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Jay Carney Asked If Timing of Obama’s Joint Session Speech Might Upset Nancy Reagan

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Minutes after the announcement that President Obama will deliver his much-anticipated speech on jobs before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7, Press Secretary Jay Carney faced reporters who immediately zeroed in on the speech’s conflict with the NBC/Politico Republican Presidential Candidates’ Debate. Carney was also asked if there was concern that “stepping on” the debate, which is being held at the Reagan Library, might upset former First Lady Nancy Reagan.

Carney explained away the conflict as an unavoidable result of the vagaries of trying to sync the schedules of two entire branches of government, but whether you buy it as an accident, it is a happy one for the Obama administration. Aside from stealing the GOP hopefuls’ thunder, which it probably won’t do all that much, the timing sets up exactly the comparison that the President hopes to draw in the coming presidential campaign. He will literally be putting Republicans on the spot to talk about creating jobs.

The Nancy Reagan question was a reach, to say the least, but it is sure to spawn some cartoonish headlines about the President using a joint session of Congress just to upset a little old lady. No foul to the questioner, though. You never know when Carney will just go off the reservation and say, “To hell with Nancy Reagan!”

Carney responded by noting that NBC is free to schedule the debate around the President’s speech, and that people would have plenty of opportunity to choose what they wanted to watch.

While NBC, Politico, and the GOP candidates may be unhappy with this development, the night promises an embarrassment of riches for political observers, and reporters. Republican debates are always entertaining, and the President’s speech carries with it a defining political and policy debate, as well as the possibility of Joe Wilson-style theatrics

Much of the anticipation surrounding the President’s speech has been centered around whether it would be an ambitious rope-a-dope to critics of his economic record, or a flurry of tiny slaps like the trade deals and payroll tax cut that he’s been talking about. The timing and venue of the speech could be an indication that he plans to present something bold, and dare the Republicans to block him, but it definitely ratchets up the expectations. If the President’s plan is seen as a dud, it will be seen as such under a much brighter glare.

Here’s the clip, from C-Span 2:


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  • Anonymous

    Mark Halperin is still right .

  • Greg

    Is it true that you have not delivered a poem to Big Drew since June?  Focus Big Grammatico.  

  • Anonymous

    The President has yet to provide a plan for our unemployment problem.  He’s been attacked by the left, right, and center alike for doing nothing.

    Being in panic mode, he has to show something to avoid Republicans from pointing this out again in another debate.

    He can postpone the debates or steal their thunder for a day, but the next morning we all wake up to an Obama economy again.

  • Anonymous

    King Obama gets letters from folks .

    He doesn’t read them . Why should he ?

    They’re just from suckers who voted for him .

    The Evil King Obama is desperate and frantic . He wants to make this “plan” being slapped together seem important . It will  be ridiculous , and he’s already complaining that the ” unpatriotic” Republicans won’t do what he wants and they are picking on him . Being a born dirtbag , Barry plays dirty .

  • Greg

    It seems like only yesterday that George Sr. disrupted Rosalynn Carters birthday celebration by asking all to read his lips.  Politicians are so inconsiderate.  

  • Anonymous

    He’s calling a Joint Sesson for his annual “Now we’re really about jobs” speech? Really?

    Good Lord. Just lay it out, dude.

  • mmars

    Its not really a conflict.  No one watches his speeches anymore.  It can’t be that important since the jobs problem was here when he ran for office.  If it took 3 (three!) years for him to come up with something to say it can’t be that earthshattering.  Besides, everyone will be watching the debates instead.

  • Norbit

    They should still have the debate, and the GOP should use the NBC platform to bash Obama’s “more-of-the-same” speech like a pinata~!

    Then they can all talk about it on MSNBC!!!

    LMAO!!!!

  • Michelle

    I’d expect nothing more from the narcissist in chief.

    http://antzinpantz.com/kns/images/FEB11/Obama%20reuters%20halo.jpg

  • Michelle

    According to his advisors, his plan is food stamps and unemployment bennies. 

  • Anonymous

    Great another speech, that will create lots of jobs.

  • Michelle

    I agree and when the ratings show that, it will be a huge embarrassment for the regime.

  • Michelle

    Carney gave NBC his permission to reschedule the Republican debate so it
    doesn’t conflict with the president’s speech, saying “if the network so
    chose and the candidates so chose” to reschedule, “that would be
    completely fine with us.”

    Thanks for your approval, Der Leader.

  • Anonymous

    And what kind of job do you have again Pablo the Coward?

  • TruDat

    I would love it if Boehner declined the request for a joint session of Congress.

