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Failed-plan expert President Obama lectures GOP on plans.

But I'm sure that Barack Obama *means* well.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 17th, 2011 at 08:30 PM  | 

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Isn’t this just the cutest thing?

If the video doesn’t load, Breitbart TV pulled the relevant quote:

“My plan says we’re going to put teachers back in the classrooms, construction workers back to work… Tax cuts for small businesses, tax cuts for hiring veterans, tax cuts if you give your worker a raise. That’s my plan. Then you got [the Republican's] plan which is ‘let’s have dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance’… So far I’m feeling better about my plan.”

Now, of course, President Obama is trying to upset the GOP with silly little statements like that. He’s trying to get our goats. Because if he gets our goats, maybe we won’t respond with things like this:

You see that dark blue line? The one that promised us that we’d be at 6.5% unemployment and dropping right now? Yeah, that represents Obama’s “plan” for unemployment.

Or how about this?

See those very, very, very long lines? The ones representing our insanely burgeoning yearly budget deficits? Funny thing: that represents Obama’s ‘plan’ for fiscal responsibility.

And then there’s this epic, almost impossible-to-excerpt graphic of how the poverty rate, unemployment rate, average weeks unemployed, median income, health insurance premiums, number of jobs, inflation rate, food stamp usage, average gasoline price, average SFR home value, national debt, and of course deficit have all gotten worse since January 20, 2009. Guess what? That was the fallout from Barack Obama’s “plan” to run the country. But to be fair, he’s certainly running the country.

Right into the ground.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: For those wondering why I’m not bothering to answer the President’s allegations re Republican motivations and plans, well, my response is as follows: given President Obama’s staggeringly incompetent track record, why should any sane man or woman take those allegations seriously in the first place? Did American politics suddenly adopt the mercy rule?

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  • ombd

    The Failed-plan expert. Yep, that about sums it up. Media protestations notwithstanding, there’s a lot of reasons that we should all be hoping that Obama “fails” …

    http://www.ombudizen.com/2011/10/17/wanting-obama-to-fail/

  • macbookben

    …about any kind of plan is as indistinguishable and unnoticeable as the ceiling fan above my head.

  • ldmartin1959

    “…less people with health insurance…”

    This guy claims to be a college grad and a genius but can’t even construct a proper sentence. And he wants us to believe he is capable of constructing a financial plan which is far more complicated than a simple sentence?

  • Right_Again

    is channeling Alan Grayson now. Maybe he always has been. Maybe Grayson was just an Obama sock puppet all along.

  • dajeeps

    He needs to do the only responsible thing left to do and just resign. He is completely out of touch with the condition of society in general. We’ve got some real problems in the area of political cohesion that he’s entirely missing. Does he really think the Occupy people, or even just average Joe struggling to make ends meet, not knowing if he can make through the month really care about teachers and firemen beyond the current condition? My guess is not so much; many of us are quite understandably self-absorbed at present. Everyone pretty much knows this is the same old warmed over bag of puke he sold last time. If he can’t get a grip and come up with something new he needs to just go.

  • DerKrieger

    …of hearing Obama talk about how his plan will put teachers, firefighters, and police back to work. Notice that of all the public employees he wants to keep on their jobs through the election he omits those with whom the public would have little sympathy, i.e. the people at the DMV, clerks, tax collectors, and other assorted unionized pencil pushers. The GOP has to resist this obvious ploy.

    It is not my responsibility as an Arkansas taxpayer to fund teachers, firefighters, and police outside my town and county much less my state.

    Obama is trying to keep union dues cycling through the unions to his campaign and exert additional control over local and state governments.

    And to hear Obama and the rest of the propagandists tell it, without his “plan” we’d all be drinking dirty water and choking on dirty air. I’m sick of this line of crap too. Who believes this stuff?

  • Tbone

    It will be the strawberries that do them in.

  • Neil1030

    You beat me to it. I noticed that right away. It should be “fewer” people. His flunkies told us how brilliant he was but his grammar isn’t great.

    So was this a real campaign event or was it this taxpayer funded “non political” tour?

  • youngsterz

    I could not be less impressed with the man. Unfortunately I fear that I’ll have numerous opportunities over the next year to see the bar set lower, and lower, and lower.

    Does he actually work at his job, or just spend all of his time tearing down those who won’t blindly give in to his every desire?

  • Kyle-MI

    if we hadn’t tried it already,
    at a much bigger scale,
    and it hadn’t already failed spectacularly.

    Other than these small flaws, the Obama plan is brilliant.

  • http://www.AmericanThinker.com Hammer2008

    Great blog Moe! Pardon my Twitter re-title, but it’s the image that came as soon as you ended with “…he?s certainly running the country.

    Right into the ground.”

  • florajo

    I think you all are neglecting an unspoken goal of the plan: To shore up state coffers (like California’s), and thus reverse some of the de-stimulating effects of the states’ shrinking budgets.

  • rcatheart

    that in North Dakota, you can’t find unemployed construction workers. Practically anybody who wants a job has one.

    I wonder why that is.

    Oh wait…the oil boom. Huh.

  • drfredc

    There’s another plan the Obama has in the works — Occupy 2012. This 2011 Occupy is just a trial run. Wait till it takes over October of the election season, with Obama leading the charge to tax the rich and get everyone back to work!

  • lastgopinillinois

    than ALL of the Republican candidates combined. He will be able to run TV ads every night of the week telling everyone how the Republicans hate teachers, police, firefighters and how they don’t care if you end up with food poisoning, drinking dirty water and breathing dirty air.
    This could potentially brainwash a lot of dummies out there.
    Meanwhile, he continues to campaign on taxpayer dollars; disquised as a tour to “sell” his unpopular “jobs” (tax) bill.
    My question is; who is the sly con-artist (strategist) behind this ruse ?

  • TopGun

    …brings you double digit unemployment every time.

    It really is that simple.

  • uncmike

    It looks like he already has or, more accurately, he never started the job to begin with. Every time a Democrat doesn’t get every penny there is to spend, he says the first to be hit will be teachers and firemen or some such. There is tremendous fat that could be cut in every bureaucracy, but they alway take the gold watch approach. This time, as you say, I don’t think that old dog will hunt.

  • renl57

    Even liberals who believe that Keynesian government spending is the way to reduce unemployment can’t rationally believe that Obama’s “plan” can possibly work.

    The 2009 stimulus package was $780 billion–and it failed to reduce unemployment.

    Obama’s new plan is $447 billion–40% smaller than the previous package that failed.

    According to Keynesian theory, if spending $780 billion didn’t work, then how can spending 40% less possibly work? Are the Dems trying to fix the economy with homeopathy now?

    A few liberals like Jan Schakowsky and Joe Klein have admitted the whole purpose of this plan is political–to give Obama something to attack the GOP with in the upcoming campaign. Obama is trying to channel Truman and run against the “do-nothing Congress.”

    I wonder who will be the first to point out that today, half of that “do-nothing Congress”–the Senate–is run by the Democrats.

  • renl57

    Let’s suggest to our liberal friends that they pass a “homeopathic stimulus package.”

    According to homeopathic theory, if the Congress passes a stimulus package equal to exactly one dollar, that will drastically reduce unemployment.

  • blooch

    No wonder he feels better after pulling it out.