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Axelrod On CNN: Republicans May Be Trying To Tear Down The Economy On Purpose

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On CNN’s State of the Union today, former Obama advisor David Axelrod expressed his frustration on Congressional inaction on many important issues related to the economy and, more specifically, the inability of Republicans to come together with the president on issues they normally agree with.

Candy Crowley highlighted a quote from White House Chief of Staff William Daley, saying in part that the Republicans and Democrats have been going at it and making it hard for President Obama to be an efficient executive, and asked Axelrod how much of the current economy could be attributed to the result of Obama’s policies. Axelrod jumped back to the common defense that the president inherited the financial crisis and is doing his best to stop that, expressing optimism for the future of American industry.

But Crowley wanted to know specifically why the Obama administration is so frustrated with Congress, and Axelrod immediately went after the Republicans for their continued intransigence and inability to cooperate with the president.

“When you have the Republican leader of the Senate say ‘Our number one goal’… in the midst of this economy….’our number one goal is to defeat the president,’ and they’re acting like it. They don’t want to cooperate. They don’t want to help. Even on measures to help the economy that they have traditionally supported before.”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    By this logic, Democrats were trying to force a defeat in Iraq to tear down Bush and Republicans, right?

  • Anonymous

    Axelrod On CNN: Republicans May Be Trying To Tear Down The Economy On Purpose

    This filthy , disgusting piece of crap should be fired immediately .

    But wait . He’s a Dem , so it’s okay to say anything to take those ” sons of bitches down “.

    The lying , the dirty tactics go right to the feet of The Organizer , and those feet are usually propped up on the Resolute Desk . This is one sick gang of crooks .

  • Obeezy

    Chaz bono with a wig is one partisan hack

  • Rufus Danegro

    Rubbers gloves whining again!

    And Rubber Gloves is a prime example of ” a son of bitch” who needs to be “taken down.”

    You hit this sack of puss right where he lives Axelrod.
     
    Bravo.

  • Anonymous

    It’s called sabotage. Anything that helps America hurts Republicans, so they set filibuster records in the Senate in order to spite Obama regardless the consequences – just like they did with Clinton. Nothing new here.
      

  • Anonymous

    No, no. That’s questioning their patriotism. How dare you!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    So does anyone know what the Republicans have specifically done to create jobs since the 2010 mid-terms?
    Anyone?
    Anyone?

  • http://twitter.com/MissConservaGal MissConservaGal

    You clearly don’t follow Congress do you?

    You realize there are jobs bills just sitting in the Senate right now, don’t you? (Of course you don’t).

    You  know how many the House passed that are just sitting there? Go ahead —> Guess —> I’ll wait…..

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It’s been clear for a long time that Republicons are willing to destroy this country and make people suffer to obtain their own political gains!!

  • Anonymous

    How can republicans deny this? The worse the economy, the better chance at beating Obama. They know that the country doesn’t hate him as much as they do, so they only way they can beat him is if they have a sh!tty economy. Republicans can scrunch their face up at this all they want, but they know its the truth.

  • Anonymous

    This is not new news.   Bush the Lesser dedicated eight years to sabotaging the economy. 

  • Pablo

    They also tore the economy down beginning in 2006, resulting in the recession starting in Dec ’07 and the crash of 2008.

    Axelrod just thinks the GOP is doing what the Democrats did. Pure projection.

  • lady,lady

    Its like talking to the walls,these libs and dems do not have the intelligence God gave them to understand that those bills now sitting in the Senate have not even been read by the democratic  Senate…Easier to blame the Republicans over and over until they,the dems ,et al, believe it themselves..

  • MIKE

    Where have they had a chance? Obama has stated his agenda and Reid tables everything. Obama has been on campaign mode since the beginning of this year and his stradegy is to paint the Republicans as the ”PARTY OF NO.”
    Other than throw 800 billion against the wall and seeing what stuck what exactly have Democrats done for job creation?

     

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! Bush was facing his own defeat in the Iraq War for not supplying enough troops and having them adequately supplied!!

    This is why he had to double-down with the “surge” to keep this country from facing a loss in a war we shouldn’t have entered in the first place!!

  • Anonymous

    There are no GOP jobs bills in Congress.

    There are some tax cut bills miscast as “jobs” bills – but Bushy-Boy spent eight years proving tax cuts don’t create jobs.

  • Anonymous

    The desperation of the left is hilarious…the DNC is done!

  • Texan

    Are you suffering, mikey?

  • Texan

    They are sooooooo done.

  • http://twitter.com/MissConservaGal MissConservaGal

    I can’t respond to somewhat that doesn’t have the basic understand or ability to tie his own shoes.

    Try reading up a bit.

  • Michelle B

    Shall we all pretend it isn’t true? Can anyone honestly say that the Republicans have been really trying to improve the economy? It is an obvious that they always intended to sabotage the recovery in order to bring down this President. They are the most unpatriotic group I have ever seen in Washington.

    Right wingers complaining about ‘big govt’ as they cash their Social Security, Veterans and subsidy checks amaze me. They whine as they take their Medicare provided medicines and complain about how long it takes to plow their road. Don’t you realize the Republicans are blaming you for the debt problem and your benefits will be the first cut?

    These guys do not care about you. Somehow they have convinced millions to vote against their own interests and the interests of their own kids and grandkids. Wake up! Or for goodness sake, no complaining or blaming the Democrats when your out looking for a job with health care benefits at 70 years old.

  • Tim Tebow

    Republicans don’t believe in this nation. What other party talks about ‘statism?’The idea that the government (We the PEOPLE) is a bad thing. The PEOPLE are the GOVERNMENT.

    The United States of America? They’re trying to tear the state down and impose a new feudalism where property determines value and status. The Bill of Rights? Forget about it!

    There will be no ‘America,’ just a bunch of gated communities with private armies defending the rich from the poor. Dig a moat around your McMansion and pray the hordes of poor can’t swim!

    Privatize EVERYTHING and watch your nation die. And the rich get richer…

  • AA

    dont confront conservatives with FACTS

  • http://twitter.com/MissConservaGal MissConservaGal

    And I really don’t want to hear about “sabotage” from the Donks and Progressives that have only jacked up unemployment while spending how many trillions in the process.

    Unless you’re a teacher, a cop, or a construction work, liberals have nothing to offer  you.

    Seriously, these people HATE anything that doesn’t include work in the public sector. And they’ve demonstrated that over the last 3 years.

    Go back and read the transcripts of Affirmative Action Jackson’s “we can’t wait” speech. Every single one of them includes “cop and teacher” and not much else.

    Guess what? Some of us have other qualifications. Where’s our relief?

  • MIKE

    So let me get this straight. Republicans are known for being in bed with big business and big business loves to make money. That’s a Lib talking point.
    Tearing down the economy tears down big business. How do you liberals sell that contradiction?

  • S R Karenova

    Get your talking point straight Pablo. Republicans were in charge of Congress and the White House until November 2006 when the Democrats took Congress. Wipe your foaming Republican partisan mouth with a bib and accept the fact that the Democrats had little to do with the Bush recession that began in 2007.

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

    “Republicans May Be Trying To Tear Down The Economy On Purpose”

    Probably the biggest political lie of my lifetime.

  • http://twitter.com/MissConservaGal MissConservaGal

    Mary I said I’d wait. But I don’t have all day. I’m not an unemployed OWS flea hagger.

    The answer is 15.15 different jobs bills passed by the House that are lingering away in the Senate.

    Why do progressives hate the private sector? Why? Because they can’t compete. That would be my guess.

    More proof they won’t be nominally happy until they make everyone as miserable as they are.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Apparently Axelrod doesn’t follow the polls. AMERICANS number one goal is to defeat Barack Obama.

    And Republicans can “tear down” the economy by simply letting Obama’s anti-choice, anti-business policies continue.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Come on!! It’s fun to see them defend their ignorance!!  =)

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! Only after reading the comments you post!!

  • Tim Tebow

    Are you talking about jobs in China?

  • Anonymous

    Republicans have done everything they can to harm our country.

    From lying thousands of our troops to their deaths, to scaring morons into supporting blatant attacks on civil rights and civil liberties, to implementing failed economic policies aimed at redistributing wealth to the top, to putting an entire class of people above the law.

