1 And hey, look at that - more "unexpected" Economy FAIL! for Obambi to deal with... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_new_home_sales "New home sales unexpectedly fell 7.6 percent last month, capping the industry's weakest year on record."

2 'rons must be stuck at the last thread.

3

HEY!  According to "the corner"  ...Senator Coburn's amendment to cut $120 billion of double payments and wasteful spending was defeated.

Does Congress really think we can afford one more spending binge with a $1.35 trilion deficit this year?

And the democrats want to raise the dept limit - again.  It's all smoke and mirrors.  It's all talk.

All Obama has is talk.

4
That's Numberwang!

5 Mmmmmm... healthcare? Hello? Healthcare? Hello? Poor Andi Sullivan's head is gonna explode if that doesn't get mentioned tonight... past couple of weeks ol' Andi has been pressing The One to "fight, fight, fight..." and it looks like The One is folding like a lawn chair soaked in WD-40....

6 Maybe he'll take credit for this unprecedented cold and tell us how he single handedly stopped global warming.

7 Senator Coburn's amendment to cut $120 billion of double payments and wasteful spending was defeated.

Damn those Republicans, refusing to let me get anything done!

8
I project more of the..."targeted tax cuts" meme. 

Which is Bullshit.  The democrats will never cut taxes.  They might offer a "tax credit" - but they will never truly cut taxes.  They live and breathe to raise them.

9 So ... minor spending freezes, insignificant tax relief, more good money after bad on union-directed education scams, gays in the military, illegals all up in our shit, and populist attacks on the financial sector during a brutal recession with high unemployment.

About what I expected.  Talk about misplaced priorities.  How about smaller government, significantly lower taxes (start with the corporate rates to spur hiring), stronger national security (especially in the air), enforce our borders, teach people math and English, firm debt reduction goals with a self-imposed duty of accounting along the way, quit lying about the impact of spendulus, unhitch the union whores from our gravy train (I think they've taken a full drink from the trough by now), and populist rhetoric that extols the virtues of America. instead?

 

10 You forgot the opening shout-out to Ellie Light for her tireless efforts.

11 "Look, it not mi fault, nor is It GWBs. It's the 52 dumb asses that elected me that are to blame!"

12 Considering the markets tanked last week on Barrys sleazy class warfare, there ought to be some nice prices soon on bank stocks. Unbelievably stupid. Also Amnesty and DADT? I'll bet Blue Dogs and red state Democrat Senators will be lovin that, LOL.

13 With the stroke of a pen he can freeze WH/pols salaries and repeal DADT.

Kauthammer nailed it when he explained that a freeze of recently bloated dept budgets is no freeze at all.  If he were serious, he roll back to 2008 levels, but he won't.

14 Tax cuts, huh? That's great. You can't cut taxes on the middle-class the way the Mediacrats definite it. THEY DON'T PAY ANY, ALREADY!!! You can only cut taxes on people who actually, you know pay them. Like small business owners and...{gasp}...people with money. More faux populism from the dumbest, least qualified president in the history of this country.

15 I better replace my bullshit filter with a fresh one before tonight.

16 I also expect a reference to Michelle's latest thing about supporting military families desperately attempting to get army wives to cancel out their husbands' votes.

17 President Toonces is screwed, and thus so are we. He and the window-licking Dems/squishes in the House and Senate have created a Mothra of economic destruction that cannot be subdued. No amount of purty populist utterings will change that. 

18 Amnesty?  Really?  That should go over like a lead balloon.

19 "targeted tax cuts" meme.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that means more checks to people who file but don't actually pay in.  Any of you got a "qualifying child" you're not using I could borrow?  I want in on that.

20

Get primed for another heapin' helpin' of FAIL Zero!

I'll go out on a limb here and predict that the anger and other problems are all due to BOOSHE.

21 I hope he does push for amnesty, because it will just blow up in his fucking face like his push for healthcare did. This country is not in the mood right now to be talking about amnesty, and of course, it never should be.

22 So they are moving from the controversial health care bill to . . . AMNESTY??  Because, you know, with funemployment so low we really, really need all those guest workers.  I'm sure that will be just the ticket to get the independents all back on board.

23

(6) Call for amnesty.

And the bottom drops out....

24 (5) Call for Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal.
(6) Call for amnesty.
(7) Call for legislative attack on the financial industry.

Sweet Fancy Moses. Talk about out of touch.

25 Anyone who thinks he's gonna do something  to the "big boys" when it comes to the banks and wall street, well....

26
Oregon just voted to increase taxes on themselves.  Prediction:  Oregon's local economy will hit the skids. Oh glorious progressive tax increases!

