Today’s Qs for O’s WH – 2/11/2010

“TAPPER: He had been asked specifically about Blankfein’s and…
GIBBS: And he said “extraordinary and shocking,” specifically.
TAPPER: But are they “obscene”? Are they an “offense”? ”
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Holy cow, talk about fishing for a headline with dynamite. Obama has given the populist banker mob enough soundbites.
“I, like most of the American people, don’t begrudge people’s success or wealth.”
That seems a reasonable statement, unless you just blanket hate Obama are you are off on the far left fringe (and not many Democrats really are). It is generally accepted that America is built on such sentiment, as documented and argued pretty compellingly since Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” where conservative aristocrats in the 1830′s came to grips with their failed predictions of American collapse (they were sure the commoners would simply cease to work and vote themselves wealth – almost two centuries later, the same tired contempt of the average American is a mainstay of conservative philosophy).

Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said that a presidential commission on the budget needs to CONSIDER ALL OPTIONS for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.–”
Se do we want leaders who stick to campaign rhetoric regardless of changing conditions?
Or do we want leaders who seek solutions to our problems?
Right wingers have spent time screaming about the debt in the last few months (not so much when Bush doubled it).
Now Obama wants to put all options on the table for tackling out budget deficits and the debts including cuts to sacred cows of Social Security and Medicare and going back on one of his campaign pledges and the right wing response is to blast him for it?
Yet again the right wing shows its not serious about anything and should stay in the media business versus the governing one.

“Se do we want leaders who stick to campaign rhetoric regardless of changing conditions?
Or do we want leaders who seek solutions to our problems?”
Posted by: Ryan C | Feb 11, 2010 5:42:32 PM
How about NOT raising discretionary spending ACROSS the board by 10%–and then telling us that you are suddenly getting serious about the deficit?? Obama took Bush’s $400 billion deficit in FY 2008 and turned it into a $1.6 trillion deficit in FY 2010. And yes, it was Obama who signed FY 2009—not Bush.
We want leaders who don’t promise out of both sides of their mouth.

“Se do we want leaders who stick to campaign rhetoric regardless of changing conditions?”
Has Obama kept ANY of his campaign promises?
“Right wingers have spent time screaming about the debt in the last few months (not so much when Bush doubled it).”
Not necesarily true. For many/most of us on the “right” our biggest complaint with Bush is that he spent too much (tho’ he is a tightwad compared to The One).
“Now Obama wants to put all options on the table for tackling out budget deficits”
HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR BUDGET DEFICITS!!! Here is a first step in cutting deficits: Scale back funding for ALL federal programs to 2008 levels and END bailouts to states (my initial guess is that this would cut budget deficit in at least half).

“Liberals are against gay marriage?”
Nice try, no bite.
“Yeah, and liberals want to take away a woman’s right to chose – and it’s the right wing types who want to give them choice.”
As far as this “right wing type” is concerned, if women want to make that choice, fine with me – Just don’t use any of my tax dollars to subsidize your “choice”.

“why isolate and pick on women?”
Really? The practices you mention (if they indeed exist – if they don’t, others could be identified) could at least be construed – if even a reach – to be done in the collective interests of U.S. security (whether right or wrong). Can an argument in the same vein be constructed to show that women having abortions is in the collective interests of American society? (if you are a Margaret Sanger acolyte perhaps you can…)

tierra, we’re not picking on woman we’re standing up for the unborn. You lefties call it a choice. It’s murder plain and simple. Try to spin it any way you want, it is what it is, the taking of an innocent
life. A LIFE!

The practices you mention (if they indeed exist – if they don’t, others could be identified) could at least be construed – if even a reach – to be done in the collective interests of U.S. security (whether right or wrong).
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If I disagree the use of the nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians, and I disagree it was done morally or accurately as being in “our collective interests”. I disagree with death squads in Honduras in the same fashion. I believe these things boomerang back on us eventually and threaten our national security.
My taxpayer dollars would have gone to those.
On the other hand, I support a woman’s choice to terminate a pregnancy and have no problem with my tax dollars going towards this.
Who has the right to opt out of paying taxes?

tierra, we’re not picking on woman we’re standing up for the unborn. You lefties call it a choice. It’s murder plain and simple. Try to spin it any way you want, it is what it is, the taking of an innocent
life. A LIFE!
Posted by: whatsgoingonhere? | Feb 11, 2010 6:32:23 PM
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So are you also against the birth control pill and the IUD which are thought to work in part by not allowing a fertilized egg to embed?

“Yes I remember all the right wingers who were so furious at Bush for his record spending that they came out in droves to re-elect him in 2004. Then in 2008 they furiously defended his policies.”
Let’s do a quiz:
(1.) What branch of government is responsible for construction budgets?
(a.) The Executive Branch
(b.) The Legislative Branch
(2.) During the Bush administration, Democrats and Republicans each controlled both chambers of Congress. Under which party were larger deficits incurred?
(a.) Republicans
(b.) Democrats
(answers to each: b.)

tierra, You got it. If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime! Please save your “raped” and “incest” argument. People who have abortions for those reasons make up a very small % of woman who have them.

tierra, why do you keep asking that like I’m avoiding some life or death question? I think I’ll troll along like you do when asked to list some of Obama’s successes.

Do you oppose all birth control?
Posted by: tierra | Feb 11, 2010 6:52:34 PM
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tierra, You got it. If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime!
Posted by: whatsgoingonhere? | Feb 11, 2010 6:52:41 PM
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You consider sex between two people a ‘crime’?

oh tierra, get a sense of humor of course I don’t consider “sex” a crime. I consider “love making” the ulitmate and most beautiful gift of self one can give to their spouse.

Every media briefing is freely available to everyone (media and public) on the white house web site under the “Briefing Room” heading – both text and video tape.
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Is that unedited?

“On the other hand, I support a woman’s choice to terminate a pregnancy and have no problem with my tax dollars going towards this.”
That is your right by law. But you still have yet to show how taxpayer support for abortion supports the collective interests of society.
But let’s move on, tierra. Since so many of your posts involve a “Bush Did It!” justification for Obama’s incompetence, would you care to answer the quiz I posted at 6:51:59 PM? Or will you dodge?

This was a broad-ranging bunch of questions. The answers demonstrate how President Obama has proved to be impotent in every aspect of our national interests.
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As impotent as the previous Republican president? North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon on Bush’s watch. Iran developed a secret nuclear facility on Bush’s watch. Bin Laden and al Qaeda escaped in Afghanistan on Bush’s watch.
The national debt doubled on Bush’s watch. The deficit skyrocketed on Bush’s watch. The economy crashed and burned on Bush’s watch.
I think the Republicans should look to their own shortcomings. They are multitude.

Look guys, so far as extreme sanctions go.. we already took away their internet (that always works with my kids).. retraction.. they (Iran) took away their own internet (sorry).