Obama is getting aggressive, throwing down the gauntlet, you could say. He's talking tough to Congress, like a frustrated school teacher finally laying down the law, enforcing the rules that he had hurried through at the beginning of the year yet failed to enforce.
He is demanding that Congress take up his jobs bill, in reality a tax increase on the wealthy. Tax the rich, tax something, get more revenue, and spend it on nothing. This same empty elitist progressive rhetoric has already disenchanted his liberal base and the rest of the American People.
Now, in true fighting form, President Obama is chopping, hacking, and pumping his fists, making energetic gestures, what one could call "kinetic oratory action" to make his case to the voters, many of whom have already made up their minds not to vote for "hope and change" which has become "more of the same".
President wants to do something to improve the economy, to get reelected. He wants to do something more, in all truth, since he and large Democratic majorities have already done plenty, and none of it has worked.
This is the liberal dilemma. Something must be done (see Lenin), yet it is "to be done", an act and and an outcome that must emerge outside of human agency, something what an intellect can neither plan nor implement.
Indeed, something must be done to improve the economy. Something must be done to ease unemployment. But this "something" cannot be done by central planners, an energetic executive, or an infiltrating legislature.
This "something" must be done by a free market, emerging out a spontaneous order, beyond the scope or even capacity of a human mind, or even a mass of human minds to understand, let along analyze and effect.
The best thing that the Progressive, pumping President can do is: do nothing. Yet "do nothing" is impossible for a liberal, who insists that it is both the right and responsibility of the state to do everything.