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‘Angry’ Mitt Romney ‘Loses His Cool’ With Voter At New Hampshire Town Hall

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Former GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney got into a heated exchange with a voter at a New Hampshire town hall event Wednesday over his support for a balanced budget amendment, and by the mainstream media’s selective standards, lost his cool when she tried to engage him. In clips played on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown this morning, Romney certainly appeared angry by those standards, and the full exchange, while slightly less damning, demonstrated a marked contrast with how President Obama dealt with an aggressive questioner recently.

The snippets that MSNBC played, of Romney snippily asking the town hall attendee to let him answer her question, were obviously designed to show the candidate as impatient and besieged, but placing them in context doesn’t change things all that much. Romney aggressively interrupts the woman’s calm, if rambling, question by asking her, “Did somebody in the room say that we don’t need any government?”

When she tries to engage his question, calling the balanced budget amendment “irresponsible,” he interrupts her again, abruptly asking, “Do you have a question, and let me answer your question.”

“Yes, how do you think the government can not provide funds for the people, its citizens?”

Romney begins to answer the question, and from there, you can’t hear what the woman is saying, but Romney reacts angrily to her attempts to follow up, saying, “You had your turn madam, now let me have mine!”


Unfortunately, you can’t hear what she was saying, but it probably had to do with the fact that Romney’s answer skirted the central premise of her question, which is that a balanced budget amendment would handcuff the government in the event of any number of catastrophes, as would the GOP’s absolute refusal to pursue additional revenues.

She might also have been pointing out that Mitt Romney, and all of the other governors he cites as balancing their budgets year after year, do so with the help of billions in federal funds.

Even if you allow that the woman might have been aggressively interrupting Romney, his performance is still a stark contrast from the way President Obama handled a pair of Tea Party members who aggressively questioned, and interrupted, him over Vice President Biden’s comments on the debt ceiling negotiations. Whether or not you liked his responses, the President engaged them calmly and extensively, even as he shook hands with others in the crowd.

Why is it, then, that whenever the President’s pulse gets above 80, the media react as though Bill Bixby just mashed his hand with a tire iron, but Republicans get a pass? The media should present Romney’s performance here (fairly and completely, of course), and point out that a presidential candidate ought to be able to keep his composure when dealing with voters, even ones they disagree with.

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  • Anonymous

    It is absolutely not true that a balanced budget would “handcuff” of the government. There were provisions for war and disasters. What will handcuff a government is crushing debt that no other country wants to buy.

  • Anonymous

    So , Tommy thinks the media has been picking on King Obama .

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Romney begins to answer the question, and from there, you can’t hear
    what the woman is saying, but Romney reacts angrily to her attempts to
    follow up, saying, “You had your turn madam, now let me have mine!”

    Yes – she asked a question, and then instead of letting the candidate answer (and allowing others hear his answer), proceeded to interrup him when he was answering so that she could continue demagoging and making the forum her own personal soapbox.

    Typical leftwinger.

  • Dandkenton

    All 50 states DO NOT balance their budgets.  Texas recently used Federal funds to narrow a widening budget deficit and massively cut spending on programs and still had to use forward-loss rules to defer charges that would have otherwise kept them under water….which they are on a cash in/cash out basis.  

  • Exgoper

    Apparently the pressure of Perry’s rise in the polls is starting to crack his demeanor. I guess he’s gonna have to start dumbing down his campaign if he wants to stay competitive. 

  • azgrandma

    Angry Mitt Romney? Loses his cool?  Sounds to me like he was determined to answer the question and did so  Did you want him to sit down and make his point?????????

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Why is it, then, that whenever the President’s pulse gets above 80, the
    media react as though Bill Bixby just mashed his hand with a tire iron,
    but Republicans get a pass? The media should present Romney’s
    performance here (fairly and completely, of course), and point out that a
    presidential candidate ought to be able to keep his composure when
    dealing with voters, even ones they disagree with.

    Here is Barack Obama questioning the patriotism of Bush:

    And Obama urging his supporters to “get in their faces:”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eszcEC4sk0o

    And Obama telling an interviewer that he wants to know “whose ass to kick (1:58):”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuyOjdZ4W4I

    And let’s take a trip down memory lane to another time in history (aka, prior to 2009) when the left spent every single day poisoning the well of political rhetoric with vitriol, hate and profanity directed at their opponents:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6b1VOAATNk

    Don’t lecture us about the “civility” of the President OR of his party, Tommy.

  • ceeza

    Deflective answers in   3….2…..1…

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

    …”but Romney reacts angrily to her attempts to follow up, saying, “You had your turn madam, now let me have mine!”….

    really?  Don’t think so, Romney is just not sounding like the typical MetroSexual Democrat Male…he sounds self assured, confident and eager to answer the Libtard’s  question in full, while she is trying to interrupt and shut down any intelligent response by a Republican.  That’s the Libtard’s goal, shut up or shut down any debate, and people only get to hear Libtards whine, complain and fault George Bush.  

    Mediaite jumped the shark and showed the true Liberal agenda on this one.  

  • Anonymous

    , you can’t hear what the woman is saying, but Romney reacts angrily to her attempts to follow up, saying, “You had your turn madam, now let me have mine!”
     
    LOL
     
    “contrast with how President Obama dealt with an aggressive questioner recently.”
     
     
    LOL
     
    Aggressive?
     
    MG- are you a pathetic lib shill!
     
     
    He was angry?
     
     

  • Anonymous

    Why is it, then, that whenever the President’s pulse gets above 80, the media react as though Bill Bixby just mashed his hand with a tire iron, but Republicans get a pass?

    I blame the Norwegian ‘s and the Nobel Peace Prize thing .

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Yeah, I loved it when he called her a “terrorist” the “enemy” and told her to go “straight to hell.”

    Your ignorance is so touching!

  • http://twitter.com/Zamir Zamir

    the woman asking the question sounds like “Joan Walsh” literally

  • Anonymous

    “Intelligent response by a Republican” 

    Thank you for making me laugh more than I have in long time. Seriously you should do stand up, that was really freaking funny. 

  • SC Rooster

    If you call that “losing his cool” and if you are claiming that he (Romney) was being rude or “interrupting” this “madame,” when, in fact, she was the one being rude and she was the one who lost her cool … if you are actually reversing all of that then this site is full of bravo sierra.  You misrepresented the content of the video in an intentionally deceitful fashion imho.  I’m not a big fan of Romney’s, but the man was doing everything he could go to just get a word in edge-wise with the woman and I believe he did it with about as much grace and dignity as any man could be asked to do while still attempting to answer the question.  

  • Anonymous

    you wish you could stand up fatass

  • Anonymous

    I bet some don’t get the Bill Bixby reference , even if you throw in Lou Ferrigno .

    Tommy gets it , but he no splain it too good .

  • Anonymous

    Well clearly Mitt was ready to go all Hannibal Lecter in his blind rage. LOL. That was without a doubt one of the stupidest articles Mediaite has done and that is saying a lot. Conveniently they don’t use any video showing the woman continually trying to interrupt when he was trying to answer her question. Show it from a different angle and let’s see HER actions. That won’t happen because it doesn’t fit the narrative they are portraying. Just like PMSNBC using bits of clips to make them appear damning.

  • Anonymous

    MG, did ya read TC lose it in his “angry” and aggressive  response to Romney asking a lib shill  to let him answer her question?

  • Anonymous

    tommy just wont be happy unless obama is re-elected with an old saddam style election…

  • Exgoper

    As usual, your blather was way off point and contributed nothing intelligent, insightful or relevant. You’re consistent if nothing else. 

  • RW

    The point is – Mediaite and MSNBC covered the news each time Romney was confronted by ‘voters’

    Did MSM cover the confrontation Obama had with the tea-partiers?  Not much. Today you refer to it as a past event you expect your audience to know about without having covered it.

