FACT CHECK: Obama pushes plans that flopped before

January 25, 2012 06:26


A look at Obama’s rhetoric Tuesday night and how it fits with the facts and political circumstances:- BigGovernment.com

 

AP via BigGovernment.com

“It was a wish list,not a to-do list.

President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren’t so tied by political realities. There can be little more than wishful thinking behind his call to end oil industry subsidies—something he could not get through a Democratic Congress, much less today’s divided Congress, much less in this election year.

And there was more recycling, in an even more forbidding climate than when the ideas were new: He pushed for an immigration overhaul that he couldn’t get past Democrats, permanent college tuition tax credits that he asked for a year ago, and familiar discouragements for companies that move overseas.

A look at Obama’s rhetoric Tuesday night and how it fits with the facts and political circumstances:”

 

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