Get a room….you two.

Friedman said : “can come up with a program cutting spending, raising revenue, and investing in our success in a way people find credible.”

Obama or any of his White House Goons or Loons if you perfer, can not even comprehend coming up with something like this.

They are lefties for God’s sake.  Their main goal is to divide and steal $ from us…the folks.

In our little town alone of approximately 22,000 families, If each family used a mere 15 gal gas/week (780 gal/yr) and if gas prices dropped only $1 per gallon for one year, there would be an extra $17 Million floating around town in our pockets.  Obama could do this…but they won’t.  They would rather spend Billions on Solar that produces 0. 

More Fox News/BillO spin.  Michelle Rhee RESIGNED and was not fired.  Rhee did not share the views of the mayor-elect and opted to leave her position.  Of course, it sounds better to the Fox News red-meat crowd if the change-agent was squashed by the liberal machine.  

kbhu

I see why O’reilly’s wife is cheating on him.

He’s such a blow-hard.

I think you missed the point.  Rhee elected to resign rather than waiting for the incoming administration to fire her.  The mayor-elect practically made it a campaign promise to get rid of her.  The writing was very much on the wall.

In 1997 when gasoline was about $1 a gallon, not the $4 a gallon it is today, there would have been an extra $51 million in your town.  I remember some unique advertising by Exxon — the driver human ads — that focused on the convenience stores as a reason to buy Exxon gas.  Made sense, because at 69 cents a pint, bottled water was selling for about $5.52 a gallon while gasoline was $1 a gallon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdwr_9CAayk&feature=related

Nowadays, Exxon doesn’t advertise, except to reinforce the idea that the price is set by world shortages.

Have you always been such a deep thinker?

Friedman got so many things wrong in one of his books that he had to publish a revised edition.  He’s really a good example of a person who is a merchandising success with almost no originality or talent to speak of.  The CEO who complain about not having people with the skills– they just won’t pay market wages.  CEOs want great skills for no money, but their rhetoric dovetails perfectly with teachers who want more money from taxpayers– and so a sound bite rises above the din.

Uh no, I missed nothing.  She resigned, period.  Had she been fired, then you and BillO could continue to use that as an “I told you so” moment.  And, the mayor said that POLICY would be changed as a result, not personnel.  Words sell and that is why BillO chose the word “fired” (with added emphasis) rather than to state to truth and bookend that with a comment about her likely dismissal.  However, judging by your moniker, you seem to be challenged with the intended meaning of words anyway.  

Friedman loves industrial policy as practiced by the Chinese;  big showy projects like high speed rail, solar plants and other government directed industries. Central to his beliefs is that expert driven industrial policy is more effective than the messy marketplace. Capitalists think that markets are too big, complex and fast moving for experts to understand and anticipate. Even savvy market participants make mistakes. 
Friedman, Obama et al like to dream that education makes them more astute than thousands to market participants -but that has never been shown to be true over the long run. Finally Tom, Bill, a strong family unit with stability, responsibility and accountability is often required for academic achievement. We can thank the welfare system and liberalism for helping to destroy the black family unit and weaken our culture and overall family structure. Soaring drop out rates in the inner city and poverty among blacks is a result. Innovation being blocked by Friedman’s good friends, teachers unions has also hurt those most dependent of public education.

Crony-Socialism doesn’t work!

Gen. Shelton & Lightsquared
Solyndra

If the President of The United States, (the current one in particular), put any real effort into controlling the price of gas, my guess is he would be derided for attempting to impose a price fixing policy also known as CENTRAL PLANNING.

A couple of gazillionaires opining on macroeconomics, what could possibly go wrong? Besides failed trickledown economics and lassiez faire trade deals that enrich elites like them at the expense of the masses.

A couple of gazillionaires opining on macroeconomics, what could possibly go wrong? Besides failed trickledown economics and lassiez faire trade deals that enrich elites like them at the expense of the masses.

MSNBC and other liberal networks could learn from this.  Viewers want to hear honest, open debate between opposing views.  Fox delivers this, day after day – and that’s why it has such a large audience. 

Liberal journalists, in contrast, don’t want to debate their opponents — they want to silence them.  Which is not just intellectually dishonest but boring in the extreme.  And leads to the obvious question: what are they afraid of?

Very true. Cue liberals calling the Tea Party racist, bigoted, homophobic etc just to discredit their fiscal / economic policies instead of debating the substance. 

I’m not sure what to make of your “moniker”, but judging from your comments I can tell you’re a fucking idiot.

