President Obama to Give Major Economy Speech After Labor Day

Ура, мы спасены. Теперь точно все будет в порядке.

The president will continue to push ideas he’s been laying out for days and weeks: a payroll tax cut, an infrastructure bank, patent reform, the passage of three trade deals, tax credits to encourage the hiring of veterans.

The speech will also include ways to reduce the deficit and to pay for the new programs, officials said.

Ways to reduce the deficit, ага. И new programs, за которые тоже надо платить.

Текст на АВС сопровождается сокрушительным апдейтом:

A Republican official provides this list of headlines for some historical context, pivot-wise.

President-elect Barack Obama to deliver major speech on the economy on Thursday (change.gov, January 8, 2009)

President Barack Obama to Give Major Speech on the Economy at Georgetown University (Whitehouse.gov, April 13, 2009)

Obama to give major speech about economy on Monday (AFP, November 9, 2009)

Obama To Promote New Job Ideas During Tuesday Speech (AP, December 5, 2009)

Obama preparing new push to add jobs, tackle deficit (WaPo, December 8, 2009)

In key speech Obama pledges to create jobs (AP, January 27, 2010)

Obama to tout job-creating efforts in Ohio speech (AP, January 5, 2010)

То есть уже и комментировать не надо.

Еще один текст про Перри, от журналистки, которая несколько лет работала в Техасе корреспондентом The Economist.

I was inclined to give some credence to the critics, and to see Perry as a guy who had fluked his way into the governor’s mansion and stayed there.

I soon came to see that I was wrong. And I think a lot of people, even in Texas and certainly around the country, continue to be wrong about Perry in just the same way. The governor himself is largely responsible for that; he hasn’t needed a majority of Texans to like him to get re-elected, and in a way, it suits his purposes when people discount him. But having watched Perry closely for four and a half years now, and interviewed him on several occasions, I am convinced that he’s actually quite smart about politics and that he’s not much of a far-right ideologue.

Bottomline: он далеко не идиот, он весьма искушенный политик, он совсем не правый экстремист, будете его недооценивать – пеняйте на себя.

На этом, пожалуй, про Перри и хватит пока, познакомились. Сдается мне, он очень сильный кандидат. Посмотрим, как пойдут дела в ходе кампании.

A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to President Obama’s security detail was arrested Aug. 13 in Decorah, Iowa, for driving under the influence, sources tell ABC News.

Daniel L. Valencia, 40, was pulled over by a Decorah city police officer and later arrested after it appeared he had been drinking, said Chief Bill Nixon. No accident occurred; no one was injured.

Очень красиво. Если бы пьяным арестовали водителя обамовского Страшного Чорного Автобуса, было бы круче, но не намного.

Fitch Ratings cut its ratings on New Jersey’s bonds by one notch Wednesday, saying the state’s budget faces growing funding needs to meet pension and worker-benefit liabilities.

С таким чемоданом в гонке делать нечего. Теперь он точно туда не сунется.