Jarrett: Partisan Divide = GOP’s Fault

Fascinating how all things that are bad are attributed to Republicans while the Democrats are viewed as angelic messengers of good and truth…

This is a lie from Jarrett.
Republicans have recruited many moderates like Castle of Deleware to run for the senate.
Republicans recruited charlie crist of florida.
Republicans recruited mark kirk in illinios and are looking and are trying to recruit guliani in new york.
The moderate new jersey republican cristie won over the conservative.
Moderates are being promoted all over.
Just remember McCain won the primary last year against all the talk radio.
Moderate republicans are far closer to the mainstream than Valerie Jarrett and Van Jones.

George, give us a break. I promise you that we’re REALLY not that stupid. Do they ever stop pointing fingers? Bunch of whiney crybabies. Please start calling them out on this B.S.! Do your job.

Moderates and the GOP. NY23?

that’s a completely absurd response. what it proves, however, is the ingrained belief among obama supporters that there is no room for any opposition at all and that to achieve the administration’s goals they must have 100% control of the congress, the white house, and preferably the supreme court. the idea that a party with a near filibuster proof majority is prostrate to the manipulations of a minority party in whom no americans have any faith and which is completely out of touch with mainstream people (according to the president and congressional democrats at least) is also absurd. so, now the score card is that everything that is wrong is the fault of republicans, fox news, rush limbaugh, glenn beck and anyone who disagrees with the administration in any way, and the white house and/or congressional democrats have absolutely no responsibility for anything that’s gone wrong in the last decade. what a joke! and anyone wonders why all politicians are held in such low esteem. kindergardeners could do better.

We’ll reach out to those that agree with us, ask for feedback but ignore, compromise to get a vote in comity and take it back when it hits the floor. Valery Jarrett’s words crystallize the democrats definition of bipartisan, “Ultimately you don’t have to change…”, well Ultimately you do, that is the definition of compromise and compromise is the only way to achieve bipartisan.

There’s a partisan divide because people think differently about things.
That isn’t going to go away.
President Obama repeatedly misstates the position of those who do not agree with him. He paints them as obstructionist, and said in an address to Congress that arguments against him are “bogus” and “lying”.
Debates should be respectful, but the result is never going to be that everyone ends up agreeing. You don’t have to agree with Obama to be an honest person interested in solutions.

George, I enjoy the Roundtable every Sunday, Keep holding their feet to the fire.They need to start acknowledgeing some of the blame. I think Obama is trying to break every campaign promise he made, it sure looks that way.

“The Republican party’s decision to be “the party of NO” following President Obama’s election must accept responsibility for their actions and the fact that their behavior fosters a partisan divide.”
Yawn! Hey genius, Democrats have super-majorities in both chambers of Congress. They don’t NEED Republicans to pass anything.

Ms. Jarrett: How much have Obama and the Dems reached out to Republicans? How many minutes did they discuss Republican recommendations for tort reform?
Oh, forgot, don’t want to offend the big donors: trial lawyers. Premiums go up and up and insurance pays off big malpractice (often frivolous) lawsuits.
Without tort reform, insurance companies, rightfully or not, can use the high cost of malpractice, etc.
Good Doctors never want to make mistakes.
But if they have to request lab tests, scans, needlessly – prices go up generally as well as in the court room.
Jarrett is a joke.

Ms Jarrett’s comments this a.m. were beyond belief based on what I am currently aware of. I sure wish she, Ms Dunn or other administrative officials would appear on FOX News and try to answer questions that might help all of us wade through the facts. To date, the facts don’t support her comments. Here’s to a more open & transparent government.

Jarrett how is it that dems have complete control of the house and senate and can pass anything they want yet they are having problems getting it done. It sounds like the real party that is having problems are the dems or maybe it is the failing policies of this administration. Anybody with a brain knows you cant keep spending money and raising the deficit to the levels we have now and keep lying to the american public and think they are going to support you.