    If it harms our country, Republicans are all for it.  It’s not a secret.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s a list of the stalled bills the senate won’t vote on:
    http://www.gop.gov/policy-news/11/10/27/summary-of-jobs-bills-stalled

    Also… President George W. Bush’s 2003 tax cuts generated a massive increase in
    federal tax revenue and were followed by 52 consecutive months of economic
    growth. From 2004 to 2007, federal tax revenue increased by $780 billion, the
    largest four-year increase in American history. Total federal revenue from 2003
    to 2007:

    2003 — $1.78 trillion
    2004 — $1.88 trillion
    2005 — $2.15 trillion
    2006 — $2.40 trillion
    2007 — $2.56 trillion

    It is no coincidence the DNC took over Congress in 2007 and the bottom fell out.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans have funneled all of the wealth to the top.  In fact, they have orchestrated the biggest redistribution of wealth in the history of man. Try to think for yourself.  Really, just try.

  • Anonymous

    Fox knows their viewers will only watch attractive commentators/reporters. Their attention span is far too short otherwise. That happens when you get to be the age of the average Fox viewer, though.

  • Pablo

    You mean the surge Obama tried to stop in order to make sure that we and the Iraqi people would lose?

  • Tim Tebow

    China enacted a stimulus in 2009 comparable to Obama’s and the government owns many large industries. Their involvement in the economy undermines the ‘small-government’ lie that so many Ayn Rand twits and Ron Paul kooks love to parrot. 

     

  • Pablo

    The average unemployment rate under Bush was 5.2%. Obama can’t get it under 9%.

    I’d suggest that you do the math, but I’m sure you don’t know how.

  • Tim Tebow

    Ha Ha!

    Your first “jobs bill” is a ‘reducing regulation’ bill!

    Yeah, that’s a jobs bill! Why don’t you decrimininalize EVERYTHING and really watch the jobs sprout up! The government isn’t stopping ‘job creation,’–we are. We aren’t consuming enough to bring more jobs.

    The reason there are no jobs, A$$WHOLE, is because there is no DEMAND! HELLO!

    If people could buy stuff, companies would hire more people to satisfy demand. But until then…no work.

    It’s basis econ 101…

  • Pablo

    No, creating jobs in China is the expertise of the Chairman of Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

  • Anonymous

    Those would be the exact dates of the housing bubble.

    Yes, the bottom did fall out in 2007 when the housing bubble burst.  The Dems passed no laws in 2007/08 – except for Bushy-Boy’s TARP bill.

  • Tim Tebow

    So now the government SHOULD be involved in the economy?

    Wow!

  • Pablo

    What recovery? How are Republicans sabotaging it?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You failed to address why the “surge” was needed in the first place!! Obama wasn’t for the war, it would make sense that he would be against the “surge” that Bush wanted!!

  • Anonymous

    I’m not sure why anyone bothers to ask campaign robot Axelrod any kind of questions like this.you already know what he will say almost verbatim.he;ll be right on the talking points with a healthy does of demoniztion and fear tactics thrown in.

    He’s got an election to win,why let truth,reality and honesty get in the way?

  • Anonymous

    I enjoy the smug and thoroughly incompetent comments you make.

    Bush racked up $4.9 trillion of debt in 8 years, which no true conservative would defend.  The problem is that 0bama has added $4.30 trillion in less than 3 years and his greatest gift will become evident in the years to come:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/03/21/GR2009032100104.html

    Stealing from future generations is cool though, huh? 

  • Anonymous

    Correction Mr. Axelrod, its not that they may, they actually are, just for election purpose. 

  • Bob

    seeing as how the teabaggers are trying to organize a campaign to tell businesses not to hire, i don’t see how you can deny that there are folks on the right who are thrilled with the bad economy.

    “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
    – Sen. Lipless Mitch McConnell, R-Ky

  • Tim Tebow

    I think you and Steve Jobs did it because the American worker wanted to be paid a living wage–not that bowl of rice you are paying those 14 yr olds for 16 hour days.

    And you’re against CLASS warfare? Maybe only class wars that you might lose…

    Ha Ha!

  • fyonalon

    How so, the Democrats co-operated with the Republicans and voted in favor of the surge?

  • Bob

    it was 4% when Boosh took office, and over 8% when he left. it doubled under his watch.
    but you’re trying to ignore the uphill graph and pluck a nice ‘average’ to hide the trend and cover for failed conservative policies.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, Obama has spent a little of money trying to rescue our economy from all of the damage Republicans did. And the Republican tax cuts for the rich have assured huge deficits reaching far into the future.

    But why do you even pretend something else is happening? How did you come to hate America so much that you would lie about something so important? Answer: You don’t give a damn about future generations.

    By the way, below are links to pages where you can find the real deficit numbers. The nonsense you used was from 2009, and you attributed a Bush budget to Obama. The real numbers show that Obama has reduced the deficit. I understand why a liar like you would use numbers selectively:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

  • fyonalon

    You question the patriotism of Democrats?  You have a problem – you’re too extreme and polarized.

  • fyonalon

    What an absolute, total liar you are.  The gall of these GOP posters!  Worse than on Fox.

  • Bob

    the economy was already heading south when the Dems took power in Jan ’07. $4+ gas and the glaring incompetence of the Boosh administration on economic matters sent Dennis Hastert packing.

  • fyonalon

    Well, they care about the win, not the facts.  The facts are subordinate to the win.  If the facts don’t support a win, lies and half lies will do.

  • fyonalon

    Deflect, distract, misinform.  These are the weapons of the modern GOP.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    True!!

  • Texan

    You calling obama a worthless pos flip-flopper? Finally, you’re making sense.

  • Conservative in Lib Land

    This is good comedy…I almost thought it was the old Thursday night  lineup on NBC. 1st off, how any right minded conservative would think they would ever get a fair shake commenting on anything posted from CNN and the whiney, hold your hands out for Odummy to give you everything liberals. 2nd, how many times has that Burger Flipper down at the local McD’s offered you a job? How often have you seen those guys standing at the day laborer sited waiting for a job ever give you a job? I dare say NEVER in either case. Since I am sure to be blasted by these close minded liberal trolls with nothing else to do but wait for Odummy to pay their bills and give a job, I’m out.

    By the way, I do work, I do pay my bills, I do have healthcare, and I did it on my own! Never wanted nor needed any government to do for me what I am/was unwilling to do for myself. When it gets tough at work, I work harder, not complain and hope Odummy bails me out.

    Have a nice day liberal fools

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes, the ever trusty CNN; Team Obama calls them up, tells them what mesage to push and candy and her crowd happily push it.

    This congress is NO different than any other congress in this history of this country – what is different is the ineffectual, narcisst, manchild who sits in the oval and in incapable of leading and healing.  But alas, the media is told what message to push (republicans are bad) and they willingly push it.
    CNN lies, has for years, will for many more years.  That is a fact.

  • Darladoon

    “may be trying”??

     

  • fyonalon

    Really, I take that back.  Deflect and distract is the weapon of an immature debater alone. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CHU2T4PKPJ57D5NJPKPYEXVWIY Frank Rizzo

    Because it was that famous republican Rahm Emanuel that something about not letting a good crisis go to waste, right? The marxist obama and his operatives are sooooo predictable. Gotta create crisis and chaos to fake people into thinking you are the solution.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    :o

  • Anonymous

    Wow…the housing bubble was from 2003-2007?  Nah, it actually started in the 70s but was accelerated in the 1990s.

    From the NY Times in 1999:
    Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.

    My favorite part is this….”Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990′s by reducing down payment requirements,” said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae’s chairman and chief executive officer. ”Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.”

    It’s funny though…even the NY Times was apprehensive…In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980′s.

    Yeah, read it: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html

    Liberal progressive policies only bring poverty for everyone.

    See you in 2012

  • Obeezy

    You mean the same FOX that beats every pother station in the Young adult demo? That one?  You stick to watching Wife beaters and sexual deviants and leave the news to adults there skippy

  • Anonymous

    LOL…there is no demand without jobs.  We’ve spent the last 20 years devaluing the dollar, pretending that cheap money will bring perpetual prosperity….cheap loans for everyone! 

    The markets do not work like that and we are at this point because of the federal government.

  • Anonymous
  • Obeezy

    Axlerod and the Liberals have one goal.. Turn America into an infighting, class warfare, job killing country. They hate America and all it stands for. There is no other reason to want to radically change our country.. This administration is just OWS with jobs… Pathetic fools

  • http://twitter.com/MarkH76248 Mark H

    Democrats are a bunch of incompetent pussies

  • fyonalon

    It certainly seems that way, so why shouldn’t someone say it out loud?

