Tragedy & Comedy at the SOTU

I couldn’t help but think of the “tragedy and comedy” Janus masks as I watched Joe Biden and John Boehner dutifully sit behind President Obama as he delivered his painfully long State of the Union speech.

Biden’s comedic goofy grins were a knee jerk response to Obama’s overtures to help the little guy, whereas Boehner’s tragic pouts reflected the harsh fact-driven reality that such policies actually hurt Mr. and Mrs. Main Street.

Here are just a few examples of Obama’s glaringly inane propositions.

Obama stressed the need for job creation, but the fact is that artificially raising the minimum wage to $9/hr will stifle jobs. Faced with increasingly tighter budgets due to a shrinking economy, higher taxes, health care costs and overly burdensome regulations imposed by Obama, the average business of any size will be forced to cut back on employees if they are compelled to pay higher wages. It sounds nice and that’s why Joe Biden smiled, but calling for an increase in the minimum wage will hurt the very people it is designed to help. Boehner gets it and that’s why he smirked; he knows that Republican policies favor the guy on the street.

Obama wants “common sense” reform like “universal background checks to make it harder for criminals to get guns.” But criminals don’t purchase their weapons legally, so they won’t undergo any kind of background check when they acquire their guns through illegal means, like, always. All the background checks in the world wouldn’t have saved that young girl in Chicago who performed at Obama’s inauguration. This so-called “common sense” approach might bring a grin to Biden’s face, but Boehner clearly sees through the spin and understands it is nothing but nonsense.

Apparently, there are too many potential home buyers who can’t get credit from lending institutions for a mortgage or to refinance an existing home. According to Obama, this is “holding the entire economy back” and he wants Congress to send him a bill to sign. But it is precisely this kind of legislation, like Dodd-Frank, that prevents lending institutions from making loans to buyers with solid credit. Biden was all a tither about Obama standing up for home owners, but Boehner rightly keyed in on the subterfuge — this was a mess brought on by the Democrats and Boehner didn’t find it the least bit as endearing as Joe.

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