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August 29, 2011

The Rod Serling Economy [ArthurK]
— Open Blogger

Here's President Obama talking the Economy with Brian Williams.

Obama: Well, look, we anticipated that the recovery was slowing. The economy is still growing, but it’s not growing as fast as it needs to. I’ve got things right now in - before Congress that we should move immediately, and I’ve said so before I went on vacation and I’ll keep on saying it when I - now that I’m back. We should be passing legislation that helps small businesses get credit, that eliminates capital gains taxes so that they have more incentive to invest right now. There are a whole host of measures that we could take, no single element of which is a magic bullet, but cumulatively could start continuing to build momentum for the recovery.

(click the link to view the one minute video)

After the break, the Twilight Zone like twist!

That video and quote was from August 29, 2010. Doo do do do, Doo do do do!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:55 PM | Comments (47)
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1 Clusterfuck, etc.

Posted by: smaulz at August 29, 2011 05:58 PM (XB6o8)

2 It's gotta be said. Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: Osama bin Truck Monkey, TEArrorist at August 29, 2011 05:58 PM (jucos)

So what happened in March 2010 that trumped all that horseshit?

There's a clue to all this.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at August 29, 2011 05:58 PM (sJTmU)

4 This bastards been on vacation since 2010.

Posted by: LGoPs at August 29, 2011 05:58 PM (lHn6+)

5 That was a nice gotcha. I think this captures very well the running-in-place sensation of living through the Obama presidency. They keep trying the same stuff (like whatever new stimulus or infrastructure or tax credit scheme Obama's going to dust off in his next speech) and being surprised that they aren't getting different results.

Posted by: Amy P at August 29, 2011 06:00 PM (yOQ4W)

I thought fucktard told another interviewer that he wouldn't lower cap gains rates even though doing so would generate more revenue.

Does the fucking media have a recording machine thingamajiggy so they can play back his contradictions to him?

Apparently that machine only works for Republicans being interviewed.

Posted by: LGoPs at August 29, 2011 06:02 PM (lHn6+)

7 what things did/does he have before Congress?

Posted by: Jose at August 29, 2011 06:02 PM (WTNJJ)

8 Fuck you 52%.

Posted by: LGoPs at August 29, 2011 06:03 PM (lHn6+)

9 Well done, Arthur. heh

Posted by: Dustin at August 29, 2011 06:04 PM (fF625)

10 This bastards been on vacation since 2010.1961

Posted by: LGoPs at August 29, 2011 09:58 PM (lHn6+)

FTFY

Posted by: Osama bin Truck Monkey, TEArrorist at August 29, 2011 06:06 PM (jucos)

11 President ObamaÂ’s much-anticipated jobs speech will undoubtedly cover more of the same things that already havenÂ’t worked. He will propose an infrastructure bank, extension of unemployment and food stamps, promotion of green jobs, more government-corporate partnerships, and a one-year extension of the payroll tax reduction. HeÂ’ll advocate a second stimulus. He may be flanked by his jobs commission, headed by the CEO of General Electric, which earlier issued a lame interim jobs report. His speech will not be about jobs. Instead, it will be a campaign speech in disguise.

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at August 29, 2011 06:12 PM (e8kgV)

12 If only Obama'd think of the aliens, we'd be in post-WWII ascension.

Barack, call me.

Posted by: Paul Krugman, Village Idiot Emeritus at August 29, 2011 06:14 PM (r4t7/)

13 I sometimes to refer to the Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure as "President Wrecking Ball."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 29, 2011 06:15 PM (bxiXv)

14 Good lord. I'm watching Greta and they've got a dizzy blond promoting Obama's next pseudo-economist as the next coming. I weep for the countries future.

No longer does it seem that actual logic and intelligence are required for either high paying tv journalists, or <gasp> a Presidents economic advisor.

I've seen this idiot debating various people on fox before, and to think he's Obama's econ advisor frightens me beyond belief. Krugman looks like a genius next to him

Posted by: Billy Barty at August 29, 2011 06:16 PM (Tv6z3)

15 Now that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, no longer under the outstanding leadership of Franklin Raines, aren't there to be a Democratic Party piggie-bank, along comes the idea of an infrastructure bank. It would simply be a political slush fund and encourage wasteful spending by Democratic political cronies.

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at August 29, 2011 06:16 PM (e8kgV)

16 Wow. O'Clusterfucks inactivity on the economy seems almost..........intentional.

Posted by: Spiker at August 29, 2011 06:16 PM (4t9J5)

17 Doo do

Yeah, that's an apt summary.

Posted by: Herr Blücher at August 29, 2011 06:17 PM (RBNUj)

18 It would be wrong to feel good that the economy has been and is doing poorly. Some people might feel that way because a bad economy hurts Obama's chances to get re-elected. Not me. HOWEVER, I don't have to worry about it. Pres. Obama is hard-core committed to his economic ideology therefore the economy will never do well under those policies because Socialism Doesn't Work. Carter-like stagflation is the best case scenario.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at August 29, 2011 06:18 PM (+JhHG)

19 That video and quote was from August 29, 2010. Doo do do do, Doo do do do! ---------------------------------------------------------- Hey! Wait a minute! Didn't Obama have a SUPER MAJORITY in Congress on August 29, 2010?! I'm sure Brian Williams pointed this out right? Right?

