Two sharp responses to Obama’s SOTU
Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell is giving a terrific counter-response to Obama’s spend-all, do-all State of the Union address. He is drawing on the Founding Fathers and talking about the need to restrain government. “The federal government is simply trying to do too much.”
Speech excerpts here:
JOBS
“Good government policy should spur economic growth, and strengthen the private sector’s ability to create new jobs. We must enact policies that promote entrepreneurship and innovation, so America can better compete with the world. What government should not do is pile on more taxation, regulation, and litigation that kill jobs and hurt the middle class.”SPENDING
“The amount of this debt is on pace to double in five years, and triple in ten. The federal debt is already over $100,000 per household. This is simply unsustainable. The President’s partial freeze on discretionary spending is a laudable step, but a small one. The circumstances of our time demand that we reconsider and restore the proper, limited role of government at every level.”
McDonnell tipped his hat to Scott Brown, quoting his line that feds need to be spending money to protect Americans from terrorists, not funding their legal defense. McDonnell praised private charity, quoting Luke –”To whom much is given is much required.” He talked about protecting life, liberty, and property, again hearkening back to the Founding Fathers.
Terrific rejoinder to Obama — an appealing statement of conservative principles that offers a clear contrast to the Democratic majority’s insatiable appetite for power.
Huge points for excoriating the law enforcement approach to fighting terrorism. Obama was completely silent on terror trials and Gitmo.
Another scorching response to SOTU from Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito:
POLITICO’s Kasie Hunt, who’s in the House chamber, reports that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words “not true” when Obama criticized the Supreme Court’s campaign finance decision…The shot of the black-robed Supreme Court justices, stone faced, was priceless. Chuck Schumer stood up behind the justices and clapped vigorously while Alito shook his head and quietly mouthed his discontent.
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For the love of God, would someone please point out the hypocracy of trying to create jobs on one hand, while killing the space program with the other?!?!?
Alito has enough class to keep from giving Obama the finger.
The response from Gov. McDonnell was spot on.Our founding Fathers would be very proud.
Thanks, Gov. McDonnell.
Chris Matthews tonight forgot Obama was black. Guess the leg tingle spread to his brainstem.
Any politician who stands up and argues that SCOTUS made the wrong decision on campaign financing will be the first to hold a hand out to corporations in his/her district when election time comes around.
Another day, another hypocrite.
PBO, we’re still waiting for that list of where all of YOUR oveseas campaign contributions originated. The Middle East? China? Russia? Exactly how does an online contribution system come up with odd-numbered change on donations? Um, currency conversion, that’s how.
Look it up, tell me I’m wrong.
Damn the Torpedos and full speed ahead! Stay the course Obama! His Lib Congress will surely be running for the hills.
Nothing like an educated welfare recipient for President of the United States. Can we have a do-over?
By the way was that a bobble head doll in Bidens seat tonight?
Why is Hillary out of the country? What is the reason? Oh! that’s right he was going to talk about healthcare, didn’t want people thinking about hillarycare…
The One’s collar is white, but the US flag had red stripes, and light blue stripes. How did that happen? Props to the UN?
Biden is a bobble headed fool.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
These were Chris Matthew’s exact words:
“I forgot he was black tonight, for an hour.”
You’ve got to be kidding! He’s toast.
It’s funny talk about not raising taxes. The last couple of pay periods I have had less in my pay. Yes I am one those Govt. workers that make all that money. I was bring home $1,196 every two weeks, now I bring home $1,188 every two weeks. Oh did I mention I don’t have health care neither.
I think Hillary is looking for a life boat on this Titanic, and bailed.
Trucker son says that is an improvement. Breitbart clocked him in another speech at 130-140 uses of “I”.
McDonald was head and shoulders more presidential than Obama. He was an excellent choice to give the GOP’s response, and I predict tea party conservatives will be wanting this guy to run in 2012. As for Obama, he’s blown it. The way he’s headed, he’ll drag the Democrats into the ditch or over the cliff by fall.
But the tingling in his leg brought him back to reality.
