It occurs to me that my analysis yesterday in anticipation of Obama’s “framing” speech may have been incomplete.  This is because there is one entity that I failed to mention (though I have in the past) that Obama is working hard to paint as the true impediment to economic growth: Congress.  More accurately, the Republican Congress, as he calls it .. even though the Republicans control the House, while Democrats remain in control of the Senate.  Keep in mind that the Republicans in the House have passed not one, not two but twenty-seven bipartisan jobs bills.  Twenty-seven!  Those bills are currently languishing in the Democrat-controlled Senate.  Yet it is the Republicans who are the real enemies of job growth! 

He said in his speech yesterday in Ohio, "What's holding us back is a stalemate in Washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take and this election is your chance to break that stalemate.”  He’s absolutely right.  Wow, you don’t hear me say that all too often but Caesar Obammus is right in recognizing the importance of this upcoming election.  The direction of our nation for your children and grandchildren in truly at stake. 

In his speech, he went on for about an hour explaining why his vision is the correct one.  We’ll get to those details in a minute, but ultimately it boils down to this: Do you want your children to live in a country based on personal freedom and economic liberty do you want to live in a centrally-planned economy where the government provides your limited (but government approved) options of how you can live your life?  That’s where we are at, folks.  That’s why Dear Ruler himself referred to his own vision as “fundamental transformation” … because this idea of centrally-planned government controlled economy  is not the America that you and I know.

But let’s get down to these speeches.  To me, Caesar Obammus’ speech yesterday was a light version of his speech in Osawatomie last December.  Do you remember that one?  It’s what I call the “fairness speech” because he managed to bring up some version of the word “fair” fifteen times in that one speech.  Now that Obama has a specific opponent (Mitt Romney), his jabs can be a bit more directed, though still lacking in fact or logic.  For example …

OBAMA: Now, Governor Romney and his allies in Congress believe deeply in the theory we tried during the last decade, the theory that the best way to grow the economy is from the top down.  So they maintain that if we eliminate most regulations, we cut taxes by trillions of dollars, if we strip down government to national security and few other basic functions, then the power of businesses to create jobs and prosperity will be unleashed and that will automatically benefit us all …

I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that this is massive exaggeration on the part of Obama.  Republicans don’t want to eliminate MOST regulations, and they don’t want to strip government down to national security and a few other basic functions.  Telling a bank that after they spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create networks for debit card sales what they can and cannot charge merchants for transactions, instead of letting marketplace competition handle the issue, isn’t eliminating MOST regulations.  Telling a landowner that he can’t cover a wet spot in his subdivision back yard because it violates wetland regulations is NOT an attempt to eliminate most regulations.  And no, Republicans don’t want to STRIP DOWN government.  They want to restrict the FEDERAL government to those functions outlined in the Constitution and, as set forth in the 10^th Amendment, reserve the rest of those powers to the people or their local governments. 

Here’s more:

So if they win the election their agenda will be simple and straightforward; they have spelled it out. They promise to roll back regulations on banks and polluters, on insurance companies and oil companies. They’ll roll back regulations designed to protect consumers and workers.

There is just so much to say in response to that one little paragraph.  I already covered one aspect of banking regulations … but what about regulations on insurance companies?  Here Caesar Obammus is certainly talking about health insurance companies; and yes – the Republicans most certainly DO want to roll back some of those regulations.  Tell me, Dear Ruler, just how telling insurance companies in Connecticut that they no longer have to provide insurance for freaking HAIR TRANSPLANTS is going to rip protections away from consumers?  Ditto for allowing insurance companies to sell their products across state lines. 

More ObamaCrap

They promise to not only keep all of the Bush tax cuts in place, but add another $5 trillion in tax cuts on top of that.

Now, an independent study said that about 70 percent of this new $5 trillion tax cut would go to folks making over $200,000 a year. And folks making over a million dollars a year would get an average tax cut of about 25 percent.

Really?  That’s where the tax cuts would go?  So Dear Ruler likes independent studies?  How about the studies which show that over 90% of all new jobs are created by businesses operating as LLCs, partnerships, or are privately owned; and the earnings for these businesses are reported on individual tax returns … and these tax returns show income of over $200,000 a year.  Obama says “folks making over $200,000 a year.”  For the most part he means “businesses making over $200,000 a year.”  The problem here is that the government mis-educated dumb masses out there simply aren’t educated to the point that they can comprehend this distinction.  Obama’s greatest threat is an educated voter. 

Back to Obama:

Now, this is not my opinion. This is not political spin. This is precisely what they have proposed.

Now, your next question may be: How do you spend $5 trillion on a tax cut and still bring down the deficit?

By growing the economy, you idiot. 

Look … I’ll deal with more of Obama’s speech on the show.  Just know that he presented absolutely no new ideas of his own … he has no ideas.  His goal has been and was to increase federal command and control over our economy.  He thinks that it is unfair that some people earn so much more than others do under capitalism, and it is his goal to create an economic structure, controlled from Washington, that will make sure equality of result is the rule rather than equality of opportunity.

By the way, we should count our lucky stars that we have Dear Ruler at the helm, because we could always being doing worse … like Europe! 

And of course, he’s going to play the wealth envy angle.  Obama said, “I don’t believe that giving someone like Mr. Romney another huge tax cut is worth ending the basic security we’ve always guaranteed [to the poor].”  Nobody is asking Americans to make that choice, you hack.

Now to Mitt Romney.  He has a decent stump speech.  He reminded the crowd yesterday about Obama’s one term proposition that if he didn’t have this thing done in three years, he would be a one term president.  He reminded us of Obama’s spending and recovery record.  This is all well and good … but when does he start to really focus on what he will be doing as president?  There are only so many Americans who will vote against Obama, rather than for an idea they can support.