August 10, 2010
— Gabriel Malor So frazzled he doesn't know his enemies from his friends.
During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough.“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”
The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”
Of those who complain that Obama caved to centrists on issues such as healthcare reform, Gibbs said: “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”
I'm surprised he lasted this long. After his hilarious "Baghdad Gibbs" start, he settled mainly for answering press questions with variations of "I'll have to look into that" and "I left that information in my other pants."
Seems kinda pissy now, though. And after Nancy "Who is this Gibbs fellow?" Pelosi just forced him to recant his prediction that the GOP would take the House, too.
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Posted by: logprof at August 10, 2010 05:46 AM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at August 10, 2010 05:47 AM (rvqdB)
The problem with pissant little wanna-be Stalinists like Gibbs and Wee Wee, is that they rarely go quietly into irrelevance.
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 10, 2010 05:47 AM (fx8sm)
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at August 10, 2010 05:47 AM (SCcgT)
Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at August 10, 2010 09:47 AM (rvqdB)
fixed it.
Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at August 10, 2010 05:48 AM (rvqdB)
I love it when evil turns on itself. The great thing is that evil can be relied upon to do so. The bad thing is that it usually happens after they've done all the damage they can to those who are good. Let's hope for more internecine hate, strife, and fighting on the Left. It can only bring good things.
Posted by: Reactionary at August 10, 2010 05:49 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at August 10, 2010 05:49 AM (SCcgT)
Posted by: Jean at August 10, 2010 05:49 AM (yGYDb)
Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at August 10, 2010 05:52 AM (IZpzv)
I liked the first version. Hard to imagine Gibbsy cavorting with hos, though. Ugh. Forget I said that. Bad images.
Posted by: J. Pinkerton Snoopington at August 10, 2010 05:54 AM (Ulu3i)
Let's hope that this FLOTUS has a better ashtray-flinging arm than the current SoS.
Posted by: MikeO at August 10, 2010 05:54 AM (lBmZl)
Posted by: eman at August 10, 2010 05:55 AM (aXxv1)
Posted by: Jean at August 10, 2010 05:55 AM (vd5L0)
Posted by: Groovin' Byrd at August 10, 2010 05:55 AM (iz+Qe)
Posted by: Crusty at August 10, 2010 05:57 AM (qzgbP)
We must give him credit for at least remembering to wear pants.
Posted by: dfbaskwill at August 10, 2010 05:57 AM (usjNq)
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at August 10, 2010 09:47 AM (SCcgT)
--You got it, I think. Trying to recast 0bama as the cool moderate. That mask has already slipped off and broken; I doubt nearly as many Americans will fall for that next time.
Posted by: logprof at August 10, 2010 05:58 AM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: eman at August 10, 2010 06:01 AM (aXxv1)
And it shows you how stupid Bagdad Bob is.
Posted by: Vic at August 10, 2010 06:03 AM (/jbAw)
"Gibbs is not so much a press secretary as he is a frustrated high school basketball coach."
I can't stop picturing him in an office mailroom yelling at a copier, then the fax machine, then his secretary, Gladys.
Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at August 10, 2010 06:03 AM (HaYO4)
Posted by: eman at August 10, 2010 06:04 AM (aXxv1)
Posted by: Reporter for the National Enquirer at August 10, 2010 06:04 AM (XSlA+)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 10, 2010 06:06 AM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 10, 2010 06:07 AM (w05/A)
Posted by: Matt at August 10, 2010 06:08 AM (c4srZ)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at August 10, 2010 06:08 AM (usjNq)
Posted by: eman at August 10, 2010 06:08 AM (aXxv1)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 10, 2010 06:09 AM (o22aX)
Posted by: Jean at August 10, 2010 06:09 AM (mUyfo)
If you want a truly generous and compassionate society, eliminate all government social programs.
...get rid of the department of edumacation...
