partisan hack

Love it… Cheers Tommy!

LOL

The President should resign for playing politics with the economy.

If this speech was sooooooo important, why is he waiting to give it? What is soooooo important about the date he proposed (other than, you know, it was on the night of a long-planned GOP debate that he transparently wanted to hijack)?

Answer: Nothing. It’s about politics.

Just give the damned speech from the Oval Office tonight and stop trying to make it a State of the Union Part 2. He has the power.

Right, Tommy?

Spare us the outrageously outraged outrage. It’s getting old.

You are one demented twerp .

You need help , man .

lol you see he wanted to fight adam baldwin? id pay money to see tommy get his ass kicked…

Good Luck with that wishful thinking Tommy.  Are you really that dense or do you just act that way in order to get hits?

The WH scheduling was “pure coincidence” says Tommy.  Are you liberal loons REALLY that stupid?  Really?

Here’s hoping the GOTP remembers who set the precedent of publicly refusing to honor and respect the office of POTUS.  Since they have consistently done this they will be reminded over and over and over yet again if and when one of their own sits in that position.  They set the new standards and those standards will be used against them in the future.  This will include no victim-hood whining allowed.

Wrong. They should all grow up and start to work together,

Why do you think it’s happening to Obama?  Because you lefty losers insulted Bush for 8 years and continue to do so.  What goes around comes around.

Tommy, chill a little bit…  Margaritas out on the back deck at 7:00pm this evening, you should drop by and relax…  Raggae playin all night just come on by..  you’ll feel better tomorrow. 

Tommy you are incredible, your hackery knows no bounds. Please get a new job,  you belong at dailykos.

just Tommy acting like a “pussy”!

Liberal pussies like Tommy are really up in arms over this. LOL

There’s an Adam Baldwin ?    I’ll watch it .

Liberal pussies like Tommy are this stupid.

Do you pay to keep this site up?
http://www.apostrophejones.com/?cat=78
Seems like the product of a demented twerp.

He tried . He was too left for them .

September 1, 2011. The day Tommy Christopher jumped the shark.

He’s the President, not the emperor. The President can request a Joint Session of Congress, he can not mandate one. Boehner and any other member of congress could deny it through procedure. Boehner actually showed respect by asking the president and saving him the embarrassment of the request being brought to a vote.

If the President wants to show urgency why doesn’t he just unveil his master plan now. He has a media who waits on his every word and the added bonus of having Tommy Christopher as his knight in shining armor. Let’s see the master plan, it will be in every outlet in seconds.

Stay classy.

Stay classy.

Holy shit! Someone has taken leave of their senses!

Obama should respect Boehner’s wishes with regards to addressing congress, then go ahead and address the nation as a whole 5 minutes before the debates with a 2-3 minute outline of the plan he’ll be addressing congress with the next day. “I’d like to tell you more, but the speaker didn’t seem to share my urgency in bringing a plan for jobs to the American people. Enjoy the debates that may help to identify my future opponent in the presidential race of 2012 & may they offer solutions – not simply regurgitated ideas about tax cuts and a free market that magically solves all.”

Just throwing Tommys words back at him

What a crybaby Boner is. Does he think Parry is going to let his GENIUS flow at the debate and that is more important than jobs?

BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

STEP DOWN RED PULSATING BONER

No one cares about Parry’s one liners and lack of substance

LETS HEAR ABOUT JOBS!!

tell that to Tommy … http://www.mediaite.com/online/rep-maxine-waters-president-should-tax-gangsta-banks-out-of-business-if-they-dont-help-homeowners/

Tommy, its to bad there’s no cure for stupid, cause you are stupid.

 According to Carney, the conflict with the debate was pure coincidence, and not an attempt to offend Nancy Reagan.

I doubt that the members of Obama’s staff are that incompetent.

Mediaite Dunce: Boehner Should Resign for Disrespecting King Putt
http://bit.ly/oznqMq

“I’d like to tell you more, but the speaker didn’t seem to share my
urgency in bringing a plan for jobs to the American people after my vacation. Enjoy the
debates that may help to identify my future opponent in the presidential
race of 2012 & may they offer solutions – not simply regurgitated
ideas about the rich paying their fair share and more infrastructure jobs that I have previously suggested.

Fixed.

Congress is EQUAL to the President not beneth him.
This is well within the right of Boenher to say no.
They only asked him to move the “speech” by a day a d the GOP debates were already set.
It’s Obama who was being disrespectful and partisan.

When Leftists actually begin believing in the dishonest memes that they create, then we’re starting to talk about clinical disorders.

This might work if the President wasn’t just on vacation and back for nearly two weeks. If its such a big important speech give it this week from the Oval Office or Rose Garden. But this was nothing more then a PR stunt that backfired quickly.

In a clip that’s sure to make the conservative media rounds, courtesy of BreitbartTV, Rep. Maxine Waters tossed out the kind of catnip that drives conservative pussies wild…

Thanks for that…I missed it.

Yeah…Mediaite is starting to crack under the pressure of daily trying to polish the Obama turd. 

Looks like Tommy has her panties twisted so tight she is becoming delirious!!

Tommy is upset that President Obama had his bluff called, and had no backup plan. Scarborough is right, no one is afraid of him.

You do know that Obama promised a jobs plan in 2010 and never delivered?

Awww maan.  And all this time I was thinking that the right was exercising the 1st amendment on Obama because they didn’t like what he was doing. Now I’m finding it’s actually payback for 8 years of having to listen to the left exercise their 1st amendment right against bush.  How disappointing.

Ruh-roh =D

Why should Speaker Boehner and his fellow Congressmen be expected to immediately respond to this “urgent” speech from President Obama? In the weeks before summer vacation, or during the spring, or in any of the previous 2+ years, President Obama could neither present a worthwhile budget, nor create a jobs plan, nor offer any concrete strategies to help the American people beyond a bus tour. It obviously just isn’t that important to the President. Properly responding to the lack of specifics–workable, logical, CBO-scorable specifics–takes time.
I’ll be watching the President’s speech, but while I hope for the rescue of our nation, I fear we will hear nothing more profound than the OFA email I received today, which placed the blame on Congress as we face this “important challenge for our organization.”  Nice to know that President Obama sees the greatest nation on earth as an “organization.” Speaker Boehner should not consider resigning; he is doing his job for which he was sent to Washington.

Oblamer is the one who disgraces the Presidents office……not Boehner!!!

But it is hilarious to watch the Libs whine like babies when their annoying one gets bitched slapped on a daily basis!!!!

EVERYBODY knows that the scabs on Tommy’s knees are chronic. He is hardly able to make sounds without  forming white bubbles on his face. You have to wait for them to pop before you can understand him. Not that that this little socialist c.ck sucker has anything to say. Lick it up tommy.
suibne

Every thing Obama does is plotted and planned in the most politically cynical administration in our country’s history. Every single photo you see of him is a staged photo-op taken by the official White House photographer. The asshole who created the Obama image, David Axlefraud, is paid to create propaganda, and astroturf is his business. He makes Goebbels look like a rookie.

Give me one example of the Speaker of the House refusing to attend a state dinner in any administration before this one.  I can give you 4 instances with Boehner.  In fact Boehner has refused every one of them so far. 

Give one example of a Speaker of the House refusing to ride with the POTUS in Air Force 1 when invited.  One example besides Boehner that is. 

Give one example of anyone ever shouting that the POTUS is a liar while he is addressing a joint session of Congress.  One example ever except for the one time it was done by a Republican that is. 

Give me one example of any Congress refusing to raise the debt limit unless their demands were met, before this Congress that is. 

And lastly, give one example of any Speaker of the House refusing to call a joint session of Congress when it was requested by the POTUS before this Speaker refused.

Remember this is the new normal for how the POTUS is to be treated by his opponents in Congress.  The right has set these standards and we will also honor these standards.  No victim-hood whining allowed.  Hope you enjoy reaping what you have sown.

If Obozo had spent some time in congress rather than constant campaigning he might have a clue how it works.  If he had actually managed an organization prior to being crowned queen of the May he might have some idea how to work with people.  Since neither happened we get to have the spectacle of an incompetent President being schooled by an adequate Speaker.

I’ll say.  Tommy’s off the wagon today I think, several ridiculous articles.   Anyone who thinks the WH wasn’t trying to stick Beohner in the eye haven’t been paying attention.  As for disrespecting the office of the Presidency – look up the gazillion times Pelosi and Reid did exactly that to Bush.   The difference here is Boehner didn’t go on TV (least I didn’t see him) and call Obama the anti christ or an idiot or some other personal attack, what he did is let the WH embarrass itself.  The WH was arrogant in the extreme and gave Boehner the opportunity to either bend over and say “yes sir, thank you sir” or to stand up for himself, the seperation of powers, and against the obvious politicization of what is bound to be another waste of prime time TV.

I think Tommy would prefer imported wimpy French beers!

If there’s any reason Bone-Head Boehner should resign, it should be over that piece of crap negotiation over the raising of the debt ceiling.

Tammy is hysterical.  (S)he knows that this is in jest and it will get a lot of hits and responses.  Good job Tammy.

Well, we’ve never had a president this crappy before.

Hey Libs,does it get harder by day to defend your boy?

That’s what I thought.  Not one example, only more excuses.  Just remember, the GOTP has set the new standards for how the office of POTUS is to be treated.  We certainly will remember and treat a GOTP President accordingly.  It is their standards after-all.

No, but it is hard to watch my fellow Americans, many of whom are no doubt fine and decent people become increasingly hateful.  No one here is addressing Tommy’s argument… just a bunch of reflexive verbal assaults.  That weakness is the big bother.  

Boehner spanked the little punk and now his minions are out in force crying about it.

You must have skipped over my post, where I laid waste to Tommy’s misplaced outrage and exposed the Administration’s hypocrisy and crass political agenda.

Read up.

Actually  I think think they are. They thought they could play games with the big boys and they got spanked.

Never mind the fact that Obama is missusing the platform of giving his stupid fucking partisan speech before a joint session of Congress. He’s using the Congressional chamber as a politcal stage so that if anyone dare criticise his stupid fucking political speech, the media whores can freak out and call for their resignation.

Who kicked our ass at Yorktown and made Barack Obama king?  Last time I looked, we hadn’t grown a thrown yet.  I believe Six-Wars-Barry is entitled to at least as much courtesy as George W. Bush was shown.

If Boehner should resign for not having respect for the office of the President then shouldn’t Obama resign as well? He not only doesn’t have respect for the office he holds he has lttle respect for America, Americans or the Constitution.

I think Tommy is part of the State ran media. But hey that’s just me.

BTW..It would please me to see every damn Senator, Congressman and Congresswomen, Supreme Court Justice, the President, Vice President, and the Cabinet resign and start the f$#k over. It couldn’t be worse than we have now. I’m not talking replacing the Constitution. I’m talk about getting people in there that care about the Constitution and the people more than they care about keeping their job. You know people with same thing called honor.

Hey at least I didn’t take sides like Tommy Boy.

I actually don’t doubt that it was done on purpose. The left has been going into rage-mode because he’s not showing the backbone so many thought he would have so, when I look at this, I see it more as a passive-aggressive move than I do something epically bold and insulting as some seem to view it.

But then he compromised and agreed to present his speech on NFL’s opening night?  WTF was he thinking to agree to that? 

He pissed off the GOP (which appears to be easy for him to do, one way or another) with the original date……so that anger trickled down to those who probably weren’t going to be watching the debates anyway and then he agrees to move it to the next night..which he’s going to take hell for anyway?

None of that makes sense.  If you’re going appease your constituents who want to you bite back rather than growling and then running way with your tail between your legs…..BITE BACK. 

It is not a jobs Speech, it is a campaign speech.

It’s Perry  – and did you fall down and hit your tiny little head? NO wait you are a lefty, never mind.

Holy crap, tinkerbell.

Where do you stand on Gunwalker, Fast and Furious, and all the other crony capitalist BS Obama’s been peddling?

If insulting the president is enough for you, you must be salivating over murder and civil rights violations

Boehner did no such thing to the office of the president of the United States of America. He simply put that bleeping so & so Barack Obama in his place. Hopefully the little punk stays there this time. Sheesh….

Tommy . Bill Press wants his flask back , and refill it this time .

Tommy started drinking again today . All his money was tied up in Solyndra stock .

Get a grip, Tommy. Even the liberals know Obama was screwing with the debate when he scheduled this thing.

Barack Obama could no more give a 2-3 minute speech than I could swim to Cuba with Michael Moore on my back.

did you noticed that congress was on a six week undeserved long vacation and is not coming back before next week?
Besides, Boehner wanted to create jobs as soon as he would be speaker, were are they????

The man child from the southside got schooled.Obama has been promising a jobs bill for over a year.He knew what he was doing.He could have choosen another date.

Obama  got knocked out,his pockets emptied,and his pants pulled down to his knees for all to see.

That hope and change ain’t workin’? Not workin’ so well. 

HA! That was great! May I add? The jocks held him upside down over the dumpster and dropped him in after he squealed for his mama.

TC is a joke, an increasingly unfunny joke. Pound sand, douchewad.

Well said! May I make a slight correction it would be throne, but your comment has a certain subtlety to it. :)

Colby thought it was the best thing in the world, LMFAO!

If we gave him the same kind of courteousy, we’d have a lot of visits by the secret service and audits by the IRS… but wait, aren’t we being called racists and terrorists anyway?

What an utter lunatic, this ”president” can’t be gotten out of that office fast enough.

Thugs, criminals and ultra-partisan hacks. When they’re not busy eroding the constitution, your rights, the economy, our friends, defense, etc. they’re busy insulting 2/3rds of America and most of the world. If he’s not groveling to another dictator, or trying to flood the country with illegals.

Do you idiots think we can’t use a search engine?

You people literally make me sick.

Oh boy now his speech is said to coincide with the opening NFL game that thursday at 8:30 on NBC. Seems to me Obama’s jobs speech is a mess.

lol my good man

Don’t count on it, Lt.  His condescending attitude means that he only reads what supports his agenda.

Obama should resign for being such a dweeb

really?  a french beer jab? I know you can do better than that.  You’ve just opened the door for people to take shots at the sliver bullet.

He’s not related to the douchebag baldwins, he’s the guy with the big ass gun in Full Metal Jacket and the bodyguard from My Bodyguard.

I would rather see him beaten badly in November. It will be out of his control and totally humiliating because it will be personal. Something that is an anathema to a narcissist like himself.

Do you remember when Reid, Leader of the Senate, said the Iraq war was lost?

The House GOP passed Paul Ryan’s budget. The Democrat-controlled Senate hasn’t passed one in nearly 2 1/2 years. The House GOP passed Cut, Cap, & Balance. The Democrat-controlled Senate refused to allow it to come up for a vote. The House GOP repealed Obamacare. The Democrat-controlled Senate voted down the repeal.

So it’s not like the House Republicans aren’t trying to roll back part of the Obama agenda in order to lessen the burden of regulation and overspending that are crippling the private sector. But when a party only controls one half of Congress, there’s only so much they can do.

Drinking a little early today, Tommy?  It is YOU who ought to resign for your insult and contempt for journalism.

“Jayne! The man they call Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaayne!”

Next thing you know there will be members of congress calling him a loser while he is overseas and a movie of the President being assassinated will be released to numerous awards…..

Obama is a piece of crap, kitty.  We ALWAYS treat our crap like the shit that it is.  YOU progressives disrespected the office of the Presidency when you put Kaptain KickAss in it.  He’s ALL yours, Kitty.  And he merits NO RESPECT at all.

“LOL”
Indeed… 

“The President should resign for playing politics with the economy.”
Reasoning?  Because?

“If this speech was sooooooo important and sooooo urgent, why is he waiting until next freaking week to give it?”
Congress returns on that day… “announced weeks ago that he would do just that upon Congress’ post-Labor Day return to DC. Considering the urgency of this problem, as Republicans have loudly attested to, an overlap with one of many political campaign debates simply didn’t register.” -T.C.

“What is soooooo important about the date he proposed (other than, you know, it was on the night of a long-planned GOP debate that he transparently wanted to hijack)?

Answer: Nothing.”
Again, Congress will be back… those folks who compose and offer the legislation the President seeks.

“It’s about politics.

Just give the damned speech from the Oval Office tonight and stop trying to make it a State of the Union Part 2.”
He has spoken to the people for months.  Press conferences, prime time speeches, bus tour… this speech is not designed to make an appeal to the American people… it is an attempt to communicate directly with the legislature about policy.  

“He has the power.

Right, Tommy?

Spare us the outrageously outraged outrage. It’s getting old.”
Yes, the outrage is getting quite old.  

And hung up by his belt in the Cloak Room on one of the hooks during
recess!
It is obvious what he tried to do with the Address schedule!
That will teach him not to f*ck with experienced operators!
LMFAO

conservative  puusies?  i  don’t  think  being  a man   and   being a  democrat can be  one in the  same  except ofcourse if  you  are on the  public dole….  democrats  are  the  pussies..    a bunch of  munts.

“This will include no victim-hood whining allowed”  Tell this to your Whiner, blamer in chief, Kitty.

Actually, Barack Obama should resign. Sick of being held hostage by him and his gang of four. Would be great if any of them read a history book. High taxes, government spending and protectionism will not pull us out of a major recession.

Tommy, surely you jest.  Respect is a two-way street, and this narcissistic piece of flotsam that you call President has no respect for Congress, the Constitution, or the average American citizen.

Since you favor writing nonsensical, liberal drivel, you should adopt the nom de plume, Tommy T. Ticklepickle.
That moniker would be much more descriptive of your shallow analysis and sophmoric attempt at writing.

YOu are indeed a brave man to even want to touch Moore!

You know what would set the bar lower? If some Iraqi man threw a shoe at him and all those tea partiers would just laugh…..

So let me get this straight… The President requested an invitation to address Congress and then after receiving no objection a whole hour and a half later assumed he was officially invited. He then sent a letter laying that all out 15 minutes before they announced it.  The Speaker then objected to the date and issued an invitation for the day after. This is what I am supposed to be upset about?

This ‘Imperial President’ (I remember this phrase from somewhere) should not have assumed an hour or two of silence was acceptance. I know if I invited myself to a party at someone elses’ house, I would wait until I had the invite in hand before I bragged about it.

Or stuffed in a locker.

god   liberal men are munts

Honestly, isn’t this guy, Tommy Christopher, Mediaite’s White House corespondent? The only question he has about the White House is whether he should spit or swallow after Obama and Jay Carney have tag teamed him. What a biased, non partisan hack-

It is the height of condescension to make derogatory assumptions about my habits sans evidence.  

And yet you haven’t addressed one single point in the post you are replying to.  Why? Because you can’t. So in 2016 if you get another chance at the WH no whining about respecting the office when the Dems treat the president to little or no respect.

I meant patronizing.

1st. We have been addressing Tommy argument with… he doesn’t have one, period!

2nd. If you want to talk about hateful, have you seen what the CBC been up too? Just in case you missed it they going aroung Black neighborhoods having townhall meetings inciting anger and violent rethoric saying the Tea party are not only racist but want to bring back the lynching of Black people. With obsolutely no evidents, examples just complete mud sligging. But hey, to liberals, they are the only ones that are allowed to spew crap. No one can comes close the uder hatred and violent rethoric that the uber left spews constantly.

 So your cry for civility better start coming from your camp first. I will not make any appology for my fellow conservatives until this crap stops on the left. Which will never happen! So go cry some where else.

did you read a cut, cap, & balance? If yes you would now, that this was just a political move! Repub are good for theater, the rich and coporation, but not good for the average American!

Boener and his republican tea party just tried to sink the US economy by forcing our country into default, so merely disrespecting the office of the president seems kind of small. The only way out for these bad men is to be defeated at the polls.

Dumbest post I’ve ever read.  Congress has to ‘invite’ the president since its a joint session.  Next, the president tried to schedule it the same day as the republican presidential debate, which we all assume has been known for a long time.

You can say many things, and it’s opinion.  To suggest that the speaker of the US House of Congress should resign because the US President and his staff are a group of petty, childish, partisan, unprofessional and rude team is idiotic.  

Obama and his staff seem hell-bent on making Mondale feel better about his electoral loss.   He’s making the far-left very happy.  The independents are sick of it.

Tommy:

When are you going to admit to everyone here that you are indeed a paid staffer in the Office of Communications in the White House?  

You are a know-nothing leftist hack, no offense.  

Have a good day.

That is because this creep thinks that  his wish is the congress’ command. He forgot that they are co-equal. He acts like a tin pot tyrant.

oh yes and were was congress? President Obama took nine vacation days, the congress took six!!! Tehy are still out on vacation!

This is arguably the best bit of satire Tommy has ever posted to this site. I laughed through the whole piece!

Jon Stewart has got nothing on you, babe!

You still are completely blind to how Bush was treated for 8 years.  That was the precedent–not this.  And Boehner was right in what he did regarding the President’s speech request.  You really think it was just an accident?  The WH knew for MONTHS that the debate was scheduled that day.  If they didn’t remember, then they are incompetent.  If this speech is so urgent, then why didn’t he come back earlier from vacation and call for a special session?  Or ask Congress to come in one day early and do it on Tuesday?  No, your President (or at least his staff) knew what they were doing in choosing that date.  I really do not believe he has anything new to present anyway.  From what he has disclosed, he is likely proposing more of the same keynesian stimulus junk that doesn’t work.

Learned from the “regressives”!

Oh puleeeze! Did you just come from Daily KOS and they told you to write this drivel?

You know what would set the bar lower? If some Iraqi man threw a shoe at
him and all those tea partiers would just laugh….

The topic I am addressing is how the GOTP Congress has set new standards as to how the office of POTUS is to be treated.  Your post does not address that topic and is therefore totally irrelevant.  Do you have anything to offer on the topic of the GOTP Congress?

You know what would set the bar lower? If some Iraqi man threw a shoe at
him and all those tea partiers would just laugh….

The topic I am addressing is how the GOTP Congress has set new standards as to how the office of POTUS is to be treated.  Your post does not address that topic and is therefore totally irrelevant.  Do you have anything to offer on the topic of the GOTP Congress?

Don’t count on it. He will have a cigarette, let his sycophants tell him some lies, then come right back. Sadly we are stuck with this creepy guy until January 2013.

Right, we should go with the Senate’s plan and budget proposal of … nothing.

Or the President’s latest budget, that got ZERO votes in the Senate (0-97, 2 absent, 1 abstained).

We’ve got the Republicans plan.  No plan at all, or a plan opposed by both parties…

So which side are you saying is better than the Republicans?  No plan at all?  Or a plan opposed by every single Senator we have?

Right, we should go with the Senate’s plan and budget proposal of … nothing.

Or the President’s latest budget, that got ZERO votes in the Senate (0-97, 2 absent, 1 abstained).

We’ve got the Republicans plan.  No plan at all, or a plan opposed by both parties…

So which side are you saying is better than the Republicans?  No plan at all?  Or a plan opposed by every single Senator we have?

Hey Kitty…did you know that Progressives support eugenics?  That is one of their founding beliefs.  Look it up.

 either it was done on purpose or his staff is totally incompetent.  wonder which one it is

Crying?  Hardly.  Disgusted by the displayed weakness?  Certainly.

The Tea Party is racist… demonstrably so.  
“So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-party.html

I suppose the CBC should just quietly fall in line?  Their silence would make you happy?

Crying?  Hardly.  Disgusted by the displayed weakness?  Certainly.

The Tea Party is racist… demonstrably so.  
“So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-party.html

I suppose the CBC should just quietly fall in line?  Their silence would make you happy?

Give me one example of a POTUS dressing down the SCOTUS Justices during a SOTU address, or scolding a Congressman he invited to the front row.

Actually, it is waaaay past the time for this president to have resigned, himself. 
He is it up to his scrawny neck…has no idea WHAT he is doing, and NOW thinks he can call this meeting at HIS whim…..AHEM!!!!!  We gave rules….
But what am I thinking???…those rules don’t apply to the first crowned king of the American-Black Muslim Colonies

Yep..Devaluing our currency surely make sense. Hey..Why doesn’t the Government just get one of those America Express cards that doesn’t have a limit or an interest rate….Oh, that’s right they actually make you paid it off every month. Nope..I don’t think American Express wants to get paid in counterfeit money..You know, they lowered the U.S. Government credit rating even before S$P did.. lol…

Joe W. said: Obama is a piece of crap, kitty.  We ALWAYS treat our crap like the shit
that it is.  YOU progressives disrespected the office of the Presidency
when you put Kaptain KickAss in it.  He’s ALL yours, Kitty.  And he
merits NO RESPECT at all.

Again the topic is the standards the GOTP have set on how the office of POTUS is to be treated.  This is not about making excuses for that treatment.  But I will say it is interesting to see how little respect you have for the United States of America and its democracy in electing the highest office in the country.  It is the American people who elected Barack Obama POTUS by a majority.  You feel that if you don’t agree with the majority of the American people then you are free to treat our President and the American people with no respect at all.  Why do you show no respect for America and its people?

Heaven forbid anyone believe their ideas to be correct.  Every idea is equal, correct?  Description of fellatio just as rigorous as description of procedure and precedent?  I think I smell a Comuniss’…

“The White House narrative is that the Republicans have been relentlessly
braying for the President to put forward a plan to create jobs, and
announced weeks ago that he would do just that upon Congress’ post-Labor
Day return to DC.”

Can’t argue with this, the President did promise to have a detailed Jobs plan after his Labor Day vacation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYsXqiw64K0&feature=player_embedded

Oh, that was after his 2010 Labor day vacation, not this year?  Well what was his promised plan last year?   Oh… he didn’t bother to actually have one… at all… for a whole year. 

Well I can see thinking he wouldn’t have a plan this year either… he’s not been the greatest at coming up with actual, specific enough to put to law, detailed plans.  He’s more the vague promises and bumper-sticker slogans kind of thinker.

Except for his budget in April, that was actually good enough to vote on in the Senate… 0-97 wasn’t that vote?

But this plan would be totally worth cancelling Republican Primary debates for because it would be…. HAHA

Oh sorry, couldn’t manage to keep a straight face; I was pretending I was dumb enough to think this plan would have anything meaningful; then I heard someone fart.  If I have to pretend to be that dumb, farts are the epitome of humorous activity.

I guess I shouldn’t pretend to be quite that dumb.  Anyone care to bet if the President’s plan is detailed enough for the CBO to score it this time?  I’d take some of that action.

But yes, I agree that dissent is treason and anyone who disrespected a seated President should be removed from office; starting with the Democrats who disrespected Bush for 8 years as that crime was both first and longer lasting.

Since dissent is not patriotic and is instead treasonous; I’m guessing that is all dissent of any President, and not just a play for political gain, right?

