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Ed Henry’s First Fox News Question: What Was The Point Of Obama Address?

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Newly-minted Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry started off his first post-CNN briefing with a bang today, asking Press Secretary Jay Carney “What was the point of giving a prime-time address to the nation, without an Obama plan?”

The question touched off a rather heated set of exchanges in which Carney pushed back against the “Republican talking point” that there’s no Obama plan, and several reporters pressed the issue.

Carney pointed to the President’s April speech at George Washington University, and to Friday’s late-hour press conference, which was followed by a detailed “tick-tock” with administration officials on the specifics of the negotiations. He suggested that if reporters wanted to see those specifics in writing, they ought to have written them down. He also pointed out, once again, that the Republicans who keep asking to see the President’s plans in writing “can pull out reams of paper” with detailed proposals.

Carney did make a salient point when he argued that comparing the debt ceiling measures that Republicans have presented to the President’s proposals was a false comparison. The President’s demand has always been a clean debt ceiling increase, while the Republicans demanded that it be tied to deficit and debt reduction. As Carney pointed out, neither side has put all of their various negotiating positions on paper.

Here’s the clip, from C-Span:


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  • Anonymous

    “How are we to believe that the President doesn’t hate America when he has the middle name of one of our fiercest enemies, Saddam Hussein?” – Fox “News”

  • http://twitter.com/criticaljane Jane

    I miss Major Garrett.   He was a fair journalist, not to mention smart.   

  • Anonymous

    Ed Henry’s First Fox News Question: What Was The Point Of Obama Address?

    Answer: It was just another pointless re-election campaign speech by someone who is incapable of doing anything useful. And it was just a warm-up to the REAL STATESMAN’S SPEECH – that of Speaker Boehner.

  • Anonymous

    every time they make your vag hurt an angel gets its wings…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Tyler/100001071466947 Steven Tyler

    Wow…he’s gone grey and fatter since leaving CNN.

  • Anonymous

    That’s a fair and valid question. He held a presser and said absolutely nothing new.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I’m sure Henry believes that. So now that you’re done with the obligatory Fox idiocy, do you have anything to say about the actual article?

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t catch Tommy Christopher’s question .

  • Anonymous

    Good news, apparently Obama does have a plan!   Now the CBO can score it as well.  Tommy, please include a link to it in your article, either to the WH blog, the WH press release, or even someone’s notes.  That would be very helpful.   

    Good first day for Mr. Henry.  Definitely the question people were asking….

  • Anonymous

    “How can we help you mr.president?”  tommy’s question

  • Michelle

    What does Der Leader want for his birthday?

  • Anonymous

    The point of Obama’s speech was rabble rousing .

    It’s all he knows .

  • Greg

    Your “statesman” asserted…”Here was the president, asking for the largest debt increase in American history, on the heels of the largest spending binge in American history.”http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20083261-503544.html

    This “statesman” and his cohort…
    “Yet the speaker, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell all voted for major drivers of the nation’s debt during the past decade: Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts and Medicare prescription drug benefits. They also voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, that rescued financial institutions and the auto industry.Together, a Bloomberg News analysis shows, these initiatives added $3.4 trillion to the nation’s accumulated debt and to its current annual budget deficit of $1.5 trillion.Your “statesman’s” best effort would still result in a downgrade…”
    “Today on CNN, Erin Burnett reported that she spoke with an investor who talked directly with the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s. According to the Standard & Poor’s source, John Boehner’s debt plan would probably still lead to a downgrade of U.S. debt by the ratings agencies, raising interest rates for all Americans. Harry Reid’s plan, however, would preserve America’s AAA credit rating.”http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/25/278929/ratings-agency-source-boehner-plan-would-lead-to-downgrade/And your “statesman” can’t even acquire the agreement of of a party member running for the presidency.  Staff in Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) congressional office tells ThinkProgress that Bachmann opposes the plan: “I can say that the congresswoman is standing firm opposing the Boehner plan.”http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/26/279669/breaking-michelle-bachmann-opposes-boehner-plan/In review… your “statesman” is blaming the president for things he himself voted for, has a plan that will hurt the country and cannot even garner the support of members in his own party.  

  • F. Douglas

    I was a reporter and editor for a couple decades, and believe it was a completely valid question. Those who think it wasn’t would only be satisfied with questions like: “President Bush left you with the economy in shambles. You are now acting like one of the few adults in Washington in trying to get the economy back on track, but it is an incredibly trying task. How are you holding up?” Unfortunately…this is similar to many of the questions Obama actually gets from the media.

  • Anonymous

    Major is a rare breed of journalist, he’s an absolute bulldog. The WH press corpse  needs more people like him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    Tommy’s mouth was full IYKWIMAITTYD

  • Anonymous

    He’s scrappy!

  • Michelle

    Who’s in charge of bring the chips to this year’s water fight at Biden’s?  Last year we ran out of bbq and it was a disaster!

  • Anonymous

    yeah in those lady jeans he is very intimidating…

  • Michelle

    Did Michelle get that tamale I sent her?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Ouch !!!