NO ONE is fired in Washington DC.   Instead, everyone “resigns”.  That’s just how the game is played.

To asserts that Michelle Rhee wasn’t fired, is facially absurd.  OF COURSE, she was fired.

Why would anyone go on O’reilly? The guy doesn’t listen; he uses guests to spew his own views.

Friedman wants to sell his book, but the only book that sells on this channel is coulter and the like. Most Fox viewers stick with the Bible, I think.

O’reilly talks about education! Does that include a science curriculum? What about teaching kids Ignorant Design (ID)?

If more people believed in ID, we wouldn’t need jobs! Who needs a job with the Rapture coming down the pike?

Education? Somebody ask Romney about the time when Jesus flew to Arizona and fought those indians in a war!

that was a very good, honest conversation, and i wish we had more of that.

second, o’reilly argues “everyone has had it up to here (with taxes)”

not everyone, bill.  those making more than $200,000/year are doing just fine
and we can raise their taxes.

third, i think friedman is right on gasoline, we should raise the gasoline tax.

“Silence them?”

Really, Mr Ailes? You didn’t notice O’reilly interrupting and shouting at his guest. People that tell you they’re honest are liars. People that say that they are ‘fair and balanced’ are, well…you get the idea.

The education that O’reilly claims to know so much about requires honest, thoughtful, and frankly quiet debate. Check out the Newshour on PBS. Even Cheney was on there last night. No shouting, no hostility, no histrionics.

O’reilly is a Fox businessman, not a journalist. Screaming sells, while PBS is “boring” to most.

The market knows what’s best, right? That’s why Fox is #1.

Tsk tsk tsk, such language from the reigning RepubliTarianTard (see how I worked in your other “special” characteristic?  Language always gives it away, doesn’t it?  For example, your last sentence speaks volumes.  For someone who assumes to know what happened to the D.C. Chancellor, you certainly don’t know much about grammar.  Perhaps you were an Auto Shop/Phys.Ed kind of student?  In any case, Ms. Rhee would be greatly disappointed and, unless the protocol has changed, I’m fairly certain she didn’t receive a “facial” as a retirement gift.  

I like you USS RepublitarianTard…you’re a funny little guy.  Not too bright but funny all day!

Obama’s primary purpose in life is to retaliate for what he believes to be Capitalism’s fundamental principle: namely to teach mankind that life is not fair and men are not created equal. In such a manner, his form of ‘democracy al la carte’ is to dispense equality to equals and un-equals alike and to install a progressive socialist dictatorship that naturally arises out of his perception that America is premised upon a pseudo-democracy. Thus, his vision perceives that the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery naturally arises out of the most extreme liberty which he and his ancestors have held close to the vest.

The fuckin democrats won’t let us drill ! They haven’t for 30 fucking years.
EXXON fucking loves democrats – they get 20X the price it costs them to extract oil from the old wells

Let me interpret for those of you not fluent in politispeech.

Infrastructure spending= public union funding and crony buddie paybacks.

There you go.

Bill O used to teach in one of those elite schools.. THANK GOD HE DOESN’T DO THAT ANYMORE… And besides, every politician for the past ten years has run with part of his/her platform as an education reformer and Bush with his stupid assed “no child left behind”  has accomplished just the opposite.. And the first thing these people do is start cutting spending on education.. Yeah, we’re number one in school sports, but we can’t do any true education things.. But that’s alright, the Chinese can do that.. (and anyone else for that matter)..

you mean, by hiring wall street executives to fill his economic team; to extend
a tax structure that benefits hedge fund managers and oil companies; and by 
continuing costly wars and occupations?  

that obama?

Absolutely!

