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Laura Ingraham: ‘The Devil Is Not Just In The White House, It’s In The Details’

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Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham went a little Hugo Chavez on President Obama in her criticism of his jobs speech today. Conservatives, indeed, many Americans, were none too pleased when, in 2006, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez referred to then-President George W. Bush as “the devil,” and said he could still smell the sulfur where Bush had stood.

It’s a bit odd, then, that a conservative like Ingraham would take such a page from Chavez, saying of President Obama’s American Jobs Act, “The devil is not just in the White House, it’s in the details.”

During the Friday broadcast of her syndicated radio show, Ingraham was infuriated at Obama’s suggestion to close tax loopholes for the rich to help fund some of his various job proposals. The talk show host thought the President should be instead commending those who are “hard-working, ambitious, innovating,” and “work their buns off.”

“We have a spending addiction in Washington which is why this idea of taxing the rich, the people who are ‘most fortunate’, as if the money just fell into the laps of most of the people who are the so-called wealthy, as if they didn’t work a day for their money! They’re just ‘fortunate’…the money that is going to be sent to Washington in the form of higher taxes is going to be spent, my friend. It’s not going to be used to pay down our debt.”

Ingraham is correct that the money didn’t just fall into their laps, and many of them are some combination of hard-working, ambitious, and innovative, but critics to Ingraham’s left would likely point out that they also didn’t make that money in a vacuum, that t hey benefit disproportionately from government-funded infrastructure that they couldn’t hope to pay for on their own.

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  • TruDat

    Watch the hypocritical liberal hacks get all upset because a conservative said it.

  • Obama – The – Destroyer

    Evil at the highest level.

    Barack 0bama.

    America’s Stalin

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    No one cares what you think.  Wait, you didn’t really say anything.  Carry on.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    There are always going to be different points of view from the left and the right. Whether more spending can revive the economy or is it cutting spending. Everyone has an opinion on it. She has the right to hers and opinions are like ***holes everbody has one. More often than not, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

  • Anonymous

    Laura is h-o-t…. and correct.

  • JohnJGuy

    ‘Evil at the highest level.

    Barack 0bama.

    America’s Stalin’

    You’re not taking yourself very seriously are you?A Dictator who massed murdered many with his secret and not so secret police. He exiled and deported millions and sent people to penal colonies. That’s a comparison that can’t be met in the current era by a single dictator. 

    …But your entitled to the opinion…

  • Anonymous

    Crugnale – oh please. The analogy is as bogus as the Bridge to the 21st century was from Clinton/Gore.
    BHO is all hat and no cattle. He gave a campaign speech with re-used ideas that have failed before, and no details. Oh, how the Fu*k can anyone take “eliminating the loopholes” on the Corporate tax code seriously. From this crew – they only know how to raise taxes.
    Jeff Imelt of GE is the “poster boy” for the use of connected lobbyists and adroit manipulation of the tax code, and he is sitting in the gallery ! Asking the Dems to simplify the tax code is like asking Snookey to learn Chinese – it won’t happen.
    No Ingram is absolutely right, the devil is in the details !

  • Anonymous

    There might be a Son of a Bitch in the White House in 2013.

  • TruDat

    Swallow my pride.

  • Wake up America

    Finally, someone brought the curtain down, and it wasn’t the Wizard of oz!!!

  • Yukon Jack

    Every bit as valid as you libs referring G.W.Bush as Hitler.

    But you are entitled to your opinion.

  • Norbit

    Let’s all watch for the contrived “Outrage!” – and throw it right back in their face!

  • Fudge441

    This ditz is obsessed and needs to be exorcised at the very least.

  • Norbit

    Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham went a little Hugo Chavez on President Obama in her criticism of his jobs speech today. Conservatives, indeed, many Americans, were none too pleased when, in 2006, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez referred to then-President George W. Bush as “the devil,” and said he could still smell the sulfur where Bush had stood.
    ====================================

    But Chavez has a kindred, if less extreme, spirit in the White House these days, seriously!

    Tell me Progressives,
    How many countries must balloon (government spending) and burn (when the money runs out) before you abandon the idea?

  • ChrisG

    Yup.

    So you are admitting you and Obama the Destroyer and Laura Ingrahma are the intellectual and emotional equivalent of a crazed Code Pinker blathering on about Bush equaling Hitler.

    Well, at least you are honest.

    I for one, as a liberal, was highly embarrassed by the antics of such idiots.

    Both sides has its own unhinged fringe elements.

    The difference is that republicans are now EMBRACING their fringe.

  • Anonymous

    Calm yourself down.  You do know what they say about blonds?  It fits this one.

  • Anonymous

    Chris, I agree with you completely.  At least the dems own their crazies.  Republicans not so much.

  • Malana

    “How many countries must balloon (government spending) and burn (when the money runs out) before you abandon the idea?”

    All they care about is being on top once the fires are out. That’s the idea or end. The ballooning is just the means.

  • Richie

    ‘The Devil Is Not Just In The White House, It’s In The Details’
    Just your daily does of anger and hate from the Republican Party right here. And some people actually wonder why the secret service has received more threats than ever before in documented presidential history? LOL.

  • Valkyrie101

    Ingram knows the score, and to get any attention among so many commentators you need to say outrageous stuff. And if becoming like Hugo Chavez is what it takes, so be it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    Sorry, no one cares what a third-rate inflamer like LI thinks.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    Again – no one cares.

