Slouching Towards Oblivion

Friday, January 29, 2010

SOTU 2010

A few items:
Obama took a shot at the Supreme Court's decision in favor of corporate campaign spending, and the "conservatives" have their panties in a bunch.  When he started the job as President, he didn't stop being a citizen - the guy has an opinion; he gets to tell us what it is.

"you're here to serve the needs of your constituents, not your own political ambitions"

Obama may have tricked the Repubs on the jobs thing.  He says employment is the top priority for 2010, which of course gets everybody on their feet, and then he tacks on the bit about wanting a Jobs Bill on his desk ASAP.  I'm thinkin' the Repubs need to be seen as favoring employment, but they don't wanna be in favor of a Dem effort to get The Gummint to provide jobs for people.

The best part tho' was when Obama talked about the proposed Transaction Fee to get some of our bailout money back from the banks. All the Dems were up and applauding, while all the Repubs were sitting on their hands.  True or not; stereotyping or not - the image was pretty stark.  Obama wants the banks to pay us back, and Repubs just wanna keep giving tax dollars to their rich buddies on Wall Street.

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