” Reaching out ” is not what’s taking place. Democrats are not interested in compromise, and Republicans aren’t going to just roll over and sign on to things which are anathema to freedom.

Barack Obama has played to his worst instincts. He promised a bipartisan and respectful debate. He could have made a GREAT statement by publicly acknowledging what everyone knows: Bush was right and he was wrong about the surge. That would have changed the course of political dialog in the US, and it would have cost him nothing more than saying the truth. Or not tolerated the lying about plans for Afghanistan. Adrift? He knows better than that.
Instead of respectful discourse, he has reverted to email snitch campaigns and derogating anyone who would dare challenge his funny-money health care reform. He can’t seem to promote virtues like hard work. It is a constant drumbeat of grievance and spending trillions that we don’t have. He had my hopes; now he does not even have my respect.

What really scares me about Jarrett’s statement is that she actually may believe what she says.

This interview is why ABC along with MSNBC, NBC, CNN, and CBS are no better than Fox as they are the liberal talking arm. George threw softballs to this woman and allowed her to make unchallenged statements. Partisanship divide is the GOP fault even though the Congress has done all the bills behind closed doors. The video of the President stating that Democrats should take his “win with humility for the sake of bipartisansip” should have been immediately challenged with the President’s quote of “We won, get over it”. The congress surely has matched that attitude as Pelosi and Reid have no interest in working with the Republicans.
If transparency is nothing more than releasing visitor logs after being politically edited, then all administrations should try that. Why wasn’t she challenged on the President’s promises to have the Health Care debate out in the public, broadcasted on CSPAN, and so forth. The administration cronies are being treated favorably so the liberal partisan shows like George can continue to get administration guests. ABC should admit that George is no more a journalist than Glen Beck.

Heath Shuler, a Democratic Congressman said during an interview that he was disappointed, that not only were Republicans excluded from having input on the health care bill, but that Democrats were also.
He said that only a few Democrats were allowed to work on it.

Valerie Jarrett’s comments — like so many of the Obama administration’s representatives — are beginning to sound tiresome.
The fact is, in 2008, people didn’t vote for the sweep of change that the Obama administration and its congressional allies have been attempting to implement.
I think we’ll see the first indications of the pendulum swinging back in Tuesday’s elections. The Democratic vote percentages in both Virginia and New Jersey will be a full 15 percentage points BELOW where they were last November. Seeing as how Obama won by 8 points … it doesn’t take a mathematical genius to see where things are headed for 2010 and 2012.

It will be fun to watch the spin on the left when at least 2 and maybe all 3 elections go against the Dems in the big BLUE Northeast on Tuesday. I remember reading on Huff Po about the permanent majorities they will now hold because of the One. Well now you and I can see he is “One and done” Jarret, Axlerod, Dunn etc they are all “#########”

George, Are any of the powerful idiots
in DC reading these comments made by
your readers??? Are you?
Is there a czar in charge of reading this stuff? It’s anti Democrats!!
I’m loving it!!! Out with the Chicago thugs!!! Out of my House!!! Now!!!

In my 40 years as democrat (ex) I have never seen an administration so immature! Grown up and stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game.If you apply for a job, you are expected to be able to do the job. It reminds me of a bunch of school kids blaming someone else when they can not accomplish the task at hand.

George – I can’t even believe you could post this without even trying to call her out on that statement. Are you fearful of being blacklisted too?

Seriously, George…your ratings will go through the roof if you’d actually start challenging this administration. All you have to do is ask them questions and present them with facts when they say something that is obviously false. It really isn’t that hard.

George…since Tim Russert’s passing, you come the closest to his level of skill…employing tough but fair questioning. That said, you need to be better prepared with the second and third probes to make sure everyone sees how rediculous responses such as Jarrett’s really are. Both sides of the aisle need to be grilled in similiar fashion. Party lines and responses are so predictable today that this should be childs play for a pro like you. Be tough on everyone…with a smile….and your ratings will continue to climb.

