Obama Says Republicans Cannot Have the Keys Back to the Car: “No! You Can’t Drive”

Suzanne, surely you recognize that the only way one arrives at a majority opposed to the health care reform is by including those who found it not progressive enough.

this is how the president refers to queen Pelosi. I thought this was a third grader talking.Wait i cant insult a third grader.

We’re gonna drive the DEMs and Obama right out of office!

No telling what
kind of havoc we will be in in another
two years. Scary stuff.
Posted by: wis134 | May 13, 2010 9:23:08 PM
I totally agree with you! Obama and the Democrats are hell-bent on destroying our country as we know it. “We the People” are speaking up and we are going to take our country BACK! November can’t come soon enough! #FIREUP, America! Keep the pressure on, defeating the socialistic agenda of Barack HUSSIEN Obama! #FIREUP!

“After a stormy time, people may be a little sea sick. But right now the waters are calm. There on the horizon we can see our destination. Now is not the time to lose heart. Now is not the time to get complacent. Now is the time to remind ourselves of what America is all about and return Democrats to the House of Representatives.”
give me a break, we’re not going to start hearing this garbage again are we? who writes these corny analogies, more importantly who falls for them?
Good thing he isn’t partisan and works from the center! What a uniter!

Every day he gets more arrogant. I guess he has no media check to keep him humble. The MSM is finished in America. You have sold your souls for a little access to a guy who totally disrepects you.
Pride goes before the Fall (Nov 2010)

You have sold your souls for a little access to a guy who totally disrepects you.
Posted by: Quo Warranto | May 13, 2010 10:05:54 PM
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The President was criticizing the Republicans for their record in the last administration.
“they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want to keys back. No! You can’t drive. We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out.”
Sounds right to me. You screw up, you take the blame . .. poor Republican right – so sensitive . .

UH, we’re taking the keys in November whether the skinny boy with the “hot little body” likes it or not.

Barry liked the car so much he bought the company.

Unbelievable. That is all I can say. Obama Haters sure have short memories. You freaking morons. You do recall that Bush turned a surplus into the biggest deficit in history, right? He took us to war based on lies. He spent american lives and millions upon millions of dollars on wars that are unjust. You can seriously sit there straight faced and say that Obama is a disgrace to America? America tortured under Bush and Obama is the disgrace? You morons are ruining this county.

“After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want to keys back. No! You can’t drive. We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out.”
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The President is exactly right about this.
Its amazing to me that the Republicans remain highly unpopular– everybody knows they can’t drive– but a bunch of fools say they are going to vote for them anyway… just cuz!!
Geniuses (not.)

Pride goes before the Fall (Nov 2010)
Posted by: Quo Warranto
actually, more like:
Republicans: ‘We’ve fallen and we can’t get up’
or:
Republicans: your keys were already taken away, and this time the judge/court is not giving them back, not without a breathalyzer test and restitution for the damage you’ve already done

Talk is cheap

Just you watch, Comrade Obama, just you watch! The great Tsunami is coming and Shock and Awe will visit the White House. When the storm is over, WE will have the keys and be in the Driver’s Seat for the rest of your short term. Counting the days! Better spiff up your Resume and find out where they might need a Community Organizer. Don’t expect us to give you a reference, however.

I just hope we can keep Republicans from again playing games with vote counting this election.
Say NO to DieBold/Premier Voting Solutions.
Watch the vote, give us a straight up vote in November, and the Democrats will rock the vote again.
Ohio, Florida we are watching your local Republicans for another fraud attempt too; a great number of Republicans have used voting fraud in those two states, it is far past time to investigate.

@ Oscar W. That link to the Jon Stewart clip was fantastic! Stewart continues to be one of the only voices in America to tell the truth, and makes you snort milk while he does it.
Too funny!

They were lousy, the President is right. But he didn’t mention that it was his party that controlled the purse strings the last 2 years of Bush’s term.
As a Senator, does anyone ever recall President Obama standing up and fighting against two of the largest spending increases Bush made; expansion of medicare and no child left behind?
Does anyone recall Obama refusing to take so much money from the financial institutions-the guys that bet their house and ours foolishly?
And now that we are in debt to our eyeballs has anyone heard him say just how do we fix the long term problems of social security and medicare while paying off China for their loans?