  • Anonymous

    Another lie from the liar of all liars.

  • Anonymous

    There are indeed jobs bills from the GOP in the Senate. http://www.thomas.gov

  • clever

    In your pathetic Libtard world you live in you probably believe that the dems have ruined this country along time ago with Republicans help right around the time they started paying lazy Bastards to stay home and have kids to make money.So your argument is invalid.

  • clever

    Yes republicans are responsable for everything bad and Dems do only good things like kill fetuses and let convicted Murders Live and if they are lucky they will let them go and kill more people.They demand banks give loans to people who could never pay them back they are the bestest party ever.

  • Anonymous

    Axelrod is a very smart guy. When he says may, he is just being polite. Everyone knows what´s going on. The rightwing nutjobs will do nothing to help this country and anything to beat Obama. Including sitting on their hands while watching the economy being in a bad shape. That´s an important part of their strategy. Don´t let get anything better cause it might keep Obama in the White House. 

  • clever

    Don’t confront Democrats with facts they still think Nancy Pelosi is as Honest as they come and Harry Ried never lies and Obama is like Honest Abe.

  • Chris

    Someone else might say that Obama is trying to tear down the economy by stopping the Republicans from saving it.  Or that BO is a weak leader and can’t get his own party in line to save the economy.  Or everyone is trying to save the economy from BO.  What a bunch of BS. 

  • Anonymous

    Hey, why did you change the link from a fraud website to a wiki link?  Embarrassed huh?

    Okay, so I don’t care about future generations cause I find the bloated 0bama deficits to border on being evil?  Yeah, that makes sense.  If only the federal government accumulated more of the private sector wealth, future generations would bathe in prosperity?  Nice logic…way to think for yourself.

    If only the federal government would increase the taxes on the wealthy we wouldn’t have 45.8 million on food stamps, $4.3 trillion of debt in 3 years, record 46.2 million people in poverty and 9.1% unemployment?  Clearly there isn’t a spending problem…You are brilliant.

    See you in 2012!
     

  • clever

    Yes because MSNBC is so informative that Al Sharpton thank god for fair minded people like him.

  • clever

    You are truly a useful idiot grow your own brain then try and ues it.

  • clever

    BreakingNews:Dem talking points are not always true unless you are realy stupid and believe everything you hear.Why don’t you try and prove it with out using what some one said and use facts and you will surely feel dumber than you look

  • Anonymous

    And after $4.3 trillion of new debt, 0bama has delivered us with perpetually high unemployment numbers. 

    Poverty for all!  Go 0bama!

  • clever

    Yes, Obama has spent a bit of money trying to rescue our economy
    Are you serious how did that work out dipshit.

  • clever

    They only know what MSNBC and Bluffington post tells them they need to know and what ever news they can get from the OWS groupies

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t want to link to a Republican site.

    Again, Obama’s deficit was LOWER than Bush’s. Obama has LOWERED the deficit.

    And the only reason Obama’s deficit was so high is because Republicans destroyed our economy. There’s really no debate about that. The only debate taking place is the debate over how successful Obama has been at fixing the economy that Republicans destroyed.

    The reason you believe precisely the opposite of the truth is because you are a Republican, and all Republicans are systematically trained to believe precisely the opposite of the truth.

  • fyonalon

    You’re creepy.

  • Anonymous

    I’m just stating facts. Like all Republicans, you are a moron, thus have no clue what you’re talking about.

  • Tim Tebow

    Bwah!!!!

    Obama RESCUED CAPITALISM FROM ITSELF, soldier!

    When Obama won in ’08 there was one word on everyone’s mind: DEPRESSION.

    Remember that? And in those first couple of years Wall Street’s numbers skyrocketed via a stimulus that restored confidence. Seen any bread lines? Any Looting? Thank Obama.

    Sure, jobs haven’t returned, but we also never entered those dark 1929-like years that many thought were coming.

    I know you ‘forgot’ about this–just like you ‘forgot’ that Iraq was NO THREAT and had NO WMDs!!!

    Suckers!

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    Hey Tim, no one here is stopping you from emigrating to China. Tell you what, I will pitch in $500 today for a one way ticket. I am sure we could get you a ticket post haste.

  • Anonymous

    I haven’t used any talking points. I’ve simply stated facts. The reason you believe otherwise is because you are a Republican, and all Republicans are systematically trained to believe precisely the opposite of the truth.

  • Pablo

    Nice argument you’ve got there, poopyhead.

  • Pablo

    What distraction? What misinformation? Why do you post when you have nothing to say?

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

     I offered to pitch in for a ticket to China, now you are talking like maybe NK. I will pitch in for that also.

  • Tim Tebow

    Why do you hate America, David?

  • Pablo

    I think you have mistaken me for Jeff Immelt.

  • Tim Tebow

    “OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE!!!”

  • Anonymous

    Wait…TARP was Obama’s idea?  http://www.housingwire.com/2011/03/16/treasury-99-of-tarp-paid-back What is the return on the 0bama stimulus besides the ass kicking the DNC got in the 2010 election?

    Bread lines?  Of course not: http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/04/pf/food_stamps_record_high/index.htm

    Looting?  No, it’s much worse: http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/

    More government!  More debt!  More 0bama! 

    The markets are relentless…these interventions by the fed only postpones the real economic pain.  2012 is going to be very very ugly.

  • NoLies4Me

    Frank I think you meant to say Democrat, not Republican….Rahm Emanuel is a Democrat deluxe, actually he’s what I call a Democrat Gangster that now is Mayor of Chicago!  Seems the last few years we’ve seen alot of Gangsters infiltrate the White House from Chicago, including The Great One “Obama” sitting on his throne in Washington! Time to clean house, The White House!!!! #2012

  • Anonymous

    Funny, I dont remember the Democratic party saying ‘their number one goal was to defeat the President…”  Can you source that for me?  Never mind I know you cannot because it didnt happen.

    You really do not understand ‘logic’ do you?

  • Anonymous

    not seeing them

  • Jason

    If you do not believe the GOP is stalling the U.S. economy for the sake of a Republican victory in the 2012 Presidential Election then you are blind. You also probably believe Fox News is “fair and balanced” journalism as well.

    Before you reply to my comment with all your hatred, racism, and vitriol answer the following three questions, HONESTLY, please:

    One, did not Senator Mitch McConnell say within one month of President Obama’s presidential election victory in 2008 that his number one goal was to see that President Obama was not re-elected in 2012?

    Two, did not Rush Limbaugh say within one month of President Obama’s presidential election victory in 2008 that he hoped he would fail?

    Three, did not Senator David Vitter say within one month of President
    Obama’s presidential election victory in 2008 that his number one goal
    was to see that President Obama was not re-elected in 2012?

  • Anonymous

    Pablo?
    Seriously?

  • Anonymous

    America is fed up with republicans in congress. Corruption on wall street crashed financial markets. Corruption caused the collapse of the housing market.Corrupt republican governors deny workers and voters rights. Corrupt republicans in congress are destroying the economy. All the criminal must be held accountable for their crimes. People want justice. We want financial accountability. 

  • Anonymous

    Don’t even get into it about blunders of war. The republicans are the world clowns blunder. 

  • Texan

    Say, how many “protesters” arrested today? Are we over 4,000, yet?

    Cue protester victimization syndrome…

  • fyonalon

    I beg your pardon, thought I was talking to an adult.

  • fyonalon

    Gosh, you think you have something to say?

  • Texan

    He’s willing to pay for your ticket out O here. That makes him a Patriot by any standards.

  • Texan

    I do remember something about “Change!” and “I’ll end these wars!” and “I’ll close Gitmo!” and “I’ll lower unemployment!” and so on and so forth.

  • fyonalon

    Not so, Fox is losing viewers in the young adult demo.  It’s only King of the Cable News Shows and it regularly loses to Comedy Central.

  • Anonymous

    China’s economy is booming. Chinese are unionizing. Wages have increased dramatically. Raising the standard of living and stimulating economic growth. US so called right to work (attack union) states are drawing us back into the middle ages. The GOP tells us lowering your wages is good for the economy. They say cutting salaries is job growth.

  • fyonalon

    Lack of regulation of the financial industry is one of the reason the economy is in the mess it’s in – and lack of government regulation is a cornerstone of most of what the GOP says these days.

  • Anonymous

    We need to renovate internment camps to lock up all the GOP traitors and criminals. See how they like slave labor. The GOP is destroying America. We must fight back. 

  • Anonymous

    Fox is a talk show for fanatics, so what?

  • Anonymous

    It took 26 years for the stock market to break even. Barack Obama did it in 2 years. He is a financial wizard. AS&P said in their report that the deficit reduction should have been $4 trillion coupled with increased tax revenue;  especially letting the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy expire. President Obama proposed $4 trillion in spending cuts and Republicans were adamant that the cuts were limited to a bit over $2 trillion over the next ten years with no tax increases whatsoever. In fact, if Republicans had followed the president’s recommendations to the letter without their practice of obstructionism, S&P would have upheld the AAA credit rating America has maintained for seventy years. Instead they opposed the president and single-mindedly caused the down grade.

  • MONDAYS_OPINION

    The savvy Political Americans saw this a long time ago.The”NEW” Republican TeaParty have done nothing but stifle the progression in this country. It is/will all back fire on them.

  • Anonymous

    MoSt  congressional young bloods elected in 2010 are rich businessmen who want to keep wages low and eliminate pollution controls. 
    World leaders signed an agreement that eliminate ozone depleting refrigerants, it worked. They signed another agreement to cut green house gasees. The US agreed but congress said no, angering the world community.
    Barack Obama has the courage to stand uo greedy buisnessmen and follow through with America’s pledge to meet world standards. As a result we are all seeing him being attacked with a viciousness unseen before in politics. 
    A hOsTiLe TaHe OvEr Of AmErIcA? 

  • Anonymous

    GOP traitors will pay for their crimes!

  • Anonymous

    Bush”s tax cuts for the rich is driving up debt to the tune of  1 trillion a year. Bushonomics plunged us into the deepest recession sense the great depression. No one is listening to the garbage coming out of the loser republican camp.

  • Michelle

    Axe knows Barry can’t run on his record of being a complete failure so their only chance is to smear the other side.  The one thing they claim to be the most proud of (Obamacare) has a 34% approval and the Dems are trying to pass legislation saying you canNOT call it Obamacare.  They don’t even want his name on it!!  He got by the first time without being judged on his record, but that won’t work this time Barry. 

  • Anonymous

    Not republicans. They should be in prison.

  • Tim Tebow

    Saddam attacked New York in 2001, too!

  • Anonymous

    OMG..really?  Your comments are hilarious.
     

  • Anonymous

    gopers are fond of fake stats, that is all they got

  • Anonymous

    Well you would know about nothing to say.

  • Anonymous

    Where are they? In the “GOP obstruct jobs bill bin”?

  • Anonymous

    THE PARTY OF NO HAS GOT TO GO. GOP OUT OF CONGRESS!

  • Tim Tebow

    But the GOP says “big government” is bad…How can China be doing so well if the Government is so heavily involved in the economy? How? I thought government needed to get out of the way of the free market–not work within it?

    The world is upside down if O’reilly’s phony talking points are just lies to aid the greediest among us.

    I’m so confused…Maybe Texican the Mexican, or Pablo no hablo can help me understand….?

  • Anonymous

    Cutting tax for the rich is jobs to the GOP. Raising tax on the poor is jobs to the GOP. Attacking workers rights is jobs to the GOP.

  • Tim Tebow

    I don’t see anything about TARP in my post, son. Read all of the the words–not those that you WISH were there. Even still..you probably opposed TARP.

    And what about the auto industry…was that another failure?

    Preserve the auto industry and related companies instead of mass unemployment?

    Funny thing is…you prolly work for the government! Ha!

  • Anonymous

     We don’t hate the private sector. We hate you. Get a job fleabag. We’re tired of all the GOP on welfare.wasting our tax dollars. 

  • Tim Tebow

    You folks probably see the Iraq war as a “job creator.”

    Can’t wait until you outsource the military!

  • Anonymous

    The worst part is Cantor is running for VP. 

  • Tim Tebow

    How many vetos did W have in all of his time in office, Pablum?

    Yeah, hurts..don’t it?

  • MIKE

    You and the other yutz 480 didn’t answer the question. Why would the same people that you say are in bed with big business want to destroy the very people that feed them?

  • Anonymous

    That is what you said last election. 

  • Tim Tebow

    Oh, right…GE is the devil!

    Jesus H!

    Had I known you crawled out of Glen Beck’s A$$ before this, I would cut you some slack!

  • MIKE

    Wasn’t that tarp bill the one Obama flew back from campaigning and supported?

  • Anonymous

    They are all insane. Watching Fox News and listening to talk show radio for the past 20 years.

  • Anonymous

     What are all of you gonna do when Obama wins next year? Because he will, you know. I really believe that most people will end up thinking it’s better to have a relatively ineffectual president, then a willfully stupid and corrupt president. Does anyone on here honestly think that any of the republican candidates can actually win? You better hope that someone good throws their hat into the ring, or all your hopes are sunk. And no, you can’t come to Canada when Obama wins, we have enough problems without god-awful tea partiers running around, making everything worse.

  • Anonymous

    Right. Not probably, they ARE tearing down the economy, to keep wages low and discredit the president (someone tell them we are watching).

  • Anonymous

    ..see what too much Fox News does to your brain.

  • Anonymous

    You miss George don’t you

  • MIKE

    Maybe we should send them to GITMO and let Tommy Christopher be the warden. Better yet let’s build internment camps and Obama can tout it as a job creation bill.

  • Michelle

    Um who is willfully stupid and corrupt on the R side?

  • Anonymous

    $1 trillion a year?  Try $709 billion….OVER A DECADE: http://money.msn.com/tax-tips/post.aspx?post=02b8cc74-102d-49f9-aa31-ebfd96e030a2

    But look…getting rid of the Bush tax cuts will help everyone: http://www.cnbc.com/id/40439684/Ending_Bush_Era_Tax_Cuts_Won_t_Just_Affect_the_Wealthy

    We plunged into a deep recession because of the housing bubble and money manipulation perpetuated by the federal government and more specifically, liberal progressive policies.  It was a complete violation of the free market.

    Yeah, no one is listening to the garbage coming out of the loser republican camp outside of the millions that rewarded the GOP with election victories.  Remember what happened in 2010?  What about in NY district 9?  It’s okay though…the OWS protests should help your cause too: http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/

    More government!  More debt!  More poverty!  More 0bama!  Yay!

    Are you related to NorthKoreanTrevor?

  • expatpatriot

    I too think the Republicans haven’t found anyone who could win a general election against a generic Democrat (whether that generic democrat is Obama or not), although I’d argue against the “relatively ineffectual” label attached to Obama.

    I do think Obama has paid a price for embracing bipartisanship far too long in an environment where one side categorically rejects it. Like everyone else, I’m pretty sure he now accepts that bipartisanship is dead until the current crop of Republicans gets its ass handed to it by the electorate and so are forced to calibrate their approaches (somewhat) to reality.

    As far as I can tell, there’s no hope that the Republicans can come up with a sane and electable candidate for 2012 at this point. For one they don’t have anyone of prominence who could step in, and for another there’s just not enough time.

  • Anonymous

    The economy was too weak to absorb Obama’s big government agenda. What made more sense was short term deregulation, development of domestic energy, in conjunction with slashing federal spending.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: If you think that just lean forward!!!

  • expatpatriot

    Whoever is managing your case is falling down on the job. Ask a competent family member to consider finding more qualified medical help.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with 480 and he (she) soeaks the absolute truth  Wake up!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Tea Party will have the new president elected in 2012! Count on it!!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! You’re right!!

  • Anonymous

    They do not want to pay taxes, they do not want any regulations, they want to rob us of our retirements and privatize SS and Medicare.  Big business is pissed that Obama is messing up their plans. 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Born again govpuppet!!!!

  • expatpatriot

    Lots of seething resentment, no facts, playground insults, nonsensical comparisons between completely unrelated things, wild projections . . .

    The evidence is in: you may be a member of the Republican elite.

  • Anonymous

    Powers to-be on both sides (dem & repub) in support of deregulation, open trade, shifting tax burden to the least affluent (i.e. regressive taxation such as flat tax), privatizing social programs (social security, medicare, etc.) and all other matters to benefit the global corporations are actually experiencing great success in the destruction of our economy. Pillage & burn until the present economy is destroyed and then they have a clean slate upon to rebuild it the way the global corporations want it (for pure profit).  Presently people exercising their constitutional rights to free speech & our democratic voting process (1-vote per person) are slowing them down. If they can circumvent this nuisance with a few shocks and rapid changes in State laws and redistricting it may be a home-run for the corrupt. Those actively seeking to destroy our economy are the politicians willing to be swayed by the money from the same corporations that stand to benefit the most from this new plan for pure corporate profits.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Republicans have Nostradamus on their side in
    2012!!!

  • Agfa_10

    Dear Mr. Axelrod, the Republicans do not need to Try To Tear Down The Economy On Purpose, Mr. Obama already did that, and the Republicans have a good lead to follow when it comes to working to help the economy, just follow Mr. Obama showing up on the midnight shows in Hollywood, while Millions of Americans are unemployed or have given up on finding jobs, because the President along with the Democratic party, do all in their power to regulate jobs out of the American economy. YOU HAVE DONE VERY WELL AND FOUR YEARS ARE MORE THEN ENOUGH TIME FOR ALL AMERICANS TO REALIZE TIME IS UP.

  • Anonymous

    No, I find the 0bama administration as a kick ass job creator: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121404031.html?nav=emailpage

    The problem is that, save for the tech corridor in D.C.’s Virginia exurbs, the Washington Metro area doesn’t actually produce anything. Washington doesn’t create wealth, it just moves it around – redistributes it. As government grows and takes control of more and more of the private economy – either through spending, regulation, or taxes – more and more wealth that’s created elsewhere comes to Washington to be devoured.

    More government!  More debt!  More poverty!  More 0bama!  Yay!

  • expatpatriot

    Apparently you’re crazy as a loon. Americans’ number one goal is to foster job growth. If they thought a Republican was remotely interested in such a thing, they’d be flocking to that person’s banner.

    What you’re hearing now is the sound of millions of people NOT flocking to any Republican. This is because, unfortunately, the wingnutariat is convinced (as Axelrod points out) that the only way to continue their historical looting of the country is to smash the economy to bits.

    Yes, it sounds mad to sane people. But when we mention “sane” people, that excludes nutbags on the right, and all their little friends who post on sites like “Mediaite.”

  • Texan

    ROFL! What happened to “Iraq didn’t attack us why are we over there!” Member that one?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: America as a whole does now that the anointed one screwed up the US credit rating which has tumbled from a triple ‘A’ to a double ‘A’ rating under the Blah Blah!!!!

  • expatpatriot

    Yes, that inclusion of “May Be” seriously damages the argument.

    How about “Republicans Redouble Efforts to Tear Down the Economy”?

  • expatpatriot

    And shockingly, it’s proving difficult to repair.

  • Texan

    sock alert

  • Jeffy Schiavo

    Once again, you widdle gNOpigs, pay attention.

    From the moment you heard A BLACK DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT had been elected, you racist POSs went on your pig-squeal from San Diego to Niagara Falls.

    YOU gNOpigs went into campaign mode since day one. Monumental failure Chimperor Bush was still phuking up the country and YOU gNOpigs blamed, and STILL BLAME President Obama.

    TARP, you squealing gNOpigs was PASSED AND SIGNED BY Chimperor Bush.

    The point, again, for you STUPID gNOpigs, you gNOpig MORONS, is that  Bush had TAX CUTS for the “job creators” for some 7 years and they delivered jack sht. THEN Chimperor Bush had to go SAVE THEM at TAX PAYER’S EXPENSE while Chimpero Bush IS LEAVING.

    The headline here should be: Chimperor BUSH rammed every single piece of crap across his desk and DELIVERED turds.

    He and the gNOpigs even TRIED TO RESURRECT THE DEAD!

  • Anonymous

    It is absolutely remarkable that the right-winged fringe and many of the elite Republican leadership continue to try to change history. Every American knows this recession directly resulted from baby boy Bush’s getting us into two wars instead of one. This budget in-balance and debt crisis resulted from inefficiencies of the Congress’ ineffectiveness in balancing the budgets during the Bush years in office. The Congress as a whole back to Clinton times were not present in the housing bubble growing and exploding killing millions of jobs. Every Congress is at fault no matter who was in charge. Our economy is controlled by the Congress no matter who was in charge or running the show. To those who didn’t vote in 2010, here’s a great reason to jump start your reason to vote in 2012! If you are not happy with the way Washington is working, change the mix! If you are not happy with the way Washington is working, voice your opinion. If you are not happy with the way Washington is working, get involved, join the 99%, make your voices heard! If you are not happy with the direction Washington is going with the radical extreme fringe calling the shots, make your votes count! The current process dates to 1974, when Congress overhauled the way the government’s spending was planned in an effort to enhance its own role as keeper of the purse strings, the real reason the current 112th Congress owns the nation’s current economy. Since 1974, Congress has followed the process as designed — passing a budget and all 12 spending bills on time — only twice.  “We need to do something extraordinary” - Like vote out everyone of those Congress members who will not compromise!

  • Anonymous

    he put the wars on the books>     try again

  • Anonymous

    Dirty money and undeclared income is piling up in shoe boxes and underneath mattresses, it adds up to trillions. That money can be put into circulation to jump start the economy. A presidential decree to immediately change the color of money from green to blue would cause the money hoarders to open up their “Hidey Holes” and spend that dirty money before it is worthless.

  • OSux

    Liberals want the econmy to be destroyed.  The only way they can have control is that colored people are unable to hold a job so that they will live off ot the govenment and then thank them for sending welfare and food stamps.  No one who has a job and supports himself or herself is a liberal.

  • Anonymous

    Okay dipstick, err…Axelroad, let me make it simple for you.
    Making him a one term president merely means ‘if you don’t want more of the last four years, put someone else into office’.   It doesn’t mean that the person saying it has absolutely NO OTHER POLITICAL DESIRES.

    Then again, YOU KNOW THAT. Perhaps you’re not so stupid. 

    Yup, of course you aren’t.  You know exactly what you’re doing. 

  • Texan

    Lots of seething resentment, no facts, playground insults, nonsensical
    comparisons between completely unrelated things, wild projections . .

  • Jeffy Colored Schiavo

    Oh, something bit your tongue?

    I bet you support 666 Herbs.

  • Anonymous

    Who is John Galt?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Schrader/587414074 Bill Schrader

    Occupy Wall Street now has a higher approval rating thanthe US congress.

  • proug2teabagu

    Oh yeah. Well you’re just a dNOcpig. see I am funny too. Twit.

  • Anonymous

    Willfully stupid = Michelle Bachmann, Herb Cain, Rick Perry
    Corrupt = all of them (though truthfully, this could apply to all politicians, republican or democrat. I just think that the GOP is more forward about it.)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Why don’t you explain to us how the Dems were trying to foce a defeat?

    Which steps did they take?

    And what does a win in Iraq look like so that we don’t confuse it with a defeat?

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t it amazing considering how disgusting and repulsive the OWS protestors have been?

    http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/

    Go Anarchy!  Go Sexual Assault!  Go Property Damage!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Schrader/587414074 Bill Schrader

    Go on youtube and search for Eric Cantor short selling T-bills. This jerk invested in derivatves to make a profit if the fed defaulted on T-bills, then went in to “negotiate” with Obama about the debt ceiling. His position? Default now. His motive? Make a fast wall street profit while the nation defaults. Result? GOP quietly removed him from the table. True story. This is what is wrong with the system! How can a congressman investing in a short position on T-bills even be legal? Isn’t the confllict of interest obvious? Is he the only one? I doubt it. OK neocons, your turn to defend that sh*&.

  • Anonymous

    The Dems had 2 years to ‘fix’ the economy, when the Repubs had no power at all. Now that re-election season is here, they decide to get concerned about the economy. Actually, politicians can destroy the economy, but they can’t  fix it. But, if Axelrod thinks they can, why didn’t he ‘fix it’ during  the first 2 years?

  • Texan

    Armed Citizen Militia Shows Up At ‘Occupy Phoenix’…

    REPORT: Another sex attack in Zuccotti Park…
    Denver tension escalates dramatically…

    Thugs Knock Motorcycle Cop To Ground…

  • Anonymous

    This hangdog looking dink needs to return to the sewer of Chicago and keep Rezko hidden and the lid on Jesse ‘Jr. , Blagojevich , Wright, Ayers etc., till the election is over .