And they say we’re the bigots. Sheeesh!
Remember the tax rebate last year that everyone mocked because it was only like $20 a week?
Think maybe that has anything to do with it?
No, Dah-link, he is a Democrat. It’s okay.
McDonnell strongly supports the 10th Amendment.
I’d LOVE to see more on this here
You are a current or former Marine and do not have health care?
Why is that?
The one smart thing that Obama did was use Biden as the VP. Anyone would think twice about impeaching Obama, knowing that “bobble head” would be next in line.
So did “Dingy” Harry Reid… If you also notice it was way past Dingy bedtime. He was getting sleepy…
The Democrats leaping to their feet to embarass the Supreme Court of the United States is a Wellstone Memorial Moment that we need to make them pay for in spades.
I would run that tape over and over and over.
Oh please. They are big boys and girls. People can disagree with their ruling. I notice no one here is reluctant to criticize decisions they don’t like.
Gosh, tho, Chap, perhaps Mr. I-AM-gOd-AND-YOU-ARE-A-BLITHERING-IDIOT should make sure he is telling the,
Oh, never mind.
I do have health care, not through my employer (The U.S. Govt.).
I’m not a former Marine nor a current Marine…I am a Marine! Once a Marine always a Marine. I will be a former Marine when the good Lord calls me home.
Semper Fi.
Yes, they bring out for special occasions when the higher IQ might be necessary.
Why do you mention “idiot”?
Obvious reference to the KKK?
Racist.
IT’s true! He only uses his Negro dialect when he wants (needs?) to.
Then I am confused why you said you didn’t have health care.
PBO’s attack on the SCOTUS at the SOTU (or it the STFU address) was unwarranted. He can do it afterward like any one else-what an a$$hole.
Even Clinton wasn’t that much of a public jerk.
So you would not stand up and cheer if a Republican President called for the repeal of Roe v. Wade in front of SCOTUS?
Bull.
Chap, I think the court has made any number of boneheaded decisions. The President and members of Congress have the right in their official positions and as Americans to comment on Supreme Court Decisions.
However, the manner in which this was done was clearly meant to embarass the members of the Court and demean their Branch of Government.
This was not a group of citizens. These are a special group of 535 people who have IN THEORY taken an oath to support, protect, and defend the Constitution.
That act of disrespect was sophomoric and it shows the utter contempt for the Rule of Law these supposed law makers have.
They looked like a freakin mob.
That’s true.
But it’s also true that the liberal response to that criticism is something like “How dare you disagree with the Supreme Court of the United States in their role as sole interpreter of the Constitution!”
And if Bush had thumbed his nose at a Court ruling in this fashion we’d never hear the end of what a threat he was to the constitution.
You live by those rules, you die by those rules.
No, because of the oath I took.
Hillary was in “an undisclosed location” so she could take over if something happened to all those gathered to praise The One.
So, was McDonnell’s response meant to embarrass the President and his branch of the government?
Get real.
He’s probably thinking to himself – “Haha Harvard law – wait, maybe I should get a peek at his birth certificate.”
Haha.
Maybe Cheney lent her the Bat Cave for the evening.
WHAT ACT OF DISRESPECT???
He disagreed with their freaking ruling!
This is the stupidest meme I have seen come from the SOTU, by far.
You are an officer of the court?
How interesting.
Chap, it is called respect and courtesy of office, traits this classless administration have lacked since the first day.
Aside from how unseemly his remarks were, there are two more serious problems.
One, he was flat out wrong about what the Court actually said.
Two, his proposed remedy is stupid. Assuming the Court had said what he thought it said, the only way to change that would be via a constitutional amendment.
(Or new Justices, of course, but in theory that’s not supposed to matter.)
So he looked like a fool all round.
chappy is cranky. I guess he felt that speech is only going to lower Obama’s approval ratings.
How?
You don’t think an officer of the court can disagree with a judge, on the record? What do you think an appeal is?
