Editor's SOTU reaction....
OK so maybe it was a rehash of previous speeches... (whew talk about lazy speech writers)
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And It also might be a wish list of half truths and not a real "to-do list"
AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a wish list, not a to-do list.
President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren’t so tied by political realities. There can be little more than wishful thinking behind his call to end oil industry subsidies – something he could not get through a Democratic Congress, much less today’s divided Congress, much less in this election year.
And there was more recycling, in an even more forbidding climate than when the ideas were new: He pushed for an immigration overhaul that he couldn’t get past Democrats, permanent college tuition tax credits that he asked for a year ago, and familiar discouragements for companies that move overseas.
A look at Obama’s rhetoric Tuesday night and how it fits with the facts and political circumstances:
OBAMA: “We have subsidized oil companies for a century. That’s long enough. It‘s time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that’s rarely been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that’s never been more promising.”
THE FACTS: This is at least Obama’s third run at stripping subsidies from the oil industry. Back when fellow Democrats formed the House and Senate majorities, he sought $36.5 billion in tax increases on oil and gas companies over the next decade, but Congress largely ignored the request. He called again to end such tax breaks in last year’s State of the Union speech. And he’s now doing it again, despite facing a wall of opposition from Republicans who want to spur domestic oil and gas production and oppose tax increases generally.
Be sure to read on to see the rest of "fact checking" from the normally in the tank for Obama AP just rips this SOTU to pieces.
My thoughts while watching:
Obama: It was wrong, it was irresponsible...
- which is why you were pressuring banks to make those bad loans when you worked for ACORN. And the Dodd-Frank bill is forcing banks to do the same thing again!!
Obama: I will work with anyone
Editor: YOUR Senate leadership has refused to pass a budget in almost three years!!!
Obama: Masterlock is made in Wisconsin
Editor: Maybe those Master Locks can keep the EPA and the government looters out....
Conservative writer Sabra Feldman: Unbelievable. Obama just said that, during his time in office, "over 1,000 jobs came back over here." 1,000 manufacturing jobs? What, is he kidding? What about the millions of manufacturing jobs that moved to China, Korea, and other countries, and the hundreds of thousands of R&D jobs that went mostly to India and China? Just to get the currently-unemployed out of work, 1,000 jobs would have to return here 15,000 times.
Chuck DeVore: Obama in state-of-the-union: proposes to tax multinational firms more. Word of advice: businesses don't pay taxes, consumers do.
Obama: Mandate that kids stay in school to graduate or till 18
- wow the good students will flood out to private schools. ..hey wait...
Chuck DeVore: Obama advocates more Federal intervention in local education, federal money with strings attached.
Obama: Open more land for drilling
Editor: Open them for drilling but them stop them from actually drilling by halting the permit process with thousands of impossible regulations and lawsuits from your eco-whackies.
Obama: More Green Jobs money from Congress!
Karen Mayhew-Reagan: Full of new jobs, like those found at Solyndra.
Editor: All this clean energy stuff that fails but makes his pals rich with our money so they can donate back to Obama...
Obama: equal pay for equal work!
Chuck DeVore: Obama Calls for equal pay for equal work - you mean like how WNBA players get paid the same as NBA players?
Editor: It means he wants to hire more government employees until WNBA players make the same as NBA players....err until NBA players make the same as WNBA players? NO it is NOT - men and women doing the same job. Two lawyers at the same firm. Two admins in the same university office etc. It is the govt setting wages....
Obama: One place to go for all mortgages!
He is talking about a full nationalization of the mortgage industry... OMG.. And now he is saying don't destroy the free market LOL
Olga Mancuso: I’m having a brain stem hemorrhage...please send the death panels. If I could snort my scotch I WOULD to numb my brain quickly....
Editor: A Living will - the Banks have already been turned into virtual GSE's... who the heck does he think he is kidding??? Prosecute who? Bawney Frank?? I think not... more like scape-goating.
Chuck DeVore: Obama calls for banks to write a "living will" as to how they'll pay if they go bust (will be used against them in court by Federal prosecutors).
Editor: To prosecute them for doing what the government forced them to do in the first place.
Karen Mayhew-Reagan: I make 72k year, my husband is unemployed. How dumb does this guy think I am?
Obama: Put aside partisanship and lets work together!
Mark Souder: The gall. Attacks Republicans all night but then calls for bi-partisanship. The gall
Mark Souder: We work as a team, you rich insider-trading, oil-dripping heasrtless Republicans - we need to work together.
Editor: It is so typical of him. He asks for bi-partisanship after locking Republicans out and lying about them.
Ted Welsh: He is now on record as suceeding in and /or for doing all the things that the conservatives have been demanding. Oh, except that the government will run it all. Man what a con.
Obama: US and Israel are closer than ever!
Chuck DeVore: Obama says US and Israel are closer than ever. (Saying so, makes it so, I suppose)
Editor: Well Chuck, that whole 1967 thing really fired up the warm fuzzies....
Obama: America is back!
Mark Souder: He didn't mean America was back. He meant that big government is back. The "era of big government is over" is, well, over.