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Bill Press: ‘It’s A Wonder Lightning Just Doesn’t Strike’ Rep. John Boehner

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It appears that this week will not end without adding another instance of someone in politics suggesting someone else in politics should die for their views. This time, it’s a roundabout request for a supernatural smiting of House Speaker John Boehner from liberal radio host Bill Press who, after playing a clip of the Speaker demanding the President conform to Republican demands, wondered how he had not been struck by lightning for the comment.

Expressing the growing frustration on the left with the Republican leadership, Press played a clip of Rep. Boehner demanding the President “step up and work with us on the spending cuts… that the people are demanding.” “You know, it’s a wonder lightning just doesn’t strike people dead on the spot when they say stuff like that,” he quipped. At that moment, his show was interrupted by the sound of thunder, despite Rep. Boehner not actually being within the vicinity of the show. Alas, Press’ dreams hijacked the radio microphone for a second there.

Press was indignant that, after much one-on-one negotiation, the Republican House leader had decided to exit talks, arguing that Senate leaders Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were all “left out in the cold.” Despite what Press considered preferential treatment, Rep. Boehner “turns around and stabs Obama in the back,” Press argued, prompting him to ask, “How could you trust this guy?”

The audio clip from the July 22 edition of Press’ program below:


[h/t Radio Equalizer]

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  • Anonymous

    The twisted, sick mental defectives of lunatic-left d-cRAT socialism are so full of hate and rage against anybody who doesn’t swallow their extremist bs they actually FANTASIZE and DREAM of inflicting harm and death on their opponents. Compared to a d-cRAT socialist, casey anthony seems like another Mother Teresa.

    The lunatic-left are vile, dangerous, sociopaths. Like the out-of-control drug addicts they so resemble, the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists are likely to explode into uncontrollable fits of anger and violence against NORMAL, SANE, PATRIOTIC American citizens at any moment. They make their follow lunatics, the GOONS and THUGS of public-sector unions, look like tame pets in comparison. Since there is no known cue for the debilitating disorder of d-cRAT socialism, to minimize the damage to America it would be best if all the lunatic-left were rounded up and put into the states that the d-cRAT socialists control and hence are already morally, ethically, socially, politically and fiscally bankrupt, particularly the peoples republics of california, illinois, massachusetts and new york.  

    Get mental help you lunatic-leftists – it’s probably covered under your beloved obozocare so responsible, hard-working, taxpaying American citizens will wind up footing the bill, and you know how much you enjoy it when that happens !!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Typical Liberal cheap no class talk as normal.

  • Anonymous

    That is nothing compared to the vicious attacks Druggie Limbaugh throws out there.  

  • Anonymous

    Boehner and the other Republicans have FINALLY figured out that Obama lies about everything, even when it isn’t necessary to lie, and they cannot trust his word on any negotiations. He’s a petulant, narcissistic sociopath whose lack of ability has been carefully covered up by a complicit media. 

    No point in trusting Obama’s word, Mr. Boehner, he has no honor- as we’ve seen for the past 2 1/2 years. Both our allies and our enemies figured this out long ago. I’d give my eye teeth to see the evaluations from foreign security services about the “character” of this President- I’d bet they’ve got his number.

  • http://twitter.com/pawaa3 hank kaarsgaren

    first rule in management is to take ownership of a problem,john boehner walked away! He is a waste of taxpayers money and should be fired.Keep it simple!

  • Anonymous

    Bill Press was an idiot on CNN, Bill Press is an idiot now. Once an idiot always an idiot. I just hope lightening does not strike when he is a guest at one of the shows on MSNBC. That would be a shame, though not a noticeable one.

  • Anonymous

    ‘It’s A Wonder Lightning Just Doesn’t Strike’ Rep. John Boehner
    It is very enticing to substitute ‘Rep. John Boehner’ with another name, but I would never do that. I have more respect for the office of POTUS, than any intelligence Bill Press may think he has.

  • Kelc

    And Obama and dem’s in Senate have taken ownership,right.No plan, all they do is point fingers and demagogue.

  • Anonymous

    Puhleeze.  Boehner did his part.  He passed a budget through the House of Representatives.  That’s something that the Democrats haven’t done, going on two years.  Think about that a minute.  We have a party that was in control of both houses of Congress AND the White House, and they still couldn’t get a budget passed in the two-years that they were in control, and yet you say Boehner is “walking away from a problem”?

    As for Obama, his budget was so farcical and incomplete that it failed to secure a SINGLE vote when in the Senate.  NOT ONE Senator would put their name on it, that’s how bad it was.

    The Republicans shouldn’t do anything, including raising the debt ceiling until Harry Reid passes a budget.  THEN we can have an honest debate about the size and scope of government spending and the tax burden on American taxpayers.

  • Anonymous

    You get some help there – you are definitely not a republican, I don’t know if the democrats want you either. 

  • Anonymous

    were you for firing Obama for walking away last week?  Just wondering….

