Quote from: Harry on September 08, 2011, 07:28:54 PM

Lightweight!

murglfh , phtr am not a low wart......

I drink scotch, i don't think id last long. :D

Quote from: Gunner on September 08, 2011, 07:31:25 PM
I drink scotch, i don't think id last long. :D

I've got a nice blackberry witbier tonight.

I wouldn't make it pass the first round.  Half a wine cooler I giggle and can't walk. 

Quote from: Solars Toy on September 08, 2011, 08:03:02 PM
I wouldn't make it pass the first round.  Half a wine cooler I giggle and can't walk. 

I love girls like you. [insert lascivious smiley here]

The Associated Press has run a fact-check on Hussein's speech, and left it looking shredded.....  Note that these are the first three paragraphs, completely fixing their impression of disbelief....

QuoteWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions.


It will only be paid for if a committee he can't control does his bidding, if Congress puts that into law and if leaders in the future - the ones who will feel the fiscal pinch of his proposals - don't roll it back.

Underscoring the gravity of the nation's high employment rate, Obama chose a joint session of Congress, normally reserved for a State of the Union speech, to lay out his proposals. But if the moment was extraordinary, the plan he presented was conventional Washington rhetoric in one respect: It employs sleight-of-hand accounting.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_JOBS_FACT_CHECK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-09-08-19-52-31

I think it is safe to say that tonight the rest of the country turned Obama off permanently. He's done.  The country has given upon him.

Quote from: Harry on September 08, 2011, 07:36:39 PM

I've got a nice blackberry witbier tonight.

Girlie man...

My reaction to his speech was that I get the sense he's trying to solve all the problems with this one bill. He said it would not only create jobs, but decrease the deficit as well. He's setting it up too high, and when it fails, it will fail big. Infrastructure jobs are long term, it takes months, even years, before the shovel hits the asphalt. He should have focused on the private sector, but of course that would require common sense.

I'm also glad I didn't do a drinking game base on how many times he'd say "pass this bill". Had I, no doubt I'd be dealing with a monster hangover today.

The markets aren't sold on the speech as futures slipped.  This is just more of the same failed policies.  Give more to the unemployed and extend the payroll tax.  It worked so well last time.  Billions spent and a large tab left behind.  Who's picking up the tab?  No Obama.  It will be for the next person.


http://www.cnbc.com/id/44449720

Quote from: quiller on September 08, 2011, 09:27:53 PM
The Associated Press has run a fact-check on Hussein's speech, and left it looking shredded.....  Note that these are the first three paragraphs, completely fixing their impression of disbelief....




http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_JOBS_FACT_CHECK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-09-08-19-52-31

This was from the AP? :o :o :o :o

Quote from: Eyesabide on September 08, 2011, 06:46:28 PM
I think the government is going to create a few hundred thousand jobs for Americans. Illegal Americans.

Members on other conservative forums are saying the bulk of the JOBS will go to Unions which will get a hefty return to his re election coffers.

I tend to agree.

Quote from: quiller on September 08, 2011, 09:27:53 PM
The Associated Press has run a fact-check on Hussein's speech, and left it looking shredded.....  Note that these are the first three paragraphs, completely fixing their impression of disbelief....




http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_JOBS_FACT_CHECK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-09-08-19-52-31

Say what???? In the biased, lamestream media no less!!!

He has friends at NYT


With more than 14 million people out of work and all Americans fearing a double-dip recession, President Obama stood face to face Thursday night with a Congress that has perversely resisted lifting a finger to help. Some Republicans refused to even sit and listen. But those Americans who did heard him unveil an ambitious proposal — more robust and far-reaching than expected — that may be the first crucial step in reigniting the economy.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/opinion/president-obamas-jobs-speech.html

Quote from: PeterR on September 08, 2011, 06:14:08 PM
Actually, I didn't hear his speech.  I had it on on the TV in the bedroom while I was doing scrub-a-dub in the shower (Does that come under the heading of Preventive Maintenance?), and I couldn't hear him over the running water. 

When I finished showering, he was into his "We have to reform Social Security to strenthen it" bit.  So, I went back into the bathroom to shave.  After that he was still talking, so I went back to shave my pits, my back, my head and was finally considering shaving my pubes when he gratefully stopped talking.

Intermittently I saw Democrats jumping up and down applauding while Republicans were sitting on their hands.  Were the Supremes in attendance, right down in the front row?   

I only listened to the last couple minutes.  Eating supper and playing with grandkids prior to that, which is always more important than a speech like this.  Anyhow, I started listening when he said some of you think this is an issue to decide in the next election and he said "the American people, the working people who hired us, can't wait 14 months!"  Got a standing O from the dims, of course, but even John Boehner, after surveying the crowd, clapped.  Didn't stand, but he clapped.  Was he putting country above party or something?