  • Mndtaylor

    Why don’t you grow up, and put the good of the country before your party?  You people have such hate for this President, you would see a good plan go down in flames before you would concede an inch to the President….Pathetic!!

  • TruDat

    Hey, come on, you know he’s been focused like a laser on jobs.

  • What?

    How is he a coward? Its a random comment on a website just like yours. Your coward. My god its like middle school in this place.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon- 39% Hope – 54% Change

    Leave it to Tommy to spin a desperate attempt by King Putt to remain relevant into a “Winning the Future” moment.

    #SCoaMF  :  http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html

  • TruDat

    Unemployment compensation is the absolute BEST thing to boost the economy, just ask Nancy “Pea Brain” Pelosi.

  • Michelle

    I want the best for my country which is why Obama must go.  He’s destroying it.   Why don’t you take off the blinders?  You’re the pathetic one.  

  • Michelle

    We’ll see if he has the backbone.

  • Anonymous

    Haven’t you heard Michelle?  Food stamps are stimulus!  For every $1 in food stamps given out, we see a $1.73 returned back to the economy.  Lol.

  • Greg

    “Greg is a clown” proclaimed the sad old man in the flowing duster.  

  • Michelle

    Yeah I heard that.  Great spin for why we have record numbers on food stamps.  Obama, the Food Stamp president!

  • Anonymous

    Will Uncle Omar Obama be free in time to attend the speech ?
    He could sit in Biden’s chair .

    Anybody ask Carney about the lovely Boston branch of the Obama family ?

    Press Ferret Carney could take Punxatawney Phil’s place in Feb. , 2013 .

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon- 39% Hope – 54% Change

    You know things are getting pretty bad when the WH has to step on Brian William’s dick.

  • Anonymous

    Grafx is an insane person. Pay him no mind.

  • TruDat

    Yeah, be nice . . . they NEVER badmouthed President Bush!

  • Anonymous

    I’d like to see a good plan. I’m not expecting one.

  • Michelle

    NBC Bay Area 

    President Obama faces political catastrophe in the form
    of Solyndra — a San Francisco Bay area solar company that he touted as a
    gleaming example of green technology. It has announced it will declare
    Chapter 11 bankruptcy. More than 1,100 people will lose their jobs.
    During a visit to the Fremont facility in spring of 2010, the
    President said the factory “is just a testament to American ingenuity
    and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities
    in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly
    the best workers in the world. ”
    It’s not his statements the administration will regret; it’s the loan guarantees. The President was celebrating $535 million in federal promises from the Department of Energy to the solar startup.
    The administration didn’t do its due diligence, says the Government
    Accountability Office. “There’s a consequence if you don’t follow a
    rigorous process that’s transparent,” Franklin Rusco of GAO told the
    website iWatch News.
    The President touted the federally back money as a way to create
    jobs. The President’s opponents immediately jumped on the deal as
    Solyndra made its first layoffs.Keep pushing those green jobs, Mr. President.

  • Norbit

    SILENCE! – From the Hypocrite-In-Chief over the RACIST Comments by the Congressional Black Caucus!!!!!!!!!

    Where is the CIVILITY – YOU HYPOCRITE!!!!

  • Irish189

    1. I seriously doubt Nancy cares one way or the other

    2. Political debates are usually worthless because they just rehash talking points

    3. The presidents speech can be the most elegant and logical thing in the world and it won’t matter because the last 10 months indicate that at least half of congress won’t be happy with him so the reality of his jobs plan being a successful one or a failure is irrelevant 

  • Anonymous

    BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!

    TeaBagger Cult Ignorance on display!!!

  • Anonymous

    Every day I wonder how LOW AND DESPICABLE obozo can get – and every day he sets the bar LOWER.

  • Anonymous

    Truth hurts you TeaBagger Cult members!

    WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    For Boehner to do so would go against tradition. The President requests, and Speaker of the House extends an invitation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    For Boehner to do so would go against tradition. The President requests, and Speaker of the House extends an invitation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    Michelle, once again you show true vindictiveness.

  • Michelle

    And once again you attack only Conservatives.  Yawn.

  • Anonymous

    Pablo the Coward is a union member working a union job spewing hate about unions and union members.

    Insanity is quite a few levels above willful ignorance.

  • I feel old now

    Tommy is clearly the liberal columnist on this site. Who is the conservative columnist? Anyone?

  • Michelle

    One can only assume he agrees if he can’t bring himself to condemn it. 

  • Michelle

    Eloquent speeches read from a teleprompter don’t create jobs.

