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Ooh, that *scary* Barack Obama’s gonna go after the GOP tonight!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 12th, 2013 at 03:00 PM  | 

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Now, this is rich:

Here’s what we know about President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night: It will include some news — as in new challenges aimed at Congress — and enough rhetoric about economic growth and job creation to sound familiar to most Americans who worry about continued 8 percent unemployment.

The president’s speech, described by White House officials as an expansion of January’s inauguration theme of “opportunity for all,” will kick off a week of campaign-style Obama travel designed to pressure GOP lawmakers to bend to the wishes of [WHAT THE DEMOCRATS CLAIM IS] a majority of Americans — or risk their election-year wrath.

Yeah, I had to fix that article a bit: I’m a little surprised, though. Usually Real Clear Politics is admirably even-handed about these sorts of things. Maybe the author is new?

Anyway, I would like to remind Mister President of two numbers that may have escaped his notice: 234, and 228. The first number represents the number of Republican Congressmen who won re-election despite the fact that Obama did, too; and the second represents the number of Congressional Districts that Mitt Romney won. Which leads naturally enough to the next question: why, precisely, is Barack Obama expecting to scare precisely the group of people who have already survived Barack Obama’s and the Democrats’ displeasure? 2012 wasn’t 2006 or 2008, after all. It was an election where the electorate apparently decided that, sure, this entire ‘Republican stubbornness’ thing was working for them*. You can hardly blame the GOP for taking the electorate at their word.

Besides: what’s the President going to do, anyway? Make a speech? Has that ever worked? – Because I can’t think of a particular case offhand where Obama making a speech has really worked. Well, worked for him; state-party Republicans have been finding his efforts to be of great help, all across the land…

(H/T: Hot Air Headlines)

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*This is usually the point where people start muttering about gerrymandering. Now, of course said mutterers are usually just racist liberals who have found this to be a deniable way to complain about how many black people there are in the House of Representatives; but even the ones who aren’t scared of minorities are kind of missing the point. The 2014 elections are highly unlikely to be painful to Republicans this cycle – and the Republican party kind of knows that, thanks.

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  • westcoastpatriette

    WOOF, WOOF. nt

  • Tbone

    The big difference is that you may not see a dog turd if you watch the Westminster show.

  • vandalii

    Organizer-in-Chief, Campaigner-in-Chief, that’s what he does. Empty chair in the Oval Office actually has less to do with what Clint Eastwood conveyed and more to do with actual physical absence from Commander-in-Chief responsibilities.

  • rightlane1111

    I have to post this. I received this as an e-mail. I wasn’t born yet, but I do remember listening to the Lone Ranger on the radio with my Grandpa.

    Do you think that we will get ANY of this sentiment from Obama tonight?You see…this is what is wrong today. Our patriotism is gone. I’d like to share this with all of you because this is how IT SHOULD BE: (This was copied by e-mail)

    The link below will take you to a video showing the very first public singing
    of “GOD BLESS AMERICA”.

    But before you watch, you should also know the story of the song.

    The time was 1940. America was still in a terrible economic depression.
    Hitler was taking over Europe and Americans were afraid we’d have to go to
    war. It was a time of hardship and worry for most Americans.

    This was the era just before TV, when radio shows were HUGE, and American
    families sat around their radios in the evenings, listening to their favorite entertainers, and no entertainer of that era was bigger than Kate Smith.

    Kate was also large in size, and the popular phrase still used today is in deference to her, “Ain’t over till the fat lady sings”. Kate Smith might not have made it big in the age of TV,
    but with her voice coming over the radio, she was the biggest star of her
    time.

    Kate was also very patriotic. It hurt her to see Americans so depressed and afraid of what the next day would bring. She had hope for America, and faith in her fellow Americans. She wanted to do something to cheer them up, so she went to the famous American song-writer, Irving Berlin (who also wrote”White Christmas”) and asked him to write a song that would
    make Americans feel good again about their country.

    When she described what she was looking for, he said he had just the song
    for her. He went to his files and found a song that he had written, but never published, 22 years before – way back in 1917. He gave it to Kate Smith and she worked on it with her studio orchestra. She and Irving Berlin were not sure how the song would be received by the public, but both agreed they would not take any profits from
    God Bless America. Any profits would go to the Boy Scouts of America. Over the years, the Boy Scouts have received millions and millions of dollars
    in royalties from this song.

    This video starts out with Kate Smith coming into the radio studio with the orchestra and an audience. She introduces the new song for the very
    first time, and starts singing. After the first couple of verses, with her voice in the background still singing, scenes are shown from the 1940 movie, “You’re In The Army Now.” At the 4:20 mark of the video you see a young actor in the movie, sitting in an office, reading a paper. It is Ronald Reagan.

    Frank Sinatra considered Kate Smith the best singer of her time, and said when he and a million other guys first heard her sing “God Bless America” on the radio, they all pretended to have dust in their eyes as they wiped
    away a tear or two.

    To this day, God Bless America stirs our patriotic feelings and pride in
    our country. Back in 1940, when Kate Smith went looking for a song to raise the spirits of her fellow Americans, I doubt she realized just how successful the results would be for her fellow Americans during those years of hardship and worry, and for many generations of Americans to follow. Now that you know the story of the song, I hope you will enjoy it and
    treasure it even more.

    NOW HERE IS HOW “GOD BLESS AMERICA” SHOULD BE SUNG!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_embedded&v=TnQDW-NMaRs#%21

  • Kyle-MI

    It still amazes me that there are people buying the snake oil that Obama is trying to sell. We know what his priorities are by what he has been proposing since winning reelection in Nov. It is not jobs, economic growth, or a balanced budget. It is gun control and amnesty for illegal immigrants. Oh goody, more campaign-style travel. Pardon me while I throw up.