  • Anonymous

    Laura Ingraham, Kathy Griffin, Ann Coulter, Jeanane Garofalo: Shake them all up in a sack, and you couldn’t recognize what crawled out; but it wouldn’t be pretty.

  • sam

    most rich people DID have the $ fall right into their laps…not an opinion…fact

  • Anonymous

    Excellent point!  Thanks for sharing!

  • Pit Boss

    I’m outraged that this person I’ve never heard of said that about a guy I think is doing a crappy job.

    I personally believe that the real devil is actually doing a lame internet show on something called GBTV.

  • ChrisG

    You sir have NO idea how hard trust fund babies work to make sure they are born into the appropriately wealthy family!

    Take Romney for instance.  From the moment of conception, that zygot was working day and night to make sure he was born into immense wealth!

    The working class folks (leeches) have no idea how easy they have it!

    It’s not exactly easy sitting on your yacht waiting for the dividend check to come in!

  • ChrisG

    Threads like this are great at highlighting the immaturity of the current right.

    As a liberal, I loathed Bush with a passion.

    I never called him “Hitler” and thought that was ridiculous and offensive when I heard it.

    Although I never engaged in the kind vile rhetoric that the right hurls at Obama or that the FAR left hurled at Bush, I’ve nonetheless learned that I was a bit too hard on Bush at times.  I even regret some of my angrier statements and sentiments.

    That’s because I’m always capable of growing.

    SO many on the right, however, will defend the most vile statements against Obama (Hitler, Satan, Stalin, etc…etc..) with the excuse that (some) liberals said vile things about Bush.

    In essense:  “You started it!!!!”

    That is the height of immaturity and hypocrisy.

    If it was wrong when we (at least some of us) did it, it must surely be wrong when you do it.

    Perhaps it’s time to take a good look at yourselves in the mirror.     

  • fanofgrendel

    why are threats funny to you?

  • fanofgrendel

    I think the devil lives in Hollywood. Woman is obviously wrong.

  • Dr

    no one cares what the right wing bitch says

  • NomoBeeHO

    0bama spends years in a church where they spew hate, reserves his harshest language NOT for those who would kill Americans BUT for his political opponents who are AMERICANS, has friends who are union thugs and terrorists, apologizes for America, bows to dictators, verbalizes that he wishes he could rule as do other dictators, kills with impunity (drone missiles), etc, etc, etc.

    Yea, 0bama is EVIL.

    Thank God our democracy is strong and we can still repel the thug-in-chief. But, given the opportunity, I think 0bama is capable of “taking care” of those he considers his enemies.

    God help us (at least 47% of us, Eff the rest).

  • Anonymous

    Laura Ingraham & Ann Coulter have completely cast off any shred of credibility they ever had with conservatives. They have revealed themselves as rancid, repugnant RINOs.

  • Anonymous

    Wack Job, blonde edition.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    The devil is in Laura Ingraham.  What an idiot….

  • Anonymous

    Not at all

  • Anonymous

    Bush was to dumb to equal Hitler

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know about correct but I’d like to see her eat a corn dog one as big as her hands are spread. That would be Hawt

  • Anonymous

     You are all ASS and no JACK
      JackAss

  • Anonymous

    Only if Obama invites him.

  • Victor Noir

    Ingraham is full of rage because she can’t make babies and has to buy her children from the bodega.  As a Catholic, she feels inadequate because she can’t procreate, which is the only reason women exist from the pope’s perspective.  So she channels all her frustration into obsessing about the Obamas, who are fertile and have a great marriage.  So just remember the context of her remarks. 

  • Anonymous

    yes send her to Mr. Bachman

  • Anonymous

    It won’t happen here been doing it since Reagan tripled the National debt and before!

  • Anonymous

    She’s right. You’re wrong. You lose. End of story.

  • Victor Noir

    I’m not saying she’s wrong about working around her infertility.  Hell, if my uterus were a sterile bag, I’d probably go for the cheapest adoption option too.  So really, we agree.  Love ya.

  • Tucsonense

    Grow up and say something instead of calling people names.

  • Anonymous

    Allow me to quote Abraham Simpson:

    “Oh bitch bitch bitch!”

  • Bob

    and the hypocritical conservatives who clutched their pearls and engaged in Dixie Chicks boycotts over the word ‘embarrassed” will cheer on Ingraham’s literal demonization of the commander in chief.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Ed Schultz was right she is a slut.

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    The larger political subtext of Mr. Obama’s speech is that if Congress doesn’t pass his plan, he’ll then campaign against Republicans as obstructionist. Thus his speech mantra that Congress should “pass it right away.” This ignores that Mr. Obama has been the least obstructed President since LBJ in 1965 or FDR in 1933, which is how we got here.He passed $830 billion in stimulus, $3 billion for cash for clunkers, $30 billion in small business loans, $30 billion for mortgage modification, the GM-Chrysler bailouts, ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, credit card price controls, Build America Bonds, jobless benefits for a record 99 weeks, and more.The only priorities that a Democratic Congress blocked were cap-and-tax and union card check, and both of those would have further damaged growth and jobs. Even last December, after Republicans had retaken the House, Mr. Obama won his one-year payroll tax cut, more jobless benefits and most of what he wanted.The unfortunate reality is that even if Republicans gave Mr. Obama everything he wanted, the impact on growth would be modest at best. Washington can most help the economy with serious spending restraint, permanent tax-rate cuts, regulatory relief and repeal of ObamaCare. What won’t help growth is more temporary, targeted political conjuring.

