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Questions for Obama

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I should be preparing for a trip I’m taking tomorrow, but got caught up as I always do in reading and discussing politics online.

Ran across this great post at Keith Hennessey’s site. The president has a press conference scheduled for tomorrow evening. Naturally I’m expecting cherry-picked questions from an already doting corps. Keith has other ideas, including:

The U.S. economy has lost 2.64 million jobs since you took office. The unemployment rate is 9.5% and rising. The good scenario is one in which the unemployment rate begins to decline early next year. The Vice President said your Administration misread the economy. You said you had incomplete information when proposing the stimulus. Yet you have said you would not change anything about the stimulus if you could. If the facts have changed, why doesn’t it make sense to change your policy?

and

Most members of Congress who oppose these health care bills argue they have a better way of reforming health care, such as the Ryan-Coburn bill. Why is it fair to accuse them of defending the status quo? Can you name a Member of Congress who has explicitly argued for the status quo, rather than just arguing against your preferred alternative?

and

Your party controls the White House, has a 38+ seat margin in the House, and has the 60 Senate seats needed to overcome any filibuster. How can Republicans be holding up health care reform?

I’d also add (as one commentor over there has suggested) a question or two about Honduras.

Treat yourself this evening, and read the whole thing!

– Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from HQ)

Comments

  1. I will be watching Wednesday nites “press conference’ to see first of all how many “reporters” have been preselected and their “questions” prescreened. I expect the usual 13 questions. Most with rambling answers to prevent extra questions and followups. After the usual,
    “Mr President, what’s your favorite color, how are the girls enjoying the puppy, how is Michells crop of vegetables coming in…..”
    Hopefully there might be one question wedged in from Fox News or any other still independent entity to ask about,
    Irans freedon fighters, the new 467,000 unemployed, the failure of the $800Billion pork bill, does Obama believe we went to the moon.

  3. Enchanted is an interesting term – what with the new Harry Potter movie out.

    Perhaps Obama is the Dark Lord and he has the press confunded and Congress under the imperious curse. (OK – back to my age group now.)

  4. LOL….Robert, he doesn’t need the Imperius Curse for Congress; he has an entire majority of Dolores Umbridges and Peter Pettigrews. And as for the press, his relationship to them is about the same as Voldemort’s to Bellatrix Lestrange.

    Meanwhile, for dealing with Obama, my spell of choice would be, “Langlock”!

  5. with majorities in both houses, you ask how in the world the (R)s could be holding up health care. The answer is simple, but I’m afraid you won’t get it, because it requires reading how the Senate works, and if you don’t know that by now, my guess is you don’t want to know. I suspect, however, that you DO know and that, like with MANY other issues, those on the right must resort to distortion and misinformation to make their point. The (D)s do it as well, just not nearly as often.

    (A single senator can hold up any piece of legislation or any judicial/executive branch nomination.)

    Come on! A little honesty, please. My head’s gonna explode thanks to the lies coming out of both the (R)s and the White House.

  7. kevin,

    Welcome to the site. Maybe you can answer this simple question.

    If government run health care is so good, why is the Federal plan, and Tricare handled by a private company? You know, the same private companies that President Obama is bashing?

  8. So a 40+ seat majority in the House, 60 Senators and control of the executive branch aren’t enought for the Democrats to get all their fabulous populist ideas implemented? What a bunch of whiners. In 2010 their whole house of cards will come tumbling down. Who could have guessed Obamateleprompter would be another Jimmy Carter.

  9. #6: “What? A smartass who’s not just dying to share his vast wealth of knowledge nobody asked for? Something’s amiss.”

    TGC, kevin garry was too busy dazzling us with his blazing intellect and superior knowledge of legislative procedure to comprehend the significance of the 38/60 seat question in the first place–to highlight the absurdity of Obama warbling about the “politics of delay” and targeting Republicans as convenient strawmen for his failure to pass an Obamacare bill as quickly as he has every other legislative disaster since his inauguration.

  14. I don´t want to be bored by preplanned press conference. Since it is an attempt to force his health care package down our throats, no other topic will be entertained. As for the Honduras question, as I commented under the post when Hillary will resign, he rinter with Leopoldo Castillo of Venezuela´s Globovision, she tried awfully hard to articulate the Obama foreign policy. Then said she was all for mediation in order to preserve the democratic process, whereas Obama (FOC) was right out of the starting gate said Zelaya should be returned to power. Thus he scored points with Ahmadjinedad´s ally, Chavez. With the problems in the US copingl with Obama, so little news gets reported, but living next door to the situation, it is like a tinder box about to explode. This may be the beginning of the end of Chavez and chavism.

  15. I wonder if Democrats realize they should have nominated Hillary. Hillary would never have put up with Pelosi’s crap. If she were president, and wanted health care reform, she would have cracked the whip and gotten it. I hope that all those Democrats who excoriated Hillary for “being a politician” realize that they probably lost their chance at health care reform because they thought it would be cool to elect a black guy.