  • L_Salazar

    Just another example in a long series of the “Cheap Shots” Democrats pull.

    It is nothing new…that is how libs roll.  It always backfires on them, then the blame the “Racist” & “Dumb” Republicans.

    My guess, it won’t work.

  • L_Salazar

    Just another example in a long series of the “Cheap Shots” Democrats pull.

    It is nothing new…that is how libs roll.  It always backfires on them, then the blame the “Racist” & “Dumb” Republicans.

    My guess, it won’t work.

  • http://profiles.google.com/chatmandu002 Randall Holland

    Our Campaigner-in-Chief makes a strictly political decision to request a joint session of congress on the same day of the republican debate.  Can this guy be more non-transparent!!!  

    But I guess we will hear the usual stuff, “tax the rich and spend us more into debt.”  All for a few temporary jobs. 

  • Irish189

    you missed the point

    the quality of his speech and the quality of his jobs plan doesn’t matter in light of the divided congress 

  • Anonymous

    Obamamonics in action: Solyndra shuts its doors

    535 million stimulus dollars later, there go the green jobs.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon- 39% Hope – 54% Change

    None at the moment.  They are attempting to sign with Joan Walsh though.

  • Michelle

    No I didn’t miss the point.  He could put forth a plan that might get bipartisan support, but we both know he’s not going to do that.  He’s going to put forth a plan that he knows Repubs won’t go for and then call them obstructionists.  He’s been a failure on the economy because liberal polices fail. 

  • Michelle

    Conservatives need not apply.  I think Alex at least tries to be somewhat impartial.

  • Anonymous

    Depends on what he purposes and how the republicans handle the task at hand which is to get Americans back to work.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t work for a union, genius. I work for a company and we make beautiful profit together.

    Are you putting Big Oil’s evil gas in your car, freak?

  • Anonymous

    Well, that was what Moody’s determined with their models, so it’s not like that number was pulled out of Krugman’s butt.

  • Anonymous

    That is outstanding. The best one yet.

  • Anonymous

    “Carney explained away the conflict as an unavoidable result of the
    vagaries of trying to sync the schedules of two entire branches of
    government, but whether you buy it as an accident, it is a happy one for
    the Obama administration.”

    Um, what about Paul and Bachmann’s schedules?  EVERYONE knew they were booked that night. 

    This happy accident makes the Obama administration look like a bunch of immature a$$holes:

    “Oh, yeah, well, we’re going to hold our speech the same night you guys hold your speech, so there.”

    And before some liberal insults my very existence, the only candidate I would consider voting for, other than Obama, is Huntsman.

  • Michelle

    You’re missing the point.  Do you think telling the American people that their jobs plan is food stamps and unemployment bennies inspires confidence? 

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon- 39% Hope – 54% Change

    The “pussycat..pussycat” music in the background is over the top !!

    that and…

    “He can’t get a f*cking umbrella through a gate ” !!

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s VACATION took precedence over any “new” jobs proposals, but he demands time for a JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS???? I’m SURE it’s only “coincidence” that the date and time are the same as the Republican debates at the Reagan library- and the moon is made of green cheese. 

    Arrogant man! Obama, just submit your “plan” in writing to Congress, along with your party’s BUDGET and we’ll get back to you on it. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes!  I’d love to see people debate and bash a speech that’s occurring at the same time! 

    Yes, because it is entirely possible for this to happen and have the candidates’ responses make sense.

  • Anonymous

    Same speech, same “after-vacation at the Vineyard” plan as last year. Better we should just replay last year’s speech.

  • Irish189

     that would be illustrating the point.

    The question is not if a plan meets ideology, the question is does it meet reality?

    Reality doesn’t care about a persons ideology and the sooner BOTH sides realize that their ideology may not reflect the reality of the situation the better off the country will be as a whole

    Much like most things in life, most of congress are gonna have to sacrifice some of their ideology to do whats best for the people of the country, if they can’t do that then they should leave, which prob all of congress is gone but you get the point

    Economics is a matter of math and not ideology    

  • Michelle

    He did the exact same thing last year.  He said he’d put forth his jobs plan when he got back from the Vineyard.  Of course part of his plan was giving hundred of millions of dollars to “green” companies that are now going belly up. 

  • Moosenuts99

    A policy speech from the President is more important than these losers’ ”
    Scheduled-too-early-for-regular-Americans-to-care debate”.

  • Irish189

    agreed

    The first question i believe too many politicians ask though is if something is in line with their ideology not if its an economically sound decision which is the wrong order

  • Moosenuts99

    The fault in your logic is expecting that something new would be said at the “debate”.