    Tea-partiers are confrontational; liberal voters are just engaging.

    Same old liberal bias – different day.

  • Anonymous

    No, child, I just demonstrated how libs would have  responded to that woman.

    Now go back to your lib TPs.

  • Anonymous

    The fringe left is always planting these disruptive types, with the Repubs. Desperate people do desperate things. With Obama wanting to be in the White House for four more years, fortunately he’ll have to throw the fringes under the bus, just as he did Rev. Wright. I can’t wait to see the fringe left go bonkers, when they are kicked to the curb. LOL. Obama needs the Independent/swing votes, not the fringe left. They aren’t going anywhere anyway. They won’t vote against Obama and he knows  it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000152902441 Jeremy Volkens

    This all took place two weeks ago on August 11, before Perry announced on August 13.  Of course you wouldn’t know that from the ace reporting of Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher!

  • Tony the Fist

    I picture Mitt Romney getting mad in same way Ned Flanders would get mad, gosh diddley darn it. I suppose that’s why Tommy put single quotes around ‘Angry’ in the header. Then if he wasn’t really ‘angry’ why do an article on it?

  • Anonymous

    You know Obama is in trouble when TC reverts to his old habit up making up stories when none exist.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Leaving aside the larger issue of balancing the budget and ignoring Romney’s reaction, but the idea that China owns so much of our debt is a common misconception. 

    Right now, they are our largest foreign financier, but China just holds 8% of our debt. The majority, 68% is owed to US entities. I own treasuries through mutual funds, as does I suspect, Gov. Romney. My bank and my state’s government, perhaps even my local municipality buy them directly and it’s the “safe” investment used for social security. Balancing the budget may be the ideal, even a noble goal, but as the demand for bonds outstrips demand, their interest-based payouts will likely fall and they’ll be no safe harbor for these monies to go.

    Also, Romney goes on about how Massachusetts balanced their budget, but I suspect they and most of the local governments in the state still used bonds as a financing tool. They may have paid-off these bonds from a balanced budget, but they still borrowed (from whomever would lend) to start.

  • Anonymous

    So what you are saying is; It is only 49 states that balance their budgets?

  • http://twitter.com/BusyDay2day Father Time

    I think he acted pretty reasonably.  The lady kept persisting.  And as far as answering questions goes, this actually touched on the question.  That means a lot for this group of candidates. 

  • Anonymous

    We are going to own a whole lot more of our debt once the Bernacke gets done with us. Can anyone say QE13?

  • Anonymous

    Let’s remember what Bill Clinton said:

    : For more than three years, you’ve heard a lot of talk from Bill Clinton about balancing the budget.

     (Clinton video clip from June 1992): I would present a five-year plan to balance the budget. (Announcer): 

     
    “(Clinton in various video clips): … we should balance the budget. … we could do it in seven years. … I do not believe it is good policy based on my understanding of this budget, which is pretty good now, to do it in seven years. … I think we can reach it in nine years. … balance the budget in 10 years. … I think we could reach it in eight years. … I have proposed a balanced budget that balances the budget in nine years. … the seven-year period is an arbitrary period. … so we’re between seven and nine now. … we could do it in seven. ”

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/budget/nbud019.htm

  • Anonymous

    He had to put the quotes around “angry” because otherwise no one would have known Mitt was acting any differently from every other day.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah the 2/3rds majority for all new tax expenditures would pretty much make America live in a perpetual state of the debt ceiling vote.

    It would do the same thing to the USA that happened to California as a result of our 2/3rds majority tax vote.  Makes no sense and has NO precedent anywhere in the world.

  • Exgoper

    Sorry, dude, but the Perry announcement was expected for weeks in advance of that. If you’d picked up one of them libruhl leaning newspapers you might have been ahead of the story. 

  • Exgoper

    Sorry, dude, but the Perry announcement was expected for weeks in advance of that. If you’d picked up one of them libruhl leaning newspapers you might have been ahead of the story. 

  • Exgoper

    If ever I doubt my decision to leave the Republican party I only need to have a glance at posts like yours. It’s nice to have the idiot brigade in my rear window.

  • Exgoper

    If ever I doubt my decision to leave the Republican party I only need to have a glance at posts like yours. It’s nice to have the idiot brigade in my rear window.

  • Anonymous

    This is such a funny article, and truly represents Tommy’s bias.

    The woman asking thequestion of Romney was “a voter at a New Hampshire town hall event Wednesday” and Romney got mad…..but the folks that asked Obama a question were described as “ a pair of Tea Party members” – ah yes, a “voter” who was probably some rabid lefty lunatic, versus the dreaded “tea partiers” but the big Zero kept his cool because well, you know, he is “like a god”.

    So funny.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Really Tommy? Angry?  I would hardly call that any angry response, did he have to assert himself as the questioner would not allow him to respond as she was only interested in making her own political statement? Yes, I would say that he did, but I would hardly characterize his response as angry…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Not to worry….  That is why we have Bernanke hanging around.

  • Anonymous

    I thought the Governor was completely reasonable.  Also, he did a fine job containing a person who intended to dominate the moment, with her agenda.

    Like it or not, all politics aside, Governor Romney handled that situation beautifully!

    In conclusion, and considering politics, we American’s have demonstrated that we need a “Balanced Budget Amendment.”  Sadly, there exists in America today, a greater plurality than ever before which desires profligate economic policy.  If we don’t come to terms with the need to balance our budget, America will come apart, if such has not happened already.

    Purveyor

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Money has to go somewhere and even if it’s just into savings, the bank still buys T-bills.

  • Anonymous

    If it would slow down this runaway train we call “spending” I am all for it. I could give a rats azz what the rest of the world does. If the California voters were smart enough to vote in that law I give them a bit of credit where none existed in my mind for them before.

  • Ed

    War and disasters, OK, that’s cool!  Any balanced budget amendment needs to have contingencies built in.  So, in the event of a war or natural/manmade disaster, where does the money come from?  Are their triggers to cut in other areas to keep the budget in balance?  And if the amendment has a way to spend more than it takes in, in a couple of areas, what is to stop a president, congressmen or senator from proposing some other thing they deem as vital?  

    I agree, we need to get our house in order.  But what I find ironically comical is that those people wanting a balanced budget amendment are guilty of spending more money over the past 30 years than the other side.  Additionally they want a balanced budget, but have no interest in achieving it in a balanced manner.  

    The rich and corporations have been enjoying Bush’s massive tax cut for 11 years, where are the jobs?  Isn’t the argument cut taxes, create jobs?  Well, where are they?  Bush produced a net 0% gain in jobs while in office.  

    You want to cut taxes, fine, give it to the people of America who actually go and SPEND the money.  So when they spend that money buying both big ticket items as well as the small businesses in their communities, those companies will prosper, grow and hire.  

    How about TRICKLE UP for a change?

  • Modans55
  • Modans55

    The United States Government has not balanced the budget since 1957. The GOP are full of it.

  • Anonymous

    Frankly, I don’t care if we only owe China a nickel!  How on earth did America justify selling our National Soul?

    Such falls under a thesis I have written, titled “Economic Treason.” Defined as: “An economic act that threatens the security or stability of America.”  How could we have allowed one portion of America, the business powerhouse, to interact with China, while we knowingly understood that China has never stopped planning for our destruction, one way or another?

    The enormous self deception must come to a stop and be replaced with “real politik.”

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    1) The money comes from a vote to raise the debt ceiling and magically they have money just like they do now. I guess there are either provisions to not allow them to propose other things, or there isn’t and they can.

    2) Get serious, both sides have gotten us into this mess. Stop pointing fingers at just one side.