    That one left a scar !1!

  • Paul G

    I’m not sure who’s dumber…Carney at his ‘presser’ …or OMoron last night at his ‘presser’

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    thinkprogress links? seriously?

    Why not link to pravda too while your at it.

  • Michelle
  • Anonymous

    Ed was an incompetent jerk who engaged in grand-standing when he was with CNN and he’s the same now.

  • Vocuspater

    Ed Henry does not get it. He is Just doing a job.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    I was waiting for Oprah to pop out and lead a round of “Yes We Can !1!” cheers

  • Vocuspater

    It’s all crap. Wish you swallow this shit.

  • Redleaf

    As a member of the press, he can ask whatever relevant questions service the story.
    But let’s see if Henry is that bold with Republican lawmakers.

    Wait, I think I know the answer to that…

  • Anonymous

    That’s exactly what Charles Gibson would have kissed, er, asked him.

  • Anonymous

    Ed Henry gave up journalism at a real network to pursue a career as a republican talking head with the Fox propaganda chamber.How sad,you know what they say– money talks

  • Anonymous

    Today on CNN, Erin Burnett reported that she spoke with an investor who
    talked directly with the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s

    I talked to somebody who talked to somebody else! I iz a jernalist!

  • Anonymous

    tell us mrs cleo

  • Vocuspater

    You think? So you say. Can you hear what you are saying? Your opinions are irrelevant to this debate. The tea party should be regarded as an axis of evil and an impediment to progress.

  • Vocuspater

    No it was a very pointless stupid question.

  • Redleaf

    OK, I will tell you…
    I think the first chance Henry gets, he’ll ask a Republican lawmaker or candidate, “Are you a flake?”

    Oh wait…

  • Simple Question

    Look at how upset you liberals are at a simple question? Funny you don’t even care what the President looking at cutting what amounts he’s looking at, something like a plan. You guys look as weak as the President does.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Media Matters is feverishly scrubbing their site of any past praise for Ed Henry

  • Anonymous

    Link it douchebag.

  • Greg

    Interesting for two reasons…
    1. The use of logical fallacy
    2. Pravda is favorably cited by prominent right wingers

    Beck: “Okay, so I’m reading the story in Pravda”
    http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/26037/

    Michael Savage
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUsx5244n_Y

  • Anonymous

    mrs cleo tells the future, not the past

  • Greg

    Special for you, the same point made from the right… I understand you have a low threshold for cognitive dissonance.  

    “As for the credit reporting agencies, they’ve said the whole time that we need a long term plan. This plan does nothing but punt.” – Ericksonhttp://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/25/speaker-boehner-commits-us-to-a-credit-downgrade/

  • Greg
  • Anonymous

    Sounds to me like some trollop is jealous of our first lady

  • Anonymous

    Ed Henry is just following the company memo orders of the day.

  • Anonymous

    At this point I can write Obama’s speeches. He says the exact same poll tested things over and over just in a different order. I am going to get out my Obama Bingo sheet for the next one. Here are his points that will win me my bingo.

    1. Blame Bush – because after almost 3 years into his Presidency he still can’t take responsibility.
    2. Corporate jet owners – he fails to mention the fact that his stimulus gave them back the deduction.
    3. Save the jobs of firefighters, teachers and policemen – it always sounds dramatic.
    4. Millionaires and billionaires – even though it is people making over $250K
    5. Shared sacrifice – code for “1/2 of you won’t be asked to pay taxes and the other 1/2 will be bled dry.”
    6. Enhanced revenues – taxes
    7. Balanced approach – taxes 

  • Tedderman

    Isn’t it funny how facts send them into a complete tizzy?  Thanks for poking the dumb animals with your stick(aka.-knowledge and information)

  • Tedderman

    Ed Henry is a willing facilitator of the Faux Noise doctrine, spewing forth the lies,fear and smear so prevelant on the right today.  In no time at all he’s earned his password and will now be able to begin hacking phones with the rest of the Murdochian insurgents of the rightwing there at News Corps’ American headquarters, Fox.

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

    This story just goes to show to show how used the Obama sycophants are to Obama getting treated with kid gloves. The second his administration is actually held to some standards, they start flailing their arms around about “Republican talking points”.

  • Texan

    Obummers point was to play the “fear monger” card. You have to admit he played it rather nicely, too.

  • Anonymous

    Ed Henry is Captain America – our newest HERO !!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    You really don’t have a clue, do you?

  • Anonymous

    Heh, now he’s got an audience instead of just stranded passengers in the airports.

  • Anonymous

    Jay Carney needs to take a cue from his boss and find another profession.  He totally bungled Ed’s salient and appropriate question regarding Obama’s lack of leadership during this time of crisis.

    I also liked the way Jay Carney alienated every reporter in the room by accusing them of being lazy bums because they went home at the end of the day (interesting how Tommy left this important happening out of this story).  The groans that came from the gallary of news investigators was quite telling and quite desturbing to Jay Carney and surely his employer.