  • Anonymous

    Poor Bill. Had DIM LIBS played their Lib-rul-ism somewhat honestly, it might have been his lust-magnet, Nancy Pelosi, dealing with Obamo. But it’s not Pelosi, who has been shoveled into the woods like a bucketful of manure.

    I LOVE how everything is working out, and how incensed Lib media hacks are getting. The angrier they get, the happier I am!

  • Anonymous

    Does Bill Press wear a dress? He seems…odd…

  • Anonymous

    Press better be careful himself .

    The metal flask in his pocket is also a lightning rod .

  • Jayamerican1

    I’v actually listened (for as long as I could stand it) to this nit wit Bill Press one day. I seriously googled him after to see if he had some sort of recent condtion or surgery that may have caused brain damage. This guy is an absolute moron and how anyone could give this idiot a radio shows fully explains the ratings difference between right wing talk shows and left wing talk shows and the great success of Air America. Please you leftys have to be able to do better than this. By the way this same genius of the left not too long ago wrote a book ( or perhaps just typed his name after someone else wrote it) and guess what the subject was….incivility and harsh rhetoric …by the right only. What a stooge..if I was a leftist I would be wearing a bag pver my keyboard right now.

  • Cbmercy

    You can’t be repub. They HAVE NO respect for POTUS!

  • Anonymous

    youre a goofball….you repukes keep talking that budget shit….you never want to mention the fact that the rupukes in the senate fillibusterd the 2011 budget Obama submitted last sept…without 60 votes to override it the budget died….now thats a fact…so lets stop the wingnut stupidity, you SOBs have become a bigass problem for this country moving forward….so racist and full of shit youre sickening…people dont want to call you assholes out but i will…both the ryan budget and the cut, crap and balance bullshit boehner got passed isnt worth the paper it was printed on…so spare me the at least we did something childish ass bullshit…we’re gonna step up and send you stupid mofos a message next november….GET THE FUCK OUT !!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    republicans found themselves some perfect victims….stupid uneducated half klan half idiot dumbasses like you…so easy to sway, all it takes is a blond bimbo to get your attention, hold it and make you believe the hype…my guess is you wack off watching FIXED NOISE…thats how superficial idiots are…now try posting again….this time engage that feeble ass brain of yours if possible and dont come with no bullshit…….i’ll be waitin

  • Anonymous

    ahhh dumbass…dont nobody want to harm you…..you’re like pet rocks…fun to look at but usless as hell, if i didnt have a dumbass like you to kick around the block everyday i would not have anything to do…i see you got your bullet points down pat…i guess repeating them over and over to yourself has caused self indoctrination, youre no more patriotic that osama bin laden and only half as smart…beating your asses next november is gonna be so thrilling i can taste it….Watching President Obama taking the Oath the 2nd time is gonna be wonderful…..tell ya buddy john roberts not to fuck it up this time please….and then Obama is gonna spend his lame duck years in office legislating you shitheads into the ground…and turning the justice dept loose on the criminals on the right who thought they escaped justice…Rupert and james murdoch are gonna have a little company in supermax….Obama is gonna fill the place up with wingers like you….side by side with the men you waged holy war on……gonna be a blast!!!!,,,,,enjoy wingnut

  • Anonymous

    Who’s Bill Press?
     

  • Rogan

    For Press to say “I’m surprised he wasn’t hit by lightening” is NOT the same as saying he wishes or hopes Boehner dies. It is to recognize Boehner’s deceit. Some Americans want spending cuts; most Americans want a balanced approach that includes both spending cuts and tax increases. The POTUS has offered spending cuts beyond what he and his party are comfortable with…the holdup is the Boehner/Norquist/Republican fantasy that the national debt can be erased with only spending cuts. Press’s comment wasn’t that he wishes Boehner’s death, it was to say that the lie was so bad, it is surprising it didn’t attract divine wrath.

  • Roderick

    America should understand that Boehner had to make it to Happy Hour last night before it was over.

  • Roderick

    Rogan, the faux outrage from conservatives is side-splitting.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Both you and your Dad Bill Press are both morons!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4E2QJVDSSMPWFVT7EZYQARK4H4 Jimmy

    bill press is chrissy matthews brother isn;t he?

  • Anonymous

    That was a typical lie of the Republicans. “He shoved back and said ‘I’ll see you tomorrow’ and walked out”  Cantor said.  It should be noted that Cantor continued to interrupt the president, Others at the meeting said the president didn’t abruptly leave as described by Cantor.  Obviously, he was tired of being asked the same questions of a 5th grader, over and over again.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Planet earth to ProObamaAgenda The phony and
    Chief already is a lame duck and there will be no do over’s from Chief Justice Honorable
    John Roberts.

  • Anonymous

    The president did send a budget to Congress.  If you think the President will sign the fricking budget that the Tea Party GOP voted for, you have rocks for brains.  Even the Republicans in the Senate wouldn’t touch the Ryan medicare plan now.