I’m so tired of these multiple polls coming out trying to scare the population into giving up on our president! Pass the budget! Pay the bills! Quit jacking with the economy! Let’s stop calling names! President Obama has a plan that will work, but this TEA party controlled GOP-er will jump and ask “How high” when commanded by the the TEA party elite!  He’s been around too long and he’s a career politician! Rogue states rocking the boat. Rogues states rocking the boat from TEA party activist wanting to change our government more and faster now. Now, I ask you if you should allow Rick Perry to be anywhere near the Nuclear button, when he talks? Perry is in over his head. With no real experience and knowledge or schooling, he continues to flounder as gullible people say he’s the best qualified to be president. Perry graduated with a 2.22 GPA in Animal Science and was a cheer leader, while President Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, was president of the The Harvard Law Review, graduated with honors!(Magna Cum Laude) with specialization in international relations. Who do you think is best qualified for Foreign Policy! America has been at war too long and the people want us OUT! Bush started this war and another, driving the US further into debt and lost sight of what really hurts the snake that attacked us. This president has been effective as Commander-in-Chief, but has not been totally hindered by the 112th Congress. The president is a class man, effective leader authorizing the killing of Osama Bin Ladin, moving out Moammar Khaddafy, and Atiyah abd al-Rahman is dead! There are at least four or five more top leaders dead at the insistence of our president! President Obama has been cutting off the head of the snake! This Economy is not the president’s legacy, but the 112th Congress’ legacy! This TEA party is a confrontational, ostentatious or garish people, and should never be allowed to force their narrow-minded, religious-based views onto others. They have forced their way into local governments and state-level legislatures. Now they want to control the federal government and shut down our Social programs and force their secular ways over the general populations. Wake up America! Do not take this next election for granted. Make sure you can vote in the up-coming elections and be sure to vote in November 2012!

so we should give the money to construction companies without unions?

Any other questions?

What do public unions and construction companies without unions have to do with anything I stated? By the way, the way to get a contract to build anything is to be one of the lower bidders that can get the job done efficiently and quickly. Please explain to me what unions have to do with anything with contracting with government. Remember, I have had over 20 years in construction and many contracts with the government entities. Not once did I ever have a union shop on any of my bids that were contracted. The government can mandate minimum pay, they CANNOT mandate union workers. Well, until now in the USSA.

Great a Neo-Liberal douchebag and a Neo-Conservative douchebag arguing about something. I wonder if Bill O’Reilly realizes that Friedman is on his side, probably not. The average Fox News viewer think people like Friedman is a Socialist, when they don’t realize he is on their team.

Did Billdo just say he is going to punish the parents for the bad behavior of their children?

Do I need to bring up again the Andrea Mackris transcripts?

O’Reilly: I have something very important to tell you. All litigation
has ceased that has made me the object of media scorn from coast to
coast. On a personal note, this matter has caused enormous pain, but I
had to protect my family and I did….This brutal ordeal is now over and
I will never speak of it again…

As Billdo said, he is just a fresh, steaming pile…

“facially?”

Oh we will. We will most definitely vote. YOU will not like the outcome I promise you.

so you agree with……?

obama has been drilling more than any president in history

and for the record, i oppose that

USSA?

are you arguing that we are a socialist or communist country because 
we hire unions?

exactly

and i love how friedman doesn’t challenge o’reilly’s claim that “nobody”
can afford “any” tax increases

Not a big fan of either of their answers. We can’t invent our way out of this because someone else will steal our technology and produce it for a lot less. Lowering govenment regulations seems like a good idea but it will also reduce the standard of living in America. Education isn’t really a problem. I know too many engineers that are bartending because their jobs went overseas. The thing we have to do is get away from being an economy where everyone sells us things & become an economy that produces the goods we consume. If you ask me, the first thing we should do is increase our tariffs. We need to become a self-sufficient economy instead of being an economy the buys and sells everyone else’s goods.

Tom Friedman is a drooling lib-lab. May his salivary glands expand into his eyes and ears. 

The problem is that the Tea Party doesn’t argue with substance. They tend to have an unrealistic and often hypocritical stance on government spending and they will oppose anything the government does just to gain attention. Debating the Tea Party makes no sense at all. They respond to slogans more than they do to arguments.

“Obama could do this…”

Do what? Give you cheaper gas? How? Where does that money come from?

Wouldn’t he have to “… divide and steal $ from us…the folks” to get you cheaper gas?

Why don’t you A) drive a fuel efficient vehicle–not that F-3550 Extendo Dualie
                        B) take a bus. Too good for public transpo.?
                        C) walk or ride a bike. This will save us all $ on your obesity related health care issues

Happy to help the folks on Main Street–the real Americans of the USA!

God Bless!

Notice Mediaite has only had ONE article on Solyndra? At that was only because it was Jon Stewart.

Hey Mediaite…..so where is your articles about Cable News talking about Solyndra?

….and not any pieces attacking Conservatives about Solyndra.

I’m always amused when people wrap themselves in some pretend cloak of sophisticated intellectualism.  It’s generally psychological camouflage;  People know deep down that they’re imbeciles, but if they pretend they’re something else, then perhaps others will buy it.

What is clear on its face, is that you’re moron.  

PS – If you don’t know what facially means, get yourself a dictionary – preferably a legal dictionary, champ – or, is that chump.  So hard to tell.