  • Anonymous

    Why do liberals believe Republicans, alone, can defeat Obama? Independent and swing voters decide elections, not Dems or Repubs. Why get the old blood pressure up, day after day? Stop the madness.

  • http://profiles.google.com/avon.st.cyr Phillip Avon St. Cyr

    The historical record shows no sign whatsoever of Democrats obstructing legislation anywhere near the record-breaking extent that Republicans have, nor is there ANY evidence at all of Democrats refusing to support legislation they favored in the past.

    You people always try to make it a tit for tat. You are so very, very good at ignoring reality and history. (I wish we Dems could be buck up and be as dishonest. We’d sure win the message war more often if we could be as breathtakingly fact-free as you guys!)

  • cdnhawk

    Who is stupid? Have you listened to Perry, Cain and Bachmann?

  • expatpatriot

    They don’t let you around sharp objects, I trust.

  • expatpatriot

    Chill on the playground insults. Not helpful. Just sayin’.

  • expatpatriot

    Except for the part that no sensible economist anywhere would make such a prescription.

    So, except for being totally wrong on every point, yeah, sure, great hindsight.

  • Morgan_Said

    The only way the economy can recover is for business to start hiring again. Right now business has to see everyone of its employees as a potential anchor around its neck, because of the danger of becoming responsible for their health for the rest of their lives. It’s no wonder that they are not hiring any more employees.

    The irony is that Obama Care was passed so that the uninsured would be able to get health protection, yet there more uninsured today than there were when the law went into effect.

    The fastest way for business to start hiring and the economic to begin recovery would be for the U.S. Supreme Court to find Obama Care uncostitutiional.

    The second fastest way to start the recovery would be for any Republican to win the presidency in 2012.

    THAT is why the objective is to remove Obama from office. Most of us, including liberals, have lost more of our savings (which we thought was called equity) than we we thought was possible and we can’t afford one more year of Obama. So, no, it’s not an election issue, it’s personal as it affects all of us directly.

  • expatpatriot

    A serious question deserves a serious answer.

    Perry is clearly pretty stupid. “Willfully” I’m not so sure of, since I’m not sure how you will yourself to be stupid.

    Bachmann is one of those “knows a multitude of things, most of which are wrong” and so probably qualifies in the Stupidstakes.

    The other candidates appear bright enough, but so quirky, disturbing, or weird that it becomes difficult to assess their intellect or character at all.

    Corrupt is a bit harder. None of the Republicans are under indictment or have been accused of serious misdeeds, so I’ll give that one a pass.

  • expatpatriot

    Congratulations! You have mastered Cut and Paste! Your mommy will be so proud.

    Tomorrow we’ll talk about Context. Context tells you where to put the letters you cut! It’s a bit complicated, so we may take several lessons before you begin to understand.

  • Anonymous

    The same Republicans who high-fived when Obama failed at winning the Olympics for Chicago? 

    The same Republicans who said that it was their primary mission to make him a one term president? 
    The same Republicans who winked and nodded for three years about birtherism? 

    How could anyone think that these dicks would want to crash the economy for political gain?

  • Anonymous

    Nice try Bob, but you need to get your facts straight.  According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Average price for a gallon of unregulated gasolone was $2.564 on 28 December 2006, and $2.627 on 4 January 2007.  By 9 May 2007 (5 months after the Democrats took control of the House and the Senate), that same gallon of unleaded regular gasoline had risen to a National Average of $3.907.

    http://www.eia.gov/oog/ftparea/wogirs/xls/pswrgvwreg.xls#'Data 1′!A1

    So while there is a LOT that George the Younger can rightly be blamed for, high gasoline prices aren’t one of them.  High energy prices lie solely in th Democrats’ lap.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    Repubs dont have to help Obama tear down the economy.  He is doing a great job on his own.

  • Tim Tebow

    Someday I’ll explain sarcasm to you, son.

  • Anonymous

    You are a shining example of what your side represents.  I bet you’re even proud of yourself.

  • Anonymous

    “Obama is on the ropes; why do we appear ready to hand him a win?”

    and from a rightie source
    http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2011/09/12/obama-is-on-the-ropes-why-do-we-appear-ready-to-hand-him-a-win/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GBIVNAB22HG2SDMXDZM4KZLSQE Bohica

    Leedog. You seam to forget that US troops rolled over Iraq in less than 3 weeks starting in March 20 to April 15 with a May 1 declaration of end of combat exercises. The occupation and policing is another story and Nation building was an ill fated concept for a tribal type nation.   I personally would have left you in the glass sands.

    Bush W. had to go to a democratic controlled congress and senate to obtain funding only after a commissioned study in 3/2006 and completed in 12/2006 by congress to finally agree to any additional funding requests.

  • Anonymous

    Go Anarchy!  Go Sexual Assault!  Go Property Damage!
    GO FU@K YOURSELF.

  • Anonymous

    Even a Facebook page

    GOP’s Eric Cantor short sells America

  • http://twitter.com/tchanta Alfred Heyiwe

    So basically Axelrod said: “Sky is Blue”

    Everybody knows that only thing keeping Republicans awake at night is to defeat Obama. Their leaders said so,
    This President pulled the country from GOP recession. He sent Ben Laden fishing and is pulling out from Iraq with dignity. He did all this while Republicans were busy fomenting a coup d’Etat against him by denying him his high level appointees.
    History will judge “modern” GOP badly.

  • Billanderson_9

    If they had no power, then why the record number of filibusters to stop the bills from being passed during that two year period?

  • Billanderson_9

    If that were the case then why are they voting against bills, that they were for before Obama presented them?

  • Billanderson_9

    I would say that Bush destroy the economy, does that make him a liberal?

  • Billanderson_9

    Bush did tear down the economy period.

  • Anonymous

    Its what the fcking do.  They fck up the economy so that their buddies on Ball Street can reap the profits.  What’s the saying privatize the profits while socializing the loss.  Who fights two wars without paying for them, while grossly expanding the size of government with two unessecary departments and a give unpaid for give a away to the dope making companies?  I mean if you read Thom Hartman’s two Santa Claus theory, you’ll see that this is all part of a plan that they’ve been working for the last 30 years.  I mean who was the last reTHUGlican president to balance their budget?  Tricky Dick.

  • Dr OZ

    I didn’t watch, but someone tell me if Axelrod’s lips were moving>
    I will evaluate from there.
    Thanks!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YCYMWDZ2I2YLZ2KXPSATSJDM6U tinker thinker

    All I see is democrats trying to blame someone else for their policy failure. It’s terrible for the progressives to run out of other people’s money. And I see a compliant media doing everything they can to carry the progressive water……you should take a sniff of that water….it’s stagnant.

  • http://www.washingtonnearsider.com Washington Nearsider

    Mr. Axelrod,

    Why haven’t the Democrats in the Senate allowed a single budget
    through their chamber to the President’s desk in the last 900 or so
    days?

    Thanks.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YCYMWDZ2I2YLZ2KXPSATSJDM6U tinker thinker

    See what a closed mind you have.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YCYMWDZ2I2YLZ2KXPSATSJDM6U tinker thinker

    The news media cuts and pastes what the White house sends them. They don’t even have to work at all, just sit and wait for the next ‘story’ ….if they print/say anything negative about obama they get fired.

  • http://www.washingtonnearsider.com Washington Nearsider

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-07-23-bushbash_x.htm

    “The determination to defeat a despised president brings Democrats to their national convention more united than ever…”

    Also this poll question:  “Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would
    you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?”  Democrats said “not,” 51 percent to 40 percent – where the public at large wanted success by almost two to one.

    Google is your friend.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YCYMWDZ2I2YLZ2KXPSATSJDM6U tinker thinker

    Have you taken a look at who runs our country?Obama and his wallstreet buds.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YCYMWDZ2I2YLZ2KXPSATSJDM6U tinker thinker

    They want to defeat the president because his policies are killing the economy. At the same time do you expect us to believe the dems  wanted Bush to be reelected? Banana brain…

  • http://www.washingtonnearsider.com Washington Nearsider
  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/YCYMWDZ2I2YLZ2KXPSATSJDM6U tinker thinker

    Why haven’t the senate taken up any of the jobs bills the house has offered? We all know there is 15 or so …for axierod to say this is an out and out lie, which is very telling. Obama’s spokesman is a liar. That is all  this says to the public…obama and spokesmen are liars.

