Way to fire up the base, Gibby!

Tommy wrote:
“I would quarrel, also , with the idea that the “professional left” wants “Canadian healthcare” and to “eliminate the Pentagon.””

I agree. The average liberal wants to live in Canada and blow up the Pentagon.

Gibbs still does not get it…it is called “the un-professional left.”‘

Tommy doesn’t understand who he is….In the big picture, I have to say, I’m mostly with Gibbs on this one. Tommy replace the word “mostly with Gibbs on this one” with the words “a lap-dog for Obama and Gibbs.”

If they’re smart, conservatives will pop some corn, pull up a chair, and let them duke it out. If liberals are smart…we love watching Democrats fighting Democrats. It is like watching a wrestling match with two losers and no winners!

Wait, Tommy is “with Gibbs” on this one?
I’m shocked.
Hey, Tommy, have you EVER removed your head from Obama’s ass?

In the big picture, I have to say, I’m mostly with Gibbs on this one. The energetic base that swept Obama into office did so with a truckload of unrealistic expectations.

And where did those expectations come from, TC? The left shot themselves in the foot when they billed BO as, “The one we’ve been waiting for”. There’s only one man who could live up to those expectations and it’s NOT Obama.

“Most liberals favor a common-sense approach to a strong national defense”

I love it when T.C. strives for comedy…He’s like Shecky Green on quaaludes…although Shecky has better hair.

Yeah, the “most liberals favor a common-sense approach on strong national defense” was one of the best jokes I’ve heard in a while. Liberals & national defense don’t belong in the same sentence. The left’s idea of national defense is to blame America & hope for the best.

Michelle: It was was actually The One himself who said, “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”. You know in the same speech where he said he was going to “heal the planet”, do something about the oceans and walk on water. Looking back, it’s pretty amazing the words that came out of his mouth. Even worse, the MSM sold and called anyone who disagreed, a “racist”.

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lonestar77 said:
Michelle: It was was actually The One himself who said, “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”. You know in the same speech where he said he was going to “heal the planet”, do something about the oceans and walk on water. Looking back, it’s pretty amazing the words that came out of his mouth. Even worse, the MSM sold and called anyone who disagreed, a “racist”.

hey lonestar….your reference to walking on water reminded me of another who brought up Supreme Being type rhetoric to describe this good campaigner/ awful leader….. hmmm, where did I see that? Oh yeah….right there in shills…um Tommy’s piece….

” it’s a miracle Obama has gotten anything done.”

JournOlism 101….

btw… let’s make something abundantly clear…. ‘the Prez’s own party’ consists of numerous moderate democrats who campaigned on CONSERVATIVE principles. They likely would not have won majorities if they had relied on that far left ‘base’ that Tommy referred to. I’d say it’s a leap to give them all the credit/ blame for ‘sweeping’ Obama into office as fiscal conservatism played a big role in securing the independents and swing voters but….. that is another argument.

What I want to address is the proclivity of libs to say that the 2006 and 2008 elections gave them some kind of fictional MANDATE to institute liberal policies. That’s absolutely false. Some would like to blame specific members of COTUS for failures and/ or compromises. They castigate these elected officials simply for representing the constituency who hired them.

This is a REPRESENTATIVE government and the Will of The People is not to be subverted. THAT’S THE REASON the libs had to compromise. THAT’S THE REASON they had to pull every single trick outta da hat to get that awful HC Bill passed. And THAT’S THE REASON the ‘sweeping’ will continue in November.

btw…about ‘reconciliation’…. you libs really have set the bar low. From now on, no more screaming about THE NUCLEAR OPTION and “50 plus 1″ governing. When that shoe gets on the other foot… and it will soon enough… the manufactured outrage will be legendary.

Just remember who made the rules. If you didn’t object to the way they passed the HC BILL, then you shouldn’t object to the way it will be repealed.

Gibbs was talking about leftwingers not liberals. Just as there are conservatives and rightwingers, there are liberals and leftwingers.

A leftwinger is someone like, well, like Tommy Christopher. A liberal is someone like EJ Dionne, Jr.

Big difference.

I’m just surprised Gibbs, hasn’t called them racists yet. Maybe that’s only reserved for Conservatives that disagree with him.

Obama is a centrist and only the extreme right can’t see that. I’m sorry, the uneducated right.

“Most liberals favor a common-sense approach to a strong national defense”

The odd thing about this statement is the implication that the Obama Administration is either not liberal or does not favor a common-sense approach to a strong national defense, neither of which suggestions I assume the author agrees with–so one is left to wonder exactly what the author’s point was in writing it in the first place.

tjl said:
Obama is a centrist and only the extreme right can’t see that. I’m sorry, the uneducated right.

And CBS.

tjl says:
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Obama is a centrist and only the extreme right can’t see that. I’m sorry, the uneducated right.

Without even realizing it, tjl stumbled onto the whole reason Tommy and his buddy Bahgdad Bob Gibbs are talking about this. They are trying to make Obama appear to be a centrist and not the radical leftist he is. Nice try boys!! We know exactly who BO is. If you don’t, just read his books and educate yourselves!!

The Whine House.