I agree with the President that the Republicans have shown again and again, through Reagan, Bush sr. and Bush jr.’s years in office that they can’t direct the country in a sane fiscal manner or make decisions that will benefit us in the future.
And before some far right person points to Obama’s spending, there is a big difference in his spending to get us out of the ditch Bush and conservative policies(de-regulating banking) put our country in. The absolute emergency spending on the bank bail-outs, the auto industry bail-outs will be paid back but were absolutely necessary to prevent a Depression. Countries around the world had to do the same thing.
david, the dems controlling the purse strings the last two years of Bush’s 8 was not enough to control policy. Bush’s power to veto would prevent any real correction to the harmful policies set in place during those 6 years.

Vincent Rothenberg, you make some really good points. Elections uninfluenced by corporate or special interest money would give us a much truer democracy.

This idiot has run up a 3 Trillion dollar deficit in 2 years….the dems have been in control of congress for 4 years….has your life gotten better in the last 4 years…..didn’t think so.
Anyone and I mean anyone who supports this guy as president is delusional. He is a socialist who has never done one thing except give long winded speeches to drooling democrats who then faint.
Bush was bad especially in his second term….this guy has been a disaster since day one. He is a sleazy chicago lawyer who wouldn’t have been anything if it wasn’t for marxist connections in the education cartel.
He is siding with illegal immigrants against his countrymen, he sides with Islam over the free world, and he sides with big banks and unions over the citizens. He is a communist plain and simple.

Voters do NOT decide. Bush would not have made it to office a second time if that were true.. as you know.. HE LOST THE POPULAR VOTE.
The system IS corrupt, and voting doesn’t mean much of anything anymore, not with the horribly out of date and unnecessary electoral college.
Get rid of it, and put term limits on EVERY OFFICE THAT IS IN GOVT.

Oh yeah… The country is doing swimmingly
…. what planet is Obama thinking of….point 2 …. as I recall the democrats have had control of Congress since 2006….. so tell me again who put the economy in the toilet in 2008.
roflmao

Obama’s “car’ metaphor is the worst case of projection I’ve ever seen.

The top 10% of income earners pay 70% of the tax burden.

Imagine if Ted Kennedy said this

Hey lefties – no one buys your rhetoric any more.
But by all means, keep screaming. It only makles more people sick of you.

Hey Obama!
Thosre aren’t your keys, and it’s not your car. You have absolutely no say in who gets them. That’s OUR choice.
Liberals – get ready for a mouthful of teabags this november.

Yeah those Republican jerks did it! They suck and we’re squaky clean!

The car was in the road when Democrats took over both house of Congress in the 2006 elections.
Democrats in Congress drove the economy in the ditch. Of course Obama knows the majority of Americans are ill-informed and actually believe Republicans controlled the entire government up until 2008.

If this is the best metaphor the president can come up with, then his fancy schmanchy ivy league degrees are worthless.
Obama, you do NOT own the car. It is a rental. When you received it you were expected to care for it and to return it in good condition.
The car belongs to the good citizens of the USA. You were entrusted with the keys and you and your gang of thugs have destroyed it.

Ah, yes, the amazing post-partisan administration of President Barack Obama.

Obama is a weak man.He cant take an apposition.He has whined more than Bush Clinton combined.All he does is complain and campaign.

The community organizer who shook down banks , nationalizes car companies for outdated union contracts, the liar in chief whose word is worthless and cares more about islam, global warming and wasting money than the future of our country is lecturing us on financial acumen. He is a financial ignoramus and if the congress does not flip he might have put a stake in the heart of the US once and for all.

Posted by: paul | May 14, 2010 10:46:32 AM
Beginning in 2007– not yet three and a half years.
Its hard to take folks seriously when they have to exaggerate the most basic of facts, and ignore who had veto power, and/or what was accomplished.

So this is what non partisan politics is like. Dems better get their coats and gloves. It is going to be a long cold winter starting in November.

It is going to be a long cold winter starting in November.
Posted by: mj | May 14, 2010 10:51:33 AM
At least you acknowledge the misery associated with Republicans in power— what’s odd is that you’d vote for them knowing they represent the dead and cold of winter, and the opposite of fruitfulness and warmth.
Fortunately, Brownstein makes a very important point about job numbers and the improvements to the economy we’ve seen under Obama and Pelosi (there’s a real possibility we’ll produce more jobs in 2010 than we did during the 8 years of Bush’s presidency– yowza! )
We can’t afford more Republican nonsense. They wreak havoc and disaster– and poverty and misery.

progressive mama wrote: “We can’t afford more Republican nonsense. They wreak havoc and disaster– and poverty and misery.”
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Yeah! Just like they did in Michigan and New Jersey. Hey, wait a minute….