  • Anonymous

    lol…the debate will be cancelled….a joint speech to congress overrides any debate between a bunch of dipshit republicans who agree with each other on everything…plus the presence of ron paul and michelle bachmann will be required at the speech…..you wingnuts have a decision to make and so does NBC news….bringing Nancy Reagen’s name up is a simple minded diversion that Obama doesnt give a flying fuck about…..he about to use his bully pulpit to crush you hobbits…..obama is gonna use the speech to smack you shitheads around…we’ll see if the supreme court justices show up….ITS ASS KICKIN TIME

  • Norbit

    The GOP should boycott this CAMPAIGN SPEECH! – and rip this “Perpetuation of the Democratic Welfare State” Speech to bits!!!

  • Moosenuts99

    Explain how this is a “cheap shot”. A cheap shot at what and who?

    Are you expecting specific policy to come out of the 10 person Republican “debate”?!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I have some oceanfront property in OK to sell you

  • Michelle

    Stick a tamale in it, Michelle.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think its a reach to have a white house do something that “snubs” a former first lady, especially when that first lady is one from another party.  That said, any perceived snub to Jimmy Carter is pretty much acceptable to all sides so I guess it depends on who’s being snubbed…

  • Michelle

    The fault in your logic is expecting The One to say something new in his speech. 

  • Moosenuts99

    Hmmm mm Clinton policies vs. W policies…who made a surplus and who crashes the ecanomy.

    Weird how the economy Experiences higher economic growth everytime there is a Democratic president…

    http://www.google.com/search?q=economy+grow+every+democrat&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

  • Anonymous

    I’m not missing the point.  I’m responding to Turk’s dismissal of foodstamps as stimulus. 

    Spending creates demand.  Demand necessitates more supply.  More workers are hired to produce that supply. 

    Cut out the food stamps and UI, you prevent millions of people from being able to spend that otherwise would have.  That leads to less demand and less jobs. 

    So, I didn’t miss the point of Turk’s post.  I argued against it.

    Furthermore, you seem to be taking your assumption of what the President will say as a foregone conclusion.  To answer your question, no, I don’t think it will.  But that’s beside the point, because we don’t know what he’ll talk about.

  • Norbit

    SOME HAVE SAID:

    Today’s Democrats - and the sycophant, on-the-public-dole laggards that support them – are a bunch of free-loading, welfare-funded parasites  (80% single-parent/multi-inseminated) that vote for their living, instead of working for it!

    SOME HAVE SAID!

    LMAO!!!

  • Moosenuts99

    What have conservatives done to create jobs since their election in Nov?

    Try to strip a woman’s right to choose? No jobs there.

    Strip collective bargaining rights? No jobs there.

    A speech saying what youre going to do is better than NOT DOING ANYTHING AT ALL

  • Chris

    You know, I’m getting sick of these big speeches full of useless “initiatives.”  Cut waste, reform the tax code, clean up regulations and do something real about the cost of health care.

  • Michelle

    They’ve already said it.

  • Michelle

    Who controlled congress in the 90′s again?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, Moody’s.  The folks who secured AAA ratings for the subprime mortgage crisis….

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, Moody’s.  The folks who secured AAA ratings for the subprime mortgage crisis….

  • Michelle

    Speaking of regulations, BillO had a great segment last night with Charles K about how Obama is quietly implementing through regulations what he couldn’t pass as law.  He’s hoping no one will notice and the liberal media is happy to assist him in any way they can. 

  • Anonymous

    Only Tommy can paint this as a positve for the administration. To me it looks petty, childish, and disrespectful. Imagine if the president had a date set for a speech on Sept. 7 and the Republicans switched a debate they had on the 9th to the 7th. He has any date he wants but the 7th so he schedules it then. He talks about working together but can’t contain himself from throwing bitch slaps at Republican’s. If  it’s like all of his other speeches I’d do it on Friday so it get’s lost in the weekend cycle.

  • Norbit

    It’s the Democratic Welfare-Illegals Coup!

    They keep taking OUR MONEY & giving it to THEIR VOTERS!!

  • VideoSavant

    Regardless of the content, Obama’s speech is dead on arrival. Same for his 2012 campaign.

  • Anonymous

    Shogun, your talking about Keynesian economics. 

    If spending money creates demand, then why not give every American $100,000?  Why stop at $100,000?   

    Why aren’t cities that rely the most on welfare programs creating all that demand that Keynesian economists like to cite.

    You have your supply and demand mixed up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    As a Liberal, even I can admit that this is petty as hell of the President.

  • Anonymous

    What kind of douchebag does something unpresidented, as well as unpresidential like this?
     
