Monday, September 19, 2011

Right now, 'right now' means sometime next month maybe

It's another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Or SSDD or Ground Hog day, depending on how you view it. Over the weekend the EU continued to shudder, Greece continues to spiral into collapse and Obama is headed for another vacation. Meanwhile, Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Myer, was given the honor of ringing the opening bell on Wall Street this morning. And as I watched, the market dropped 170 points in the first minute of opening. I say it's about time for the president to head back over to Five Guys and order another cheeseburger in paradise.
Everybody remembers the urgency of President Obama's attitude toward the awful jobs situation. Back in early August, Obama said the jobs situation was so urgent that he was going to give another speech about it -- in a month or so, in September after his vacation on Martha's Vineyard. And then in September the president announced he would give his major jobs speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7. But he neglected to check with congressional leaders first. And they suggested the 8th. So, since it was their House, the 8th it was. "Tonight," the president said in the first 34 of his 4,021 words to a national television audience that night, "we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that has made things worse."

No comments: