Weekly Address: President Obama on the Budget Compromise to Avoid a Government Shutdown

[cal04]

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Weekly Address: "Reducing Spending While Still Investing in the Future is Just Common Sense"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/09/weekly-address-reducing-spending-while-still-investing-future-just-commo

[tomm2thumbs]

1. casebook example

of jumping in front of the parade and acting like you were the drum major all along

(technically it is about all he can do, but wish it didn't look that obvious)

[XanaDUer]

2. "Cut spending, and invest in our future."

:wtf:

[Delver Rootnose]

3. Always enough money...

...to drop bombs on people but none for helping out the people IN THIS COUNTRY who need it. it is like a family that has starving children yet is stocking up guns and bullets and sending them off to help in wars elsewhere.

Just Fracking crazy.

[MrTriumph]

4. Can you imagine the lecture Lyndon Johnson would give Pres. Clueless.

x

[neoralme]

5. Lyndon Johnson would have left the country long ago. Had Obama

let the government shut down, he would have concurrently won and damaged Republican credibility. By his capitulation he has done neither. He may well retain the Presidency in 2012, but there will now be more pick ups in the House, and the Senate will switch to Republican.

[INdemo]

6. I voted for this guy, supported him in the primaries and

believed after all we had been through with all the lies from Bush,all the $$ spent for wars,all lives lost, that should've been,I believed that Obama was the "CHANGE WE COULD BELIEVE IN"..After giving in to Repukes on mostly all major issues I am worried about what we can expect from those cuts...This goes back to the tax cuts that Obama flip flopped on and fought so hard to get passed...It seems that issues that affect working class America and the poor are being cut.Nothing,nothing that affect the rich or corporations,energy companies or other corporate mafia groups is being touched..Now how is this the change we can believe in? I honestly see the Obama's Presidency as a Bush third term..With Bush (the puppet) we knew we would get the shaft.But with Obama well, he gives us a great speech and we then get the shaft.Then his administration officials tell us to stop whining,its the best deal we could get.

[russspeakeasy]

13. He lubed us up pretty good.

[earthside]

7. So depressing.

I couldn't watch ... I read the transcript.

Twice he proclaims: "the largest annual spending cut in our history."

The impact of this debacle, along with the capitulation to the Tea Party on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, is going to surely sink in for the Repuglicans and the rest of America: Pres. Obama will sell-out 80 percent to avoid a fight.

Frankly, I think we are reaching the point of 'game over' for 2012. Because Pres. Obama never in the past (including last night) drew a line in the sand and said here and no further, the Tea Party will push for everything it wants without any circumspection whatsoever. They continue to learn that all they have to do is start the negotiating process with an even higher demand to get in the end what they really wanted all along.

The dust-up over Planned Parenthood funding will be quickly forgotten or dismissed and the bigger element of the "largest annual spending cut in our history" is going to be interpreted by political observers (and rightly so) as a major negotiating triumph for Boehner, Cantor and the House Tea Party.

Our President is a "nice guy" manager-type who is risk-averse ... this "Weekly Address" is evidence of just how diminished he and the Democrats have become in the face of emboldened Repuglicans and Teabaggers.

Indeed, President Obama gives the impression that he is like the Doyle Lonnegan character at the ending of the movie 'The Sting' ... he doesn't even he seem to realize how he's been conned.

[INdemo]

10. Obama is not a Democrat..

We need a real progressive to challenge hem..

[Iliyah]

11. Well majority

of the people I know thinks he just doing fine, and will vote for him no matter what. I rather vote for him than any goper. I think tax cuts for the rich and corporations are forthcoming, these programs and monies will be restored, I have no doubt on that. At this points shared sacrifice isn't reality and it should be.

So far as the corporate media, y'know they are always going to favor the gopers. Thats why many people don't pay much attention to them at all.

[INdemo]

15. You would vote for Obama

"no matter what"..Well everyhing he has done has been for the wealthy and the Republican class.All the budget cuts so far are from programs for the working class and the poor. Nothing is taken from the wealthy or the corporate mafia group..(Example) Bush actually tried to cut money from the pell grants and was stopped from doing so.But with Obama it just comes easy..He gives us this great speech and tells us we have to sacrifice,while giving the Republicans everything they want....He is certainly following a Republican agenda and certainly is not the "change we could believe in".
So vote for him "no matter what" and you just might be endorsing that Republican agenda.

[demwing]

16. Twice he proclaims: "the largest annual spending cut in our history."

And god damn it, you can hear in his voice that he's PROUD OF IT.

FUCK!

[TatonkaJames]

8. Some of the cuts will be painful ?

They all believe we're idiots, and that's insulting.
Same old same old. They never learn and neither do we.

[JJW]

9. Disgusting

They came up with $ 700 billion for the banksters in a week. Here they spent months cutting funding for basic services, such as food, health care, heating, and education. But of course all Presidents get a blank check for war and weapons.

[HankyDubs]

12. the tea klan loves you now!

That was easy! Now they will all vote for you!

[JohnnyK]

14. * SIGH *