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"BREAKING: Obama Requests Joint Session Of Congress To Present Jobs Plan; Same Night As GOP Debate"

Stay classy, Marxist.

So, let’s get this straight: So perfunctory is Obama’s groundbreaking “jobs” speech that he didn’t feel the need to cut short his vacation to the Vineyard — lobster and golf and yachting and wine parties being necessary markers for setting the parameters of who counts as a legitimate member of the leadership class and what hickish bits of flyover country trash, with their elk burgers and light beer, simply don’t. Priorities, you see.

Yet suddenly, the speech is so urgent that it simply must happen on the same night as the GOP debate? And, per Jay Carney, we’re to believe this scheduling was a complete coincidence, and has nothing to do either with politics or Obama’s unbounded narcissism?

Uh huh.

Here’s what we’re in for: calls for an infrastructure bank, the extension of unemployment benefits, a reform of the patent process, aid for teachers, job training programs for the long-term unemployed (who will also get an extension of benefits), more green jobs, payroll tax relief, blah blah blah.

In short, nothing new. Just another thumb in the eye of those Americans who Obama doesn’t even pretend to represent.

Civil War is coming. Brace yourselves.

102 Replies to “"BREAKING: Obama Requests Joint Session Of Congress To Present Jobs Plan; Same Night As GOP Debate"”

  1. Pablo says:

    A Joint Session for his third annual “This Time I’m All About Jobs” speech? Can’t we just watch it in rerun?

  2. Jeff G. says:

    Thanks, Pablo. Linked in the post.

  3. sdferr says:

    Heard just now in a radio news break (not kidding): “Carney says the organizers are free to reschedule their debate.”

  4. geoffb says:

    Our “high class” sophomore.

  5. LBascom says:

    I’ll bet Obama had his hand thrust in his coat when he decided on the date

  6. sdferr says:

    Caulksoakers Of the World Unite! You have nothing to loose but your applicators!

  7. happyfeet says:

    besides the dirty socialist propaganda whores at NBC and Politico the only people what really need this debate is Romney and maybe a few deluded also-rans

  8. sdferr says:

    So Obie was only intending to do them a favor!

  9. A fine scotch says:

    If he calls for more green jobs “investment,” I’ll give $100 to anyone in the chamber who shouts Solyndra!

  10. Jeff G. says:

    Limbaugh was saying today that Boehner should tell Obama to stuff it — offering him the several dates on the days leading up to and after the debate.

  11. sdferr says:

    The thinger there in the link does say that it requires a “joint resolution” of Congress, hence, I take it, a vote. So, without a firm knowledge of the procedures, I suppose it could be that members have an action of their own to impose on the proceedings apart from the privileges of the Speaker.

  12. Eh. I ain’t watchin’ either.

  13. JD says:

    He is a dick. Boehner should tell him to go stuff it.

  14. Carin says:

    Such an asshole.

  15. DarthLevin says:

    Great. Here’s what they should do.

    Have their little joint session of Congress. Then hold the GOP debate immediately following, right on the floor of the House. Or on the steps of the Capitol.

  16. mojo says:

    Oh, give the sad little man his cheap shot.

    Then have Rubio rebut and stomp him like a rabid weasel.

  17. Matt says:

    Why does he need both houses of freakin congress to announce anything? He’s a giant socialist douche.

  18. Silver Whistle says:

    If we’re lucky, both houses will raise their right hands and give him the O! symbol, vigorously.

  19. McGehee says:

    What if they gave a joint session of Congress for Obama and nobody came?

  20. geoffb says:

    Then the TV coverage would be just on him with no pans of the audience and with canned applause added.

  21. sdferr says:

    Ha! Geoff got there before I could, but the following hasn’t been altered a bit:

    What if they gave a joint session of Congress for Obama and nobody came?

    C-Span’s camera would likely be banned from panning the chamber and required to remain focused solely on Obama at the podium?

