July 26, 2011
— Ace Coalition of the Swilling has the whiny Jay Carney calling "Republican talking points" on the idea the President should have a plan.
It's pretty interesting-- the press room jeers in protest when Carney suggests they skipped out of town early on Friday, when he claims the President clearly outlined his "principles."
His "principles." Still not his "plan."
As the CBO said, "We can't score speeches."
Really worth viewing. It's interesting that media is finally starting to chafe under Obama's arrogant reign. Really, really worth watching. The press (particularly Todd and Jake Tapper) will not ease up on Carney over the administration's utter failure to produce a plan.
Hmmm... Obama insists that the debt deal must carry him to January 2013, and here Carney repeats that the President also insists that no tax hikes will go into effect before January 2013.
Is there some economic importance of this January 2013 date?
Seems pretty political, doesn't it?
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Its been over two years. . .where is the Democrat Senate budget?
Posted by: looking closely at July 26, 2011 12:09 PM (PwGfd)
Is there some economic importance of this January 2013 date?
That's when Rick Perry will take the oath of office.
Posted by: Cicero at July 26, 2011 12:10 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Robert17 at July 26, 2011 12:11 PM (LaaRT)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 26, 2011 12:11 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: USA at July 26, 2011 12:12 PM (6Cjut)
Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2011 12:12 PM (SwkdU)
Sorry Ace, I gotta disagree. We've thought this before and it is always a one-off anomaly in a sea of worship. They will never turn on their Messiah, merely gripe at irregular intervals.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 26, 2011 12:13 PM (FkKjr)
The MFM is still carrying his water for him. They have too much invested not to.
Posted by: Vic at July 26, 2011 12:13 PM (M9Ie6)
Lacey, from your link:
“If there were more women in leadership roles these drastic cuts would not be on the table,” NOW president Terry O’Neill told The Daily Caller.Not exactly the greatest argument I've seen for having women in leadership roles.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 26, 2011 12:14 PM (v+QvA)
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 26, 2011 12:14 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at July 26, 2011 12:15 PM (eQePY)
Posted by: Cicero at July 26, 2011 12:15 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 26, 2011 12:16 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 26, 2011 04:14 PM (i6RpT)
True BelieversTM never run out of denial.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 26, 2011 12:17 PM (DrWcr)
Not exactly the greatest argument I've seen for having women in leadership roles.
Posted by: Insomniac
Seriously. "If the cuts aren't on the table, then they aren't needed. Voila! We fixed the problem. Now about that macho nonsense about putting oil into a car....."
Posted by: NOW thinktank and PMS support group at July 26, 2011 12:18 PM (6rX0K)
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 26, 2011 04:14 PM (i6RpT)
These are the people who think Nidal Hussein got second-hand PTSD and that Sarah Palin made Loughner a killer by sending out mailings with crosshairs on them. They have long departed the realm of rational thought.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 26, 2011 12:18 PM (FkKjr)
Posted by: Johnny at July 26, 2011 12:18 PM (iT/Iy)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 26, 2011 12:18 PM (pLTLS)
Dinner invite and expensive bottle of wine should be the end of such impertinent questions. Or an "exclusive" interview.
Kent Brockman is a tougher journalist than these hacks. And he's a cartoon character.
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at July 26, 2011 12:19 PM (qwK3S)
Posted by: PJ at July 26, 2011 12:19 PM (FlVA8)
Posted by: andycanuck at July 26, 2011 12:20 PM (oUG6f)
Posted by: Jay Carney at July 26, 2011 12:20 PM (Xm1aB)
Posted by: nevergiveup
I keep longing for the day when the Moonbatsignal goes out to turn on their Emperor. It won't happen until people like Daley give the sign that he's toast an another enters the wings. Then they will turn on him like they did Hilary. That will be fun.
Posted by: NOW thinktank and PMS support group at July 26, 2011 12:20 PM (326rv)
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 26, 2011 12:20 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2011 12:20 PM (58b7y)
Posted by: Waterhouse at July 26, 2011 12:21 PM (Hu14T)
"You want us to write it down?"
Yeah, Jay, it's funny how Congress can only vote on bills that are written down.
Posted by: stuiec at July 26, 2011 12:22 PM (Di3Im)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 26, 2011 04:18 PM (pLTLS)
The truly sad part is they probably did...