27 ...and i will continue my Unprecedented F'en-Up of this country...

28 well the tax cuts won't help a lot of folks as he defines the middle class in an odd way. 

Even libs, as they lose their jobs, are starting to talk about closing the border and enforcing the laws so that little bit about Amnesty should really go over well with his base, again.

29 Amnesty?  So he wants the Dems to lose 200 seats?  I'm shockingly fine with that.

30

Amnesty...

Just shove it down their redneck racist teabagging throats!

31

Nothing about fighting two wars (three if you now count Yemen)?

Nothing about foreign anything? (Iran, world economy, impoving relations, China, Israel/Palistinians, terrorists, etc.)

Nothing about going green? Climate fairy tales? Cap and trade?

NOTHING ABOUT HEALTHCARE????

What happened to his agenda? Under the bus?

32 "Targeted" tax cuts will be said a bunch, I imagine.  I always hated this term, from both sides.  Federal govt picking winners and losers again.

33 Amnesty? Really? That should go over like a lead balloon. Posted by: Guy Fawkes at January 27, 2010 11:11 AM (DIYmd) Amnesty for what?

34 I got a bad feeling about this SOTU address.....I'm lubing up with full synthetic...

35 (5) Call for Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal.
(6) Call for amnesty.
(7) Call for legislative attack on the financial industry.

Sweet Fancy Moses. Talk about out of touch.

Don't you know? Socialists lesbian Mexicans are the new soccer moms, and we have the registrations to prove it.

36

Okay, I know there's probably a perfectly rational an accounting/political explanation for this term, but "Non-discretionary budget freeze?"  If it's non-discretionary, wouldn't it by definition have to be paid, regardless of budgetary concerns?  A budget freeze would have to focus on limiting discretionary expenses, since they are... um... freakin' discretionary!!eleventy1! and can be frozen.

Like I said, I'm sure there's an accounting/political definition of discretionary/non-discretionary expenses that I'm not aware of that gives the phrase "non-discretionary budget freeze" some semblence of meaning.

37 Amnesty is what did  Bush in with the base.  His low approval ratings had a lot to do with Comprehensive Pile of Shit.  That's one of the primary reasons the base didn't show up for McCain.  Obviously, on election day, independents didn't let Obama's support of amnesty hold them back.

So....I'm not sure it hurts Obama as much, unless independents have a collective WTF moment when they view it alongside 10% unemployment.

38 Amnesty for what?

Posted by: nevergiveup at January 27, 2010 11:15 AM (0GFWk)

Not for the soldier who calls one of his platoon mates "faggot" after they repeal DADT you can bet on that.

39 A union guy told me that originally the unions and oddly, the Catholic church, thought that amnesty would be good for their interests.  Teh economy was booming and the thought of having all these now legal aliens joining the trades was ok cause the union coffers would be enriched.  But now the guy is saying there aren't enough jobs to go around so he is glad a lot of them went back to where they came from and he wishes the rest of them would go there too so he doesn't have to speak up against amnesty.  For the Catholic Church, they are almost all Catholic, and they feel it will bolster their failing church.  Problem is they are usually the service takers not the big donation givers.

40 Nothing about foreign anything?

Foreign policy is nothing but an irritating distraction to these statists. So is the military.

41 (6) Call for amnesty.

Hehehe, thanks Obama. Please give John McCain a call on this.

42 (1) Non-defense, non-discretionary budget freeze.
(2) Salary freeze for WH and political appointees.
(3) Tax cuts and credits aimed at the middle and working classes.
(4) Education funding.
(5) Call for Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal.
(6) Call for amnesty.
(7) Call for legislative attack on the financial industry.

1. Great.
2. Great.
3. Why not across the board?
4. Not the feds job.
5. I'm too ignorant to comment.
6. Unjust.
7. Scapegoating.

43 I just looked over and see James O'Keefe on MSNBC but don't have time to run and watch.

44 Yes, amnesty, you fucking ignorant redneck degenerates.

The only reason people don't support it now is that they just don't understand it.  It's up to us to make those people understand how great it'll be -- force them to free their minds, if you will.

Sure, we'll get an earful back home all right, but it will be an earful of wonderment and happiness about what a great job we did.

45

Oregon just voted to increase taxes on themselves.  Prediction:  Oregon's local economy will hit the skids. Oh glorious progressive tax increases!

I knew people in the north end of the state (above Redding) who used to drive to Medford for big ticket item purchases, as OR had no sales tax. This initiative amounts to a hidden sales tax, as businesses pass on the costs to consumers.

