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Rush gives marching orders
There was always something really strange about the President following a formerly unexciting procedure of asking to address a Joint Session of Congress, being sure enough it was on to announce it, and then have the carpet snatched out from under him.
Watching the Ed Show last night, it appeared that the High Priest of the right, Rush Limbaugh, issued the orders.
Having determined that the elected president that the right wing does not like would be issuing a rational and much needed call for legislators to act in the interest of the public they’ve sworn to serve, the High Priest screamed that it must not be so. The uppity president must not get this opportunity to show any meritorious service, and must be stopped.
Naturally Rush minions in the Congress saw the light, and refused the permission the president had received in advance, showing their usual regard for the public by putting a clown college debate ahead of jobs in their lexicon.
For a moment, the congressional leaders almost had passed up an opportunity to show its disrespect for the public, and head off any program that benefits workers. It was that close.
You jobseeking kids git offa Rush’s lawn.
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And the lapdog in the White House agreed that Rush should be obeyed.
Kinda hard to address Congress if it doesn’t come.
I wonder how Rushbos new wife is lovin that fucking greasy, sweating, fat, stupid, fraud. All hearts and flowers I bet.
Yes, making an agreement and then changing to embarrass the other is is so bipartisany, and evidence of both side good faith? Correct?
I do not believe, Obama intent to win in 2012, and now believe this fix was in before he was elected. He know the facts, and the effect of his actions.
Obama is now a spoiler, and will run a dreadful campaign to enable the PTB to get the R congress and president they want, and retire rich.
The PTB can then continue to asset strip us and our commons, our public property, for they have succeed very well is stripping the 90% of their private assets (housing bubble) and the commons is the largest asset remaining not yet stripped for their benefit.
I alternate between sadness, rage and action. The action is to describe this rape to Rs, and ask them to consider the consequences to their children.
That actually works, mostly with the statement “You are right, I had not though of that.”
Sowing dissent one R at a time. It is little, but it is the best I can do. Any other action requires contemplating violence, civil war, from which I recoil, as it has a poor record of good results.
“showing their usual regard for the public by putting a clown college debate ahead of jobs in their lexicon.”
I have to say that not one single critter in DC has any regard for the public. They only want your tax dollars. They don’t even care how you vote because they can steal it instantly with a hack!
My critters fit this description, but I do believe it’s possible to work really hard and get back public servants in office, like Lloyd Doggett, formerly Ann Richards and Ralph Yarborough, and, lucky VT, Bernie Sanders. It’s hard when all the corporate welfare powers are aligned against us, but it’s just not the end of the story.
“the permission the president had received in advance”
Really, Ruth? Please do show us your documentation on that.
As you no doubt know, these events have a predetermined process. First, the two offices of the two branches of government charged with making schedules confer, and when open dates are received by the party seeking the meeting, the schedule is formed. Boehner’s office is not denying that. Their statement is this; ‘Brendan Buck, a Boehner spokesman, said his office never signed off on the original date.’
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/us-obama-jobs-speech-idUSTRE77U40T20110831
That, as you can easily see, is wordplay.
Snort. “open dates are received by the party seeking the meeting”
You are claiming that 09/07 was presented to the WH as an “open date”?
White House chief of staff Bill Daley requested 09/07 (with full knowledge of the conflict it would present) and then went ahead and tweeted the announcement at 11:55 a.m. Wednesday. I can’t find anything to indicate that date was approved by the House prior to the tweet.
Nor will you. Normal standards of behavior toward this president, representing the segment of the U.S. population that they do not accept as true Americans, do not apply under the domination by right wing elements. And you have documentation of your claims?
Having a real problem blaming Rush for Obama’s lack of spine.
Having a real problem blaming Rush for what should have been an obvious conflict.
Having a real problem picking the liar between Obama and Boehner.
Boxturtle (Having a real problem caring about all the kerfuffle)
‘Obama’s lack of spine’
….is the request of a date, or being on the receiving end of a failure in the usual process of setting a date, or acting with normal manners?
“And you have documentation of your claims?”
A rhetorical question if ever I heard one.
