Keys to understanding O’s jobs proposal:

. . . [money to be raised] primarily through tax increases . . . . [Repub
spokesman:]”. . . this tax increase on job creators is the kind of proposal both parties have opposed in the past” . . . .

[O] intends to campaign against Congress and Republicans in 2012 if they don’t pass the bill[:]

“Do we keep tax loopholes for oil companies, or do we put teachers back to work? Should we keep tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, or should we invest in education and technology and infrastructure?”

The mantras are in place. Jobs, oil companies, millionaires and billionaires, infrastructure. It’s politics on the model of Pavlov’s dog.

Following up on the immediately previous item (scrolling down):

BY BONDWOOLEY on 09/12/2011 at 13:38
How does taking money from businesses help them create jobs?

Say what? This bill was supposed to put Repubs in a bind, but it’s heavy enough on new taxes to cut them out of it.

Isn’t Big O. giving them a way out?

Right here, click and read.

. . . for him. Why so?

* It puts nickels and dimes directly into voters’ pockets.

* It’s a piecemeal small thing that does not interfere with his grand plans.

* It puts (some) Republicans in a bind.

* It gives him cover for campaigning around the country.

More, I’m sure, but those are all that come right to mind.

In any case, it’s coming, we are told.

Seven beers with the wrong woman? Here’s seven minutes, in which Val Jarrett hits one after the other out of the park. Thank you, Rachel Maddow, for whom it’s a “little Christmas” whenever Obama gives a big speech. Not kidding.

Rachel got in maybe four qq. The rest was Here’s-Valerie time.

Seven beers, etc.? Here:

Seven Beers With The Wrong Woman
She made me get up and dance
Around and around we circled
‘Til I missed my money from my pants
I asked her if she had seen it
She smiled up at me and said, “No!”
To this day to me, it’s a big mystery
I wonder just where did it go.

He says “you guys” in a speech to Congress. Stumblebum.

We cant allow that tax cut to expire. It would hit middle-class families with a tax increase at the worst possible time, the president said Thursday. And some of you may have heard — I said to folks yesterday, especially my good Republican friends, I said, you guys have made pledges never to raise taxes on everybody ever again

Notre Dame coach post-loss:

I don’t know if I have a definition for this one except our kids, I feel for them after this one in particular, Kelly said.

Is the guy still playing who received special treatment last year when the St. Mary’s student complained about his sexually attacking her, she who committed suicide a week or so later?

Sarah Palin pronounced a pox on all their houses.

People of Chicago and Cook County, does this remind you of you?