    3) Get off the whole class warfare merry-go-round. How do you think taxing the “rich” more will make them create jobs? How many poor people create jobs? None. They tried the whole “luxury tax” a while back to stick it to the evil rich. Guess what happened? It failed miserably. Since the rich weren’t buying those expensive items it put all the workers out of jobs. No one was building yachts and airplanes. No one was selling them. The rich didn’t get hurt, the workers did.

    4) Flat tax. Cut the IRS by 95%.

    5) Trickle up is a fallacy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Nice post thanks for the links

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Nice post thanks for the links

  • News Of The World

    Well, I’ll certainly be the first to call out Romney on anything (and he would never have my support in any elective office), but, frankly, to say that he lost his cool here or whatever is silly.  The woman should have just asked her question – instead she rambled on (probably trying provoke him) and he responded (though disingenously in my opinion) passionately.  She shouldn’t have been trying to interrupt him after she asked her long-winded question.  Anyway, not a Romney fan at all, but I don’t see what the big deal is here.  And if a candidate that I was backing responded the way he did, I’d feel the exact same way.

  • Anonymous

    Too bad we didn’t do it in 1995. They were 1 vote short.

  • Anonymous

    The law has been in place in California for more than a decade and saw our public schools fall from number 1 in the country to almost DEAD LAST.

    Spending is one thing, but hamstringing economic policy through politics is not just silly, it is DANGEROUS.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    So let’s not move in the direction of fiscal sanity and health.

    Let’s continue to spin the wheels in the ditch.

    Good plan.

  • Anonymous

    The Congress has proven a million time over they are incapable of even coming near a balanced budget, except once every 10 or 20 years.  Therefore, some type of Constitutional barrier has to be there to keep them under control.

  • Lamontagnem88

    Wow hackery at its finest, Tommy Christopher can’t help himself, Mitt Romney both answered the question and remained calm but TC had to inject liberal bullshit like always.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    The only way to exclude China from treasuries would be to do it expressly, which wouldn’t be very dipolomatic. Plus are you saying that we also shouldn’t be buying goods from China? Trade has made great strides in opening their society and it has played a big role in maintaining world peace.

  • Anonymous

    Difference is Romney is a ” real ” American who isn’t going to take any left wing zealots bull___.                        

    Barack Obama IS that left wing zealots bull____.

    Us ” real ” Americans don’t owe you left wing tools a damn thing no matter how much that tool & his wife freeloading in OUR White House lie to you to the contrary.

  • Anonymous

    Difference is Romney is a ” real ” American who isn’t going to take any left wing zealots bull___.                        

    Barack Obama IS that left wing zealots bull____.

    Us ” real ” Americans don’t owe you left wing tools a damn thing no matter how much that tool & his wife freeloading in OUR White House lie to you to the contrary.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy’s angry white guy,
    “This has been fun, I’ll tell ya. This is the most fun I’ve had in a long time. This is a great group,” he told them. “This is what’s so fun about town meetings in New Hampshire. You guys care. You’re informed.”
    Tommy, Me thinks you need to have a brain scan to see if that gangrene you’ve been complaining about is invading what little brain matter you have.

  • Anonymous

    No, Texas was an example, there could be many more states who used such rules. Giving the state of the economy, I am sure Texas is not the only state to use such practices.

  • Anonymous

    heated, angry, aggressive, loses his cool, wow tommy you are one hell of a drama queen , bias is a bitch sometimes

  • Anonymous

    If you think money is the only problem with the California schools obviously you are a product of those same schools.

    This is just a short list what is wrong with California schools. Don’t even get me started on the whole of California.

    http://onward.justia.com/2011/08/17/is-the-california-legislature-failing-public-school-students/

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    OBAMA NEEDS TO GET MAD AND POUND THE TABLE, DAMMIT!

    - Democrats to Obama

  • Anonymous

    It’s odd to see Romney “lose his cool” since he’s such a boring of a guy. It just doesn’t look like him, but I thought he did fine.

    In other news, CNN just used the term Crosshairs in a caption talking about Irene. It says East Coast in Irene’s Crosshairs. Does CNN mean that Irene could kill 55 million people and if anyone is killed, will CNN get the blame?

  • Norman Kelley

    “Angry”? Losing his “cool”? Hardly. As someone who is not a Romney fan, the video clip shows a passionate or spirited debate, hardly angry.

  • Anonymous

    I was more speaking about graduation rates and amount spent per student.

  • Anonymous

    Although Romney is a total phony, I must say he handled himself well with that arrogant woman.

  • Darladoon

    you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about

  • Anonymous

    And yet, Obama didn’t look angry in any one of them. Nice try but fail.

  • Moosenuts99

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    BET YOU’RE A BLAST AT HOME

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    AND WATCH THE RACISM AROUND HERE BUDDY

  • Darladoon

    regarding 3)

    nobody was building yachts and airplanes?

    that’s your concern, and yet you whine about class warfare?

     

  • Anonymous

    OMG! Run around screaming in mass hysteria if the crosshairs are out. They can only mean one thing. Massive death on a large scale where ever the crosshairs have touched the map. Clearly CNN will be 100% responsible for any deaths now that they have chosen to use the dreaded crosshairs. No good will come of this I tell ya, no good at all. They obviously have an agenda.  /sarc

  • Anonymous

    You know Ed, I am not one of the rich, nor am I normally in the bottom 50% of wage earners. Do you suppose that the bottom 50% of wage earners get any less pleasure out of their not having to pay any income taxes.
    Nobody seems to want to talk about the massive tax cuts that the bottom half of us (temporarily in bottom half due to unemployment) got when Congress eliminated our having to pay any income taxes at all. It is time we all put some money in the kitty.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Taxing the rich has no impact on jobs.  History has shown that.

  • Anonymous

    It’s an eye catcher. As much as I like mediaite they always have headlines to a meaningless article that sometimes has nothing to do with the article. HuffPo is good at that too.

  • Anonymous

    Quote: “Trade has made great strides in opening their society.” That may be, however, all in China’s favor.  Certainly a handful of American Businessman have made lots of money, but at what cost?  The Soul of America?  That is “Economic Treason.”  

    So too, China continues to support, overtly and covertly, North Korea and is double dealing with Pakistan, etc..  Also, Their fighter plane slams into our lumbering spy plane in international air space, and we apologize?  America has allowed itself to be a patsy, hence, pragmatic and historically brutal nations like China and Russia will treat us as patsies!  Quote: “world peace.” I assert that is only an illusion and on China’s terms.  That is one of  the more significant failings of American Foreign policy.  We try to be benevolent and giving, only to be abused and castigated.I mentioned Rheinhold Niehbur’s “real politik,” I now mention Niccolo Machiavelli, who asked “Is it better for a prince to be loved or feared?”  America needs to re-acquire respect (fear) as how can anyone suggest China or anyone else respects America?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Darla just try for once to follow logic. If no one was building the yachts and airplanes whom do you think lost their jobs? Work with me here. First, it was the people who do the actual building of the items. Next, it was the people who sell them. Continuing with all the workers at the plants that supply parts for those luxury items. It just kept growing and growing with the amount of people (lower income) losing their jobs. It was a massive failure. The rich weren’t punished at all, the poor were.

  • Darladoon

    that’s not my point.

    it’s about choices.

    i would rather raise taxes on the wealthy than on the working class

    for you, it’s the opposite

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000152902441 Jeremy Volkens

    Actually dude, YOU are the one who explicitly stated, “Apparently the pressure of Perry’s rise in the polls is starting to crack his demeanor.”  As I pointed out Perry’s “rise in the polls” had NOTHING to do with this exchange.

    You get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!  :)

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Questioning someone’s patriotism, calling for people to get in the faces of other people isn’t a sign of anger?

