OK OMan this is a very good speech

[malaise]

Now how do you get those fuckers to pass your jobs bill?

I'm impressed - you really are serious and this is great.

[Firebrand Gary]

1. k&R

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. And the Republicans are sitting on their fucking hands.

[Orrex]

4. Actually, the Republicans are sitting on each other's hands

Those sick freaks.

[malaise]

5. I hope he wins back the public tonight

It is the people who will have to get this bill passed by taking to the streets and stopping the corporate stooges in the RETHUG party.

This is a great speech!

[Bluerthanblue]

21. it really is- and you are right

We all have an important role to play in this too.

:thumbsup:

[JDPriestly]

30. CaliforniaPeggy, I'm surprised that you support Obama on this plan.

This is the Chamber of Commerce plan spruced up to ruin Social Security for our lifetimes.

Check out Dragonfli's post. He posted the Chamber's plan as summarized by a business journal. Point for point it is nearly identical to Obama's.

This is an awful plan. It embarrasses me that so many DUers have fallen for this.

Especially you because you normally think independently and critically.

Obama has a mesmerizing voice and speaking style. That is the only explanation for his ability to hoodwink so many, many people with his speeches.
A payroll tax holiday indeed. That is intended for one purpose only: to bankrupt Social Security.

And we need tariffs, not trade agreements. If we collected tariffs, we would be able to give other countries real foreign aid. That would be better than trade agreements that enslave not just millions of Americans to low ages or no wages but also millions in underdeveloped countries to an international system of exploitation.

And less regulation. What does that mean? More environmental damage? More worker injuries? Do you remember Love Canal, Three-Mile Island, the BP spill. We need more regulations, not fewer.

What a scam that speech was. Just beneath the dignity of our good Democrats in Congress to have clapped for it.

Was Joe Biden gritting his teeth at moments? I'm going to try watching the speech without sound and focus on his expressions.

[Cool Logic]

3. He always gives a good speech...everybody knows that.

However, it will take more than that to win a second term.

[malaise]

10. No this one is different

Read the script

[givemebackmycountry]

6. I agree....

Many are posting that it is more of the same, I disagree.
He is on fire.
All business from the word go.
With a few zingers thrown in here and there.

[malaise]

He's tearing them a new one

called them out on all their bullshit

[Avalux]

7. Yes, it's a fantastic speech.

What the MSM does with it is a different matter.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. I admit I'm enjoying it.

[Bucky]

Me too, but it's coming months too late.

Better late than never, but he needed to come out for jillionaire taxes two years ago.

[Bucky]

9. Ha, finally forced 'em to stand up on the "don't have the luxury to wait" line

[Glimmer of Hope]

15. Just hope they don't forget that!

[white_wolf]

11. A good speech, but as they say talk is cheap. We need action and we need it now.

[malaise]

12. The only action that will frighten ReTHUGS

is people on the street protesting their bullshit

[FiveGoodMen]

17. They have Blackwater and mass-pain weapons. They're not afraid of people in the streets.

[malaise]

19. You think Democrats can't find weapons to fight back

Please.

[FiveGoodMen]

24. You've got something in your house that can take on the military?

I'd bet my last dollar you don't.

[malaise]

26. You'd win

We hate guns

[Sirveri]

34. It is difficult to land planes when the runway is covered in bodies.

In the Finnish Winter War the Soviet Union invaded Finland and suffered casualty rates as high as 10:1.

The Soviets won and gained their concessions.
Numbers aren't pretty, numbers hurt, but numbers win.

[Dulcinea]

32. No, what they're afraid of....

...is having their corporate masters cut off their funding, thus causing them to have to get a real job. Oh, wait...THERE ARE NO JOBS!

[joshcryer]

13. Painted a bullseye on the Republicans, HHAHAHAHA, OWNED COMPLETELY!

[malaise]

18. Yep that was excellent

GObama!! :yourocl: :applause:

Brian Williams only noticed the lightning show over the dome.

OMan lit up the fucking place.

[XanaDUer]

14. Look at them sitting

bastards.

[spanone]

16. he's said he's gonna take the message across the country...shame the fuckers

[Skidmore]

20. He just told us how. It's time for us to push congress yet again.

Slap them upside the heads.

[highplainsdem]

22. I agree. K&R

[malaise]

23. The Senate should be good tonight

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/

[quaker bill]

25. He has nothing to lose but his job

If they don't move, he will run on that. In fact he will start running on it now, and the only way they can get him to stop is to pass the bill. It is September, and as we all know, "you roll out new plans in September".

[jillan]

27. I was actually cheering him on - I haven't done that in years.

[Bonobo]

28. Yawn, they are ALWAYS good speeches. nt

[JoePhilly]

35. "Bully Pulpit!!", "Pretty speech!", "Bully Pulpit!!", "Pretty speech!", "Bully Pulpit!!", "Pretty sp

[JDPriestly]

29. It's the plan proposed by the Chamber of Commerce with a few

nasty embellishments. It is a terrible plan.

Obama is a stealth Republican.

Check out Dragonfli's post on the Chamber of Commerce plan.

[woo me with science]

31. [phone] Republican proposals through and through,

including more steps toward phasing out Social Security and Medicare.

People need to wake the hell up and look at the policies instead of the pretty words. This is more bipartisan corporate assault on the poor, elderly, and disabled. Millions are left with no one to defend them.

[rucky]

33. We should know by now how this plays out.

Tax breaks will be a go.
Infrastructure will be cut to near nothing.
Tax loopholes will stay open.
Unemployment will be extended upon passing of Bridge to Work

Both sides will declare a victory.