Howard Dean: “It Is a Very, Very Good Speech. I Am Delighted"

[impik]

“I am going to be blunt about this I have seen the speech. It was leaked. It is a very, very good speech. I am delighted. I'm frankly a little surprised. The president is mindful of the deficit. He makes it clear he wants to work with the congress but with the most extraordinary thing is he lays down the gap gauntlet. Millionaires will have to pay more taxes if we are going to cut kids and other folks dependent on it. He made it clear this is going be a shared sacrifice and the tax cut extended for the people who make a million a year is not going to be extended again if we are going to do anything about the deficit. That was extraordinary. There is a lot of great stuff about the environment. I have to say, in print, we'll see how he delivers it, it is one of the most substantive speeches I have seen him make.”


http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/01/26/president-s-state-union-address-what-they-re-saying

[jaxx]

1. It was a great speech, one that spoke to today and tomorrow.

The President is fully aware of what we're capable of doing.

[kentuck]

2. It was extraordinarily courageous...

to ask the wealthy to pay 2% more in taxes.

[emulatorloo]

3. would it hurt to get your facts straight?

[Still a Democrat]

5. Where do you get the 2% more in taxes? n/t

[namahage]

12. Wealthiest 2%, 2% more taxes for the wealthy,

tomayto, tomahto.

[Still a Democrat]

15. Not really the same thing

But just having a little fun.

[patrice]

6. Huh!!?

[patrice]

4. I liked the small business stuff too. "The Movement", if it honestly wants to be effective, needs to

concentrate on the bottom of the economic hierarchy more, not ignore the top, but put some numbers/persons underneath their demands, not political base-building at the expense of economic base building, but political base-building on top of economic base-building, NEW economic base-building.

[Major Hogwash]

7. Yeah, well, of course he's happy. They let him sit at the big people's table on Morning Joe today.

Jesus, that show is a train wreck!

[patrice]

8. Oh so now HD is a "sellout" too?!!! You know, that's the basic problem with "the Left", it drives

off ANY support that is not doctrinaire. It won't take anything but 100%, so it stays small because most people just aren't going to conform 100%. Not that the Right doesn't do the same thing, but just that, practically speaking, folks at least have rea$on$$$$$ for being on the Right (and perhaps at least hiding the extent to which they are not 100% Right wing); there's nothing like that on the Left, so when they demand 100% purity, folks say, in effect, "Screw you." Or when the Left demands something/everything/purity for nothing, the answer tends to be "No, thank you."

[mkultra]

13. those are the small tent lefties who forget they are just inside the big tent

[zipplewrath]

9. Faint praise?

"...it is one of the most substantive speeches I have seen him make."

Think about that, and all of the speaches he's made, and think about what that means.

I believe the expression is "faint praise".

[patrice]

10. It IS measured in important ways. That's what I like about the good doctor. We'll see what happens.

[joshcryer]

11. It's a speech Dean could've given.

The speech was tactical brilliance. The bones thrown to the Republicans were tiny at best.

[Arkana]

14. Well, into the trash you go, Dr. Dean.

Or, wait. Let me guess "DEAN HAS TO SAY THAT BECAUSE OBAMA/OBAMA'S PEOPLE/UNNAMED WHITE HOUSE SOURCES/THE PAPERBOY/SATAN THREATENED HIM!"

[JNelson6563]

16. Dean still speaks for me.

:toast: