Schock to the President’s Argument

I thought the President was rude to Schock. He was also rude to Judd Gregg. This president acts more like a petulant teenager who is used to getting his way, than a leader.
Is it too early to say: “Toldya”.

Jane – it’s not too early.
In fact, we could start a new business.
Let’s make bumper stickers that say:
Don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for him.

Thanks Jake

Gibbs:”I think, if the congressman goes and looks at the bill through an economic lens, not just one — not just through a political one, I think he’ll see benefits not just for his district and his state, but for the entire country.”
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Gibbs characterizes Schock’s concerns as “political”. It is once again a way to disparage those who disagree with the administration while trying to claim bipartisanship.
Are the Caterpillar employees and Peoria residents who are urging Schock to vote against the bill also looking through a political lens?

Thank you Jake Tapper for being a voice of reason in the insanity. I remember most liberals touting the line “truth to power” where are they now when we need it the most?? You are the only one.

Jake Tapper
You earned my respect. Be who you are and Save this Country from becoming failed state.

“Gibbs characterizes Schock’s concerns as “political”. It is once again a way to disparage those who disagree with the administration while trying to claim bipartisanship.”
In the same patronizing vein as The Supreme Puppet’s public teasing of Schock as having not made up his mind.
Behind all the girly whispering and vogueing, The Puppet is a … bully.

THE ONE QUESTION NOBODY WILL ASK OBAMA (its not too late) will unravel the biggest scandal in US HIstory. Obama is spending millions in court cases all over America to quash requests to see his birth certificate or school records. Why would he do that? Because there is ample proof that he was not born in the US and was never eligible. If found out later EVERYTHING he and his appointees do will have to be undone:
The simple Question the media will not demand an answer to:
“Barack Obama why do you refuse to release your birth certificate and are spending millions to prevent others from seeing it?”
We have a right to know!

Thinking: Hmmm… and you believe him? How many did he get in support?
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Obviously not enough to get him to vote for the bill.
He must feel confident he has the support of his constituents.

Obama used to love Judd Gregg too.
Before he found out Gregg wasn’t going to be his doormat.

I live in Decatur Illinois and have family and several friends that work at CAT.
I voted for McCain ,but I’m trying to support Obama
and he is makeing harder and harder everyday.

Actually for those of you asking how many people asked him to vote for the bill, I believe he already answered that – none! People that build heavy equipment have to have common sense and it looks like they did.

Actually RS, the CBO itself said that this stimulus will not work. I’d say that there are a few economists on that, wouldn’t you?

The president and all the president’s men define bipartisanship as doing what the president wants when he wants it done.

Hooray for Rep. Schock for standing up to Obama and telling the TRUTH!!
I voted for him when I lived in Peoria – makes me proud to have lived there!

Didn’t Obama promise he wouldn’t sign any legislation with pork? I know he did. This bill is loaded with it.
He also said he wouldn’t sign any legislation that had not been on the WH web site for 5 days. He broke that promise his first week when he signed the Lily Ledbetter legislation and intends to do it again with this legislation.

Here’s your TOP TEN STATES getting MORE MONEY FROM the federal government than they put in – for every $1 they put in, this is what they got back:
1. New Mexico $2.03
2. Mississippi $2.02
3. Alaska $1.84
4.Louisiana $1.78
5. West Virginia $1.76
6. North Dakota $1.68
7. Alabama $1.66
8. South Dakota $1.53
9. Kentucky $1.51
10. Virginia $1.51
So these “conservative” states are getting fat at the public trough, all while whining about “pork”. (Yes Mitch McConnell, I’m looking at you.)
Priceless.

As Schock says, it doesn’t take an economic expert to make the idiotic and completely wrong statements he’s making.
What THAT takes is a complete and utter economic dolt, who also happens to be yet another rabid GOP partisan.

RIP Gop- To all Ditto Heads on board
Why No crying when your President Bush And Republicans were Dropping Billons of Your Tax Dollars In Iraq? or Billions of your Tax dollars for Bailout Bonuses? But crying because President Obama and the Democrats want To Invest In America for now and the Future. I dont understand you Ditto Heads.

“if the congressman goes and looks at the bill”
That’d be great. ALL the Representatives and Senators should do that before voting on it. But the Obama-Reid-Pelosi team don’t want that happening. They just want to ram it through.

From the party of unity…. “RIP Gop- To all Ditto Heads on board”
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I find it very disconcerting that some people agree with doing away with those that don’t agree with the liberal socialist agenda.
Karl Marx said this too. For peace to come, silence the opposition.
Your words speak loudly!

Angie – not to inject too many facts into the discussion, but we didn’t spend BILLIONs in Iraq. Try doing just a tad of research before humiliating yourself further.

