Listening to Live Feed of Obama Presser. But He Isn't Listening.
Denise Moss ·
Nov 3, 2010 at 10:57am
So far he's trying to look reflective, but not willing to admit that his policies had anything to do with a worsening economy. He "inherited a mess." And on his comment the GOP was watching him dig car out of the ditch, side stepped it with that now GOP and DEMS pushing in wrong directions. Not going to change "leadership style." This guy might be more of a statesman than a politician, in all the bad ways: Inflexible and ideological.
Oh, and he says he loves getting out of the White House to see "the people." Who wouldn't when you take $200mil a day trips to India.
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Sep '10
Re: Listening to Live Feed of Obama Presser. But He Isn't Listening.
"I can see The People from my house."
Sep '10
Re: Listening to Live Feed of Obama Presser. But He Isn't Listening.
The only thing missing from Obama's ship of state is Humphrey Bogart searching for the missing scoops of strawberry ice cream.
Jul '10
Re: Listening to Live Feed of Obama Presser. But He Isn't Listening.
Would that be "the people" on the golf courses?
Aug '10
Re: Listening to Live Feed of Obama Presser. But He Isn't Listening.
We must force the issue to all Americans that the Democrats controlled Congress, and therefore all spending, since 2007, when they won back control of both houses.
Why isn't the GOP making this point all day and every day?
Jun '10
Re: Listening to Live Feed of Obama Presser. But He Isn't Listening.
River: We must force the issue to all Americans that the Democrats controlled Congress, and therefore all spending, since 2007, when they won back control of both houses.
Why isn't the GOP making this point all day and every day? · Nov 3 at 11:07am
Probably because of the George W. Bush scrawled at the bottom of every spending bill - none were passed over his veto. Medicare Part D ($68B for 2010) was his baby -- the biggest new entitlement since LBJ. The cost of the Iraq and Afganistan wars are on the president with full Republican support, all opposition was from the Democrats. TARP was a one page done-deal brought to the Hill by Hank "Goldman Sachs" Paulsen, Bush's Treasury Secretary screaming "no time, no time, Wall Street is too big to fail" The Bush Fannie/Freddie regulators were most polite in the face of strong Democrat support but no one above GS-14 in the Bush administration sounded an alarm.
May '10
Re: Listening to Live Feed of Obama Presser. But He Isn't Listening.
After the 2006 mid-terms, A humble Bush replaced Rumsfeld and showed he understood that the Democrats won. He changed course on an important issue of the election. But today Obama understands "that what the American people don't want from us ... is to spend the next 2 years re-fighting the political battles of the last 2." Maybe we can't win, but I want to at least re-fight some of those political battles of the last 2 years.
Aug '10
Re: Listening to Live Feed of Obama Presser. But He Isn't Listening.
Pilgrim
River: We must force the issue to all Americans that the Democrats controlled Congress, and therefore all spending, since 2007, when they won back control of both houses.
Why isn't the GOP making this point all day and every day? · Nov 3 at 11:07am
Probably because of the George W. Bush scrawled at the bottom of every spending bill - none were passed over his veto. Medicare Part D ($68B for 2010) was his baby -- the biggest new entitlement since LBJ. The cost of the Iraq and Afganistan wars are on the president with full Republican support, all opposition was from the Democrats. TARP was a one page done-deal brought to the Hill by Hank "Goldman Sachs" Paulsen, Bush's Treasury Secretary screaming "no time, no time, Wall Street is too big to fail" The Bush Fannie/Freddie regulators were most polite in the face of strong Democrat support but no one above GS-14...
Democrats had control of Congress, majorities in both houses from 2007. They could have blocked any spending they didn't like, and pushed through many reforms. Are you' saying "Daddy made me do it!" is a valid excuse?
Jun '10
Re: Listening to Live Feed of Obama Presser. But He Isn't Listening.
River #7 Democrats had control of Congress, majorities in both houses from 2007. They could have blocked any spending they didn't like, and pushed through many reforms. Are you' saying "Daddy made me do it!" is a valid excuse?
No, of course not River. You've got a perfectly valid point. I am just saying that Bush and the congressional Republicans were complicit in the outrageous spending. If the Democrats were to try to blame spending on the Republicans, yours is the absolutely correct response. Still I wouldn't try to hammer them with responsiblity for the deficits when Bush and congressional Republicans were spending like fools as well. There weren't many deficit hawks on our side in those years, least of all Bush, to be able to take the moral (fiscal?) high ground.
Aug '10
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Your point is well taken, Pilgrim.