  22. McGehee says:

    And here I thought C-SPAN’s ratings couldn’t get any lower.

  23. Abe Froman says:

    If I could conceive of a way to have this jabbering asswhipe speaking in front of a television every moment of the day from now till the election I’d do it. He shrinks more every time he opens his piehole.

  24. Alec Leamas says:

    I see it for what it is – marching orders to the press to browbeat the GOP for holding its debate on the scheduled date if they don’t move it. You can’t really appreciate it for what it is if you don’t understand that he knows what his allies will do in his service.

  25. newrouter says:

    mr abe you might get your wish because that’s about all baracky is “good” at.

  26. newrouter says:

    to bad both events couldn’t happen at the same time to see who got better ratings

  27. JD says:

    Alec is exactly right. Barcky knows that the MFM will frame this as the Republicans bing the bad guys and playing politics, despite it being quite obvious that is what Teh One is doing.

  28. sdferr says:

    Boehner’s response in pdf: the short of it?

    “No. Try again champ.”

  29. Roddy Boyd says:

    Look at it this way: POTUS needs the time to lay out more compelling job-creation engines like this.

    http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_18795739?nclick_check=1

    Green Jobs!

    Outlaw.

  30. motionview says:

    Boehner tells him how about Thursday Sparky? Should have offered 9AM Eastern.

  31. motionview says:

    15 minutes late and a dollar short again.

  32. Abe Froman says:

    Link isn’t working, Roddy. I’m gonna assume that you were referring to this little bit of pathetic proggtardation though.

  33. Dave in SoCal says:

    “NFL season starts next Thursday 830pm ET, Packers vs. Saints”

    As HotAir notes, “Your move, champ”.

  34. Silver Whistle says:

    I don’t suppose Carney explained why a mutually agreeable date wasn’t arrived at with the Speaker and Leader?

  35. JD says:

    Silver Whistle – it is racist of you to expect them to follow standard practices.

  36. newrouter says:

    ot

    An “Obama Clock” app is jockeying for position with National Geographic’s World Atlas atop the iTunes app store’s reference best-seller list, partly because conservatives are eager to monitor President Barack Obama’s skidding approval numbers and shrinking calendar, says the app’s designer.

    Liberals don’t like the app because it shows Obama’s numbers trending down, said Jeremy Ross, even though his app just publishes publicly available data. The app can also be used to display the same stats on future GOP presidents.

    Ross, a California aerospace engineer, cut his sleep time down to 5 hours per day to develop the app, which users rate at 4.5 out of 5 stars.

    Link

  37. cranky-d says:

    Obama is a very small man.

  38. A fine scotch says:

    I just had a friend on Facebook decide the President needs to see the Godfather, particularly the scene with Tessio requesting Michael guarantee his safety. In this moron’s scenario, Boehner is Tessio and the Tea Party is Barzini.

    When someone brought up that the Pres put his speech on the same night as a previously scheduled debate, he got PISSED, mentioned that Boehner would be the first speaker to refuse a President’s request for a joint session, complained that Boehner had not returned Obambi’s call during the debt debate, and then asked “What is this? Dred Scott?”

    These people exist and vote…

  39. McGehee says:

    AFS, we shouldn’t be judgmental of people like that. In fact we should make sure they have the opportunity to vote — which for Obama supporters, remember, will be on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 to accommodate the thundering hordes of patriotic Americans who will want nothing more than to ensure his safe re-election.

    You have told him about this, haven’t you? If not, you’re being a bad friend.

  40. JD says:

    Has the MFM started framing this as the racist Republicans playing politics with the important jobs speech?

  41. newrouter says:

    levin has heard that baracky will do an oval office speech instead. nothing definite yet.

  42. Jeff G. says:

    And that MSNBC will delay coverage of the GOP debate to accommodate the campaign speech. Giving the GOP candidates the opening to respond directly.

    Not to mention, Levin says he’ll answer Obama’s speech live, on his show.