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  • Bob

    Sadly, this lunacy is not a fringe view on the right. It’s held by a good chunk of their talk radio-addicted wingnut base.

  • EveeelBovineHimself

    Idiots like Ingraham need not to vote in the Nov. 2012 election.

    The best way to get rid of the DEVIL is to follow the Baboon to his compound, pray really hard and drink lots of KoolAid.

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Bet you’d love to be the cream in an Ed Shultz/Al Sharpton love twinky!

  • Bob

    “verbalizes that he wishes he could rule as do other dictators”

    How hackneyed you are. One could go through your paranoid list point by point and give you quotes like this:
    “If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” 
    – George W. Bush, Oct. 29, 2002

    “bows to dictators”
    Don’t look now, but:
    http://www.gregpalast.com/wp-content/uploads/bushtheking.jpg
    http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/china2001.jpg

    and so on…

  • Bob

    When you post something like “God help us (at least 47% of us, Eff the rest),” I have to ask:

    Why do you hate America so much?

  • Anonymous

    And I thought she was a Christian.  Maybe her ratings were slipping and she needs to impress her boss Rush.  

  • Norbit

    That would be the Democratic Congress, who never made the billions in spending cuts they assured Reagan they would.

    Look what we have in the WH.

    The Democrats will still LIE about anything! 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ULKC2YMPT7NA7LAK2S32Q65PQY ruth gretzinger

    I have to say, this is a new one on me. usually you libs say we don’t support Obama because we’re racists. this “frustrated woman” meme is refreshingly different–and just as idiotic.

  • Brincar

    didnt she put a garden hose in her ex boyfriend’s living room,? she adopted kids and is not married isnt that against the “conservtive code”..oh i get i t….she’s rich and not on welfare so she gets a break in the court of CON opinion..like Bristol Palin

  • Wizzgaberial

    Your a real idiot ,if you cant accept that she went too far 

  • fyonalon

    She has ‘angry’ permanently turned up to 5, on a scale of 1 – 5, on her internal dial.  She needs to medicate . . . or tate.

  • NomoBeeHO

    My point is

    if you’re an 0bama voter and 0bamanomics have cost you your

    house
    car
    job
    kids respect
    golden years
    health
    friends
    retirement
    self respect

    I say “stupidity has consequences”.

    We told you how it was gonna be with 0bama. You didn’t listen.

    Enjoy tour misery – you’ve earned it.

  • Sharpo

    why are you a poosey?

  • Sharpo

    can I shave your wife?

  • Sharpo

    your wife said it’s okay if i shave her this weekend

  • Sharpo

    why are you anti american?

  • Anonymous

    And man, I have never seen anyone as jealous as she is over Michelle Obama..  get over it lady

  • Anonymous

    lol you gotta fill me in on the living room deal?  what’s that about?

  • Anonymous

    She one of the phony Christians.. she’s just opposite of any Christian I know..

  • Anonymous

    whatever? I’ll take a dozen if they’re wrapped.

  • Anonymous

    (He means they were critical of Sarah Palin)

  • Victor Noir

    Bingo.  The amount of time she spends picking through the first lady’s trash is scary.  I think she’s in love with the president and she can’t process it so she’s lashing out.

  • Victor Noir

    And as an aside to Ms. Gretzinger:  she can’t process it because she’s a racist.  Happy?

  • Anonymous

    …like the bitch that whelped you..

  • Anonymous

    amen. you couldn’t have said that any better.

  • Anonymous

    Can you imagine waking up with each one next to you in the morning.. x3%$@/*7

  • msblkwidow

    It’s clear Laura has no clue about the christian religion.  If she did, she would know that the devil is very powerful…of course not as powerful.  If the devil was actually in the White House, why is he having such a darn awful time getting his way?  This woman is stupid.

  • Anonymous

    James Crugnale: “Ingraham was infuriated at Obama’s suggestion to close tax loopholes for the rich ..”

    Never heard of you, homes, and after a blatant bullshit lie like that, I probably never will again, not even on a hack site like Mediaite.

  • Noone

    How to you think the country got here? Try Cut Taxes to The upper 2% and spend every dime you can get your hands on, finance a war and spend all the surplus in the coffers from the 90′s. Who was that? And then the republican party and all of its Paid media blames it on the other guy. To sad. Politics is about compromise and finding middle ground, living together as one country united not divided, calling each other names and finger pointing instead of finding solutions. Don’t you think everyone deserves health care? ever been with out? I don’t think we did enough on health care.

  • Glutton

    I think Laura is a smart lady.  She actually does a better job of doing the Factor than O’Reilly.  She takes on  hardline positions and holds her own in most debates.  I usually disagree with her but she’s one of the few pundits that actually make valid points instead of just going back to talking points.

  • Glutton

    I don’t think Bush was the brightest president, but he wasn’t dumber than Hitler.  The end result of Nazi Germany was way worse than the end of the Bush administration.

