Mar 14, 2010 11:51am
Anita Dunn: Rahm and Axelrod = Felix and Oscar
Former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn down played the notion that there is West Wing tension between Senior Adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
On the “This Week” roundtable Dunn said there are always disagreements, and while the two may differ in style, they are much like the Odd Couple’s Oscar and Felix and get along just fine.
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Despite the excellent job by Tapper, the round table today was really “stacked”. Anita Dunn who was the Communications Director for Obama is biased and WH defensive to the core. Her husband is the elite lawyer currently for the WH so any of her comments should not be taken at “face value.”
Cokie Roberts, however, was also a major disappointment. How could she say that the HC bill has “substance”? It is a rambling mess, thrown together and pursued ruthlessly in order for Obama to say “he” did it — and because he cannot afford to admit he has wasted taxpayer money on a whole year of all aspects of this embarrassing fiasco.
Posted by: PC | March 14, 2010, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm
If you don’t want your children to be able to get healthcare regardless if they have asthma or a heart condition then keep supporting the GOP’s point of view. If it doesn’t bother you that insurance agency’s can drop you or deny you coverage then keep supporting the GOP.
Posted by: Brenda | March 14, 2010, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm
Tapper and ABC seem so intent on moving This Week over to the Faux News mold, and so many of the comments on Political Punch are from zealot right wingers. I enjoyed This Week for decades, and was hoping Terry Moran would have been picked to captain this flagship. It appears this is not to be. I’ll be one more former viewer heading over to Meet the Press on Sundays, despite it’s less-than-ideal viewing hour here on the West Coast. Enjoy Tapper, cranky conservative blowhards. He’s all yours.
Posted by: Don | March 14, 2010, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
Anita would know being she’s such a good judge of character and all.
Her idol is Chairman Mao.
Posted by: mick | March 14, 2010, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm
Maybe Axelrod can borrow one of Michelle’s image consultants.
He needs some help with grooming skills.
Speaking of Michelle.
Does it take that many people to make her presentable and appropriate to the public? Is she that bad?
What a waste of our money.
Posted by: ollie | March 14, 2010, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
Rahm is one foul-mouthed little ballerina.
Makes me think all the machismo is an attempt to hide a shortcoming.
Only those in the Senate showers would know!
Posted by: millie | March 14, 2010, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm
Speaking of Michelle.
Does it take that many people to make her presentable and appropriate to the public? Is she that bad?
What a waste of our money.
Posted by: ollie | Mar 14, 2010 1:26:05 PM
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Insults and cheap shots from the Republican right – slimy.
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
Great show this morning Jake!!
The interviews were terrific and the round table always enjoyable. I could not believe Anita Hill made the list of guests. I am a great believer in freedom of speech. However her address to college students claiming her two favorite people she admired are Mao and Mother Theresa is very insulting. Mao murdered over 70 million of his own people. If Mao is her hero, she is a traitor.
Posted by: Frank Rowles | March 14, 2010, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
well said Brenda……
Posted by: FrankNitti | March 14, 2010, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm
I could not believe Anita Hill made the list of guests.
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She wasn’t on the show.
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
We need to hear different voices. This is what democracy is all about. JT, keep on your good work. I used to watch cnn for 15 years but I switched channel because of their unfair and biased coverage.
You catched my attention becasue your defense on FOXNEWS last year. I never watched FOX before but after 2008 election, I watch it almost every night. Now I also watch ABC because of you.
Don’t think I am a so called right wing REPUB. I was a long time DEM. I switch to INDEP. last year because I sensed sth. wrong … I will not vote for REPUB. if we have a better candidate than OBAMA in 2012. If OBAMA IS GOING TO BE THE DEM CANDIDATE, I will VoTE for the REPUB. because I think we can’t afford another 4 years.
Bush brought us two wars …
Obama btought us HUGE DEFICIT + HIS leaning socialist AGENDA … He is weaker and worse than CARTER, isn’t he?
Posted by: talk from sf | March 14, 2010, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
Bush brought us two wars …
Obama btought us HUGE DEFICIT + HIS leaning socialist AGENDA
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Don’t forget that along with the 2 wars, Bush brought a HUGE DEFICIT, a doubled national debt – AND – a collapsed economy that led to further deficit and further debt as jobs and tax revenue disappeared.
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm
If we get into tv characters, we could
also say that Pelosi, Reid and Obama
are the “Three Stooges”.
Posted by: wis134 | March 14, 2010, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
Yes, Bush was a spender and I did not
like that either. Obama is Bush on
steroids and if you hated what Bush did
would it not stand to reason that you
hate what Obamanation is doing ? Quit
making excuses for this dope. Voting him
in was a mistake. Admit and move on.