Posted by: Insomniac at July 26, 2011 12:22 PM (DrWcr)
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 12:22 PM (TN7KL)
Posted by: joeindc44 at July 26, 2011 12:22 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 26, 2011 12:23 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: joeindc44 at July 26, 2011 04:22 PM (QxSug)
Hold up, I thought math was sexist. Geez, I really need to update my oppression handbook.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 26, 2011 12:23 PM (DrWcr)
Posted by: Johnnyreb at July 26, 2011 12:23 PM (NNrYJ)
Dinner invite and expensive bottle of wine should be the end of such impertinent questions. Or an "exclusive" interview.
Agree. A season pass to the Wednesday party night at the WH will calm a lot of these upstarts down.
Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2011 12:24 PM (58b7y)
Posted by: Waterhouse
I forbid them from doing so. We're trying to save the planet wingnuts.
Posted by: Cheryl 'stinkyfingers' Crow at July 26, 2011 12:25 PM (326rv)
Lacey, from your link:
“If there were more women in leadership roles these drastic cuts would not be on the table,” NOW president Terry O’Neill told The Daily Caller.Not exactly the greatest argument I've seen for having women in leadership roles.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 26, 2011 04:14 PM (v+QvA)
I know that if my wife had a leadership role in government, spending cuts would DEFINITELY be off the table. *wink*
Posted by: Pyrocles at July 26, 2011 12:25 PM (cv5Iw)
Posted by: steevy at July 26, 2011 12:25 PM (0xA+D)
Posted by: Lone Marauder at July 26, 2011 12:25 PM (HzR5W)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 26, 2011 12:25 PM (jx2j9)
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 12:25 PM (TN7KL)
Posted by: Cicero at July 26, 2011 04:15 PM (QKKT0)
I wonder if Obama has a big hot-air balloon with the words "PROFESSOR MARVEL" emblazoned on its side stashed somewhere in back of the White House... and when he's going to start the burners to fill it.
Posted by: stuiec at July 26, 2011 12:25 PM (Di3Im)
Posted by: nickless at July 26, 2011 12:27 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 12:27 PM (TN7KL)
Same old, same old. Two mafia chiefs negiotiating how to divide up the loot. This whole deal is a joke. No real cuts in spending just more taxes.
This is the RINO way. If I am wrong someone give us a lecture on how Boehner is standing up to Obama.
Has Obamacare been cut?
Are there non defense related spending cuts?
Will the budget be less than last year?
This kabuki dance demonstrates the difference between people who dwell in the here and now and the magical thinking individuals and RINOs.
If you give them that last fix they'll change. And balance the budget. Now if you'll all send me fifty dollars I'll gladly repay you all real, real soon.
Posted by: Molon Labe at July 26, 2011 12:28 PM (g5MrG)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber
I thought that he worked for Time? And wouldn't being well respected in the journolist community still work out to be like king of the sex offender's list?
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 26, 2011 12:29 PM (6rX0K)
Yes. I suspect some combination of FCC regs and the poor economy. Furthermore, we get all kinds of leftist bullshit, including EITC being money "the government owes you" and global warming crap.
Posted by: Truman North at July 26, 2011 12:29 PM (K2wpv)
Only a fucking dunce would fail to understand the significance of the target date.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at July 26, 2011 12:29 PM (1rHeD)
Well, it's kind of hard to carry 10 gallons of shit in a 5 gallon bucket.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 26, 2011 12:29 PM (JqpkY)
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 04:27 PM (TN7KL)
Ahem. We have layers upon layers of editorial fact checking. Layers. Of. Editorial. Fact checking. Not like you unwashed blogging savages.
Posted by: New York Times at July 26, 2011 12:30 PM (DrWcr)
First tme I've had the chance to actually watch Carney in action. Holy dissembling redirection Batman. The only reason I could make it through the entire clip was morbid fascination.
And no, the Press isn't going to stop fellating the administration anytime soon. If it were revealed that their disgruntledness was staged, it might, might register a 1 on my shock meter.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 26, 2011 12:30 PM (zLCZu)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 26, 2011 12:30 PM (ZDUD4)
It must be embarrassing for the MSM hacks to be forced to the conclusion everyone else reached years ago
Nah. They'll act as though they discovered it and they're coming down from the Mount with the Ten Revelations and we were the clueless ones all along.
Posted by: arhooley at July 26, 2011 12:30 PM (wPNzO)
Posted by: ace at July 26, 2011 12:31 PM (nj1bB)
On the other hand, who would want to take that job, knowing that you'd be responsible for defending a President with zero leadership abilities and won't commit to specifics? Carney wasn't elected to serve the country, he was hired to serve Obama. What else is he going to say? He can't exactly go on TV and say "The President is unwilling to commit to a specific, written proposal because he's a giant pussy."
Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 26, 2011 12:32 PM (SY2Kh)
I think maybe I over-implied a point, or some over-read.
Stop cutting out early on Fridays and maybe you'll get it right.
Posted by: Jay Carney sideshow at July 26, 2011 12:32 PM (/Mla1)
Is there some economic importance of this January 2013 date?
I think there's an economically significant date like that in Obamacare, too.
Posted by: arhooley at July 26, 2011 12:33 PM (wPNzO)
Time for Boehner to dust off the 2008 budget and pass it. Tell the Dems 'I thought you guys liked it so much that you didn't pass another one. You all, including Obama voted for it before, so lets finish this thing today.'
Posted by: The Schwalbe : © at July 26, 2011 12:33 PM (UU0OF)
Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2011 12:33 PM (58b7y)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 26, 2011 12:33 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Typical perverted moron at July 26, 2011 12:35 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: palerider - at July 26, 2011 12:35 PM (dkExz)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at July 26, 2011 12:35 PM (BUX9N)
Posted by: yinzer at July 26, 2011 12:35 PM (/Mla1)
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 12:37 PM (TN7KL)
Indeed. What they're really saying is Help me help you.
Posted by: toby928™ at July 26, 2011 12:37 PM (GTbGH)
Remember the line in the movie Patton where Georgie Boy told his troops, "Ride with me, fight and kill Krauts with me--and years from now when your grandkid is on your knee and asks "Grampa, what did you do in the war?"--you won't have to tell the kid "I spent the war shoveling shit in Louisiana".
Well years from now when Carney--who seems to a nice guy in a tough job--has his grandkid on his knee and the little tyke asks "Granpa what did you do as Press Secretary for that one term asshole Obama?" Carney can tell the kid, "I spent a lot of time shoveling Obama shit to the White House press corps, and at first they liked it and ate it up with a spoon--but after a while it made them--and me--sick to our stomachs."
Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 26, 2011 12:37 PM (3ESDJ)
Posted by: Aunty Entity at July 26, 2011 12:37 PM (FU3yL)
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 04:25 PM (TN7KL)
Perhaps, but they will always be racial profilers.
Posted by: No Whining at July 26, 2011 12:37 PM (UzjcV)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 26, 2011 12:38 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 26, 2011 12:39 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 26, 2011 12:39 PM (ZDUD4)
That's when Rick Perry will take the oath of office.
Posted by: Cicero at July 26, 2011 04:10 PM (QKKT0)
I think I need a cigarette after that image. From your keyboard to God's ear.
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 26, 2011 12:40 PM (sVk8z)
I understand that this problem is important enough that fixing it takes precedence over political concerns. But the point has been made that no real entitlement reform - the key to any fix that is more than bandaids - is remotely possible while Obama is in office. Denying him a second term is as important as anything the Republicans can do.
No deal should be made that allows Obama to skate away and somehow postpone addressing this until after the 2012 election. If he can tap dance around the economy and Obamacare at that time, indict Republicans for a continued sour economy, and cannot be made to own the consequences of his actions, we're in trouble. Keep your eye on the ball, guys. I know you'ld like to let him off the ropes cause that's just the way Republicans roll, but press forward, hard.
Posted by: RM at July 26, 2011 12:41 PM (TRsME)
Just think of how much Oprah you could have watched, and what a bum your son would be today, if the government had "helped" you.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 26, 2011 12:41 PM (LH6ir)
It's all theater in it's grandest form. And both sides are at fault here.
Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2011 12:41 PM (58b7y)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 26, 2011 12:41 PM (3ESDJ)
Posted by: Aunty Entity at July 26, 2011 12:41 PM (FU3yL)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 26, 2011 12:41 PM (zLCZu)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 26, 2011 12:41 PM (ZDUD4)
I don't mean the press is turning on Obama in the sense that they'll stop supporting him.
Do you think it will ever happen, Ace? I've been saying from the early days of the Odministration that at some point it's going to end. I have different theories about how, but I think it could happen.
Posted by: arhooley at July 26, 2011 12:41 PM (xeplF)
Cliff notes? Obama lied again, that's not news. Happens everyday.
Carney: We provided the numbers to you
Press: Can you hand us an outline?
Carney: No, you have paper, write down what he's said
Press: But that's not a plan?
Carney: Yes it is, he gave all the details and numbers on Friday, but most of you cut out early for the day so that's why you don't have the numbers
Press: Okay, fine, can we have them now?
Carney: No.
Press: You've said Obama will cut/reform entitlements, can you list 8 or 9 things he'd cut?
Carney:Friday night, you missed it, tough shit. No.
Press: Well could you at least tell us why Obama won't release a plan.
Carney: You know how these things work, one you release a plan it get demagogued and nothing gets done.
Press: Hey Carney, want to see a magic trick? [Sticks pencil into podium a la The Dark Knight}
Posted by: Ben at July 26, 2011 12:42 PM (wuv1c)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 26, 2011 12:43 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 26, 2011 04:14 PM (i6RpT)
A piece of shit is immune to its own stink.
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 26, 2011 12:43 PM (sVk8z)
Do you think it will ever happen, Ace? I've been saying from the early days of the Odministration that at some point it's going to end. I have different theories about how, but I think it could happen.
No , never.
Look at Fast and Furious, something like that would have toppled George Bush's justice department and probably would have ended with there being trials.
The media has swept it under the rug.
Almost every presidency has at least one major public scandal by their third year. Obama's had a bunch that were never covered.
And you know the old saying, "If a scandal isn't covered by the media, it never happened"
Posted by: Ben at July 26, 2011 12:43 PM (wuv1c)
Posted by: t-bird at July 26, 2011 12:44 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at July 26, 2011 04:29 PM (1rHeD)
And we have shit-load of them, as it turns out. We saw this Nov.'08. Just about stops the heart.
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 12:44 PM (TN7KL)
Don't worry, it won't happen again.
Posted by: cherry π at July 26, 2011 12:44 PM (OhYCU)
Posted by: hous bin pharteen at July 26, 2011 12:45 PM (M+RZq)
Posted by: Presnit Bootsy Twinkletoes at July 26, 2011 12:45 PM (/ZZCn)
Speaking of media douchebags, it may cheer you all to know that Rick Sanchez has not yet resurfaced. He was supposedly in talks with two L.A. stations over an anchor job.
Posted by: arhooley at July 26, 2011 12:45 PM (xeplF)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 26, 2011 04:41 PM (ZDUD4)
No...just good ol' fashion, down-home country, god-fearing, BBQ lovin, common sense!
Posted by: The Huckster at July 26, 2011 12:45 PM (8ieXv)
The DETAILS are in his PLAN!!!!11111!!!!11
His Effin PLAN!!!11111
Posted by: J Carney at July 26, 2011 04:41 PM (8ieXv)
For Obama to commit his "plan" to paper would run the risk of causing the end of the universe, a la The Nine Billion Names of God ... that's how awesome his thinking is.
Posted by: No Whining at July 26, 2011 12:46 PM (UzjcV)
Barack Obama in...
Frances Hodgson Burnett's childrens classic...
L I T T L E L O R D D E F A U L T E N R O Y
Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2011 12:46 PM (sqkOB)
I think that you are being naive in the extreme if you think that the American press will ever, EVER, turn on their savior. They were brought up to believe that a man like him would come and save America from the NASCAR scum and the gun nuts and the people who drink percolated coffee instead of a latté.
They will strut and fret their hour upon the stage, but they do not have the intellectual freedom to question what they have been hoping for for all these years. They are the point of the spear of the progressive movement in this country, and don't ever forget that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at July 26, 2011 12:46 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: dɥoǝuıxƃıɹl at July 26, 2011 12:46 PM (eOXTH)
Read an article today that WH Admin is going to try and go after Issa on Goldman Sachs in effort to back him off on F&F. Claim he was buying GS while on the committee to review their investing practices. No end to the thuggery of this WH Admin.
Posted by: Aunty Entity at July 26, 2011 12:47 PM (FU3yL)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 26, 2011 12:47 PM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: Ben at July 26, 2011 12:47 PM (wuv1c)
Posted by: cherry π at July 26, 2011 12:48 PM (OhYCU)
Posted by: joeindc44 at July 26, 2011 12:49 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: Robin at July 26, 2011 12:49 PM (25gwB)
The fact that Huck is pushing it should tell you something. The fair tax is a huge tax increase for everyone except the normal worthless turds that already pay no taxes.
And it is a mega-POS for people who have already retired and they openly admit that.
Posted by: Vic at July 26, 2011 12:50 PM (M9Ie6)
Good for you. Good for him, too. My FIL was a career man in the Coast Guard, who incidentally was raised by his mother without much help from his father.
Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2011 12:50 PM (SwkdU)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 26, 2011 12:50 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 26, 2011 12:50 PM (AZGON)
they do not have the intellectual freedom to question what they have been hoping for for all these years
CBD, I'm relying on their petulance, shallowness, self-importance, etc. Also, if they come to see him as the destroyer of the Democrat brand, they could discard him and go in search of a new Messiah.
Posted by: arhooley at July 26, 2011 12:50 PM (xeplF)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 26, 2011 12:51 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Mike at July 26, 2011 12:51 PM (NH9Y5)
O, press corps, have ye lost faith in your savior already? Woe to you, unbelievers!
Posted by: Jay Carney at July 26, 2011 12:52 PM (DrWcr)
" If women were in charge". Always had my suspicions of Pelosi.
Posted by: rightlysouthern at July 26, 2011 12:52 PM (Fr18g)
Then he can join Cornell West and Tavis Smiley on their 'all y'all are racists' tour.
How beautiful it will be!
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 26, 2011 12:52 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 26, 2011 12:53 PM (Wm4Mf)
Posted by: Aunty Entity at July 26, 2011 12:53 PM (FU3yL)
You think this is testy? Wait until President Palin's first presser.
Posted by: cherry π at July 26, 2011 04:48 PM
Hee hee hee hee. I can just see her all cheery and above-it-all, standing by every word she says and crisply dismissing Contessa Brewer's lectures with a "Sorry, you're wrong!"
Posted by: arhooley at July 26, 2011 12:53 PM (xeplF)
Posted by: dɥoǝuıxƃıɹl at July 26, 2011 12:54 PM (eOXTH)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 26, 2011 12:54 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at July 26, 2011 12:55 PM (ZDUD4)
New this Fall on NBC...
Groucho Obama Marx in the reimagined popular game show...
You Debt Your Life!
/rubber chicken falls from ceiling
Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2011 12:55 PM (sqkOB)
“If there were more women in leadership roles these drastic cuts would not be on the table,” NOW president Terry O’Neill told The Daily Caller.
Not exactly the greatest argument I've seen for having women in leadership roles. giving women the vote.
FIFY
Posted by: alexthechick at July 26, 2011 12:55 PM (VtjlW)
There will be an 11th hour Obama/Ried bill which they will dare the House not to pass. The bill already exists, but they have to pass it so we can see what's in it.
Win-win for them.
Posted by: teh Wind at July 26, 2011 12:55 PM (dwSTt)
Posted by: dɥoǝuıxƃıɹl at July 26, 2011 12:55 PM (eOXTH)
Posted by: JPS at July 26, 2011 12:55 PM (aY76I)
What on earth are they talking about? All by himself, Barky brings more estrogen into the room than the combined Dimbulb caucus of both houses of Congress.
Posted by: No Whining at July 26, 2011 12:55 PM (UzjcV)
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 12:55 PM (TN7KL)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 26, 2011 04:50 PM (UlUS4)
I believe Beck when he said that Obamacare and Cap & Tax were written long before Dick took office.
Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2011 12:56 PM (58b7y)
Posted by: No Whining at July 26, 2011 04:46 PM (UzjcV)
Obama regards his Plan as ineffable. As opposed to the American people, whom he regards as eminently effable.
Posted by: stuiec at July 26, 2011 12:56 PM (Di3Im)
I don't it would be worse than what we have now.
Posted by: Vic at July 26, 2011 12:56 PM (M9Ie6)
133 Remember when Obama, the candidate, promised to have every proposed bill on line for 48 hours, so that public could see it before it was voted on? How far he's come since those days.
Remember when he promissed to cut the defecit in half in his first term???? Now he cries over cutting 3 billion from 1600 Billion defecit!
Posted by: The Schwalbe : © at July 26, 2011 12:56 PM (UU0OF)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks we're boned at July 26, 2011 12:57 PM (GTbGH)
/rubber chicken falls from ceiling
Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2011 04:55 PM (sqkOB)
The secret word was "corporate jets" ... amirite?
Posted by: No Whining at July 26, 2011 12:57 PM (UzjcV)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 26, 2011 12:58 PM (UlUS4)
Is there some economic importance of this January 2013 date?
Apparently, this is when he intends on commencing governing.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at July 26, 2011 12:58 PM (BvTwT)
Posted by: dɥoǝuıxƃıɹl at July 26, 2011 12:58 PM (eOXTH)
There will be an 11th hour Obama/Ried bill which they will dare the House not to pass. The bill already exists, but they have to pass it so we can see what's in it.
Win-win for them.
Posted by: teh Wind at July 26, 2011 04:55 PM (dwSTt)
Don't think so. Not this time.