    LOL

    You Obamacrats WANT him to be even madder than he already is:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/26/obama-connect-people-pain
    http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2011/08/24/cnn-host-promotes-liberal-morgan-freemans-demand-obama-get-fighting-mad
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_A8WUwTeoQ&feature=related
    http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0811/Cummings_African_Americans_totally_frustrated.html
    http://tiny.cc/1nnu1

    And yet, when Mitt Romney gets testy with an obnoxious Democrat hijacking a forum and preventing others from exercising their rights to hear another person speak – for five seconds – they’re not allowed show it.

    Choke on the hypocrisy, Obot.

    You’re not fooling anyone.

  • Anonymous

    :)

  • Anonymous

    Why is it, then, that whenever the President’s pulse gets above 80, the media react as though Bill Bixby just mashed his hand with a tire iron…

    They do? Can you cite examples of this happening? Or are you angling for some of that super secret, code word, wink, wink, “angry Black amn” racism meme?

    Also, how many Congressman, celebrities and pundits have exhorted Obama to “get mad” and “fight hard” and “go on the attack” just within the past week alone?

  • Anonymous

    I just banged my head on my computer desk as I fell out of my chair!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Democrats have no right to lecture anybody anywhere at any time about anger, divisive rhetoric, violent rhetoric, hate, vitriol, inappropriate signs or speech, poisoned political dialogue or threats.

    Ever. EVER.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6b1VOAATNk

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    DRINK!

    Race card thrown.

  • bohratom

    Tommy, angry?  I didn’t see any type of angry from Romney. I guess this just shows that your bias is showing if you think that was angry.

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    That’s considered losing his cool? Wow.

  • Anonymous

    I must have gotten here too late, the video apparently had the “angry” part edited out. What I saw was a typical town hall exchange.
    As far as Obama’s response to his questioner, it was no big deal to me.

  • Anonymous

    OMG! Can’t you see the smoke blasting out of Romney’s ears? His magic underpants almost caught fire! The fire alarm bells were ringing all the way on Planet Romney!
    #actinglikealibasshat

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Um, wasn’t this a tactic in the townhall/healthcare debates? 

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    so why dont we stop all together?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Imagine how he would be if he could drink coffee!

  • unmutual

    If Romney acted like this more often, I’d like him better.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure someone else has said this, but doesn’t he realize that a balanced budget amendment would prevent us from being able deficit spend if we go to war?

  • Anonymous

    Yep.  And during that time the top marginal income tax rate was well above 50% and we were spending loads on infrastructure.

  • Michelle

    You still think you are fooling people with your name?

  • Michelle

    That’s just Tommy “the liberal lapdog” Christopher trying to make news instead of reporting on it. 

  • Anonymous

    You didn’t leave the Repub party; it left you.

  • Anonymous

    Neither did Romney in the video above. Nice try but epic failure.

  • Anonymous

    Then why did  Bill Clinton support a balance budget?

  • Anonymous

    He stands his ground when he needs to, for example, recently refusing to sign yet another pledge by some group.  The smear machine has painted him as squishy, etc., which is pretty ridiculous.  You don’t make that kind of money in business being squishy.

  • ExPat ExLawyer

    Some posters here ask why we conservatives and libertarians come to this site.  It’s the video, stupid.  Imagine if we only had Tommy’s “article” to go by.  The video and the article are 180 degrees opposite.  Romney did great.  He was not angry or the least bit unfair – and he got his points across.

    Tommy’s articles remind me of police reports written by rogue cops who don’t know they’re being videotaped.  In Tommy’s case, I guess he just assumes the readers here either won’t bother to watch the video or will become intoxicated by his writing into disbelieving their own eyes and ears.

    Personally, I usually skip the stories and go straight to the video.  Then, I might read the “article” for a laugh about the disingenuousness of the MSM.

  • ExPat ExLawyer

    Exactly, LT.  A “follow-up” generally follows the answer by the candidate.  She was obviously not giving Romney a chance to answer and wanted to drone on with her monologue.

  • Anonymous

    No, that’s covered in the amendment.  The clause has an out for insurrections, war, etc.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, but one of the 50 states have some form of a balanced budget amendment in their state constitutions or state statutes. Whether they achieve it is another thing!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Antenucci/15502485 Chris Antenucci

    This actually helps Romney, not hurts him.  He’s often seen as being an elite and robotic, so people wanna see more passion from him.  I don’t believe he’s the most authentic guy out there, but this at least makes him look that way to some degree.  On the other hand, Obama rarely gets passionate about anything.  People used to think that was just his cool demeanor, but I think they’re starting to realize it might be that he just doesn’t care enough about the issues to get emotionally involved in them.  The few times Obama has gotten mad, it was showing weakness and very un-presidential, like when he complained about Boehner leaving him at the altar and not getting a deal done.  Even Chris Matthews said it made him look bad so it had to be true.  We need politicians who actually are authentic and mean what they say, regardless of whether we agree with them or not.  We want them to just be sincere and not make promises they can’t keep.  If this is a politician losing his cool, what would you call Maxine Water’s statement that the tea party should go to hell?

  • 1bigpain

    You hypocritical double standard bearers are hysterical.

    Going into the 2010 midterm, you baggers, cons and birthers were ALL ABOUT hostile town meetings. And here you have a lone woman, not a mob of foamy frothing fools…and you’re breaking out with ‘typical liberal’ bullshit.

    lol…you people, have more egg on your face and shit in your mouth than you’ll ever be able to get rid of.

  • Anonymous

    Nice comeback I was afraid you were going to go with the “I’m rubber you’re glue” zinger. 

    By the way what was your 10k time from last weeks race? I know what mine was. 

  • i420

    If there’s one thing they absolutely can not tolerate…its strong women.

  • Anonymous

    This just shows how totally ungrateful the lunatic-leftist extremists are – they should be kissing romney’s feet for giving us the romneycare Frankenstein that helped create the horrific monster known as obozocare.

  • Anonymous

    Hackeriffic article Tommy. David Brock is very proud of you.

  • Anonymous

    BTW, TC, why did you edit out the applause Romney got for his answer?

    And he is hardly angry!

    http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2011/08/25/romney.townhall.scuffle.cnn

    You are no better than Ed Schultz or Al Sharpton!

  • Exgoper

    Perry’s rise in the polls started before he ever threw his hat in the ring. That’s why he did it. I know you Foxtards live in an alternate, fact-free universe, but really — try to be a little more up on the news. 

  • Exgoper

    @Stonepark3:disqus You’re right. The Republican party did leave me. It pulled out of the station and headed straight for Crazytown.  

  • Anonymous

    Hilarious, Tommy.  Hey, don’t feel bad.  A lot of people don’t bother watching the videos, which is what I’m sure you’re counting on because your description has no relationship to what is in it.  The woman called Romney a liar.  Up until then he was very patient with her.

  • Anonymous

    Hilarious, Tommy.  Hey, don’t feel bad.  A lot of people don’t bother watching the videos, which is what I’m sure you’re counting on because your description has no relationship to what is in it.  The woman called Romney a liar.  Up until then he was very patient with her.

  • Dflojak

    She sounds like an “academic” by her tone and demeanor. Teachers don’t ask question, they lecture, sound about right.

  • Dflojak

    Did you say in your rear end? That’s libtastic.

  • Anonymous

    we all saw your facebook fatass

  • Anonymous

    the rich will reinvest in their company rather than pay higher taxes. that is true. look it up.

  • Anonymous

    They identified themselves as such, whereas the woman in this video did not profess an affiliation. It’s reasonable to assume, from her questions, that she at least leans away from current GOP orthodoxy.

  • Anonymous

    Once again….Your point? Sorry that you have nothing cupcake. I know, I see people everyday who are pathetically inadequate when it comes to intellect, job skills, life skills, and of course in your case…wit. It breaks my heart to send you on your way with a smile and a pat on the head. Anything else monkey boy?