Hay, let them stand and applaude. And hey, it’s OK for Joe Wilson to say “You lie.” And hey, a boneheaded play from a guy who’s hoping SCOTUS won’t decide to take up the matter of his qualifications to be Prez. And yeah – nice Alito! My guy and I’m going to buy some of his namesake coffee.
And hey, let them spell while they’re at it…
Quite the opposite. I just think this whole “disrespecting the court” thing is absurd. When the court ruled against the administration’s position on McCain Feingold, and put it in writing, were they disrespecting the Executive?
chapoutier said:
Maybe Matthews will be changing those sheets, huh chap?
Obama gives a quick head fake toward the center and then dribbles back to the left. The shot is away… airball!
Not only is he continuing on with his statist agenda, he’s doubling down on it. This should put an end to any speculation that Obama is a pragmatist. It’s now more clear than ever that he’s an arrogant, self-centered, far-left ideologue.
Most Americans want to like Obama. All he would have to do is adopt a center-left agenda. But it’s now apparent that he will stubbornly cling to his far-left agenda until hell freezes over from global warming. As much as I hate to see him double-down on his illogical and misguided statist agenda, it will certainly make it easier for Republicans to take back the house in November.
I just think this whole “disrespecting the court” thing is absurd.
As say, I’d be a lot more inclined to agree with you if I did not have clear memories of Bush being described as shredding the constitution whenever he hinted at disagreement with the courts.
Back then it was a matter of fierce moral urgency that the President get court permission before he tied his shoelaces.
God bless you, Jarhead.
Oh, and let us count the ways (since the left has had a proverbial gun held to our head for the last 50 years over race relations). You would think that any Republican with half a brain cell would have put this issue to bed a long time ago, using only historical fact.
Comparing what Obama and the mob did to these questions is utter nonsense.
I am an athletic official. You don’t like a call I make and want to appeal in writing at length about it or ask for a meeting at the Athletic Association, that is your right, perhaps your duty.
But you’d best not grandstand in front of the crowd and embarass me. That’s over the line, and if the game is still on, I will eject you in a heartbeat.
POSTSCRIPT
I have that attitude, because without my presence on the floor, the game will lose its integrity. The Supreme Court is the Guardian of the Laws of the land. They are the final arbitor.
Your respect for the rules is in direct proportion to the manner in which you respect those who interpret those rules.
Obama and his ilk showed their “respect” in spades tonight.
He’s a whiny little boy.
So you objected to Joe Wilson shouting “You Lie!”
No…looking back on the applicable threads, I see you did not.
There is nothing more blatantly grandstanding than that.
Did he say that he was ignoring the rule? No. That would be like Bush and his signing statements.
He said he disagreed with the ruling and wanted to work with Congress for ways to adapt to the ruling.
Chap, the author of this article tends to disagree with you.
Well, I suppose so. My mother’s second husband was a card-carrying member and I babysat for the White Wheet brigade, but when I grew up, I married the darkest man I could find. Too bad it didn’t work out. Then I converted to Judaism, not to “rebel”, but it felt good that he thought that.
Then my oldest son married a bi-racial woman and my seven grandkids came out in varying shades of lattes and mocchas. (And brilliant, too, might I add?)
Racist. Oh all right, if you say so.
The President of the United Stayes was making a speech on the floor of the U.S. Congress. He is not to be interupted. The speaker has the floor. I learned that one in junior high.
What Wilson did was not only inappropriate, it was beyond dumb. Whether his comment was accurate or not, it was ill mannered and disrespectful.
What Obama and the Democrats did was equally ill mannered and disrespectful.
And Chap, don’t tell me what I have or have not done. I may be dumb. I may be stupid, but I am intellectually honest and consistent. And since you have implied otherwise. Discussion over.
You keep ignoring the fact that he’s clueless as to what the ruling said.
Well, one stem or another anyway.
“Now we know why Obama won’t release his school records. Bush got C’s, Obama probably failed lunch.”
I can’t wait to hear another Supreme Court Decision slapping the magic negro for his unconstitutional agenda.
What a pompous ass. He ridicules the Supreme Court right in front of the world. When has a President done that? Even Sotomayor didn’t look very happy about it.
