teapartysamurai
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One thing from Drudge says it all about last nights SOTU:
Amen to that! I kept shouting at the tv (and then the radio when I went to pick up my eldest from work) that this has all been said before and it has resulted in bumpkis! The big goose egg! But there is more:
Read more: FACT CHECK: Obama pushes plans that flopped before - seattlepi.com
Especially, when he talked about that tired old crap about "Green energies" and comparing it to natural gas. I kept yelling "Solyndra, Solyndra, and Solyndra."
Further I yelled, "natural gas WORKS, your green energies DON'T!"
It's just further proof that all Obama has is pie in the sky rhetoric. When it comes to real ideas and policy to get this country moving again, all he has is the same failed BS.
Goodbye Obama, I can't wait for November!
DRUDGE REPORT 2012®
Amen to that! I kept shouting at the tv (and then the radio when I went to pick up my eldest from work) that this has all been said before and it has resulted in bumpkis! The big goose egg! But there is more:
FACT CHECK: Obama pushes plans that flopped before
WASHINGTON (AP) It was a wish list, not a to-do list.
President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren't so tied by political realities. There can be little more than wishful thinking behind his call to end oil industry subsidies something he could not get through a Democratic Congress, much less today's divided Congress, much less in this election year.
And there was more recycling, in an even more forbidding climate than when the ideas were new: He pushed for an immigration overhaul that he couldn't get past Democrats, permanent college tuition tax credits that he asked for a year ago, and familiar discouragements for companies that move overseas.
A look at Obama's rhetoric Tuesday night and how it fits with the facts and political circumstances:
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OBAMA: "We have subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that's rarely been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that's never been more promising."
THE FACTS: This is at least Obama's third run at stripping subsidies from the oil industry. Back when fellow Democrats formed the House and Senate majorities, he sought $36.5 billion in tax increases on oil and gas companies over the next decade, but Congress largely ignored the request. He called again to end such tax breaks in last year's State of the Union speech. And he's now doing it again, despite facing a wall of opposition from Republicans who want to spur domestic oil and gas production and oppose tax increases generally.
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OBAMA: "Our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a government program."
THE FACTS: That's only half true. About half of the more than 30 million uninsured Americans expected to gain coverage through the health care law will be enrolled in a government program. Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income people, will be expanded starting in 2014 to cover childless adults living near the poverty line.
The other half will be enrolled in private health plans through new state-based insurance markets. But many of them will be receiving federal subsidies to make their premiums more affordable. And that's a government program, too.
Starting in 2014 most Americans will be required to carry health coverage, either through an employer, by buying their own plan, or through a government program.
Read more: FACT CHECK: Obama pushes plans that flopped before - seattlepi.com
Especially, when he talked about that tired old crap about "Green energies" and comparing it to natural gas. I kept yelling "Solyndra, Solyndra, and Solyndra."
Further I yelled, "natural gas WORKS, your green energies DON'T!"
It's just further proof that all Obama has is pie in the sky rhetoric. When it comes to real ideas and policy to get this country moving again, all he has is the same failed BS.
Goodbye Obama, I can't wait for November!