I missed the show this morning, but seeing the comments of Gail versus the others, makes me wonder what she was thinking! It is obvious based on all of the other comments that George did not “hold her feet to the fire”.
As far as James comment, the only tantrums that are being thrown is by the Obama Administration. The people on his staff have no class. They are always on the attack for differing views.
At least in the Bush Administration, people could voice differing views without being attacked. People may not have liked President Bush, but the man had class.
It is a shame that the Republicans ran such a weak person as McCain. Had they provide the American people with a strong leader, we may not have been stuck with these people.

Thank you George for TRYING to get her to answer truthfully. She can’t and won’t because if the public knows there true agenda, his presidency would be over. This adminstration will lie, double talk or avoid tough questions then accuse you of attacking them, ask FOXNEWS. Next time ask someone from this administration why Obama’s college transcripts and records heven’t been released, then buckle in for a tough ride.

George…next time please ask Ms. Jarrett to cite examples of all the Republican ideas that have been included in the health care bill or the cap and trade bill.
Thanks,

Geez George…and you wonder why your ratings are so bad…

Seriously? 5 questions implying the President has not tried to work w/the GOP?
Where is the GOP’s plan? What, besides leaving things the way they are, have the GOP proposed to do about the single biggest problem this country faces (according to the Warren Group, around 60% of personal bankruptcies are from health costs of people who had insurance.
In the Senates HELP committee, the GOP offered 68 amendments to the health care bill. When it came time to vote for those amendments, the Dems offered to accepted them by unanimous consent, and the GOP VOTED DOWN THEIR OWN AMENDMENTS.
At some point, if the GOP won’t dance, we should stop asking. The GOP is putting party politics above the duty to their constituents

Why do they never bring up her slumlord abackground? If ABC would do some real reporting they might actually be able to explain to the uneducated what slime these Chicago pols are.
George do your job for the country.

At what point is this administration going to take responsibility for their actions? They are good at pointing fingers, great at giving speeches but just horrible at doing anything constructive. You can look at a list of campaign promises and none have been truly accomplished. Plus many voters feel that they were sold a bill of goods by a candidate running as a moderate, but all the while planning to enact a very Leftist agenda of legislation. If you wonder why there is a sense of urgency to pass massive bills unread and to appoint advisors unvetted it has more to do with the knowledge of how voters in the middle will respond to what will amount into the largest tax in history–and one that will serve few better than what we already have.

Why is it that people who are against the free market system, freedom of choice, freedom of speech, traditional values, and common decency are not Ms. Jarrett’s favorite people. She is on video supporting Van Jones, someone I would not have in my home or around my children. And George has no problems with her radical ideals and positions.
You liberals and Democrats had better eat your cake while you can because a fowl wind is blowing in for you in 2010 and it won’t be benign. I wonder if ole George has ever read our Constitution or even believes in basic human decency. Valerie Jarrett surely does NOT.
2010 is coming Dems .. be prepared to reap what the whirlwind.

Wow that was a pressing interview…… NOT.. Come on George you could have hit her with some hard counter points. If this were last administrations person you would have pressed harder- Which is what we rely on you to do.
When you throw softballs like that and dont press them do nothing for the people. A press that pushes the government and making them sweat is what we need.

Need need a viable third party in this country. Both the Dems and Gops are a disaster.

