He said he would bypass Congress and use executive orders to pursue his agenda if need be, though he proposed only small measures.
Instead it became an opportunity for the president to confirm that the stimulus package he proposed only four days ago, before Monday's market plunges, was on track.
But Obama was also portrayed as a libertine who demanded that kindergartners be exposed to explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse (when in fact he proposed only to teach them to recognize inappropriate advances) and as a sexist boor who called the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee a pig (when in fact he used a common simile that his opponent had a habit of using himself).
He proposed only two marks: the suspensivus, or slash, represented a pause and the planus, or dash, marked the end of a sentence.
Over the long term, Hamas accepts the concept of two states in the Levant, which arguably puts Mr. Mishal's terrorist movement closer to Washington than Mr. Netanyahu is — he now proposes only "economic peace" between Jews and Palestinians.
"Who Will Plead for Gaza" (editorial, Dec. 20) proposes only hopelessness.
He is proposing only a $550 million increase over the global AIDS money in this year's spending bill now in Congress.
Mr. Ferrer said he has proposed only modest tax increases to pay for public education and transportation improvements.
"Should we go ahead with so many programmes for fighters when their forward bases and aircraft carriers would be vulnerable to missile attack?" he asks.The second sulking group, those who want to make the Department of Defence more efficient, are dismayed that, although Mr Cohen says the right things, he has proposed only modest changes.
At the same time, he proposes not only shrinking the boundaries of Bears Ears but requesting that Congress make less-restrictive designations within it, "such as national recreation areas or national conservation areas". The monument, which contains tens of thousands of cultural artifacts, has become the most prominent symbol of the issues surrounding the Antiquities Act.