Yeah, thousands came from Schock’s district to support Obama and Schock says he got no phone calls from them?
Right…
Shock’s lying… what else would a GOP’er do… lying is in their blood…
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Ummm …. he won his election by more than 20 points, w/ BHO on the ballet (which presumably would help his opponent, as it helped Dems running for house across the country). I’m guessing not too many in his district are big fans of BHO policies!

Schock got 1400 calls from Cat employees alone? That is laughable on the face of it. No freakin’ way.
You’ve been pawned Jake.

Jake Tapper and ABC News should be ashamed of themselves for questioning President Barack Obama’s hands-on leadership in crafting this stimulus bill. Now that it’s passed, the economy will be better tomorrow.
No?
Well, at least it’ll be better next week.
No?
Next month?
No?
Well, it’ll be better for sure next year, right?
No?
Pres Obama says no, it’ll take longer? Hmmm. Well, if Democrats didn’t own the economic crisis already… they do now. They’ve had power since 2006. I guess we should all be asking questions.

Hey, by the way, can people please figure out the difference between “insure” — to take payment against loss or damage — and “ensure” — to guarantee? Maybe?
Oh, while I’m #### how about “loose” — not tight — and “lose” — didn’t win? Help me out here folks

I think the President should just forget about trying to work towards bipartisanship. It doesn’t appear that the other side is interested. I like the following quotation:
“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that the politician thinks of the next election while the statesman thinks of the next generation.” (James Freeman Clarke)

To RS:
Actually 200 economists (some nobel laurettes) wrote an open letter that was published in the Washington Post and NYT to President Obama opposing the spending, oops, I mean stimulus bill.

THINKING THINK IF SOME OF THEM SUPPORTED IT THEN THEY SHOULD COME OUT AND SAY SO. IM INDEPENDENT I DONT LIKE THIS PORK FILLED BILL EITHER I READ QUITE A BIT OF IT. STINKS IN MY OPINION IT SHOULD JUST BE FOR STIMULATING JOBS THATS IT.

Republicans still don’t get it.
This is NO time for political grandstanding
Why did the first stimulus pass with GOP support. It was a heck of a lot worse than this bill… no oversight, no accountability, no details….
clear to see the GOP is caught with their hands in the Hypocrisy Cookie Jar. Sen. Gregg is on the way with the milk to wash down the Hypocrite flavored cookies the republicans are now eating.

Omentum
You slam the Republicans for hypocrisy, maybe justly so. But have you considered that they thought they were doing the right thing at the time and have seen that the 1st package has had little to no effect. That the 1st package was, if I am correct, primarily to help failing banks and financial institutions (go ahead and make your argument about them bailing out their buddies) and was not loaded down with little pet projects that the Dems haven’t been able to push through until now. Maybe they’ve actually had time to sit back and see how much damage the current bill will do to America. Maybe they believe the economists, not just patronizing polititians. Maybe they’re trying to be competent leaders and do the right thing, whether you agree with them or not. Maybe I’m too optimistic.

Jake, you are one of the very few journalists that can hold your head up high. You don’t drink the kool aid. Keep it up and don’t ease up on these Bolsheviks. God Bless Aaron Schock, too!

You Americans have a weird take on democracy.
The fact that no one approached the senator is to do with the very fear that is going around ‘they don’t want to be out of a job’
I have visited various states in the US and what I have found facinating is that people from my shore have managed to create a system of ‘separation’ it took a while for me to notice a black face in some parts of the state.
I think your president is what i will call a “futurist” – he is making a good attempt at breaking down a prejudice that might lead to your country being ostracized.

“It is astonishing not a single economist is complaining the Stimulus package will not work. But all layman who do not have even an idea what is the square root of 64, are raising theirs voices by opposing it!!”
Children really shouldn’t post comments. If you just searched a little you would find an open letter to PBO from 200 leading economists in this country telling him why the Porkfest will not work.
http://www.cato.org/fiscalreality

You may be blind to it, but it seems that the preponderance of your leftist commentary is name-calling or bald assertions of malfeasance on the part of their opponents.
This is a classic psychological maechanism: the demonization of the “other”.
It largely misses the point of the policy discussion and is of no value to the advancement of the Republic’s interests.
The question at hand is will the proposed stimulous maximize economic activity or not.
Past economic history indicates that tax cuts by the Kennedy, Reagan and Bush administrations preceded economic booms.
If there is a case study proving that increased government employment, increased social welfare spending and increased governmental economic control maximizes economic activity, I’d appreciate knowing about it.
Where and when- not theory, not assertion, not projections, but instead verifiable historical record.

Obama was using thug type intimidation against Shock, wanting the more radical union members to confront Schock and physically attack him. This is inner city street thugery on Obama’s part. Obama deliberately set Schock out in front of a potential mob hoping for a confrontation. Obama is a slick sophisticated street gang leader (i.e. ACORN).