Does Tommy call for all the Democrats who were ever rude to Bush to step down; or admit he’s a partisan hack without the courage of his convictions… or is there a third choice I’m missing? 

Ooh, I might have a third choice for him to take…
Does he not remember say 6 years into the past due to a serious brain injury?  that might avoid him being a massive political hack hypocrite here.

Hilarious. Boehner should get credit for a brilliant political move (someone tell Colby Hall) for making this president look even more petty than he already is. I mean that must be a monumental task nowadays! Tommy, do you write for the Onion? I think you posted this one to the wrong site!

“Hey, BONER, you wingers have been bitching up a storm about hearing our
plan, so we wanna do this your first day back, so you pricks don’t have
a sliver of daylight to claim the President is dragging his feet, or
something. Yeah, we know you have a debate that night, but you can push
that back a few ticks, mmkay? Haven’t you mouth-breathers heard of the
DVR?” – Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.

Wowwwwwwww.

Tommy, this speech that 0bama will give to save America is sooooo urgent and brilliant that it won’t wait another day, hour, minute??? LOL. ROTFLMAO.

Tommy, why would president downgrade, AKA, blameanyonebutme, want to give his America saving speech at the same time as the GOP debate  anyway? Doesn’t he want to reach the largest audience possible??? And wouldn’t he want to show the OTHER PARTY his brilliant economic plan??? LOL, LOL, LOL. Or do his constituents not know how to run a DVR? Or is he hoping there are LESS people to laugh at his ever failing teleprompter skills? Or???? Tommy?

This article is BIZARRE ON SO MANY LEVELS.

The proper protocol was for the White House to ask, and then WAIT for the Speaker to say yes or no. Instead, Obama and his incompetent staff decided that they could do it and did it anyway. It was a breach of protocol by….wait for it..

THE WHITE HOUSE

Yes. A little constitutional lesson here for you: the Speaker of the House is not a Duke or Earl who answers to the King. He is a co-equal head of the federal government along with nine Supreme Court justices, the Majority Leader of the Senate and the President of the United States. Obama can no more decide what happens in the House than he can instruct justices how to decide a case.

That you are either so blindly partisan or constitutionally illiterate is no one’s fault but your own. The House, quite frankly, could flatly refuse to EVER let the President speak. It would be perfectly within the Speaker’s right to do so. It is a COURTESY to ALLOW to him to speak AT ALL. Obama is the one asking a favor here.

You really should do yourself a favor by removing this post and pretending that it never existed….

Yeah… because the president stomping on hundreds of years of protocol between the Legislature and the Executive is so incredibly presidential?  I mean, of COURSE Boehner should have just bent over and said “thank you sir may I have another” when the president was kicking dirt in his face.  Yep… that was an incredibly presidential act.

Oh, and your weak ass “unprecedented” bullshit.

The President makes arrangements with the Speaker; and once they are agreed upon; the President announces the agreed upon date.  THAT IS THE PRECEDENT YOU ###ING MORON!

When the President chooses to skip the “agree on a date, then announce it” and instead “demand a date and everyone gets to meet my schedule because I was elected King-God of America”… THAT IS WHAT IS UNPRECEDENTED.

The disrespect?  Choosing to cut the Speaker out of the discussion/agreement on the date and instead give orders to him like he’s your f***ing secretary who has to do whatever the h*ll you tell him to.  You know who did that?  Not Boehner.

So you’ve got the wrong person, the wrong precedent, the wrong idea, the wrong victim, the wrong person being disrespectful, and the wrong idea of how it usually happens… in general you’re wrong all the way around…

Nice work, it’s a classic Tommy Christopher original.  Exactly what anyone could expect from you.  Next you’ll explain why thunder causes lightning.

Every Libtard in Office should have resigned while George Bush was In office For the crap they said So the argument’s made by Libtards from the so called MSM are worthless libtrad talking points.Obama should resign for being a complete failure.

I agree. He shouldn’t have let Obama or Reid off the hook for the irresponsible way in which Democrats have been carrying out their fiduciary responsibilities. Obama is the head of the Democratic Party, and they are the ones who have failed to either produce a budget or even so much a proposal that isn’t so ridiculous that it gets rejected by your own party.

Thanks for agreeing that Republicans should have stuck to Cut, Cap & Balance which was supported by more than 60% of the American public rather than engage in backroom negotiations with someone who couldn’t even deliver his own party’s votes anyway.

Not blind at all but waiting for you or anyone to address the points I made.  I’m speaking of Congress and the new standards they have set.  I’m not speaking of the American people.  None of you seem able to address the topic I’ve raised.

This article should have been submitted to the Onion.

yesterday it was a brillant political move by the president, today only a bonus……..we will let jay carney you are trying to take his job tommy 

Hey Mediate website; can I have an invitation for a day of only my posts and opinions?

Under the new “appropriate invitation” rules that Obama has decided I’ll just leave this here, and if I don’t have any response at all in a couple hours I’ll assume I’m invited to do so and let everyone know you’ve agreed and the agreement is set in stone.

Oh, and if you end up wondering about it later and try to decline, you’ll be “disrespectful”.  So if you don’t immediately decline I’ll assume it’s approved and on a day of my choosing I can run your site and post whatever I want… right?

This is going to be awesome… and if Tommy disagrees at a later date he should be fired for being “disrespectful” of an “approved” invitation… right?

Not only were they on a 6 weeks vacation but Boehner has set the schedule in the House as 2 weeks on 1 week off.  Who else in America gets that kind of work schedule?

From this article, we can definitely tell why 0bama, and progressive/liberal/socialism is being called to the carpet, and not a minute too soon, I might add. If people like Colby Hall, Tommy Christopher and Tommy’s BBF, Ed Shultz is the best they have, they are TOAST!

And a Blue Label toast to all!

Tommy cries like a second grade girl.  

Al Sharpton is allowed to endorse a candidate/party publicly.  But apparently Tommy is. 

Credibility ZERO Tommy.  You’ve just officially and publicly entered Hackdom.  I mean, we are knew you were there before, but now its publicly official.  Isn’t there a RT show you’re late for?

Trying to get control over entitlement spending IS good for the average American. These programs are just a few years away from bankrupting this country if we do nothing. If the Dems don’t like Cut, Cap & Balance, fair enough. But propose a damn alternative! Don’t stand there like Pelosi or Debbie What-a-dumb Schmuck and say that the Democrat plan is Medicare. Status quo is not an option. Even Obama has conceded this on numerous occasions.

That’s six weeks.

I couldn’t agree more.

Tommy’s argument is pathetic and weak.  He should resign?  Give me a f’ing break. 

0bama should resign for “insulting and disrespecting” the American people.  On multiple occasions.

Flagged.  You’re repulsive.

when my son was 2 years old he didn’t  whine as much as tommy did in this article 

I don’t know what’s more sad.. that bout of meaningless verbal diarrhea or the fact that Kitty and 2 more idiotic moonbats “liked it”.

hmmmm, that’s a tough call. Those people are incredibly stupid.

How ’bout Tommy Chrisobamasbitchtopher?

At least Tommy has put aside any semblance of journalistic integrity with this current “epistle.”

At least Tommy has put aside any semblance of journalistic integrity with this current “epistle.”

Obama deserved to be called a liar because . . . HE WAS LYING. Not “lying” like “thinking what you say is true but it really isn’t”. He was lying like “Knowing what you say is a can of garbage but saying it anyway.”

Frankly, I don’t think Obama gives a flying damn wether he wins the next election or not. His fortune is made, and that’s all he and Michelle really care about. He can build his library and make millions on speeches and books. Granted, he’ll have to pay for his own travel- sort of- but lots of his “foundation” donors will offer their private jets to the Obamas- or they can charter. 

I think the Obamas are tired of the scrutiny and just wanted the job for the perks, which they have now, without a second term.

Here is your demonstrably racist and socialist progressive/liberal 0BAMA supporters. WAKE TFU.

Unions and Communists March Side By Side at May Day Rally – Los Angeles, Ca 5/1/

Michelle Malkin » The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

You’re out of your mind.

Demanding fiscal sanity and accountability in our government is equivalen to trying to torpedo the economy?  

This headline should read-

“Journalist” Tommy Christopher Should Resign For His Unprecedented Insult To Journalism.

How Not To Argue-
Assertion: “Tommy’s argument is pathetic and weak.” Reasoning: “—-”  Evidence: ” Give me a f’ing break.”
Assertion: “0bama should resign for “insulting and disrespecting” the American people.” Reasoning: “—-”  Evidence: ” —–”

“Give one example of anyone ever shouting that the POTUS is a liar while
he is addressing a joint session of Congress.  One example ever except
for the one time it was done by a Republican that is.”

Bush was routinely booed by congressional dems during SotU. I haven’t watched every one ever televised, but I’m pretty sure that was unprecedented at the time. I’d also consider it more disrespectful than one single congressman accurately pointing out that the president was lying. Something that this president has made a habit of when he addresses joint sessions of congress, in case you haven’t noticed.

“Give me one example of any Congress refusing to raise the debt limit
unless their demands were met, before this Congress that is.”

At least once during the Bush presidency every single democrat senator voted against raising the debt ceiling. Including Obama, who called the need to raise the debt ceiling a failure of leadership. The only reason they didn’t refuse to raise the debt ceiling was because they didn’t have the votes to do it.

Now here’s one for you. Give me one example of a sitting republican congressman and former presidential candidate saying on the record that he’d like to take a gun to the White House and shoot both the president and vice president. The GOP has its faults, but it has a long way to fall before it even begins to plumb the depths of what’s considered acceptable behavior on the left.

Oh Crap!! Am I gonna’ have to come up with a new screen name now??

Is this piece actually meant to betaken seriously?  I think it is meant as a joke.

lol

Tommy’s argument is nothing but his opinion.  MY opinion is that his opinion is pathetic and weak. 

Do I really need to list the examples of 0blamey insulting and disrespecting Americans?

Obama deliberately tried to upstage the GOP candidates with his Magical Misery Bus Tour in Iowa. He knew exactly what he was trying to do with his bullshit speech coinciding with the GOP debate too, and it blew up in his face just as I said it would yesterday.

Obama INSULTS the American People everytime he opens his mouth. He and Tommy Christopher should both resign.
This tops all of Tommy’s partisan hack columns. What a joke.
The president didn’t need to address congress with this speech. He has waited weeks to make this speech and he could have just asked for tv time. He knows even his media pals would not cover this nonsense unless he pretended this was going to be important. LOL. Tommy always falls for the nonsense.

HAHAHAHA the cons again with their logic. The WH made the request public. Did anyone say it´s going to happen? Nope, they said they sent a letter to the speaker requesting that date. Obviously,  the recipient of the letter had to respond and Boehner did with the known outcome.  I dunno why Boehner should resign. Let him continue to collect more evidence for being one of the worst speakers in history. I don´t mind.

That´s just how America is today. A deeply divided country with a dysfunctional political system thanks to the right wing nutjobs and the media. Trapped in a never ending election campaign with useless polls, sound bites and no sincere effort to work for the benefit of the country. 

Tommy really embarrassed himself with this one. It’s just too obvious to pass up.
“Unprecedented” – “insult”?

Unions and Communists March Side By Side at May Day Rally – Los Angeles, Ca 5/1/
– The photos show a wildly multiracial event.  Not sure how that demonstrates racism.  You would be better of using this to argue something like, “Unions should not march in Labor Day parades populated with pockets of communist advocates because it weakens their arguments through the taint of affiliation with a failed program.”  

Michelle Malkin » The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010
– A nice collection of bad behavior.  Not proof that incivility belongs only to any one philosophy and in no way rebuttal of the study finding that Tea Party members harbor longstanding dislike of minorities.  

WAKE TFU?  Angry declaration doesn’t equal proof of correctness.  Did you learn nothing from your own links?

Benny Hill said it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6jaKkE0RsI

I’m thinking like you here it has to be a joke. At the end of the day the speech is a day later whats it matter if its Wed or Thurs? Hope this a joke because if its not Tommy might need to seek some help

Check Obama’s vacation and golfing time this year.

Thanks.

This is funny T. Christopher. They are called co-equal branches of government for a reason. It is still incumbent upon the President to ask the host (Congress) for an opportunity to appear before them. I realize that many folks think of the president as being more like king. Apparently Tommy does.
Boehner did not “tell” him no; he respectfully asked him to re-schedule. The president agreed. That is bi-partisanship. Good going Barack, finally.

This is funny T. Christopher. They are called co-equal branches of government for a reason. It is still incumbent upon the President to ask the host (Congress) for an opportunity to appear before them. I realize that many folks think of the president as being more like king. Apparently Tommy does.
Boehner did not “tell” him no; he respectfully asked him to re-schedule. The president agreed. That is bi-partisanship. Good going Barack, finally.

That’s because your topics are immature while you lie through your teeth. Did you read about the loyalists during the American Revolution. You fall under that catagory. They were tarred and feathered and thrown out of the country. They blindly followed a corrupt king. You lost my dear. 900 elections last year and this bum with get the axe next year. Now go get an American flag to burn and kill a few more babies. I never knew a liberal that wasn’t a butt.  

You libs are really, REALLY starting to lose it.  And it’s a helluva lot of fun to watch.  Please, more, MORE!

Google “Sanger Negro Project”.

If this was so important, Obama would give the speech tonight. NOW.

But it isn’t.

It’s politics, as is Tommy’s (and your) fake outrage.

Tammy is auditioning for a job at PMSNBC.

Tommy the Presstitute.

Serving his pimp well.

American people still blame Bush for the economy.  Next they blame the Republicans.  After that the Democrats and they blame Obama the least.  Also the unfavorable opinion of the TP went from 25% to 43% in just 6 months.

Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Shows No Love for Tea Party, Bush
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/snapshot082911.html

Boehner and the GOTP continue their behavior at their own peril. 

I don’t agree with Mr. Christopher, that this was an agregious enough episode that it calls for Mr. Boehner’s resignation. That said, despite historical “protocol”, the Constitution gives the power to CONVENE a special session of Congress to the President. It does not grant the power, to either House of Congress, to deny such a directive from the EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

A refusal, by Mr. Boehner, to hold the session, had the President insisted on one, would technically be “Contempt of Congress.”

Tommy, we all know you are full-in with the Obama hand you have been dealt, but you have to ignore facts in order to come to these conclusions.  The Republican debate has been scheduled for over a month, so if Obama was urgent to get this speech out he could have called a joint-session before the recess, and there are plenty of days ahead he could have scheduled. His schedule choice was pure calculation.

This was all apolitical gambit by Obama.  Yesterday even Democrats were commenting on the hasty way the WH called this session.  And even here at Mediaite yesterday there was a glowing article about how great it was for Obama to make a political calculation in the way he scheduled the speech on the same day as the debate.  And even AP today called this a public relations campaign. 

Tommy, we all know you are full-in with the Obama hand you have been dealt, but you have to ignore facts in order to come to these conclusions.  The Republican debate has been scheduled for over a month, so if Obama was urgent to get this speech out he could have called a joint-session before the recess, and there are plenty of days ahead he could have scheduled. His schedule choice was pure calculation.

This was all apolitical gambit by Obama.  Yesterday even Democrats were commenting on the hasty way the WH called this session.  And even here at Mediaite yesterday there was a glowing article about how great it was for Obama to make a political calculation in the way he scheduled the speech on the same day as the debate.  And even AP today called this a public relations campaign. 

Your posts would help corn grow.

Click below. It’s funny.

http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html

Hey Joel.

When is that Roger Ailes indictment gonna come down you promised any day, like, 10 months ago?

Man, Thomas, I hope you at least got a reach around for that sweet “San Francisco Tripod” you just made of yourself with this tuna-shite article.

1:  ”Tommy’s argument is nothing but his opinion. MY opinion is that his opinion is pathetic and weak.” 
Assertion: Boehner should resign…
Reasoning:  …because Boehner issued a politically motivated rejection of the Presidents request.
Evidence:  The request satisfied the overwhelming urgency for action, was informally signaled as due upon the return of Congress, was formally requested before announcement without rejection and is without political precedent (evidential summary from memory, may have been more).  

Tommy presented a complete argument.  A single assertion is simple opinion.

2:  ”Do I really need to list the examples of 0blamey insulting and disrespecting Americans?”
If you care about representing your side well in the public sphere, then yes.  Otherwise you decrade your position through laziness. 

If 95% of Blacks voted for Obama (understandably especially considering historical implications) how does any new organization that opposes Obama’s policies except to get a significant number of Blacks supporters.

There are many Black Tea Party activist and many of those have leadership positions.. But not as many as the Tea party would like. Why? Because it takes a whole heap of courage for these folks to come forward because they are ridiculed and sometimes harassed in their own neighborhoods and often called traitors. So if we only working with 5% of the voting black population how many blacks as a percent of population would you expect to join the Tea Party? The so called lack of numbers does not in any way count as evidence of racism.

Do a Google search on “Black Tea Party activist” and see what is first on the list.

The simple fact that the Black community as a whole look down on other Blacks that think for themselves and are not in lock step with the masses in their community is racist in and of itself.

Again..the left is losing and when they are losing the race card is the first weapon of last resort. And from your response it is only hateful and violent rhetoric when you disagree with it. If you agree with these CBC racist then you feel it isn’t hate or violent speech.

So go f$%k yourself you hypocrite!

Tea Party has better negatives than Dems, GOP

Jacksonville, FL —
President Obama’s job approval rating has sunk to an all-time low in the latest Quinnipiac poll. Obama’s disapproval rating is 52%, compared to 47% in July. Congressional leaders rate even lower in the public eye. The Tea Party has a better rating–with 42% of voters having a negative view.

http://www.wokv.com/news/news/local/tea-party-has-better-negatives-dems-gop/nDccm/

You mean like, Congressional Black Caucus hateful?

Sorry Greggy. That B.S. poll was torpedoed by RealClearPolitics.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/25/tea_partiers_racist_not_so_fast_105309.html

You are person who loves humor, you have a great sense of humor, prob just like Michele Bachmann.

This is the most amazing self-beclowning column I’ve read in a long, long time, and that’s saying something.
Way to go, Emmett!

how about harry reid’s snub then?

How long did Obama have to pick a date for his speech?  How long did Boehner have to consult the calendar? 

King Obama played politics and lost.  He insulted the office of the presidency by turning a critical matter into yet another BS political ploy to minimize collaboration with the other party and play to his ever shrinking base.  He attempted to trivialize the important matter of evaluating candidates for the next election.

Obama played cheap and dirty, Chicago style, and lost.

Whole lotta juicy stuff for you all:

http://twitter.com/#!/adamsbaldwin

Whole lotta juicy stuff for you all:

http://twitter.com/#!/adamsbaldwin

what a joke.  I would link to all the crap Dems said about Bush when he was President and do a compare and contrast.  But when you’re dealing with people this irrational, what’s the point?  It’s like trying to convince my dog to stop licking his own balls.

what a joke.  I would link to all the crap Dems said about Bush when he was President and do a compare and contrast.  But when you’re dealing with people this irrational, what’s the point?  It’s like trying to convince my dog to stop licking his own balls.

I totally agree.

Tommy Christopher is the funniest man on the Internet, except when he’s trying to be.

it is not a vacation when you go back to your district office and mmet with your constituents. It is your job to REPRESENT your district!

I remember Tommy’s outrage and written articles about how Reid should resign; as leader of the Senate because of his egregious behavior and complete disrespect for the President and the office of the Presidency.  Or Nancy Pelosi as well.

Oh wait a minute – disrespecting the office with a republican holds it is a-ok.

This is truly funny Tommy; I know you don’t mean it to be, but you can’t be taken seriously when you write stuff like this….there are three equal branches of Government, Obama is not a dictator, nor is any Prsident, and one who acts like he is a dictator should be shunned, laughed at, taken to task and disrespected…..not emboldened by a sychophantic press.

Honestly.

Leave boner alone, he cant think with that alcohol riddled mind of his, sack of wasted organs…

Umm. No.

President can call congress into session when they are not in session.

President CANNOT demand to speak to a joint session of congress: He has to ask for that and congress has to approve — both houses.

Chump.

Wait, what! This isn’t The Onion?

Such a little geek u r

This isn’t the first unprecedented Republican insult to the presidency under Barack Obama

Uh, after doing something one time you set a precedent.

…ignorant twit…..

The world was shocked and aghast that the one country they could always depend on to be strong, was kidnapped by the tea party, who did the unthinkable by telling the world we were ready to default. If not for some good negotiating by Obama, they would have suceeded.

Tommy, go lie down, you’ll hurt yourself.

And then for Gods’ sakes go read some history: if you think that was an unprecedented insult, you’re gonna really freak out at some of the things that went on with Lyndon Johnson and Eisenhower.  Or with Nixon.  Of FDR.  And for your own good, definitely don’t read about John Quincy Adams.

You can tell you grandchildren that you supported those who sought to send our nation into default, for no other reason than to be able to “sink” the presidency of the duly elected president, because afterall, he is not even Christian, or even American.

Way to go, Tommie. Good article (and getting the expected reaction).

Different study… But you tried… Sort of.

Wrong all the way around. The WH didn’t wait for a response before going public. And 15 minutes notice is sufficient? BO tried to pull a fast one plain and simple. He looks like a jerk. At the worst Boehner just looks rude.

Tommy Christopher, your satire is becoming more and more brilliant. I  always laugh at your articles, but that was another level. You must submit this to funny or die because your talents are being wasted here. 

You shouldn’t make Tommy angry… you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.

Oh… wait… he already is angry.

The biggest insult to the office of President Is Obama himself!!!

Gotta clean off my keyboard now, thanx alot!

Spare Me the only one who should resign is OBAMA

you idiot Obama voted down the debt ceiling when he was a senator and campaigned that Bush was spending too much money during his 8 years-all you liberals are IDIOTS!!!

1: African American party loyalty precedes Obama and will likely continue long past Obama.

2: African Americans avoid the Tea Party because they are intimidated? Interesting inversion. African Americans avoid the Tea Party because it is a collection of white regressives who advocate policies that are harmful and hold a condescending view of minorities.

3: Your assertion that African Americans dislike independent thought is racist and proof of the bankrupt nature of your position.

4: It’s not the race card when describing real racism… You are simply pulling the race card race card to obscure your demeaning and condescending view of African Americans.

5: You lack Grace.

Gotta give you thumbs up just for the comedic value alone.

I don’t think politics has been a “ruff business” since the days of Elizabeth I, Tommy. 

Compared to the offenses by Pelosi and her crew (remember “deem and pass” or “jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, let’s vote for jobs”?) the Speaker is well within his rights to publicly call out the President and/or his idiot staff for suggesting the date of a GOP Presidential Debate as a good date for a joint session. Calling out the President for being a buffoon isn’t an offense, it’s his job when it is merited.

Tommy playing games: SEE ME! SEE ME! I’M OVER HERE! I’m LIBERAL!

Tommy was disturbing Adam’s calm.

Haha.  Tommy Christopher is such a partisan hack. It’s fun to watch a male suffer from hysteria though.

maybe Boehner is repaying Obama for his immature treatment of Paul Ryan.  Obama’s a clown.

Was that a comeback………………………..Or a cry for help?

But that really old guy on Meet the Presstitutes, or something, said the U.S. would never default because they can just print more money.

Was that old guy lying?

Obama was lying.

Give me one instance of any President going public with a request to speak before a joint session of Congress WITHOUT negotiating and agreeing on the date with the Speaker of the House ahead of time, and you’ll have an argument. Since Obama is the only POTUS in history without the respect for the Speaker or the requisite self awareness to understand what a dick move it would be to do that, you don’t have an argument. Even James Carville admits it was a dick move on Obama’s part, and when a Donk hack like Carville accuses you of being a Donk Hack, you’re definitely being a Donk hack.

Tommy, you ignorant slut. Seriously, how much does Mediaite pay you? It would be interesting to know exactly what you feel your credibility is worth.

President CANNOT demand to speak to a joint session of congress: He has to ask for that and congress has to approve — both houses.

“Chump”, you say? Show me the Constitutional clause, or U.S. Code, that supports your assertion. Otherwise, it is you that you are describing.

President CANNOT demand to speak to a joint session of congress: He has to ask for that and congress has to approve — both houses.

“Chump”, you say? Show me the Constitutional clause, or U.S. Code, that supports your assertion. Otherwise, it is you that you are describing.

This drivel coming from christopher is not a surprise. Like the spoiled inept kid who has a fit because he can’t win the libs are taking thier ball and going home, or running away from their duties as elected members of congress in Wisconsin. This anus Tommy Christopher can’t stand that John Boehner and the republicans are beating obama and the dems…badly. They can’t compete and look like ameteurs. So they whine and cry and hope that someone’s mother comes along and makes the kid who plays better go home. To bad it’s not tommy bering sent home until he learns to act like a big boy and stop crying. I bet he played soccer in one of those leagues that didn’t keep score so everybody wins! Wimps and cowards the lot of them.

lol – the top is spinning off its axis.

Good call, now he’s only 112 days behind Bush in vacation days to this point in their presidencys.

No-one ever shouted “you lie” at Bush during a speech before congress, no supreme court jujstice ever mouthed words at a president, no president was ever refused a speech on a specific night, and no President has ever had to deal with such an intransigent opposition party in our history.  This President has been shown no respect and it’s time for someone to pay for their recalcitrance.

And we’ve never had such an ignorant, ilinformed  electorate in our nations history.  With the advent of Fox and Limbaugh half the country is not only dumb, they’re radical about their ignorance.

Mr. Christopher is a bit off the mark. He shouldn’t resign because of this minor Constitutional protocol screw up. He should resign because he’s been conspiring with persons guilty of treason.

Boehner has insulted and disrespected the office of the President of the United States, and should resign. 

Loser talk.

It was either that or imply he’s gay, these baggers are about as deep as a tea-spoon. 

News flash lemonjello, some people have a different point of view than you and, they’re entitled to it.

thanks that was hilarious! I 

According to a Presidential historian, this is the first time in our nations history a President has been denied the choice of a date and time for a joint speech.

If for not other reason, a drug-addled portly radio show host is becoming insufferable with his bragging of how he’s pulling the strings

Obama is and was always planned to be a scape goat.   He didnt as much win the election as it was handed to him.  He continues all Bush policies, gives us a new war, and passes Romney-care.  Im half wondering if he is just hoping to give back the presidency as he has grown weary of his own inability to do anything other than maintain the Corporate Master’s mandate.

Presidential ‘control’ is an absolute illusion.  I like that Bush at least knew that.  W. had the best in the business running the show for him and he showed up for the speeches (much like Ronnie).  Clinton was probably the closest to a genuine political mastermind in the office but even he could not fight the numbers of those against him and finally got snagged by one of the numerous political attacks engineered against him.