Posted by: wis134 | March 14, 2010, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
THERE IS NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES! ONE MORE BILL PASSED — ONE MORE NAIL IN FREEDOM’S COFFIN! Last week, Obama told a fundraising audience in St. Louis that “it’s nice to get out of Washington.” WHAT??? He spent his first year in office JOY-RIDING to FOREIGN countries – with his family – AT OUR EXPENSE. He made more “foreign” trips during his first year (10 trips involving stops in 21 nations) than any U.S. president before him. With the fate of HCR, the Campaigner-In-Chief is visiting “American” cities ram Obamacare down our throats. This is the most corrupt administration in history. SEE YA IN NOVEMBER!
Posted by: EAST COAST | March 14, 2010, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
So Tierra, much better to have runaway
spending and taxes and start a new
entitlement program in rough economic
times ??? Spending a lot was not good,
but spending more is better? You are
hysterical. You must be in denial of what
a dimwit we have running this country. He
would sell his own wife and kids down the
river if he thought it would feed that
black hole of an ego he has. Keep drinking the kool-aide. Wear a tin foil
hat to ward off common sense. The
loons who believed in this guy are
slowly coming to realize what an inept
bunch is running this country. You can
do it, its hard to admit you fell for
his pap but when all of his stuff hits
you in the wallet ( and the next couple
generations behind you) you may see the
light. Its just a matter of time.
Posted by: wis134 | March 14, 2010, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
much better to have runaway
spending and taxes and start a new
entitlement program in rough economic
times ??? Spending a lot was not good,
but spending more is better?
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“runaway . . .. taxes”? What taxes?
Bush ran up the HUGE deficits and the national debt during ‘good’ economic times.
President Obama was handed an economic crisis almost as deep as the Great Depression – an enormous stress on deficits and budgets.
Big, big difference that the Obama attackers seem ignorant of, or ignore.
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
IN OBAMA’S FIRST YEAR HE HAS SPENT MORE OF OUR MONEY THAN THE TOTAL COST OF THE IRAQ WAR SINCE IT BEGINNING.
Posted by: Temagami | March 14, 2010, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
GREAT TO SEE OBAMA SPENDING MOST OF HIS TIME IN OFFICE ON JOBS. DUH!!
Posted by: Manitu | March 14, 2010, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
there might be tension in the Obama White House due to conflicts of a fundamental nature. Not that any of the players are “true believers” (-they seem to side with secular socialism command-control central planning model more than religion-) but likely but for political/personal reasons you have conflict between the pro-Muslim faction and the pro-Israel faction. It is too bad because what we need is pro-USA folks in our White House!
Posted by: Ed | March 14, 2010, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
well, I can’t stand that twitchy Ann Dunn but she is also dead wrong..felix and oscar were funny, these two are not funny and we are not laughing.
Posted by: mjishernameo | March 14, 2010, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
tierra said:
President Obama was handed an economic crisis almost as deep as the Great Depression – an enormous stress on deficits and budgets
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ya know, this mantra is such a bunch of lies….look, recessions of this type occur every FIVE YEARS !!!!!
This was no worse. no better…the difference is Obama et al, jumped on it, exploded it and made it an “opportunity” to push through the “stimulis bill” cap and tax, and now the HC bill…all of it damaging to the economy and you know it….
No, not all voters are stupid as you seem to think. We’re on to this lib agenda. We would be fine right now if he had just taken a few steps to assure small businesses that he was in their court. No one trusts this man because he has lied over and over and continues back room deals, strong arming and extorting enemies.
Take our standing in the “world”…we are dislike MORE now than a year ago..he screws our friends and kisses up to our enemies…
He is unfit for the job. Period. And he’s making a bigger, much bigger mess than this had to be.
Posted by: mjishernameo | March 14, 2010, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
Tierra, There are none so blind as those
who will not see. Good Luck with your
illusions of Obama. No high taxes??? Do you
think all of the money that is handed out is free???
Posted by: wis134 | March 14, 2010, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
President Obama was handed an economic crisis almost as deep as the Great Depression – an enormous stress on deficits and budgets
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ya know, this mantra is such a bunch of lies….look, recessions of this type occur every FIVE YEARS !!!!!
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Nonsense, the last collapse of the economy to this degree was the Great Depression.
Under the Bush administration major banks and financial institutions collapsed, major auto companies collapsed, the stock market crashed, over 700,000 people were losing their jobs every month, foreclosures and bankruptcies went through the roof . . .
He also doubled the national debt and exploded the deficit during ‘good’ economic times.
You apparently have no idea of the effect this has on deficits and budgets.
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm
Tierra only knows how to spell Bush, conservatives, right wing, and Obama. Please excuse her.
Posted by: Dominique | March 14, 2010, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
tierra:
since I was an adult through carter reagan and bush 1 and 2…I think I have more cred than you. I don’t want to live through another Carter administration. Obama has increased the deficit 3x as much as bush and that’s including the bail out on bush’s watch..so you can pontificate for the party all you want but it just doesn’t add up….