    Hint: Barack Obama

  • Anonymous

    HEAR, HEAR!!

    That’s exactly the narrative that the USA needs to see more of from the TeaBagger Cult!!!

    Bring on the Ignorance!!!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws The 57th State

    You seem to be the expert on both.

  • Norbit

    Maybe Obama will lay out the same economic plan that Greece used!
    LMAO!

    He’s over!
    He – and his lapdogs in the MSM – can try to blame it on an amorphous Congress, but there’s one face the people will see, as their misery index increases – Barack Hussein Obama…the one-term president!!!

  • Irish189

    For those who don’t know it was Democrats for the first half and republicans for the second half of the 90′s aka both sides made some contributions 

  • Norbit

    Heh-Heh-Heh!

    Who looks like the DESPARATE ONE here, Pro?

    Heh-Heh-Heh!

    Keep painting Democratic Voters as the Euro-Socialist, Welfare-Sponging, Caucasian-Hating Parasites they are!

    Spread the word that “Tea Party” is the new Codeword for the Black Racists that comprise the heart & soul of today’s Democratic Party!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Imagine… sending soldiers off to fight and maybe die for their country, Obama gives a solo speech behind a desk… sending a political message (again) about his jobs plan (again), Obama wants a joint session of Congress.

    Yeap, ole Barry wants to put politics aside.

  • Norbit

    He spends 10 days in EXCLUSIVE Martha’s Vineyard – then has to have his (lol) Jobs (Campaign) Speech (lol)…GOP – BOYCOTT this Charade!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    With his approval ratings lower than the South Pole, perhaps Dear Leader is expecting a big boost from his jobs speech, in which he’ll debate himself and some strawman.

  • Anonymous

    Unemployment creates jobs!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    right… like the quality of his Cairo Speech, or his Philadelphia Speech on race, or his Denver Speech, or his Inauguration Speech (what a dud that was!)… ALL oh so memorable – jacked up by the press… yet not a memorable line or theme in either.

  • Anonymous

    The Greece plan? Really? You’re going to play that ‘DUMB’?

    You most certainly must be a paid blogger because these inane talking points just feed the typical TeaBagger Cult member’s feeble critical thinking ability. 

    ….But by all means…KEEP IT UP!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Agree with Michelle. When a Republican Congress controlled spending under Dem Bill Clinton, Libs give Clinton the credit for “the good times”. but when a Democratic Congress controlled spending under a Rep G. W. Bush, Libs blame Bush for all “the bad times”.

    Many forget (selectively) that it was the Republican-controlled Congress that smacked Clinton side the head and made HIM “pivot”.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy and Colby sure are desperately trying to save Obama’s ass this week, aren’t they?
    Kinda sad to witness, tbh.

  • Anonymous

    It was my understanding that all three of the big ratings agencies were involved.

  • DietCokeHead

    The good of the country lies in the hands of the mushy middle. You can bang away at your keyboard all day and night, but B.O. stinks, and he’s shedding indy support by the second. They foolishly went along with the affirmative-action hero in 2008, mostly because the media told them to, and b.c. Bush did a piss poor job in his second term. Sadly for you and B.O. those people are lost, so he and his media lapdog’s, like Tommy here, will ramp up the hatred and bigotry in hopes of creating chaos and fear in the leftwing kook base.

    Judging from the ObamaPhiles on this site, it’s working already.

  • Norbit

    OK, maybe the economy is not that bad; maybe the Democrats’ most loyal (subjugated, some would say) base has an unemployment rate double the rest of the nation (hey black voters, how’s life under Democrats improved your hoods over the past 50 years??? – you dupes!!); maybe Obama didn’t LIE about nearly every committment  he made…

  • Anonymous

    Mayor Nutter had the guts to show leadership on the mini race riots in his city, but Obama’s silence on this serious matter seems to suggest tacit approval. Or is he “leading from behind”?

  • Anonymous

    What happened to Matt? 

  • Norbit

    It’s situations fomented by the violence-prone left that makes us all appreciate the NRA!!!

  • DietCokeHead

    It’s always been rather pathetic, but they sure seem to be in high gear recently. I’m sensing some panic in the libtard ranks.

  • KarenMcNeil

    SWEEEEEEET!

    The joint session speech has not taken place yet and you gNOpigs are soiling yourselves already!

    ROFLMAO!

  • DietCokeHead

    So Obama has the right idea then… He can paint Republicans as obstructionists, win a second term and get back the house and maintain control of the senate, and all will be right with the world again….