Posted by: Spiker at August 29, 2011 06:21 PM (4t9J5)

20 It's deja vu all over again!

Posted by: Arnonerik at August 29, 2011 06:21 PM (mmI0p)

21 Boy old Vice Admiral Mc5putt sure is one super smart son-of-a-gun isn't he?

Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at August 29, 2011 06:34 PM (08Pe8)

" IÂ’ve said so before I went on vacation and IÂ’ll keep on saying it when I - now that IÂ’m back. We should be passing legislation that helps small businesses get credit, that eliminates capital gains taxes"

yep, he's been going on for years and years how we should eliminate the capital gains tax, practically never shuts up about it.

Posted by: Shoey at August 29, 2011 06:35 PM (m6OUa)

23 "Affirmative action" doesn't actually work out in the real world.

Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at August 29, 2011 06:36 PM (iRlbA)

24 can a fellow buy a monorail at a Infrastructure Bank?

Posted by: The Ruling Class at August 29, 2011 06:38 PM (m6OUa)

25 Gee.. if only we had a press to question and pressure this stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure...

Alas, they go on vacation when a Dem is in the White House.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 29, 2011 06:41 PM (UTq/I)

26 This video and quote is from August 29, 2012. Doo do do do, Doo do do do!

Posted by: Ann d'Mestik at August 29, 2011 06:51 PM (ph/kS)

27 Well, this is fitting, since I've upped my smoking to match Rod Serling ever since this clown took office.

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at August 29, 2011 07:03 PM (Z75XC)

28 Hey, you leave Rod Serling the hell out of this. That man could create awesome fiction, unlike this stuttering clusterfuck who can only create depressing realities.

Posted by: Aaron at August 29, 2011 07:06 PM (Tlix5)

29 Barack Obama is a mutherfucking deadbeat of desperate incompetence. And also a stuttering clusterfuck of miserable failure.

Posted by: Vercingetorix at August 29, 2011 07:26 PM (psCad)

Ah The Bamster and "The Fierce Urgency of Now". He's got the engine revving and his mouth running, but he never drops the clutch to do a damned thing. No wonder the car stays in the ditch.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at August 29, 2011 07:30 PM (3ESDJ)

31 The president should be commended on saving money by recycling his speeches, talking points, ideas, and policies. It's just too bad that they all suck ass.

Posted by: Mr Fever Head at August 29, 2011 07:42 PM (ZgvjV)

Okay, the broad a few thread down having a hissy fit about having to pay for stuff? She should move to one of the wonderful countries where other people pay for your stuff and you have riots in the streets and burn your neighbor's house down when your rich uncle the government runs out of other peoples' money.

Stupid people make me cranky.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at August 29, 2011 07:55 PM (lUmIL)

The president should be commended on saving money by recycling his speeches, talking points, ideas, and policies. It's just too bad that they all suck ass.

That's exactly what most of Hollywood does. No wonder they love him. He's one of them.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at August 29, 2011 07:57 PM (lUmIL)

This bastards been on vacation since 2010 2008.

FIFY

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at August 29, 2011 07:58 PM (lUmIL)

35 great to share it
Thanks alot

Posted by: dreambox at August 29, 2011 08:01 PM (Nij6I)

36 Great. One night I can hang out here for awhile and it dies early.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at August 29, 2011 08:12 PM (lUmIL)

37 you know what will finally turn this economy around...free internet for poor people

Posted by: obamanomics at August 29, 2011 08:12 PM (54F2e)

you know what will finally turn this economy around...free internet for poor people

Hey, they got free cell phones now, so why not?

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at August 29, 2011 08:13 PM (lUmIL)

39 Integrative Dyslexia!

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at August 29, 2011 08:20 PM (AZGON)

40 Instead of spreading the wealth around, hows about we spread the work around. The wife and I pay over $40,000 a year in taxes. I should be entitled to order some poor people to trim my hedges and mow my lawn, wash my car...

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2011 08:23 PM (54F2e)

41 "Integrative Dyslexia!" Excellent.

Posted by: Vercingetorix at August 29, 2011 10:00 PM (psCad)

42

Witness if you will, a bumbling douchebag of a President, with unimaginable vacuousness and shuddering levels of fear and pussiness.

If you thought it was bad before, it is going to get much worse.

Here. In the Twilight Zone.

Has Obama passed legislation to create a tv show called the Twilight Zone yet?

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at August 30, 2011 12:22 AM (s5aNX)

43 There are a whole host of measures that we could take, no single element of which is a magic bullet, but cumulatively could start continuing to build momentum for the recovery.

LOL: "start continuing."

Posted by: lael at August 30, 2011 12:50 AM (OqhkT)

Dipwad president is going to open his filthy piehole and billions in 401ks are going to turn to shit.

It would have been far less economically disruptive to take that trillion in stimulous money, make a big pile and set a match to it.

If this national nightmare is going to continue I'm gonna need a prescription for zanax

Posted by: Mueller at August 30, 2011 03:31 AM (/AU3V)

45 You really make it seem so uderstandable with your presentation but I find this topic before really hard to understand. It seems too complicated and very broad for me.

Posted by: Acceptable Loss AudioBook at August 30, 2011 05:38 AM (A1vu2)

46 I'm not smart enough to figure out how to 'start continuing' anything.

This man is a super genius!!!!1111!!!eleventy

Posted by: jukin at August 30, 2011 06:27 AM (vkkNZ)

47 Eliminate capital gains so that people will invest?

That is the dumbest statement I have ever heard about tax issues.

Posted by: just a cpa at August 30, 2011 07:37 AM (Wnk4X)

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