The Court makes their decision, that’s it Barry, you pompous ass amateur punk.
I cannot wait until we hand you and your ghetto booty wife your butts in November. Your are president Punk, king of the one term-ers.
You read me Barry? You’re a punk!
Where’s the birth certificate, Barry?
Hail to the Punk!
No Chap, they were doing their jobs. Try reading the constitution to see if it gives clues regarding duties of the Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial branches. Let’s see if my non-legal mind can recall:
– Legislative (Congress) makes the law
– Judicial (SCOTUS) interprets the law (in line with the constitution)
– Executive (POTUS or an unreasonable facsimile thereof) executes the law.
The STOTU is not the proper forum to “call-out” the SCOTUS. That was every bit as bad as Joe Wilson’s “You lie” moment. Will Obama apologize? Right. When hell freezes over.
Professor trav has now left the building… heading for the salt mine.
Obama calling out the Supreme Court for a decision he didn’t agree with was no better than Joe Wilson calling out “you lie”. The SOTU Address was not the proper forum.
As to Chris Matthew’s statement on race, me thinks it is he who is obsessed with the race of President Obama.
Like hell it isn’t and like hell it was.
He can call out Congress for something they did and did not do, correct?
This is nothing more than contrived anger to score political points.
Chap–It’s obvious that you have the same angst as Odumbo over the SCOTUS ruling. Nothing like frowning on the First amendment. Anyone remember the 527′s that skirted the McLame/Feingold law. Chap has his knickers in a knot because the ONE is going to take the Dems to the junk heap and he could care less. He is all about himself-period. Oh–Chrissy boy, I didn’t forget he was a Socialist and I didn’t even listen to this tool.
Actually, I don’t. I think it is probably the right ruling, though I do not like the obvious implications.
I just am pretty certain that very few here are actually concerned about this non-existent breach of decorum.
I made sure I checked the threads regarding Joe Wilson for even a whisper of a hint that you called him out for this behavior. You did not. And its not like you weren’t around on those threads. You made comments. Just none that excoriated him.
Why the silence over a much graver breach of decorum then?
This is exactly where health care could be reformed, IF the Dems were not so closely allied with the trial lawyers.
…’and then I went back to writhing in my white liberal guilt…so I ate some chitterlings in Memphis’…
That’s just it. It is the right ruling, but it’s not the way Obama wants it, so the Constitution is what’s wrong.
Welcome to conservatism.
Only if he doesn’t drag us all into that ditch or over that cliff first.
Verizon, Home Depot, Time Warner Cable and Walmart cutting a combined 25,000 jobs all announced on the day that Obama declared the Recession over
Total agreement – it was unsettling to see at home and like every pundit I’ve heard and read thus far today has said, it amounts to an attempt at intimidation of the Judicial branch by the Executive. Very troubling -
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Did Justice Alito read the opinion? No distinction was made between foreign or domestic Corporations. The dissenting opinion raised the issue.
There are obviously problems with that decision, because the Congress is contemplatong laws to address the situation.
Justice Alito is wrong.
Justice Alito is right. He unlike Obama, trusts the American people to think and decide for themselves in an election.
Americans know fact from opinion in advertising – regardless of whose dollars are paying for it – and can decide accordingly which causes and candidates to support.
Obama is using this now defunct law as a distraction issue and a preemptive chance to deny the GOP full credit should they prove overwhelmingly victorious this fall. He and the Dems will likely claim foreign and corporate dollars gave the GOP an unfair advantage after the election, rather than an admit Americans will have rejected the Dems new brand of socialism.
Shutting down NASA after years of high profile failures is the best thing that could happen to space exploration!
Of course, Obama will never actually shut down NASA and he will probably do his best to prevent the free market from taking over but if we ever want to get to Mars and beyond NASA isn’t going to get us there…
The “Obama payroll tax break” was going to start at $13 a week and DECLINE this year to closer to $8 or $11.
That probably has something to do with jarhead’s paycheck. Also, many companies implement benefit changes after the first of the year so and that might account for some of the difference too.
