We have attempted to get a balanced group of commentaries where we include opinions from both those who are critical of MTV President Obama's policies and those who consider him a disaster and an economic jughead.
Several posts from Neal Boortz:
Highlights From Presbo's Speech "Tax the rich? Yeah … that’s the way out of this mess. But Obama isn’t looking for a way out … he’s looking for a way IN. He’s looking for keys to the White House for another four years, and he knows that ramping up wealth envy and engaging in class warfare is the surest way into the hearts and minds of his core constituency."....
"Like I said, it was a campaign speech, not a serious policy speech."
Then this: Obama's Plan "Yeah .. and these high-achievers won’t change their economic behavior one bit as a result of your tax hikes, will they, Mr. Community Organizer?
And this: It was a campaign speech. "It was exactly what you would expect from someone with no real world private sector experience and a penchant for flowery campaign rhetoric … little of which has any basis in reality."
Finally this: Paul Ryan's reaction "Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy, and anxiety is not hope. It’s not change. It’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship. We don’t need demagoguery. We need solutions. And we don’t need to keep punting to other people to make tough decisions. If we don’t make tough decisions today, our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow."
"Cavuto brought on Texas’ Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson to weigh in on the deficit talks and, suffice to say, these two probably won’t be grabbing frappuccinos together at any point soon."
Obama is a big problem, but not THE problem. What I fear is the shallowness and ignorance of those who support this man. One Obama approval poll I'd like to see would be broken up into two groups: those who can explain supply and demand versus those who think it's some sort of capitalist plot. The Tunnel Dweller
This from no less a figure than Andy McCarthy: Re: Radio Free Boehner "As Obama’s speech yesterday shows, small government conservatives are going to be viciously demagogued no matter how earnestly they struggle to preserve entitlement programs while bringing them into line with economic reality."
From Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion : Hand-to-Hand Combat Has Started "Yesterday's speech was a calculated move by someone who doesn't care about the deficit to pretend to care so that he could use the issue in political hand-to-hand combat.
"If you don't think 2012 is the make-or-break political year for this country, then you haven't been paying attention."
From Heritage:
Playing Politics Isn’t the Answer, Mr. President "In a new poll from the Associated Press, voters say they prefer spending cuts to tax hikes by a 62-29 margin. President Obama would do well to step out from behind the podium and hear some common sense from the American people. Spending is the problem, cutting it is the solution. Higher taxes, decimating our defense and playing partisan politics are not the answers."
From Fred Barnes: Obama Sinks to the Occasion ; No hope, no change. "President Obama always lets you down. Just when you think he’s ready to deliver a lofty speech chocked with specifics on handling the spending and debt emergency, he offers up a hyper-partisan attack on the leading Republican proposal, gives practically no details of his own plan, and then sanctimoniously puts himself on the side of preserving “the American dream for future generations.”"