  • Anonymous

    really? lol  Cause you didn’t like the fact that he went storming out so it’s a lie? 

  • Anonymous

    really? lol

  • Anonymous

    really? lol

  • Anonymous

    Fact: The whole story above was about him I know I read it first so hanniballa one should read it first then come down to post okay.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: They had balance all where ready to sign then the goal post changed with the Chicago land thuggery trick that wasn’t going to happen on Boehners watch. Obama and Pelosi have done it before but things have changed on last election.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Obama went to Ba Da bing with his Chicago ganster thugs then to golf-n-stuff for some putt putt.

  • Sandie

    The presidents unicorn and lollipos world budget to raise the debt beyond the beyond, that not even the democrats would vote for….. speaking of Ba-rocks for brains Obama.

  • Sandie

    …And like a 1st grader couldn’t come up with a cogent answer? .. Hmmmmm

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Artificial or imitation;
    fake outrage my a$$, conservatives are correct to straighten this BS guy Obama out on his changing of the agreements made prior to his thuggery.

  • Anonymous

    I guess you lack the ability to infer. What I typed was actually saying that, “Bill Press is a nobody.” Also, if you’re going to be smug could you use some punctuation?

  • Jayamerican1

    Thanks so very much for pointing this out. Because Bill Press sure accused republicans of wanting Congresswoman Giffords to be shot because thay had once used a map with bullseyes. Your post is  sad and representative of almost every lib argument. Devoid of truth and fact and use any means possible to deflect. Hope Bill appreciates you and the other 4 people that listen to him.

  • Jayamerican1

    Not sure they would even know..both are too stupid to recognize each other

  • caconservative

    Bill Press….??????????

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bohratom-Allen/100000077637523 Bohratom Allen

    Typical, Lib makes a comment about the speaker being killed and the main stream media wont even mention it. If a conservative said that about the former speaker Pelosi, it would probably be the top news story for the show…

  • Anonymous

    Hey, it’s not a big deal.

    Ask yourself, have any of Bill Press’ EIGHT regular listeners complained? 

  • Anonymous

    Sure, he sent a budget to Congress.  The Senate even voted on it.  How many votes did it get?  ZERO from Republicans and ZERO from Democrats.

    How does that inoculate Harry Reid from passing a budget for the Senate?  It doesn’t.

    If Boehner can get his body to pass a budget, why can’t Reid?  And remember, this is the SECOND year without a budget.  The first year the Democrats had both houses of Congress AND Obama, and they still couldn’t get a freakin’ budget passed.

  • Anonymous

    “you never want to mention the fact that the rupukes in the senate
    fillibusterd the 2011 budget Obama submitted last sept…without 60
    votes to override it the budget died”

    Young, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. 

    Presidential budgets aren’t submitted in September.  They’re submitted in late January or early February, usually to closely coincide with the State of the Union address.  Last year, neither the House nor the Senate held ANY votes – cloture or otherwise – on ANY budget.  So no, Obama’s magical budget was never filibustered. 

    However, there WAS a vote held in late May in the Senate on the 2011 Budget that was submitted by Obama.  That budget secured precisely ZERO votes – ZERO from Republican and ZERO from Democrats.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/163347-senate-votes-unanimously-against-obama-budget

    With respect to the rest of your mindless (and profanity laced rant), you’ll find some much needed wisdom in Proverbs 17:28.

  • Anonymous

    “you never want to mention the fact that the rupukes in the senate
    fillibusterd the 2011 budget Obama submitted last sept…without 60
    votes to override it the budget died”

    Young, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. 

    Presidential budgets aren’t submitted in September.  They’re submitted in late January or early February, usually to closely coincide with the State of the Union address.  Last year, neither the House nor the Senate held ANY votes – cloture or otherwise – on ANY budget.  So no, Obama’s magical budget was never filibustered. 

    However, there WAS a vote held in late May in the Senate on the 2011 Budget that was submitted by Obama.  That budget secured precisely ZERO votes – ZERO from Republican and ZERO from Democrats.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/163347-senate-votes-unanimously-against-obama-budget

    With respect to the rest of your mindless (and profanity laced rant), you’ll find some much needed wisdom in Proverbs 17:28.

  • Anonymous

    I am a conservative-independent. I disagree with the fiscal policies of both Obama and George Bush. My disagreement on the policies does not mean disrespect for the office of the POTUS. One can disagree with the policies and still be respectful to the office.
    Bill Press is just an idiot. He should be ignored, he has no shame.

  • Colepack

    Attention All Tea baggers:If you don’t manage to blow us up before the next election we will win..I was giggling when I read all the teabagger comment.I have never seen more hate in my life.The hateful party will go back in the woods soon.Americans will learn the hard way about voting in crazies.