    Ohhhhh wait, he had that for two years and did nothing but screw the pooch and our healthcare system, while completely ignoring the defecit and more importantly, jobs.

    If his idiotic, selfish plan works and he gets these things, I will enjoy watching America rot in the vine… while sipping on a daquiri on a beach in tahiti.  

  • Anonymous

    “If spending money creates demand, then why not give every American $100,000?  Why stop at $100,000?”

    I wouldn’t argue against it, honestly.  Considering that the average American family makes half of that in a year, you can bet that most of it would be spent.  In a world of price controls, with what pragmatic reasons would you oppose it?

    “Why aren’t cities that rely the most on welfare programs creating all that demand that Keynesian economists like to cite.”

    The purpose of welfare programs is not to create new demand; it is to prop up current demand in order to keep us from falling into a feedback loop of layoffs. 

    One of the primary causes of our current financial woes is easily indicated by the income gap.  Frankly, real wages have been stagnant for three decades, yet inflation has largely kept its normal pace.  In order to make ends meet, American families have resorted to two strategies: first, both spouses in the majority of homes work full-time jobs, and second, when the first no longer covers the bills, they start paying for necessary things with credit cards.  When credit dries up? Well….

    I don’t think that I have my supply and demand mixed up.  No body is going to buy anything they can’t afford and I think the fact that we have a record number of citizens on food stamps is a pretty clear indication that they can’t really afford much.

  • Anonymous

    It does reek of desperation, that’s for sure.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    Michelle, you always go after President Obama and moderate Republicans. Why is that? Because you’re a rabid Tea Partier.

  • Anonymous

    they didn’t take office until January, but i guess those pesky details get in the way of your implied stupidity.

  • Rio

    You forgot his WTF speech; not memorable either.  lol

  • Anonymous

    A campaign speech to a joint session of congress?  Did the republican leader agree to this?

    This is absurd on its face, anyone who claims this is a serious man is idiotic.  He is an egomaniac who will stand in the well of the senate and blame everything and everyone for this mess, and then claim he is god-like.

    Egads.

  • SNAPTIE

    The hits keep on coming — Barack Obama’s $535 million gleaming example of green technology – Solyndra – filed for bankruptcy today. 1,100 newly hired employee’s will lose their jobs. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Solyndra-Filing-a-Disaster-for-Obama-128816968.html

  • Rio

    We took in all those democrat free commercials/debates in 08, your turn.

  • Anonymous

    c’mon a debate sponsored by NBC/Politico?….obama is just trying to save them the embarrassment of the questions they will ask of the Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    “In a world of price controls, with what pragmatic reasons would you oppose it?”

    Aside, of course, from the fact that it would cost $30 trillion.  But since it was a hypothetical question, why not make it a smaller sum?  Say, $1000.  I’d conjecture with a great deal of certainty that you’d see a pretty big uptick in consumer spending.

  • Anonymous

    Kind of like you said yesterday you have clear “evidence” that the President and First Lady have a problem with white people but have not produced your “evidence”.  Does that mean your full of shit?

    One day since Michelle claimed “evidence” that

    the President Of The United States and The

    First Lady have a problem with white people. 

    Where’s the “evidence” Michelle?

  • bohratom

    Guess how many times at Republican President has interrupted a Democratic Presidential Debata?

    Ready, get ready for the answer….NEVER……Obama is one big political hack.

  • Norbit

    Still waiting Obama!
    Still waiting Left-Wing Democratic Media!!!
    —————————————————————

    SILENCE! – From the Hypocrite-In-Chief over the RACIST Comments by the Congressional Black Caucus!!!!!!!!!Where is the CIVILITY Mr. President - YOU Partisan-Hack HYPOCRITE!!!!

  • Wake up America

    The ” Dumb President” is at it again. Thinking that all of us are stupid. Ok there are 52% that are stupid but that leaves 48 % of us that don’t fall for the ” Dumb President’s” manipulations of the American people to actually think that we couldn’t figure out that he set this trap for the Republicans. This is the way it’s suppose to play out. Obama plans his speech for the same time and day as the Republicans. Boehner will be forced to ask the Dumb president to change the date. Obama and the media will make a big deal of this saying oh those republicans are playing politics. Whats more important then jobs! Obama will love that because that plays into his trap to make the republicans as obstructionist! The Hugo Chavez media will take and run with it all over the nightly news. Bingo, the Dumb presidents plan works. Some of you might ask well he’s not to dumb afterall. My answer to that would be, no because his followers are even dumber.

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of backbone, Michelle do you have the backbone to produce your “evidence” that the President and First Lady have a problem with white people or admit you’re full of shit?

