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NO! *BAD* MR. PRESIDENT! BAD!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 22nd, 2011 at 08:00 PM  | 

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NO BISCUIT!

President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the speech said.

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The new spending could include initiatives aimed at building the renewable-energy sector—which received billions of dollars in stimulus funding—and rebuilding roads to improve transportation, people familiar with the matter said. Money to restructure the No Child Left Behind law’s testing mandates and institute more competitive grants also could be included.

If you want expansions in Big Green payoffs and road pork, Mr. President, pay for it by cutting elsewhere first.  And if you want to enhance your re-election prospects by fiddling with NCLB, do it on your dime.  Until then… The People Have Spoken, and they have said: Stop wasting our money, you daft idjits.

Via Hot Air Headlines.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: What?  What else needs to be said?  Cuts first, cuts that hurt; then we’ll talk about what to fund, and at what priorities.  Welcome to the New Order Of Things: that ain’t Pelosi holding the gavel anymore.

PPS: Clearly, the President has decided to not take my advice and adopt a mindset not notably different than, say, Budget Chair Paul Ryan’s.

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  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    by waiting 2 years to propose major infrastructure spending which is needed and was needed 2 years ago. more later in upcoming column in the series of how

    DEMS DON’T CARE ABOUT THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdpaasch Brian Paasch

    You might see the entire DoD budget red-lined to fulfill your expectations.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …is quite prepared to put CA-12 in play.

  • Scope

    but not in order to fund bad Obama policy with those saved dollars.

  • msctex

    If Obama is going to go for broke, as it were, no way the Dems want to abet the sight of a unified group all groaning and shaking their heads at once. It makes the “we told you so” attitude all the more supportable come 2012.

    I only hope the Republicans don’t fall for the faux group hug mentality which always blossoms on the Left whenever the Democrats lose power.

  • rickbull

    that the democrats LOVE the poor. The more Americans that they can get on the public dole, the more Americans there will be to vote democrats into office.

    That’s what Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” and the War On Poverty were all about: if they can get over 50% of the voters dependent on the government for their livelihood and voting democrats into office, we can kiss our country as we know it good-bye!

  • edwyrd

    how much crow can a lib eat before he vomits? answer: not enough to get reelected! so much for triangulation. the libs can’t get off the crack!!!

  • http://www.buckforcolorado.com bjwilson83

    And here all this time I thought Obama was going to pull a Clinton and work with the GOP congress to balance the budget. Thankfully, all is well. The President is still wandering around in left field, which means we will win in 2012.

  • aesthete

    I hear Mr Dole Romney is still looking to get the Rep nomination though, so we’ll see.

  • drfredc

    IF the President wants to spend on needed infrastructure fine :

    Redefine the Prevailing wage to market based wages, not union wages, including an unemployment factor that would lower costs during high unemployment.

    Require streamlining permit processing and anyone doing such processing must have their wages and benefits adjusted to market wages and benefits (aka, no more defined benefit plans for bureaucrats).

    Cut out cornahol subsidies and use the saving to support infrastructure.

    Eliminate Cap & Tax and cut green subsidies in a reasoned fashion, promote nuke power and other energy development. Use any revenue from federal energy leasing to support infrastructure.

    Education spending — hah, that’s a bad joke. Promote charter schools, add some common sense to educational credentialing so retired folks with lots of expertise can pass on their knowledge and perspectives without a lot of red tape & BS while also making teach wages and benefits more market sensitive. Require any recipient of Fed Ed funds to have market based (401k) retirement plans by X date and outlaw defined benefit plans. Make retirement benefits match social security age.

    In other words if this stuff is needed, make some sacrifices to get the job done while also promoting development of policies and marketplaces that will help (not hurt) general welfare of the nation.

  • JadedByPolitics

    I kept reading this on all the sites today and kept thinking I am going to have to write a diary and say STOP! and include “did you not hear us” and well I got lazy and didn’t do it and you of course did it quite well.

    What does he think Americans are going to hear? does he think that we will say well of course spend more that is the problem. Does he think that we don’t realize the BILLIONS (787) in the so called stimulus was spent on this trash already and created NO JOBS! Does he think we are daft? I welcome his ideological stupidity because this means he will indeed be a OTP (one term President).