Posted by: CanaDave at August 10, 2010 06:09 AM (A8VBw)
Posted by: Jean at August 10, 2010 06:10 AM (Ml1qP)
Posted by: eman at August 10, 2010 06:11 AM (aXxv1)
Posted by: The Caliph Formerly Known as Harun al-Rashid in Purple at August 10, 2010 06:11 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: CanaDave at August 10, 2010 06:13 AM (A8VBw)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 10, 2010 06:13 AM (w05/A)
The big freak-out will be after November 2nd, and it will be between the faction that wants to abuse the lame duck session and the faction that knows that the game is up.
If the house flips moderately, the hard left will claim, "MANDATE!!!" to push all the crap.
If the house flips decisively, the hard left will claim, "IT'S NOW OR NEVER!!!" to push all the crap.
In the meantime, Retarded Barry will need to pick a side. He will need to follow his heart and stick with the hard left to get the jamdown he so badly wants, or he will need to pretend to be a moderate and try to paint the GOP as extreme.
The lame duck session isn't long enough for him to work through his obligatory dithering.
Posted by: MikeO at August 10, 2010 06:14 AM (lBmZl)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 10, 2010 06:15 AM (iAUf+)
No, I'd hold off until about November 3, at which point they can make it about the House and Senate seats that Herr Schickengruber thinks they have a choice at holding, at which point he's told "We've lost both chambers".
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 10, 2010 06:16 AM (olRjO)
So the reality is that it's the left who are crazy. No one is pure and left-wing enough. Radicals like Nancy Pelosi aren't left-wing enough for the utopia seeking freedom-stomping, union-promoting, liberty killers.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 10, 2010 06:17 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: Fritz at August 10, 2010 06:18 AM (GwPRU)
Why? Did they write books that told how they did coke? I agree that people who write books detailing coke use ought to be drug-tested every day. Where can we find someone who's done something so stupid?
And ghost-written books count for the drug testing, too.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 06:18 AM (Qp4DT)
The current Vegas odds lean heavily in favor of "or something."
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 10, 2010 06:19 AM (NvFZs)
http://tinyurl.com/27j9ckl
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 10, 2010 06:20 AM (5aa4z)
Obama sounds like some screaming wild eyed Howard Dean these days. You seen Obowma trying to fire up the crowd lately. Pathetic.
His mooo has fallen off and it can't get up.
Posted by: bill-tb at August 10, 2010 06:20 AM (y+QfZ)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 10, 2010 06:22 AM (Vt8uu)
Good times.
Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at August 10, 2010 06:23 AM (IZpzv)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 10, 2010 10:22 AM (Vt8uu)
Now, it's perfect.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 06:24 AM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Jean at August 10, 2010 06:24 AM (3Ds00)
I'd like to borrow 4 billion at 12% for 50 years, please.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 10, 2010 06:25 AM (5aa4z)
No, I'd hold off until about November 3, at which point they can make it about the House and Senate seats that Herr Schickengruber thinks they have a choice at holding, at which point he's told "We've lost both chambers".
Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes...
Posted by: CanaDave at August 10, 2010 06:26 AM (A8VBw)
Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at August 10, 2010 06:26 AM (IZpzv)
Obama reached out to the left — including through a private lunch with Maddow and other liberal commentators — earlier this summer.
Posted by: wtfci at August 10, 2010 06:26 AM (R4rMI)
But if the parting is bitter and personal enough, we might get some good nuggets on his way out the door Gibbs will end up room temp.
ftfy
Posted by: Dang Straights at August 10, 2010 06:27 AM (fx8sm)
If so, can we concoct wild-eyed conspiracy theories about the Obama administration's involvement? Because we all know what really happened to Paul Wellstone.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 10, 2010 06:27 AM (NvFZs)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 10, 2010 06:27 AM (0GFWk)
Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at August 10, 2010 06:30 AM (IZpzv)
Yeah, the truly scary part of that article is how those on the left somehow think that The Vapid One™ hasn't done enough to move the country into full-fleged communism in his first two years in office.