  • Steppy

    I don”t think he sounded angry at all. I think you are creating DRAMA.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    really? Why did boom peroids of employment come at higher tax rates? Why did the unemployment rate double from 2001-2008? Why, even with the same tax rates as the Bush administration, did jobs continue to be outsourced?

  • Anonymous

    ” I see people everyday who are pathetically inadequate when it comes to intellect, job skills, life skills..”

    and you eat them?

  • Socratease

    Errrrr, wrong. I mean, come on, that’s a small thing to be unable to acknowledge you were wrong about.

  • Anonymous

    Awww poor baby “Jdub” ….Either your mother didn’t love you enough. Or your father loved you too much. Wink, Wink. 

    I’m going to go with the latter. 

  • Anonymous

    Dude is losing it.

  • Anonymous

    Frustrated with the truth is more like it.

  • Anonymous

    So questions are legitimate or not depending on who asks them? 

  • Anonymous

    Fox News covered them. And by ratings, they’re more mainstream than MSNBC or CNN. So yes, the “MSM” covered it.

  • Anonymous

    Nice chain letter you’ve got there, but I think you meant to click on your Hotmail account or Facebook.

  • Anonymous

    All states are SUPPOSED TO balance their budgets. Not all do of course. *COUGH*TEXAS*COUGH*

  • Anonymous

    I guess when you’re raised and taught by wolves in the forest, every teacher sounds like a lecturer.

    Oh wait, you went to public schools? How did that turn out? Just fine? Thought so….

  • Tina_Tampa

    Be careful – you are nearing time to get banned from posting at mediaite – they are thin skinned around these parts and too many posts criticizing their work gets you banned.

  • Anonymous

    Check out the same story, sort of, at Fox Nation, written by Mediaites very own Tommy Christopher. Mass confusion, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

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

    Wow this guy is unhinged. Placing bets he punches someone before this is all over.

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

    Wow this guy is unhinged. Placing bets he punches someone before this is all over.

  • Van

    Come on. I detest Romney and would never vote for the man for anything. But I watched the video and to my surprise, think that he handled the situation admirably.  This article didn’t do anyone any favors; it just looks petty and detached from reality.

  • Anonymous

    “Either your mother didn’t love you enough. Or your father loved you too much. Wink, Wink.”

    is that what caused your obesity?

  • Anonymous

    Yep….nothing left to bring to the table huh? So sorry. 

  • Anonymous

    why put anything on the table? youll just eat it…

  • Anonymous

    The rich buy Swiss bonds. They do NOT reinvest in ANY company which manufactures in the USA.  That might have been the case in 1940 but NOT in 2011

  • Anonymous

    You would pay plenty of taxes if you made a better salary.  Why have wages stagnated for 30 years again?  Oh year all of the manufacturing was moved to China and India so the labor costs would average less than one dollar per hour with NO benefits.

  • News Of The World

    Then you should have been banned LONG ago.  What they do (and should do) is ban trolls like you.

  • Anonymous

    Which dude would that be?  tommy is my guess, right?

  • expatpatriot

    Agreed. The questioner (sex notwithstanding) was being dickish. Romney slightly overplayed it, but only slightly, IMO.

    There’s an argument about the wisdom of putting on constitutional handcuffs like a balanced budget amendment, but that argument was not being made by the questioner.

  • Anonymous

    Mittens.

  • expatpatriot

    I watched the video (at least the clip here) and I didn’t hear the questioner accuse him of that. At what point did that occur?

  • expatpatriot

    Balanced budget (meaning reaching a balance between spending and revenue) is not synonymous with a Balanced Budget Amendment, which is like locking yourself in prison.

    Disitinctions matter.

  • Anonymous

    hey,I’m honestly not partison. I call them like it is. There’s some stuff O’bama did that I thought was wrong I’ll call him out on it and just agree with him because the rest of the party does. I’m with the Republicans on immigration ,revearse discrimination and ummmmmm that’s about all I can think of right now. lol

  • http://24Ahead.com 24AheadDotCom

    The top problem in CA is immig., a topic not even mentioned at your link. It impacts everything else: it increases spending, increases the far-left’s power, decreases edu attainment, makes the workforce less capable, drives the middle class out of the state, and on and on.

    Yet, oddly enough, “fiscal conservatives” usually fail to mention that. And, that’s because they’re part of the problem: they think we can have loose immig. into a welfare state, and it ain’t gonna work.

    As for the question, it’s pretty funny (but not unexpected) that Tommy would play a tu quoque instead of pointing out that the dolt on the video couldn’t even come up with a real question.

    See the guide if you want to learn how to ask real questions:

    http://24ahead.com/n/8545

  • TerryOtt

    What’s with the quote marks in the headline around “angry” and “loses his cool”?   

    And if that’s “angry”, then what is it called when my dear wife rips me a new one every now and then (usually well deserved)?  Maybe “totally consumed physically and emotionally by an unrelenting blind rage to the point of being a scary threat to everyone and everything within earshot”. 

    Mitt was “animated”.  That’s about it.  An “angry” person doesn’t offer the microphone back to the subject of his/her anger if only he is allowed to finish his answer to a question.  Generally, in my experience, they offer to place the microphone inside said person, entering from the rear. 

    I appreciate Mr. Christopher bringing this clip to my attention.  I’ll decide later on whom to support for POTUS, but Romney just moved up a notch in my estimation.

  • Quintal

    I didn’t like Mitt Romney’s answer.  His argument was that he balanced the budget every year.  Problem with that is that they balance the budget by taking money from the federal government which has to borrow money every year to make sure the state governments balance their budgets every year.

  • Darkchocolate70

    Most Americans want liberals to move to wonderful sunny Cuba.

  • expatpatriot

    Oh yeah — it was a lousy answer, per most of the answers Romney gives. However, it was not, IMO, correct to suggest that he lost it. The questioner was being an asshole and he responded appropriately if not perfectly.

  • Anonymous

    What the fuck clip are you looking at Christopher, you brain dead faggot!

    I hate romney and he was completely cool and composed.  This leftist twat tried to keep interrupting him.  I didn’t see him get mad or angry or anything.  He answered the question like a normal person would. 

    What fucking planet do you leftist tampons live in? 

  • passion

    he did not lose his cool as the headline states,he was passionate about this country ,why have we become so sensitive in this country where we confuse passion for anger,would you prefer someone who shows no emotion? I want someone who is passionate in his beliefs about what will make this broken country heal and if that means putting a fire under it then so be it,he  can’t do it alone but at least he has a plan,this man has had decades of leadership experience,but last time the job was given to a green behind the ears rookie and we all know how well  that is working out

  • Anonymous

    It’s a sign of anger in the same way its a sign of frustration, but he didn’t appear angry in anyway – just SIGNS aren’t good enough especially when you are comparing it to Romney’s video.

    “Obamacrats “”Obot”

    Now that’s angry, leave it to the Republicans for constant ad hominem attacks. Why are right-wingers so hateful?

  • Anonymous

    ” intelligent response by a Republican…Libtard’s goal, shut up or shut down any debate, .. Libtards whine, ”

    Oh the irony! 

  • Anonymous

    And people said right-wingers are nasty people.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “Angry, loses his cool”?? Hardly. He is trying to speak and the woman won’t stop yapping and interrupting him. 

    “Even if you allow that the woman might have been aggressively interrupting Romney, his performance is still a stark contrast from the way President Obama handled a pair of Tea Party members who aggressively questioned, and interrupted, him over Vice President Biden’s comments on the debt ceiling negotiations.”

    His performance was in stark contrast to Obama’s, who was actually angry and losing his cool, with an elderly woman while he was campaigning. Why didn’t you use that example?

    http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/barack_obama_yells_at_old_people/

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706090622 Barbara O’Brien

    2012freedom — Interesting. You seem to be saying that Keynesian economics *does* work, but only when applied to the extremely wealthy. 