  • Wot90s

    If I remember right, the Repubs were in charge of one of the houses, ( nancy Pelosi was removed because of that), meantime this country is going to hell in a handbasket because of Party lines…
    it is time our leaders did something besides break their arms patting themselves on the back for all the good they are doing…. which I havent seen in 20 years. God get us Bill Clinton back in office.
    Bushes bunch ran this country into the ground, put the Stock market down to 6500 and had us all wondering how can he be so ll………….
    Then the country thinks Obama can right the wrongs he and his daddy did for the last 12 years.
    Yea, somebody has to shoulder the blame, so obama will, Biggest problem with America is that they just cant deal with a Black man holding down the Presidents office. I am neither right or left. I just want our Country back. I dont really give a rats azz who does it, just do it. Perhaps we should hire NIKE,,,, no wait, they dont have any manufacturers in the  US…
    Just the good old poverty and low class people, because they cant afford to send their work overseas..
    You know, when it is all said and done, The rich will slowly lose what they own, have, possess. why????
    because us little folks aint gona be able to aford their products, no mater whar they ar made….
    Wake UP AMerica…..

  • John

    I can’t believe what I am hearing from these liberal morons. He says I don’t know if I could trust the speaker ever again. Have ever heard such nonsense. It president Obummer that has no plan and the not serious about trying to cut spending. It is on his watch that this deficit continues to grow at unprecedented rate. Wow insane these liberals must be to continue their self induced destruction. Wake the heck up idiots. The clock is ticking on the back of future generations.

  • Anonymous

    You lecture on hatred all the while using a slurring your opposition. And you do it without the slightest sense of irony. 

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EJBVT6EMBP5ICYIGTRSCL7HWGE derek

    You should grease it up next time that Barney Frank pays you a visit.  You seem a little too prickly.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t be so subtle, tell us what you really think……

    The TEA Party is kicking your tale. If you don’t soften up a little, the TEA Party won’t be throwing you any bones after the next election.

  • Pedro Marques

    I wouldn’t trust a Republican ever…I rather die! The Bush’s ran this country to the ground and now we need to cut spending? You cant fix a total loss without spending money, lots of money…that’s what the Bush duo left us….a total loss! Have I mentioned Iraq, hell the Republicans should all pay for the repair and destruction of that nation, not interested huh! I thought you were concerned with future generations, what about theirs? Oh yeah, I forgot, you are only concerned with yours, you’re so stupid you don’t realize your buddy Republicans made sure our future generations would have nothing, NOTHING…you know when? when profits became more important than Americans.
    Who’s the Idiot, look in the mirror you mongoloid!

  • http://profiles.google.com/kbamagirlw KAREN WILLIAMS

    Boehner left because Obama demanded 400bil more in cuts after there agreement.
    most of the time I don’t agree with republicans but you are right USS_Republitarian for
    the past 2 years Dem’s has not done anything which is the reason the majority of Repub’s got voted in house. they said they were going to get things done, they never said anyone is going to like it. in fact there is nothing that can be done that anyone is going to like, Bush and Obama has done to much damage to this country. but the accusing
    and name calling by Dem’s has been way to much. I voted for Obama, and if McCain ran again I would still vote for Obama thankfully he is not so Obama is not getting my families vote, some of the things I have heard come out of Obama is childish & irresponsible and die hard Dem’s first insult if someone does not agree with daddy Obama. that person is a racist automatically or what ever awful name. a die hard Dem will call any one a bad name even if its another Dem that don’t agree with Daddy Obama. its real sad that people are that controlled by someone they don’t even know. I am no longer a democrat because of people like ProObamaAgenda. from now on I vote for the best candidate that is running not the party.
    I was raised, the only people that call other folks names is people that is incapable of an intelligent conversation, in layman’s terms. they can’t think of any thing smart to say.
    Oh and the reason I call Obama. daddy Obama is because he acts like my daddy, force me to buy things I already have or don’t need. I am more capable of deciding my life
    then he is. Next thing he is going to do is force me to purchase car insurance when I don’t own a car.

  • http://www.facebook.com/giampaglia Luciano Giampaglia

    Considering President Bush Jnr took your defecit from 2trillion, to 10 trillion in less than a decade, whilst at the same time lowering capital tax rates and federal higher band tax rates (tax cuts woth 1.3trillion $ for the rich) and decimating your economy and the globes economy at large I would say they have every right to point fingers. The deficit is not the making of this administration, but it may well be the breaking of it.

    I sit in England, I read some of these replys, and I just think, “how can some of these people be so blind, do they not read books and pay attention to historical economic & political data”

    Then I remember, no, they dont. They just get 95% of their information from Fox News and Rush limbaugh.

    God help you america.

  • Anonymous

    Keep posting your garbage and lies. It let’s us all know how totally clueless you are.

  • Anonymous

    His 15 minutes ran out a long time ago.