The White House letter making the request:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/08/31/National-Politics/Graphics/JointSessionofCongressLetter.pdf
The response:
http://www.speaker.gov/UploadedFiles/8-31-11_Speaker_Letter_to_POTUS_on_Joint_Session_Request.pdf
“No one in the Speaker’s office — not the Speaker, not any staff — signed off on the date the White House announced today,” said Brendan Buck, a Boehner spokesman. “Unfortunately we weren’t even asked if that date worked for the House. Shortly before it arrived this morning, we were simply informed that a letter was coming. It’s unfortunate the White House ignored decades — if not centuries — of the protocol of working out a mutually agreeable date and time before making any public announcement.”
(From http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/obama-requests-to-speak-to-joint-session-of-congress-next-week/2011/08/31/gIQAtOF8rJ_blog.html?hpid=z1 emphasis added)
We all know what happened here: Obama tried to stomp on the GOP debate and achieved another epic fail.
I’m refering to his reaction upon being denied. First, he goes on the offensive, hours later he backs off, and then surrenders.
Boxturtle (Granted, there are better examples of his spinelessness than that)
repeating;;; **snort**
oh, those unAmericans just don’t do things the way we centuries of right wingers now do them.
WaPo. the speaker’s office
really.
Sorry, been there done scheduling.
He’s not putting a big press on the date.
oh spineless jobs proposal.
you’re kidding, right?
Ruth, have you got anything except what you heard on the Ed Show and a fistful of vitriolic snark?
poor thing, I’m sorry, many years on the Hill and managing campaigns. Vitriolic snark is your version of facts. yes, facts have a librul bias.
I’ve yet to hear a fact from you, so I’ll ask again:
Have you got anything?
So the president has to ask permission to give a speech? I didn’t know that. Since when?
no doubt you will recognize the facts when the speakers’ office feeds them back to you
he’s uppity
btw you do know you can buy your own position at WaPo
it’s for sale
Limpballs,(i invented that name) ages ago…doesnt have 2 neurons in that cranium,but somebody/ies tells him exactly what to say
What I take issue with is your assertion that Obama intends to issue “a rational and much needed call for legislators to act in the interest of the public they’ve sworn to serve” and that the Republicans want to “head off any program that benefits workers.”
Of course the Republicans intend to act in the interest of the public they’ve sworn to serve — i.e., the Corporate sector — but I don’t see how anybody who’s been watching Obama for the past three years could claim that Obama intended to make any rational recommendations or to do anything that would really benefit workers.
One clear bit of evidence that *you* aren’t rational, Ms. Calvo, is that you are talking as though Obama’s speech has been utterly blocked by the Rethugs. Another is your reiteration of “uppity” as though that meant anything. As offensive as the uppity Republicans’ conduct is, after three years of footdragging and collaboration with the Republicans, I don’t believe it will make much difference if Obama’s latest bit of pettifoggery is delayed by a week. With people like you “many years on the Hill and managing campaigns,” no wonder this country is in trouble.
In other words: No, you don’t have anything. Ed says an anonymous source says Boehner said “okay” and for you that counts as “fact.”
Uh… How exactly does one say “Okay” to a written request, anyhow? Scrawl the word across the page and FAX it back?
You claim the request was approved and then Obama had the rug yanked out from under him. I’ve checked half a dozen sources and no one but you & Ed is claiming the request was approved, then rescinded. I’ve repeatedly asked you for a reputable source and gotten nothing on-point in reply.
Would you like an easier question? Okay: what exactly is the difference between a Rush-bot and an Ed-bot anyway?
Do you have any idea how much damage you do to the credibility of your cause when you post bullshit then defend it with insults?
You think WaPo faked a letter from the President?
Well, please, Ruth: tell us what he really said!
Give a speech: no.
Address Congress: yes, since forever.
The Cold War G.I. Bill I helped pass put many people into position for making a living, and I am very sad that this present aggressively ignorant right wing has benefited from and fights against the gains made by working people that public servants like me, of a recent past, empowered.
Amen sistah!
Probably do it in the mud.
(sorry…a supply of brain bleach will be forthcoming)
How very fucking typical. Lie, get called on it, defend with insults, doesn’t work, run away. You get an A+ in Liberal Blogging 101.
Not that it matters: the lie remains. Sheeple will read it, shepple will believe it, few will read far enough into the comments to discover that you’re dead fucking wrong
Congratulations, Ruth: you’ve successfully propagandized the self-styled intellectual elite. Phrased that way it sounds like a difficult feat, but actually it’s easier than pie.
Just ask Ed. Or Obama.