Posted by: Soona at July 26, 2011 12:58 PM (58b7y)
Posted by: Buttock Obama at July 26, 2011 12:59 PM (FcR7P)
And his Mouthpiece, too?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at July 26, 2011 12:59 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 26, 2011 12:59 PM (AZGON)
And his Mouthpiece, too?
About time someone mentioned this.
Posted by: Aunty Entity at July 26, 2011 01:00 PM (FU3yL)
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 26, 2011 01:01 PM (i6RpT)
The Debt Offensive
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend debt ceiling, and did the best they could.
Posted by: Walter Cronkite at July 26, 2011 01:02 PM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: andycanuck at July 26, 2011 04:20 PM
Isn't happening so far;
NYT editorial page now to the left of Democrats on debt deal
Mr. Obama denounced House Speaker John BoehnerÂ’s proposal to make cuts only, now, and raise the debt ceiling briefly, but he embraced the proposal made over the weekend by the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, which gave Republicans virtually everything they said they wanted when they ignited this artificial crisis: $2.7 trillion from government spending over the next decade, with no revenue increases. It is, in fact, an awful plan, which cuts spending far too deeply at a time when the government should be summoning all its resources to solve the real economic problem of unemployment. It asks for absolutely no sacrifice from those who have prospered immensely as economic inequality has grownÂ…
We agreed strongly when Mr. Obama said Americans should be “offended” by this display and that they “may have voted for divided government but they didn’t vote for a dysfunctional government.” It’s hard not to conclude now that dysfunction is the Republicans’ goal — even if the cost is unthinkable.
Posted by: kbdabear at July 26, 2011 01:04 PM (so1xa)
Then he can join Cornell West and Tavis Smiley on their 'all y'all are racists' tour.
How beautiful it will be!
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 26, 2011 04:52 PM
Gawd, so many lovely dreams about the future. I see him get caught chasing tail by the National Enquirer.
Failing in his bid for Sec-Gen of the U.N.
Aimlessly doing appearances with Bono and Richard Branson and Al Gore and Bill Clinton as he tries to find some way back to being influential.
Trying to think up some liberal cause that hasn't been destroyed yet (Gore got dibs on the environment, too many other hucksters in on racism, gotta be something he can do).
Trying to shore up his credibility by going to Africa with George Bush.
One thing's for sure: he's really going to have to come up with a narrative for a one-term presidency. I predict something about martyrdom and the world not being ready for him and he didn't let us down, we let him down, and perhaps someday after he's gone his ideas will be rediscovered and will live and that's enough for him, the noble, principled saint, and he forgives us all for destroying him for we know not what we are doing. Something like that.
Posted by: arhooley at July 26, 2011 01:07 PM (QA8xa)
" If women were in charge". Always had my suspicions of Pelosi.
Posted by: rightlysouthern at July 26, 2011 04:52 PM (Fr18g)
I can't, for the life of me, understand this woman. She is supposedly Catholic, has a brood of her own, and grandchildren, is a multi-millionaire, lives this lifestyle with a lavish, yet, has this lust for power and control. I will never understand this yearning to oversee and overpower anyone.
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 01:07 PM (TN7KL)
Posted by: Bill Mitchell at July 26, 2011 01:07 PM (uVlA4)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 26, 2011 01:07 PM (bxiXv)
hahaha, perfect
Posted by: soothsayer at July 26, 2011 05:01 PM (sqkOB)
"Swordfish"
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 26, 2011 05:01 PM (i6RpT)
What do you take for a haddock?
Posted by: stuiec at July 26, 2011 01:08 PM (Di3Im)
Posted by: joeindc44 at July 26, 2011 01:09 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 26, 2011 01:10 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 26, 2011 04:59 PM (AZGON)
Debt goes up
Won't go down
Spinning deal
Spins to the ground
Talkin' 'bout entitlements that
Never change
Got no engineer on the spinning deal train
Posted by: stuiec at July 26, 2011 01:11 PM (Di3Im)
Posted by: Inigo Obama at July 26, 2011 01:11 PM (so1xa)
@133
These people sold their soul years ago, they'll never deal with it properly.
Any of them with a curious, skeptic outlook must be kept up at night marveling what bullshit they've made of their lives.
Posted by: Tom22ndState at July 26, 2011 01:14 PM (0o0Bm)
Huge tax increases on those wealthier than average but not wealthy enough where they give big bucks to the DNC (AKA rich elite lefties with loads of loopholes)
Big spending increases for the handout dependent constituencies
If he doesn't get everything he wants, takes his bats and balls and goes home. Count on MBM to blame Republicans for the whole mess
Posted by: kbdabear at July 26, 2011 01:15 PM (so1xa)
He will not do even a cursory attempt at debating. ( have a running bet with my own son over this one).