  • Rplat

    Unbelievable . . . Axelrod is a certified idiot.

  • Rplat

    You’re hallucinating . . . take your meds.

  • Anonymous

     No. Impossible!  C’mon Alexrod. What ever gave you that idea?

  • Thomas G Williams

    UUUuuuuhhhhhh maybe because all the Rethuglican jobs bills enacted have sent 370,000 off shore in the past year, Baggers and Conservaligious Rethugs do not know how to enact effective jobs legislation, or have you conveniently forgotten that they coined the term JOBLESS RECOVERY to justify there abysmal  record on job creation with an all conservative government.

    Conservatism as an idealogical religion praticed by rethugs & baggers is a cancer that is killing America. 

  • Thomas G Williams

    Why are Rethuglicans blocking everything that Democrats and the PEOPLE want to get done? Before the President was even sworn in Rethugs and their kicked out of the ARMY leader McConnell (sp?) vowed to obstruct EVERYTHING the President and Democrats and the people who elected them wanted to get done.

    Do you get it? or are you just a Faux bot…or are you just a Pavlovian responce conditioned Barking Bagger Dawg…or just another dogmatically stunted wanna be Nazi?

    Oh and your statement is so factually incorrect that it demonstrates your bone deep stupid not just ignorant seeing as ignorance can be cured with knowledge…..which is no help to you.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Keep telling yourself that if it helps you to sleep at night, nothing like a conservative ideological addict Jonesing for their next chance spread some hate.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Really? so how do you reconsil that attitude with goose and two lock step march the US Chamber of Commerce and the Rethuglican party have been doing??????????

    Lie to yourself all you want, nothing changes the factual record except maybe Revisionists…. you know like those conservative groups trying to re-wright history? Changing the 200 + plus years of this nations history to be a conservatives wet delusional dream fantasy of what actually happened You know how they really wrote WE THE CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATION into the the Opening line of the Constitution but got forced to change it by evil goddless Liiiiiiberaaaaaaaals.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Hey FAUX BOT you know that very little of this law has gone into effect or been implemented, nor will it be fully implemented until  2013/2014.

  • Bluehouse1991

    The REPUBLICAN leader of the senate? How stupid does he think we are? Harry Reid, a Democrat, is leader of the senate. The Republican congress? Really? The senate is controlled by the Democrats, the house is controlled by Republicans. Good grief, these advisers, I use the word loosely, have really backed their esteemed candidate into a corner, if they have to fall back on tactics like this.

  • G Tegs

    You’re the only one I see calling people names. Did you ever think that conservative politicians were elected by the constituents to fight for conservative policies and NOT to assist in passing Obama’s leftist agenda.  You say the PEOPLE want these things passed but your people, the extreme left, dont represent the majority. Your name calling shows your ignorance and your assumptions that others support this leftist garbage is evidence of your one-sided thinking.

  • G Tegs

    Your indoctrination ito the American Communist Party is complete.

  • G Tegs

    Obama would be getting re-elected if he had Bush’s unemployment numbers. Unfortunately for him, he doesn’t. He will be looking for a new job in 2013.

  • proug2teabagu

    Way to use all your cute words without answering the question. Such a deep thinker you are. Are you a “dumbocrat” or something?

  • Sideliner

    Nono, please do confront conservatives with facts…just as soon as you find some. Mindlessly repeating memes pushed by liberal talking points outlets does not substitute for facts in the real world.

  • Anonymous

    That’s one heck of a cartoon you have there,running in your head.

  • Anonymous

    No. He’s brilliant. He knows his base and rhetoric like this fires them up. He is a typical Chicago pol in that, in his heart of hearts ,he is absolutely convinced  that all voters are dumber than a bag of dog sh*t.

  • Anonymous

    sorry, but the Dems have driven the economy into a ditch, and, because my family works for the feds, I know the Dems (Dweebs?) have not passed a real budget, simply a continuing resolution, which is driving us all deeper in debt.

  • Sideliner

    Have you ever been over to China on business? Do you understand that when it comes to capitalism and free market policies, China is far more free wheeling than the US? The government there built the infrastructure for power generation and distribution, displacing tens of millions of residents, and creating havoc with the environment. That pretty much is the extent of government control of the markets in China. 

    The rest? It’s the wild west, that has resulted in the world’s largest manufacturers of everything from cars to soap. Does the government in China provide much in the way of environmental regulation? Don’t make me laugh. There’s a middle ground between China killing the environment for their explosive growth, and the US where we suffocate business beneath endless regulation. I don’t know exactly where that balance point is, but it’s not here now.

  • Anonymous

    I LOVE your response. Nail on the head!!!

  • Steinberg_gloria

    Excuse me son, (or daughter) but the democrat congress carries the burden of destruction of the economy of the USA. Get your facts straight.

  • Anonymous

    Never been a lack of regulations, always a lack of effective and efficient regulations.

    Dodd Frank does absolutely nothing to solve ‘too big to fail’ AND nothing to reform Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac except put all the mortgage risks on the backs of taxpayers.

    GOP sand dems are both kind of wrong.  Simplify regulations by removing the thousands of useless ones, replace with streamlined effective ones.   OMB gave them the bluepring already, just use it.  Instead, they’re just blaming each other.

  • Steinberg_gloria

    The “Boosh” years were pretty good for Americans, the Obummer years will destructive. It’ll take some time for Republicans to fix the liberal mess made by Demobrats.

  • Anonymous

    The ‘recovery summer’ was under Obama’s tenure, and stalled because money went to the useless solyndras of the world.  Face reality, ‘it could be worse’ didn’t work for Carter, nor for GW Bush.

    Wait, I’m not sure either tried such a dumb and useless argument.   Crony capitalism is a bipartisan problem.   Banks paid Tarp back and taxpayers made a profit on it.  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may do so, someday…One can hope.

  • G Tegs

    Maybe among nazis and communists.

  • G Tegs

    Are you colored pink?

  • G Tegs

    Sensibble like Krugman who wants an alien invasion?

  • G Tegs

    Who cares what a Canadian socilaist thinks?

  • G Tegs

    Quirky, disturbing and weird. Did you pay any attention to Obam’s background and his past friends? Tony Rezco, Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall. A community organizer that never accomplishes anything.

  • Anonymous

    ARe you just dense? McConnell has said over and over that his #1 prioity is the defeat of the president and he doesn’t care how much he hurts the country in getting it done. The Republican Party and their brown shirt organization the Tea Party are the reasons the countryis sputtering and if you don’t think this is true you are an idiot plain and simple.

  • Anonymous

    Axelrod must be trying out the new campaign stratagem – WHINE!

  • Native_New_Yorker

    Too funny….more political pandering from Obama’s lackies…..Obama and his pernicious minions have destroyed this country in three years!!!!  Do you think they will ever accept accountability????

  • Anonymous

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jan/17/usa.iraq1

    January 5, 2007: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker
    Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to Bush stating, “Surging forces is a
    strategy that you have already tried and that has already failed. Like
    many current and former military leaders, we believe that trying again
    would be a serious mistake.”

    February 16, 2007: The House of Representatives passes a resolution ***opposing*** Bush’s troop surge by a vote of 246-182

    April 19, 2007: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declares Iraq war “is lost”. He later says. “As long as we follow the President’s path in Iraq, the
    war is lost. But there is still a chance to change course — and we must
    change course.”

    April 26, 2007: Senate approves Iraq withdrawal bill.

    June 13, 2007: Top US congressional Democrats tell President George W. Bush that his Iraq troop “surge” policy was a failure.

    Mind you, everything listed above has taken place before the first surge operations began on June 15.

    There’s your “support” and “cooperation”.

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

    Yes Tim you are so right we all need to be like China, word is that wages are soaring in China…

    “But lately the company has seen its margins shrink to 5% — half what Yongjin made when it opened its factory in the steamy southern Chinese city of Dongguan 14 years ago. Why? Labor shortages are forcing the company to boost wages. Last year salaries surged 40%, to an average of $160 a month, and Yongjin still can’t find enough workers. ”

    Hell, those lucky bastards are making close to a dollar an hour! I am sure that we could all use more jobs like that here.

    http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_13/b3977049.htm

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK5T6VL74TVVZTGH77AZELPUQA Kelsey Davis

    They’re all Crook’s, both the Republican’s & the Democrat’s who went the Lobbiest way & are also Greedy to themselves. They passed Laws that will eventually outlaw Christianity before too long. They all have became a Liability & they will both continue to run this Nation to the Ground & at the same time, cause GOD to remove whatever blessing still exist for this Anti-Christ Nation. MOTHER SHOULD I TRUST THE GOVERMENT ?? MOTHER SHOULD I RUN FOR PRESIDENT ?? MOTHER WILL THEY PUT ME IN THE FIRING LINE ??

  • Anonymous

    How is it that Republicans are thought to be in bed with big business and the Democrats are the richest people in America ? Big business donates more money to the Democratic party than the Republican party. Democrats are the richest and stingiest when it comes to donations, they say one thing to the public and do something else in private.Never trust a Democrat, they take your money and run like a thief.

  • Anonymous

    Not one teabagger has denied they deliberately are not hiring in an effect to cause destruction to America.
    Trickle down, I guess that is a democratic philosophy. Teabaggers, the party of responsibility cannot, will not, accept resposibility for the tragic result of their economic excess. Blame the democrats for being in power in 2007, the beginning of total teabagger obstruction. Tell us how teabagger obstruction helps the country.

  • Anonymous

    Axle rod does agree with you that anyone who votes teabagger is as you described.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, you guys are so terrified of socialism, you just cry wolf everytime someone dares to differ in opinion from you. Also, you obviously do care what I think since you, like the giant moron that you are, took the time to post here. Thanks for reading!!

  • expatpatriot

    The aliens already landed. They’re called “Republicants.” Unfortunately, the invasion wasn’t large enough, so we didn’t get the expected economic bump.

  • Anonymous

    Why do Democrats keep insisting that the Republican business men are the rich corporate barons when the oppisite is fact ? The Democrats are the richest people in America according to Forbes Top 20 Richest People in America. Obama’s buddy, Immelt CEO of G.E. moved his plant to China and G.E. paid 0 taxes in the U.S.
    ACORN is still being funded under another name. This crimminal administration must be brought down.

  • AliveStillkickin

    So….what you are saying is if you want a job…..you will have to “bag” a tea party patriot’s bags?
    Who is the “bagger” in that picture?.

  • AliveStillkickin

    It’s the DEMOCRATS in the Senate who won’t kiss Harry’s ass on this one……Mitch can’t do ANYTHING to stop the majority in the Senate………Don’t you know anything?

  • AliveStillkickin

     That just makes him a fucking liar…..and his base liberal core is actually really dumber than dog shit.
    Just read some of their posts here.
    This place is liberal dumbfuck paradise.

  • Anonymous

    I would say that since the dems had the congress and senate for four years (2007-2010), two years of which they also had the white house with the great charlatan in it (TOTAL CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENT), and that is when the economy REALLY tanked, it has to be the dems that are INTENTIONALY destroying the economy. 2+2 still equals 4 in the real world.

  • Fred

    the hypocrisy of axelrod is beyond anything i have ever seen… wtf did the dems to for 8 years of bush’s presidency…  hell they were a propaganda arm for our enemy in Iraq for christ sake……

  • http://mcthorogood.myopenid.com/ mcthorogood

    What a crock! The pot (Democrats) calling the kettle (Republicans) black.

  • Anonymous

    Curbcrappers are now planning a grassroots campaign to bring unsanitary sanity to the political process.  Curbcrapper have no idea about Dodd-Frank, or even who those guys are.  Curbcrappers take their direction from a Jewish-Nazi Billionaire Curbcrapper.  Curbcrappers plan to take over Congress with the unifying slogan, “Toilet Paper for the People”. 

  • expatpatriot

    I don’t know any liberals who expect Republicans to defeat Obama. Such people might be out there, but I haven’t run across any.

    Two groups of the electorate will be responsible for Obama’s reelection (or loss): his natural base (the center-left), and the “uncommitteds” (who occupy the political spectrum between conservative democrats and the last sane Republican). Outside these two groups lives the wingnutariat, which probably makes up about 25% of the electorate. They are lost to reason and only reeducation and reprogramming offer any hope of bringing them back into the human fold.

    Given the deplorable economy, conventional wisdom a few months ago had Obama losing to just about anyone who wasn’t named Obama. That has changed recently, for a number of reasons. The most significant reason is the growing and inescapable fact that the slate of Republican presidential contenders is hopeless, heartless, clueless, and feckless. The entire field is historically weak, and is promising to give Obama a stroll into a second term.

    The second reason is the unremitting madness of the Republican base, which is having the inevitable effect of creeping the electorate out.

    Obama could still pull defeat out of the jaws of victory, but he’s going to have to work very hard to do so.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    “Apparently you’re crazy as a loon. Americans’ number one goal is to foster job growth.”

    *LOL*

    More pathetic whining, how amusing. The polls show that the American people are against Obama, and their voting record in 2010 proves that they’re against Obama.

  • Anonymous

    The Obama campaign has more than $60 million cash on hand. In an economy
    this bad, you’d think a presidential campaign that flush would be happy
    to pay good money for a talented designer to create a campaign poster.

    But the folks at Obama campaign have taken a page from the Arianna
    Huffington book of economic exploitation and called on “artists across
    the country” to create a poster … for free.

    And here’s the kicker. It’s a jobs poster.

    Yes, the Obama campaign is soliciting unpaid labor to create a poster
    “illustrating why we support President Obama’s plan to create jobs now,
    and why we’ll re-elect him to continue fighting for jobs for the next
    four years.”

    If you win? You get: A framed copy of your own poster, signed by the president (“approximate retail value $195″).

    And if you don’t win? Well, that’s too bad. You’ve not only lost the
    contest, you’ve also surrendered your intellectual property. “All
    submissions will become the property of Obama for America,” according to
    the fine print.

  • expatpatriot

    More than anything else, the one characteristic of the American right wing that spells its failure (although, sadly, not its demise) is its divorce from reality.

    No president could be popular in economic times like these. Swimming upstream against a tidal wave, Obama’s doing OK.

    When asked about the issues in a form that strips the partisan language out, Americans overwhelmingly support basic liberal concepts such as the social safety net, progressive taxation, and a right-sized role for government in national affairs. It’s only nutbags on the right who are obsessed with starving government and fomenting phony states rights issues (Republicans might as well take out a copyright on the phrase “phony issues ‘R’ us”) in an attempt to free tooth-and-claw capitalists from any sensible restraint whatsoever.

    The 2010 election proved that one-term congress members are highly vulnerable; that the disgust with Bush and distrust of McCain & Mrs.Goofy no longer applied; and that the economic situation had scared people spitless. Now the people have a couple of years of Tea Party fanatics under their belt and a substantial history of treasonous behavior from same, so you’ll be seeing a substantial reversal of Congressional fortunes in 2012. At least as I see it.

    Just because you hate Obama, doesn’t mean that everyone else does. You need to get out of your own head every once in awhile.

  • Cdaugherty27603

    i would like to add that we are in exactly the same setup as was in the 1920s post war ressesion,republican extremism at 1919 majorityof republicans and majority of republicans were elected with a republican president and they began to cut SPENDING ! by  1929 we went into the greatdepressionl    lesson: dont cut spending during a ressesion!

  • Cdaugherty27603

    we are in the same set up as we were in 1919 post war resession republican majoritys were elected in house and senate and what do you think they wanted to do? cut regulation on wall st cut taxes on wealthy,cut federal SPENDING does this sound familiar? well by 1929 they cut there way into the greatdepression !!!!! lesson:  DONT CUT SPENDING,DONT CUT TAXES ON WEALTHY DURING A RECESSION !!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    “More than anything else, the one characteristic of the American right
    wing that spells its failure (although, sadly, not its demise) is its
    divorce from reality.”

    *LOL* Your whining is amusing. And I love your Freudian psychological projection.

    But despite your painful, willful delusions because your selfish, lazy, illogical ideology has been thoroughly rejected by the American people, the fact still remains that America hates its president Barack Obama and intends to do something about next year around this time.

  • Cdaugherty27603

    my opinjion is richpublicans want to cut soc sec i say we cut their salary by 80% first . a little humble pie might serve to make people see things from the bottom up

  • expatpatriot

    So don’t enter a friggin’ picture, fer crissakes!

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