  • Oknahs

    Your rants are similar to how the GOP and Tea Party meet to discus your agenda.  As a arbitrator for many years I have one rule.   You must be able to leave convictions in a locked vault and bring your opinions.   If we approach problems with a clear head and have room for compromise a solution can be attained.   Everyone must have a vehicle that can inform on factual outcomes.   Common sense approaches often lead to successful paths that the majority involved can agree.   Raising the debt limit isn’t a new position but the conservatism in the GOP have views directed against any ideas or positions raised by the Dems.   Bipartisianship is a dead horse and we see compromise vanishing from our current government.  I would like to see some true American leadership coming from our Congress in the next few days from both parties.  

  • Anonymous

    Here’s the deal.  My personal unwillingness to compromise stems from years of compromising with disastrous results.  We’re at 14 trillion dollars in debt, with a budget deficit that is labeled ‘historic’ and no real budget for TWO YEARS.

    What is it we’re supposed to compromise on, MORE debt to maintain the status quo that will break us financially, no matter what it is that we’re spending the money on?

    THAT is the source of my personal lack of support for compromise.  We need to cut up the credit card that Congress has been using else we’re literally slated to finally and ultimately TANK financially.  Both sides have previously said that our debt and deficit are ‘unsustainable’ yet the left want to keep the status quo and add Obamacare and whatever other program they can think of.

    Compromise that leads to total failure is frankly, stupid.  It’s also ridiculous to spout compromise when failure is on the table.

  • How to Ruin a Country 101

    Republicans ruined the country and the global economy, and are determined to keep it that way.
    They are pouting obstinate children who would rather punish innocent civilians than compromise on a single issue.

    Big news for GOPers and the Tea Partyers – You, like the Dems, were sent to office to find and implement solutions.  Good luck in the next election.  No one will forget the ridiculous obstructionist conduct you’ve showcased this term.  Grow up and get to work.

  • Anonymous

    You seem both angry AND confused. “I wouldn’t trust a Republican ever…I rather die!” is an odd and extreme point of view- and it’s just that, a point of view. Trustworthiness has no party and is measured by whether or not actions match words. Unfortunately, Obama has PROVED himself untrustworthy by his ACTIONS.

    Many of us disagreed with GW Bush’s spending. It was understandable subsequent to the attacks of 
    9-11, but he was never a FISCAL CONSERVATIVE, nor is his father. Bush 43 is more fiscally conservative than his father was, but both are examples of the “elites” of whom the whole Obama administration are the penultimate. Many of us questioned the war in Iraq and history will have to be written on the wisdom, or lack thereof, of going in there. Unfortunately, Bush 41 did not pursue Sadaam Hussein when he should have. I am not so arrogant that I think I know the intel behind the decision to go into Iraq- though I do remember that Sadaam himself had alleged that he had WMDs and he had USED WMDs against the Kurds, so it was reasonable to assume that he still had them. Don’t show your ignorance about the situation at the time and the number of both DEMOCRAT and Republican legislators who voted to go after Sadaam. The Dems now claim they were deceived, but they ALL had the same information at the time.

    Using the word, “MONGOLOID,” is DISGUSTING, and shows your OWN crude, prejudiced mindset. Grow up, no one wants to read that sort of screed.

  • Anonymous

    My, you’re a little cranky.

    Can you explain why when the Democrats held Congress since 2006 that we didn’t have a budget fo the lastr two years?  Are  you aware that NO ONE voted for Obama’s ONLY budget?  Are you aware that Reid could have written his own but instead decided to pass NOTHING from the Senate? Two solid years and that allocating funds is Congress’ primary function? 

    You don’t like the GOP plan, fine.  Why don’t ANY of the players on the Dem side have something down in writing themselves?   Puffery, posturing and not doing their job. 

    So excuse me, but what is childish is hiding behind extensions for a budget instead of writing and voting to put your name on one.

    Step up all that you want but if’ you’ve looked at the latest Gallup poll, currently ‘any republican’ is being Obama in 2012.  You’ve got a lot of work to do.  You can start with creating a budget, coming up with some brilliant plan that people will actually vote for, and then perhaps start working on the unemployment rate.   Bonus points if you can do anything about inflation and increasing the country’s economic growth.

    Do something instead of spewing perjoratives.  Btw, the turn around in the Senate and the House didn’t happen until NOVEMBER of 2010, chuckles.  The people who stood in the way of that budget WERE DEMOCRATS.

    Silly.

  • Anonymous

    For a cosummately untalented and hateful lib, Press has done quite well.

    Too bad lignting hasn’t struck him.

  • Anonymous

    “If I remember right, the Repubs were in charge of one of the houses…”

    No, you remember wrong.  Between January 1, 2009 and January 1, 2011, the Democrats enjoyed a SUPER-MAJORITY in the House and a near SUPER-MAJORITY in the Senate.  In NEITHER year did either the House nor the Senate pass a budget.  Why is that?

    I’ll tell you why.  The Democrats knew full-well that their economic ideas were wholly unpopular with the public and they did not want their members to have to cast a vote on their own ideas.  So, they just didn’t pass a budget – this was the first time since enactment of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.  This is the law that demands that the President submit a Budget to Congress, and then Congress makes whatever changes it sees necessary and then ENACTS a budget.  It didn’t happen.  Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama IGNORED federal law.  Gee, what a surprise that is.

