Not Another Speech

Congressman Joe Walsh will miss Obama's jobs speech. There is an element of disrespect here but Walsh is probably a little bit desperate. His district has been reapportioned and he will have to defeat a fellow Republican freshman to get to the general election. The point here is respect for the office and the more one thinks about it that is the only reason anyone would go to this speech. Oh sure, there is the establishment brown nose wing of his party, the Marcy Kapturs and the Jan Schakowskys who dog paddle through raw sewerage for any Democratic president, but the Congressional Black Caucus members and the Dennis Kucinich types probably wish they could go their grand children's piano recital and listen "Mary Had a Little Lamb" 40 times.
Certainly Senator Jim DeMint has better things to do and says as much;
"I'm, frankly, very tired of speeches. I don't want to be disrespectful to the president, but what I want to see is something in writing,"
We are all tired of Obama's speeches because we have endured far too many of them. We haven't been so tired of listening to anyone since LBJ used to come to us "with a heavy heart". He is not William Jennings Bryan he is Jessie Jackson. He is all slogans and demagoguery. His speeches on Obamacare and the debt ceiling should convince everyone that Obama can't convince anyone of anything. Furthermore the voters have every right to demand that the President to put every statement on paper since his truths seems to have a life shorter a gypsy moth's. Yes the upcoming speech will be boring and no I will not be watching. One seriously wonders if the administration has enough competent people left who could actually put together a plan that could be scored by the OBM or the CBO. I doubt if they do.