46 You know they are questioning ol Timmmaaay but I hate this stuff becasue they are questioning what he did and why he did it and if he hadn't done it they would be saying to him "why did you let the entire financial system collapse".  The guy is damned that he did and damned that he didn't. 

47 32 "Targeted" tax cuts will be said a bunch, I imagine.  I always hated this term, from both sides.  Federal govt picking winners and losers again.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at January 27, 2010 11:14 AM (DIYmd)

And playing class warfare too.

48

I think this should be titled "SoTU the Musical" (from Fiddler on the Roof)

Spend more, spend less
Spend more, spend less
All of the money flows away
Prosperity turns to poverty and misery
Greatness to ruin as we gaze

 

_{I'm here all week.}

49 I'm hoping the "pro-amnesty Republican" guy on another thread will share his thoughts with us.

50

#26

I guess now we get to watch the New Oregon Trail in action - traveling east.

51 I can't wait to experience these wonderful tax cuts for the middle class.  'Cause the one he gave me last year ended up costing me an additional $200.00 this year on taxes.  But I was getting more money in my paycheck you say?  Yes, I was but I ended up paying more to those shysters in government because the Idiot in Chief repealed the Bush tax cuts (and yes I did increase my withholding).  So thanks, but no thanks Mr. Wonderful.  Not that I've ever believed in you or anything you say but I'm not even tuning in tonight because I can't believe a thing you say.

52 If DADT gets "repealed" then doesn't it mean they go back to banning gays from the military entirely?  Under DADT, gays only get kicked out of the military if they're outed, so if DADT's repealed then the full ban should go back into effect.

53 For the Catholic Church, they are almost all Catholic, and they feel it will bolster their failing church.  Problem is they are usually the service takers not the big donation givers.

They can be Catholic and stay in Mexico and church affiliation numbers stay unchanged.  I think you're right. It's a money game, but "poor undocumented" Mexican Catholics have no money, or they send it back to Mexico anyway!

The Catholic Church has a serious problem with this embracing of liberal policies that it seems to be doing. Instead of appealing to the good consciences of people and preaching good deeds by individuals, they seem to have taken the point of view that the government should be voted in and tasked with applying "social justice."

54 Amnesty?  Of course, now that everybody in the country is working and we've got all that extra money for entitlements.

Teh chicken is going to be very sore tonight.

55 Which is Bullshit.  The democrats will never cut taxes.  They might offer a "tax credit" - but they will never truly cut taxes.  They live and breathe to raise them.

Here's what Barry will say, "I was going to call for a 10% across-the-board tax increase.  Instead, I am calling for a 5% increase.  You're welcome for the 5% tax cut."

56

Mary Katharine Ham notes that President Obama tells ABC:

“Let's just clarify. I didn't make a bunch of deals [on health care]. ... There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked.”

But the Washington Post reported on December 20 that Obama's top aides were involved in the negotiations with Nelson:

Schumer, who spent more than 13 hours in Reid's office Friday, said the Medicaid issue was settled around lunchtime, and the final eight hours of the talks focused on the abortion language. Boxer estimated she spent seven hours in Reid's offices -- without ever once sitting in the same room, even though they were all of 25 steps apart.

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Unfrigginbelievable!

Read the rest here:  http://tinyurl.com/ycgzzfh

57

I hope Not to see any of the well known RINO's giving a milquetoast "rebuttal". I wanna see this crap sandwich taken apart layer by layer in no uncertain terms. And I don't want to see McCain or Newt.

 

58 Such a separation in the American people though.  He will call for more federal education funding.  Many will cheer because "that's money for a good thing."  Many of us with a deeper political philosophy will instead cringe, to the total and utter bewilderment of those in favor of the money.  Unless they decide we must hate the poor or something.

59

(7) Call for legislative attack on the financial industry.

What?  Does he 1) still not realize this ISN'T good for the economy, 2) not care, or 3) have this as his goal all along? 

60

David 42 1. Great. 2. Great.

You misspelled "gimmick".

61 "SOROS GOES AGAINST OBAMA IN DAVOS..."

62 Items 5, 6 and 7 are for real, right? Sheesh.

Either I'm completely out of touch with the political zeitgeist or Obama is. What can he be thinking? Amnesty? I have to assume that's gonna be a Haiti-only deal (at least to start) and it still won't be very popular.
Is "Don't ask, don't tell" of importance to anyone but the gay lobby? Doubt it. Going after the successful businesses that actually still employ people at good wages? That's supposed to be smart?
I'm beyond puzzled by Wee-Wee and his handlers.

63 Word has it that The Wall Street Journal editorial board still thinks we're all racists for not supporting amnesty. After all, there are so many jobs that Americans still won't do.