    In the real world, however, even in this past year the extremely wealthy have grown extremely wealthier, and they are purchasing luxury goods as much as they ever did, yet this doesn’t appear to be making a dent in the unemployment rate. There aren’t enough wealthy people to buy enough yachts to employ enough workers to make a measurable dent in the unemployment rate. 

    Many corporations have enjoyed record profits these past few quarters and by most accounts are sitting on truckloads of cash, Yet they are not creating new jobs, mostly because demand is down for products that ordinary people usually buy.

    To turn the economy around requires the purchasing power of the enormous majority of Americans,not the tiny little group at the top. That’s why it is extremely stupid to try to balance budgets by laying off government workers (who now will have less money to spend) or cranking up everyone else’s taxes so that we don’t have to bother the poor picked-on rich people. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706090622 Barbara O’Brien

    You might not be paying income tax, but if you were one of the bottom 50 percent of employed wage earners you would notice FICA taxes taking a huge bite out of every one of your paychecks. 

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Calling somebody an Obamacrat or an Obot is a now hateful? But calling people Bushbots wasn’t hateful?

    Here – let me show you what angry, delusional, unhinged hate looks like:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6b1VOAATNk

    Enjoy, for they are you.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Ain’t a chain letter, champ.

    If that little fantasy comforts you, though, who am I to deny it to you?

  • Anonymous

    And who said ‘Bushbots’ isn’t hateful? Strawman much? How about I search for random youtube videos with Republicans calling names and justify that for my own name calling? Exactly, that’s no excuse for name calling anywhere.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Interrupting somebody belligerently =/= “the truth.”

  • Anonymous

    If he didn’t then why was the Obama comparision even bought up??? Oops, didn’t think that far did you.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Explain exactly what “infrastructure” we “need to spend loads” on and why.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    How about shrinking the size and scope of the federal government so that your individual liberties, and those of your fellow citizens, are enhanced?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    No, this is what losing it looks like:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6b1VOAATNk

  • Valkyrie101

    No, here is losing your cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z_GV6wMgBk

  • Valkyrie101

    So we do not need an EPA, for example, because it is everyone’s right to pollute.

  • Valkyrie101

    We have thousands of bridges that need work. We repair them so they do not fall down.

  • Valkyrie101

    I see, and Mitt is not a rookie?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Complain to your collectivist masters who mandated that money be extracted from you to pay for social security and medicare.

    Don’t complain to the limited government folks about it.

  • Valkyrie101

    Yes, compared to you, Romney was cool and composed.

  • Valkyrie101

    Unlikely since most Americans are liberal.

  • Anonymous

    You are so repulsive an all imaginable levels.

  • Dflojak

    Hmmm, teabagger, from the left, ring a bell? Obamacrat and Obot don’t seem to have the same “hateful” feel for me as dropping one’s private parts into anothers mouth do. Just sayin”.

  • Anonymous

    Except, nobody said ‘teabagger’ and the guy started on his rant. So was it pre-emptive namecalling because the left namecalled too. And between, the teaparty members called themselves teabaggers before they knew what it meant, it’s not something the left invented.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    1. Mitt should have more class when it comes to taking questions, especially from older folks!!

    2. He’s probably upset do to the fact the Republicans think Mitt is a “fraud!!”

    3. I predict that Mitt will continue to be “unemployed” (his words) for a very long time to come!!

    4. Someone should inform Mitt that he has no chance of winning the Republican nomination because he’s a Mormon… Christian Republicans don’t like Mormons!!

  • Anonymous

    We need to enact Pay-Go that we had in the 90′s, you know when we had a balanced budget and a surplus. Not one of these fools need to touch our Constitution to balance the budget.

  • Wrwt2

    Most American’s call themselves independent, so where are you getting that?

  • Wrwt2

    Kinda of strange how the bridges don’t have names. 

  • Wrwt2

    1. He didn’t lose his cool

    2. Only the fringe believe that. The also think Perry(who can’t balance a state budget worth dick) is somehow more of a fiscal conservative than Romney, who actually did it.

    3. Maybe if the fringe have their way a nominate Perry, Bachman, or Palin

    4. Only the fringe believes that.

  • Wrwt2

    Congratulations O’Reily losing his cool vs. the mass hypocrisy of the left. Good comparison indeed.

  • Anonymous

    Romney took this lady to school.

    First, she presented a silly strawman and he called her on it.

    Then, she started to give a rambling speech, and called her on that.

    She proceeds to ask the same silly strawman question, which was actually goofy in it’s wording.

    Romney starts to answer the badly constructed question

    …and she will not shut up! The fact that she kept going and going made one question her mental disposition. Just when Romney starts to answer she starts yammering again.

    Romney is actually quite forceful, but polite, in his pleadings that she get ahold of herself. He then proceeds to hit a home run in the answer.

    His answer exposed what a weak strawman she had constructed.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XVF2H6OHF3ZDD5KSCDI76AHOHI Jim Smith

    Good for Mitt. These are not forums for people to go on rants, or use it as a platform to spout their ideas, just because there are cameras around. It’s a Q/A session to hear the the candidates have to say on topics. Ask a question and listen to the answer.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    This has GOT TO BE A JOKE post right? Because if it isnt and we let caveman invisible ghost worship govern who we feel should govern us in the real world.. uhh.. god help us?

  • Dflojak

    sorry, private school, that’s why I know what an academic rather than just a teacher sounds like. I’m privileged, sorry.

  • Anonymous

    you must be a fatty too…

  • Jeremy

    Err, ummm. . . .  Clinton balanced the budget.  Why can’t the Republicans?

    The GOP is unbalanced on a lot of matters.

  • Anonymous

    No doubt. Didn’t we hear that from good ol’ Nasty Nan? I thought she was going to be the arbiter of fiscal responsibility? I wonder how many dolts actually believed that?

  • Anonymous

    ” Romney reacts angrily to her attempts to follow up, saying, “You had your turn madam, now let me have mine!”

    Don’t let the woman distract from you talking point, even if she is correct…

  • http://www.facebook.com/gray.alan Gray Porcella

    Yes, It is true, as Republicans have proposed it in their bill. Look at Eric Cantors latest statement regarding hurricane irene. Any money needed to repair damage by the hurricane will have to be offset by cuts somewhere else. Do you not see that as handcuffing? We do not have a crushing debt, that is another lie propagated by your party. What we do have is a crisis, which can be turned into an opportunity to do something about it that is positive, that is proven by history to have worked, instead of following the advice of the gallactically stupid Republicans, who continue to tell you that cutting spending in a recession is the right thing to do. They know that it is not, that is why they are so adamant about doing nothing but cuts. They want people to blame Obama for a bad jobs situation, and they know they can block job creation and he will pay or it, even when it is their doing. 

    Think for once in your life. There is a bill right now, which would enable anyone who wanted to go to a public university to do so for free, and it can be paid for by a small transaction fee on stock buying and selling. A small fee per transaction, and you can raise between 50 billion and one hundred billion dollars.

    We did this once already….it was called the GI Bill, and it cost around 50 billion in todays dollars. We realized an immediate return on that investment of 70 Billion, and an eventual return of over 300 billion dollars in increased production because of all those college graduates. a return of almost 7 dollars for every dollar invested. that could take all the qualified people who are currently unemployed and put them into training for the new jobs of today, and the investment could be totally paid by Wall Street. I have a feeling that you are like all other Republicans….you don’t want logical solutions, and you don’t like facts, and as far as history goes, the fact that we did it before, and it worked means nothing to you.

  • Anonymous

    Oh okay, I totally bought into the whole line about us having crushing debt and all. Thanks for letting me know that is all just propaganda. LOL. That is where you lost any shred of credibility. Stay away from sharp objects for your own protection.