Obama cannot even defeat one single political attack against him.

As I am sure has already been pointed out, Congress is a co-equal branch of government to that of the Executive branch.  And if Mr. Obama addresses a joint session, he is a guest in their house.  As I recall in matters of etiquette, the guest does not proscribe the day of time he shows up at your house.

The President tried to play a little hardball politics, knowing full well that there was a Republican debate already scheduled that night, and that two sitting members of Congress would be in that debate.  It just blew up in his face and made him look stupid.  Unfortunately, that’s not unusual.

Kidnapped? Did you not see who was in power the last few years? Unthinkable? It shouldn’t even be a freakin’ issue, but that’s our government for you, especially when democrats are in power. You’re known as “tax and spend” for a reason, tool.

How do you people keep breeding?

RAAAAAAAAAAACIST!

This is just foolishness. The president should not announce that he has time reserved for a joint session until he has a CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to that effect. That is the legal requirement for convening the meeting. Just because the Speaker requests it doesn’t even mean it’s going to happen; the President should never assume he is going to get one.

Asking for an 8 pm authorization for a joint session left NO time for the security detail to do their job. Boehner was absolutely right to object to it on that basis. Whether the President thought he was getting over on the GOP candidates or not is irrelevant. Apparently he is unaware of the need for a concurrent resolution–which has to be voted on, btw. Either that, or he just assumed that his imperious power overrules the logistical needs of a coequal branch of government.

Calm down. The only wrong here was the President jumping the gun on the announcement. Everything else went by the book.

Says Greg: Not proof that incivility belongs only to any one philosophy and in no way rebuttal of the study finding that Tea Party members harbor longstanding dislike of minorities. 

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[The] study by who??? Liberals? Please give us your pics of socialists and communist sympathizers at any right wing rally. Any you can find. Those people belong to the ideology that your party is trying to ram down this country’s throat, spread the wealth of the rich to the poor for your social justice programs. Do you deny that? Do you need the government to decide who to spend your money on for you? I sure don’t.

CBC Member Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) Says Tea Party Wants …

1 day ago … CBC Member Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) Says Tea Party Wants “Blacks Hanging on a Tree” in a Shameful Reference to Lynching …
http://www.hinterlandgazette.com/2011/08/cbc-member-rep-andre-carson-d-in-says.html

You should look at the pictures of Malkins and see if you don’t find references to lynching. Apes defecating on Dick Cheney. And, doesn’t your democrat CBC call lynching racist?

You’re a fairly disingenuous individual if you don’t find the communists in the democratic party quite disturbing. They have the same rallying cry as the leaders of the democrat party, ie, corporations evil, oil evil and all the other socialist pap. A prominent member of congress has flat out called for the nationalization of the oil companies, and for taxing banks out of business for not lending to the poor. Isn’t lending to those that cannot repay loans very thing that led us into the current financial meltdown?

Oh, and this taxing banks to punish them is as close as honest a democrat can be. Admitting that taxes can actually punish and ruin a business. Hell, they can actually cause businesses to pack up and leave states. Leave the USA. Imagine that.

I’d guess you mean when he conspired with the White House and Harry Reid on the budget…

If for not other reason, a drug-addled portly radio show host is becoming insufferable with his bragging of how he’s pulling the strings.

Don’t even get me started on the “portly” side of Rush Limbaugh. There is some serious Rush Limbaugh prevarication.that would have to be explained to America. It wouldn’t be pretty.

OK, if you meant that in the vein of “Jane, you ignorant slut” from SNL that has to be the funniest comment I’ve read in a long time – nice one!

Tommy – you should get a T-Shirt made up and hang on your wall :)

Then why did so many Rethuglicans spend so much of their six week vacations avoiding their constituents? They don’t have to represent their districts when they’re owned by the Koch brothers and big oil.

Angry? No, she’s as pissy as Obama is. 

I think we can all expect 14 months of nonstop PMS from these two.

Obama’s a girl. haven’t you all figured that out yet? Haven’t you noticed how feminine the hands look? The fragility?

The liberal, in-the-tank-for-0bama NYT is your source of slime on the Tea Party? And you want to be taken serious in a debate? Do you cite Paul Krugman for your economic brilliance as well? Wow. Where is the NYT’s evidence of racisim??? They should start by looking at MSNBC’S Sharpton, the racists, Waters, Jackson Lee, Andre Carson, Fredrica Wilson, and 0bama’s very own preacher of 20 years, the coward Eric Holder just to name a few. When the Times recognizes their vile comments as racist, I will give them some credence for their opinion on racism in America. Until then, they can go straight to hell with Maxine. And, until then, citing them is putting you far down the credibility ladder.

“Give me one example of the Speaker of the House refusing to
attend a state dinner in any administration before this one.  I can give
you 4 instances with Boehner.  In fact Boehner has refused every one of
them so far.”Maybe Boehner doesn’t like state dinners. He’s not required to go.  “Give one example of a Speaker of the House
refusing to ride with the POTUS in Air Force 1 when invited.  One
example besides Boehner that is.”Why should he?  That’s not his job.”Give one example of anyone
ever shouting that the POTUS is a liar while he is addressing a joint
session of Congress.  One example ever except for the one time it was
done by a Republican that is.”I’ll give you that one. On the other hand, we now know the President was actually lying.”Give me one example of any
Congress refusing to raise the debt limit unless their demands were met,
before this Congress that is. “Which is exactly why we are where we are now.  And they didn’t make “demands.” It’s not like they said, “We won’t pass this unless you give us a state dinner.” They said “We won’t raise the ceiling on what we OWE until we show some sign of wanting to owe LESS.” “And lastly, give one example of
any Speaker of the House refusing to call a joint session of Congress
when it was requested by the POTUS before this Speaker refused.”We have no idea whether this has happened or not. The negotiations leading to a CR are not necessarily available to history. One ought not to claim to have a settled date unless everything is nailed down. Which means a CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. Boehner and Reid would have to introduce it, and it would have to be voted on. It is foolish to assume even the most pro forma of legislation is going to go through. Also, most presidents have not called joint sessions for silly speeches. They call them to present the State of the Union Address, declare war, and give serious, direction-changing addresses. This president can’t even write his “plan” down. There’s no reason to assume this isn’t the same corporate jet tax/soak the rich/extend unemployment speech we heard 30 times last month–unless it’s something worse.”Remember
this is the new normal for how the POTUS is to be treated by his
opponents in Congress.  The right has set these standards and we will
also honor these standards.  No victim-hood whining allowed.  Hope you
enjoy reaping what you have sown.”This is exactly how the Founders wanted the President to be treated. Civilly, respectfully, but not worshipfully. They did not create a Sovereign in the Presidency. They left the people as the Sovereign. The president is our Chief servant, not our master. The Legislative branch is coequal to the Executive, and each have their own territory. The Speaker of the House decides who goes there. The President must have permission. The Founders understood servant leadership. The current President does not.

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Just because people are treating the President as coequal, rather than Imperial, doesn’t make them wrong. The things you are expecting of people are not appropriate to a President, but to a King, or a Pope, or one’s Pastor (in some denominations). The President deserves the respect of the office when he is acting in conformity to its demands. When he is playing pure politics, all bets are off, as they should be.

Any time you can get like 300 comments in a few hours you definitely hit someone’s button. Was that intentional? I would think so.

No he means those TeaTraitors who refused to vote to raise the debt ceiling and caused the downgrade of our great natioN and stock market nosedive.

THOSE TRAITORS

W
LOVER, I see.

Apparently you do not know what Funny or Die is

Name us those times that Bush was refused a joint session of Congress

“What is soooooo important about the date he proposed (other than,
you know, it was on the night of a long-planned GOP debate that he
transparently wanted to hijack)?

Don’t you and the president want as many Americans as possible to hear his wondrous speech??? Why give a speech dressing down congress for his failures on a night that will then be without the largest audience possible if he wants to get his message out???

I keep waiting to hear one of you 0bama/liberal lovers answer that. Doesn’t he need to sell the conservatives, and independents that might be watching the GOP debates on his brilliant plan, instead of selling it to the leftist sheep that already drool over his every utterance?

Wow, America looks forward to more 0bama teleprompter reading, instead of a live debate. Who knew??? Well, having the reading the day after gives the great orator a chance at rebuttal of the GOP talking points, too. That should be a bonus for all of you. Brilliant political move by Boehner, showing Mr. petty to be even more petty.

You just witnessed a broad daylight assault on our democracy, and you did not even notice. In fact, apparently, you were cheering it on. Yea, let
s default on our national debt, hip, hip, horrah. But I do have to correct myself because not all republicans in the House went along with it. But those that did should be recalled.

Not quite.  I’m referring to his ”checking in” with his puppetmaster, the Maha Rushie Limbaugh.

I can only imagine how angry you must be at the Democrats who voted against raising the ceiling at far greater numbers.

PUNCTUATION IS YOUR FRIEND

Mine didn’t. She had several public events.

I didn’t mention racism but you are right, Obama has been accused of that too.

Playing it out PUBLICLY like Boner did was UNPRECEDENTED DICK MOVE

The Speaker of the House decides who goes there. The President must have permission.

You have a warped understanding of the Constitution. Just like Rush Limbaugh and Rick Perry.

As I commented to a couple of previous posts, it’s doubtful that the Republican debate was on either office’s radar and the situation wasn’t helped by all the blogs and pundits giving the President a win for scheduling, when it was most likely inadvertent. Boehner didn’t have a choice, the media backed him into a corner and now they’re swinging at Obama because he did the right thing.

Otherwise, Boehner’s not going to resign and the rescheduling is only an insult because it’s being characterized as such, by some of the same outlets that created the situation.

what a whiny, pissy pants, oba’mao’ jock sniffer you are

Wow, what an incredible intellectual rebuttal you have just presented to Mr. Christopher’s argument. We’re all very impressed.

Sorry, where is it in your timeline that Boehner sent a communication to the President that Sept. 7 was acceptable?

You only say that a communication went to his office 90 minutes before it was released to the public. Not getting an immediate response is not the same as a “green light” and any moron would know this.

What if some dude you did not even like sent you an e-mail and says “hey, I need to borrow your bike. Be there in 10 minutes to get it.”

Some time goes by you check your e-mail figuring “Well I guess I will see him when I get home” only to find a note that says “Let myself in. Took your bike. Did not hear from you, figured it was fine.”

What would you think?

Yes, Obama was a complete dlck.

I hope we do not have a President as stupid as you suggest.

Any moron trolling the WH knows when the next GOP debate is. It is Rick Perry’s debut!

What political being in the WH would be oblivious to that.

Your suggestion implies the staff of the President are incompetent drooling idiots. They may be incompetent, but not that incompetent.

This was calculated. Badly.

I hope we do not have a President as stupid as you suggest.

Any moron trolling the WH knows when the next GOP debate is. It is Rick Perry’s debut!

What political being in the WH would be oblivious to that.

Your suggestion implies the staff of the President are incompetent drooling idiots. They may be incompetent, but not that incompetent.

This was calculated. Badly.

Rumor has it that Reid was mad as heck about it.

As majority leader of the Senate he deserves some consideration and he received the letter at the same time Boehner did, and did not immediately respond either, only to find the letter circulating in the media before he actually saw it.

The President is the President, not King or Emperor. Congressional Leaders, regardless of party deserve some respect.

Rumor has it that Reid was mad as heck about it.

As majority leader of the Senate he deserves some consideration and he received the letter at the same time Boehner did, and did not immediately respond either, only to find the letter circulating in the media before he actually saw it.

The President is the President, not King or Emperor. Congressional Leaders, regardless of party deserve some respect.

Oh, this is rich.  Beautiful.  Comedy gold!  It couldn’t have been stated any more humorously if it came directly out of Sharpton’s mouth.

Thanks for the laugh, Tommy, I enjoyed it very must!  4of 5 thumbs up.

I’m sure that there’s some staffers, especially on the political side whose job includes keeping up with the Republican debates, but if anything, I’m sure that their job also entails setting the DVR and producing a synopsis. Of course, if the President is sitting in front of the television and if he flipped past the debate, he’s political enough that he may stop and watch, but considering that he was hoping to make a speech at that time, it’s pretty safe to say that it wasn’t something he had planned.

The reason why BO is calling for a  joint session of Congress is unprecedented. Boehner was not disrespectful. Tommy needs to be reminded Obama is not King, Emperor, President-for-Life or Barack Obama dada. The GOP debate was set for months and was well publicized in advance. Joint sessions of Congress are called for SOTU or declaration of war or address an act of war. No President has called for a joint session to make a campaign pitch. Obama has and he probably called it do exercise his power. Unfortunately, his ego made him make a power play that fizzled. Did he really think Boehner should drop the plans for the debate that was scheduled months before and be at his beckon call?

You spelled journOlist wrong

You, apparently, have NO understanding of the Constitution. 

How about Daschle and Gephart. Reid and Pelosi? Those clowns opposed GW Bush at every turn. Calling for a joint session of Congress on that particular evening was a power play gone awry.

As I’ve said in my comments, I don’t think the President or Boehner realized the debate conflicted until the media pointed it out. After all, it’s going to be on MSNBC and I doubt that’s either of their viewing choice.

Carney should resign because he is a lying sack of shit:

Watch him repeatedly lying his ass off here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Now read the truth here:

The White House was well aware the president’s speech would conflict with a
planned Republican debate sponsored by POLITICO and NBC to be
held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. The debate would be broadcast live by MSNBC and live-streamed by POLITICO. CNBC and Telemundo will re-air the broadcast.Yet the White House did not see this as an obstacle. “With all due respect, the POLITICO-MSNBC debate was one that was going on a cable station,” the White House source said. “It was not sacrosanct. We knew they would push it back and then there would be a GOP debate totally trashing the president. So it wasn’t all an upside for us.”

http://dyn.politico.com/prints...

When you demonstrably lie as many times as Carney did in the span of 5 minutes, I think it’s time for responsible government officials to call for his immediate resignation. He’s bereft of integrity.

And you proof of that accusation would be???

Joe Wilson shouted “You lie” when Obama said that his Health Care Collectivization Act would not cover illegal alie..er, sorry, Potentially Insufficiently Documented Future Reliable Democratic Voters of La Raza.  Regulations were just issued that said no one can be turned away from health coverage under ObamaCare and that immigration status will not be checked. So…Obama lied.

It was also unprecedented for any president to insult the Supreme Court members at a SOTU address, and especially since he lied again about the case he was criticizing them for.

Meanwhile, Obama is unconstitutionally enacting major legislation via regulations, like cap ‘n tax, the Dream Act, and lots more. The President has shown no respect for the Constitution and it’s time for him to pay the price for his recalcitrance.

Thank the FSM, I can see November 2012 from my house. Unfortunately, this lawless administration can cause a lot more damage by then.

Let’s see if Obama in his speech, will put the blame on anyone for any particular reason. If he does, he does not deserve to be President.

Well, O loves to bask in the glory of his historical presidency, so now he has another notch on his historical belt.

You asked so here it is straight from a neutral sourse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_session_of_the_United_States_Congress

Joint session of congress requires a concurrent resolution from both House and Senate to meet. Joint sessions include the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election and the State of the Union, as well as other addresses by the President.

You know that’s the main flaw with progressives, they think they can make up the Constitution as they go.

This is the first time a President has called a joint session of Congress to make a campaign pitcch.

This is jaw droppingly stupid, even for Tommy. He’s managed the impossible-I almost feel sorry for him. 

Wait, people! I’ve got it, Tommy is doing a parody of a parody! He’s doing a take on Ben Affleck’s hilarious Olbermann send up where his Olby continuously calls for the resignation of everyone from President Bush to the head of his apartment’s co-op board. This whole article is the revenge of Miss Precious Perfect! It all finally makes sense. 

See my post below. Politco has the scoop on all the lying that’s been coming out of the White House press office. They knew exactly what they were doing and they deliberately chose to have the speech when they did.

Sure he’s the emperor. 

Didn’t you see the Greek columns at his Immaculation speech? Doesn’t he claim the power to “heal the planet”? Didn’t he say that the day he was elected the seas would begin to recede? And then there’s the miraculous way that a mysterious halo appears to surround his jauntily upturned head on every photo taken by the old line media, and the scores of women who fainted in his divine presence.And he’s well along on “fundamentally transforming” this country, into what we have no idea yet. And only an emperor could ignore the constitution and usurp the powers of the Congress like he is doing.

Did those votes result in the downgrading of our nation or crash our economy?

Yeah,’didn’t think so.

Really now? So you are saying the Republican “No” votes caused the downgrade, but the Democrat “No” votes on the exact same bill did NOT contribute.  This is an explanation I’d love to hear.

I’m not quite sure how 15 minutes warning is adequate for Boehner’s
office to respond with objections.  If I ask you for a million dollars
and you don’t respond in 15 seconds does that mean you’ve agreed to give
it to me?  Or that you deserve to be fired if you come back in a minute
and ask me to reconsider my request? 

Up until yesterday wasn’t the plan for the president to give the speech on September 6th, from the White House?  Why does he need to address a joint session of Congress?  He doesn’t.  The joint session ploy just guarantees that the networks will cover it with a little more pomp and allows him an additional element of political theater when he claims without evidence that his proposals are “bipartisan.” 

There is a reason why Congress receives historic lows of 12% approval ratings in the polls. It’s because of juveniles in Congress like John Boehner or Eric Cantor.

The Republican Party has explicitly stated that their primary political objective is for the president to fail. Let’s be explicit: the opposition party will do everything in its power to ensure that the elected government fails, whether that be by wrecking the nation’s creditworthiness or by refusing to extend the simplest of political courtesies.

We are in the midst of the most severe economic crisis in 80 years, and the Republicans want America to fail, so they can rule over the ashes.

They have a word for that. Anyone want to guess?

The above video link doesn’t work so here is another link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZs0D2D6yo&feature=youtube_gdata

I actually don’t see what all the fuss is about. Why is this important at all? A date was requested and it was denied a new date was given. Walla done deal. You guys and Tommy are all making a big deal out of a nothing story. It just goes to show how waked out our politics have become. 

Lighten up Francis!

Genetic fallacy. Look it up pea-brain.

You write without concern for quality, distinction or concision. Pause, breathe and attempt to explain yourself reasonably.

And yet his economic record is still worse than Bush’s to this point in his Presidency.

Maybe he should stop giving speeches and proposing economic ‘plans’ and go away.

Food for thought.

Come on.

You can troll harder than that.

I just read the Politico piece. 

I never commented to Colby’s first post, but my instinctive reaction was that MSNBC could simply push it back an hour, then the moderator could ask the candidates for their reaction. I am surprised they had considered the debate and didn’t offer apologies or mention it in their initial statement, but it still sounds like the media are who gave Boehner no choice.

Oh, and just as the Republican candidates could have taken swings at Obama, thus producing some good soundbites and possibly setting one or two up to be the President’s primary opposition, now they’re free to offer non-specific, generalized rhetoric that the President can bat down with “hard choice”.

Not sure how it can be said that both parties agreed to the timeline info when the statement below by the SOH office was in a MSNBC article……

“No one in the speaker’s office — not the speaker, not any staff —
signed off on the date the White House announced today,” said Boehner
spokesman Brendan Buck. “Unfortunately we weren’t even asked if that
date worked for the House. Shortly before it arrived this morning, we
were simply informed that a letter was coming. It’s unfortunate the
White House ignored decades — if not centuries — of the protocol of
working out a mutually agreeable date and time before making any public
announcement.”

This WH however loves to involve itself in that ole he said she said in order to keep the focus off the actual subject matter

It’s a good thing this moron left the Country.  Hopefully he will take the rest of the liberal America haters with him.  They do not wish for America to fail but rather for Obama to fail in passing his laws and plans. This Country will continue towards destruction if Obama succeeds in passing his wishes.

Thanks for clarifying the president’s right to call for a joint session only when you approve. Next time he’ll be sure you’re consulted much earlier before making such a decision.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, no one gives a rat’s ass about your ahistorical, unfounded, and pathologically resentful posting, and my recommedation would be that you try mint rubbing as a hobby instead of presidential schedule-making.

Wow, Tommy! Giving Richard Wolffe a run for the lapdog money?

Respect for the Office of the President is only relevant when he’s a member of your party.

In reality, he is nothing more than a citizen. He has no more required respect than anyone else, and in fact, we tend to treat our Presidents worse than anyone else.

It’s so they aren’t treated like a King, so they understand their duty to the people and not the other way around.

You want a Monarchy, get out of my country. Or get a life.  It really wasn’t much for disrespect anyway.

Tommy argument is weak because the rules of a joint session allow Boehner the ability to reject it.  If you and Tammy believe Boehner should resign because its “politically motivated”, then 0bama should also resign for his politically motivated decision to hold it on said day. And his politically motivated bus (campaign) tour in the very same region that Republicans were campaigning.  You fools can’t point at one side without admitting your side did/does the exact same thing. 

Insulting Americans?  How about calling Americans enemies?  Playing his agitator class warfare crap everyday?  Siding with unions over individuals? 

Boehner, made Speaker of the house by his political cronies, was not elected by the whole of the American people (a fact he demonstrates regularly); Obama was.

A presidential request for a joint session is not an invite from “some dude.” This lack of understanding how adults behave and disregard for the stakes highlights the Republicans’ childish and destructive approach to “governing.”

Keep it up, John. The people are getting heartily sick of you and your rabble of noisy delinquents.

hmm…quite.

That headline is so damn funny. Stupid as hell but, also funny as hell. If anyone should resign it should be The Obumbler for trying a stunt that stupid. Nov. 2012 cannot get here soon enough. This joke in OUR White House is definitely a one termer, thank God.

90 minutes isn’t enough though. Hell, it might be 30 minutes/hour before they see it.

You can’t possibly be this dense.

Obama doesn’t need the Republicans help to fail; he’s doing a graet job of being the greatest failure ever elected to the Presidency all by himself.

Would it be necessary for all officeholders to refrain from making appearances within 15 months of an election?

Or are you just an Obamap-hater?

Hey, sexism is very trendy among wingnuts. You’re in good stead.

Boehner just wanted to slap down Obama and show him he’s boss. Reminds me of when Dems wanted to hold hearings on the Iraq war, while the GOP had both Houses of Congress, and Sensenbrenner turned off the power to that room so they couldn’t take place.

Hey GOPenises: If you’re going to get whiny and act like little shits, at least play fair.

Hm, well, we had to watch this kind of vitriol for 8 years with Bush…I guess we picked up a thing or three.

I guess they are the same place that Obumbler and the Dimocrap majority left them.  Get a life.  Obama and the democrats are horrible.

Sans punctuation. Did you mean to do that? Because that was funny!

Hack. Remember the big scoop in June? The one where he saw ID’s????
Yup. That one. Then we didn’t hear from him.
This is a great way to get some cred back.

And making sure you work Ed Shultz name into the article really puts the point out there for more credibility.
Another BHO water carrier, Have fun TC, while he’s here.
“Bye bye BHO, we hardly knew ya, seemed like yesterday didn’t expect to get screwed by ya”

How the look of distain on his face when he has to kiss that woman of his???The beard?

Wrong is wrong. Pointing it out is almost an obligation.

An extraordinarily stupid remark, even for Mediaite.

You’ve just demonstrated once again — as if it’s necessary — the truly thickheaded fantasy that the wingnutariat wallows in.

Look, guys, we’re all in this together. The fact that Obama is bailing and the Republicans are drilling holes in the bottom of the boat doesn’t alter the fact that we’re all going to drown if the nihilistic obstructionism of the right continues.

But go right ahead believing that the electorate is going to reward treason in 2012.

Waaaah! Johnny, Johnny, Obama was mean to me!

I have no problem believing the above conversation literally took place. I swear that the Republican “leadership” is devolving to infants before our very eyes.

Wow. The dumb funk is really thick here today.

Tomorrow TC takes on the reports hitting the wire about three GOP party members reportedly giving some DEM lawmakers dirty looks over lunch.
Also, we get down to the bottom of a new scandal: Seat saving in the Congressional Dining Room and the many feelings that have been hurt
.Maxine Waters telling the janitorial staff that if the best  seating arrangements aren’t stopped  being  made just for the Tea Party, they can all “go to hell”
TC with an in-depth report after BHO takes a leak and gets his economic briefing for five minutes tomorrow.
Tune in tomorrow after TC challenges Chuck Zito of The Hells Angels fame to a streetfight, but fails to tell Chuck WHICH STREET he will be on.
Early reports indicate that TC is looking to stage the fight on “Main Street” but not giving any hints or clues as to what city state or country the  particular “Main Street” is located in.

More from the goatsred TC Gossip Page tomorrow where we expose the Weiner ID/REID catastrophe.

I wonder how far Mediaite’s shame will be spread?

A Joint Session of Congress is not “an appearance.” He can make all the appearances he wants.

While I applaud the spirit of your post, I find your words offensive and unnecessary

Awwwww, poor widely Democrats, getting pushed around by those big, bad, unfair Republicans!

Shhh…listen. You hear that? It’s the world’s smallest violin, and it’s playing just for you. Then again, I’d be whining too if my inability to admit mistakes compelled me to defend the worthless sack of crap currently inhabiting the White House.

These are tough times for fringe socialist loons.

Why don’t any of you people seem to understand what “co-equal” means? Are you just being intentionally obtuse?

The man is not your king. Get up off your knees.

I accidentally “liked” your post. I didn’t mean to – honest.

P.S. Your president is a d-bag.

“The President makes arrangements with the Speaker; and once they are agreed upon; the President announces the agreed upon date.”

Who went public at an “unprecedented” time thereby “playing it out publicly as an unprecedented dick move”?

Ah yes, OBAMA did.  you know, like I just said. 

If you’d read my post, and understood all the words you’d already know that and could avoid embarrassing yourself further.

Which was the problem?  The reading, or the knowing all the big com-pli-cat-ed more than 3 letter words that I used?

WOOHOO!  I get to run mediate for a day; I think end of the month; Friday September 30th works for me.   Pleas e-mail me guys to give me the passwords. 

You didn’t say anything for a few hours after I said this was what I wanted; so you thereby agree and it would bwe3 a firing level of disrespectful to back out now.

Or do only Democrats get to pull this completely asinine crap and pretend it makes any sense at all?

Let me know; I’ll have to put together 15-20 posts on why Tommy Christopher is less intelligent, less moral, less honest, and less respectable than a sewer rat.  So I’ll need maybe 2 days to write that all up… it’s not like the research is complicated; but te typing will take some time.

Thanks again for agreeing to let me take over your site, mock you, and call you all jackholes… by simply not responding in a few hours.