Posted by: mjishernameo | March 14, 2010, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
and please provide the facts that back this up…that obama INHERITED an economey as bad as the depression:
go.
Nonsense, the last collapse of the economy to this degree was the Great Depression
Posted by: mjishernameo | March 14, 2010, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
I’ll answer for you tierraaa’
According to the CBO, bush’s deficit was around 400 billion at the end of 08 it was the highest of his entire time at the WH.
Obamas was 1.9 TRILLION in 09 and is expected to increase…
So how can you say with a straight face that Bush was a spender…
It is obvious that it’s just more left winger talking points that continue although they are completly FALSE.
Posted by: mjishernameo | March 14, 2010, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
Posted by: mjishernameo | Mar 14, 2010 6:00:21 PM
Go do some simple research . . .
Under the Bush administration major banks and financial institutions collapsed, major auto companies collapsed, the stock market crashed, over 700,000 people were losing their jobs every month, foreclosures and bankruptcies went through the roof . . .
He also doubled the national debt and exploded the deficit during ‘good’ economic times.
You apparently have NO IDEA of the effect this has on deficits and budgets. Start by asking your mayor or your Governor – or anybody who has any experience whatsoever.
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm
Tierra: Well there is one person we definitely can’t ask about deficits and that’s Obama. Remember his lack of executive experience.
Oh, by the way, you proved my point. You can spell Bush.
Posted by: Dominique | March 14, 2010, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm
Another Lie:
Under the Bush administration major banks and financial institutions collapsed, major auto companies collapsed, the stock market crashed, over 700,000 people were losing their jobs every month, foreclosures and bankruptcies went through the roof .
The “global meltdown” (which would have been stablilized just fine if we stopped after TARP) was directly the FAULT of liberal congress..Rangel, Dodd, Franks, et al..with Fannie and Freddie. Republicans pushed hard to reign the incompetent lending in but were prevented by CONGRESS…
Read it, look it up…you know NOTHING BUT TALKING POINTS .
The deficit ballooned to 4 billion under bush…what about the 1.9 TRILLION UNDER YOUR MAN???????
You just can’t keep lying and think it’s ok.
Posted by: mjishernameo | March 14, 2010, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm
Furthermore: The “good economic times” were whose watch??? Bush !
So you can’t say he ruined the economy and it was “good economic times’ now can you? Unless you are a liar.
Posted by: mjishernameo | March 14, 2010, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
Furthermore: The “good economic times” were whose watch??? Bush !
So you can’t say he ruined the economy and it was “good economic times’ now can you? Unless you are a liar.
Posted by: mjishernameo | Mar 14, 2010 6:43:47 PM
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Some things require a brain to figure out . . .
Bush largely doubled the national debt and exploded the deficit during the years that led up to the economic collapse on his watch in 2008.
See it’s really not that tough to figure out.
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 6:57 pm 6:57 pm
“Under the Bush administration major banks and financial institutions collapsed, major auto companies collapsed, the stock market crashed, over 700,000 people were losing their jobs every month, foreclosures and bankruptcies went through the roof . . .”
This is absolutely true – and this is what the current President was left.
Bush was left a surplus.
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm
Bush and the Republicans that is . ..
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
How about Anita Dunns husband, the current White House Council? Do you think there is tension for him to refer the Sestak case to the Justice Department? Or, do you thing the Holder Justice Department, if referred, will treat like they did ACORN and Black Panthers? The times are getting interesting.
Posted by: pauldia | March 14, 2010, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm
See it’s really not that tough to figure out.
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Actually, convoluted lies are very, very difficult to figure out. Something that sets us apart…simple truth here…convoluted tales from you and your kind. I’m weary of you, I could log on to OFA if I wanted to hear you talk…not interested in the propaganda. We have a country to save.
Posted by: mjishernameo | March 14, 2010, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
You just can’t keep lying and think it’s ok.
Posted by: mjishernameo | Mar 14, 2010 6:42:07 PM
Ah, but lying through your teeth and being hyperpartisan is okay if you’re a Republican tea partier?
Riiiiiight.
Did you actually call the OO’s good economic times despite the two term income decline, an increase in poverty, an increase in the number of uninsureds, a mediocre at best stock market performance overall, (particularly in comparison to the 90s), dismal job creation numbers, the year and a half of the bailout and an overall assessment by the American people of it being a dismal, unhappy time?
Do you realize real wages have steadily declined since the 70s and 80s, particularly since Reagan?
Anyone who doesn’t acknowledge that Republicans and Dems in Congress, multiple admins, both Republican and Democrat, appointees at SEC, HUD and Fannnie and Freddie, both Republican and Democrat, Wall Street AND Main Street, deregulation and a good deal of greed are responsible for the economic meltdown are hyperpartisan. Anyone who doesn’t acknowledge the irresponsibility of many of Bush’s monetary and fiscal policies is misinformed, likely willfully. (See Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist on the topic if you can’t open your mind enough to read more moderate and liberal economists– and read up on the difference between inflationary and deflationary recessions, as well as how much money Reagan SPENT.)