  • Anonymous

    Is she going to apologize as Ed was made to apologize to her. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DJQECYTY4MCQKPHROSGH36FISQ Ernesto

    Lets remember that Hugo Chavez was a foreigner putting down the President of a country he was visiting while Laura Ingraham is a citizen having more of a right to criticize her President. The devil is a deceiver and we have constant deception from Obama: fake social security number & birth certificate, said he was going to bring troops home when elected but expanded their tours and started a third war with Libya, was going to cap unemployment but it shot up over 9%, was going to stabilize the economy with the bailouts/stimulus but same high unemployment and its worse for blacks, record number of people on food stamps now, appointed more unconstitutional Czars than anyone else and so on… 

  • Rebeccawriteswords

    In my eyes, the Congressional do-nothings, who refuse to help the citizens of the country who are suffering — middle class citizens who WERE working just as hard as Laura Ingraham has ever worked in her life — are pure evil.  Their motivation is evil — do anything to the detriment of the country to make President Obama a one-term president.  And the birth and direction of the ultra conservative, evangelical tea partiers was an evil event as well.  No one will ever convince me it isn’t rooted in racism.  I am ashamed you are being nose led by the wealthy, selfish, silver-spooned funders of these treasonous energies.  And to your own detriment if you are middle class or lower middle class.

    And what began all the suffering?  The tax cuts, deregulation, and senseless, hugely expensive war mongering of the previous administration.  Read “Too Big to Fail” by Andrew Ross Sorkin.  And study the Great Depression. The vast majority of economists agree the only way out of an economic crisis is to stimulate the economy with jobs based on infrastructure repair and development.  Did you notice how quiet and reasonable Eric Cantor seemed before and after the President’s speech.  It’s because he got the message loud and clear during his month of recess that Americans would like to get rid of the whole of the Congress, but most especially the Tea Party representatives and senators, because they accomplish nothing and block everything … even some of their own previously supported legislation … if the President decides to support their ideas.  I weep for the bigotry in my country.

  • Sparkle125

    The roots of all you site do not reside with this administration.  They reside with the previous administration.  Re-read my post above

  • Snooki

    So, I suppose you are a big Rick Perry supporter.  You know he blithely signed off on the execution of at least one innocent man — and there was scientific proof that exonerated him before he was executed.  He canceled a meeting that would have presented that evidence so the whole thing could just be buried … like the innocent man.  Then too Rick Perry doesn’t believe in science much.  Were you cheering when the debate audience “hoo-rayed and clapped” because Rick Perry has executed more prisoners than any previous governor, ever.  What kind of voters are those people?  Blood-thirsty and proud of it, I guess.

    And yet you think President Obama was evil to send drones to Libya to stop a massacre?  Do you remember Rwanda?  President Clinton regrets to this day not doing something about that genocide.  President Obama didn’t want to have the same regrets.  I simply do not understand the hate in this country for a good and honorable man.  Has he ever acted less than gentlemanly?  Has he ever shown he is anything but a wonderful, loving husband and father?  Does he reply to idiots like Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin who drip with hate when they speak of him?  This is not the country I was brought up in.  People did not behave like uneducated, Neanderthals, until ten years ago.

  • JohnJGuy

    Calm down.

    I’ve never referred to GW as Hitler, that would just be silly Jack.

  • Anonymous

    The guy whose ‘Most Fortunate’ is Lurch–John Kerry–who married into wealth and now tries to hide his ‘richness’ from taxation. He’s the Effing idiot who tried to hide his yacht (a ‘corporate jet’ on water) in Rhode Island so it wouldn’t be subject to Massachusetts taxation.

    He’s the UGLIEST asshole ever to waddle around the Senate. The haughty, insufferable John ‘I Served in Viet Nam’ Kerry.

  • Norbit

    …consolidates his Government control by using our tax dollars to buy influence & support from the likes of Immelt/GE/NBC, SEIU, Goldman-Sachs, Soros, the Unions, environmental extremists, et al.

    He’s a Hugo-Wannabe!

  • Valkyrie101

    James said: “Ingraham is correct that the money didn’t just fall into their laps, and many of them are some combination of hard-working, ambitious, and innovative, but critics to Ingraham’s left would likely point out that they also didn’t make that money in a vacuum, that they benefit disproportionately from government-funded infrastructure that they couldn’t hope to pay for on their own.”

    That is correct. If the upper 1% of the population owns like 50% of our overall wealth, then they should be paying an appropriate share of our overall national expenses that protect that wealth.

  • Valkyrie101

    I fear that Ingram is one of those Christians that believes that the wealthy are wealthy because they are better or more loved by God than other people.

  • Valkyrie101

    Kerry may have married into his money, but is that any different than the majority of rich people who inherited their money? And you may like to make fun of his military service, but he did go to Viet Nam to fight for his country, and for that he should be thanked.

  • Norbit

    Then that money will be going from the frying pan into the fire. If Government gets its hands on it, it’ll do more harm than keeping it in the private sector.

    What we need is a redacting of our entire socio-economic compensation system, and an end to the incestuous relationship between Government and special-interest lobby groups..

  • Norbit

    Then that money will be going from the frying pan into the fire. If Government gets its hands on it, it’ll do more harm than keeping it in the private sector.

    What we need is a redacting of our entire socio-economic compensation system, and an end to the incestuous relationship between Government and special-interest lobby groups..

  • Norbit

    That’s absurd, but I’m afraid too many Conservatives believe that the Free Market is still free - it’s not.

    It’s controlled by manipulative government regulations and tax codes on one side, and manipulative finance machinations on the other.

  • http://www.noneedforastinkingwebsite.com dow daytrader

    typical liberal tripe…BLAME the hard working taxpayer.  IT’S not the government’s money Mediaette!! Income is part of our personal property…it belongs to US.  After giving u guys (Federal govt) 15% or 20% you’re on your own;  work with what you have before sticking your hand out for mrore.