The MSM is fueled and fired and ready for action.
I feel like a fool, nonetheless. It took me my entire adulthood to awaken to t he
unbalanced score-card, although I stopped watching all and every single network newscast since about 2003.
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 01:20 PM (TN7KL)
General Obama leads...
He certainly has the mindset. It is what he thinks. They are not commies now, they are progressives now.
Posted by: hous bin pharteen at July 26, 2011 01:20 PM (M+RZq)
It took them until the last year, but after 3 years of misery and incompetence, it finally got to be too much. Carter was like Obama in one thing...he just couldn't shut up about stuff that made him sound un-presidential. So we had to hear about Amy giving advice on nuclear disarmament (I think she was around 12), "lust in his heart," how we all needed to face the fact that things sucked bt it was because we had a bad attitude (Malaise Speech), etc. Plus we had that hostage crisis that went on and on. The press realized they couldn't prop him up any longer.
Obama is going to try to dodge debates, I can guarantee it. That will really win him no points, and he will eventually have to do so, just like Carter ended up having to debate that old movie star and ignoramus, Ronald Reagan. Funny how that worked out.
Posted by: Miss Marple at July 26, 2011 01:22 PM (Fo83G)
I've listened to Obama......and Carney is wrong. His so called plan is not detailed. As far as I can tell he only wants $1.5 Trillion in cuts over ten years, and tax increases for those over $250,000/year. That flat out will not cut it!
That's $150 Billion in cuts a year coupled with about $80 Billion increse in revenues. So $230 Billion a year off $1.5 Trillion dollar deficits equalling $1.2 Trillion deficits as far as the eye can see.
This country better get these people out of office ASAP, or we are going to end with a Debt to GDP somewhere north of 300% by 2020.
Thats alot 52%ers.....keep chuckin that ficken!
Posted by: Jimi at July 26, 2011 01:25 PM (JMsOK)
Posted by: rightlysouthern at July 26, 2011 01:25 PM (Fr18g)
It took them until the last year, but after 3 years of misery and incompetence, it finally got to be too much. Carter was like Obama in one thing...he just couldn't shut up about stuff that made him sound un-presidential. So we had to hear about Amy giving advice on nuclear disarmament (I think she was around 12), "lust in his heart," how we all needed to face the fact that things sucked bt it was because we had a bad attitude (Malaise Speech), etc. Plus we had that hostage crisis that went on and on. The press realized they couldn't prop him up any longer.
Obama is going to try to dodge debates, I can guarantee it. That will really win him no points, and he will eventually have to do so, just like Carter ended up having to debate that old movie star and ignoramus, Ronald Reagan. Funny how that worked out.
Posted by: Miss Marple at July 26, 2011 05:22 PM (Fo83G)
I don't remember the part where the media turned on Carter. Teddy Kennedy tried to primary him, but the 60 Minutes interview ("Why do you want to be President?" "Uhhhh.....") put the kibosh on that.
The media may have seen through Carter by 1980, but the only real way they turned on him was when ABC created their nightly hostage crisis countdown (which later became "Nightline").
Posted by: stuiec at July 26, 2011 01:27 PM (Di3Im)
@ 188
"I can`t figure why anyone wealthy would be a dim."
It's because they hate themselves and they are embarrassed that they have it so easy. But...because they have had it so easy, they can't shoulder the solutions themselves, and expect everyelse to fix the situation.
They are ashamed.....just not that ashamed!
Posted by: Jimi at July 26, 2011 01:29 PM (JMsOK)
Posted by: generally angryman at July 26, 2011 01:29 PM (mexsR)
Bloom. off. rose.
Everyone knows Obama has no plan. Carney confirmed it at the hectoring of some in the press room. Landmark event in the depantsing of the emperor.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 26, 2011 01:30 PM (r4t7/)
Okay. But this is a broader, even more nonsensical world. I think, as far back as the 70's, the majority still felt a self reliant responsibility, and that is why even the MSM turned on Carter. Look what happened with Clinton though. It became, swimmingly, like a ha-ha joke. Clinton, a Rhode's scholar, his wife, a splendid lawyer, just a funny tussle to be amused by.
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 01:30 PM (TN7KL)
Remember the scene in Field of Dreams where the obnoxious brother-in-law says: "Hey, when did all these baseball players get here?". It's like that.