Just how much more of this can we take? He's done so much damage that it may take years to undo. And they also mention that his so-called "accomplishments" such as healthcare were passed against the will of the people. There is no support for this lurch to the left that's bankrupting us, that's why his poll numbers are so bad.
November can't get here soon enough...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 10, 2010 06:31 AM (kFODZ)
I thought that was a given. Especially since it happened the day after Matt Simmons was found dead in his hot tub.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 10, 2010 06:31 AM (5aa4z)
Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at August 10, 2010 10:30 AM (IZpzv)
Not this time. Bloomberg reported that 5 of 9 people aboard the plane died, and Stevens was one of the fatalities.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 06:32 AM (Qp4DT)
Can't a man just eat his waffles? I think he'll have a full meltdown, because he can't handle criticism, pressure or scrutiny.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 10, 2010 06:32 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: PJ at August 10, 2010 06:34 AM (Fyjeu)
Not this time. Bloomberg reported that 5 of 9 people aboard the plane died, and Stevens was one of the fatalities.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 10:32 AM (Qp4DT)
That is too fucking weird. I'm sorry for his family.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 10, 2010 06:34 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Wm T Sherman at August 10, 2010 06:35 AM (tm15w)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 10, 2010 06:35 AM (Vt8uu)
Posted by: Minnie Rodent at August 10, 2010 06:37 AM (PZLW0)
Posted by: sven10077 at August 10, 2010 06:38 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 10, 2010 10:25 AM (5aa4z)
Problem is Herr that by then that amount will not pay the fine on your one day overdue library book.
Posted by: Vic at August 10, 2010 06:40 AM (/jbAw)
Conspiracy theory: Boeing.
O'Keefe is also the former administrator of NASA under W.
http://tinyurl.com/2ex85fe
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 10, 2010 06:40 AM (5aa4z)
Now Bloomberg is only reporting that Stevens "MAY have been onboard". Bloomberg changed the chiron to say "5 BELIEVED dead ..."
So much for citing Bloomberg for any actual news.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 06:40 AM (Qp4DT)
As time passes, my bet is that, as the wealth and perks accrue to them and as they milk the little people for all they're worth, the less patience they will have with their former leftist ideologue brethren.
Notice that Billy Ayers and his ilk never woke up from their revolutionary dreams, so I don't expect Obama to either. Not now, when they're so close to achieving their communist/socialist/Marxist dream of taking down America.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 10, 2010 06:41 AM (kFODZ)
80 So, the head of plane manufacturer EADS North American Sean O'Keefe was also on the plane.
Conspiracy theory: Boeing.
Conspiracy theory: The Russians.
Posted by: CanaDave at August 10, 2010 06:41 AM (A8VBw)
Posted by: lauraw at August 10, 2010 06:42 AM (qxERe)
Posted by: nickless at August 10, 2010 06:43 AM (MMC8r)
“They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”
Has anyone told Barry this isn't reality?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 10, 2010 06:43 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: left wing nutcase at August 10, 2010 06:44 AM (g0Sxj)
80 So, the head of plane manufacturer EADS North American Sean O'Keefe was also on the plane.
Conspiracy theory: Boeing.
Conspiracy theory: The Russians.
GLOBAL WARMING.
Amateurs.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 10, 2010 06:46 AM (NvFZs)
Yeah ... I've been thinking that some of the Indonesian Imbecile's intentions might change as he really starts to like the royal treatment he demands (and gets). I don't think his main goal has been affected by this, yet, but there is always the possibility. There's no doubt that Worf loves the royal treatment and hates the peasants. Boy, she is really in for a big surprise when everything starts crashing in around them.
