[W]hile a lot of big businesses and big banks have started recovering from this recession, small businesses and community banks that loan to small businesses have been lagging behind. They need help. And if we want this economy to create more jobs more quickly, we need to help them. . .First, I wish Obama would make up his mind. Only a day earlier, the President said:
The jobs bill that is stalled in Congress would completely eliminate taxes on key investments in small businesses. It would allow small business owners to write off more expenses. And it would make it easier for community banks to do more lending to small businesses, while allowing small firms to take out larger SBA loans with fewer fees, which countless entrepreneurs have told me would make a big difference in their companies. I’d also like to point out this legislation is fully paid for and will not add one single dime to our deficit.
So this is a bill that makes sense, and normally we would expect Democrats and Republicans to join together. Unfortunately, a partisan minority in the Senate so far has refused to allow this jobs bill to come up for a vote.
Now, I recognize that there are times when Democrats and Republicans have legitimate differences rooted in different views about what’s best for this country. There are times when good people disagree in good faith. But this is not one of those times. This small business jobs bill is based on ideas both Democrat and Republican. In fact, many provisions in the bill were actually authored by Republican senators. It has been praised as being good for small business by groups like the Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
A majority of senators are in favor of the bill and yet the obstruction continues. It’s obstruction that stands in the way of small business owners getting the loans and the tax cuts that they need to prosper. It’s obstruction that defies common sense.
After 18 months, I have never been more confident that our nation is headed in the right direction. We are doing what is needed to move the country forward. We’re rebuilding this economy not just in the short term but for the long term -- for our children, for our grandchildren, for our great-grandchildren.So, which is it?--an economy desperate for "more help" spending tax dollars or one that is "confident" and "rebuilding"?
Second, Obama's Democrats control both houses of Congress. This was supposed to guarantee White House political success. He doesn't need, and often doesn't get, Republican support.
So the President is blaming the bad economy on his own party? Didn't he once praise them? Rut-ro.
(via Instapundit, Mark Tapscott)
2 comments:
Set the Current Occupant of the White House in front of a microphone and by golly, he does a fairly good simulacrum of rational speech. At least to a first-time listener, what he says sounds reasonable and rational. He uses real English words, pronounced correctly. He employs good syntax and subject-verb agreement. There is also apparent content, but this is where you're required to have been paying attention: the content of one instance of verbal outflow is totally inconsistent with the content of the next one.
Mr. Obama's speeches are thus best understood as face-time for Dear Leader, in which he attempts to convince his subjects that our nation's problems concern him. Obviously his handlers have told him he should try to "connect" with us hoi polloi.
But, having listened, one ultimately becomes aware that his words carry no more significance than the sigh of a gnat. They are used to obfuscate, not clarify. Their intent is to elicit emotional response rather than convey meaning. They may have "sound and fury" yet, pace Shakespeare, they signify nothing.
A_Nonny_Mouse,
And one gets the impression that President Obama is enthralled by the sound of his own voice. Even when he is mispronouncing corpsman three times in one speech.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/02/04/obama_mispronounces_corpsman_at_prayer_breakfast.html
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