64 I hope Not to see any of the well known RINO's giving a milquetoast "rebuttal".

Instead of the traditional rebuttal, I'd like to see DeMint and Coburn and a few other stalwarts just sitting around a table laughing hysterically for 15 minutes. 

65 maddogg 57, the response is going to be from McDonnell in Virginia, who strikes me as a sharp guy with unapologetic conservative principles.

66 Is it more money in the way of grants and scholarships or is it more money available in loans that will not be low interest and people will need to pay back as soon as they graduate even if they can't find a damn job?

67

The Catholic Church has a serious problem with this embracing of liberal policies that it seems to be doing. Instead of appealing to the good consciences of people and preaching good deeds by individuals, they seem to have taken the point of view that the government should be voted in and tasked with applying "social justice."

There has been a "liberation theology" 5th column of Commies in Collars, often Jesuits, in the Church for some time.

In fairness, the good guys in the Church, like Opus Dei, rock.

68

65 maddogg 57, the response is going to be from McDonnell in Virginia, who strikes me as a sharp guy with unapologetic conservative principles.

Sounds good. I don't know anything about him. That will be the only part of the speech I will watch.

69 It doesn't matter what he says.  He's given 300 State of the Union addresses already.  He will bullshit like he always does, but it doesn't matter.  His policies are such CRAP that his words are irrelevant.  We will not have a economic turn around until TAXES are cut.

70

Word has it that The Wall Street Journal editorial board still thinks we're all racists for not supporting amnesty. After all, there are so many jobs that Americans still won't do.

Agnostica: for some time now, I have been posting back on the WSJ comment section / editorial pages, rebutting the open border greedheads, and concluding with the words "You. Just. Don't. Get. It." Join the fray.

71 Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 27, 2010 11:31 AM (ujg0T)

In some dioceses the Bishops are trying to centralize everything.  They claim this is to shore up the church going forward but parishes have always had their autonomy and they used their own discretiion.  The parishes, the people, aren't taking this obvious "land grab, money grab and centralization" by the bishiops lightly.  There is a lot of talk about violations of cannon law and how the heirarchy (the Bishops) relate to the people, not.   It seems some Bishops are attempting to replicate what is going on in the administration.   There is a battle brewing in the church. 

72 Something is not right here.

Not too long ago this guy looked like the anti-christ character in a low-budget apocalyptic christian movie produced by Jack Van Impe.

Now that he's in trouble and needs to focus on jobs...he also wants to focus on amnesty? Really?

Jeez, how many more jobs will he have to create or save to accommodate all the people from other countries that seek to do the work that Americans formerly refused to do?

Epic fail. Tin ear. Complete implosion.

73 60

David 42 1. Great. 2. Great.

You misspelled "gimmick".

Posted by: Zimriel at January 27, 2010 11:28 AM (9Sbz+)

Ha!  Thanks.

74 If Sarah Palin was to give the response, Libtard heads would be exploding like Martians all over the place. Olberdouche would have a stroke. And it would be delicious beyond reckoning...

75 "If DADT gets "repealed" then doesn't it mean they go back to banning gays from the military entirely?  Under DADT, gays only get kicked out of the military if they're outed, so if DADT's repealed then the full ban should go back into effect"

Interesting question. They basically have to remove Article 125 from the UCMJ   which deals with sodomy, which is further defined as “unnatural copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex.” and includes oral sex even between consenting and married adults

Of course I don't think many, if any, straight military members ever get charged under this article so they would have a problem if they only went after gays.

76 You forgot the "rail" system pork.  We need more of that.  Amtrack has been so good for America.  spit.

77 I'm trying to post something non pole based too.

78 75 -- Thanks; I thought DADT was how Clinton got around the military's rules in order to permit gays to serve...so how can Obama repeal it without putting a new regulation in place that contradicts the UCMJ?

79 Any time Obama goes on TV people like him less. I wish he'd give a SOTU speech every day.

80 67. Too true. I went to Jesuit college and by the time I was done I had lost track of all the priests who should have been excommunicated for continually badmouthing the Vatican and Pope. They were all brainwashed with "Liberation Theology" which was nothing more than a trojan horse for communism.

81 (6) Call for amnesty. (7) Call for legislative attack on the financial industry. Man. I didn't know stupid came in such a large size. I wonder how he gets his stupid home from the stupid store. With an aircraft carrier? (2) Salary freeze for WH and political appointees. If there's one thing that makes the unemployed and underemployed feel grateful, it's knowing that massive salaries for Barry's playmates will stay massive, and wagyu is served once and once only per week. Earflaps McBaritone, Lightworker, is making Wile E. Coyote look like Isaac Newton.