  43. cranky-d says:

    I think tomorrow it will be official that Obama goes on as scheduled, and the debate will be delayed. Obama will look even more pathetic as a result.

  44. cranky-d says:

    Or, what Jeff just said.

  45. Roddy Boyd says:

    Abe, sadly yes.

    $535 million in federal “investments” for 1,100 lost jobs.

    The Nazi propaganda machine called the German retreat on the Eastern front “Consolidating our victories.”

    What do you call pumping 500 large into a collapsed solar panel company?

  46. newrouter says:

    well the crony capitalism angle says this is good for nbc.

  47. LBascom says:

    “What do you call pumping 500 large into a collapsed solar panel company?”

    Something that will not be mentioned in Obamas job speech for $200 Alex.

  48. Jeff G. says:

    I heard another story of a government green job subsidy somewhere involving “greening” houses (can’t remember specifically) that created 11 jobs, most of them administrative, and cost $14 million.

    3 houses were “greened.”

    The company then went bankrupt. But at least the taxpayers got $14 million worth of environmental protection, spread out over a handful of ranch homes.

  49. LBascom says:

    “A Joint Session for his third annual “This Time I’m All About Jobs” speech? Can’t we just watch it in rerun?”

    Pablo and VDH are of a mind I’m thinking.

    Despite $16 trillion in federal debt, the administration apparently wants to defy the rules of logic and do more of what made things worse in the first place, under the euphemism of “investments.” Popular American culture has coined all sorts of proverbial warnings about such mindless devotion to destructive rote: “Don’t flog a dead horse,” “If you are in a hole, stop digging,” and “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

    No matter: The administration still adheres to the logical fallacy that the toxic medicine cannot be proven to be useless or harmful, because there was supposedly never enough of it given. And the proof is that the worsening patient is still not quite dead.

  50. Pablo says:

    What do you call pumping 500 large into a collapsed solar panel company?

    I guess once we’re batting around trillions, it only makes sense that a “large” becomes a million bucks.

    Oy.

    I’m starting to feel like Mugabe. Move the decimal point. It’s the only chance we’ve got.

  51. Pablo says:

    Do we have to move “grans” over to millions too?

    I need a drink.

  52. Pablo says:

    Grand. As in duh.

  53. bh says:

    Ever hear about the ethanol plant that went out of business because of the high cost of corn?

    I have.

  54. LBascom says:

    I hadn’t heard that one bh, but it seems I heard for the first time more corn is grown for ethanol than for livestock feed.

  55. Pablo says:

    We’re through the looking glass, aren’t we, bh?

    I guess this is as good a place as any to drop this. Hitler Realizes Obama Is A Stuttering Clusterfuck Of A Miserable Failure

    Best Downfall riff ever.

  56. Stephanie says:

    DeMint responds.

    “The president should pick another night. I’m planning to watch the Republican primary debate … and the president should watch it, too.”

    The iconic South Carolina conservative said. “If he has a jobs proposal, put it in writing, give us a cost estimate, and send it over. I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter. If he insists on playing politics by picking the night of the GOP debate, I will object to the session.”

    A lone determined senator can tie the chamber in knots for days, and the House and Senate must both pass a concurrent resolution to allow for the president to speak to a joint session.

    Popcorn?

  57. newrouter says:

    “Popcorn?”

    thanks good idea for a snack.

  58. newrouter says:

    hannity: baracky caves to orangeman

  59. bh says:

    Speaking of DeMint, thanks.

    (Ya’ll don’t want Tommy as a senator and this might have just knocked him out.)

  60. sdferr says:

    It was good to see this evening that Krauthammer understands that the Unions understand that the most important political fight next year will be taking place in the State races, where control of State Houses, Senates and Governorships will determine whether the last gasp of the Unionist-Democrat self-perpetuating money machine alliance will fall to sensible reversals of public Union power. For my part, the Obama reelection is nearly defeated already, so our moneys should go to seize the US Senate and the State houses and Governor’s seats. Follow the money chain and progressivism will be over.