    PS – Barack Obama, in just under twenty months TRIPLED the annual deficit.  George Bush spent too much.  Barack Obama then spent more.  Much, much more.

  • Jerry Baustian

    Luciano: if you, an Italian living in Britain, are going to criticize our politicians, then you’d better make sure your numbers are accurate. But your statement is erroneous, so I wonder how you think your words can be at all persuasive.

  • http://twitter.com/SilencePalin Silence Palin

    you sir are a delusional nut!

  • http://twitter.com/SilencePalin Silence Palin

    the Tea Party doesn’t EXIST!  But keep believing the hype…..that’s what they want you to do!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    Wow…another left wing freak calling for the death of someone they disagree with politically.

    …and BTW Press, you sick leftist goon..it was Ogabe that tried to change the terms of the agreed upon deal forcing Speaker Boehner to cut the useless a-hole out of further negotaitions

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    Luciano is yet another one of those leftist idiots who have no idea what they’re talking about. The deficit is not $14 trillion, it’s about $2 trillion.

    The incompetent, lazy, stupid, petulant man-child in the White House added more to the debt in his first two months than all 43 previous presidents’ terms combined.

    It’s time for the jug-eared Marxist to go

  • HawkCW4

    How funny.  And your idea would be to stay and agree with the very guy that tried to kill this country and is still working hard to finish it.  When you arrive at a tentative agreement and then the guy says wait, if he gives that I will demand twice that, You need to understand, you have been dealing with a guy that has no intention of coming to any agreement.  This is ALL politics and Obama is running around like a little rat, trying to figure a way to get re-elected.  He has no intention, nor a clue how to fix anything.  He demands the very thing that will drive the final nail in the coffin of recovery.   YOU CAN NOT raise taxes when there are no jobs and the economy is in the tank.  But that is all Obama knows,  its all any Liberal knows,  its the only way they can get and maintain power,  create poor people and tax the hell out of those who work to provide the welfare for the slaves Liberals create.

  • HawkCW4

    Man you are a credit to your party, they must love you.  A credit to your family,  you do have one right?  You are a hateful man,  typical of the left but you are a nasty hateful man, and you do yourself and your party no good.  Please continue.

  • HawkCW4

    I think you will find most Americans respect the Office of President of The USA.  And most times, both partys respect the man in that office.  This is not one of those times.  Obama has done nothing to gain respect, on the contrary, he daily causes good people to wonder what he stands for.  He is fast loosing any respect from the Right, and slowly beginning to have those on the Left and those in the Middle doubt their reasons for respecting him any longer.  If it were not for giving the White House to the Republicans I believe many on the left would drop Obama in a heartbeat.  He is the single most destructive force on this planet.

  • HawkCW4

    America does understand that happy hour was preferable to further talks with Obama.  Obama clearly showed America he does not want any deal proposed by the Right.  He has none to offer and is unwilling to allow the Right to fix his problem.   He is only in this for the politics.  He will clearly allow America to go down the drain before giving in to anything offered by the Right. 

  • HawkCW4

    Your choice Pedro, but if you dont, your way of life will change and change fast for the worst possible way.  Obama and his gang did all they could to kill this country,   they damaged us greatly and now they are content to watch us bleed.  The Left does not care about fixing the economy  IF if means accepting any suggestion by the Right.   AND PEDRO,  anyone with any sense at all realizes,  tax increases,  (the only thing Liberals know ) would be the worst possible choice to fix this mess Obama gave us.

  • Jadd

    WOW! Are all of your fellow Republicans that articulate?

  • Red White & Blue

    And which of the PIIGS of the European Union are you from?? Until you have an economy that actually has something to offer the rest of the world and doesn’t require constant bail outs for your socialist ideals, I suggest you concentrate what you do best, sucking your own county dry!

  • Jadd

    The day that the Boner acts in support of the United States instead of his corporate syndicalist owners is the day that the Koch brothers vote Democratic.

  • Jadd

    The day that the Boner acts in support of the United States instead of his corporate syndicalist owners is the day that the Koch brothers vote Democratic.

  • Anonymous

    the above is a prime example of what happens when you cut education in order to protect tax cuts for millionaires

  • Anonymous

    actually there is a plan but it includes tax increases on the very people who caused this recession in the first place and are now profiting on it

  • Anonymous

    actually if you would google your facts you would see that boehner and cantor are lying their butts off,by the way how’s that pillar of the community ruport murdoch doing?

  • Anonymous

    Wrong again buffalo butt  but than again what do you expect from people who drink the tea.Did you catch that genius jim demint who claims that the rich can’t afford to pay anymore taxes because they are already paying 70%.What country does he live in?

  • Anonymous

    another educated man heard from .

  • Anonymous

    The tea party lol you people make me laugh your 15 minutes of fame are up.Take a look around maybe you heard about the 26 th district in ny where the republicans lost a seat they held for the last 20 years.there’s more if you want .