Why would anyone want to put the republicans back in power? They are the ones who got us into this recession and have attempted to prevent anything to get us out of it. How American is that? They had record spending with nothing to show for it. This president has things to show for it and still a recession to deal with. He has done an outstanding job with all that he has had to face. Two wars, one totally not necessary which he is making headway and killing more Taliban heads than ever before. He is achieving all of this without any support from the republicans and with little respect. He does things quietly and approaches things with info from the brightest he can find. And to those tea partiers who say that they are being taxed more…they are wrong. We are paying less under Obama than under Bush..check your facts..this is the lowest taxes paid since 1950. The tea partiers are the ones who are well off and that is why they are complaining as they know they will be paying more taxes not the middle man for a change. They are not fighting for the little guy as many own business’ and that is why they are revolting…not for the little guy. They really could care less about them. As for their claim Obama is taking away theie guns.not true..he even made it possible for them to carry guns in public events..a thing I think was wrong. It is a shame that this President gets no credit for what he has achieved in 20 months…even those in other countries cannot believe this. My state is republican and we are broke..laying off police fireman, teachers and have a sewer system which caves in after every rain. Why would I want to put these same people back in?

And Obama wants to carjack the nation and its constitution. How do you fit a civilian army in a car anyways?

Saturday, May 15, 2010
If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency.
National Journal Magazine

tierra wrote: “If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months….”
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IF frogs had wings they wouldn’t bump their butt every time they jump. And they’ve got a better chance of growing wings than oBama’s economy creating more jobs than eight years of Bush.

Here’s Obama whining about the Republicans supposedly not helping him pass his porkulus bill:
“I had one side of the aisle just sit on the sidelines as the crisis unfolded.”- Obama
And here’s Obama whining about how he doesn’t want any Republicans to help him help:
“After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back. (Laughter.) No! (Laughter and applause.) You can’t drive! (Applause.) We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch! We just got the car out! (Applause.) We just got the car out! (Laughter.)”
What a confused little man, who is obviously in way over his head. He can barely govern with a super majority. What’s he gonna do after November? You think he’s whining now? lol

The GOP: “We left an economic mess of historic proportions, and we don’t like the way you’re cleaning up our mess.”

Ah, for the days when the press actually just let the news come at the viewers raw. I listened to this one on Sirius Potus, and President Obama was just plain stunning! He does understand what regular people need to improve their lives, he does understand our problems. Between the media getting his words wrong and the republicans/fox trying to misrepresent him, it’s very key there is some way to hear the newsmakers before some klutz gets in the way. (Mitch and Boehner saying President Obama is against senile old white republican guys in 10, 9, 8…..)

And Obama wants to carjack the nation and its constitution. How do you fit a civilian army in a car anyways?
Posted by: Don L |
It’s a clown car.

One has to wonder if oBama looks outside the window of the White House to see what goes on in the real world, or whether he just happily reads what someone puts on his teleprompter.
Posted by: gk
that’s why The Pres is in the process of cleaning up all the republican excrement left behind from Bush/Cheney and their majority years in Congress.
‘One has to wonder’ where all this republican ‘outrage’ was during Bush/Cheney… it wasn’t there……… republicans stuck their heads in the sand .. and repeated the Reagan meme of don’t criticize fellow republicans….
Republicans are whiners, sore losers and plain hypocrites…….
republicans bring the lowest of the low to all issues, …

Retail sales and industrial production in the U.S. climbed more than forecast in April, indicating the economic recovery gained momentum at the start of the second quarter, according to the Commerce Department.

The only ditch was at Chappaquiddick, and Ted was driving and drunk
Posted by: Jen06
- does that finally mean we can see Bush’s cocaine and DUI arrest records

Phony projections included, the GOP doesn’t want the keys to Ubama’s car. It’s his and no one else’s. I just wish his supporters were the only ones paying for the maintenance.

Posted by: progressnow | May 14, 2010 1:24:49 PM
Thanks so much for the nice, number- crunching fact-filled posts. Refreshing change of pace.
Of course, I was attracted to your screen name as well ;^)

The President of the United States is right. Republicans are competence-free, irresponsible, and sore losers.
They don’t give a hoot about the country if they aren’t in power.
Tax the rich, and let’s move forward.
We’re all sick and tired of getting shot in the face.