And hell, I gave you 9 hours which is more than Obama gave Boehner…so clearly you really really want me to do this… right?

Obama wasn’t denied a joint session in Congress. He was asked to move it to the following date.

Bush never scheduled his joint sessions during the Democrat debate. But then again, Bush was an adult.

Call for resignation of Speaker John Boehner
http://signon.org/sign/call-for-resignation?source=s.tw&r_by=430768

Well thank god the American people STILL blame Bush first, the GOTP second, next to last the Dems and lastly, Obama for the mess we’re in.  No matter how low his approval rating gets it’s still better than everyone else in government.  Unlike your alternate reality, America likes Barack Obama. 

Tommy C’s head is floating nearby Richard Wolffe’s in Barry Soetero’s lower GI tract….!!!!  

It’s like inviting yourself to someone else’s house for dinner and after fifteen minutes of NO RESPONSE, assuming that the host of the mansion has agreed, so you can announce it to the world.

Carville’s right, the class-warfare O’Bozo demonstrated zero class at all.   Mediaite is trying to outdo The Daily Show in comic absurdity, but Tommy C always gets the comic part botched up and ends up merely sounding absurd.

Actually, the best maneuver for Obungler’s opponents would be to have the teleprompter suddenly “malfunction” during the boring ninnywhine that O’Bozo will be emitting and then watch him like a deer in headlights, speechless, like he always is when his minders’ words suddenly don’t appear on the glasscue card floating by in front of him.   I wonder what’s gonna happen when he suddenly starts to get serious vision problems—-the guy is aging at an amazing rate and by next year will be pushing seventy.

Maybe he’ll need even bigger screens on the teleprompter and make his one-term moronhood an absolutely mortal lock.   He looks silly enough as it is…..

Co-equal isn’t synonymous with “fuck you.” Speaker of the House is not synonymous with the President.

Even during the presidency of GWBush — a war criminal, a bully and a fool — Congress as a whole didn’t abandon its constitutional duty to govern. Republicans and Democrats alike did their jobs.

Today’s Republicans have abandoned those constitutional duties in an all-out attempt to bring the elected government down. History will remember them as traitors.

Hey Adam what is Cut Cap & Balance?

hahahahahahahahaha you mean the ones they didn’t have? or you had to pay to ask a question? Give me a break and no the Democrats didn’t do much better BUT, they’re not AFRAID of their constituents.

I said…

Mr. Christopher is a bit off the mark. Boehner shouldn’t resign because of this minor Constitutional protocol screw up. He should resign because he’s been conspiring with persons guilty of treason.

teccec replied to me…

I’d guess you mean when he conspired with the White House and Harry Reid on the budget…</blockquote
I replied to teccec…

Not quite.  I’m referring to his “checking in” with his puppetmaster, the Maha Rushie Limbaugh

Cat replied to me…

And you proof of that accusation would be???

Proving it here, Cat, at Mediaite, without the ability to post images, would be difficult. However, because a user can post images and video over aa Politico, proving that Rush Limbaugh has been consistently violating Title 18, Chapter 115, of U.S. Code, was a piece of cake.
Why America Should Have Seen Rush Limbaugh’s Treasonous Activities Coming

Can you say President Cheney? Sure Bush was there but he wasn’t the president. Now that’s TRUE leadership failure.

I’ve replied to this at the top of the thread…

http://www.mediaite.com/online/speaker-john-boehner-should-resign-for-his-unprecedented-insult-to-the-president/#comment-301001903

This is the first time a president has publicly been denied the choice of a date. It was public because the president released his letter to the press prior to the Speaker receiving it. Arrogance unbounded is our king.

I love Wikipedia, as a first source. However, they’re definitely not perfec,t and you must always check their sources. Please note that what you have quoted, from that Wiki article, is “unsourced”…

Joint session of congress requires a concurrent resolution from both House and Senate to meet. Joint sessions include the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election and the State of the Union, as well as other addresses by the President.

My source? The Constitution. Article II, Section 3…

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Notice that there is no mention of the President “asking” Congress for a special session. Neither does it grant, either House, the power to decline a special session CONVENED by the EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

I love Wikipedia, as a first source. However, they’re definitely not perfec,t and you must always check their sources. Please note that what you have quoted, from that Wiki article, is “unsourced”…

Joint session of congress requires a concurrent resolution from both House and Senate to meet. Joint sessions include the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election and the State of the Union, as well as other addresses by the President.

My source? The Constitution. Article II, Section 3…

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Notice that there is no mention of the President “asking” Congress for a special session. Neither does it grant, either House, the power to decline a special session CONVENED by the EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

The Constitution. Article II, Section 3…

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Notice that there is no mention of the President “asking” Congress for a special session. Neither does it grant, either House, the power to decline a special session CONVENED by the EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

If Democrats cared about “respecting the office of president”, then they should have thought about that between 2000 – 2008. All we got back then was “he stole the election”, ‘he’s a war criminal”, “he’s Hitler”, “he’s stupid”, etc. I could go on and on. Democrats set the precedent, now DEAL WITH IT.

All of the other presidents don’t try to bumrush the House telling them when he’s going to visit like this president did either. BTW, he moved his time to 7pm for the NFL………..why couldn’t he do that for the House?

Did you see that instead of giving this so-called important speech, Obama decided to go on vacation. Meanwhile in the week or so that he was gone, over 200,000 more people lost their jobs

Humorous as Bachmann, witty as Palin. Good for you!

it sucks that your lobotomy has cleared out your brain so that it doesn’t use reason. You don’t think that Democrats are good for Theater? How about the Congress has more rich democrats than republicans………did you know that too?  You probably have two houses yourself

You forgot Hitler. They’re also owned by Hitler.

You Obamatrolls are slipping.

Troll harder.

You Obama bootlickers whining about this – ask yourself why the President doesn’t just seize the spotlight tonight from the Oval Freaking Office (or last night, or Tuesday, or before he left for his million-dollar vacation) and give the speech himself. Go ahead. Ask yourselves.

Last time I checked, Oval Office speeches are a pretty big f*cking deal, to quote a famous veep.

If he wants to speak with Congress or leaders of Congress, he can do so anytime he wants. He can call Boehner and Reid (D) into the WH to talk with them – like a real President would – any time to chat. He can go on national TV from the WH and give a speech that every member of Congress would hear. If Congress doesn’t want to be used as a prop in his 2012 electoral campaign on national TV, they don’t have to be used that way.

And don’t kid yourselves – that’s why you’re mad. They made the President pay a political price for the transparent and crass political move he made here.

Stop whining. It’s sickening.

The level of disrespect shown W by the democrats and the media was unprecedented; and now all of a sudden the democrats and the media think reublicans should resign for doing what they did for years.

It is awkward and stupid.

Obama said “Bush was unpatriotic” during campaign 08 and Tommy didn’t throw a hissy fit then, nor did any of Obama’s media puppy dogs.

This article is quite embarrassing to mediaite,imho.

In 2004, Democrats delivered a “Chorus Of Boos” during Bush’s Bush’s
State Of The Union when he called for renewal of the Patriot Act.,
according to the Washington Times.

In 2005, Dems howled, hissed and shouted “No!” when Bush pushed for
Social Security reform in the SOU:  “Foreshadowing the contentiousness
of the coming debate, Democrats broke decorum and booed twice,”
according to the National Journal.

At the time, CNN’s Bill Schneider remarked,  “It was unusual. I had
never heard it at least at that level before. The Democrats clearly were
booing, heckling, saying no when the president talked about the crisis
in Social Security.”

Here’s a copy of the actual letter to the President from the Speaker.  Such DISRESPECT <<< sarcasm intended….
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/239537-presidents-letter-requesting-joint-session-of.html#document/p2

The only person who should resign is Obama. He knew the debates were scheduled 6 months ago, and frankly if its that important, he should have made the speech instead of going on vacation.

“routine political debate”?? Tommy, are you talking about the GOP Presidential debate or the “OMG!! It’s the first Congressional session after my Fall vacation and I need to talk about JOBS again!!” debate??

Turn off the siren on the whaaaaambulance, dude, and cowboy up!! As you note, politics is a rough biz. POTUS has dished out his share of insults (“We won” and “Ride in the back” come to mind) and you didn’t smack down the Prez.

If he’s the man you think he is, he’ll find a way to settle the score. In the meantime you sound whiny and petulant … you know, Liberal …

Charge him, then. File charges, and cite that law.

Put your money where your big mouth is.

Should be an open and shut case.

Keep us posted as to the progress.

The writer of this silly column shows you how the Left is the home for today’s facists.

“Boehner has insulted and disrespected the office of the President of the United States, and should resign.”

With that charge, you insult the intelligence of any readers above the age of 7.

Tell ya what Tommy…you have your Chicago thug in the Whitehouse resign and we’ll have Boehner resign. We’d be losing the better person but one must sacrifice to make progress. I could live with Biden, at least he’s good entertainment.

And you liberal whacks can just shut up. Don’t talk about respect for the President. You have no moral ground to stand on you hypocrites. I am a Democrat, I used to actually watch MSLSD and listen to the pinhead Abrams and loud-mouth Matthews, blow-hard Olberman. I have the emails still I sent your silly rag–and the few responses I received (which is a good indication of how slow business was).

When I see a liberal show respect for the office of the president, the President and the Whitehouse no matter who is occupying it, I’ll cut you some slack on your snarky, church-lady, indignation. Until then shut up. You’re all hypocrites.

Insult?  Did you bother the read Boehner’s letter?  He showed President Obama and the office of the presidency total respect.

Tommy Christopher should resign for being an idiot.

Obama has been disrespecting all of us for almost 3 years. This speech is not worthy of a joint session. He’s just grandstanding so he can insult Republicans while they sit there. He’s going to lecture, build and knock down strawmen and point fingers so the so-called “press” (that’s YOU Tommy) can swoon and drool.

“Unprecedented” is this administration’s favorite word; arrogance is its favorite attitude.  The high degree of partisan hackery from this WH is what is unprecedented.  Obama has absolutely no leadership skills or understanding of political decorum and, clearly, he has no understanding of the president’s Constitutional powers or the respect HIS office owes the Congress.
 
It’s the first time in history that the President has so arrogantly disrespected the authority of Congress by disregarding the House’s autonomy then trying to make a media story out of it for partisan purposes – left-wing spin-doctors even know the WH was wrong! 

This guy has had 2.5 years to share his ‘jobs” initiatives, but he finally decide he’s had enough golf and would address Congress on the first day back in session and the same day that the Republicans were holding a debate?  It doesn’t pass the sniff test.
 
I think Boehner should have given Obama the green light.  I’d watch a debate (and now football) over Obama’s ”in-your-face”, yet meaningless speeches.  The attention would be somewhere other than on Obama – But then, I’m not the speaker…

Lefties want to spin this to cast a negative light on Boehner, but there is no basis to criticize him. He was completely in the right on this one.  

If Obama’s staff “didn’t know” there was a debate or that it would be the first day the House would be back in session (and voting), then he needs to fire his staff.  They should have checked with the Speaker to be sure there wasn’t a conflict.  If his staff didn’t know the WH has to ASK Congress to speak, then he needs to fire his staff.

It’s obvious, a number of Americans have no understanding of the Constitution and its purposeful separation of power…otherwise, I would have to assume there is complete and utter disregard for it.  Either way, they vote…how very sad for America.  

“Both parties agree that the White House consulted Boehner’s office prior to making the request, and no objections were raised.”

Where are the jobs Republicans and Tea-Baggies? You wing nuts don’t seem to care….

Where are the jobs Republicans and Tea-Baggies? You wing nuts don’t seem to care….     

Rather over-stated, Tommy.  Yes, Boehner caved to Limbaugh and tea partiers; yes, he went back on his word; and yes, he’s a douchebag, but the President has to stop counting on these people.  They don’t care what he want, they don’t what the American people want, and they will make the economy as bad as they can until November of 2012. 

Calling on a politician to resign for being an obstructionist?  Hell, there wouldn’t be a Republican caucus in either house

If irony were a physical force of nature, you would current be crushed by torrent your comment unleashed.

Wow, about 2 years after Republicans proved they didn’t give a shit about governing and started waging war on the Executive Branch….My liberal friends are wrong; Obama can learn from his mistakes

Except that Boehner told him yes on the phone and then reneged

Bullshit.  Every speech before a joint session is a campaign speech

the latter

Not true. The Chief of Staff called (you have heard of phones?) and then Rush limabugh once again made Boehner change his mind. 

If you’re looking for the “King” in all this, I’d probably start with the thrice divorced, drug addict you people let run your party

The NFL is not part of the US government?  You might have missed that in civics class

“But then, I’m not the speaker…”

Neither is Boehner. Limbaugh is

“why is he waiting until next freaking week to give it?”

uh, because Congress is not in session?.  there are 5 GOP debates in the next couple of months, can you tell us , oh wingnut sage, when can the Government do its official business on those 5 days?  Must all government action cease 2 hours prior?  How long must the government be shut down after the last wingnut talking point fades into bored ether?  Another two hours?

Kitty, you have a VERY short memory, or else you are 12 years old. I don’t remember the Dems showing any respect or honor to the presidency when it was Bush sitting in the Oval Office.  I do remember him being called Hitler (by a Dem Senator), a liar and a warmonger. You libs are all a bunch of dispicable, hypocritic morons.  A POX on all of you Marxist fools. .  

the only job Boehner seeks to create is keeping the job of Speaker away from Cantor and the Tea Baggers.  The guy passed out lobbyist’s checks on the Floor. His only respect for the office comes from the swag he is able to grift on the side

Adam tries to make a hilarious “Dems are the real obstructionist” argument and conveniently forgets the Republican filibusters from 2009 to 2011.

It’s a sweet attempt at complaining!

Your “points” are trvial and meaningless, as are you.

The latter….

Much like the Republicans wouldn’t pass a budget without threatening us all in 2010, they will also need the Fall to threaten us all again and play brinksmanship with shutting down the govt and all.

Oh, and I’ll excuse Adam from missing the Omnibus Budget Bill which the Senate worked on throughout 2010 that the Republicans refused to allow to come to the floor, if you can excuse the coming campaign where Paul Ryan’s budget will receive VERY wide coverage.  In fact, I imagine that Democrats all over America remain happier with the fact those morons in the House passed that budget than anything else in the world

No, it’s not.  It hurts the average America to have no social safety net and to have the poor and hungry and jobless wandering the streets.  Pete Petersen and his cronies can avoid by locking the gates to the gated community, but for the rest of us, childhood malnutrition and a lack of health insurance come with societal costs. 

Cut, cap and balance is the single stupidest idea a American political party glommed on to since Republicans decided Sarah Palin was qualified to be a heartbeat away

What exactly does that prove.  FDR was fabulously wealthy; Obama is rich, yet plutocrats tell us both were and are a danger to them.

Besides, the partisan notion that because Republicans look after no one but the rich (see the payroll tax debate currently ongoing), that means Democrats don’t care about them is fabulously silly.  The majority of Democrats are in the corporate bag. It’s just that unlike Republicans, they aren’t ALL in it.

Don’t forget teleprompters and college transcripts

Don’t forget teleprompters and college transcripts

HAHAHA, “to this point in their presidencies.”

If you have no rebuttal, don’t embarrass yourself

Yeah, holding fundraisers is not a vacation, Pro kitty.  It’s hard damn work to be glad-handed that much and handed those checks.  Ask Paul Ryan and his $350 bottle of wine, talking to campaign contributors is back-breaking labor

Their hero Ryan made people PAY for the privilege of meeting their Congressman! 

Uh, because no one watches 40 minutes from the Office.  Might as well broadcast it on the radio.

latest job report showed a no net gain or loss, so I guess 200,000 were also hired.

Still, it’s sweet that Republicans have decided that NOW and not a 8 months ago is the best time for talking jobs.  And, their plan is…….oh, right they have announced one in their excitement of shutting the government down and then destroying America’s credit.  They’ve been busy

Well, it is the first day Congress is in session….you know, like whent eh President said he wanted to give it?  Oh, you didn’t know?  Didn’t Rush let you know”?

I keep wondering which Dem Congressman will be lauded by the Right for yelling that the President is a liar during a joint session. 

history began in 2000.  Certainly, TD can’t remember the last Clinton Presidency, when morons like TD demanded the govt investigate travel offices, suicides, alleged the President was a drug-dealer and a murderer, and then, suddenly, in 2001, they discovered the President deserved respect, even if he did strum a guitar while an American city drowned or read a book while Dick Cheney was acting President.

in TD’s world, respect is a partisan thing

We JUST had one or were you asleep when we invaded a foreign country, waved good-by to New Orleans and suffered the worst Recession in 70 years?

Name the award that movie won?  Name the government post the film-maker had.  Oh, the director wasn’t the Speaker of the House.  try again

Flowergirl swings and misses

In addition to the 1993 State of the Union, during which, as Begala
pointed out, Republicans heckled Clinton, they also voiced their
disapproval in three other Clinton State of the Union addresses, which
were presumably attended by then-members of Congress Scarborough and
Barr:
“Clinton’s proposal to expand Medicare to allow Americans as young as 55 to buy into the system drew shouts of “no” and some boos from Republicans during his speech.” [Chicago Tribune, 1/28/98]“Only
once did they unmistakably and collectively show their disapproval —
when Clinton spoke disparagingly of a GOP-sponsored constitutional
amendment to balance the budget. Many Republicans hissed and some booed.” [Los Angeles Times, 2/5/97]“The
upheaval wrought by the Republican election landslide was visible
throughout the president’s State of the Union address — from the moment
Speaker Newt Gingrich took the gavel to the striking silence that often
greeted Clinton from the GOP. At one point, Republicans even booed. About 20 of them left as Clinton went on and on for an hour and 20 minutes.” [Associated Press, 1/24/95]

How about any time a Republican President bitches about Roe in front of the SCOTUS?  Or, have you missed those occasions?

Except he wasn’t

Another swing and a miss

In addition to the 1993 State of the Union, during which, as Begala
pointed out, Republicans heckled Clinton, they also voiced their
disapproval in three other Clinton State of the Union addresses, which
were presumably attended by then-members of Congress Scarborough and
Barr:
  “Clinton’s proposal to expand Medicare to allow Americans as young as 55 to buy into the system drew shouts of “no” and some boos from Republicans during his speech.” [Chicago Tribune, 1/28/98]“Only
 once did they unmistakably and collectively show their disapproval —
when Clinton spoke disparagingly of a GOP-sponsored constitutional
amendment to balance the budget. Many Republicans hissed and some booed.” [Los Angeles Times, 2/5/97]“The
 upheaval wrought by the Republican election landslide was visible
throughout the president’s State of the Union address — from the moment
 Speaker Newt Gingrich took the gavel to the striking silence that often
 greeted Clinton from the GOP. At one point, Republicans even booed. About 20 of them left as Clinton went on and on for an hour and 20 minutes.” [Associated Press, 1/24/95]

Another teleprompter whine form the world’s most consistent right wing troll.

Hey, dave, make sure you mention “golf” and “college transcripts.”  It’s what all the cool wingnuts say these days

The president should resign for being a complete failure.

weird, but, if that were the rule, we could have avoided the entire Bush f*cked up administration from about the time we learned he told a CIA briefer that “okay, you covered your ass” in August of 2011. 

Why are liberals such limp wrists? XD

TOMMY CHRISTOPHER SHOULD RESIGN (OR BE FIRED) FOR HIS BLATANT LIBERAL PROPAGANDA!!!!

And btw, the insult was Obama’s. He knew what he was doing, putting it against the Republican debates and scheduling this in the last-minute after the House returns. He could have made a speech from the Oval Office. He could have cancelled his vacation and presented his plan much earlier. But no, he must put it on the same day as the Republican debates, scheduled months in advance. Seriously? That’s not partisanship?

And in the end, he caves… because he doesn’t have control over when this speech should be made. Why put yourself in that position when you won’t control the outcome? Stupidity? Inexperience? Amateur hour.

Come to think about it, OBAMA SHOULD RESIGN (OR BE FIRED) FOR HIS BLATANT PARTISANSHIP AND STUPIDITY. A WEAK MAN OBAMA IS. AND A WEAK MAN TOMMY CHRISTOPHER IS TOO.

Usually all the debate about time and dates is done behind the scenes.  Seems to me that the WH just announced that the speech would take place before doing any groundwork.  This was probably the first time was so audacious and presumptuous. 

He said – he said.  Boehner’s office has denied giving a verbal ok.

Just because you keep saying it doesn’t make it so.

Boehner’s office denied that.

Look what the dems did when they met more often!  My rep is in his local office during his “time off”.  He is still working, just in his home district. 

I think they are outdone by the unions and George Soros.

He could give the speech from the Oval Office – the usual place for a speech like this.  He is not declaring was nor giving the SOTU Address.  Frankly, if I were a Repub Rep, I would “regretfully” have to miss it.  Knowing Barry, he will use it as a bully pulpit and try to demonize Repubs.  Remember how he “unprecedentedly” he demonized the SCOTUS?  And Paul Ryan?

That’s their problem.

The networks would carry it if he did it – it’s not our fault your fellow Obamabots are a bunch of easily-distracted chumps who can’t sit through a lousy 40-minute speech (another one) from their guy.

Don’t forget “racists” and “Hitler.”

DRINK! Abrupt, unrelated subject change to (fill in random Republican here) to avoid talking about how Obama screwed up.

This will be Obama’s 7th “pivot to jobs.” But THIS ONE is really important, or something.

In other words, this is the seventh time Obama has had to admit that his economic policies aren’t working.

Deal with it.

What’s that about lobbyists, you say?

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/solyndra-investigation-probe-white-house-role-massive-energy/story?id=14434588

Who cares if Congress is in session or not.

The speech is the most important event in human history becuase Obama hath decreed it and the Democrats want people to pay attention to them while they lecture everyone else on how they’re at fault for Obama’s failed economic policies.

It doesn’t matter what Congress is doing. This was Obama’s idea.

Own it. Stop whining.

If it was so important for O to speak to both houses of Congress, why didn’t he do it months ago instead of blaming the poor economy on everything from the problems in Europe to the tusanami in Japan? His last stimulas plan failed and now that unemployment is still unchanged what is his “great plan”? We all need “CHANGE” from this guy.

Sure, makes perfect sense. Daley called and spoke with Boehner and Boehner said “maybe.”  And, then Daley released an announcement?

Ocaam’s Razor.  Boehner gave his consent, the White House acted, Limbaugh bleated, Boehner reneged, and the White House changed the date AND looked weak. 

Reneging is win-win for Boehner, as long as he denies ever saying yes on the phone.  But, if he didn’t say yes, why did the administration go forward with the announcement sine the pro forma part was already handled.

White House story makes sense
Boehner’s story does not

We are not a monarchy. Neither this president or ANY American president, has the power to command a joint session of Congress. President Obama did not follow protocol and request available dates from the Speaker of the House. Obama is not the Queen of England. Like all other presidents, he MUST request, not demand. Congress is coming back to session on the very day that Obama wanted to speak and he probably complied and moved the date because he AGREED that logistically, Congress needs more time to get everyone back into DC and line up the appropriate security for a joint session with the President.

Maybe if liberals made a point to understand protocol and respect that protocol, they’d understand why the President must follow certain rules of ALL presidents.

Time to grow up Tommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE JOHN BOEHNER,
Thank you for keeping your schedule.  You could never add disrespect to Obama.  He has done everything to add disrespect to the Office of the Presidency.  He and George Soros are deliberately collapsing the economy of the United States.  He has sidestepped Congress in every way possible.  Obama knew very well a debate was scheduled.   Let’s put this President in “his place.”   Mr. Boehner, defund the Muslim Brotherhood  war in the Mideast and Northern Africa.  Enough is more than enough.
Delores Smith
Delores109@cox.net

Obama is not America, expat.  When Obama fails, America succeeds.

Expat.  ”War Criminal”?  That’s a serious charge.  Ya got evidence, or are ya jes flappin yer gums?

Respecting the Office of the President of the United States requires me to disrespect the fool who currently occupies that office.  Is that me spitting in the eyes of his voters?  Yes.

That’s peanuts little man.  Obama’s fundraiser  cost of tickets for the event begins at $2,500 per person, In LA.

Obama has split the proceeds of his fundraising this year with the national
party. Donors typically pay as much as $35,800 each at the joint events, with
$5,000 going to the president’s campaign and the remaining amount going to the
Democratic
National Committee.[1]

President Obama has headlined 127 fundraising events for himself and others,
significantly outpacing the fundraising activity of the previous five presidents
during their first terms, new research obtained by USA TODAY shows.

In 2008, Obama collected a record $745 million and became the first major
party nominee to reject money from the public-financing program since it began
in 1976. So far, he has raised $46.3 million in the first three months of his
re-election campaign, more than the entire GOP field. [2]So your point is “Timmuh”? Your leftist rhetoric is just that, rhetoric.”TMP”1, USA Today 8/19/112, USA Today 8/20/11

english! do you speak it pussy?

There were NO jobs created and to try and spin that into 200,000 jobs created just shows that your ignorance is astounding.  Everyone who reads your garbage already knows that but there might be some new comers here so I thought I’d point it out.

You’re a leftist Loony Tune “Timmuh”.

“TMP”

Yet he put Obama in his place.

“TMP”

Perhaps the President should have followed protocol. Announcing the date of the speech before asking Congress when he could have it was a breach of protocol. He isn’t king. He must get approval first. This was either a political ploy and he did this wanting the Republicans to go back at him to make him look like a victim and the GOP just obstructionists, or he actually thought that he can do whatever he wants because he is president. Whatever the thought in this, his arrogance stands out as the one constant. I’ve never seen such a whiny, narcissistic, and self-centered politician in my entire life. Pres Obama needs to get over himself and get over the hype that the dinosaur media endlessly feed him.

First of all, Obama’s approval rating is not better than “everyone else in government”.  It’s better than Congress’ as a whole, but not some individual members–and, most importantly, it’s lower than some GOP presidential contenders.

In any case, it doesn’t matter.  Approval ratings are not votes.  People may like Obama personally, they may believe they have to approve of Obama for fear of being racist, or they may simply pity Obama like one pities a brain-damaged toddler.  But they don’t enjoy being in an artificial depression caused by anti-capitalist zealots who cannot distinguish between wealth creation in the real world, and lunatic Marxist theory as propounded by 60′s New Left holdovers whose brains are riddled with syphilis contracted in a muddy field in Woodstock, NY.

If I thought you were capable of learning, I wouldn’t even tell you this, because a working knowledge of reality can actually help people be more effective, and I have no desire to help you.  Luckily, there’s no danger of you suddenly becoming a thinking person, so I can happily prick your bubble of delusion without any fear of it actually bursting.  See ya in 2012, moron.