So now that it’s been established that they’ve gotten no credit whatsoever selling out to corporate interests and kissing conservative’s a__es to gain one or two votes, maybe they’ll start manning up and governing according to the will of the American people.

Instead of changing policies in a progressive manner that serves the country best, Obama splits the difference and never fails to bash his base. That’s really worked out well, hasn’t it Gibby?

Wouldn’t “manning up and governing according to the will of the American people”–besides being an abdication of leadership–also mean drifting far further to the right of mainstream Democrats? Understandably, Dems consistently poll to the left of what’s colloquially considered the center of American politics.

‘I’m just surprised Gibbs, hasn’t called them racists yet. Maybe that’s only reserved for Conservatives that disagree with him.”

ah some choice race baiting(michelle just couldn’t wait to play the reace card on anissue that has nothing to do with race but for some conservatives no matter this issue race is all they care about). Perhaps one can equate this to constantly mentioning somebody’s religion?

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?

Naw that might mean you’re a loathsome hypocrite.

Baby Bootie, like it or not, the left admitted that calling those who disagree with BO racist WAS their plan.

Don’t shoot the messenger!!

apf,

Not hardly, on issue after issue the public supports programs to the left where this triangulator Obama governs from. Just one example, where was Obama when over two thirds of the public supported both a “public option” and drug re-importation?

In the back room cutting deals with the powers that be, that’s where. Right after cutting a deal to let the Telecoms spy on Americans.

“Update II: Gibbs clarifies to Sam Stein, calls original remarks “inartful.””

He calls them inartful, then proceeds to blame the media and George Bush. This administration is an absolute disgrace. Do they have any professionals over there? Or, does everybody just spend their time playing basketball and hanging out with has-been celebrities?

“Don’t shoot the messenger!!”

Ah yes-do as I say not as I do-of course you would say that. Didn’t see that comming.

Jim Treacher said:
The Whine House.

Where they create their own ‘stories’ out of thin whine….. to be reported by leftwing hack ‘reporters’ drunk on Whine House kool-aid.

@Jim R – [re: polling on issues vs ideology] I think it likely depends on how you phrase the question; typically people want everything under the sun, but when you begin to add the caveats and consequences that would be the outcome of transitioning an idea from whitepaper to actual enacted policy, those numbers tend to shift dramatically. But point taken. My ultimate point was to note that leading by the numbers means that ideologically speaking, that would equal being more conservative than the Democratic party.

Quite true, apf, point taken. It’s been the case since Reagan that “average” folks in the median income range lean conservative in generic polls while averaging anywhere from 2/3 to 3/4 approval of individual progressive or liberal issues.

The result are milquetoast triangulating politicians, at least since Democrats were forced to sellout after Buckley; truly gifted no doubt judging by the last two, who nonetheless bring us harmful Republican-lite wet dreams like Nafta, Welfare “Reform”, gutting Glass-Steagall, no regulation of credit default swaps, the 96′ Telecommunications Act that has consolidated all information in the hands of five or six unaccountable corporations – and now Clinton Redux is not only embracing many Bush/Cheney warr on terra tactics so Republicans won’t be big lying meanies to him, he looks like a punk doing it. And forget turning over Wall Street reform to the insane criminals that destroyed the economy in the first place, everyone knows Geithner and Summers should be testifying, not administrating.

Obama’s exactly wrong for this time. It is not a come together moment but a lost opportunity to once and for all show America how stupid it has been for forty years to support repeatedly failed conservatives and their anti-American, authoritarian worlldview.

Now it’s too late, just watch. Here we go again to the real bottom when the wackos take over again. Clinton had 1,052 Republican Congressional investigations into his administration. I’ll start counting in February, 2011.

I do not like Robert Gibbs because I do not like evasive weasels. However, I’ve been saying for some time how I actually pity Gibbs; he has to stand up in front of the world and defend the indefensible -0bama regime. Now, that he’s managed to piss off some of the more whacko left by defending his Messiah, the proverbial bus has begun circling the White House, and any number of people are looking for an opportunity to throw him under it. Will it be Reid or Pelosi who eventually does the dastardly deed? Will it be the parting shot of Chris Dood? We shall see, but mark this down: Gibbs WILL be thrown under the bus.

pyrope said:
I do not like Robert Gibbs because I do not like evasive weasels. However, I’ve been saying for some time how I actually pity Gibbs; he has to stand up in front of the world and defend the indefensible -0bama regime. Now, that he’s managed to piss off some of the more whacko left by defending his Messiah, the proverbial bus has begun circling the White House, and any number of people are looking for an opportunity to throw him under it. Will it be Reid or Pelosi who eventually does the dastardly deed? Will it be the parting shot of Chris Dood? We shall see, but mark this down: Gibbs WILL be thrown under the bus.

The WH is more stupid than EVEN I thought if they let him go. Who could possibly do his impossible job better than he? Connecting the dots between this administrations policies/ practices and ‘not-crazy’ is no small feat…. and Gibbs does it every damned day.

They’ll have to get GAROFALO to take the position and just let her bash away at republicans in the guise of ‘poking fun’.

It’s a joke anyway…. why not make it official?