  • Anonymous

    Again you have to stop drinking the tea and watching fox news if you have been paying attention the polls show there isn’t a republican out there who can beat obama -maybe you just misread it.by the way how’s one of the tea parties bjggest backers ,ruport murdoch doing?

  • Anonymous

    name calling hmmm i’m an independent but i’ve been called a socialist,communist,faggot,i can go on but isn’t funny the republicans when they won the first thing they voted on was to keep the bush tax cuts then they tried to deregulate wall st. after they were the ones who put us here.What about the jobs they promised?instead in order to balance their budgets they laid off teachers,firemen,police ,all so they wouldn’t have to raise taxes on the rich backers who are setting record breaking profits during this rececession am i getting through to you yet?boehner and cantor claim taxes on the rich kill job creation which is an absolute lie-check it out most of your job growth occurs when the taxes are between70-80% don’t take my word for it just look it up.By the way in order to balance his budget a republican president named eisenhower raised the tax bracket on the rich to 90% a fact boehner and cantor seem to have forgotten.One last thing isn’t it funny but i’ve been called the communist when big business is selling your jobs to china to take advantage ofCOMMUNIST LABOR

  • Anonymous

    name calling hmmm i’m an independent but i’ve been called a socialist,communist,faggot,i can go on but isn’t funny the republicans when they won the first thing they voted on was to keep the bush tax cuts then they tried to deregulate wall st. after they were the ones who put us here.What about the jobs they promised?instead in order to balance their budgets they laid off teachers,firemen,police ,all so they wouldn’t have to raise taxes on the rich backers who are setting record breaking profits during this rececession am i getting through to you yet?boehner and cantor claim taxes on the rich kill job creation which is an absolute lie-check it out most of your job growth occurs when the taxes are between70-80% don’t take my word for it just look it up.By the way in order to balance his budget a republican president named eisenhower raised the tax bracket on the rich to 90% a fact boehner and cantor seem to have forgotten.One last thing isn’t it funny but i’ve been called the communist when big business is selling your jobs to china to take advantage ofCOMMUNIST LABOR

  • Anonymous

    the biggest lie is boehner and cantor saying they represent the people or maybe you like that beaut that high taxes kill jobs look it up there is nothing further from the truth

  • Anonymous

    you should look up your facts actually the country has done its best when taxes are between 70-80% look it up but than again its so much easier to just repeat the bs boehner and cantor are feeding you.By the way in the history of the US  collecting taxes the taxes are the lowest they have ever been yet no jobs hmmm

  • WardMD

    Let us ALSO not forget that the budget that passed the House is a BI-PARTISAN budget (it House Democrats DID vote FOR that bill)!

    What are we at now?  Over 900 days since Harry Reid thought it necessary to do that which the Constitution DEMANDS that he do ANNUALLY:  Pass a budget!

    I’m ALL in favor of eliminating “tax loopholes” – like the ones where 47% of the Income Earners in this country pay ZERO taxes, or the one where people with ZERO Tax Liability get REFUNDS!

    AND, let’s be perfectly clear and HONEST, shall we?

    Even if NO deal is reached, the country DOES NOT face “Default”!

    The CBO states that the Federal Government receives approximately $275 BILLION A MONTH in Tax Revenues.  The Debt Obligation (THAT which, if NOT paid, would put us in “Default”) is approximately $30 Billion a month.

    Even a Democrat should be able to comprehend that we can EASILY pay the $30 Billon obligation from the $275 Billion Tax Revenue WITHOUT having to borrow (or print) a DIME!

    In point of FACT, we can pay for:  The Debt Obligation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Active Duty Military and Federal Law Enforcement (like Customs and Border Enforcement), and STILL have about $10 BILLION left over.

    So, can we STOP the LYING and scare mongering about a so-called “Default”?

  • WardMD

    It’s been over 900 days since Harry Reid passed a budget in the Senate!

    Where was his budget when the Democats had a 2/3 MAJORITY in the Senate, AND a majority in the House?

    Perhaps you can ALSO explain to us HOW it is that we have ANY deficit?  Didn’t Nancy Pelosi proudly declare the passage of “Pay-Go” (no spending, unless it was Paid For) when she was Speaker?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I’m seeing it play out right now. Nancy and Harry, on heavy meds. The President has been marginalized.

    Ny, Blue state. What a joke. One district and you fool yourself into believing we are gone. LOL. Election of 2010 was a little taste of greater things to come. There is blood in the water, we can smell it, your toast!

    GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS THE TEA PARTY!

  • WardMD

    The Budget Bill PASSED in the House DID have House Democrats vote FOR IT (the Bi-Partisan House Budget Bill)…

    Where’s the “equally” reasonable Senate Bill (that can garner Republican support)?

    Where’s Obama’s plan (IN WRITING)?

    Name ONE THING Obama’s willing to CUT (spending, I mean) – ONE THING HE’S PUT IN WRITING!

