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Obama can’t shake his spending addiction*

September 6, 2011 by B. Daniel Blatt

“No,” Jennifer Rubin writes this morning, Obama’s jobs proposal “isn’t anything new.” Yesterday, in a speech to union members in Detroit, he signaled that he’ll be proposing “a major infrastructure program and an extension of a payroll tax break in the jobs speech he planned to deliver Thursday before a joint session of Congress.”

He said, “We’ve got roads and bridges across this country that need to be rebuilt”.  Um, wasn’t the “stimulus” with all its “shovel-ready” projects supposed to take care of that?

Instead of talking in unifying post-partisan terms, he attempted to bait his partisan adversaries, “We’re going to see if we’ve got some straight shooters in Congress. We’re going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party“.  Why can’t this guy just put his proposals forward without questioning the motives of the Republican opposition?

In the speech, he repeated one of his rhetorical tropes, insisting (as if he hadn’t been president for the past 31 months) that the “time for Washington games is over. The time for action is now”.

Alas that the type of action the president favors is at odds with the type of solutions the American people favor.  Looking at the most recent Washington Post poll, Jon Cohen and Dan Balz find that

. . .  there has been little change in the widespread public perception that Obama favors a bigger federal government that offers more services.

That highlights a major disconnect between Obama and the public. Only 38 percent of those polled say they favor a larger government with more services, while 56 percent say they favor a smaller government with fewer services.

(Post article via Jim Geraghty.)

*nor his partisan game-playing.

Filed Under: Big Government Follies, Democratic demagoguery

Comments

  1. Gene in Pennsylvania says

    September 6, 2011 at 1:22 pm - September 6, 2011

    When I saw the threads title I thought it was going to about
    Barack Michelles Stasha and Marissas spending. The Obamas living like Kings while the country suffers so badly.
    We can talk about that spending another day.

  2. ILoveCapitalism says

    September 6, 2011 at 2:05 pm - September 6, 2011

    If Obama wants new spending cuts, he should pay for it dollar-for-dollar (at least – if not more) with cuts elsewhere in the budget. And not defense cuts.

  3. ILoveCapitalism says

    September 6, 2011 at 2:05 pm - September 6, 2011

    sorry typo, “If Obama wants new spending -projects-…”

  4. Sebastian Shaw says

    September 6, 2011 at 3:59 pm - September 6, 2011

    President Obama is not serious about cutting spending; he’s going through the motions to act like he cares. He doesn’t. He is a crack addict when it comes to taxpayer money. He needs to lose in 2012 so he can stop the spending…

  5. North Dallas Thirty says

    September 6, 2011 at 4:40 pm - September 6, 2011

    He said, “We’ve got roads and bridges across this country that need to be rebuilt”. Um, wasn’t the “stimulus” with all its “shovel-ready” projects supposed to take care of that?

    Therein lies the question: “On what did you spend the trillion you already got in 2009 then?”

    Republicans should very simply require Obama to publish a full accounting of on what he spent the “stimulus” in 2009 before they will agree to any more spending.

    And watch how fast the screaming child Obama refuses to do what even the lowliest of public companies and executives are required to do.

  6. Dottie Laird says

    September 6, 2011 at 4:42 pm - September 6, 2011

    ”We’re going to see if we’ve got some straight shooters in Congress. We’re going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party.” Wouldn’t it be better if Obama put country over party first?

  7. Gene in Pennsylvania says

    September 6, 2011 at 5:52 pm - September 6, 2011

    Look no real professional pol runs for office to serve for 8 years, whether President or congressperson, to cut or trim spending.
    They all want libraries, bridges, freeways bike paths named after them. The key is hiring non polititians.

  8. Real American says

    September 6, 2011 at 11:28 pm - September 6, 2011

    I don’t ever want to hear another fucking leftard bitch about how their patriotism is being questioned! Obama is flat out calling the GOP unpatriotic for not bending over and giving it to his demands! What an asshole!

  9. healer says

    September 8, 2011 at 12:40 pm - September 8, 2011

    hey, love your post!

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