    47% of the population depends of government handouts in one form or in another,
    only 49% of the people pay income taxes,
    3% of the citizens pay over 50% of the income tax,the component in GDP of the Federal Government grew from 20% to over 25% under his watch. 

  • PrezOworst

    apparantly the independent and swing voters do.  Seen the Loser Obama diving poll numbers.  Wake up Liberals  your lies have been exposed.  Your Pres seen as the empty vessel that he is.

  • PrezOworst

    no cares about what this LOSER Prez says but wacko handout liberals.

  • PrezOworst

    those (his) unions should wear brown shirts, they already carry knives and bats,  Obama only needs to steal a little more power.

  • PrezOworst

    Could this loser liberal Prez be any more unamerican?  well yes he can.

  • JohnJGuy

    …Wow!

    I actually agree with that comment. 

    Although, government regulations marginally go back and forth depending on whose in power and the particular climate. Finance machinations I wholly agree never seem to lose.

  • Valkyrie101

    If we were all adrift in a boat and one person owned all the provisions do you think it would be right if he refused to share? And if the other people in the boat held a democratic vote and concluded that the man with the food must share, would you complain? Far better for the man with the provisions to cast his lot with the others before it is taken away by force.

  • Valkyrie101

    That’s not true. The government spending money stimulates the economy. That is not deniable. Likewise the private sector spending money stimulates the economy. But what happens if the money is stock piled or otherwise not spent? The economy will not be stimulated. That is what is happening via the tax structure that we have (the lowest taxes in like 60 years) with a small percentage of people catching a windfall and stockpiling most of the money, often in off shore banks, or alternatively, by spending it in other countries.

  • Valkyrie101

    That’s not true. The government spending money stimulates the economy. That is not deniable. Likewise the private sector spending money stimulates the economy. But what happens if the money is stock piled or otherwise not spent? The economy will not be stimulated. That is what is happening via the tax structure that we have (the lowest taxes in like 60 years) with a small percentage of people catching a windfall and stockpiling most of the money, often in off shore banks, or alternatively, by spending it in other countries.

  • Brincar

    allegedly they had a disagreement .. she went to his home and put the hose thru his window and turned on the water..i don’t know if this is the same one that left her after she diagnosed with cancer.
    i also agree she seems OBSESSED with whatever the first lady does..i personally think she has a problem with men..she talks about her adopted children but NEVER about her personal life i.e. Dating…just sayin’

  • Brincar

    allegedly they had a disagreement .. she went to his home and put the hose thru his window and turned on the water..i don’t know if this is the same one that left her after she diagnosed with cancer.
    i also agree she seems OBSESSED with whatever the first lady does..i personally think she has a problem with men..she talks about her adopted children but NEVER about her personal life i.e. Dating…just sayin’

  • Norbit

    The problem would be in the system that enabled one person to own all the provisions!

  • Anonymous

    Half of Reagans time in office he had a republican congress!

  • Valkyrie101

    I guess you would be joking with that comment. But in any event, a healthy system is intended to benefit all people, not just one or a few. Go back and read what the Pilgrims agreed to: 

    “… in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.”

  • Anonymous

    I like a lot of Laura Ingram’s opinions, but this devil in the White House remark is worthy of MSNBC standards.

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     Top Down-Basic Values-Basic Priorities
    Democrats win overwhelmingly
    Republicans can run only on Abortion–Gay Marriage-Rich
    Democrats win on Economics-Foreign Affairs
    Republican Party of Top Few Rich
    Democratic Party of Middle Class and Underprivileged
    Republican Party for 10 Million Workers
    Democratic Party for 140 Million workers
    PROOF—
    JOBS–1921 to 2009–Republican Presidents created 800,000 Jobs per year–Democratic Presidents created 1,800,000 per year. Twice as Many.
    Carter + Clinton created 222,000 per month in 12 years
    Reagan + Bush + Bush created 99,000 per month
    FOREIGN AFFAIRS–Carter + Clinton “initiated” our involvement in “not one” foreign conflict in 12 years
    Reagan + Bush + Bush initiated our involvement in 10 foreign conflicts getting hundreds of thousands of innocents killed.

    Want Peace on Earth–Elect Democrats
    Want Prosperous Equality elect Democrats

    1945-1980 The 35 years of a Great Middle Class build up.
    1980-2010–The 30 years of a Decline in Middle Class prosperity and great increase in Top Few prosperity-

    PROOF–
    Today 5% own 62% Net Wealth-80% own 15%
    20% own 93% Financial Wealth–80% own 7%-
    25% take 67% all Individual Income–70M take 13%

    The transfer of Wealth and Income was a deliberate policy of Republican Flush up Trickle down ..
    PROOF
    Three Republican Presidents1980-2009
    Took 600B budget to 3600B
    Took under 1000B of Debt to 10,000B
    Took creation of 218,00 net new jobs per month down to 99,000 or just enough to cover new entries into the work
    force
    Took a 240B Surplus into a 1400B Deficit in 8 years
    Took a 10,800 Dow to a 8080 Dow.
    Destroyed our Housing Industry for years
    Destroyed the world financial industry with Casino Derivative Gambling and sale of Toxic securities.
    Took us into two horrid stupid dumb idiotic wars with invasion of two of the ,most “destitute” and most “unarmed” nation on earth creating a Hell On Earth for Americans and hatred by 1500 Million of a different religion. Plus the hatred of millions who observed our Shock & Awe attack on an innocent people based on 935 well documented lies by our President and 11 members of his staff selling a lie to us

    What would be our perception had it been done by Russia or China?
    clarence swinney political historian lifeaholics of america
    comments welcome cswinney2@triad.rr.com
    burlington nc
    author-Lifeaholic-success by working for a life not just a Living

  • Anonymous

     Clinton to Bush to Obama
    Who Dug the Deep Hole? Who Fumbled the ball?
    Numbers rounded

    Clinton left Bush an 1800B Budget
    Bush Left Obama a 3500 Budget

    Clinton left Bush a 240B Surplus as far as the eye can see
    Bush left Obama a 1400B Deficit as far as the eye can see

    Clinton left Bush 5,700B of Debt
    Bush left Obama 11,800B of Debt

    Clinton left Bush a 237,000 net new jobs created per month
    Bush left Obama a 31,000 lowest number since Hoover.