For example, after 1 January my health insurance went up by nearly $50 a paycheck so my net salary went down by the same…
I don’t have a problem with Obama not liking a SCOTU decision. That is his right. The problem is that he issued a BALD FACED LIE right in front of the guys he was LYING about!
Obama is supposed to be a constitutional scholar. And he would have to know that the ruling handed down by SCOTUS did not reverse “…a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections…”
That is either disrespectful or sociopathic or both. And it was certainly stupid!
Notice the members of SCOTUS had too much class to respond in kind to the Narcissist in Chief…
Look, I’ll go so far as to say this: if he disagreed with the Supreme Court decision, he could have simply announced a legislative initiative designed to correct the “wrong.”
The difference between calling out Congress and calling out the Justices is, the Justices don’t carry on arguments against the Executive in public, while legislators often do.
In other words, they are sitting ducks. Alito’s tiny push-back, probably meant to be inconspicuous, was about the most you could ever see.
What Obama did with the Justices sitting there was unprecedented, tactless, and embarrassing, mostly to himself.
Edouard,
You summed up Obama quite nicely!
WarEagle,
Look up the Tillman Act of 1907.
The synopsis of the ruling here does not indicate that foreign corporations will be allowed to make unlimited contributions to US Elections.
McCain-Feingold was bad and unconstitutional legislation. Virtually every major player including Bush and McCain admitted it when the worked on the bill. That it wasn’t immediately struck down as such is shameful.
If you think some or all of Tillman is at risk then we shall have to do what we always do and that is wait for the courts to decide those issues as they come up. That’s the way it is supposed to work.
Of course the synopsis doesn’t say that. The unintended consequence is beyond the scope of the ruling. But it is nonetheless a real possibility.
Which is why Obama called for legislation to address these.
But that does not change the fact that Obama, supposedly a brilliant constitutional scholar, lied about the decision allowing foreign corporations from making political contributions…
Nope. Justice Alito is wrong. The ruling does not make a distinction between foreign and domestic corporations, just corporations. Yes, or no?
How do you know what Justice Alito thinks regarding people deciding for themselves in an election? How do you know what Pres Obama thinks regarding people deciding for themselves in an election?
How do you know either trusts or does not trust the American people?
Do you not understand the difference between the actual ruling, which is often relatively narrow, and the practical implications that can follow from a ruling?
To wit: Griswold v. Connecticut.
More nonsense! The fact that leftists in Congress are trying to mitigate a decision that weakens the campaign spending impact of their union allies does not mean there are problems with the decision. It means leftists in Congress don’t like the decision and are very interested in preserving the special status their allies enjoy in the arena of political speech…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most talented of them all?
I will have my second term, by golly. I‘ll just keep voting for me, myself and I until I have enough votes, so that I can continue to make these amazing speeches.
BHO
And did you go back and see what Obama said? He did not say “it might” or “it could,” did he?
Obama said, “Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections,” Obama said. “Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong.”
And if you are right, and ambiguities are created in this decision, then the courts will work them out over time. But, free speech and the 1st Amendment were strengthened by this decision. In the next election, my friends and I can cooperate together fund any kind of political speech we want. We, just like Citizens United, couldn’t do that before this decision. Prior restraint of political speech is unconstitutional.
And if Obama wants to talk about “foreign money” in campaigns he can go talk to his own fund raisers and then go talk to Hillary’s…
Crass hypocrisy is now Obama’s trademark
The State of the Union is a good time to talk about the State of the Union, not the State of the Supreme Court. Obama doesn’t need to use that forum to criticise Supreme Court decisions and tell them they were wrong. He can use that forum to point out that Congress should write a better law. Thats real respect. Obama did not listen to all the arguments in that case nor does he have power to make a decision there. He is being disrespectful to do what he did. Just as Joe Wilson did. Its shows a real lack of class and civility. I really don’t expect better from him. He is showing his true character.
Very simple.
Does the SCOTUS decision make a distinction between foreign and domestic coporations? Yes, or no?