The Republicans have a very dismal record on fiscal responsibility and the domestic and economic policy. The numbers back that up.
Posted by: progressive mama | March 14, 2010, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm
Posted by: pauldia | Mar 14, 2010 7:17:52 PM
Considering the current calls from the Republicans to Holder to politicize the “terrorism” cases, I think its a bit hypocritical of you to call Holder political.
Posted by: Flash Override | March 14, 2010, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm
I’m not so keen on the importance of reducing the deficit (after all, “we’re at war”, right? So who cares?), but history shows no Democratic President leaving office in the last 100 years in a worse deficit position than they entered. Every Democratic President left the deficit smaller than they found it.
Posted by: Flash Override | March 14, 2010, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm
I should qualify that, deficit as a percent of CDP, which is all that matters anyway.
Posted by: Flash Override | March 14, 2010, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm
Anita Dunn is a leftist nutcase who once declared that Mao – one of the most brutal dictators who ever lived – as one of her “favorite political philosophers”. That tells you all you need to know about the kind of people serving as the White House advisors. No wonder the New York Times defines “Rahmism” as “to take what you can get and then cut a deal, to make everything negotiable except success”.
Posted by: Robert | March 14, 2010, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm
Anita Dunn is a leftist nutcase who once declared that Mao – one of the most brutal dictators who ever lived – as one of her “favorite political philosophers”.
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Anita Dunn mentioned Mao and Mother Theresa in the same sentence as two of her favourite political philosophers .. . and said she mentioned them together for irony and because Lee Atwater had also referenced Mao.
What else makes her a “leftist nutcase”?
Posted by: tierra | March 14, 2010, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
@Flash Override | Mar 14, 2010 8:43:24 PM.
Read my post, where did I call Holder political? I posted about a prima facia statement of Congressman Sestak which, if true, is a crime by this administration.This alleged crime has been asked of the White House council, the husband of Anita Dunn, when he might refer the case to Mr Holder’s Justice department. This letter was sent bu Rep Issa. My post simply asks if this matter gets referred to Mr Holder will he treat is as he did ACORN or the Black Panther voter intimidation case? That is drop it!I can not read Mr Holders mind or heart, and do not know his motivations. I take him at his word that the amicus briefs he failed to disclose were an oversight, curious as that is. He however, took an oath and I expect him to honor that oath.
Posted by: pauldia | March 15, 2010, 6:53 am 6:53 am
It seemed obvious from the start that Axelrod should have been sidelined after the election win.. he’s just not good for the day to day operation of the administration… Rahm, while being a mean and overly aggressive, has a good feel for people and policy.. not spin. Obama has to sleep in the bed he made.. between two warring parties.. he deserves it for doing the old divide and conquer routine – in house.
It’s sort of like sleeping with Elizabeth and Reille.. at the same time.. it ruins things for everyone.
Posted by: DontGet818onMeNow | March 15, 2010, 8:34 am 8:34 am
What else makes her a “leftist nutcase”? – tierra
The obtuse overuse of blatant spin when she tries to talk.
Posted by: Noz | March 15, 2010, 8:43 am 8:43 am
Anita Dunn isn’t a leftist nutcase.. she’s just a poor choice.. another poor choice made for political payback and window dressing..
Posted by: DontGet818onMeNow | March 15, 2010, 8:51 am 8:51 am
Anita Dunn isn’t a leftist nutcase.. she’s just a poor choice.. another poor choice made for political payback and window dressing..
Posted by: DontGet818onMeNow | Mar 15, 2010 8:51:17 AM
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Good . .. at least we know now she isn’t a leftist nutcase like the Republican right hackers have been unable to prove.
You think she’s a poor choice, but . . . . how well do you know her history, what do you base this on?
Posted by: tierra | March 15, 2010, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm
“You think she’s a poor choice, but . . . . how well do you know her history, what do you base this on?” – tierra
The obtuse overuse of blatant spin when she tries to talk.
Posted by: Noz | March 16, 2010, 8:01 am 8:01 am
I sent an email asking who sets up the guest list. I am curious how you let Anita Dunn on This Week. This woman states Mother Teresa & Mao tse tung as people she turns to for inspiration or something to that effect. The woman needs to stay as far away from children, college students & anything to do with politics. I assume her husband is still in the White House. But this woman is no American & is an embarrassing for anyone to think she is.
Posted by: Elaine | March 17, 2010, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
Who’s is there ..Bush and the Republicans that is . ..
Posted by: Ilan Ben Menachem | March 18, 2010, 5:24 am 5:24 am