-->As time passes, my bet is that, as the wealth and perks accrue to them and as they milk the little people for all they're worth, the less patience they will have with their former leftist ideologue brethren.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 10, 2010 10:35 AM (Vt8uu)
Well, the royal couple never had much patience with anyone, to begin with. And they never liked white liberals on top of that. I think that the Indonesian looks at the oppportunity to beat up on white lefties as something he can't pass up. He's already used up all of the usefulness that the lefty idiots provided, so the only use they have left, to The Precedent, is as convenient punching bags.
The Precedent has moved on to his second stage, a GOP Congress and just trying to pit the GOP against white liberals and letting them duke it out. When the useful idiots lose their utility, the only use left for them is as fodder or whipping boys.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 06:49 AM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 10, 2010 06:50 AM (g0Sxj)
“They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”
I thought that Canadian healthcare was supposed to be a shining example of what we should be doing, as in : "Canada's system ensures that all of its' citizens have access to healthcare, unlike those limb stealing American doctors". And now it's something that should be avoided?
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 10, 2010 06:52 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: The Q at August 10, 2010 06:53 AM (pfStM)
After listening to part 2 of the six part series of interviews where Simmons "breaks it down," the guy had a hard time swallowing spit as he blabbed his own wild conspiracy theories ("As a lifelong Republican, I'm a concerned about how they're beating up on Obama for demanding this $20 billion fund") and probably actually DID drown in his hot tub. Too stupid to live finally caught up with his fat mouthbreathing ass.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 10, 2010 06:55 AM (mHQ7T)
Funny how people just start dying during presidencies, huh?
Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 10, 2010 06:56 AM (wOGfT)
Well, the royal couple never had much patience with anyone, to begin with. And they never liked white liberals on top of that
This. The huge costs and extravagent sets and meals started appearing during his campaign. The inaguration was yet another example. he's yet another lawyer/politician who makes one case in a court room and another in his living room. He's little different from the ambulance chasing John Edwards, who whined about "two Americas" then proceeded to build the largest house in the county (hint: when your lot is referred to as a 'compound', rather than a 'yard' then we know which of the two Americas to which you belong). From the real estate deal that his house now sits on, to his wife's sweetheart job at the hospital, to the lobbyists and fancy meals (waygu beef. Had anyone even heard of this before him?) he's been in this from the onset. Add the ugly racial element which many liberals play, but which he simply carries further, and you have the current Presidency.
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 10, 2010 06:59 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: The Q at August 10, 2010 10:53 AM (pfStM)
BWAHAHAHA!
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 10, 2010 07:00 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 10, 2010 07:01 AM (g0Sxj)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 10, 2010 10:50 AM (g0Sxj)
This was obvious when the left was pressed to define Hope and Change.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 10, 2010 07:03 AM (mHQ7T)
85 But Billy Ayers never had to worry about getting re-elected or pushing legislation in order to keep up his lavish lifestyle and his commie agenda...Billy and the rest have been pretty insulated from the court of public opinion. Trust funds and academic echo chambers are wonderful things, aren't they?
It's time they got "Obama-ized" imho -- watch them sweat, listen to them throw their lefty followers under the bus when Daddy's trust fund might be endangered and that cushy academic job might disappear
Posted by: unknown jane at August 10, 2010 07:06 AM (5/yRG)
These fuckers are dejected because they are figuring out they only win when they run on personality and when they lie and say they are centrists.
The sheer daily weight of carrying that lying 'narrative' of theirs must be back-breaking...the longer they're in, the heavier it gets too. Shortly before the Liberals got the boot here in Canada it was like that...they just seemed to run out of juice and imploded. The two main factions of the Liberals, the hardcore commies and the 'business' liberals were at each other's throats...it was a grand thing to behold.
The Truth is light as a feather...
