Today’s Q for O’s WH — 2/3/09

Good luck with that, Jake.
Obama’s gang really believes everyone is a stupid and compliant as they were in Chicago.

Home run on the first question (not quite sure what you were angling for there – them passing the buck and blaming Congress or something?). Definite bunt on the second, but if you think there is fire under that smoke why isn’t it a feature article at ABC? Or why wasn’t it in September, when that ‘separate war’ heated up?

drjohn :”could you please ask Obama exactly what it would take to disqualify someone for a Cabinet post?”
Yes, because that gets right at the root of some of the most pressing issues facing the country. Lets toss a softball question at him to launch into a discussion about competence, skill, ability to help the country and actually do the job blah blah blah being more important than ideological purity and how good their taxes are.
It’s no wonder the Republicans are imploding if that sort of question passes as ‘critical thought.’

There weren’t any softball questions for Gibbs.
The reporters ate him up and spit him out.
Let’s hope the MSM treats BO the same way whenever he decides to answer questions.

jhw,
We agree on this one. If JTP thinks there is astory there, then break it!

Posted by: jhw539 | Feb 3, 2009 3:15:25 PM
I inadvertently underpaid my taxes one year and got slammed with a penalty. Daschle paid taxes and interest but not a penny in penalties.
Daschle is a tax cheat. A fraud. That might signal special competence to you but it does nothing of the kind to me.
Daschle was going to be appointed to regulate the very industry for which he lobbied and from which he became quite wealthy. Once again, this is a special talent?
I think not.

Thank you.

Jake, you allowed Gibbs to non-answer on both of your questios. Get tough and aggressive, demand real answers. Or won’t ABC allow you to?
The media is still promoting Obama 24/7.
Hillary 2012.

Wouldn’t it be easier to just get Obama’s impeachment over? In the long run it would save us all the drama ahead.

“Wouldn’t it be easier to just get Obama’s impeachment over?”
What?! Those clothes-horses in the Congress, who were elbowing each other aside for air-time to proclaim Daschle’s non-existent “integrity”?
The Puppet, not having much actual AMERICAN experience, is endangering all kinds of things that MRS. Obama’s MOTHER may have to explain to Him. It’d be best if He — AND credit-card weasel Biden — would just step down for health reasons, or “unity”, or whatever.
Let

This Administration is in so far over its head, it’s ridiculous! This is exactly what we on the right feared, and it’s coming to fruition! The Obama administration better grow up real fast …. for all our sakes!!!

I’m a little confused about the wording in the question about CIA attacks in Pakistan and the implication of a new war. I’m aware of only one drone attack, which occurred 2 or 3 days after Obama’s inauguration, happening under his watch. The escalation in August, numbering 35 since then, and previous attacks occurred under the Bush administration. A better question would have been if the Bush policy of escalating drone attacks in Pakistan will continue with Obama.

Jake, your question seems to be fundamentally flawed. You seem to be questioning the basic process of confirmation. The process was not set up for pageantry so that appointees can glide their way through it cleanly. There is a confirmation process precisely to make room for ‘messy’ inquiries, investigations and deliberations. Hence, the word ‘confirmations’

In the report link, Seth Jones from the Rand Corporation claims that most of he drone attacks are done in conjunction with the Pakistani government, which further negates the question about war with Pakistan. Sorry, but weren’t some aspersions cast with the question?

Very big of Present Obama to take responsibility. He stood by Daschle even when it was clear the guy’s a tax cheat. He obviously thought he’d get him through anyway. BHO might also be underestimating the fear many of these Dems have that they could get voted out in ’10 if they keep messing around and not producing the results they’ve been promising.

The “new CIA attacks” in Pakistan were put into motion by Bush in July 2008. That’s when, according to the Guardian, he signed an executive order allowing for military incursions into Pakistan without informing the government or their consent. The standards for the attacks were also diminished to a 50% probability of a target being terrorist related, or a maybe, rather than the previous near certainty of 90%. So the drone attacks were accelerated dramatically between the lowered standards and unilateral provision. The alarms of a war developing were sounded after a Sept. 08 military ground incursion into Pakistan.