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    I wasn’t gonna go there, but y’all made me do it. ;)

    The image of ‘somebody’ getting chased with a rolled-up newspaper including ‘somebody’s’ heavily audible whimpering, and the occasional “um”, “er”, and other stammering because a TelePrompTer doesn’t move with ‘somebody’ that fast……

    Cross that with what (supposedly) once happened there with a flying ashtray, makes one really wonder what goes on in that building when nobody’s looking.

  • carolina

    Actual infrastructure construction would not begin for 2 years.
    Beyond that – I think he is crazy and this will INFLAME all of the deficit hawks = the TEA party.
    Spend, spend, spend is all the dems know how to do.
    The repubs need to give the clear message that public spending robs from the private sector and slows growth. Govt IS the problem.
    No doubt the unions and young people and the TAKERS will love it. Nothing like bribing the TAKERS with tax $$ stolen from the MAKERS.
    obama will be forcing the GOP to continue to be “the party of no”. I guess there is a method to his madness. Thank goodness the GOP has control of the House……. or we would be truly doomed.

  • johnnyd

    You can spend MONEY on OIL RIGS/WELLS, OIL REFINERIES AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.

    On the condition that Donald Trump is the project manager and NO UNION LABOR……………………..

  • flannery

    One new plant in each state. Site the plant on federal land so locals cannot zone it or regulate it or interfere with it. Thats infrastructure that you can believe in.

  • earlgrey
  • gekster

    LOL

  • swami7774

    He really didn’t get the message, did he?
    Better for us, bad for the country.

  • johnnyd

    I just found out that Trump gave Rahm Emanuel 50,000 for his run for IL Gov.

    That was not smart Donald. We are trying to rid Chicago of the riff raff.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47924.html

  • 6eorge Jetson

    And so, jeez, now it’s just crucial that the gov’t address needs that didn’t make the first $550 billion cut of above-and-beyond the ordinary funding?

    Funny, I just drove around the Capitol Beltway, and there was construction going on for miles and miles.

    Infrastructure spending, for both new capacity in growth areas and maintenance of existing infrastructure is necessary. The President, however, would have you believe that not a single cent is being spent on infrastructure from current budgets. Baloney. There is a cost/benefit constraint to additional infrastructure spending, and American governments–both federal, state, and local–have been making that calculation for years.

    If you believe that infrastructure has been horribly neglected, I have a bridge to sell you.

  • IJB

    That’s why Obama’s doing this, and why Congressional Democrats have offered *zero* spending cut proposals – they honestly believe that no one is really for cutting spending, that they are just mouthing hollow words about it with no intention of following through.

    You can see the same mindset at play among a large portion of the self-proclaimed “pundit class” inside the Beltway – they’ll mouth support for spending cuts, but as soon as you get to specific cuts they’ll exclaim, “WELL YOU CAN’T CUT *THAT*!!!”

    They literally cannot conceive of someone being for less government and less spending – it’s simply beyond their worldview.

    The thing is, most of the time, they’re right about this – that the American people also just mouth support for spending cuts, but don’t really have the stomach for it.

    Unfortunately for Obama and the Dems, *this* is not one of those times.

    Anyway, Moe is 100% correct – this move will actually *imperil* Obama’s reelection chances, esp. if the economy is in the bilge tank by Spring-Summer 2012…

  • http://www.FranBaker.com frankieb

    I don’t know what’s wrong with the Republicans. They agree to play patty-cake with the Democrats. And while their back is turned, someone like Steve Cohen stabs them.

  • alvin691

    Is simply more Delphi technique.

  • IJB

    ;)

  • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

    i knew that obama just bending a little to get him another 4 years could do just that.

    it’s absolutely wonderful to hear his ideology and/or arrogance has performed an intervention.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    the leaders and elected officials that care about power over the poor and the votes from same (and govt employees and those dependent on govt contracts and favors like Big Business that gets its monopolies solidified) to get re-elected.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • earlgrey

    This just seems so stupid (i hope I can use that word). I can’t really believe he plans to present such a plan. That must be some silve tongue he’s got, because I don’t know who else could sell more spending at a time like this.