  • Anonymous

    Mitt will slip into his “Garments” – and be OK again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/gray.alan Gray Porcella

    Explain then why Bush’s cutting taxes did not create jobs, it did exactly the opposite. That isn’t theory….trying the Bush Tax cuts was the theory….after 10 years of cutting a break to the wealthy on taxes, what was the result? The worst job creation performance in decades. That is a fact….so any person with half a brain would say…..well, I guess it sounds logical, but it did not work out the way we expected. Instead, you deny the fact that it did not work, and double down that what we need to do is lower their taxes even more, and then they will create jobs. Let’s say you’re right, and rasing taxes on the rich would not create jobs….and that the only thing it would do is help pay off the debt you are so worried about….what would be wrong with that? You people love to say that the debt shouldn’t be left fot our children and grandchildren to pay, and at the same time you say….but I don’t want to pay it. Who the hell do you think is going to pay it if the people who derived the most benefit from it, while they did not do what they were supposed to do as a result of those tax cuts don’t pay it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/gray.alan Gray Porcella

    She saw that he wasn’t in fact trying to answer her question at all. So, she tried to sterr him back to the question. Why is it that you Republican voters cannot see an evasive answer when you hear it? Do you not in fact hear it? Every one of your candidates does the same thing. Mitt Romney says whatever he thinks the audience he is talking to wants to hear. He has flip flopped so many times you couldn’t possibly know what he stands for….because he doesn’t stand on any principles at all. Is he prolife today….he wasn’t yesterday, is he pro romneycare? Yes, but not when Obama does it. Is he pro mandate? Yes, when it came to his healthcare plan, but not when Obama does it. Need i go on?

  • http://www.facebook.com/gray.alan Gray Porcella

    So, it’s okay when Tea Partiers would ask a leading question, then yell out liar….or yell over the politician as he was trying to answer. That’s fine right? You people have no right to complain, you have no respect for anyone or anything. You worship stupidity like it was a virtue…..why is that?

  • J V

    The rich and corporations have been enjoying Bush’s massive tax cut for
    11 years, where are the jobs?  Isn’t the argument cut taxes, create
    jobs?  Well, where are they?  Bush produced a net 0% gain in jobs while
    in office. 

    ****************************************************************************************************************************

    LOL,to much Keith Olbermann lib. Under Bush the economy saw a record 27 straight quarters of growth while under Obama the only things growing are the unemployment rate and the deficit.

    His approval numbers are in the 30′s, there is nothing more to say except……

    IT’S ALL BUSHES FAULT!!!!!!!……….right liberal?

  • Anonymous

    The woman sounded like the typical Liberal, who doesn’t want to hear facts and doesn’t want to allow anyone to tell her what the facts are.  Only an Idiot thinks you can get out of debt by borrowing more!  The Obambi administration need to read the Ten Cannots:

    The Ten Cannots

    You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
    You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
    You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
    You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
    You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
    You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
    You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
    You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
    You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and
    independence.
    You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do
    for themselves.

    – Rev. William John Henry Boetcker, 1873

  • Truth and Reason

    JV – Bush came into office after Clinton had not only balanced the budget, but created a surplus.  Bush’s policies and wars drove us deeply into debt.  I don’t consider the manufacture of bullets and bombs, to be a worthy method of economic growth.  The reality is, Bush and the GOP did indeed argue that cutting taxes for the rich would improve job numbers.  They didn’t.  However, when Clinton implemented tax increases for the wealthy, job numbers did improve!  The wealthiest one half of one percent of Americans has 80% of America’s wealth, and that didn’t happen by accident.  It happened by fooling individuals into disregarding the man behind the curtain. 

  • Reason and Truth

    Just by his responses over the past two and a half years, I’d say Obama is the only person acting in an adult fashion.  I see you’ve gone to great lengths to round up sound bytes supporting your premise that the left is more adamant than the right.  But when it comes down to tough situations, and challenging times, our president has proven calm, reposed, patient, thoughtful, and determined.  You can continue your clip library, but his actions speak louder than your sophmoric case.

  • Stormysue

    Fat ass?  And you know that about him how?  In your teabagging mind, he’s probably got brown skin and talks with an accent too huh?  Bigot.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    These wars are simply killing our economy.  No GOP candidate, except Ron Paul will address this issue honestly. Romney is a flip flopper and skirts the issues. He better start paying attention to the questions.

  • Dflojak

    No, you need to go away. But thanks for projecting what the woman was trying to do, we need one progressive to interpret another so we can get to the higher ground of understanding.

  • Dflojak

    Hey, jerk13, inregards to the left not inventing teabagger, uh yes they did. I don’t know any right wing guys out their dropping their nutsack into their bff’s mouth, it’s definitely a progressive thing.

  • Dflojak

    You are kidding, right. This is the most divisive presidency in recent history regarding any type of interaction with the other party, and you call Obama the adult in the house. Please. his statements belie your remarks, but who on the left looks at facts, they don’t need no stinkin facts. What a twit.

  • Dflojak

    Following the script their stormeyscrew. Racist.

  • caconservative

    The budget amendment is not the reason California’s school system is in the toilet! The $8,000,000,000 dollars taken annually from the budget for the education of the children of ILLEGAL ALIEN PARASITES, has decimate the school system. Teacher time, and resources that should have gone to teaching the legal children of this state is the reason this states education system has gone from being in the top-5 to being in the bottom-5! Tens of thousands of legal California children have been cheated out of a first-class education because of a weak Federal, and State government who would rather turn a blind eye to the problem as long as the money from illegal-employers and special interest groups keeps filling the political-beggars reelections coffers.

  • http://twitter.com/ChrisHollyMusic Chris Holly

    Many Bob Dylan “fans” unhappy about song choice at REP MICHELE BACHMANN Town Hall Meeting in SC clip here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WAGVhkkbEc

  • booface

      My god, people on all sides get name called and berated. Even people who just happen to agree with the views of their candidate get blasted and labeled negatively too. We seem to be on opposite sides of everything so how can we find middle ground? Peacefully, we live our lives together in traffic, work, commerce, education, and leisure time despite religion, race, gender, and other things that we continue to believe sets us apart from each other.
      This world would be a much better place if people would just wake up and see that we are all the same beings just with different needs. What is it going to take? Do we have to take a bunch of people with different backgrounds and beliefs and rip their skins off and ask, “Which one is the Christian? Which one is Chinese? Which one is a Republican? Which one is in love with someone of the same gender? Who is cleaning up this mess, not it!” Gross.
      I love the internet, but it sometimes feels like a giant hate machine. The balance between positive and negative criticism is seriously skewed. Positive words are sparse even when they are highly deserved.

  • Anonymous

    Looking at the same problem
    from a different point of view can produce much different opinions as to a
    viable answer to solve the problem. It would take more space than is available
    here to help the followers (of the entire Population of America-the needy) and
    the (entire population of the Globe-the additional needy) to understand the
    there are not enough shakers and movers, (the present group of
    Producers-Providers of products and services, who are drowning in wealth, saturating
    their every need with such abundance, it has frozen their ability to properly
    enlarge, multiply production and services to serve all mankind.