Posted by: CanaDave at August 10, 2010 07:11 AM (A8VBw)
It's time they got "Obama-ized" imho -- watch them sweat, listen to them throw their lefty followers under the bus when Daddy's trust fund might be endangered and that cushy academic job might disappear
Posted by: unknown jane at August 10, 2010 11:06 AM (5/yRG)
The Precedent isn't attacking white lefties because he's worried about anything. He's doing it because it's fun. The Precedent still doesn't care about approval polls or anything of the sort. He prefers to go against polls and pick the most unpopular route to take, because that causes the most problems among the citizenry as people hate what he's doing but feel powerless to fight it (as the Indonesian Imbecile is in office and Americans are just WAAAAAY too worried about looking "racist" or looking as if they don't trust a system that put an ineligible retard in the Oval Office and is allowing him to tear the fabric of our nation apart, more and more every single day).
The Indonesian plays on this twisted sense of fairness that many Americans adhere to, just as the muzzies at Ground Zero are happy to offend all of America and watch us twist in the wind as many support the victory mosque as some sort of insane proof that "religious liberty" is the greatest single foundation of the US .. when islam isn't even a religion and the tolerance to allow the enemy a victory mosque at Ground Zero violates the notion of national sovereignty, which is far more important than any silly desire to have political movements called "religions" and allowed to build anything, anywhere.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 07:15 AM (Qp4DT)
106 The bigger question is: does he have theirs?
I think he'd sell them out in a heartbeat -- pray it happens. I want them toppling under the weight of their own treason and vice.
Posted by: unknown jane at August 10, 2010 07:15 AM (5/yRG)
Posted by: unknown jane at August 10, 2010 07:17 AM (5/yRG)
107 I think we just backed each other up.
If Ayers could possibly be thrown under the bus...should we not take the opportunity to make him road kill? Paint that despicable bastard into a corner, let him realize his "protege" isn't coming to his rescue, and be done with him...if you don't stomp out the influence of people like Ayers, then you don't get to the heart of the problem in this country. Pray he and his fellow travellers get thrown under the bus and destroyed (figuratively speaking, of course).
Posted by: unknown jane at August 10, 2010 07:21 AM (5/yRG)
Posted by: chillin' the most at August 10, 2010 07:23 AM (6IV8T)
I have to disagree with the conventional wisdom stated here that
even with a healthy GOP improvement, Obama will “come to the table” and
respect the GOP and move to the center.
I believe that he will go in exactly the opposite direction, and REALLY
F-things up with the dEstructive policies heÂ’s put forth and be even
more contentious.
Why? you ask.
I had a friend who was a hopeless cad and serial cheater in his marriage. Other than this, he was a nice guy.
But he lived his life by 3 rules, which I believe Obama knows about.
The 3 rules are -
1. If you are going to get blamed for it, you might as well do it.
2. If you donÂ’t know about it, it never happened.
3. There is no such thing as “more pissed off”.
Think about it. This is exactly the way Captain Kickass runs his administration.
Following the rules, Obama is going to get blamed for anything that
happens, he works overtime at keeeping us uninformed, and we are already
POÂ’ed at his performance.
Guess what – we are going to get more of his BS.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 10, 2010 07:32 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Dr Octopus at August 10, 2010 07:33 AM (q/HxY)
www.cafepress.com/+dennis-kucinich+polos
"Kucinich is trying to justify government ownership of friggin' golf courses as a "necessary service" that "government must provide""
Posted by: Newshreik... Breaking at August 10, 2010 07:41 AM (Sos7/)
Posted by: unknown jane at August 10, 2010 11:21 AM (5/yRG)
Hear, hear, Jane. Ayers and his ilk will go under the bus before the end. It will be part of the grand finale before the button on The Precedent's suicide vest gets pushed.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 07:42 AM (Qp4DT)
The Precedent isn't attacking
white lefties because he's worried about anything. He's doing it
because it's fun.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 10, 2010 11:15 AM (Qp4DT)
Three words: Black Liberation Theology. Plus the Leftist tendency to abuse toadies.
Posted by: baldilocks at August 10, 2010 12:22 PM (eCBLw)
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