Your ignorant as to how the Government works.  Before he can speak before a joint session there has to be a Concurrent Resolution in the House and Senate. It can’t happen until the process is completed and since Sept 7th is the first day that the House and Senate is in session and there are already procedures scheduled for that day, it wasn’t going to happen.  Obama knew that.  If he didn’t then he’s an ignorant boob just like you and HE should resign.

You really are ignorant but I already know that little man, don’t I?

You’re not that educated are you “Timmuh”?

“TMP”

funny how your guy keeps getting owned by the opposition…

Oh Gawd….please do not let this self serving corporately owned puppet resign.  If he does that then this rich little tea bagger brat Eric Cantor will get exactly what he has been gunning for and the tea bagger party will continue their tirade of destroying the parts of this nation that work while promoting all kinds of stupd crap that helps no one.  Please do not upset the balance of power.  Having an low life piece of human garbage like Boehnner replaced by a rich brat monkey like Eric Cantor could potentially be the death knell for this nation. 

Of course their rich wealthy handlers and keepers in corporate America still win no matter which way this turns out.  Either way….the middle class loses.

Let me spell this out for you, since you appear to be incapable of even rudimentary logic.

Obama wants America to fail.  Hence, “We are about to fundamentally transform America.”  He doesn’t like America as a free-market nation with an individualistic ethic–he would prefer it as a Utopianist soft-tyranny like Europe, where technocrats lord their power over a helpless citizenry.

Republicans do not want America to fail.  They like America and want it to be governed by its founding principles–they even called themselves patriots before the 2008 election, back when patriotism was a dirty, dirty word deserving of withering contempt to everyone on the Left.

Since Obama wants to destroy the American civil society, and Republicans (specifically conservatives) want to preserve the American civil society, Republicans therefore hope that Obama fails in his crypto-Communist efforts.

Is that helpful?  Or can you only digest information when it’s barked at you from behind a teleprompter by a morally stunted machine politician?

Protocol is a word and concept you should spend time understanding.
The POTUS can not command Congress to do anything…read until you understand the “Balance of Power” with/among the 3 distinct Branches of Gvt.
If you understood the BOP and protocol, you would know that any Congressmen wanting to speak to the POTUS must first request an appointment time with the POTUS…they can not demand an audience with the President about any matter, at anytime…
Protocol works both ways…..you really should take the time to understand the basic elements of the subject you are complaining and making judgments about.
We have 3 distinct branches of Gvt for a reason….there exists a protocol concerning powers, limitations, obligations, and procedure between the 3 branches…..been that way since 1790….when all 3 branches began operations within their Constitutional guidelines.
Saudi Arabia has a King…..if the concept of King…answering to no one appeals to you, by all means go there and become a “Subject” vs. a “Citizen” here in America.
There was an immense amount of time spent….when drafting our Consitution by the Founders…to make absolutely sure that America would never have a King…or a President that has the same powers as a King.

Wow, Richie.  Thanks for contributing.  Your scintillating analysis has lifted the proverbial scales from my eyes.

Given your razor-sharp intellect, I wonder whether you haven’t applied for a czar position in Obama’s cabinet?  I hear there are a few openings.

Obviously, the author of this piece is under the impression that Mr. Boehner is somehow subservient to Mr. Obama.  The office of the President of the United States is not equivalent to a kingship, with the leaders of the House, Senate, and Supreme Court in the roles of lords and counts to him.  The Speaker of the House owes no respect to the President beyond the courtesy of calling him, “Mr. President.”

Rudy is correct.  It is Obama who is disrespectful of the traditions of his office and our nation.

Your username is funny.  The language of the Left is truly Orwellian:  Up is down, black is white, peace is war, and traitors are patriots.  “Ex-pat patriot,” let me guess–you’re a patriotic native to a Communist dump like Cuba or China, and you’re living in Manhattan for the perks?

Maybe there was a time that a liberal could be an American patriot, but that ship is long gone.

That’s OK, Democrats spit in the eyes of all the people who have fought and died for this country, when they allowed themselves to get caught up in a Jim Jones-style personality cult and elected a sniveling little crypto-Communist weasel to the presidency.

Did I say “spit in the eyes”?  I meant “pissed on the graves”.

Yeah, i forgot you were stupid.  What  wrote was that you are a hypocrite.  I’ll add that you’re not a bright hypocrite, either, partisan hack

No way–Tommy Christopher is gold.  Normal Americans (the 80+% that aren’t crypto-Communists) read this drivel and it illustrates the threat posed by Democrats and their bootlickers better than anything else could.  And, we have free speech in this country–no need to call for anyone’s firing.  Let this Party propagandist shout to the rafters.

And Obama will be fired.  By us.  In 2012.  Along with the remainder of the Democratic Party that he hasn’t already destroyed.

Wow, no fact-checkers at Mediaite to clue Tommy Christopher in that the entire premise of this post is wrong? My favorite “Tommyism” was this one: http://thestilettoblog.com/2011/04/20/the-other-shoe-drops-updates-to-previous-posts.aspx (“Now Is Not The Time To Talk About Race,” seventh item on the page), 

Honey, the comment I was replying to said 200,000 jobs were lost.  Since job growth was 0, that means 200,000 jobs were created.  It goes something like this

X created jobs in August – 200,000 lost in August = 0 jobs lost in August

Ask your president–he spent 800B 2 1/2 years ago with the promise of jobs.  Dems had complete control of the entire gov’t for 2 years and spent more money than any other group in human history.  Why are you asking Republicans where the jobs are?  Look in the mirror, moron.

The funny thing is that Obama still thinks anyone cares about his speeches.  He believes his own hype.  In reality, his speeches are–and always have been–boring podium-pounders filled with class warfare and glittering generalities, but no substance.  He’s like Hitler without the political talent.

Hilarious to hear libs make these logical stretches to apply treason laws to conservatives.  Hello?  If we enforced our treason laws, libs would’ve all been hanging from lampposts 80 years ago, and none of this would be even happening right now.

What a zinger!  A crippling counterattack, my friend.  You have won this round–but we wingnuts will be back someday–we’ll be back!!!

Oh, wait, we’re back already.

Ha ha.  An online petition calling for Boehner’s resignation.  Hope springs eternal.

Now I know why you call yourself “progressive kitty”–it’s because you’re so CUTE!

Of course he’s a war criminal–he went to war without even consulting Congress!!

Oh, wait…that was Obama…

A nationally-televised Republican presidential debate wasn’t on the White House office’s radar?  If Obama were so incompetent that this is actually true, it would be as damning as if it isn’t.

Dude, why are you still defending this guy?  Democratic politicians nationwide are running from him.  Even Carville admits that Obama screwed up.  What is it about you rank-and-file liberals, that you are compelled to continue following political marching orders even at the expense of your own dignity?

The June 24, 1986, edition of The Wall Street Journal featured a story headlined, “President’s Bid to Address the House On Nicaragua Is Rejected by Speaker.” 

That’s right, no quibbling over the date and time, just a flat-out rejection. 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904583204576546643389574716.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

Notice the phrase “extraordinary circumstances.”  Could there be any circumstance LESS extraordinary than Obama’s personal compulsive need to bloviate pointlessly behind a teleprompter every few weeks?

Uh, the resolution is passed by unanimous consent in less than tem minutes.

there’s a reason it’s called pro forma

yeah, that’s what we keep telling him:  that the opposition is feckless and dishonest.  Unfortunately, he won’t listen and keeps expecting Republicans to act rationally

Again little man you failed to reference your garbage. I’ve been trying to give you lessons on how to do that but you seem to be really dense when it comes to learning something new.

Your math is also lacking. If you were really paying attention to things you would have noticed the report that came out that first time unemployment claims for August were 409,000.

I’ll explain it so even a you can understand it because you seem to be confused.

Jobs lost 409,000 new jobs created “0″.

Don’t worry “Timmuh” I’ll stick with you and keep explaining what’s going on in this country.

“TMP”

Here’s a concept you are apparently unaware of:  The house has never turned down the President’s request for joint session.  The President requested the session, Boehner said yea, and then ran away when Limbaugh went into freak mode.

You are unaware of the facts of this story, because you did not read Tommy’s article

yeah i forgot you write in iambic pentameter, now it makes sense…

what a twat in life, you seem to be, and worthless so evermore

It wasn’t going to happen little man, the days docket was already arranged.

Don’t give me the “pro forma” nonsense, nothing in Congress is “pro forma” these days. Haven’t you been paying attention little man.

The President doesn’t demand to speak to a Joint Session of Congress, he has to ask permission to speak to a Joint Session of Congress. Since this is not an emergency situation there’s no reason to disrupt the scheduled votes in the House.

It was all an attempt of the President to show his muscles and Boehner called him on it. Obama knew there was a Debate scheduled for that time and he tried to disrupt it. It was just a political gamble and he lost.

Of course your leftist rhetoric has clouded you mind or your just stupid as to what is going on.

My guess is that it’s a little of both considering all the other garbage you try and spew on the internet.

“TMP”

You strike out every time you come to the plate.  Pathetic.

And, let me assure, the number of mouth-breathing morons posting here under the motto “Oh, wait, we’re back already” is breath-taking. 

And, as you are the first one to try sarcasm, I’ll say, nice try.  Work on the punchline, since you started out strong, but faltered at the end. The playground is a cruel place and with this 4th grade sarcasm, I’m not sure you are ready for it.  Still, probably funnier if you could work the word “teleprompter” in, since it’s popular with old men on this site and their apparent love for note cards

I liked it on purpose

You seriously went to the “world’s smallest violin” joke, aaron?  How embarrassing.

Everything Obama and his horde do are done for power and political gain.  Now, Hussein has to give his speech during the game, lol!  It wouldn’t matter what day Obama gave the speech, with him it is Same Feces, Different Day, just BS as usual, SNAFU!  Anything is better and more interesting than watching lying lips tell more lies, and, after three years, finally a job plan?  Lol, I think most Americans have woken to the fact that Obama is a Failure.

Prove it. OH you can’t.  Another swing and a miss for you, timb.

Wow, after he let’s the sarcasm down, he’s just a typical frothing wingnut.  I like how the guy responsible for the stupid Bush tax cuts and bailing out the banks is a Marxist.

I somehow doubt you know what that word means, aaron.  Hint:  it has nothing to do with small violins.

I’ve read like three of this guy’s posts and you can just tell he’s one of those “conservatives” who thinks a good idea is the opposite of whatever he heard a liberal said.  Facts, data, statistics, mean less to him than that a biased Rasmussen poll gave Perry, the secessionist who says SS is unconstitutional, a 3 point lead and that the poll was hyped on a talk show. 

Aaron, we have like 30 of you on this board already.  Make an original point and you might seem exceptional

I don’t know what is more laughable, that someone would write this story with its ridiculous story with all its white lies (like 15 minute notice is enough for whoever was reading the email or manning the faxes to object, or even know, that Obama was trying to upstage the Republican debate), or that there is non-far left web site to publish it. Maybe mediaite is joining the far left, and this article is just evidence to that fact.

Notice the words “signed off,” Karla?  No, I didn’t think you did.  Chief of Staff Daley CALLED Boehner and personally received an okay.  It’s why the letter was released.  Hiding behind the “signed off” is clever of the Speaker’s office.  After all, this is win-win for him.  Republican get to play the victim AND the White House looks weak

You mean to tell me that no one would watch 40 minutes of a speech about the greatest plan known to man?  Why in the world not?  It’s the most important speech ‘EVA.  All of his supporters better step it up and start pretending to be interested.

Is that “wants to fail” from Boortz, Savage, Levin, or Limbaugh?  I’ve heard from each, but the later bullsh*t in the post seems to go in the Limbaugh direction.

Still, i like the idea that you admit that Republicans don’t want anything to be done to help the economy.  Limbaugh wouldn’t go that far.

These douchebags will reward “treason.”  After all, these people think the economy is Obama’s fault.  Which, once again, according to latest polling, places them in the 33% range vis-a-vis the American people.  And, they think they are a majority

How he would get through the obstructionism of your Republican heroes, aaron?

They will not confirm anyone, especially in the financial regulations arena, unless the President agrees to increase the power of the  banks.  That’s right, Richie could apply for a czar position and your heroes will tell him to go to hell until the President caves to the Republican business lobby.

“The June 24, 1986, edition of The Wall Street Journal featured a story
headlined, “President’s Bid to Address the House On Nicaragua Is
Rejected by Speaker.” That’s right, no quibbling over the date and time,
just a flat-out rejection.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904583204576546643389574716.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

Unprecedented… except of course that it’s been done before… and more significantly (denying the forum altogether)… but that insult was to a Republican so it really didn’t count, get much media play; or become something significant to remember.

At least I’m guessing that is the defense.. I’m not sure what Tommy is thinking.  Pushing it back a day is evil, cancelling it and not letting it happen at all is ok?  Or is it just ok when it is a Republican?

Oh, and how is the scheduling of my takeover of Mediate coming?  I haven’t seen any e-mails with passwords, you aren’t doing something rude enough to justify a firing and denying my request after not responding for a couple hours are you?

I corrected your right wing talking point and you criticize me?

You’re a piece of work

You mean you cannot prove what Boehner said on the phone?  Can you prove what you said on the phone, flower?  Well, prove you ever spoke on the phone!

You know what I can prove?  that I made you angry by correcting your right bs talking point about State of the Union speeches.

Hell, I can barely stay awake long enough to read your infantile drivel and right wing talking points…

Just because you keep saying it’s not so, doesn’t mean Boehner didn’t jump when Limbaugh goosed him.

lol….the weakest most traitorous president in history deserves neither respect nor pity. his systematic dismanteling of this great nation will be shown in it’s true light in history. i can’t WAIT for his memoirs..
lmao….what a joke…he gets caught with his pants down and we’re the bad guys cuz we spanked him.

Here kitty, kitty…. Hate to burst your self-righteous bubble, but Tip O’Neill did it to Reagan.  And guess what, I can back it up.  And it’s not even an article from FOX!

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-06-24/news/8602140897_1_contra-aid-issue-vote-on-military-aid-presidential-request

? you heard this conversation?…..and that is why you are sure that what you allege is true?
“Remote Viewing” is one of your abilities?
you listen to all phone calls between Congressional members, the President, the Presidents staff…or just this one call?

Just how do you think you corrected me?  By saying Clinton was heckled as well?  How does that correct the fact the it was done to Bush?  And you think you made me angry because I responded to your idiotic bs?  You must be one angry lib.  Because you spend your entire day blathering on here. 

How stupid does the Wall Street Journal think people are?  Reagan asked to speak the House (as noted in the article), not a joint session.  Seriously, do wingnuts who write for the WSJ not know a joint session includes the Senate?

yeah, even if all the other Speakers of the House jumped off a bridge, would Limbaugh let Boehner?

I have an idea, Mr. Christopher. This is in opposition to your idea that Speaker John Boehner should resign as Speaker of the US House of Representatives.

Mr. Christopher should take a huge stick of dynamite and shove it up his rectum, and then light the fuse and wait for several minutes. If the dynamite is a dud, nothing should happen. If the dynamite is NOT a dud, it will blow Mr. Christopher’s asshole into another universe. Then again, since his brains are right next to where his asshole is, this could be the end of thinking for said Mr. Christopher.

However, when someone is so stupid as to come up with a crap message like this, having no brains couldn’t be much of a loss for a dickwad like Mr. Christopher.

Thanks for your time.

Oh, and, go fuck yourself.

Yours,

Me

Awesome point.  Allowing the corrupt to be replaced by the so corrupt I demand Fema services be paid for by people in the middle of a disaster would be terrible.

Cantor’s idea reminds me of Crassus, a Roman plutocrat

Most notorious was his acquisition of burning houses: when Crassus
received word that a house was on fire, he would arrive and purchase the
doomed property along with surrounding buildings for a modest sum, and
then employ his army of 500 clients
to put the fire out before much damage had been done.

This is a nice place you have here Maryland.  If you want to cut food stamp benefits, then maybe FEMA can bring you a glass of water?

Is your tongue black from licking Obama’s rearend all the time?

You mean like when Tip O’Neill refused to allow Reagan to speak to the House in 1986?

That kind of unprecedented?

Harry Reid called George Bush a “loser,” where was Tommy’s outrage then?

It’s men like Tommy and Barack Obama that cause a lack of respect for the presidency, and they blame everyone but themselves.

Also, the president isn’t a king, sorry. He deserves no respect other than the courtesy of being called “Mr. President” and a level of civility that Democrats enjoy insulting Republicans for allegedly not living up to while they laugh at being civil themselves.

You forget, asshole, that the Dems got tons of cash from the Koch Brothers. Including Ditzy Harry Reid.

You and facts never seem to be in the same place at the same time.

It’s the Democrats who want to spend us into oblivion vs. the Republicans who play like they don’t want more spending. Thank God for the Tea Party. Let Gary Johnson give the address. At least you won’t be ticked off knowing they’re lying to you.

More lib hypocrisy. The way libs treat a republican president is shameful compared to this. BTW we have a president not a king. We owe him nothing but the title Mr. President. Another BTW 20012 will see the biggest landslide in presidential elections, good bye obama, you #$%#@@ loser. 

Really?  Well that Presidential historian would be wrong.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-06-24/news/8602140897_1_contra-aid-issue-vote-on-military-aid-presidential-request

As I set forth in earlier comment, the White House story makes more sense.  They cannot have a Joint Session with a resolution. they called, received approval and released their letter ans tweet.  15 minutes later, Limbaugh started whining.

It makes no sense that boehner told the White House “uh, maybe” or “We’ll see” or “but, I got to be in home to see who gets eliminated on Republican Survivor.”  It only makes sense if Boehner said “fine.”

‘Cause, if it happened that way, Boehner could just turn them down later and make them look weaker and more pathetic than usual.  It’s why, as I noted, reneging is win-win for Boehner unless he has to admit to saying yes in the phone call.

Let me just say, that it is unsurprising that Limbaugh fans, obmaa haters, and Mediaite wingnuts would claim to not understand the point, mainly because that’s a combination of people who thinks “I hope the President fails,” makes one a good American.  it does not.

Poor Bill Daley…thought he had it good, made GE wildly profitable, took his golden parachute, thought he do some Chief of Staffing before running for Senator from Illinois, or Governor, or mayor of Chicago when Rahm leaves.  Instead he gets rolled by a tobacco lobbyist hick from Cincinnati. Bet he never had to deal with that level of dishonesty at GE!  Oh, sure, in Chicago, but in DC?  Much like the President learned, Mr. Boehner is scared of that fat-ass drug addict

Is you head white from the sheet you wear at the cross burnings?

Back up your crap for once “Timmuh”.  Just once!

You’re a blithering leftist idiot.

“TMP”

the mass wave on hiring has been stalled while employers are studying and trying to understand the effects and detriment to their organization caused by BO and Coven’s Toxic Business climate continual flood of poorly thought-through new Gvt regulations.

There will be no new job creation in the Private Sector until this present administration is gone….

American business operators do not, and will not trust this President’s policies

If ALL the tax rates were cut in half….or even if the top 1% highest tax rate was even completely eliminated altogether…….there will be no start-ups, no existing businesses expansion
THAT’S why there aren’t new jobs being created.
Of course there are banks sitting on cash…..no one is interested in businesses loans in this toxic climate….even if the business loans were interest-free

There will be a few areas where there will absolutely be new jobs created….like at the large solar energy company that just shut down…..there will be several new jobs created to dismantle and sell for scrap Solyndra failed business’ assets even after receiving $535,000,000 from the Gvt

There will be more and more salvage jobs created as the number of “Green Energy” miracles-creating businesses like Solyndra shut down…..but, Hey,a new job is a new job…even in those new demolition, and scrap re-sellers businesses.

Yo check out http://twitter.com/#!/mikeallen/statuses/109022810126557184

Boehner office says White House ignored protocol: “No one in the
Speaker’s office…signed off on the date the White House announced
today”

Obama was asking for a joint session.  These are reserved for emergency situations and the annual SOTU.  He should have kept precedent and completely refused.  Most believe this will in reality be Obama’s kick off speech for the 2012 election.  He should have at least been required to give the Speaker an advance copy of his plan so the Speaker could decide based on the facts whether or not it qualified for a joint session.  Obama is co equal not superior to the Speaker according to the constitution.  The speaker is under no obligation to oblige Obama at all just like the Speaker could not require the President to come for a joint session.

Tip O’Neill didn’t want the Senate there as Reagan already had the votes in the Senate for his Contra aid bill. O’Neill was scared that in a joint session his caucus would waver and he’d lose the vote in the House. Which he did anyway.

It doesn’t matter if it is a joint session or one house only, the president has to ask permission from the head of the chamber (Speaker, Senate Majority Leader) to assemble them IN THEIR OWN CHAMBER(S) and speak.

How stupid do we think timb is? Very.

Tommy Christopher should resign for this unprecedented insult to the reader’s intelligence

Yet Obama made concessions because of the NFL Game.  The reasons are obvious, people are more interested in the NFL then they are in Obama’s campaign speech.  Also, network times are prearranged and Obama wouldn’t get the networks to cover his nonsense.

See how it works little man? Coverage has nothing to do with the NFL being part of the US government. The NFL is just more interesting to the people than Obie’s speech.  Most people are going to change the channel when he begins his same ol’ same ol’ nonsense anyway. They will watch the NFL pre-game show rather than listen to a political speech.

If you weren’t so dumb you would know this “Timmuh”.

“TMP”

Hot Air: Of presidents and kings
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/02/of-presidents-and-kings/

That does not appear to be supported by the evidence, but thanks for playing.

Gosh, this is a hard one… hmmm… maybe the President is waiting until the FIRST DAY THE HOUSE IS BACK IN SESSION because the house isn’t in session until then?

I can only assume all the Obama haters here have jobs they think are secure, because once upon a time the GOP insisted that Jobs Are #1.

Then they got elected and started dismantling every program that helps jobless Americans avoid winding up on the streets.

Why do you spit in the eye of America and its people?  It is the majority of Americans who voted in this POTUS.  Why do you not respect the Constitution and the will of the majority?

As Boehner indicated, both chambers must approve a Joint Session of Congress. Had Boehner deferred to the president and propounded a resolution providing for Congress to conduct the Joint Session on September 7, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) threatened to singlehandedly derail the entire process.

“The President should pick another night,” said DeMint in a statement. “If he insists on playing politics by picking the night of the GOP debate, I will object to the session.

“In the modern Senate, few agonize about an actual filibuster, ala Jimmy Stewart commanding the floor for hours in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” Instead, the most grave manifestation is the THREAT of a filibuster.

And that is precisely what Jim DeMint promised to do.

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/09/01/boehner-v-obama-house-always-wins#ixzz1WpTOlhEt

Wow i always question if Mediate is a front for the DNC with all the MSNBC ads all the time playing….   but this article talk about a partisan commentary….  Hey Tommy Christopher will Obama ever do anything wrong?   Will you and the MSM media always carry his water for him? Tune into Mediate and any news organization and see the answer is YES WE CAN!

Hmmmm… an alternative to throwing 80+% of Americans into abject poverty. Whatever could that be, whatever could that be… 

Oh, yeah! Tax the rich, especially corporations paying their CEOs $18 million/year (more than they pay in taxes) while crying poor-mouth when it comes to hiring anyone else.

But the GOP doesn’t want to do that because it’s no longer a We the People government, but a We the Corporate Elite government… and good little serfs such as you seem to like it that way.

Don’t forget the GOP politicos who have refused to meet with their unemployed constituents during their vacation… unless they cough up some cash. 

Don’t forget the GOP politicos who have refused to meet with their unemployed constituents during their vacation… unless they cough up some cash. 

Call for resignation of Speaker John Boehner
http://signon.org/sign/call-for-resignation?source=s.tw&r_by=430768

You’re right to some extent… except that most of the GOP reps did NOT meet with their constituents, although a few had them arrested for sitting in their offices waiting for them to show up. Others just charged $15 at the door.

So what?

“TMP”

It’s always a first with the left.  The First Black President, the first time a non-emergency Joint Session was rejected.

Now you can never claim that it’s a first if it happens again.  It will never be the  ”First” in both instances anymore.

It’s done, it’s not very important in the scheme of things so lets move on, except the Liberals can never seem to move on, can they?  The Horse is dead, stop whipping it lefties. It’s time to bury it before it begins to smell like all your fake condescending posts.

“TMP”

A grown man called Tommy?

Gotta be a sword-swallower!

It was still the first time it has ever happened to a sitting President.  Not much difference except that it was totally rejected which has never happened before so actually it was more of an insult than you leftist have made this out to be.  Of course I don’t expect you to understand that because of your lack of intelligence.  You have a flawed thought process that is caused by your leftist ideology.

“Timmuh”

“TMP”

According to a Presidential historian,
this is the first time in our nations history a President has been
denied the choice of a date and time for a joint speech.

According to history the Presidential
historian is wrong.

The June 24, 1986, edition of The Wall
Street Journal featured a story headlined, “President’s Bid to
Address the House On Nicaragua Is Rejected by Speaker.”

Reagan then just took to the air spoke
to the Nation and won the day. Obama has idiots whining for him.

“It is the height of condescension to make derogatory assumptions about my habit sans evidence.”

Because every liberal is special and unique, like a snowflake.

I’ve proven over and over that he is very stupid.  He actually thinks that FDR wasn’t a hands on President during WWII.  He also thinks that he’s the only person who knows who George C. Marshall was and that books are written by “Bircher’s” so he doesn’t have to read them.

How stupid is that?

“TMP”

I’ve proven over and over that he is very stupid.  He actually thinks that FDR wasn’t a hands on President during WWII.  He also thinks that he’s the only person who knows who George C. Marshall was and that books are written by “Bircher’s” so he doesn’t have to read them.

How stupid is that?

“TMP”

You jumped off the bridge quite some time ago. My guess it that it was Nancy Pelosi who asked you to do that.

“TMP”

Right, because Obama is great for the economy.  Just look at all the evidence!

“Obstructionism blah blah blah”

Always fun to hear liberals pine for a dictatorship.

Next up:  I think I already signed this petition at the drum circle.  Is it OK if I sign it twice?  I don’t want to get in trouble–this isn’t voting, after all.

Uh…..Excuse me???
Who disrespected the office of the President of The United States?
THIS WAS AT THE INAUGURATION OF WHAT USED TO BE THE OFFICE OF  MOST POWERFUL MAN ON EARTH BEFORE BARACK OBAMA WAS ELECTED.