    Clinton left Bush 17 Million Manufacturing Jobs
    Bush left Obama 11 Million Manufacturing Jobs

    Clinton left Bush a 10,800 Dow
    Bush left Obama an 8028 Dow

    Clinton left Bush Peace on Earth Good Will From Most Men
    Bush left Obama Hell on Earth Two disastrous wars. Enmity of 1500 Million Muslims

    Clinton left Bush a President most highly rated of any peacetime President in Asia, Africa, Europe.
    Bush left Obama the most hated President in history
    Bush left Obama an Housing Tsunami and Financial Volcano
    Bush left Obama, in 2008, an 8500B Bail out commitment Yes! 8500 not just 700
    Bush left Obama his Takeover of Fannie/Freddie, AIG, and first bailout of Chrysler
    Bush increased maximum loan by Fannie/Freddie from $300,000 to $729,000
    Bush increased FDIC maximum deposit coverage from $100,000 to $250,000
     clarence swinney–political historian–lifeaholics of america burlington nc
    author-Lifeaholic–Life story of Workaholic failure to Lifeaholic success
    Best seller list in haw river nc population 200 and growing
    comments welcome at cswinney2@triad.rr.com facts -numbers not opinion

  • Anonymous

     WRECKONOMICS II REV 7-12-10
    COURTESY :WALL STREET OF AMERICA
    LEADERSHIP VIA CONSERVATIVE POLICIES
    THANKS TO RONALD REAGAN AND G W BUSH

    From 1946 to 1980 the period was known as the GREAT MIDDLE CLASS YEARS
    Each President worked to reduce the Debt from WWII.
    In 1980 Debt was less than 1000 Billion and Government Spending was 600 Billion per year.

    Reagan boastful Cut Taxes plus Cut the size of Government was a Trojan Horse, per his OMB Stockman, to cut Taxes for very rich.

    Reagan was Governor for 8 years during which he increased Taxes on many items.
    He increased the state revenues more than any predecessor.
    By Far. Cutting Government? Ho Hum. Blarney Baloney once more.

    Reagan policies increased Spending by 80% .
    Debt by 186%.
    9-30-81 Debt was $999.9 Billion and 9-30-89 at $1,859 Billion
    Conservatives use Spin: It was Congress.
    From 1930 to 1980 we spent $6066 Billion.
    Reagan 8 Budgets totaled over $7000 Billion.
    Congress? Ho Hum.
    Blarney Baloney.
    Congress returned Reagan 8 budgets for his signature with
    fewer total dollars on them.
    Haynes Johnson in “sleepwalking” said Reagan administration was “most scurrilous in history”
    138 were investigated /charged/fined. More than total for all preceding Presidents in 20th century.
    There were scandals in 27 Departments of the Federal Government.
    Most involved money fraud.
    The book “Ronald Reagan-There he goes again” documents over 300 incorrect statements by good old Ron.
    Each President from 1945 reduced the Debt then came Spend-Borrow Reagan
    to increase government by 80%.

    THEN-Here comes GHW BUSH.
    No braggart here. Nice Gentleman.
    He increased Debt to $4411 Billion.
    A 54% Increase.
    Give him credit for increasing Tax on Rich due to out of control Deficits.
    He had courage to put America first over ideology and party.

    THEN-Pay your Way CLINTON ARRIVES
    The Debt on 9-30-1993 was $4411 Billion.
    The Debt on 9-30-01 was $5807 Billion.
    An increase of $1396 or 31%
    He ended with a surplus.

    HERE comes old King of Spend-Borrow GW BUSH
    Debt was $5807 Billion and on 9-30-09 it was $11,909 Billion.
    105% increase.
    Reagan-186%
    Bush I-54%
    Clinton-31%
    Bush II-105%
    Reagan-Bush I-Bush II did not pay down a penny of debt in 20 years
    Those Three Famous Conservatives added $10,946 Billion to our Debt.
    Three so called Famous “conservatives” promoted cut government
    Up = Down to them.
    INTEREST ON DEBT
    9-30-81 to 9-30-09 we paid $8400 Billion in Interest.
    87% Interest Paid on Debt incurred by the Famous 3.

    Is it not possible(no) that without Reagan + Bush Tax Cuts we would enjoy a Surplus?

