Sen. Rand Paul in the below clip touts his bill to limit the powers of the National Labor Relations Board. While doing so, he mocks President Obama's latest line "pass this bill."
I don't think it's a good strategy to mock the guy who has the veto authority, however deserving of ridicule he may be. It also comes across as immature.
I assume there is no bill since Obama only needs to tell NLRB to back off. If Obama was really serious about creating jobs, he could easily create hundreds of thousands by issuing drilling permits that have been approved before he took office. Like your typical Progressive that is willing to sacrifice workers when it comes to industries they don't approve of, the President can't understand that he is his own worst enemy when it comes to job creation.
Listening to the sound bites this morning, it became clear to me that Obama's team and the regressives on capitol hill are coming to the realization that their plan is logically flawed (perhaps they read EPJ!) and therefore won't convince anyone in a reasonable argument and so they have resorted to waging this battle on the emotional front with lots of shouting, cheering and histrionics by creating a false sense of urgency to "do something, anything and this plan is the best we've got so Pass This Bill!!". I'd like to think that clear, concise reasoning is the best counter to such obvious manipulation by appeal to the passions. But perhaps, for the mouth breathers out there, some lighthearted mocking and derision is just the cure to cut through the fog and see the naked emperor.
I wonder if we could substitute our leaders today into this 30's cartoon?
ReplyDeleteI think so.
http://www.economicnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Depressioncartoon123.jpg
Rand plays the politics well
ReplyDeleteHaha, I loved watching this video and Rand's wonderful sense of irony.
ReplyDeleteCan't stand, Rand.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's a good strategy to mock the guy who has the veto authority, however deserving of ridicule he may be. It also comes across as immature.
ReplyDeleteI assume there is no bill since Obama only needs to tell NLRB to back off. If Obama was really serious about creating jobs, he could easily create hundreds of thousands by issuing drilling permits that have been approved before he took office. Like your typical Progressive that is willing to sacrifice workers when it comes to industries they don't approve of, the President can't understand that he is his own worst enemy when it comes to job creation.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good strategy if it forces Obama to sign or veto a job creation bill to show that he's for or against it, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteBoeing's mistake was to move its HQ to Chicago, the dirtiest cesspool of politics, when even the dead can vote.
ReplyDeleteAmusing.
ReplyDeleteListening to the sound bites this morning, it became clear to me that Obama's team and the regressives on capitol hill are coming to the realization that their plan is logically flawed (perhaps they read EPJ!) and therefore won't convince anyone in a reasonable argument and so they have resorted to waging this battle on the emotional front with lots of shouting, cheering and histrionics by creating a false sense of urgency to "do something, anything and this plan is the best we've got so Pass This Bill!!". I'd like to think that clear, concise reasoning is the best counter to such obvious manipulation by appeal to the passions. But perhaps, for the mouth breathers out there, some lighthearted mocking and derision is just the cure to cut through the fog and see the naked emperor.