Oh these funny Republicans! The same folks who declare THAT NO ONE has read the bill are POSITIVE that the bill – which no one has read, is ALL pork – and – of course – will not work. Why? because – or so goes the lying Right Wing, FDR was ONLY able to reduce unemployment from 1933-37 from 25 to 15% But even if FDR was a failure – only idiots would compare our economy in 1933 to now…

Thank heavens for a congressman who is bright and honest. Wish him well soon, because he can’t last long in the evil environment which is the new Washington, DC. The only way DC politics could get worse was to add Chicago thug politics to it, and lo, now it is worse.

“But even if FDR was a failure – only idiots would compare our economy in 1933 to now…”
- Fred
Hey Fred -
Obama himself compared this economy to the depression-era ecomony. So have myriad other Democrats in arguing for the legislation.

If the Congressman had heard from his district, he would have voted for the bill. That he voted against would say he did not get overwhelming feedback to back the bill. Obama calling him out was not very classy. Obama didn’t need him to get his big, unprecedented, spending bill passed.

The first bail out passed with not much republican support and it took two tries to get it through. It is funny how the left has trouble with history even when it is only a couple of months ago. Go back and check it out buddy because it took two tries to pass and they too at the time cried the sky was falling and if we did not act the end of days was upon us.
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Republicans still don’t get it.
This is NO time for political grandstanding
Why did the first stimulus pass with GOP support. It was a heck of a lot worse than this bill… no oversight, no accountability, no details….
clear to see the GOP is caught with their hands in the Hypocrisy Cookie Jar. Sen. Gregg is on the way with the milk to wash down the Hypocrite flavored cookies the republicans are now eating.
Posted by: Omentum | Feb 13, 2009 4:48:48 PM

This article is an insult to Prsident Obama…..Fairness Doctrine NOW!!!!

First off, the first stimulus (TARP) plan was a loan. It is expected to be paid back. Some of it may not if some of the banks and financial institutions do end up failing but you can expect some return on this LOAN to the financial industry.
That is a wholly differnet package than the stimulus just voted through. It is a GRANT for those who have access to the SYSTEM. And guess what people, that isn’t you.
All we have done with this stimulus bill is raise the cliff upon which America will fall off. Remember that Medicaid and Social Security go bankrupt in 2030. (Do any of you rememeber that arguement a few years ago?) That was before this economic disaster. The fallout and subsequent pork barrel spending on top of a depressed economy will only help accelerate when those plans will go bankrupt. We are completely upside down on our debt/deficit to income ratio.
No one has told anyone how we are going to pay for this thing. No one. $787 Billion dollars is supposed to get magically paid back during a depressed economy. Use some common sense people. It isn’t that hard. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE MONEY. THAT’S WHAT GOT US HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. COMPLAING ABOUT THE PAST DOES NOT FIX THE FUTURE.
At some point the US will have to deleverage. We have to be grown men and women about this and face up to reality. Not complain about the past.
Why did we expand government? Why didn’t we cut government spending? Do we really need the National Endowment for the Arts? How about millions in Honey Bee research? The government just keeps adding more and more programs, requiring more and more money. When can we get rid of this crap? Please someone tell me of a government program that has been ELIMINATED since it was formed?
Thanks for your time. I have so much more.

I am proud to be from Central Illinois.

I am so happy that this Congressman did not by the bridge that Obama is trying to sell. And using the worse tactics. Obama and his ilk think that the American people are sheep but he is finding out we are not. Soon, he is going to do something really stupid and illegal like perhaps someone will slip about his eligibility which 98% of Americans know he was not eligible to run to begin with.
I’m hoping that his impeachment proceedings will be televised. I personally changed parties on Nov. 4th from Democrat to Independent. I didn’t want a one-state Congress but seeing that the Democratic Party was really a Marxist Party caused me to make that change.
Obama represents the things that is wrong with the US. His wanting to speak with our enemies, his 6+ executive orders that are proving he’s abusing the system, the fire in the White House that he never explained (He was burning more than papers in the fireplace which caused a huge “bonfire” which burned the over 200 year old mantel), and his choices for positions — who do not believe in paying taxes but we have to, and a Secretary of State who should not be due to the conflict of intertest. She and her husband both still collect financial donations from the Arabs and as a Government Employee one is not suppose to accept anything over $20.
McCain was not a good candidate at all — but I wasn’t asked who should. To be truthful, I did like Romney as he, being a businessman knows what it is like to lose a business and start from scratch. That is what we need. Make outsourcing illegal, bring back the financial regulations we once had that the Clinton administration threw out, make Wall Street accountable and not reward those who were responsible for our nationwide Depression.
But that’s my opinion.