    REDISTRIBUTION DOWN TO MIDDLE CLASS
    Increase Unearned Income Tax to 40%. Make Gamblers pay.
    Increase Top Income Tax Rate to 40%
    Increase Estate Tax big time big time biggie
    Eliminate Loopholes on Corporate profits—Set a Minimum
    2008 -16% average payment-(top rate 35%)

    In 2003 distribution of corporate profits by CBO report revealed
    Bottom 80% of Income earners got 8%–Top 5% got 67%—Top 1% got 49%
    2009 Tax Return of Exxon pays no tax on billions in profits. Wrong. Sad.
    2007—Exxon paid no tax. Got a Refund.
    2010—Exxon Profit 45 Billion. Let us see if pay a tax?
    Renew Revenue Sharing to return cost to rich from middle class

    Clarence Swinney
    Political historian since 1991 on Reagan-Clinton-Bush II administrations.
    Lifeaholics Of America — old n ugly but honest mad mad mad at Inequality in Amrica
    Author-Lifeaholic-Work for a Life not just a Living—Workaholic to Lifeaholic
    Author-forthcoming– title not decided—How Democrats created a Great Middle Class and Wall Street Rich Conservatives are determined to destroy it
    Many Stats from 12-6-09 polidose.com article by John Lucia “The National Debt:Betrayal and Devastation
    Comments and corrections welcome at cswinney2@triad.rr.com I do err.

  • Anonymous

     Comparing Democrat’s hero-CLINTON—versus Republican’s hero–REAGAN
    ———————————————————————————————————–

    1.JOBS—grew by 43% more under Clinton.
    2.GDP—grew by 57% more under Clinton.
    3.DOW—grew by 700% more under Clinton..
    4.MARKET CAP INCREASE—Clinton + 330%–Reagan + 136%
    5.NASDAQ-grew by 18 times as much under Clinton.
    6.S&P500—grew by 370% under Clinton and 140% under Reagan
    7.SPENDING–grew by 28% under Clinton—80% under Reagan.
    8.DEBT—grew by 43% under Clinton—187% under Reagan.
    9. DEFICITS—Clinton got a large surplus–grew by 112% under Reagan.
    10.NATIONAL INCOME—grew by 100% more under Clinton.
    11.PERSONAL INCOME—grew by 110% more under Clinton.
    12.MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME-grew by 75% more under Clinton
    13. DEFENSE BUDGETED-Clinton -2311B—Reagan-2062B (current $)
    14.UNEMPLOYMENT—AVG—Clinton 5.2%–Reagan 7.6%
    (I admit averaging averages can be dumb. I dumb.)
    SOURCES—Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.BLS.Gov)–Economic Policy Institute (EPI.org)—Global & World Almanacs from 1980 to 2003 (annual issues)
    http://www.the-hamster.com (chart taken from NY Times)
    National Archives History on Presidents. http://www.nara.gov
    LA Times 10-11-00 on Market–www.Find articles.com
    Federal Budget.Com 2009

    A vote for a Conservative is a vote for Less Success.
    A vote to reduce the Standard of Living for all Americans.

    Recall 1920’s and Wall Street under Conservative control?
    Recall 2000-2008 and Wall Street under Conservative control?

    Want more of those years? It will take many years to recover.

    cswinney2@triad.rr.com
    political historian
    Lifeaholics Of America
    author-unpublished
    “All American Party”
    How Democrats created a great Middle Class
    and Conservatives are determined to destroy it

  • Anonymous

    Another Rat-Wing eunuch speaks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1348434457 Ali Vonal

    You mean Faux Snews, right? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1348434457 Ali Vonal

    Laura terorrist fist bump Ingraham has no credibility with intelligent people. So, who cares? 

  • Anonymous

    You’re an idiot.

  • Anonymous

    ANother idiot speaks.

  • Anonymous

    The top 5% pay 95% of the federal taxes. Sounds fair to me.

  • Anonymous

    The majority of rich people inherited their money? Can you back that up with facts?

  • Anonymous

    Apologize for what?

  • Tparadigm

    Has anyone taken not of the fact that the commentators and on-air staff of Fox News are all in the $250 K + category that will be loosing their loopholes and paying more taxes.  Does anoyone believe that these people are creating and new jobs?  Does anyone believe that they are innovating anything other than screwball catch phrases.  And what about the tens of thousands of lobbist that are far into the high income stata?  What new jobs are they creating?  What are they innovating except more wealth for themselves and their clients?  Come on, folks.  Think about who’s hollering the loudest and what they have to gain personally.  How many of you will face higher tax bills if the loopholes for those making over a quater of a million are removed?  What will you gain personally.  And what new jobs have these “job creators” actually created in the 8 years they have had these breaks? 

  • Anonymous

    You’re a pitiful excuse for a human being.

  • Anonymous

    WRONG!!!!  Democrats controlled the House of Representatives from 1954 thru 1994.

  • Anonymous

    polls are for strippers and fire fighters

  • Anonymous

    laura is a loud-mouth, intimidating bleached blonde know-it-all, that for some reason, people are afraid to cross. She should know plenty about the Devil, she exhibits his qualities on a daily basis, with her big and bad talk. And her credentials are what?  FOX?  ahahahahahahahahah. She’s one of billy the bull o’reilly’s little fillies. She likes to shoot the crap, but doesn’t like it when it lands on her.  Too bad.

  • Anonymous

    My thoughts exactly. . . . .

  • Jt

    I’m massively against government spending, for the rich and poor, I’m not taking some side here, I’m for a flat percentage tax that is based on the exchange of money, not income. Something that won’t allow the government to come out with over half the money every time it changes hands (company income tax, individual income tax, often more as material changes hands between companies during manufacture).