    This is a problem similar
    to when our Forefathers were new to America and all the cities were small
    towns, and villages and when the States were formed. Businesses were very small
    and growing. When there was various small businesses, with pretty much the same
    owners in these small towns across America, they were doing very well for
    themselves and had no desire to expand, taking on all that extra expense and
    work which a fast growing population who needed more than these small town Industrialists
    could handle. Yet they hated competition from new incoming industries. They
    balked about creating new business and claimed there was not enough need to
    satisfy the enormous expansion towns people advocated. They claimed the cost
    did not justify the expense of taking on costly infrastructure, knowing darn
    well they were comfortable with the wealth they had and knew the expansion of
    roads, bridges, dams, towns, villages, cities and growing States needed would
    affect their life style in many way, new taxes, new competition in the products
    and services they provide removing the comfortable featherbedding life they
    were enjoying and work so hard to obtain. Population increasing requires needs
    for new and existing services and tons upon tons of new capital to keep up with
    the growing population. They liked it when the population was small and they
    had more control over the politicians and city fathers that provided them with
    a very rich, comfortable and happy lifestyle. A lot of rich people referred to
    those day as the good or days. This same problem exist today along with some
    new and faked problems, but still those privileged to be shakers and movers in
    today’s economy resent the need to work hard, invest or spend their excess
    profits into anything that causes them any discomfort or to continue working
    hard to keep a wonderful, blessed system of peace, health, happiness and a
    perfect democratic-republic Government who has already passed its predicted
    age. I wonder if those naïve intellectual dudes in the Tea Party every look at
    America this way.

  • Anonymous

    Looking at the same problem
    from a different point of view can produce much different opinions as to a
    viable answer to solve the problem. It would take more space than is available
    here to help the followers (of the entire Population of America-the needy) and
    the (entire population of the Globe-the additional needy) to understand the
    there are not enough shakers and movers, (the present group of
    Producers-Providers of products and services, who are drowning in wealth, saturating
    their every need with such abundance, it has frozen their ability to properly
    enlarge, multiply production and services to serve all mankind.

    This is a problem similar
    to when our Forefathers were new to America and all the cities were small
    towns, and villages and when the States were formed. Businesses were very small
    and growing. When there was various small businesses, with pretty much the same
    owners in these small towns across America, they were doing very well for
    themselves and had no desire to expand, taking on all that extra expense and
    work which a fast growing population who needed more than these small town Industrialists
    could handle. Yet they hated competition from new incoming industries. They
    balked about creating new business and claimed there was not enough need to
    satisfy the enormous expansion towns people advocated. They claimed the cost
    did not justify the expense of taking on costly infrastructure, knowing darn
    well they were comfortable with the wealth they had and knew the expansion of
    roads, bridges, dams, towns, villages, cities and growing States needed would
    affect their life style in many way, new taxes, new competition in the products
    and services they provide removing the comfortable featherbedding life they
    were enjoying and work so hard to obtain. Population increasing requires needs
    for new and existing services and tons upon tons of new capital to keep up with
    the growing population. They liked it when the population was small and they
    had more control over the politicians and city fathers that provided them with
    a very rich, comfortable and happy lifestyle. A lot of rich people referred to
    those day as the good or days. This same problem exist today along with some
    new and faked problems, but still those privileged to be shakers and movers in
    today’s economy resent the need to work hard, invest or spend their excess
    profits into anything that causes them any discomfort or to continue working
    hard to keep a wonderful, blessed system of peace, health, happiness and a
    perfect democratic-republic Government who has already passed its predicted
    age. I wonder if those naïve intellectual dudes in the Tea Party every look at
    America this way.

  • Anonymous

    …and what about the state of Texas????  The state has cut, and cut and cut, and cut with no money ANYWHERE…and is under nazi GOP control.  No democrats to blame for it’s abysmal financial situation. Texas can’t even pay for the wildfires that burned millions of acres this Spring. Did you forget about that? Texas has a $36 BILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT UNDER NAZI GOP CONTROL…WHERE IS YOUR OUTRAGE ON THIS MASSIVE DEFICIT????????????????????????????????????????

  • Anonymous

    TEXAS’ SCHOOL SYSTEMS ARE WORSE THAN CALIFORNIA’S.  AND TEXAS ALSO JUST CUT ANOTHER $5.3 BILLION DOLLARS FROM ITS EDUCATION.

  • Anonymous

    The same way it worked with Reagan taxed the rich 6 fucking times and it pumped $150 Billion dollars into the economy by boosting GDP 1.3%.  Duh!!!!!!!!!!

    The debt is $14 billion dollars.  Let’s see:

    Bush          $11.5 trillion
    Obama        $2.5 trillion
                      —————–
                      $14.0 trillion

    Enough said.

  • Anonymous

    Reagan proved that trickle down is even worse and doesn’t work. If it did, why did HE as a nazi republican have to raise taxes???  You stupid fucking republican nazi’s make me laugh. You don’t know shit.

  • Anonymous

    And cutting government, by throwing throwing the government workers out onto the street to collect unemployment does???/ LOL!!  You stupid republicans make me laugh….

  • Anonymous

    Then what are they waiting for??  It used to be 70% now it’s 28%!!!!  We’ve been in a recession since Bush was in office, hence the bailout bill he signed!!!  What are the rich waiting for???? Start CREATING JOBS!!

  • Anonymous

    and then also sent more than 3.0 million AMERICAN jobs overseas to keep their costs lower and make their bottom lines fatter…all while NOT creating anymore American jobs.  How patriotic of them!! You’re a fucking liar.

  • Anonymous

    LOL,to much Keith Olbermann lib. Under Bush the economy saw a record 27
    straight quarters of growth while under Obama the only things growing
    are the unemployment rate and the deficit.

    His approval numbers are in the 30′s, there is nothing more to say except……

    IT’S ALL BUSHES FAULT!!!!!!!……….right liberal?
    ======================================================================

    LOL!! too (the correct spelling jackass) much Fake News nazi.  Under Pubic Bush, we saw $11.5 trillion dollars ADDED to the deficit and two unprovoked wars that I had to fight in and get shot at fuckface! If McCain had won, we’d still be in the same trash hole we’re in now. The only things growing are the noses on the nazi republican party’s faces.

    Bush’s approval numbers are still lower than Obama’s…..and they always will be. There is nothing more to say except

    IT’S ALL BUSHES FAULT!!!!!!!……….right nazi??? 

  • Anonymous

    Where did $115. trillion dollars of the deficit come from before Obama got into office???  You purposely ignored that NAZI.  Thanks for letting me know that it is all just propaganda LOL. That is where you lost any shred of credibility. Stay away from sharp objects for your own protection…and the barrelof my AK.

  • Anonymous

    You mean like the teabaggers did in their old age, angry white trash, purposely staged town halls in 2009?  huh? Is that what you meant nazi???

  • Anonymous

    Porcella, do you noticed how  ExPat EdLawyer and his nazi’s didn’t respond to your rebuttal comment?

  • Anonymous

    Texas has a $36 BILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT…RIGHT NOW! IT IS SLATED TO BALLOON TO $95 BILLION DOLLARS…..THIS IS NAZI MATHEMATICS…YOU CAN TRY TO ATTACK ME AND MY POSTS ALL YOU WANT…THAT DEFICIT UNDER PERRYWINKLE AIN’T GOING AWAY NAZIS

  • Anonymous

    Here, let me show you what angry, delusional, unhinged hate, DISRESPECT looks like:

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/teabaggers-try-to-shout-down-health-care-reform-at-town-halls.php

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm, teabagger, from the right, ring a bell? Pubic Bush’s t don’t
    seem to have the same “hateful” feel for me as dropping one’s private
    parts into another’s mouth do. Just sayin”.

    Not like all of those allegedly straight nazi republican men in congress who like to touch boys.

  • Anonymous

    Dfklojackoff,  in regards to the right and the nutsack teabagging: Why are so many nazi republicans going after boys.  Here’s the latest:
    http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-phil-hinkle-house-speaker-calls-for-rep-hinkles-resignation-following-sex-allegations-20110823,0,6798534.column

  • Anonymous

    You are kidding, right??????????  Pubic Bush is the most divisive presidency in HISTORY regarding any type of interaction with the other party.  Worse, he is wanted outside the United States for treason and traitorous acts.

    http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2011/02/gw-bush-wanted-for-mass-murder-war.html

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I never said that. My post was trying to say that raising the taxes on the rich has no impact on jobs.

    I get accused of being liberal, now I am a typical republican. Make up your mind.

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