Jay-Z and Young Jeezy Go Racist at the Inaugural Ball (video)

Racist Rant by Jay-Z

My president is black, in fact he’s half white. So even
in a racist mind he’s half right. If you’ve got a racist mind it’s
alright. My president is black, but his house is all white! My president
is black, in fact he’s half white. So even in a racist mind he’s half
right. If you’ve got a racist mind it’s alright. My president is black,
but his house is all white! Never thought I’d say this sh*t, baby I’m
good. You can keep your p*ssy because I don’t want no more Bush. No more
war. No more iraq. No more white lies, my president is black.

Racist Rant by Young Jeezy

I know ya’ll thanking a lot of people right now. I want
to thank two people. I want to thank the m*therf*cker overseas that
threw two shoes at George Bush, and I want to thank the m*therf*ckers
who helped them move they shit up out the White House. Get it moving
bitch! My president is m*therf*cking black, n*gga!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm……WHO DO YOU SUPPOSE INVITED THEM?

timb116, you are ON FIRE!!!

timb116, you are ON FIRE!!!

FEMA funds should come out of the 125 Billion dollars a year of waste that the GAO has outlined in their March report.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11318sp.pdfWho can argue with the GAO, they are independent and non bias.It won’t be difficult to obey the Pay-as-you-Go law that Obama signed back in 2009. Problem solved.You are aware of the report and that law aren’t you “Timmuh”?”TMP”

The Constitution doesn’t demand that citizens respect the president.  And Obama has an approval rating hovering in the high thirties.  Why do you spit in the eye of the majority by continuing to lick this clown’s boot?

I’m not sure you, an Obama voter, should be calling people “mouth-breathing morons.”  There’s a wee credibility issue.

Proof little man.  Show your proof or STFU.

“TMP”

I think Boehner should cut a deal. He resigns as Speaker for insulting President Obama and Obama resigns for insulting the Supreme Court justices in his SOTU speech – which was also unprecedented. Everyone’s happy!

Nor a Democrat little man.  Of course you only see Republicans as the problem that’s why you are a bigot.

“TMP”

“I somehow doubt you know what (Marxism) means, aaron.”

Well, please enlighten me, genius.  By all means, let’s have a public discussion in this country about the tenets of Marxism and their ideological relationship to modern progressivism, as well as the historical atrocities committed in the name of same.  Are you sure that’s a conversation you want to have?

Sexy but mostly just ignorant.  The problem over scheduling is no big deal and like two grown ups they worked it out.  The labeling by Boehner seemed childish but that is just par for the course for him.  President is used to dealing with childish fits though, since he has two young daughters.  so no big deal when Boehner acts so childish!

I thought you were in the 3rd grade “Timmuh” congratulations on reaching the 4th grade.

“TMP”

You went to the “Jump off the bridge” 4th grade joke, even more embarrassing ”Timmuh”.

“TMP”

But even so, they worked it out.  To be sure, it is difficult to see grown up behavior when the House refused to honor the request but no big deal.  Boehner always seems to look like the south end of the jackass going north when he gets a chance to TRY to outdo the President.  But Obama always comes out looking like the grownup.  And what can we say about Boehner.  But no surprise that Boehner tried to embarrass the President but alas, Boehner is the one who looks silly.  We will see how this episode is recorded by historians and sadly, I think they will bring race into the mix and I am unsure that is even an issue at all..

Hey “Timmuh” we have about 40 of you leftists on this board already and none of you have come up with anything that’s not a leftist talking point of hate posts. You want to know a little secret “Timmuh” none of your leftist crap is going to change what we are going to do to you idiots next year.

LMAO  You, my ignorant little leftist shouldn’t be talking.”TMP”

Still no proof from you little man. He said he said.

“An administration official told The Huffington Post that the White House had
cleared the Sept. 7 date with GOP leadership before publicly announcing it.
Boehner’s office confirmed that they were given a short advance warning, but
disputed that they had okayed the date.

“No one in the speaker’s office — not the speaker, not any staff — signed
off on the date the White House announced today,” Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck
said.”

From your leftist site at HUFFY Post.

For once you have posted the truth about something, ”the White House looks weak”.

And all your garbage isn’t going to change that.

“TMP”

We didn’t vote to make Limbaugh our king.  But a bunch of ill informed voters put the King Clown in office.  Please don’t do it again.  Oh, and by the way, Obama admitted that he sold drugs.  Which is worse, a Drug dealer who’s president or a drug taker who’s an entertainer?

In June of 1986, Tip O’Neill refused a request by Reagan to speak before Congress regarding Nicaragua just before the Congress was supposed to have a vote on funding the Contras. Source: http://tinyurl.com/3wbee8y

The real reason for the debate time was that “The won” hoped to have an excuse for a dismal rating , because nobody us going to watch him anyway. People are fed up eith this robot reading from a TelePrompTer.

Of course it is as was the Democrats political objectives during GW’s Presidency.

So what else is new?  Obama has had almost 3 years and he’s destroyed the economy. He’s increased the debt through outrageous spending programs that have accomplished nothing. After all the bad economy is “Just a bump in the road” .

Obama, February 2009: If this economy hasn’t rebounded in three years, I’m a
one-termer.

Well he has 4 months more to fix it and then I expect him to keep his word for once.

“TMP

You obviously have a reading problem.    I don’t see aaron admitting that “Republicans don’t want anything to be done to help the economy.”

Go back and read it again and if you have a problem with any of the big words, just let me know and I’ll help you understand what he said.

“TMP”

Who is “we,” Robby?

Tommy’s point:  No one ever turned down a joint session.

The WSJ:  sure they did when Reagan asked to speak to the House

The second does not disprove the first, althouth there will always be talk show listeners to say that it does.

Tell the voices in your head that it was a nice try

My favorite part of your schtick is the flat refusal to acknowledge the question was even asked. 

Why it seems just like yesterday that Republicans were all up in arms about judicial confirmations and wanted the nuclear option. Unfortunately for the country, Bill Frist and Trent Lott were too smart for that. 

The country suffers when party obstructs all business.  I imagine you’ll find that out the next time a “conservative” enters the White House and you fume about it.  Maybe, you can even remember that hilarious violin joke and play it for yourself?

says the Palin voter, without a hint of the obvious irony

No matter proper protocol or improper protocol we need to vote this lying sack of an idiot out of the WH NOW! He is an arrogant condescending piece of crap.  He is absolutely WORTHLESS!  And I ask, from those of you who voted him into the WH as our President of the United States simply because you wanted this to be “the first, the first, the first” in history well, how do you like him now? 

Precedent was set by Tip O’Neil when he denied Ronald Regan to speak.

I don’t live in Alaska, so I’ve never even been in a position to vote for Palin.

Besides, at least Palin knows that “WTF” stands for “What the f***?”, not “Winning the future”.

“Winning the future.”  Chortle.

“The country suffers when party obstructs all business.”

Ha ha, a Democrat complaining about the obstruction of business.  Tell it to the EPA, genius.

“I imagine you’ll find that out the next time a “conservative” enters the White House and you fume about it.”

If the Democratic Party even survives that long.

Dear REgressive_ho.  As the 0′s mindless tool, you’re yet another of countless, arrogant, stupid Dem hypocrites.  Tip O’Neil refused to allow Reagan to address the House AT ALL, which was his right, something Boehner did NOT do.  Historical illiterates like you shouldn’t be allowed out in public, even with your guardian, lest you contaminate something.

August 6, 2001: President Bush Tells CIA Regarding Bin Laden Warning, ‘You’ve Covered Your Ass, Now’  
According
to journalist and author Ron Suskind, just after a CIA briefer presents
President Bush with the later infamous PDB (Presidential Daily
Briefing) item entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” (see August 6, 2001), Bush tells the briefer, “You’ve covered your ass, now.” This account is from Suskind’s 2006 book The One Percent Doctrine,
which is based largely on anonymous accounts from political insiders.
In the book, after describing the presentation of the PDB, Suskind will
write: “And, at an eyeball-to-eyeball intelligence briefing during this
urgent summer, George W. Bush seems to have made the wrong choice. He
looked hard at the panicked CIA briefer. ‘All right,’ he said. ‘You’ve
covered your ass, now.’” [Suskind, 2006, pp. 2; Washington Post, 6/20/2006]

Be glad to.  See any private property around you?  Then, there ain’t no Marxism.

Still, the whole Marxism in relation to “modern Progressivism” [sic] gives you away.  You’re another Beckian.  I already have a couple of them stalking me, so, if it’s cool with you, you can just go buy some survival gear and leave me alone.

Unexceptional indeed

You quoted the same thing she did, the same thing I read this morning, and the same thing I JUST disputed.  Jesus, old man, bring the A game or bother someone else

Limbaugh

I’m gonna go ahead and say that you voted for Palin and the old man in 2008

I do hate clean air and water, aaron.  That EPA is a danger to polluters everywhere

You have no game little boy. You show your ignorance every time you pound the keys in your mommy’s basement.

My post was from your leftist source of Huffy so it must be true according to you idiots.

“Timmuh”

“TMP”

And in control of the White House, of course.

Scoreboard!

Nice to see that you’re at least backing up your posts but I doubt that you read the book you quoted.

This account is from Suskind’s 2006 book The One Percent Doctrine,
which is based largely on anonymous accounts from political insiders.

So what?

What does this have to do with Boehner and Obama? What does it have to do with anything that is relevant today?

Again, So what?

“TMP”

At the risk of repeating myself, that’s an extraordinarily stupid remark, even for Mediaite.

Last I heard, nihilism was a pretty shitty governing principle. I realize that fools and wingnuts (essentially the same thing) don’t believe this, but then good sense seems to have been abandoned on the right.

There’s not enough room on a single site to display all the evidence of the Bush administration’s war crimes. A quick google of “Bush war criminal” will bring millions of hits.

For me, the proof was pretty clear when I was in Iraq 2003-2004 and saw what our forces and our bureaucrats were doing at the direction of the US government headed by Bush.

Is this the best you’ve got little boy? Why are you leftists such big crybabies and whiners? Don’t you idiots know what is going on in the real world? You leftists can’t do anything about this except cry all over the internet and holding your breath till you turn blue.

All you 4th graders know that that never works. Sooner or later you all come up for air.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

“TMP”

Tommy!!! fuck you!!!!

Do you make this shit up by yourself, or do you have a nonsense phrase-generator that spits out terms like “utopianist soft-tyranny” and “crypto-Communist?”

No matter, it’s still piffle.

I’ll spell it out for you: your attribution of comic-book motivations that are completely unsupported by word or deed does only one thing: confirms that you have no idea what you’re talking about.

I think this highlights the problem I’ve been discussing, which is that rightwingers have so divorced themselves from reality that they may never find their way back.

And no, your post is unhelpful, in that I already knew the underbelly of the wingutariat was made up of goniffs and fools, and your post was hardly necessary to reinforce that sad truth.

Interesting how you manage to be wrong in every respect in such a short post. I’m not sure what to do to help you reconnect with reality. I’m thinking it’s a lost cause.

Multiple bullshit in one post. Thanks for the target-rich environment.

During the Bush presidency, the Democratic objective was to ride out the disaster and hope there was something left to rebuild once GWB shuffled off the scene. Unsurprisingly, it was a real mess when Bush finally moved aside. Obama — who is sadly unable to shit platinum bricks — has merely helped avoid The Great Depression Mark II rather than having fully restored the economy to the healthy state it was in before Bush began sawing off parts of the country and handing them off to his masters.

For that failure, Obama is condemned by everybody who was responsible for the crash in the first place.

In join session of Congress president is the guest of the congress, an equal branch of government. Does Tommy Christopher invite himself to other people’s houses when ever he wants?

BS pal. This is just so much more garbage from you it stinks the high heaven.I guess you weren’t around when you leftists and the Democrats did everything they could to smear GW and spend the country into oblivion.

Bush’s economy was doing just fine until 2007. Do you know what happened in 2007?

Obama’s had almost 3 years and many trillions of dollars to fix the economy and yet we are on the verge of a double dip recession and all your BS isn’t going to spin it into Obama saved the world.

FAIL

Your master is now Georgie Soros and what idiots like you can’t understand is that he’s in it for the money and he’d drop you people in a heartbeat if he thought he could make a buck off of it.

“TMP”

NewsBusters| Mediaite’s Christopher Melodramatic Over Obama Speech: ‘Boehner Should Resign’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2011/09/02/mediaites-christopher-melodramatic-over-obama-speech-boehner-should-re

The real problem is that President Obama knew full well what he was doing. He intended for it to be in conflict with the debate. If you think President Obama and his staff didn’t know there was a Republican debate that night, you’re dumber than anyone I know. The jobs speech is important. It will be filled with platitudes and infrastructure spending; after all haven’t you seen the bridges and roads lately? Even after over a trillion dollars in stimulus spending, it wasn’t enough.

Truly the problem is that the speech is important and in no way needs to be made before congress. He wants the applause when he jabs the republicans for doing exactly what democrat hacks did to Dimwit 43. “You lie” should be a staple in the response by everyone in attendance; both democrat and republican.

Are we out of the wars yet? No. Are we closing Gitmo yet? No. Has any real progress been made putting people back to work? No. Unemployment better? No. Foreign relations better? No. Dollar stronger? No. Deficits reduced as he promised? No.

The real problem is that both parties are more interested in continuing “business as usual” and it seems that most here have no problems with what “their guys” are doing. Everyone should take of their party colors and start looking at what their team is doing. Fix the problems you see and if you don’t, you’re the pox that needs to be removed.

Will no one rid us of this quarrelsome twit?

I wonder how long it will take for  the author realizes that we here in the USA have “separation of powers” and that the Speaker of the House doesn’t work for the President. 

Obama wants to use this event as a political event for his benefit.  There will be no more substance to Obama’s speech than any other speech he has given since being elected.  Political speech pure and simple.

 Did the white house ever  make an explicit claim that  Boehner, or anyone working for him, agreed? 

 Let’s face it; this White House has fumbled on these kind of protocol issues enough that they shouldn’t be given the benefit of the doubt.

Hot Air: Remember when Tip O’Neill rejected Reagan’s request to address the House?
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/02/remember-when-tip-oneill-rejected-reagans-request-to-address-the-house/

 The injection of “Rush Limbaugh” into this makes your narrative sound less believeable.   Without it, it’s a case of “he said / he said” and there’s lots of room for interpretation.  Once you start adding silly little frills, it just becomes a wanna-be conspiracy theory.

In defense of Barry, I just think he got confused.  After all, in his model of government, the  General Secretary can summon the Supreme Soviet to hear the latest five year plan at any time and expect immediate, respectful compliance.

I’m sure BO just forgot that he hasn’t quite gotten the US to that level of enlightenment yet.

 Speaking of “unprecedented” — can anyone name any instance where a President has called for a  joint session of Congress with anything like the petty reasons associated with Obama’s request?  (i.e., trying to suck air from the debate , to convince the networks to televise Yet Another Speech by Obama)

It would be a Good Thing if Obama actually was going to make a *serious* proposal for a compleet plan….. but even the White House is saying that it’s just going to be a partial plan… with more speeches to follow. 

The June 24, 1986, edition of The Wall Street Journal featured a story headlined, “President’s Bid to Address the House On Nicaragua Is Rejected by Speaker.” That’s right, no quibbling over the date and time, just a flat-out rejection.

Let the name of Thomas “Tip” O’Neil be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of the US of A. Let the name of Thomas “Tip” O’Neil be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.
 

 My gut feeling is that the White House’s idea of the protocol was that they were *informing* the House that Obama was  going to be making a speech to a joint session, but wrapped in the form  of a request.  It might not have registered when the House end was noncommital.

With the exception of the State of the Union, George W. Bush called two Joint Sessions of Congress – a statement on the federal budget, and to announce the War on Terror, that’s two, non-SOTU, Joint Sessions in 8 years. Mr. Obama has called 3 non-SOTU joint sessions. One, in February of 2009 to..well..talk to Congress, one on Healthcare Reform and now one jobs. I would say that Mr. Obama likes to talk to Congress.

Leftists are becoming an embarrassing parody of themselves.  Just silly.

Barry “Shovel Ready Double Dip” Soetoro is no more than a South Chicago Street Agitator.   He is more at home with his fellow Radicals that resent America in an ACORN Training Class.

I just spotted this Gem!

Are you kidding me Tommy?
The Petulant Prez thinks he’s going to be slick and usurp the energy and momementum of the GOP debate, and you go after Boehner?

You probably made him cry, and everything!

ps) Don’t believe yet another lie that they didn’t realize it…this crowd lives and dies nothing but politics!

I just spotted this Gem!

Are you kidding me Tommy?
The Petulant Prez thinks he’s going to be slick and usurp the energy and momementum of the GOP debate, and you go after Boehner?

You probably made him cry, and everything!

ps) Don’t believe yet another lie that they didn’t realize it…this crowd lives and dies nothing but politics!

are you insane tommy christopher????????

Actually, yes I can name another instance when a President was flat out denied the opportunity to speak before a joint session of Congress. The year was 1989 and the President was Ronald Reagan. Guess who the Speaker was??? DEMOCRAT Tip O’Neill. And there was no argument about the timing of the session. Tip plainly said “HELL TO THE NO!!” and that was the end of that discussion.

Sorry, but O is the one acting as a child. Boehner is well within the constitutional rights given to the Speaker of the House. He only reports to the Republican Caucus and his constituants. For the O to make it appear that he has the right to commandier the house and senate for a polictical speech (oh by the way, the very night the Republicans just happen to be having a debate) is arrogance extrodiare. Unfortuanely, this president is about as arrogant and “above the law” as any I’ve seen.  Even Clinton had more respect for the equality shared by the three branches of government.  O appears to belive that he is king, instead of the head of one of three equal parts.

poor little barry…the man child needs people to fight his battles for him.

Hey tub of lard Tommy. Did you feel Tip O’Neil should resign when he rejected Reagan’s request for a joint session of Congress back in June of 1986? 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904583204576546643389574716.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

Typical hypocritical left wing Mediaite

And just exactly how were the Republicans able to filibuster anything when the dims had a supermajority during the time period you specify?

Did Tip O’Neil resign when he denied the same thing to Reagan? No, he did not. The president tried an overtly political move and got hammered fair and square for it. Obama has no more right to demand to speak to congress than congress has to demand to speak to him. Although the presidency comes with many powers, the three branches of our government are considered coequals and respect is a two way street.

This may be the stupidest thing I’ve read. Ever.

Boehner is the one who looks silly and Obama looks like the grownup? Yeah, I saw Howard Finneman say that too on thursday on Hardball(Matthews was out). Unlike you, I watch MSNBC, but I don’t get all my talking points from it. Obama looks extremely petty and like a child being punished by the adult.

If you dont like who the President is, GTFO of my country. Barack Hussein Obama is your President, love it or leave it assholes.

Charge him, then. File charges…

I don’t have the required authority. Your Maha Rushie is lucky that the United States Attorney General hasn’t slapped the handcuffs on him already. I think the President probably wants Holder to wait until Limbaugh finishes “McCain-ing” the GOPster primary contenders.

Should be an open and shut case.

It is.

Keep us posted as to the progress.

I plan to.

… and cite that law.

I cite the law plenty in the write up I did on Politico. If you had followed the link, that I provided, in the post that you replied to, you would know that. Here’s that link again…

http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=2&subcatid=7&threadid=5826931Why America Should Have Seen Rush Limbaugh’s Treasonous Activities Coming

And, just in case you have a problem with following the links posted by others, here’s the U.S. Code that Limbaugh continuously violates…

Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 115: TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

§ 2385, “Advocating overthrow of Government”…

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government;or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so:- Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

§ 2389. “Recruiting for service against United States”…

Whoever recruits soldiers or sailors within the United States, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, to engage in armed hostility against the same; or Whoever opens within the United States, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, a recruiting station for the enlistment of such soldiers or sailors to serve in any manner in armed hostility against the United States—

That’s the violated code. The evidence of violations are extensive and found throughout Limbaugh’s transcripts. The most egregious involve accompanying graphics posted on his website.

Follow the link to my Politico expose. If you don’t think that I have made a strong case, join Politico, and explain to America the weakness of my “case”.

Is that what idiots in liberal media sound like? Wow..they are coming apart

Please do not believe that all libs are naive enough to write or support this kind of claptrap. What Boehner and the president both did is politics as usual.

More BS from you pal. The Democrats started a smear campaign on GW from before his inauguration pal. Don’t give this waiting it out crap.

Stay dumb it suits you. Obama know nothing about running a country and he’ll be replaced.

“TMP”.

The vile language of this article was certainly designed to appeal to Republican men, who are Free Masons (and Christian in NAME ONLY).  The Republican “take” on Christian practice looks more and more (to me) like white witchcraft at best, and voodoo in general.

So let’s cover a little ground, per the Word “101″.  The Lord appoints the country’s leadership, and has commanded His people to put themselves in obedience and submission to said leadership, except where it directly contradicts God’s commands.  If such instance arises, then we’re to obey God while showing deference to authority through respectful cooperation, wherever and whenever possible, being quick to humbly instruct others about what the Word says, and why we’re obeying that in preference because of the dictates of conscience.

This is exactly what Republicans (Texans and Midwesterners in particular) have NOT been doing.  You’re in haughty disobedience … but there’s a great cost to STRIFE.  Strife is a miracle aborter.  Even Jesus could NOT perform miracles (though He wanted to) for the folks in His town, because the town was rife with strife — bad, nasty, arrogant talk, full of malice, doubt, contempt and envy.  

Texas in particular needs a miracle, but you’re going to need a renewed mouth and renewed heart to get it.  Your state is ablaze, and though you’ve got some good things going on in the jobs sphere, the fires spread and burn down whatever’s in its path.  You need some rain, heavy enough to put the fires out.  But do you notice you’re not getting what you need?  It’s got everything to do with the strife caused by your hateful communications, and the malice of your constant intent to disrupt and stymy the Presidency and the will of the Nation.  It’s stopping your miracles, and though they be sent with all power, turning them around and making them go elsewhere.

Your crops are dying and dead on the vine and in the fields, but you keep on being hateful.  See where that gets you!  How’s that working so far?  Before this is over, your farmers may need the government to come help them, but the ill will you’ve created should make the people of this country unwilling to assist.  They see full well how you treat THEM, and they will repay you.

Rain has been sent to you, but the level of your strife has turned the storm around 180 degrees, which is almost impossible in nature.  I say almost, because it’s happening, though it’s hard to believe.  But that’s the problem.  YOU DON’Tt believe … you don’t talk like believers and you don’t act like believers.  You’re too busy aborting the miracles trying to come your way.  It’s so much more important to you to act hateful, snotty, mean, contemptuous and implacable.  You’re so sure God is just like you … though Jesus has spelled it out that He’s opposite of that carnal way.

When you harvest straw and ashes this Autumn, remember an Easterner (and a Christian) dared to call you out on your poor behavior and its cost (which you’ve only seen the tip of, so far).  But don’t take my word for it … keep shooting your mouths off, pointing guns, and behaving badly.

If there are any REAL Christians among you, you better round these phonies up and muzzle them.  They’re costing you SO MUCH … you have NO IDEA!

Wow! gideon’s sword sure is rusty, dull and flaccid.

1. I’m not going to defend Harry Reid’s fundraising or Harry Reid at all for that matter.
2. I’m for publicly financed elections and getting ALL corporate money out of our politics. One of the fundamentals of a fascist state is corporate control of elections along with all of the other levers of government.
3. The only fact that I was posting still stands: that all too many Republicans avoided their constituents rather than face the music; so go suck on a hemorrhoid, you schmuck.
Your smart ass reply doesn’t absolve the Rethuglicans for avoiding their constituents or their malfeasance.

I made the this comment, to which aaronjsolomon replied…

Hilarious to hear libs make these logical stretches to apply treason laws to conservatives. Hello? If we enforced our treason laws, libs would’ve all been hanging from lampposts 80 years ago, and none of this would be even happening right now

Let’s see, 80 years ago would be… 1931, right?

aaronjsolomon, this would be right before World War II. What was going on, at that time, that you think all “liberal” Americans were breaking America’s treason laws? Does your broad “lynching” brush include all the liberal Americans that were serving in the military in 1931?

And rightfully so !

I guess this guy approaches idiocy from a different angle than Victor, but they end up in the same place.

LMAO

I guess this guy approaches idiocy from a different angle than Victor, but they end up in the same place.

LMAO

So, did you read the article? Why should Boehner resign for politely asking the POTUS to reschedule, when he knew the date would be rejected in the Senate?

He’s one of the most ignorant people I’ve run across on the internet. He is learning to quote his sources which I had to give him a lesson on so he’s improving.

Now he needs to learn how to do adequate research so he doesn’t look so dumb when he puts his fingers to the keyboard.

His bigoted views and leftist rhetoric has turned him into a great big crybaby just like his pals.

Oh well, he is what he is.

“TMP”

 Democrats are the minority in the House….They can’t call for his resignation.
You are politically masturbating again.
Every day….the dumb just keep getting dumber.

Barry was trying to pull rank – he thinks of himself as the supreme leader and forgets there are three equal branches of government. That must have snapped his nose a bit … LOL.

Maybe he asks these questions just to be funny, you know, like clowning around just to get people going.

Actually no.. . Tip O’Neill denied a request by President Reagan.  Who is the “Presidential” historian that says otherwise?  Obama’s Prez History Czar?

Barry is the a narcissist. He thinks the world revolves around him. But he doesn’t have a clue. It’s obvious it was a ploy hatched by his handlers who know more about Chicago Thugery than Government Protocol.

Is it possible that Republicans ALL suffer memory loss?  Not only did that Congress set a record for filibuster (previously held by the Republican minority from 100th Congress), but Obama had a “supermajority” for all of 6 months

Franken the 60th vote wasn’t sworn in (because of Republican obstructionism in Minnesota) until July 7, 2009.  Scott Brown’s election and swearing in (remember how excited you were when he was elected?) was February 4, 2010

Even more interesting is the fact that you need 60 votes for cloture, not 3/5 of a quorum and during that time, Ted Kennedy “By June 2009 Kennedy had not cast a Senate vote in three months”  He died in July of 2009.  Until his replacement could be named and seated, there were no 60 votes.

Do you have any other easy questions, Bill?  I like those the best

First, the Speakers office got notice only 15 minutes before the WH announced it.  That is unprofessional, rude and discourteous.  Remember the Constitution states we have 3 EQUAL branches of government.

And Second, Tip ONeil totally denied Pres Reagan a request to speak to the Congress, not just asked for a diff date.  So, please, give it a rest

What exquisitely simplistic, binary thinking.  Let me see if I can employ your mode of logic:  “See any government offices around you?  Then, there ain’t no corporations.”

Wow, just wow.