Non-seq – As I stated earlier, as early as March 1, Rahm Emanuel was going around saying things like Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party, etc. That’s not really starting things out on the right foot. It was an attempt to further marginalize Republicans, and to score some points, and it worked.
I don’t buy that any one side is the “victim” of the other. It cuts both ways, and both parties are more than capable of horrifically exaggerating the statements and policies of the other to score political points. That’s exactly the stuff that needs to stop.
“Healthcare will kill granny” is no different than “They want to take away granny’s Social Security” a few years ago during the debate on that program.
I’d chalk it up to business as usual if there weren’t so many promises from both this president and the last to rise above all that.

Let’s not forget, Republicans were in charge for eight years and in the end our country was on the brink of economic disaster. Can they really be proud of that? Can the mess Bush and his party left our country in be turned around in what, a year and a half?

“progressnow – the great thing about statistics is you can get them to say anything you want them to say.”
Posted by: P May 14, 2010 1:35:44 PM -
I fundamentally agree with you. Statistics can be manipulated and distorted.
But there are also over-arching facts which are simply too basic to ignore.
U.S. GDP contracted at a rate of 6.3% in the 4th quarter of 2008. That was the national condition that President Obama faced when he entered the Oval Office his first day on the job.
In the first quarter of 2010, U.S. GDP grew at a rate of 3.2%
That is a net gain of 9.5% in little more than a year, historically an outstanding rate of growth.
I know that severe problems are legion, from housing to small-business credit flows, including the long-term, systemic issues – wage stagnation, massive income disparity, shrinking manufacturing base, etc. – on which the president ran specifically to address. And I know that the economy has a fantastic resilience, irrespective of government actions, and is quite capable of self-healing. Jobs remain lacking and incomes have hardly budged.
But the righteous anti-Obama indignation appears more reactionary than rational. It’s not a matter of “blame Bush.” Blame whoever you want. Blame Chris Dodd, blame Fannie and Freddie, blame the 2006 Congress. It doesn’t matter. Factual conditions are factual conditions, and an economy – and a nation – is either moving in a positive direction, or it isn’t.
The United States is moving in a positive direction.

progressivemama – Point taken. But I think you’ll agree there’s a difference between statements made by random commenters on the Internet and statements made by the President of the United States.
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P, I totally agree.. but I think Non-Seq makes good points. I saw Obama reaching out, sometimes more than his base would have liked. And both during the Clinton and Obama administrations, the reax from the Right struck me as vicious and extreme. Bush didn’t suffer the same till he started an unnecessary war of aggression — at least that’s how it appeared to me– and that was despite the fact he didn’t win the popular vote. I also think that both Bush and Obama went to DC with good intentions, and uniting versus dividing is a heckuva lot harder than anyone imagines till they’ve been through it.

they didn’t run the car in the ditch it just quit running, it was american built. they just don’t last very long.

The ship be sinkin,Barack.

If anyone drove this nation into the ditch, it was “Chappaquiddick Ted” Kennedy, with his disastrous immigration bill of 1965.
That treasonous piece of legislation, opened the floodgates of an Anglo-Saxon nation to full frontal assault by the Third World.
Now an illegal alien usurper sits in the White House, poised to grant amnesty to the Mexican occupation army.
The Great Imposter–like his predecessor–imagines the American people are in need of admonishments and lectures. His arrogance knows no bounds.

So, in Obama’s story, the car (American economy) is in the ditch. The Democrats claim the Republicans steered it there, but fail to mention that Reid and Pelosi were sitting in the front seat grabbing at the steering wheel, pulling it toward the ditch… Now, Obama is trying to get the car out?
That’s interesting, because from my vantage point, I can see Obama. He is sitting up on the road, kind of like a crazy, drunk, brother-in-law, calling out instructions to whomever will listen (Senate, House). His instructions are things like, “Take the wheels off, they are sunk too far into the mud!” “Dig a deeper hole under the car, maybe that will help!” “Flip the car over on to it’s roof, and perhaps we can convince some of these nicely dressed government union workers to lay in the mud under the car, tie ropes on, and drag the car up on to the road!”

Wow, how unbelievably counter-productive – you all pat yourselves on the back for voting a ‘minority’ into power, but wait, chomping at the bit, to tear him apart so you can say ‘well, we gave him a chance, but he screwed it all up.’ The economy didn’t tank overnight, it can’t be fixed over night – you do NOT deserve to be pulled out of this unmitigated disaster that fast – you voted the great messer-upper in for 2 terms. You need to realize you contributed to this mess; all you whining republicans. And trying to stop everything Obama is trying to accomplish is tatamount to treason! You are NOT doing America any favors, you are hurting us!!!