[Obama's] proposals are likely to include infrastructure spending, tax breaks for firms that hire new workers and possibly housing initiatives.
IOW, more of the same stuff that he has tried already.
Not only won't it work any better if he does it again, politically it is dumb as rocks. It won't pass the House. DOA. Everybody knows it. That means Obama is doing it as a campaign stunt, so he can run against a "do-nothing" Congress like Truman did.
See, this is why people are losing respect for Obama. If you look down the list of times Presidents have addressed a joint session of Congress in the last 100 years, you'll see it was usually for something important. It was usually reserved for national emergencies. GW Bush addressed a joint session after 9/11. His father addressed a joint session after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. But Barack Obama thinks Congress is a prop he can order up whenever he likes. He already addressed a joint session once for Obamacare. That was at least a bill he hoped to pass. This is just a stunt. And as icing on the cake, he orders John Boehner when to receive him without coordinating with the Speaker's Office first! Boehner was absolutely right to make him change the date.
Obama is not growing on the job. He has absolutely no plan B, ever, and none of his plan A's work. Yet all he can do is say, "Plan A, this time with feeling," and "It's Bush's fault" and "We had a run of bad luck." More cowbell. That's Obama.
To add insult to injury, he has a bad habit of calling his political opponents into solemn settings where etiquette forbids them to speak, then berating them to their faces while casting himself as the only adult and only non-partisan statesman in the room. |