(changes subject)

“To asserts that Michelle Rhee wasn’t fired, is facially absurd. OF COURSE, she was fired.”

I have looked into your usage of ‘facially’ in the above post and am unable to discern its meaning. Might you help a fellow who is ignorant of its legal application? I checked my OED as well as several other dictionaries for etymological clues, but still find myself wanting.

Facially is adjectival here, right? You mean to modify how, what kind of, absurd, right? The following sentence, begining with ‘OF COURSE…’ seems to suggest–from context–that you might have meant ‘factually.’

The legal definition, as I read it, says that there are two ways for a law to be constitutional: on the surface (facial) and how it is applied, in practice.

Your sentence might read:

To assert that Michelle Rhee wasn’t fired, is on the surface absurd. OF COURSE, she was fired.

The 2010 Mayorial primary was seen as a referendum on her tenure, but to call Fenty’s loss and her subsequent resignation a “firing” seems inacurate. Fenty announced her resignation but that was, of course, in response to the election and her comments,”Yesterday’s election results were devastating.”

Her words insured she was done with the position; Fenty simply confirmed it.

Please offer clarification on “facially, if you can.

Thank you,

Brother Timothy

It baffles me why anyone would accept an invitation to be a guest of Bill O’Reilly. He has no interest in having a real dialog.  He doesn’t let his guests talk, and he aggressively berates them as they attempt to get a word in between his rants.  O’Reilly’s demeanor is that of an ill-mannered know-it-all 15-year-old adolescent.   

O’Reilly doesn’t have a clue as to what he is talking about. A truly ignorant man,

This site is another Liberal hack creation from MSNBC,    Mr Abrams thinks he is slick with his website creation.  Liberals lie thru ommision, they keep the truth away from their ignorant masses like UNIONS, ILLEGALS, INNER CITY under eduacated.  ONE article on Solyndra was a shocker that there was anyat all.  Liatrs and manipulators run this Country.

WRONG 95% of that new drilling was already permitted and approved.  You clearly dont understand the oil process it takes YEARS to start drilling.  Also old wells have opened back up due to high prices.  You D-loon are a liberal fool and I bet you drive a gas tank a week. ” more than any Prez” is another straight LIBERAL lie.  Do you and Obama get it we are on to you for the lying filth you ARe. 

you distort the facts for your failing liberal agenda.  This Prez exposing you for the fool you are along with him.   OBAMA = FAIL.

Yeah! Yeah! O’Reilly puts Leftist guests in a plastic bubble and then SCREAMS at and BERATES them non-stop, never letting them get in a word edgewise.

Oh, wait…

The New York Times is like Jonestown, Guyana and everyone there wants to be Jim Jones.

As long as DIM LIBS can scare people with theoretical bridges that are ready to ‘collapse’ and ‘fail’ they’ll keep playing Chicken Little.

But the more livid these DIM LIBS get, the more I LOVE it. A Livid Lib is a Lib for whom things are going horribly.

insanity

Hmmmm? What planet do you live on? Obama is a empty suit. He knows NOTHING about the economy.
He is a pathelogical liar. I think we will need to put you on suicide watch election day 2012.

Now go back to your coloring books and don’t bother the adults.

“When it comes to accusations, we don’t know who’s telling the truth, so I’m not going to get on the Bill O’Reilly bandwagon. But one of his producers is suing him for unwanted phone sex with her while he was using a vibrator on himself. To me, that doesn’t sound like Bill O’Reilly, because usually he’s pulling stuff out of his ass.” –Bill Maher

Why hasn’t NBC or MSNBC reported on the Solyndra scandal?  Why are they so afraid?

Solyndra was about 1% of the funds used to invest in green energy. Did you expect the goverment to overseeing running of the company?Why are you against green energy? Do you have a lot of oil stock?

It says here that OBAMO is going to outline his new and massive tax-hike on millionaires soon. He’ll call it the ‘Buffett Rule,’ which means that he’ll be able to ‘blame someone else’ when it gets criticized. Just like the Limp Wrist he is.

I sure am GLAD OBAMOCARE is called OBAMOCARE. That’s one cement block OBAMO won’t EVER be able to undo.

Given the number of White House meetings with, and the amount of money dumped into Solyndra, yes.

Why do you figure anyone is against green energy? Solyndra is not producing green energy. They just gobbled up a half billion dollars is all.

How? Where does that money come from?

What money? We just need the federal government to get the hell out of the way.