  • jaykali

    Can he just replay his speech from last year? Isn’t always ab infrastructure spending and green jobs and energy/climate legislation that never happens?

  • throwback59

    Nan Hayworth an email saying I would look poorly on any Repub. that sat with dems, and would be especially disappointed if my own rep crossed over to the “dark side.”
    I’ll be looking at where she sits Tues. Nite.

  • throwback59

    Super Bowl commercial on Youtube and had to share it. I LMAO but a lot of people don’t like it. Too bad the liberal weenies at Fox won’t run it.

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

  • Read Chesterton

    But I know what you mean… the left has perfected the art of phony “Consensus Theater.” Think of it as a “reverse Alinsky” … the are pushing an unpopular agenda and using willing Republican dupes to avoid any one of their own from being singled out for attack and ridicule on their side of the aisle.

    That “Delphi” technique used to weed out reasonable dissent and hold it up to ridicule and marginalization has been renamed many times over since it was exposed a generation ago… In the corporate world they’ve hidden it in various Quality initiatives like Six Sigma. In the churches, where radical groups like like Acorn are getting a toehold, they use something called “small group” dynamics. But its all the same old Alinskyism… freeze the target, ridicule, and isolate.

  • johnt

    Infrastructure, do we not spend billions every year at state & federal levels for upkeep and improvement? Plus the atrocious Stimulus?
    Education? Give me a drink, when haven’t we increased spending, and where is the payoff?
    Standard boilerplate, brain dead liberalism, and just the stuff that got Hawaii Obama in trouble in the first place. You can see the brilliance[?] of Axelrod and the others on this, plus the plaudits of the loons over at the Times.
    The Chief Jerk is following orders, obedient dope that he is.

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdpaasch Brian Paasch

    But I lived and worked in CA-12 for several years. Having that experience, I can’t think of anything that would move that district away from hard left.

  • pamela1631

    It’s no BURGER and FRIES for you Obama.
    Toss no ice cream in there also.

    All the money that has been wasted over the decades could have had the infrastructure of this country properly maintained, replaced or upgraded.

    I know from experience if there is debt, you do without until the debt is paid off. Bare necessities only. We as a people and nation have forgotten what frugality and thrifty ways mean.

  • Common_Cents

    I’m surprised he didnt put his picture on all those recovery act signs you see while driving.

  • lineholder

    that Republican House included in their spending cut proposal this week?

  • izoneguy

    Issa needs to keep an eagle eye for this.

  • Common_Cents

    telling people to hurry up and spend their stimulus before republicans reneg on it.

    wow, what a great reasoned use of capital.

  • lineholder

    but I can’t find the diary. It had a chart that identified all the areas of cuts. I copied the chart, but not the link.

    Under the “Cross Agency and Other” category, it identified 60,000 (in millions of dollars) of unspent stimulus money.

  • izoneguy

    San Francisco Sends Her New Mayor to DC to Beg For Money the Government Doesn’t Have

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/16/BAMK1H98SI.DTL#ixzz1BKa1xTDr

    “This is a short but important trip to solidify personal relationships and represent San Francisco’s interest in an era of declining federal resources,” mayoral spokesman Tony Winnicker said. “We benefited from significant federal stimulus dollars in recent years, and those are gone; so directly advocating for the city and key federal support will pay dividends.”

  • renny

    afrter so something like 100s of millions in state and fed. support for many, many years? It will keep a factory open in China. Is it one where workers are chained to the production line and are virtual and sometimes real slaves to communism?
    I don’t think it’s a good pr message for the SOTU speech.

  • bobmontgomery

    ….who got $1.4 billion from the feds for not putting reflectors in part of the Mojave, tried to put them in another part and now is being sued by the nuts who want to protect the …..desert tortoise. Question is: does Bright Source get to use some of the $1.4 billion in defending the lawsuit by the conservo-whackos? RFK, Jr. was on Bright Sources’ side (probably as a deal to keep windmills away from Hyannisport).

  • The_Gadfly

    lefties know how to do. And after all, it worked so well for his hero FDR…

  • The_Gadfly

    He understands protection money and how to sanitize it.

  • The_Gadfly

    He doesn’t have any sort of conceptual framework with which to hear the message. It’s sort of like trying to explain the color red to a someone who has been blind since birth.