    Of COURSE Obama wants a budget deal that get his PAST the 2012 elections (you think he WANTS voters reminded AGAIN [and again] what an Economic Midget [appologies to Midgets everwhere] he is?)!

    The PROBLEM for Obama/Reid is that THEY can pass NOTHING without the House going along with it.  Thankfully (at least for now), Boehner is holding fast.

    I wonder, all you Liberals out there…  HOW HIGH a Debt Ceiling is “enough” for you?  More to the point, How much debt it TOO MUCH (I mean when a Democrat is in the White House?  We KNOW you all [including Obama himself] OPPOSED the Raising of the Debt Ceiling when George H. W. Bush was President)?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SI5NXALBPMGH5A7BLRV6GWW3BM Jim

    Why is this nasty old queen still featured on Mediaite? You would have thought that one of the august Mediaite staff would have just bent him over and applied something really angry (see recent nasty Bill Maher Mediaite segment for clarification). 

  • Anonymous

    Keth Olbermann you sly devil. 

  • Anonymous

    This anti-American president has no intention of negotiating in good faith. The Republicans have two choices, give in, and watch America disintegrate into third world status, or don’t, and watch the impending collapse of the world’s financial systems. Either way, Obama wins, he either spends us into oblivion, or the crisis that he’s been praying for is handed to him on a platter.

    If Press had an ounce of decency, he’d want that lightning to strike that stupid, Micky Mouse looking mofo in The White House.

  • Kelc

    We heard all that BS after 08.Republican party is dead it will take years for them to come back.Obama will end up like Carter as a failed president.

  • Jerry Baustian

    alofs1952, I didn’t state any facts in my post, because I merely needed to point out that there were many errors in Luciano’s post. 

    For instance, there was no such person as President Bush Jr. 

    For instance, during the administration of President George W Bush, aka Bush 41, there were no deficits of $2 trillion or $10 trillion. 

    For instance, the consequences of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts were that the wealthiest Americans — the top 1%, the top 5%, the top 10%, or the top 25%, whoever you want to consider the wealthiest Americans — ended up paying a greater percentage of income tax revenues than they did previously. Now part of this is because the child tax credit meant many families didn’t have to pay income taxes anymore. And while it was good for my sister’s family with their three kids, I’m not going to argue that it was the best possible change in tax law. But the tax cuts got the US economy out of the dot-com recession left behind by Clinton, and the post-9/11 doldrums, and we had full employment till the housing bubble popped in 2007.

    Also, the US can hardly be blamed for the problems of the rest of the world. The US did not put Greece in the hole it’s in, or Portugal, or Spain. The property bubble in the US does not explain the property bubble in Ireland or the UK.

    At any rate, Luciano pointed to “historical economic & political data” but the only numbers he presented were wrong. So I never had to present anything of my own to counter him. 

    And now, allofs, you make unsupported charges that also do not require me to present a counter-argument.

  • NeverWrong

    I thought old BillieBoy Press’er died a few years back from a lightening strike! Dang, what a shame. 

  • Bcarlton

    What a predictable spin on the goings on in Washington. It seems to me that it is miraculous that Obama is getting away with his high handed approach with Congress period. As Ron Paul correctly points out, it is Congress who holds the purse strings. It is the president that should approach Congress with a more conciliatory attitude. This is NOT about Obama’s tantrum and getting what he wants. It is supposed to be about Congress doing what their employer wants…I mean the taxpayers of course. I’m sick and tired of this false diatribe that is acted out to spin  a panicked fear into lawmakers. In fact it is this panic and fear that should reign in the lawmakers from making any decisions until cooler heads prevail and capable of discerning their convictions and holding to them which is why they were elected in the first place.

  • Billodot

    The only stupid angry ones are the TEA PARTY. you people are so uninformed and stubbornly one sided, that you would cut your own noses off just to piss off your face!

  • Billodot

    Tea Farty Nation is a dumb ass name caller!! (sarcasm) If he would only realize that the unions are the reason that his wages are higher than 5 cents an hour, he has unemployment insurance, his work week is on average 40 hours and his work day normally runs 8 hours. And THEN, when he works overtime, he gets TIME AND A HALF!!!! ALL THAT STUFF WAS NEGOTIATED BY THE EARLY UNIONS, KNUCKLEHEAD. But  you go ahead and rail against our BLACK president, you head in the sand loser. try reading a newspaper that isn’t owned by the Murdochs.

  • CommonSense

    Who sound full of hate and rage hear? You should educate yourself before you go ranting.

  • Anonymous

    you better look again champ even the republican party is sick of you ,the democrats are happier than ever that you have split the republican party.if you check the polls the American people agree on one thing the extremists have got to go.my favorite was the english politican who referred to you as right wing nutters.Yeah wave the fag and thump the bible but God will never bless liars andhypocrites masquerading as patriots your 15 min of fame is up oh by the way how is ruport murdoch doing?

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