    One day since Michelle claimed “evidence” that

    the President Of The United States and The

    First Lady have a problem with white people. 

    Where’s the “evidence” Michelle?

  • Anonymous

    One can only assume your full of shit.

    One day since Michelle claimed “evidence” that

    the President Of The United States and The

    First Lady have a problem with white people. 

    Where’s the “evidence” Michelle?

  • Anonymous

    “I love it when a plan comes together”……………..John “Hannibal” Smith

  • TPRTR

    Is that Skippy from Family Ties?

  • http://twitter.com/jtLOL ‘Jim’ ‘Treacher’

    He will literally be putting Republicans on the spot to talk about creating jobs.

    Which they don’t want to do, because that’s the one area where Obama is excelling.

    You really do like science fiction, Tommy!

  • Bob

     I guess you missed the fact that Boner and the GOP were on vacation with the rest of Congress at the time.

  • Moosenuts99

    With your spelling and punctuation problems, I’d advise against calling OTHER people dumb.

  • Moosenuts99

    YOU FIRST

  • Moosenuts99

    It’s UNPRECEDENTED genius

    And no one is going to watch the GOP debate anyway. So what’s the problem? The American people would rather hear what THE PRESIDENT wants to do rather than 10 weirdo losers say ABSOLUTLY NOTHING

  • Anonymous

    JOINT SESSION?  Is that like a pot party? Welcome to the world of Chicago politics!

  • Moosenuts99

    Remind me what Jesus said about helping the needy…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    They all are WTF speeches: WTF#1, WTF#2, WTF#3, etc.

    And when Dear Leader sees his ratings continue to fall, HE even screams “What The F*ck!??”

  • Milanamandich

    This is not State of the Union. Nobody has to be there and I think Republicans should boycot this shameless partisan bloviator

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    He’s either looking for Nancy to show class and move the event or he’s trying to stress her into dying from a heart attack. 
    The people are awake , Hello !!!

  • Milanamandich

    Oh shut up moron

  • Anonymous

    You’re just bummed because you’re going to end up in a FEMA camp.

    You should go and hide at your place in NC.

    They’re still gonna find you, though, BMG!

  • Rio

    So what, Congress could have been called back to DC if Obama had, as promised, focused on jobs and has something ready to present to the country.  Didn’t happen that way, now he wants to play games, he’s a jerk.

  • Rio

    You might want to learn to  not speak for anyone else.  Obama supporters are dropping like flies.

  • Anonymous

    Why’s it always gotta go back to race with you all the time?

    It’s almost like you have an ulterior motive……

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

  • Anonymous

    There are few suckers left in this world, but every now and again we run across one.  No one, and I mean no one, believes Obama isn’t playing politics here; this has nothing do with a jobs plan, it has evrything to do with campaign 2012.

    How sad of a man is it who sits at the helm of this country and doesn’t have the wherewith all to just produce a plan…nope he has to get up, read his teleprompters, smile to the cameras, have the little people bow to him, and have the media protect and praise him.

    Sad little man.

  • david r

    He will literally be putting Republicans on the spot to talk about creating jobs.

    Tommy, why is it the duty of the minority party to come up with leadership?  Where was Obama during the health care debate?  Why did he fold so quickly on the public option?  On the ‘Bush tax cuts’?  (If he had any balls he’d have put the Clinton tax rates back in operation when he had majorities in both houses.)  True to form, he was largely silent during the debt ceiling debate.  He lets others decide policy.  He just wants to be president and make teleprompter speeches.  His jobs plan will be pork funded by defense cuts.  

  • Moosenuts99

    Maybe in Foxland, not in the real world with real people who aren’t brainwashed by the crumbling Murdoch Empire 24/7.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Is Obama thinking he’s Oliver Cromwell ?

  • Anonymous

    He’s been talking about jobs for three years now. He really wants someone else to do it. Presidenting is hard, especially when you’re a SCOAMF.

  • Sharpo

    Turk281: don’t see you putting forward any plan to help the economy

    LOLZ coward

  • Sharpo

    according to right wing poeple who hide under anonymous names, obama’s plan is food stamps and unemployment bennies

    according to normal people. it is not.

    michelle, can I shave you this weekend? :)

  • Sharpo

    according to right wing poeple who hide under anonymous names, obama’s plan is food stamps and unemployment bennies

    according to normal people. it is not.

    michelle, can I shave you this weekend? :)

  • Sharpo

    cancer is smarter than michelle

    cancer knows how to reproduce ;)

  • Sharpo

    why is it that far right wing extremists are the ONLY ones referring to obama as “king” :)

  • Anonymous

    Press Ferret Carney needs to apologize for lying and quit .