  61. JD says:

    I encourage Barcky to do as much prime time speechifying as possible. Except the market tends to drop about 250 points while he is flapping his piehole.

  62. newrouter says:

    “Krauthammer understands that the Unions understand that the most important political fight ”

    dr kraut saw trumka bail on baracky

  63. newrouter says:

    Here is a statement from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney:

    “Today, the President asked to address the Congress about the need for urgent action on the economic situation facing the American people as soon as Congress returned from recess. Both Houses will be back in session after their August recess on Wednesday, September 7th, so that was the date that was requested. We consulted with the Speaker about that date before the letter was released, but he determined Thursday would work better. The President is focused on the urgent need to create jobs and grow our economy, so he welcomes the opportunity to address a Joint Session of Congress on Thursday, September 8th and challenge our nation’s leaders to start focusing 100% of their attention on doing whatever they can to help the American people.”

    Link

  64. Pablo says:

    JD, let’s just give him Friday nights. That way the market can’t react to him in real time horror.

  65. Jeff G. says:

    So Obama is going to what, preempt the NFL’s opening night?

    #WINNING!

  66. newrouter says:

    Update: A good catch by New Yorker correspondent Ryan Lizza. Note in Carney’s statement that they’re now saying they merely “consulted” with Boehner’s office beforehand. Says Lizza, “‘Cleared’ officially downgraded to ‘consulted.’ So someone at WH anonymously passed along inaccurate information to several journos. Nice.”

    Link

  67. bh says:

    First night of football?

    Genius.

  68. Pablo says:

    You were expecting competence, nr? Nigga, please.

  69. bh says:

    Oh yeah, go Packers!

  70. Pablo says:

    First night of football?

    Genius.

    It’s like one of those Godwinks. Or, it’s the answer to Voltaire’s only prayer:

    I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.

  71. newrouter says:

    the alinsky method is not scalable in the usa

  72. bh says:

    I’m missing something here, right?

    What am I missing?

  73. Pablo says:

    I’m just connecting the Obama idiocy dots, bh. Do these people not maintain an event calendar? Holy Stuttering Clusterfuck.

  74. newrouter says:

    “What am I missing?”

    something about clusterf**k

  75. sdferr says:

    What am I missing?

    Dunno about you, but I’m missing Maddie Kahn.

  76. serr8d says:

    Florio

    In what is being described as a historical rebuff of a sitting president by Congressional leadership, Barack Obama has been blocked by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio; pictured) from addressing a joint session of the nation’s legislative body on September 7, at which time a presidential debate will be conducted in California. And so the President has caved, moving the speech to Thursday, September 8.

    And that sets up a direct conflict with the commencement of the 2011 NFL regular season, with the Saints facing the Packers at Lambeau Field that same night.

    It remains to be seen whether NBC will cover the speech in lieu of the game, which is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. ET. If ABC, CBS, and FOX all choose to broadcast the address and NBC opts to send any interested members of its audience to MSNBC and/or CNBC, the ratings for the NFL opener could go through the roof..

    What, watch the thrice-damned Packers? Over BHO’s campaign speech ?

    I’ll have to think about it.

  77. Jeff G. says:

    Tone deaf. Repeat.

  78. newrouter says:

    “We can send the message that the American people are playing by the rules and meeting their responsibilities — and it’s time for our leaders in Congress to meet theirs. And we must hold them accountable if they don’t.”

    ax gibson you niggardly bastard

  79. JD says:

    The President is focused on the urgent need to create jobs and grow our economy, so he welcomes the opportunity to address a Joint Session of Congress on Thursday, September 8th and challenge our nation’s leaders to start focusing 100% of their attention on doing whatever they can to help the American people.”

    If Barcky ever focuses 100% on jobs, unemployment will go up to 50%. what douchenozzles.