82

Jesus H. Christ.  The financial industry is already on life support, despite a few dumbasses on Wall Street who decided to pay themselves too much.  Lending is slowing to a crawl because of a shitload of new regulations that went into effect on January 1.   And this asshole wants to declare war on the banks?

Do these people have ANY idea how business actually works in this country???

83 "74 If Sarah Palin was to give the response, Libtard heads would be exploding like Martians all over the place. Olberdouche would have a stroke. And it would be delicious beyond reckoning...

Posted by: maddogg at January 27, 2010 11:37 AM (OlN4e)"

Pulling a switch would be a lib/dem move, not a republican/conservative one.  That's so sad though cause a Sarah Palin response, coming now, would have them blow all their circuits and end up in a fetal position crying.

84 All I want to know is...will Michelle go sleeveless?

85 "82

Jesus H. Christ.  The financial industry is already on life support, despite a few dumbasses on Wall Street who decided to pay themselves too much.  Lending is slowing to a crawl because of a shitload of new regulations that went into effect on January 1.   And this asshole wants to declare war on the banks?

Do these people have ANY idea how business actually works in this country???

Posted by: rockmom at January 27, 2010 11:54 AM (w/gVZ)"

Yep before it was that liquidity froze and it was a shocker, now liquidity is starting to freeze because few want to borrow and that's fine for the banks casue they really don't want to lend.   And small business is caught in the cross fire.

86 Chris Matthews is strapping a few D-cells and some wire to his thigh as we speak. No matter what Wanker McHopenchange says tonight, Chrissy is determined to have his tingle.

87 hahhaha Beck saying that 3% of the American people think the government is working fine....lol   3%

70% say it is in epic fail mode.

They want polls, there are the polls.....

88

We've seen his act over and over and over and over and over.

He's not fooling anyone anymore.

Amnesty = more LIBTARD voters.  It won't fly.

89 He has become a modern day version of the little boy who cried wolf. 

Problem is they are so insulated they can't see it or they won't see it or they know and they just don't give a damn about what "the people who are too stupid to know what is good for them" think.

90

82

Yes, Obama ran a SHAVED ICE stand and Biden ran a 7/11.  Kevin Jennings ran a PORN shop and Napolitano owned a tavern.  Steven Chu sold paint at an ACE HARDWARE and Al Gore sold sun tan lotion in South Beach.

These people are real Americans.

91 I hope Obama uses the 'scalpel' analogy while Nancy Pelosi is in-frame.

I bet she would raise her eyebrows at that one, if only she still could.

92 All your jobs are belong to us...

93 After getting his ass kicked on health care "reform", does Barry really want to go after (5) Call for Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal and (6) Call for amnesty?

Barry must really love pain.

94 It's good that Sarah isn't giving the response.  No matter how much substance she put into it, the story would be that she gave the response, not how good or damaging to the president the response happened to be.

Now, get a guy recently elected *despite* Obama to articulate the same message - that will have resonance.  Good move on McDonnell, in my opinion.

95 there ought to be some nice prices soon on bank stocks.

I'd wait until the commercial paper defaults become impossible to cover up anymore first.  There's still a lot of downside risk there.  I'm thinking some JPM June 35 puts might be a worthwhile gamble.

96 let's see him justify his reasons for bringing the jihadis to nyc for civilian trials. i'd like to hear that. pos

97 All your banks are belong to us...

98 The HuffPo list screwed up "what do do if Michelle Obama wears a slinky dress". Instead of "gouge out your eyes with a pencil", they merely provided a link to the HuffPo Style page.

99 Not so much of a speech but a real-life Nicholas Fehn sketch

100

26
Oregon just voted to increase taxes on themselves.  Prediction:  Oregon's local economy will hit the skids. Oh glorious progressive tax increases!

I heard Michael Medved, Seattle resident, talking about this today.  He says that this is not just a tax increase, but a tax on gross receipts of a business (i.e., not a tax on profits but a tax on anything sold, regardless if the business is actually making money at the end of the day).  Also, if you make more than $125,000 per year you are "rich" and get hit with an extra couple percent additional tax.

Washington State is gearing up for an influx of tax refugees.

101   80 67.

Too true.
I went to Jesuit college and by the time I was done I had lost track of all the priests who should have been excommunicated for continually badmouthing the Vatican and Pope.
They were all brainwashed with "Liberation Theology" which was nothing more than a trojan horse for communism.   Same here, the Social Justice meme is repeated over and over.  Social Justice is Liberation Theology is Socialism.