BS

The Republicans hold less than 41 seats in the Senate. They cannot even filibuster any bill. If Harry Reid holds all his Dems together, there ain’t a damned thing Republicans can do about it. And the Dems hold a nearly 80 seat majority in the House, where there are few parliamentary alternatives for a minority party to begin with, regardless of the margin the majority party holds. There is no way Republicans are holding up anything. It must be some terrible wing of the Democrat Party responsible for all these problems.
That wing would be the Blue Dogs. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they constitute a sizable proportion of the Dems in Congress. The DNC could lead a purge of Blue Dogs next year by running primary challenges against them, but that would be pure folly. Those Blue Dogs are all that holds the majority in Democrat hands. If the BDs weren’t in those seats they would surely be held by Republicans. Many of them represent districts that not only voted for the GOP candidate in the last several elections, but mostly by large margins. Surely Rahm Emmanuel, Tim Kaine and others learned Karl Rove’s lesson and won’t pursue the purge option or anything like it. Rove knocked out as many moderate Republicans as he could during his time with Bush. That worked well until the political tide turned. All of a sudden people felt differently about a lot of issues and were moving to the center or even center-left. The GOP was loaded with stridently conservative incumbents who didn’t budge from their hardened positions and many lost. These people seemed out of touch and not willing to hear the voters. I live in Virginia and several House seats changed hands here for that very reason. The Republican incumbents just couldn’t believe the tried and true tactics and ideas from the recent past were suddenly out of favor. While Rove’s strategy worked in the short-term, it helped to create the current position in which the GOP currently finds itself.
In the end, the American public elects our leaders and if a political party disregards their wishes and won’t hear their concerns because of ideological rigidity or political and intellectual hubris, electoral calamity will eventually ensue. The Republicans learned that last fall the hard way. It appears the Dems are trying their best to fall victim to the same fate.
As for George Stephanopoulos, he is better than some in the very left-tilted MSM, but he still won’t call these political hacks out. People like Axelrod and Jarrett are purely political functionaries. They are not people who directly implement, or even promulgate, policy. Why are they given a forum on these news shows? Moreover, why are they not asked tough questions and called out when they are clearly engaging in political shilling?
That lack of holding power’s feet to the fire is one reason Fox News is running away with the cable ratings. The mainstream media is seen by many people as a left-wing echo chamber and a tool of the Democrat Party. I used to watch Keith Olbermann, for the comic relief mostly, and he often spoke of Roger Ailes getting daily talking points from the Bush White House. Funny, but Keith and many others seem to be doing the same thing now. In fact, he and a laundry list of the other left-wing loons in the media were invited to a chat with the President recently. My how things have changed. Just a few years back, K.O. railed against the likes of Armstrong Williams and Fox News reporters who seemed to have free access to the Bush White House. Surely something was improper and it was clearly a violation of journalistic ethics. From my point of view, it all smells. The press is supposed to be there to question whoever is in power, not play favorites. Like him or loathe him, Lou Dobbs is the only TV news commentator who skewers politicians and policies regardless of whether they are left, right or center. We need more people like him.

This is getting so tedious, this administration complaining about Fox News, republicans, etc. Is Obama really that thin-skinned? I would be embarrassed, the leader of the free world, having spats with Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, truly unbelievable.

I thought George did challenge her on some of her statements. When he said there really hasn’t been much reaching out, she said there was, and he pointed out that they don’t really put any of their ideas into the legislation–that it was really just token jesturing. He pointed out polling that disagreed with her, and she said they had ‘other polls’…done by whom? She really ticked me off being so obviously full of it.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she’s prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that’s what it takes to pass ObamaCare, one can only hope that one of those seats lost will be hers!
Even a WSJ editorial calls her 1990 page bill “The Worst Bill Ever”. It also says, “Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all.”
This bill would not stand up to the test of “town hall” meetings, it is pur and simple a disaster. And just take a peek at the abortion double speak on page 110!

Huh??? Reaches out to Republicans? With closed door/off camera wheeling and dealing on a healthcare bill… that Reid says he will use a Nuclear option to ram through if necessary???? THIS is called reaching out? With the WH constantly taking pot-shots at Fox News (and the people who watch it – which includes about 50% of the population), with the WH taking potshots at tea partiers from the podium – which is a huge chunk of the US population, Geezzz…, etc etc etc… With some State Senators refusing to even hold town halls (like my own Dem Senator Nelson in FL – who will not respond to the citizens at all who ask to communicate with him… or Congressman Grayson – who just hurls insults at females and conservatives in his own district)… If this is considered reaching out – I would hate to see the Dems version of really being partisan then.

Jarrett distorts. I’m still waiting for her revision to her MTP statement a few weeks ago in which she said that the current administration has saved “millions” of jobs. Horse pucky