  80. sdferr says:

    Obammy has hisself a case of the fierce urgency of more bullshits. Pour the fire to it honky. RCP avg. at -10.2 and counting, goin’ down.

  81. bh says:

    What, watch the thrice-damned Packers?

    You, sir, might be out of line.

    But, “thrice-damned”, I don’t get it.

  82. serr8d says:

    1) Favre
    2) Favre, the sequel
    3) Favre, the dick

  83. bh says:

    Well, we won a Super Bowl with #1. Those other two are on the Jets and Vikings.

    Hey, how are those Titans looking?

    (Man, I love football.)

  84. bh says:

    At this point I figure Pablo and pdbuttons can bust my balls. Maybe nr with the Steelers.

    The rest of you are out of luck.

  85. JD says:

    I love football season. Love it.

  86. geoffb says:

    Ceiling cat could probably beat the Lions pussycats hisself.

  87. bh says:

    Geoff, you should buy tickets. You might have a really good team. I’m not kidding.

    You might win the NFC North. Again, not kidding.

  88. serr8d says:

    The Titans? Glad you asked.

    I’m not sure! We open 9/11 in Jacksonville, against that slippery midget running back Maurice Jones-Drew, without our own mega-star running back Chris Johnson. Or our mega-star Coach Mustache. Or that idiot Quarterback Vince Young, starting with that unknown quarterback Hasselbeck and a Hall of Fame player-Coach. So, I really haven’t a clue what’s going to show up. I’m thinking 3-13, but I’m known for my optimism.

    The question to ponder is, is Tebow’s roster spot secure? Oh, and whether or not Peyton Manning can play after having that Franken-neck-bolt removed last April…

  89. sdferr says:

    My Pokes are starting two rookies and a sophomore on the O-line (where the heck is Bob Reed?), and they haven’t got a cornerback worthy the name, so expectations are kind of lowly down Big D way. But the receiving corps looks to be shiny, if Romo has time to get ’em the ball, and can’t help but like the way Felix Jones runs. Maybe they can squeak their way to 9-7 if they find a kicker, but it could just as easily be 7-9.

  90. bh says:

    Packers 11-5.

  91. geoffb says:

    OT: [which could mean on or off depending on which topic is to be the “on” one]

    Within minutes of agreeing with congressional leaders Wednesday night on an address to a joint session next week, President Obama flashed out an email to millions of supporters criticizing the chambers, their members and vowing to pressure them to enact his as yet unspecified job creation ideas.

    “It’s been a long time since Congress was focused on what the American peoplObama during his address to the American Legion 8-30-11e need them to be focused on,” the Democrat charged in an email with the subject line: “Frustrated.”

    There’s that middle finger again.

  92. geoffb says:

    Strike this part, “Obama during his address to the American Legion 8-30-11”

  93. geoffb says:

    OT: The other “O”. This Kat the Lions might beat, maybe.

  94. B. Moe says:

    I have been a Steelers fan since Hanratty was QB.

    We want a rematch, bh.

  95. JD says:

    Geoff, you should buy tickets. You might have a really good team. I’m not kidding.

    Ditto what bh said, despite him being a cheese-addled fudge packer.

  96. serr8d says:

    JD, since Peyton (Herman Munster) Manning can’t start because of that neck-bolt issue, your team has signed ‘retired’ Kerry (Grampa Munster) Collins, a known softy in the pocket, and not one you’ll find winning many games.

    How long will the Bolts be in Manning-free perdition, you think?

  97. geoffb says:

    Since I live over 100 miles from the stadium I’ll settle for watching on TV but I don’t expect much no matter what the pre-season expectations are. They have disappointed me for the last 50 years or so. Last time I could get excited over the Lions they had Night Train Lane and Alex Karras among others but maybe with the “curse” finally gone things will be looking up.

  98. geoffb says:

    As to the regular topic, Bunnies!!!

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