“your attribution of comic-book motivations that are completely unsupported by word or deed does only one thing: confirms that you have no idea what you’re talking about.”

So, did Josef Stalin have “comic-book motivations”?  How about Pol Pot, or Mao Zedong?  You act as though people spouting the same collectivist, pseudo-compassionate garbage as modern Democrats didn’t murder 100-250 million people in the last 100 years.

Oh, I’m sorry–we’re not supposed to talk about that.  They’re been thrown down the memory hole.  Can’t have the narcissistic Left be made uncomfortable by having a mirror held up to their faces.

The ideology you defend (modern Democratic Party, aka eradication of the “classes” and the effectuation of “social justice” via state control of the civil society, aka Marxism) is historically the most murderous ideology ever devised, and instead of explaining what you would do differently, you simply deny any connection–which is nothing less than a Big Lie.

Also:  “piffle”.  Seriously?  You bitched about my use of “world’s smallest violin” as hackneyed, and yet you speak like an Edwardian civil servant?  Your faux-intellect is almost as big of a joke as your faux-philosophy.

It’s easy to say someone is “wrong”, much harder to prove it, and even harder still (impossible, really) when you proceed from incorrect premises, as all liberals do.

This is a classic liberal argument.  “You’re wrong, but I won’t explain how because it’s beneath me.”  In other words, you have no idea what the f*ck you’re talking about.  Nobody’s fooled, Forrest.

Breathtaking is one word, btw.  No hyphen.  Normally I refrain from spelling pedantry in forums, but you’re such a pretentious c*nt (“piffle”), I couldn’t resist.  Go back to school and learn the language.

accused of binary thought by the guy who believes that the President who extended rich people’s tax cuts and bailed out the banks with public money (instead of nationalizing them with public money like many on the left –e.g., Felix Salmon, Paul Krugman — urged him too) is a Marxist.

Accused of binary thinking from a guy who think a call to return to Clinton era tax rates is “Marxist.” 

to quote a simpleton, Wow, just wow.”

Jesus, even when you’re trying to be a pedantic twerp, you fail at it.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/breath-taking

Oh, noes, aaron is wrong again

Tommy Christopher’s partisan hackery is unprecedented at Mediaite and an insult to the readers of this site. He should resign immediately.

Tommy u are clearly illiterate  — U are clearly a Tea Party — I’m quite sure u have never travelled to another country in your life– do not have a passport — U have no world view – Why, am I wasting my time, u cannot understand the meaning of addressing joint congress.  Soo shut up!!.

So when Tip O’Neill, a Democrat, told Reagan, a Republican president, he couldn’t speak to the House but had to either address both houses or allow Q&A in 1986 it wasn’t unprecedented then?

Right on. It’s time to cut the Congress loose. They accomplish nothing anyway. They show up to collect their paycheck (for bitching I gather?) but then sit on their shrubs and give the stink-eye to anyone who dares to think otherwise than their dogma. Who the hell needs the old Club Drunk Boehner telling that  uppity (euphemism) where to heel and get off.

ObamaCare, Social Security and Medicare are safety nets for the  middle class — These policies are good for us and for this nation – Think about this current GOP platform – U will see, it will not only weaken but it will destroy the middle class.  It takes a strong healthy middle class to build a strong healthy nation. Think!!!!

cameowalkin 8 hours ago

Do us down here a favor, STAY AWAY. That or get back on your meds.

timb116,
Once again you prove how much of an idiot you are.
Felix Salmon wrote the following article: 
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/10/05/why-we-were-right-not-to-nationalize-the-banks/ “Why we were right not to nationalize the banks” 
Hey if your liberal/progressive, I guess being 50/50 on facts is okay.

Mr. Lopez, firstly, the Republicans have been hammering at the President to make a proposal to help improve the terrible unemployment situation — and to make clear I’m not being partisan about this, I believe they have been right to do so. There’s practically NOTHING that any President can say that it isn’t possible to view through a political prism. If that makes a President’s every utterance a campaign pitch, the I suggest you and other listeners do what I and many others do: separate the political chaff from the wheat that contains his actual idea, and focus on the wheat.

Secondly, it has been common knowledge for weeks that the President would address a joint session of Congress when they returned from their August break. While it’s true (apparently) that the White House didn’t *specify* a date, even people who detest the President — if my Obama-hating friends are any indication — have been licking their chops in eager anticipation to blast whatever plan he proposes. They’ve said so, and some have specifically, explicitly mentioned the date the White House requested. While I don’t know if the debate among the Republican candidates before or after the original announcement that the President would address a joint session of Congress *upon their return* — not “sometime after they return,” not “within the first days or weeks after they return” — let’s look at the two possibilities. If they scheduled it before, considering this was a routine request — one NEVER before denied to President –it hardly comes a a surprise that the debate was either overlooked, or considered less important than getting Congress and the President together to try to work out a way to handle what many of us consider to be a great, pressing national emergency. If it was scheduled AFTER the request was made, then it obviously was a deliberate move calculated move designed to use like a roadside bomb against the President. Speaker Boehner could have called the President then and asked him to request another date.

Thirdly, the twin facts that Speaker Boehner responded only after a delay — during which he could have raised an objection — and that he did so publicly give away his real game: embarrass and block the President at any, every, and all opportunity.

Fourthly, and most importantly, Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority Leader McConnell have repeatedly and very publicly declared that their primary goal is to make President a one-term one, and to block his legislative agenda as much as possible while he is in office. I have no complaint with the first; major party leaders always try to see another party’s President is shown the door come next election — fair enough. So is blocking legislation to which they are genuinely opposed — unless their opposition is based entirely and solely on the fact that the President proposed it, which has been the case over and over and over again during President Obama’s tenure. At this point, I would expect people such as Speaker Boehner to oppose, say, a reduction in the capital gains tax, or at the very least to try to put a negative spin on it — if *this* President were to propose it.

I disagree with Mr. Christopher’s wish to see the Speaker resign. I believe the Speaker should be openly dismissed from his post for childishly and selfishly abusing the powers of the office which he was allowed to assume. He is an utter disgrace to the office, and continues to fail to serve the larger interests of the nation.

But resignation by him is acceptable. Johnny Boy — get out your pen and pad — and start writing. (See, I too can play the game of “I’m gonna taunt him by using his first name in an obviously and deliberately rude way, just like the commentators do when they refer to the President as “Barry,” “O,” “Barack,” and “Hussein.”). Smearing the man is low-life politics, Johnny, but okay; you clearly don’t know any better. But debasing and insulting the office is utterly disgraceful — and utterly unacceptable. Write quickly, John-John — and clean out your office immediately thereafter.

This is really sick — U need a passport — U need to travel out of ur community not to mention out of this country and to see the world and other peoples, community and life styles – U need to be educated –not to mention ur lack of spirituality — Goodbye

mcjenny, it’s true the Speaker’s office has denied that he explicitly agreed. Leaving aside the question of whether that’s actually true — I’ll accept that it is, though — he has NOT denied that he didn’t raise any objection right away. And he simply CAN’T deny that he didn’t raise any objection privately — that would be demonstrably a lie.

timb116,
You do realize that the sixty votes did not have to all be Democrats to break a filibuster?

The Drunken Speaker of the House is “equal” to the President???? I think Angell is also drunken, and with a broken mind. Fire that sorry history teacher that disinformed you in your disparate youth. Or did you skip History, along with common sense? So tell me, when does the Speaker of the House sign the final bills of law? Oh, but somebody forgot that he doesn’t. When did the Speaker of the House become the Commander-In-Chief of the American Military? Oh, but somebody forgot that he isn’t. This could go on and on, but enough of your ignorance. Read a book … or something.

Tommy…you’re a freakin’ embarrassment.  Why are you getting your panties all twisted up about this?

Obama caused this “uproar” on purpose.  You mean this “speech” is so important he had to wait a week after his umpteenth vacation, and schedule it for an intentional, conflicting, date and time?  This, so we can hear the same old blathers he spews?

Let me synopsize the speech for you…”government good…must spend more money…green jobs…shovel-ready…infrastructure…focused like a laser…last thing I think about at night / first thing I think of when I wake…etc…etc…etc”.

Save you hissy-fit for something worthwhile, lady.

Don’t hold yer breath for 2012. If the Repugnants keep up this stink-eye and keep butt-blocking the jobs bills they don’t stand a chance. Enough Americans are intelligent enough to see who the REAL enemies of Freedom are.

Sorry, but the Repugnants picked this fight. Libs finally started giving an eye for an eye. About time … and just wait … it gets better and better and bigger and bigger.

The loss of civility is now encased in cement. If, perhaps, a Repugnant gets elected, it’s time to ignore the bastard son of bastards. Treat the “white” like he’s the uppity (euphemism) that he is.

No, it’s not. Tip O’Neill denied President Reagan in 1986.

You are all, all of you, acting like children.
I wish you had the sense to be ashamed of yourselves, yet I know you never will.
Your nation’s collapse will be well-earned.

Yes, that fact was incredibly important to the entire comment which is why it was in parenthesis.

In any instance, I hope Felix can forgive me for confusing him with Nouriel Roubini

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123517380343437079.html

On a board flavored with pedantic reactionaries, Todd, you may be the number 1 reactionary

The nation’s collapse is no where imminent, but we are laying the Grachii-esque seeds of our decline. 

Son, if your comment were any more correct, I would have written it!

Well done

except that no Democrat EVER talks like Stalin or Pol Pot.

It’s the reverse Godwin

Boehner should be fired, for what he did, right after Boehner did the Dirty Work of Rush Limbaugh, Eric Cantor came in later and said he never Rejected the President, he said he Welcome the President to Speak to a Joint Session of Congress, HE THREW BOEHNER UNDER THE BUS THAT QUICK, THEY SET BOEHNER UP REAL GOOD, ERIC CANTOR CLEARED HIS NAME REAL QUICK, THIS IS THE GUY THAT WANT BOEHNER JOB, BOEHNER DIDN’T HURT THE PRESIDENT. Everyone say the President Yield, we don’t agree, because the President don’t give up something for nothing. If the Democrats say he Bend, they must be talking about themeselves, because this is what they did for 8 years, after reading Cheney Book and Looking at Rachel Maddow Documentary and we did our own Research. We Loved it on THURSDAY When Lawrence O’Donnell showed FDR, SEPT. 29, 1936 AND OCT., 31, 1936, PRESIDENT OBAMA IS HIS IMAGE ALL THE HATE THAT HAVE BEEN SPEWED ON HIM. CHECK OUT THURSDAY LAWRENCE O’DONNELL MSNBC, WE KEPT PLAYING IT OVER AND OVER.

Remember when Tip O’Neill rejected Reagan’s request to address the House? Precedented, dumbass.

Fact-free, as usual.

Only an angry, ignorant child would look at Democratic Party principles and equate them with the horrible acts of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. Get a clue: just because you’re passionate about something doesn’t automatically make it true, especially in a case where every sensible person on the planet will laugh at your idiot imaginings.

(That sound you hear in the background — that’s people reading your post and laughing.)

And since we’re talking about fact here, I don’t know anyone of note commenting on the American political scene who’s tried to shove Stalin’s crimes down the memory hole. No, that would be you, making shit up again.

You’ve crammed a bunch of words you don’t understand in a couple of paragraphs and seem to believe that doing so magically turns them into synonyms. Very silly. It’s completely unnecessary to deny any connection between the Democratic Party and Marxism, just as it’s completely unnecessary to deny any connection between apples and Volkswagens. There’s no there there.

As for “piffle,” I can’t think of a better case for the use of the word than your post.

Unless it was the posts of your equally ignorant bretheren on this site.

No, I think I’ll keep piffle in my lexicon because “dumb-as-dirt nonsensical bullshit” takes too many keystrokes.

I did.  The whole article is a he said/ he said and I responded by saying “So What?”

It’s a non issue except for people like Ed Schultz (MSNBC’s resident hatemonger) and the liberals who infest this site.  Again I say So What?

Kids plying in the School Yard.  This is politics, nothing more.  Obama knew what he was doing and Boehner called him on it. Do you see it any other way? Obama is in campaign mode.  He’s been in that mode since November 2008.  Boehner is the King of the Hill.  He did what he had to do.

“TMP”

”

Secondly, it has been common knowledge
for weeks that the President would address a joint session of
Congress when they returned from their August break”

Bull! There is NO mention of a “joint
session of Congress” speech.

WASHINGTON (AP)
— Seeking to jolt the economy, President Barack Obama will unveil
new ideas to create jobs and help the struggling poor and middle
class in a major speech after Labor Day. And then he will try to
seize political advantage by spending the fall pressuring Congress to
act on his plan.

Aug 18 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to
unveil a plan in early September to jump-start the U.S. economy
and tackle the country’s 9 percent unemployment rate.

The common knowledge claim is a complete lie!

There is also Obama’s history of having
NEVER given a “job’s speech” in a “joint session of Congress”.
There is also no history of ANY President giving a “job’s speech”
in a “joint session of Congress”.

“President would address a joint session
of Congress *upon their return* — not “sometime after they
return,” not “within the first days or weeks after they
return” — let’s look at the two possibilities. If they
scheduled it before, considering this was a routine request — one
NEVER before denied to President”

Bull! “NEVER before denied to
President”

The June 24, 1986, edition of The
WallStreet Journal featured a story headlined, “President’s
Bid toAddress the House On Nicaragua Is Rejected by Speaker.”

So far your claim of a “job’s speech”
in a “joint session of Congress” is a proven lie, and your claim
“NEVER before denied to President” is a proven lie.

Where did you get this bogus
information?

Are you really this gullible?

I do hope that those of you who are offended (by the constant discourteous slanders and rude gamesmanship leveled by Republicans at our President in particular, and the Cabinet in general) do more than merely comment here.  

All of you should be regularly corresponding (by email through Congress.org) with your representatives, and making your desires known to your state reps.  Let your letters pile up, urging them to vote for the removal of men who prove themselves unfit for office by their failure to conduct themselves civilly and respect the presidency, the White House, and therefore, the people themselves. 

These men should be not only removed from their positions, but also jailed for contempt.  I hope we make changes to our laws that will establish this needed change.  We must enforce civil behavior, if there is to be any respect.  Apparently, manners have become an anachronism, and we cannot simply accept the Neanderthal behavior of the Republican Party and TEA Posse.

RAH, the President observed protocol and precedent to the letter: he privately communicated to the Speaker his desired time and date — the latter previously indicated by the President’s statement that he wanted to address a joint session of Congress upon its return from summer break, a statement made WEEKS in advance. Speaker Boehner obviously and with malice aforethought held off objecting until AFTER the White House had publicly announced when the President would make his address. I personally believe the Speaker deliberately suggested the President move his address to the opening day of the NFL season on purpose, to try to use that against the President as well, though I readily and openly admit I have no proof of that. It’s a suspicion on my part, one based on the Speaker’s record of past behavior as Speaker.

Though the Speaker would never resort to a gun, he’s the political equivalent of and no better than a hit man for the Mafia. A ninja who went over to the dark side.

Resign, Mr. Speaker. The contempt in which the Congress as an institution is held is largely, though not solely, because of your abysmal failure to lead responsibly. The contempt you have shown towards the office of the Presidency is itself beneath contempt.

J’en ai marre, I did a quick search but can’t find that instance. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but I would appreciate a link to some sort of public record, an unbiased one. I *did* find a story about then Speaker Tip O’Neill refusing to agree for the President to address the *House* — but not a joint session of Congress; Reagan had requested to speak just to the House on the eve of a crucial spending vote. (Reagan took to the air after the refusal and got his way anyway, which was a smart move on his part.)I will say that if the Republican debate was already scheduled prior to the news several weeks ago that the President would address a joint session of Congress when they returned from their August break, someone in the White House should have known that (though not necessarily the President himself). In such a case, I believe it is incumbent on that White House person to get a private message to both the Speaker and the Senate Minority Leader to ask if they wanted him to speak that same day, or another time. That would have left the two the flexibility to decide whether they felt his address was of greater importance than the debate, or vicve versa. On the other hand, if no one in the White House knew the debate was already scheduled, then the White House dropped the ball — and dropped it seriously.If, however, the Republicans scheduled their date *after* the President first indicated he would address a joint session of Congress, it’s fair to ask why they did so, given the importance they — and all of us — feel the unemployment situation carries. I recognize and accept that no one in the GOP leadership has a legal duty to counsel them to schedule it for another date and that whoever scheduled the date had no legal responsibility to even bother about when the President might speak. But I would think it wise to take that into consideration.In any case, I believe the Speaker was way out of order by not letting the White House know in a flash that he objected — and  even more out of order when he responded *publicly* to a *private* request, a transparent attempt to embarrass the White House. That he succeeded does not justify his acting like a joker instead of a gentleman. (Let me repeat that if it was the White House that blew it, then I hold them responsible for that — but still believe the Speaker was wrong in his handling of the situation.)

flowertgirl1516, you misread the article. Here’s the headline, sub-head, and opening paragraph:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

House Slams Door On Reagan
O`neill Bars Pitch For Aid To Contras
June 24, 1986|By George de Lama, Chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON
— President Reagan asked Monday to address the House of Representatives
on the eve of its crucial vote on military aid to Nicaragua`s contra
rebels, but House Speaker Thomas “Tip“ O`Neill refused the request as
an
“unprecedented“ and an “unorthodox procedure.”

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

It was a request to address JUST the House — not a request to address a joint session of Congress. While O’Neill was arguably disrespectful to both President Reagan and the office of the Presidency (which I felt at the time it was), the Presidential historian is NOT incorrect to say a Presidential request to speak specifically to BOTH chambers in a joint session has not ever been denied. Even were the Senate to now pass a resolution to agree to listen to the President on his first date, he would be speaking ONLY to the Senate — and would have been denied the opportunity to address a joint session. I’m puzzled how some people misread the record; the difference is considerable — two different matters completely, in fact.

Good Lt., yes, Obama’s economic record to this point *is* worse than Bush’s was at the same point in the Bush Presidency. However, Bush didn’t inherit two wars but *did* inherit a budget surplus — and even with that sweet hand, he still gave even voodoo economics a bad name by the end of the day. We can’t know about alternate history that didn’t happen, but if Bush had walked into a staggering deficit and two wars, I imagine his record would have been just as bad as (and maybe worse than) Obama’s at the same point in his own Presidency. I don’t blame Bush for our being in a post-9/11 world, but we are, and Obama was in it from day one. At least Bush had almost eight months without that, which was his good fortune.

Could and would have McCain done better than Obama has? Perhaps — but that’s another unknowable alternate history.

DarkLady, my Republican Representative went right out and met some of his constituents — for free. . . . a Tea Party group, who got to hear him call for impeaching the President. Great job. (He has since tried to walk his call back, but so far, that pig won’t fly.)

Good Lt., how can he address a joint session of Congress when Congress isn’t even in session? Sure — he could go on the airwaves, and presumably most Representatives and Senators would watch or listen to him, but that’s a far cry from making a formal address to a joint session of Congress. I suppose the President could bypass the Congress and address the American people directly — after all, Reagan did and got his way after all when Tip O’Neill refused to let him speak in person in the House of Representatives just before a vote on aid to rebels in Nicaragua back in the 80′s. (I’m not criticizing Reagan for that — it was a brilliant move on his part — since it worked.)

Good Lt., while I agree that deal sure looks fishy — and I suspect the investigation well may conclude it was, I also suspect the report itself will be suspect. In any case, even if the Administration *did* commit the actions of which they stand accused, how does that let the Speaker of the hook for his own disgracing of his office? (Hint: it *doesn’t.*)

Sandie, convince me that you and SoThere wouldn’t be screaming bloody murder if a Democrat Speaker had done precisely the same thing for precisely the same (supposed) reason to *any* Republican President. I would — but I don’t believe for a second either of *you* would.

You really do need to re-read the article, Flowergirl15116. President Reagan asked to speak just to the HOUSE — not to a joint session of Congress. (And as I said in my earlier reply to your earlier comment in which you gave the same link, I thought O’Neill was wrong, too.)

Evan3457, I guess you and Flowergirl1516 were in the same reading comprehension class — and both of you apparently failed.

The WSJ Op-Ed you linked says, “President Ronald Reagan wanted to address the House before its critical
vote on funding for the anti-communist ‘Contra’ rebels in Nicaragua.” The HOUSE, Evan3457 — NOT “a joint session of Congress.” In fact, the piece goes on to point out that O’Neill offered the President two alternatives: (1.) to in fact speak to a joint session of Congress, or, (2.) to speak to just the House IF President reagan agreed to take questions from the Representatives. Though O’Neill (and Boehner)were on solid Constitutional grounds, as the same Op-Ed also points out, I believe both were also wrong.

But the main point is that President Reagan didn’t even ASK to speak to a joint session of Congress, not to only the House, whereas President Obama did ask to speak to both chambers in joint session. Apples and oranges.

NonElite — agreed. IF it is done consistently, not based on party affiliation. BTW, I’m not accusing you of partisanship at all, since you appear to mean the same thing as I just spelled out explicitly. (And yes, I’m an equal opportunity critic of one and all, regardless of party.)

oxycon, if President Obama wanted to misuse that platform, then every single President who has given *any* speech to a joint session of Congress has done so (at least every one since the advent of radio, though I would argue before, going right back to President Washington — the newspapers did report on them, too). After all, *every* Presidential speech is partisan to some degree or another. In fact, every single Presidential utterance is viewed through partisan lenses. Look at the heat President Bush took when he congratulated Brownie for doing a fine job. I imagine the President was just trying to give his guy a boost — yet he was beaten up badly for the comment. (It wasn’t the smartest thing he ever said, true. But I didn’t think he deserved all that heat, either.)

Imagine the torrent of publicity that would erupt if any President were to publicly muse, “I sure do hope my stock portfolio doesn’t take a beating.”

mike s, good point. I had already thought of something along those lines, harking back to when then-Speaker Tip O’Neill refused to allow President Reagan to address [just] the House on the eve of a House vote to continue funding for the Nicaraguan Contras — Reagan simply took to the air and won the vote anyway. It was a risky move on President Reagan’s part, of course, as it would be for President Obama. I did e-mail that suggestion to the White House, not that I expect even an acknowledgement, of course.

Mr. Mcenroe, though I imagine we’re in somewhat different political corners, I erupted with laughter when I read your comment, Sir! That’s a GREAT line! I think I’ll flat-out steal it and use it myself, changing “Michael” Moore” to probably “Rush Limbaugh,” “Glenn Beck,” or “Newt Gingrich”! LOL –

JWF, I read the piece to which you provided a link, which is a website every bit as much a partisan rag as some accuse this site of being (with some justice, by the way). Here’s what I posted there: “Speaker Boehner
should give up his office because he is completely unwilling to advance
anything — except to defeat each and every proposal the President puts
forth, not because of this dust-up. (In which, by the way, I feel the
White House deserves considerable criticism. But the Speaker is a
complete loser, as a Speaker. Let Cantor give it a try, though he would
probably be an equal zero.)

I am not going to speak for SoThere. As for myself, I know what the protocal is and I don’t care who the prez is, that stunt is out of bounds. The speaker was fully in his rights to take the action he did because of the timing of events, the scheduling issues, etc. He suggested a different day and it was Obama’s problem that he announced a date that was never agreed to. He just assumed that since he is Prez, that it will happen his way. He should have tried to do it for a day he new would be a problem because of Congress returning, the debates that evening, and the time needed for scheduling and other events, etc. Did he do it out of ignorance? Or did he try to pull a fast one. Who knows.

Why did you hit the “Reply” button? You didn’t reply to Greg. You wrote the kind of stuff he finds worrying and sad. So do I. Yes, President Bush was on the receiving end of similar crap, and guess what? — I defended HIM against mindless, hateful attacks, too. But the ones against Obama have been far worst than most — though not all — the attacks on Bush. Ones that called Bush “Hitler” were on par with the worst that have been hurled against Obama, right up there with the “Muslim terrorist” and “n*gger” thrown at him. Further, Obama has been attacked FAR more than Bush ever was. And don’t say he has it coming — or do I need to remind you of two off-the-book wars that have pushed us to the financial brink? Wars that Obama *has* put on the books — acknowledging reality? Ditto the unfunded Part D benefit and the unfunded tax cuts? All of which Bush *should* have been criticized for, along with the Republicans AND Democrats that made it possible for him to get away with.

“Timmuh” said;

“Oh, and I’ll excuse Adam from missing the Omnibus Budget Bill which the Senate worked on throughout 2010 that the Republicans refused to allow to come to the floor,”

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas,
responded in a statement, saying that after neglecting to pass a budget, “today
we learn Senate Democrats now want to sandwich them together, totaling almost
2,000 pages, and jam them through in the waning moments of this lame duck
session before anyone can read them. This political end-around reveals just how
quickly my colleagues across the aisle have already forgotten the voters’
message in November.”Though none of the spending bills has passed the
Senate, all the individual appropriations bills have been through the full
committee process. In an afternoon release, the Appropriations Committee website
listed all of
the requested earmarks, winnowed into separate categories that go into
making up the 12 separate annual spending bills.
In total, thousands of
earmark requests are listed. The financial services earmark chart, for instance,
lists 220 earmark requests from dozens of lawmakers, mostly in the House, each
worth anywhere from $50,000 to $2.4 million. The largest sum was requested by
Inouye and his Hawaii colleague Sen. Daniel Akaka for “Bank on USA”
demonstration projects” in their state. The projects are designed to give
underserved communities greater access to financial
institutions.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/14/revolt-republicans-angry-omnibus-budget-decry-total-mess/#ixzz1Wx1WgcdY

Obama couldn’t have signed the bill anyway even if it was passed which was never going to happen.

Why you ask?

“President vows in State of the Union to veto any bill ‘larded’
with earmarks
By Sam Youngman – 01/25/11 11:16
PM ET 

President Obama promised Tuesday night that he will veto any bill that
includes earmarks.

Making the second State of the Union address of his
presidency, this one following a trouncing of Democrats in November’s elections,
Obama sought to cast himself as a political centrist. He called for a five-year
freeze on non-security discretionary spending, but avoided specifics about how
to control the much greater costs of Social Security, which the left had
feared.The
president’s promise to eliminate pork-barrel spending, long seen as a symbol of
Washington’s waste, was a rhetorical exclamation point in a speech clearly
designed to prevent Republicans from owning the mantle of fiscal
responsibility.”http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/140189-obama-to-issue-earmark-veto-threat-in-state-of-the-union-addressSo you see “Timmuh” Obama couldn’t sign the bill even if it had passed which it was never going to do because it wasn’t going to make it through the Senate.Unless Obama is a liar!!!!!”TMP”

Agreed, Greg. Of course, your comment obviously went right over NDanielson’s head, since his/her main “contribution” was the completely worn-out accusation that everyone who has a differing view is a “lefty.” I wish ND would say that to the numerous life-long republicans I know who do NOT like President Obama BUT like many of the current crop of Republicans so much that they’re planning to vote either for the democrats or some third-party candidates next year. Business people, construction workers, farmers — you know, all those commies lurking in the woodwork.

