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Deja Vu All Over Again: The White House Talking Points for the Speech

The White House has begun sending out talking points on Stimulus II to left wing groups. I’ve obtained a copy. I think we need Bill Murray to speak tonight, because I feel like I’m living in Ground Hog’s Day.

The American Jobs Act is:

  • based on bi-partisan ideas;
  • it is fully paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share; and
  • it will have an impact on job and economic growth NOW — just as soon as Congress acts.
  • Every day, people in this country are working hard to meet their responsibilities. The question now is whether Washington will meet theirs.
  • The time for obstruction and gridlock is over. Congress needs to put country ahead of politics.
  • The American people know that the economic crisis and the deep recession weren’t created overnight and won’t be solved overnight. The economic security of the American middle class has been under attack for decades.
  • That’s why President Obama believes we need to do more than just recover from this economic crisis.
  • The President is rebuilding the economy the American way — based on balance, fairness and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street where hard work and responsibility pay and gaming the system is penalized.
  • It’s an American economy that’s built to last and creates the jobs of the future, by forcing Washington to live within its means so we can invest in small business entrepreneurs, education, and making things the world buys, not outsourcing, loopholes and reckless financial deals that put middle class security at risk.

Just remember that back in 2010, 100 economists said the stimulus had failed.

This year, Ohio State University economists reported the first stimulus actually killed jobs.

Lastly, remember that whatever Obama does is going to encounter, for better or worse, the new Super Committee.

Barack Obama is really out of new ideas. We’ll get something bipartisan out of this that will perpetuate the status quo, i.e. a continuation of the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits. Unfortunately for the nation, the status quo has not created jobs — in fact, it has created zero jobs in the past month.

COMMENTS

  • msctex

    . . .outright lies and gross exaggerations in a forest, and there is no one there to hear him, does he make a sound?

    There is a reason the Dems insisted this be done in front of a Joint Session of Congress. The august audience is meant to lend legitimacy to a speech which otherwise might not fall just upon deaf ears, but no ears at all.

  • JimmyGee

    http://youtu.be/NZR64EF3OpA

    As my 13 year old step-daughter puts it…”Saaay-Innn”

  • JimmyGee

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZR64EF3OpA

  • http://www.fpcr.org balloonjuice

    of the American middle class has been attack for decades.”

    What does this mean? Who are the attackers? What is the security to which he refers? How will his jobs plan change that?

    Looks like he’s doubling down on fundamentally changing America.

  • lineholder

    “Balanced” means they’re looking for tax increases
    “Fairness” means income redistribution
    “Wealthiest pay their fair share” goes back to the tax increase
    “NOW” is sugar-coating for the sake of presenting a sense of urgency
    “investment” means new government-funded programs
    “obstruction” is the word they use when other people don’t kow-tow

    Did I miss anything?

  • JimmyGee

    [youtube]vNZR64EF3OpA[/youtube]

  • Darin_H

    Most of it is hogwash, but I just want to point out this:

    “where hard work and responsibility pay and gaming the system is penalized”

    You mean like the vote to bail the banks out when you were a Senator?

    Or do you mean all the QE that rewards people with a lot of debt and hurts people who have saved?

    Or do you mean spreading the wealth around from those who did to those who didn’t?

  • Darin_H

    Or the bond holders of Chrysler?

  • Veronica

    That’s a term he hardly used his first or second year, and I analyzed his speeches.

    Anybody’s guess?

    Government spending when you’re this much in debt isn’t responsible .. I mean, that should be the first basis he speaks from. Pennsylvania Ave isn’t Main Street.

  • gregorysstewart

    How about the use of investment that is only remotely related to the actual meaning.

    We do not invest in food stamps. Food stamps are consumed.

    We do not invest in Unemployment benefits. We expect nothing back from unemployment benefits. The recipients produce nothing and are being incentivized to produce nothing.

  • gekster

    Embeding has been disabled for that video.

  • mkozikowski

    “the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street where hard work and responsibility pay and gaming the system is penalized.”
    Except the 50% of U.S. Workers do not pay any income tax.
    And the special interest groups beholden to The President get special treatment and waivers to tormenting regulations like Obama-Care.

    Yup, this is just another “Smoke and Mirrors” shell game.
    Nothing to see here, just move along.
    These are not the Talking Points you are looking for.

    Hmmmmmmmm, how ordinary and expected from one who is clueless.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    The Republicans should offer the following compromise:

    1. Repeal Obamacare.
    2. Do whatever else Obama thinks is needed to create jobs (stimulus spending etc).
    3. Have 18-month regulatory moratorium.

    #1 and #3 are the real job creation items. If Obama wont budge, then he really doesnt want to create jobs.

  • Wes_W

    “Middle class security” = Entitlements

  • Tbone

    in a bill the Senate won’t pass and that he would never sign.

  • keysconservative

    We were told when he returns from his lobster vacation in the Vineyard he would present a PLAN. Looks like a SPEECH about a plan to me.

  • carolina

    BO wants to spend MORE and he is going to ask the super committee to figure out how to ‘pay for it’. (per WH communications head just now on Fox).
    BO is a bad joke.

  • carolina

    BO wants to spend MORE and he is going to ask the super committee to figure out how to ‘pay for it’. (per WH communications head just now on Fox).
    BO is a bad joke.

  • YnotNOW

    “American Way” = something the Constitution would never permit in America.

  • runner12

    Charlie Brown. It is always the same and always annoying. It is no surprise that he will be trotting out another failed stimulus plan.

  • YnotNOW

    Therefore he is now using it in his mis-direction, when he is actually referring to something quite the opposite – increasing dependency upon Government.