In an effort to educate the public on the state of the economy and his plans for improving it, President Obama is considering a series of short televised addresses similar to Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats. Press secretary Robert Gibbs has told the television networks that the administration may request more time than usual for a president. Gibbs did not provide a schedule but described the addresses as lasting about 10 minutes each.
AddresseS. Plural. Obama, Friday or Saturday evenings are good for me.
You know you've made a huge misstep when the Huffpo reports your screw-ups.
Democrats in Congress are organizing to squash a White House proposal that would require veterans to use private insurance to pay for treatment of their combat and service-related injuries.
In a letter being sent to the White House, a group of House Democrats, led by Rep. Glenn Nye (D-VA), warned that such a proposal "could harm our veterans and their families in unintended, yet very serious ways, jeopardizing their families' health care and even negatively affecting veterans' employment opportunities."
"While we strongly support your plans to increase funding for the VA by $25 billion over the next five years," the letter reads, "it is with equal conviction that we oppose the proposal to bill veterans' private health insurance plans for care and treatment of service-connected injuries or disabilities."
Exit question; would Huffpo have reporated this if Dems hadn't gotten their criticism on?
Commenters are undeterred from their Obama love. It was all a big misunderstanding, you see... a tidbit:
Although, I must say, this does not sound like something Pres. Obama would propose. It does not sound like his way of thinking AT ALL. Something's fishy....
Heh. Another right wing conspiracy, I suspect.
Teleprompter is taking over the world, one world leader at a time:
WASHINGTON – Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar. Turns out, he was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just given.
If Obama would switch to the teleprompter hat I posted last week, such things wouldn't happen.
AIG OUTRAGE!!!!!!11!!!! Stay focused people on this irrelevant issue. You know, begin conversations with I just can't believe those folks got their bonuses. THE GREED!
Obama just signed away our children's future, his poll numbers are falling, the economy is in the tank, but let's focuse ALL OUR OUTRAGE on the pittance $165 million given in contractual bonuses. If you don't think that this is a manufactured event to deflect, you've lost perspective. AIG recieved $173 BILLION. TARP could go as high as $700 BILLION. B-B-B- BILLION.
Chuck Schumer should be thrown out of office for this one:
The bombshell revelation from State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo came as Congress warned AIG execs to return their millions in bonuses - or face a possible new law taxing those payouts at up to 100%.
"They should voluntarily return them. If they don't, we plan to tax virtually all of it," New York Sen. Chuck Schumer declared on the Senate floor.
"To those of you getting these bonuses: be forewarned, you will not be getting to keep them."
It gets worse:
The bombshell revelation from State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo came as Congress warned AIG execs to return their millions in bonuses - or face a possible new law taxing those payouts at up to 100%.
"They should voluntarily return them. If they don't, we plan to tax virtually all of it," New York Sen. Chuck Schumer declared on the Senate floor.
"To those of you getting these bonuses: be forewarned, you will not be getting to keep them."
If this doesn't fucking scare you, you aren't paying attention.
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