vehemently for the passing of something that doesn't even exist yet.
This political ploy may actually be harmful...
Robert Tracinski starts with this at RealClearMarkets.com, and then goes much, much deeper:
"The preposterous irrelevance of President Obama's jobs speech is summed up by the fact that he repeatedly urged Congress to 'pass this jobs bill right away'--but there is no bill. By the admission of his own aides, Obama's jobs bill is still being drafted. It won't be submitted until next week, and his plan for how to pay for it won't be submitted until the week after that. (Even then, the plan is mostly to pass the buck to the 'super-committee' created by this summer's debt ceiling compromise.) All of this gave his exhortations an air of 'buy now!' hucksterism. For a moment there, I wasn't sure whether he was selling us a jobs bill or the Slap Chop."
