Presidents Weekly Radio Address

Posted on February 14, 2009 by billmanzi

President Obama delivers his weekly radio address, extolling the virtues of the just passed stimulus bill, promising transparency in how those dollars are spent, and reminding Americans that as much as we are spending now the federal deficit must be dealt with. The President does not take a victory lap, but points to this as the begining of our efforts to get our economy going again.

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12 Responses to Presidents Weekly Radio Address

  2. Patrizia says:
    February 14, 2009 at 6:13 am

    And where was all the transparency in letting the American people actually have a chance to read at least some of the bill??? Where was that 48 hours that was promised?

    TWENTY-TEN

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  3. Jules Gordon says:
    February 14, 2009 at 7:09 am

    Your Honor,
    I view of your tirade on earlier posts when you thought the school building funding was not to be had, I can imagine your glee as mountains of acash will soon be raing down over our fair city, once they print it or borrow of course.

    Much to your suprise, I take a different view
    of this financial trojan horse.

    Of course we begin by reviewing part of your “thumbs up” reporting (have you been taking lessons from Anderson Cooper who chastised conservatives for opposing the stimulus package?). You wrote…..”extolling the virtues of the just passed stimulus bill, promising transparency”.

    I am not sure if this pork and earmark ridden horror has much virtue. So I ask you and your supporters, is this truly free of Pork and Earmarks?

    How virtuous can this thing be when no one had a copy to read except certain lobbyists before voting.

    Is the largests spending bill in the history of the country passed without any of the Democratic party represenatives or senators being able to read it, virtuous? I bet your Blog buddies think there is nothing wrong with that.

    Transparency and promise. Our Community Organizer President “promised” to put the bill on-line for 5 days BEFORE it was voted on. He lied, it did not go on line. What makes you think he will keep this promise?

    I hope Deval shares his good fortune with you, your honor, before he takes the rug out from under you when he defunds the Quinn bill.
    There goes our $13 per week stimulus raise.

    Socialism is funny that way.

    Happy days.

    Jules

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  4. Patrizia says:
    February 14, 2009 at 9:45 am

    Oh yes let’s ‘deal with the federal deficit’. If we just print more, won’t it just go away???

    And just for giggles:

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88851

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  5. ben nevis says:
    February 14, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Mr. Mayor, you wrote “…Obama…extolling the VIRTUES of the just passed stimulus bill…” Have you read the bill? I’ll bet not. I went to Patrizia’s you tube link to see a very angry Sen. Boehner holding eleven-hundred pages of the bill! PAPER! And I thought back to Obama’s scripted press conference the part where he refers to the “inefficent health care system, “We’re still using paper…”, he said and “Nurses can’t read the prescriptions…” he said. Well the the taxpayers can’t read the bill so we can’t know what virtues it contains. This bill is full of pork and earmarks. That’s why it’s wrapped up in so much paper. In this case we need to “squeeze the Charmin”.

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  6. Bill Manzi says:
    February 14, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    Ben,

    I have not read the entire bill, but I have seen some of the highlights, and I am familiar with the impacts to Methuen. No question that some items not related to stimulus are included, and in a perfect world they would not be a part of the package. But how the sausage is made is not a pretty sight, and neither is how Congress passes legislation. One example: Sen Arlen Specter, Republican PA, in return for a key vote, was able to insert a 34% increase in the budget for the National Institute of Health, worth about ten billion. Not bad work for a Republican.

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  7. Jules Gordon says:
    February 14, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Your Honor,

    Add to the RINO Pork Snow’s KISS for Maine’s health care. Don’t know what Collins got. The whole bunch were bought off.

    Would you sign a three quarter trillion bill of any sorts without reading and understanding it?

    I love your description of voting for a bill with “some” items in it that should not be there. Most shouldn’t. However your likening this thing to a “rotten”(my edit) sausage is proper.

    The good stuff: I get $13 a week to spend as I want providing Deval doesn’t deprive me of it by his horrible management style.

    Jules

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  8. Fred Mertz says:
    February 14, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    Folks:

    The bill and all the sausage making have been online throughout the entire process: if you’re interested, use some ingenuity, find it yourself and read it.

    You don’t have to wait for your favorite news source to digest it and spoon feed it to you (from either orifice). I warn you, there are no pictures.

    And to suggest that Congress had to read a bill to pass it is almost laughable: I wonder in fact how many times that’s actually happened in recent history, given how we find out about provisions slipped in just before a vote.

    Both sides had already decided how to vote after the Senate passed their version.
    Republicans had already decided their votes before HR.1’s initial proposal ink was dry.

    -FM

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  9. Fred Mertz says:
    February 15, 2009 at 6:31 am

    Now, who would have thought … your tax dollars at work. Iraq, the gift that keeps on giving.

    “Inquiry on Graft in Iraq Focuses on U.S. Officers”

    -FM

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  10. Jules Gordon says:
    February 15, 2009 at 8:17 am

    Your Honor,

    Fred makes my point while talking down to everyone. 3/4 trillion dollar bill and he finds no problem with the legislators not being able to read and understand the bill before voting.

    I asked you, your honor, if you would sign off on such a mammoth expensive bill. Maybe your point of the sausage is the reason our country has the problems it has.

    What has me concerned is the Pork and Earmarks (incase there is a difference between them) which have no effect on resuscitating the economy but will change our society.

    The die is cast and we need to stand back and watch.

    Jules

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  11. Fred Mertz says:
    February 15, 2009 at 8:48 am

    Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Republicans fiddle, the world burns …

    “Just last week, the new United States director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, told Congress that instability caused by the global economic crisis had become the biggest security threat facing the United States, outpacing terrorism.

    “Nearly everybody has been caught by surprise at the speed in which unemployment is increasing, and are groping for a response,” said Nicolas Véron, a fellow at Bruegel, a research center in Brussels that focuses on Europe’s role in the global economy.”

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  12. Fred Mertz says:
    February 15, 2009 at 11:44 am

    And more on the George the Younger’s Iraqi stimulus bill. Take careful note of the “construction” jobs we’ve paid for.

    http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175033/dahr_jamail_iraq_from_the_inside_of_an_armored_bmw

    -FM

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