All of us that have seen the "players" from day one are not amused. You will not achieve hero status for merely waking up from the self-induced delusion in which you have willingly slept.
Dereliction should not be rewarded.
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 26, 2011 01:32 PM (CYoZS)
Well, I am still doing my best to shame and prod them on Twitter. Maybe one will break ranks. Or maybe not, since Jake Tapper blocked me because I disagreed with his interpretation of something.
Posted by: Miss Marple at July 26, 2011 01:33 PM (Fo83G)
Posted by: Vic at July 26, 2011 01:33 PM (M9Ie6)
# 126
"I think we can all guess who the author of Obamacare" If I'm not mistaken, that would be the convicted felon that is married to Rep Jan Schakowski (D/Socialist)-from, wait for it...Illinois
Posted by: TheThinMan at July 26, 2011 01:38 PM (FFrzN)
Posted by: express at July 26, 2011 01:39 PM (TN7KL)
Ayers and Soros are part of the same crowd.
Who? What crowd? The Khmer Rouge? Sounds like them. When do the crazy religious Christians go to the labor camps?
Posted by: hous bin pharteen at July 26, 2011 01:42 PM (M+RZq)
42 An actual press corps would've asked Carney why the fuck the "most transparent Administration ever" insists on not putting anything down on paper.
Posted by: Waterhouse
Better question: How did the CBO SCORE the plan?
Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at July 26, 2011 01:45 PM (W1mrP)
Carney: "Hey, guys, that was close, why do you drive so close to the edge?"
Press: "Sorry, C-man, but I have to live on the edge once in awhile. Still friendsies?"
Carney: "Sure, no problem, but I need to make sure my boss knows you guys are still, you know, with us"
Press: "Oh, come on, now...you think we'd be on our knees for those guys?"
Carney: "Well, I'm just making sure we can count on you. I'm beginning to think you guys aren't with the program, you know, with asking to actually write things down and all"
Posted by: GW McLintock at July 26, 2011 01:47 PM (j2W3S)
Paul Ryan does his "count-up" of days (800-someodd now) without the Congressional Democrats passing a budget. Some pundits note that this abrogation of their duties puts the Democrats in violation of the law, but I never see a particular statute cited (it might be Section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, but I'm no lawyer).
So is it illegal? If so, isn't it amazing totally ordinary that there's zero media coverage on this for the last two years?
Posted by: President FiscalHawk at July 26, 2011 01:49 PM (1H47k)
It took them until the last year, but after 3 years of misery and incompetence, it finally got to be too much.
They never liked Jimmah personally, but played the tune called by the NY Slimes because he was still the Head Socialist. Only when St Teddy got his mommy's permission to run did they dump him like an ugly prom date. When they weren't slurping the Prince of Chappaquiddick or laughing at Jimmah, they were telling us how the stupid and dangerous Ronald Raygun was going to start WW III if we all didn't die from the pollution from the evil corporations first
Posted by: kbdabear at July 26, 2011 01:53 PM (so1xa)
Posted by: Dave C at July 26, 2011 02:01 PM (idSAM)
here's what making alarm bells go off in my head - i'm seeing a number of stories on the tubes about how the TEA Party has won, but it's a tactic designed to get us to let our guards down, we haven't won anything yet, nothing has been cut yet, there is no victory until i hear the wailing and moaning of the progressive women and children (which will be telvised, non-stop, 24/7/365)
the enemy has not been defeated, they only hide and wait for us to go back to sleep.
don't be fooled again!
Posted by: Progressive Pervs United at July 26, 2011 02:17 PM (jdOk/)
Posted by: cherry π at July 26, 2011 02:18 PM (OhYCU)
Posted by: Jack at July 26, 2011 02:28 PM (8IAHO)
Posted by: Waterhouse at July 26, 2011 04:21 PM (Hu14T)
Because paper isn't transparent. Duh.
Posted by: stuiec at July 26, 2011 02:31 PM (Di3Im)
Posted by: Jack at July 26, 2011 06:28 PM (8IAHO)
Fuck the Cascade. I'm ready to talk about the Finish!!!
Posted by: stuiec at July 26, 2011 02:31 PM (Di3Im)
All this yapping and not one of those bitches has gotten me a sammich.
Posted by: sifty at July 26, 2011 02:43 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Jon Stewart at July 26, 2011 02:54 PM (hbjRj)
Posted by: SuperFreakonomics Audiobook at July 26, 2011 04:24 PM (Y2XdG)
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