    But to think you deserve special privilege, when you have that much money, you already live basically whatever life you want, and you think that you have to hold on to a higher percent than someone who works at McDonalds and barely gets by!!!! The top 20% of people control 93% of the money!!!! The top 1% of people have 42% of it!! RIDICULOUS FUCKTONS OF MONEY. Yet that’s not enough for you, you have to tax us for 50% of our income while you happily pay 10% or even none. It’s FUCKING ABSURD and you are a SELFISH BITCH.

  • Valkyrie101

    In the end, the tax rate means absolutely nothing. All that matters is the net amount left over after taxes. If the top 5% paid 95% of the taxes and still had 95% of our national wealth in their pocket, then that would indeed be fair. Don’t you agree?

  • Valkyrie101

    Think about it, black. When you were born, did you have the ability to take care of your self? Everything you have now, your knowledge, your wealth, your good looks, all were inherited by you from your forerunners. Anyone who says they are self made is not really thinking about it since we are all born on the founation of others.

  • Common Sense please.

    Type your comment here. Sounds Like Fox news to me. Some bimbos may consider it their church.

  • common sense

    Fox news commentators will say or do anything for more money. Every time they dream up a new zinger for the Dems, they get bonus’s.

  • Anonymous

    You have got to be one of the most misinformed person I have read yet.  You are watching way to much Hannity and listening to much Rush.  Go do some research and understand the points you just outlined.  I don’t know if people like you are ingnorant or in denial as to the seriousness of what was created in the Bush administration.  This country is in uncharted areas economically speaking.  There will be many economics text rewritten once we get this behind us.  In your research focus on the bailouts and what the impact would have been without them.  Then go to the stimulus and understand what this prevented and stop listen to these talk show idiots.

  • Anonymous

    Obamo is demonizing (with pitchforks and wagging fingers) people who EARNED their money rather than inherited it. Obamo makes no distinction; he just lumps ‘millionaires and billionaires’ together without realizing that he’s president because many of them are his pals…Immelt, Soros, Olbermann, MadCow, Matthews, Algore…Leftists all.

  • Valkyrie101

    A handful of people control most of our national private sector wealth. That is the problem, not people who earn just hundreds of thousands. At the rate we are going, 1 person may own it all in just a few decades. That is evidence of a flawed system.

  • Victor Noir

    Dear Mark,

    I am confused.  I read a comment of yours in which you criticized people who “come up with the most outrageous name calling of people with whom they disagree.”  You said, “It’s truly sad because they lose all credibility when they engage in such idiocy.”  (Newshounds, December 5, 2008 10:37 AM).  And now here you are calling me names because you disagree with me.  So what you’re really saying, according to you, is that you’re truly sad, you’re an idiot, and you have no credibility.  My advice to you would be to lay off the poppers.  They’re bad for the ticker (and we know yours is on its last legs) and they can make you embarrass yourself in public.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DJQECYTY4MCQKPHROSGH36FISQ Ernesto

    Your posting is subjective. Clinton did start a military conflict war with the Serbs/Croatia conflict. He also had a Republican Congress when he almost balanced the budget. WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, I already mentioned Clinton’s military conflict, and Obama’s Libyan war were all started under a Democrat President in office. The defict keeps getting bigger no mater if a Democrat or Republican is in office. Obama voted for the defict spending of Bush and other things you assail. Bottom line no one should have any allegiance to any political party because the main two have wrecked our economy and that is why groups like the tea Party have arisen and there are more independents then Democrats or Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    When I was growing up, I remember our teachers saying;
    “When you hear something you don’t agree with, it may be totally false, so
    analyze and consider the source, then toss it out of your mind”. That is
    just what I did with Laura Ingraham’s rant about Obama’s speech. On her radio
    show, she probably read a script some radical writer wrote for her to read over
    the air waves. For her contribution, she was paid way in excess of what the
    average income for the job should be and to promote a better and more honest
    broadcast, watchdog groups should search out and stay on top of falsehood
    broadcasting and expose all of their tactics, falsehoods, annual earnings and
    anything else which would expose them for what they are. You can find a lot
    about all of them on google.com.

  • Anonymous

    And what name did I call you? I merely stated my opinion based your ignorant remarks concerning Ingraham. You have no idea if she is full of rage or whether she feels inadequate. 

    Go back to licking Brodsky’s boots.

  • Victor Noir

    In English, when we say, “You are a _________ ,” it means we are calling the person something, or, in the vernacular, calling the person “a name.”  So if I say, “Blackflon is a pitcher,” or, “Blackflon is a catcher,” I am calling you names.  When you say, “You’re a pitiful excuse for  human being,” you’re calling me a name.  Isn’t English fun? 

  • Tan

    Bravo, much agreed.

    Perry supporters simply don’t care that he executed innocents. I actually heard one supporter say to a reporter that ‘hey, it takes real guts to execute an innocent man!’ and then he laughed! Yeah, these people are disgusting. They just don’t think like the rest of us that are horrified at the thought of an innocent person being killed (and most definitely short on the hurrahs regarding the guilty, too!).

  • Anonymous

    No typo. I meant MSNBC left.

  • Anonymous

    Remember that, folks. Government people are soooo lazy that they don’t work when they are on vacation.

  • Cooldiago

    James Crugnale, are you a registered communist?

  • Anonymous

    Obama is the biggest most imminent threat that America has ever faced in it’s entire history. If we can take down this one man and prevent him from turning us into those godless heathens over in Europe then we can save America, and therefore the entire world. Once Obama is defeated every single one of our problems will be solved, chocolate will fall from the sky, rainbows will heal the sick, and Jesus will come down and BBQ us all cheeseburgers. 

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