“Later in the evening after returning to Maher’s house from the party described in Paragraph 35 above, Maher picked up a hammer, held it toward Johnsen’s head and indicated that he would strike her with it if she were to fail to be faithful to him” – Coco Johnson’s lawyer.

Geesh! At least do the math right if not the politics. 22,000 FAMILIES! Are they all single person “famiies?” Otherwise you get nowhere near 17 mil

Friedman is such a fraud.  He is a cheap book peddler.  He likes to give the impression that he is this deep thinker who sees the big picture and then constructs these incredibly creative solutions.  All the time it is this pedestrian material packaged to sell books. 

MSNBC is an incestuous carnival show. You have just got to laugh out loud at the antics of Schultz, O’Donnell, Maddow and Matthews.  None of them want a highly articulate spokesman on their shows with an opposing point of view.  If they inadvertantly get someone on their shows who pushes back, they shout them down and refuse to have a reasonalble discussion. Lean Forward. 

Thank goodness I have a union…. and here’s a hack calling people hacks..

I do not regard Mr. O’Reilly or others of his ilk like Hannity and Limbaugh as patriots. They are merchants of hate who destroy our culture of freedom for profit.

Nothing is more lethal to a democracy than internal political movements based on hate. Plato understood this. The Founders understood this and warned us in the terminology of their time – beware of “demagogues” (those skilled in the use of hate-based propaganda), “faction” (political movements full of hate for their fellow citizens – see Tea Party), those of “perverted ambition” who see profit in weak government and political chaos (Hamilton – Fed Papers 1 – could refer to Murdoch, Koch Bros).

Today we call such movements authoritarian movements, using modern psychology to identify the two personality types making up these movements – authoritarian leaders and authoritarian followers.

The fear-hate-disinformation formula for inflammatory, democracy-destroying propaganda has existed since at least Cleon of Athens, but today’s corporate authoritarians have refined the art with 21st century marketing research and neuroscience.

Authoritarian leaders are motivated by greed, despise equality and follow the dictators’ definition of freedom. “Freedom” to them means they get their way all the time, while “tyranny” to them means they don’t get their way all the time.

Authoritarian followers are motivated by fear and hatred for those who differ from them. Both leaders and followers are motivated by the visceral animal pleasure and delusion of superiority they get from sadistically dominating and degrading others. Witness the audiences of the two Republican presidential candidacy debates or the gleeful and mindless cruelty of what passes for so much “conservative” commentary on the web.

In their quest for power authoritarian leaders take the most cherished and powerful value systems in their nation, gut them of their true humane values, insert their own sociopathic values and then aggressively sell their corrupt versions of these value systems as “pure” and “original.” Thus we get “Christians” who cheer for cruelty and death like Romans in the Coliseum, a right-wing SCOTUS that crushes the people’s rights to make more profit for the corporate plutocracy, and the constant twisting of Adam Smith’s deeply moral vision of a just economy into the grotesque psychopathy of thinkers like Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand.

Authoritarian movements spiral downwards in increasing irrationality and sadism until they self-destruct – when they are not destroyed by their disgusted victims first. In either case, these movements harm far too many innocent people before their inevitable demise.

I have no interest in harming Mr. O’Reilly. I just want to see him and his odious ilk take their blood money and go. Stop destroying this country by pushing your fraudulent dystopic version of America.

No, child, the union has YOU!

Wow- even I am shocked at the stupidity of what you just said.

Ya libs, the solution is $5/gal gas and more taxes.
 
You guys refuse to not be losers.

Easy comedian Billo! Eahsy!

You make your millions for stirring sh*t. Let the guy speak.

Unfortunately, all of the information and history you provide the reader, quickly became circuitous,  meaning, you were trying so hard to make a point, you didn’t make one?

I ‘think’ you are mad at O’Reilly, but then again, you might have something against the Romans?  LOL

The Purveyor of Rhetoric

As I do not watch MSNBC, I’ll take your word.  Also, that I am not surprised…

“‘Complicity by omission.”

Purveyor

As I do not watch MSNBC, I’ll take your word.  Also, that I am not surprised…

“‘Complicity by omission.”

Purveyor

WOW!  I am convinced.  Tell me more oh wise one?

Purveyor

Whoa, that is a heck of a statement! (Analogy)  

Oh yeah, because drilling is definitely going to bring the prices down. Let’s completely disregard the global market.

My god, you guys really aren’t too bright.

Oh yeah, because drilling is definitely going to bring the prices down. Let’s completely disregard the global market.

My god, you guys really aren’t too bright.