Yeah, right. Taxes are why GE and other corporations have moved operations abroad — leaving American workers idled, right?

Wrong claim, ND. I LIVE abroad and know a LOT of American business people, and every single one names as first and foremost the much cheaper labor available in numerous foreign countries — not U.S. taxes. In some cases, they actually end up paying MORE in taxes than they would have in the U.S. (because they have to pay taxes in the foreign country they’re in), BUT they save more than the difference owing to cheap labor. Besides, on average, businesses on the U.S. paid less than 9% in taxes in 2009 — nowhere NEAR the nominal top rates. Well under a quarter of those top rates, in fact. I pay more in personal INCOME tax than that — a LOT more, in percentage terms.

timb116,
I am reactionary how? By using the truth, where you seem to have a problem doing so. Getting someones entire name wrong can not be passed off as a typo.

Eroding our liberties? You mean like the Patriot Act? And yes, I strongly disapprove of President Obama and the Democrats continuing to support it, but let’s not forget the REPUBLICAN-initiated little piece of legislation. You act like abuses didn’t start until Obama was sworn in. Which makes your argument a joke.

How much do you get per post?  And the army of cut-’n'-pasters?  A decent unemployment index can be derived simply by counting the number of right-wing comments that show up per month on sites like these.  (Of course, commenters would then derive some marginal income, but would not be counted as employed for the purposes of labor statistics, and they would eligible for benefits for whatever time period is currently provided, with or without extensions.) I hope you all are declaring the income that you are getting!

oxycon, just curious: does the “F” mean “fat,” “feeble-minded,” or “factless”?

Reagan asked to speak to the House. Tip O’Neill turned him down.

If Obama wanted, I’m sure Harry Reid would’ve let him speak to the Senate, but he wanted both chambers for the political theory. Therefore, in effect, he was asking Boehner to let him speak to the House as well. Boehner was far more willing to accommodate the President of the other party than O’Neill was. Boehner only wanted to change the day, and was willing to let Obama speak. Reagan asked to speak with a more critical time factor. O’Neill wouldn’t allow it at any time before the vote. There is NO time factor at all, as Obama felt it satisfactory to go on vacation for nine days before all of a sudden deciding he need to speak to both Houses and to the nation on that Wednesday and no other day. Why?
Why is Wednesday any different than Thursday for his purposes? Or Friday, or next Tuesday? You know the answer, but will never admit it “out loud”.

The difference you cite is therefore without any real distinction, and is therefore irrelevant. In fact, it’s a pathetic moving of the goalposts, Mekhong Kurt.

Feeble; and I award you 0 points.

Try to keep up…

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rick-Parry-For-President-2012/255935974434127

Getting someones entire name wrong can not be passed off as a typo.

I never passed it off as a typo, illiterate, I passed it off as confusion with another economics blog I read, Roubini’s rather than Salmon’s and I noted it wasn’t important to the point at large: liberal economists were urging the President to nationalize banks.

I may be overly concerned with details, but at least I get the details right.

You sure didn’t on the other thread.

Tommy, just who the frack do you think you are? I seriously hope you wrote this piece as sarcasm. Otherwise, you come off looking just like a jerk. Obama has done more to disgrace the office of the President of the United States, so if anyone should apologize, it should be him.

I’m no fan of Boehner, but you, Mr. Christopher, are WAY off on this one.

timb116,
You do realize they only need 60 total votes not 60 Democrat votes?

Oh if you had only been close with your facts. The
100th Congress (1987-1988) filed 54 cloture motions, held 43 votes on cloture,
and invoked it a grand total of 12 times. Democrats held the majority in both
houses.

The 110th Congress
(Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate) filed 139
motions for cloture, held 112 votes on cloture, and invoked it  61 times.

The 111th Congress (Democrats held both houses
still) there were 136 motions for cloture filed, 91 votes held, and
63 invocations.

So far in the 112th Congress (Republicans hold the
House, Dems the Senate) there have been 24 motions filed, 16 Votes, and 9
invocations. 

My source for facts? The United States
Senate: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm

aaron is not gifted

Yeah, kitty, if someone 100 years ago believed something discredited, then that mean you believe it now, even if you don’t know you do. 

It’s why conservatives are all segregationists….you know, since conservatives believed that back in the 50′s

SoThere and timb116,
The simple protocol fact is that the President cannot speak on the floor of the House of Represenatives without a formal invitation. He was not going to get one from Boehner for Wednesday, and Boehner politely explained to him why. 
@timb116:disqus  You might try reading his letter. 
“Dear Mr. President:Thank you for your letter requesting time to address a Joint Session of Congress next week. I agree that creating a better environment for job creation must be our most urgent priority. For months, the House has been implementing an agenda designed to reduce economic uncertainty, remove unnecessary government barriers to private-sector job creation, and help small businesses, and we welcome the opportunity to hear your latest proposals.As your spokesperson today said, there are considerations about the Congressional calendar that must be made prior to scheduling such an extraordinary event. As you know, the House of Representatives and Senate are each required to adopt a Concurrent Resolution to allow for a Joint Session of Congress to receive the President. And as the Majority Leader announced more than a month ago, the House will not be in session until Wednesday, September 7, with votes at 6:30 that evening. With the significant amount of time – typically more than three hours – that is required to allow for a security sweep of the House Chamber before receiving a President, it is my recommendation that your address be held on the following evening, when we can ensure there will be no parliamentary or logistical impediments that might detract from your remarks. As such, on behalf of the bipartisan leadership and membership of both the House and Senate, I respectfully invite you to address a Joint Session of Congress on Thursday, September 8, 2011 in the House Chamber, at a time that works best for your schedule.We look forward to hearing your ideas and working together to solve America’s jobs crisis.”
Oh wait Boehner did extend a formal invitation in his letter, Obama could take it or leave it his option, he chose to accept it. timb116 fails again.

timb116,

Oh if you had only been close with your facts. The
100th Congress (1987-1988) filed 54 cloture motions, held 43 votes on cloture,
and invoked it a grand total of 12 times. Democrats held the majority in both
houses.

The 110th Congress
(Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate) filed 139
motions for cloture, held 112 votes on cloture, and invoked it  61 times.

The 111th Congress (Democrats held both houses
still) there were 136 motions for cloture filed, 91 votes held, and
63 invocations.

So far in the 112th Congress (Republicans hold the
House, Dems the Senate) there have been 24 motions filed, 16 Votes, and 9
invocations. 

My source for facts? The United States
Senate: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904583204576546643389574716.html

The June 24, 1986, edition of The Wall Street Journal featured a story headlined, “President’s Bid to Address the House On Nicaragua Is Rejected by Speaker.” That’s right, no quibbling over the date and time, just a flat-out rejection.

Both Speaker O’Neil then and Speaker Boehner this week were on very solid Constitutional ground. The president has no more right to take over the proceedings in the House, or to invite himself in, than does the speaker have the right to commandeer the president’s time and attention within the White House. On this point, the meaning of a separate Article I and Article II in the Constitution couldn’t be clearer.

Game, Set, Match. The WSJ just made Tommy Christopher its bitch.

Why do we need another jobs bill? We were told that by passing the democrat stimulus bill, everything would be fine. Are you admitting that the stimulus was a trillion dollar failure?

I take it the reason Harry Reid kills bills coming from the House is because the stimulus worked so well that there is no reason for any more legislation, right?

But I love how democrats lay blame for the bad economy at the feet of bush and now the house republicans, and then when it comes to what they enacted, everything they accomplished actually worked. That is hilarious..

Limbaugh made a joke “If they ever do a colonoscopy on Obama, they’re gonna find Richard Wolffe’s head there”….methinks Tommy’s head might be sharing space…..listen Obama made a d*ck move and everyone including honest Dems know it and Boehner called him on it…plus he didn’t deny him the right to have a joint session he just told him to do it the next day.

Tommy you and the rest of the Obama cheerleaders in the MSM need drop this and start planning how your going to spin Obama’s speech next week after it bombs.

I think you have me confused for someone who thinks Boehner was wrong…

Obama has never done anything BUT campaign. 

Boehner knew the session would be turned down, regardless, by DeMint, and offered up an alternative date to Obama. There was nothing wrong with what Boehner did. Obama is another story…

Written like a reactionary liberal. My belief is that Boehner is reasonable but is being lead around by the nose by the limbaughs of radio and the ericksons of the blogo- and twitter-sphere. Just think of the alternatives: Speaker Bachmann,  Speaker Paul Ryan, speaker West. The devil you know. Sufficed to say they, the nutcases on the right, dislike Boehner on account he is establishment republican

moreover, one can’t really call for the resignation of everyone who
insults the president so long as no laws were broken. The list is
getting long anyway that it can’t be done. Something in this president that apparently insights this kind of reaction from the other side. The president and his loyal supporters need to have some introspection.. perhaps what he did to (or didn’t do for) these people in his first two years

And Second, Tip ONeil totally denied Pres Reagan a request to speak to the Congress, not just asked for a diff date.  So, please, give it a rest – Rick S. Geiger

Evidently, another one of Reagan’s “short comings” was an ignorance of the Executive powers granted to the President, by the Constitution.

Extensive and unnecessary use of hyphenation is a remnant of the Victorian era–kind of like your quaintly romantic view of totalitarian leftism, and the word “piffle.”  If you look closely at your link, you will see that the primary definition is shockingly hyphen-free.

breath·tak·ing
adjective thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.

I don’t know what crypt you just crawled out of, but it’s 2011.  I suggest you locate a new-fangled auto-mobile and have a look around.

That said, I’ll concede your point.  Yes, it is technically correct, if obsolete (like your thinking).  Apologies to faux-Victorian poseurs everywhere.

Better that Boehner insult Obama than Obama insult the taxpayers and business owners, the ones who pay the bills in this country!  The hands that feed him!

Obama is an insult to the Black Community as well.   He is a shameful representation of the blacks.  He’s not fully black and he doesn’t  know what a black life in America is.

Exactly!   We have had high (for U.S.) unemployment for nearly 3 years now and just now he wants to talk about jobs???

OMG – If this drama queen’s logic was right, there wouldn’t have been any Dems left in government when  Bush was president. You liberal girls with your collective panties in a knot are hysterical!

YOUR GROSS GENERALIZATIONS are appalling.   You speak as if you are the authority and know it all.   Better get off the cameo.

He has proven no eligibility to be the president and until he does, I will consider that office vacant.

Another was that he wasn’t asking for a joint session of Congress, only to the House.  Another conservative zombie lie.  You have to kill it over and over again.  No President has ever been denied in public a request to speak to a joint session. 

Why do conservative elites have such contempt for their own base?  The WSJ article this bs claim is upon is makes the claim without ever noting the difference between the full house and a joint session and conservatives just lap it up

No President has ever been denied in public a request to speak to a joint session.

This is another “conservative zombie lie” (not yours, I know, but they have been very effective in propagating this myth).

The “requesting” of a special session is traditional only.

Here’s the Executive “power” that the Constitution grants the President:

Article II, Section 3 – State of the Union, Convening Congress

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

There’s absolutely nothing in there about the President “requesting” the session, or that either house can “refuse” the session.

If the President announced, today, that a special session of Congress will “convene” on Tuesday, September 6, 2011, two days from now, then the 535 Congress[wo]men would have to show up, or face charges of treason.

There’s no proof of that. Obama is a walking mistake and disgrace.

IT’S ABOUT TIME.

THE ARROGANCE OF THIS PRESIDENT KNOWS NO BOUNDS. THE WHITE HOUSE KNEW BEFOREHAND THE SCHEDULING OF THE REPUBLICAN DEBATES.

 AREN’T YOU AT ALL SICK OF SEEING THIS TELEPROMPTER READING EGO-MANIACAL BLOWHARD DEMANDING MORE AIR TIME TO WHINE, RACE-BAIT AND FINGER POINT AND PASS THE BUCK?

HE WAS ASKED AT A RECENT NEWS CONFERENCE, TO NAME ONE THING HE WOULD CUT IN HIS PHONY FOUR TRILLION DOLLAR PROPOSALS TO THE REPUBLICANS DURING THE DEFICIT NEGOTIATIONS. THE PRESIDENT SPOKE IN REPLY TO THE QUESTION, FOR SEVEN MINUTES, AND NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION. COULDN’T NAME ONE PROGRAM. NOT ONE, AND REFUSED TO DO SO.

OUR PRESIDENT IS AN IDEALOGUE, AN ABUSER; A WAFFLER, WHOSE AIM IS, AS EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE BY NOW, THE WEAKENING OF AMERICAN POWER, PRESTIGE, SECURITY AND PERSONAL FREEDOM USING ABUSIVE GOVT AS THE HAMMER. HE’S ANGRY, ALWAYS COMBATIVE AND WILL THROW ANYONE UNDER THE BUS.

OBAMA IS THE “DANGER FROM WITHIN” TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE CAT BIRD SEAT AND HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO STAY THERE AND WREAK FURTHER HAVOC.

HE HATH WROUGHT GROWING HAVOC AND GETS  SUSTENANCE WITH EACH ADDED ENCROACHING VICTORY THAT FURTHER SUFFOCATES THE INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM AND CREATIVE SPIRIT THAT IS INNATELY AMERICAN.

HIS DISDAIN AND DISLIKE OF AMERICA AND WESTERN POWERS HAS BEEN THERE FOR A LONG TIME. HE EVEN WROTE ABOUT IT IN HIS SELF GLORIFYING ” DREAM FROM MY FATHER”.

New Rule: Tommy Christopher = Tommy Tool

“It was made in private, and the Speaker’s public response was an unprecedented insult to the office of the President of the United States.”

This kind of behavior will continue as long as politicians look to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Charles & David Koch, Tea-Party wanna-be candidates, and lobbyists for direction. Mr. Boehner, you do not have the personal conviction to stand up to the derisions of RWGOPTPs and outsider money to make decisions… at the very least you should surrender your giant gavel it has not served you well!

Let me sum it up for you Kkalmes, WHaaaaaa Whaaaaaaaa boo hooo boo hoooo. Boehner put my President in his place!!!  Whaaaaaa Whaaaaaa.

I’m going to insult all the Republicans I can think of and call them names.

Give it a rest, it will all be over next year and you people will be gone.

“TMP”

 Man there sure are alot of haters, out there. Obama walked into a death spiral shit storm when he came into office. There are so many people just twisted with anger that an intellegent, educated, black man is president. They just can’t see past it. This country will be putting out Bush fires for years to come. Boener is a first class chump and that germ Cantor actually made money on the debt ceiling fiasco betting against his own country.= Treason.

  I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s so good to see meaningful posts. In a world so riveted on fear and hate. The light of truth and logic shines bright in your words Thanks.

 Seriously? You sound like a Glenn Beck wannabe.

 T.K.O! flowergirl is down, bring in the smelling salts. And the winner is timb116!!  Once again education and intellect, will win, over an uninformed voter. 

 Are you 12?

It is amazing.  I originally supported Obama in the primaries, because I grew watching these nutjobs rail against the Clintons.  I figured it was a Clinton thing.  In my most charitable moment, I think it’s a Democrats thing.  It may, however, be a race thing.  The people on these thread are older and whiter than the average American and they tend to have racial attitudes….It was just a couple of days ago that I read one of these jackasses telling another one that the problem with Louisiana schools was integration, because blacks are the favored race in Louisiana! 

Also, I think this place pulls a lot of Freepers.   A ton of them. 

I kinda like owning the cons, so I stick around, but if frothing anger and irrational, uneducated opinions offend you, you might want to avoid posting on these boards.  There’s a new con moron every minute here.

 The sheer hatred and the anger in your lil speech there is very revealing. Sad, and sadder still are all  those joining you in the hate fest. They like to get all condecendingly slimy. Almost joyful,with the mud sling. It’s obvious you guys feel real smug in your snipy comments. Eight years of Bush’s tax cuts and give away’s to the richest of the rich. Two Illegal and immoral wars. This president took office in the middle of multiple train wrecks. And you are indignant? Now? Are you so married to your hate that you……Yea, it’s pretty plain. That weight of hate you carry is pretty cripling I feel kind of sorry for you.

 Haters blind haters there they go again sniping sniping. I’ll go out on a limb here and bet your a tea-partier. My fellow american I say this to you in all honesty. You gotta move away from Rupert Murdoch’s Fox news talking points. Breath more fresh air and  get some oxygen, That is before the Republican’s dismantle the EPA and the clean air act.

The moron in the oval office is the guy that should resign.  

America made a big mistake in hiring a doofus with no experience as our CIC in 2008.  

The only good thing about Barack Hussain Obama is he is showing America how the Democrats have been so taken over by the far FAR left that the Democratic party is now to the LEFT of Fidel Castro!

Well after all the president is BLACK  and his most vocal opposition are racist ergo…

Video of them at a ‘rally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PRgn9lTaO0

The video succinctly proves my point.

Taliban  Tea party Racism emboldened by the talking heads.

Let’s make a deal. If Boehner doesn’t resign then Obama resigns.

It would have interfered with his Labor Day weekend plans, plain and simple!

I completely disagree with you that it is a different matter “completely”. It’s the very same principle and you know it.  And I didn’t misread it.  I was well aware that it was for only one house of the congress.  What difference does it make?  If people are upset about the president being “disrespected in an unprecedented way”, it’s just not the case.
And you misunderstood if you believe that this president was denied.  The speaker requested he change the time.  That’s hardly being denied.

Commy Thristopher should resign for pushing this “unprecedented” drivel on the entire Mediaite community–& someone ought to go for leaving this link lying around for days, then *promoting* it.

Just pointing out the absurdity and hackery of the demand. All involved are adults. As such, they should be able to work things out on their own. What I really believe is that the media really need to stop treating President Obama like a child and insisting that everyone who does anything they find offensive toward him be given a time out. It’s time Obama ate his Wheaties, put on his big boy pants and started leading from the front rather than blaming the opposition party for not taking the lead. 

The common procedure is for the President to schedule a meeting with the speaker of the house well in advance and TOGETHER come up with a date to make an address to joint sessions. Obama did not do that. He sent a message stating the date and time he would be there. When it was realized that would interfere with the debates he was given the option of the follow day.
Sounds pretty good of the speaker of the house to even schedule him at all, but we have to remember Obama thinks of himself as the messiah. 

Obama spent 18 months prior to the election in 2008 trashing President Bush, disrespect intended. I felt then that if Obama didn’t respect the office of the presidency when Bush occupied it, then that disrespect would spill over to him if he should win. I was right.

AAWWWW SHUDDUUP!!

Allot of firsts for this clown, isn’t there? It’s too bad the “first” Black man elected to office turned out to be so inept.

Every speech by Obimbo is a campaign speech. No matter where, or to who he is talking.

Your assuming that there is a distinction between Obimbo’s “wheat&chaff” pitch…there isn’t. They are one and the same. Read his speeches, they are full of “Me’s and I’s”. He doesn’t know how to give anything other than a campaign speech. He can talk for an hour and never say anything of substance.   

injest, even Fox finally acknowledged it when they ran a story August 31 — long after the President SAID publicly he wanted to address a joint session of Congress WHEN THEY RETURNED FROM SUMMER RECESS. Now I realize people forget stuff, but for the Speaker, an avowed enemy of the President, to somehow not remember that as he scheduled the events for the day Congress reconvened — the day the members returned — is pretty major forgetting.  In any case, read this:

Obama Asks to Speak to Joint Session of Congress to Lay Out Economic Proposals

by Wes Barrett | August 31, 2011

“President Obama has sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, requesting to speak before a joint session of Congress next Wednesday night to lay out his jobs proposals.

‘I respectfully request the opportunity to address a Joint Session of
Congress on September 7, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.,’ the letter reads.”

Clear enough? Here’s the link to the story:

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/08/31/obama-asks-speak-joint-session-congress-lay-out-economic-proposals

As for the 1986 event, I’m not going to get down in the slime with you and call you a liar, as you did me, but I will give you a needed 8th-grade civics lesson: The CONGRESS is composed of TWO chambers — the House and the Senate. Tip O’Neill refused President Reagan’s request to speak to ONLY the HOUSE — not to a joint session of Congress. (In fact, O’Neill offered the President the option of speaking to a joint session, but the President refused, in a move of pure political genius — and took to the air waves instead. And he won.)

So, NO, no President has EVER been denied his choice of date to address a JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS. O’Neill did NOT deny President Reagan that opportunity, to try to make it crystal-clear to you.

cacoconservative, fair enough, if that’s your view. That’s a judgment call — and of course you have every right to make yours — but we clearly fundamentally disagree. Thank you for being courteous in your response to me — I do appreciate it.

jgsr, yes indeed, there is protocol and a balance of power between the three branches. This is the first time a Speaker has trashed that protocol. Ever. Since 1790.

Gorgonzola, so on the one hand, you hammer the President for not doing anything to try to deal with the terrible unemployment rate — then hammer him when he tries to keep his word to speak to a Joint Session of Congress on the DAY THE MEMBERS RETURN? What did you want him to do — dither until Christmas???

Some people will NEVER be satisfied, no matter what. Especially when Herr Limbaugh barks.

Thank you, Emerald California. As a frequent target of hate-filled flames, it sure is nice to get an encouraging response every now and then.

Darklady, you do have a way with words! (I’ve read and enjoyed a number of your posts — even when I’ve disagreed.)

Gorgonzola, given that no President had ever been refused, it seems entirely reasonable that they viewed the request as utterly routine.

Flowergirl1516, it makes a hell of a lot of difference, Ma’am. A Presidential address to a joint session of Congress is relatively rare, and far more august than addressing either chamber individually is.

To say that addressing just one chamber is on the same level as addressing a joint session is the same as saying the swearing in of a new President is as ordinary as swearing in a new mayor.

pipedream, he refused President Reagan’s request to speak to just the House — not a joint session.

belize, he refused President Reagan’s request to speak to just the House — not a joint session.

Especially in the use of all capital letters. I’m with you on this, Emerald California.

Hm. He’s also the 44th White to be elected — or did you forget his Mother?

I hope your shots as a lieutenant are better than your political sniping, which misses the target every single time.

Another miss, Good Lt.

force_recon, are you in Good Lt.’s platoon?

I doubt you’d hit the target even with a laser-equipped rifle, Good Lt. Switch over to the mess hall or something.

I doubt you’d hit the target even with a laser-equipped rifle, Good Lt. Switch over to the mess hall or something.

SoThere, guess you missed the very first sentence in the press release you gave the link for, so let me help you out with this starting point: “Nonfarm payroll employment was unchanged (0) in August, and the unemployment
rate held at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.”

Apparently you didn’t read the tables and use your calculator — if you had, you would see the timb116 is correct.

Try it. You WON’T like it.

gideonssword79, is your tongue brown from swallowing Limbaugh’s doodoo?

See, gs79 — two can play at your childish games. By the way, what do you want to be when you reach puberty?

Yes, it IS unprecendented. On insisting to lie that a refusal to address just the House is the same as torpedoing a request to address a joint session is a lying fantasy of the first magnitude — cubed.

I’m going to keep calling bs every time I see one of you repeating The Big Lie. At least Goebbels knew how to finesse it.

*Another* miss . . . you just never learn. . . .

The idiot tried to spin the story into 200,000 jobs created. Sorry pal but that’s just lunacy.

“Timmah” wasn’t correct no matter what kind of twisting of the facts you do.

Buzz off with your replies to a 3 week old post pal.

“TMP”

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, JOHN BOEHNER,
NEVER…stop insulting Obama.   If you do…you will stop telling the TRUTH.   I insult Obama with the TRUTH, all the time….and if you want….I’m happy to put in more free hours.
Delores Smith
Delores109@cox.net

So, if I, like, insult Obama, it is bad?

The same way Pelosi and Reid called Bush names for eight years?

Like that?

Well, let me just stand right here and insult that cancer-in-the-White House:FUCK OBAMA.
and
FUCK OBAMA.
and
FUCK OBAMA.
and
FUCK OBAMA.
and

[wait for it...]

FUCK OBAMA!

And fuck Tommy Christopher, you partisan asshole. Read the fucking First Amendment, you moron.

When the Democrats took over Congress in January 2007,
unemployment was 4.4 percent. It is now 9.1 percent. The budget deficit created
by the outgoing Republican Congress was only $161 billion. It is now $1.6
trillion.  The total outstanding debt in January
2007 was $8.7 trillion. It is now $14.6 trillion. Before the Democrats took
control of everything, America’s credit rating was AAA. It is now AA+.

Bush never saw the 2009 budget because
Democrats don’t like doing budgets.       

After almost five years of democrat budgets the deficit is 1.7
trillion a year and real unemployment (U6) is at 17%.

The ‘Community Re-Investment Act’ was used by democrats to
pressure banks to give home loans to unqualified borrowers. This created so
much uncollectable debt that Freddie and Fannie were created to try to cushion
the bad debt load on the economy. Although repeatedly warned of impending
collapse by McCain, Bush, and many others, Frank and Dodd simply refused to
even look into the bad practices that eventually caused our current recession.

Thank Obama for the inflation created by the ‘Quantitative Easing’.
Thank Obama for high gasoline prices and the higher cost of everything else as
a result.  And the loss of jobs drilling
and refining that oil here at home (which would also cut funds to the Arab’s
wars.)

Thank democrats for the new job crushing mandates from
the EPA to the Department of Energy.

is this the first chapter….. BTW … The President is the only one who can debase his office, and he is doing a great job of it…. 

rexhandom, are you merely a child, or a willing idiot? The PRESIDENT is the only one who can debase his office. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

How many members of CONGRESS, STATE, and LOCAL GOVERNMENTS found themselves RIGHTLY on the backside of the bars???

Get off the board if you’re so stupid.

Buggerall, I call BS and a lie. READ THE RECORD.

If you prefer not to discuss stuff factually, then get to hell off the keyboard. I’ll debate anyone about the President — with whom I’m quite disenchanted — but I won’t LIE, as you just did.

Tommy boy, you should take a long walk off a short pier.  You’re a sorry excuse for a journalist and need to go back to journo 101.

Sorry, but the Repugnants picked this fight
how so?

And also, it was the CRA signed by Clinton and Fannie and Freddie being forced to make unsecured loans to idiots that knew they couldn’t pay it back by Bawnie and company that was the downfall which started this.  Learn about the economy a little.