  • Anonymous

    Is that Bwahahaha sound you keep making because you have so many Tea Bags in your mouth?  One at a time son.  Don’t choke on all that nice Tea.

  • Anonymous

    How about Obama’s old church and Eric Holder? 
    If a White President went to a White Power church- that would be plenty of evidence enough for you.

    If a White President had a White Attorney General that refused to punish Whites as harshly as he did Blacks- that would be evidence enough for you.

    And for the record- I do not think Obama has any more of a problem with Whites than the average White has with Blacks.  The guy is just a political oppertunist and he knows his core group will not hold him to task due to some weird belief that only Whites can be bad to other races or something. 

    How about you just try to hold your guy up to the same standards of the guys you dont like?  Is that so hard?

  • Anonymous

    How about Obama’s old church and Eric Holder? 
    If a White President went to a White Power church- that would be plenty of evidence enough for you.

    If a White President had a White Attorney General that refused to punish Whites as harshly as he did Blacks- that would be evidence enough for you.

    And for the record- I do not think Obama has any more of a problem with Whites than the average White has with Blacks.  The guy is just a political oppertunist and he knows his core group will not hold him to task due to some weird belief that only Whites can be bad to other races or something. 

    How about you just try to hold your guy up to the same standards of the guys you dont like?  Is that so hard?

  • Brer Orabbit

    Carney: Timing? TIMING?? I don’t need no stinkin’ timing. Barack’s on the golf course and I’m here in front of you lunatics answer ingquestions about timing???  Ok, it’s time to take a potty break . . . . . . . .

  • NeverWrong

    How in the world did this doofus, Jay Corny, get a job as Press Secretary???? He is worse than that fat redheaded guy, Ed Schultze, errrrrrr, I mean Robert Gibbs. Who picks these low IQ goofballs? Obumbler must be scraping the bottom of the whiskey barrel. Oh well there will be a new (REAL) President in a year and a half. I guess we can suffer a little longer.

  • TruDat

    WRONGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!

  • TruDat

    Looks like he does!

  • Anonymous

    No REASONABLE person thinks a debate of a bunch of Republican primary hacks is nearly as important as the President’s sense of urgency in getting Congress to deal with the current jobs issue, something the Republican’ts say they are working on but have done NOTHING since in office in January of this year.  They have worked on reducing access to abortion, replacing Medicare with an ObamaCare-style VoucherCare program that removes guarantees of anything but increasing profits and share prices at healthcare insurance companies, besmirching the reputation of the United States as a credit risk, having a direct impact on the dollar dropping 16% since the day they took office, doing nothing about reducing the deficit in 2011 or 2012 and generally just creating a lot of media attention for themselves rather than doing anything about helping the economy produce more than a 1% growth rate.  The Republican’t primary debate concerns less than 30% of the US population.  True independents and Democrats will not participate in the Republican’t primaries.  But the economy and what the President has to say concerns all Americans and for Boehner to show that he can’t make something like that happen is just further proof of his incompetence and distaste for this President of color.  The racism of this is undeniable by anyone.  The racism on the part of the Republican’t party since January is undeniable.  The lack of respect for the office by the Republican’t candidates for President is undeniable.  Obama should have made a point on the urgency of the situation and said “one more day without dealing with this issue is one more day we can’t afford.”  What to watch for?  What they are going to vote on at 6:30 pm on September 7th.  This vote stinks of nasty politics and I am SURE that it is going to do something to ruin the President’s event.  Mark my words, they will do ANYTHING to discredit the nation’s first black President.  They are doing things to him that would NEVER have been done to a white President.

  • Anonymous

    So, latest poll says 39% support President Obama; are the other 61% racist? 

    Must be, right Mike?

    If the president’s jobs message was so “urgent,” why did he not deliver it before his vacation?

    What is a “true” independent?

    So you see Obama as a “president of color”?

    “The racism of “this” is undeniable by anyone.”  Who’s racism? Yours?

    So, everything that is “done” to Obama or spoken in opposition to him that you don’t like is simply an act of racism? 

    And, we all know how “respectful” those on the left were to George Bush.  What was it Hillary said about speaking out against the Bush administration?  Patriotic!

    If you can’t be in opposition to Obama on any issue without having the race card tossed your way, why would anyone vote for him again? 

    There was plenty of criticism directed at George Bush from the CBC, and the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc.; of course (using Mike’s logic), that criticism had to be racist!

    So, Mike, does every politician of “color” get a free pass on any issue based on his or her race?

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