  • Anonymous

    Carney pointed to the President’s April speech at
    George Washington University, and to Friday’s late-hour press
    conference, which was followed by a detailed “tick-tock” with
    administration officials on the specifics of the negotiations. He
    suggested that if reporters wanted to see those specifics in writing,
    they ought to have written them down.

    Talk is just talk. That’s not gonna fly with the CBO.

    CBO: We Can’t Score Obama’s Budget Plan Because It’s Just a Speech

    Obama has no plan, period.

  • Anonymous

    Yep. Ed’s orders are to go to the White House and find out what the hell is going on. He’s a good man, doing a good job.

  • Anonymous

    Just as angry too.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy,

    Reminds me a little bit about the “time(s)’ you wrote highlighting that the GOP had NO Hcare Plan:  
    http://dailydose.us/2009/07/23/fact-check-republicans-have-no-health-care-plan/ 

    Hard for me to tell if you pro or anti plan being on paper for negotiating or debating forthcoming legislation. 

  • Anonymous

    Tommy,

    Reminds me a little bit about the “time(s)’ you wrote highlighting that the GOP had NO Hcare Plan:  
    http://dailydose.us/2009/07/23/fact-check-republicans-have-no-health-care-plan/ 

    Hard for me to tell if you pro or anti plan being on paper for negotiating or debating forthcoming legislation. 

  • John

    Obummers goose is cooked. When your base and far left media questioning your leadership, your in whole world of hurt. How do you have press conference and not detail your own personal plan. He is raising so many doubts and whole wide political sentiment of buyers remorse. Vote for Obummer again and you friend are a moron. Hope and change has been change to Run and flee.

  • Paul G

    Well…This was his last time at a ‘presser’.

  • Anonymous

    How are we to believe that the President loves America when he will not wear the American Flag on his lapel? (NOTE: He has since the liberal media was outraged) —PMSDNC “News”

  • Anonymous

    Thank God for the FNC.  They aren’t perfect, but better than the rest by a long shot.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    There goes Fox News… It used to be a good neighborhood. My, how things have changed since we moved away Mabel.

  • Anonymous

    Link it? Since Air America crashed like a plane flown by blonde haired, blue eyed, Norwegians, on any given September 11th, all links to the lies and made up stories are no longer active!

    How dare you demand proof!

  • Anonymous

    Let me start by saying that I am genuinely impressed that a commenter FINALLY took the time to find out what I’ve actually said in the past, rather than make false assumptions. Sincere kudos to you for that. 

    There are things I like about your analogy, but let me start with the problem: Democrats didn’t tie HC to some unrelated catastrophic issue. If they had threatened to cut off troop funding unless they got a HC deal, and then said, “Well where’s YOUR plan?” Republicans would have been well within their rights to say “Our plan is to FUND THE TROOPS.” 

    What I like about it is that it highlights the absurdity of the Obama administration engaging in a spending debate with a gun to their heads at all. This is just an invitation to all future Congresses, D or R, to do the same. The threat of a default should never, ever be a political gamepiece. Obama should have said “My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming
    license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.”

  • Anonymous

    It didn’t take him long to learn from the best propaganda organization around.

  • Anonymous

    Why do you always use the same lame personal attacks?

  • Anonymous

    I listened to part of the speech and was surprised that a campaign speech would be shown on prime time by all the networks.  He’s given 50 speeches on the subject – is he allowed unlimited free media time?

  • Billy Sunday

    I was a reporter?  I don’t think so!  The guy’s first question was based on a GOP talking point that Obama didn’t have a plan.  This talking point has been used ad nauseum by the GOP.  SInce when does a credible journalist use a question to promote a political agenda?   

  • Anonymous

    Whether or not Fox has a bigger audience doesn’t change the fact that Fox is a GOP mouth piece of talking points and not news.CNN has low audience for not being sensational but sensible,everybody knows that.

    Do you think for one second that because Beck had a bigger audience means he’s telling the truth about death camps,Caliphates and taking guns away,come on now.

  • Billy Sunday

    Leave it to FOX NEWS to find a way to promote the GOP by planting a puppet who clearly can’t think for himself!!!

  • insideguy

     Hey guys I have a dumb question which I probably look up but im just curious what you guys have to say because its not clear to me. All of these questions and comments about oh Obama doesn’t have a plan or no he does but Congress doesn’t have a plan bla bla. In this circumstance who responsible for actually coming up with a plan? Both of them? Call me naive but if Congress and the house in particular are the ones who insist on not raising the debt limit shouldn’t they alone be responsible for coming up with a plan that everyone can agree on? Doesn’t that makes sense? Or maybe not I don’t know. Answers please!

  • insideguy

     Hey guys I have a dumb question which I probably look up but im just curious what you guys have to say because its not clear to me. All of these questions and comments about oh Obama doesn’t have a plan or no he does but Congress doesn’t have a plan bla bla. In this circumstance who responsible for actually coming up with a plan? Both of them? Call me naive but if Congress and the house in particular are the ones who insist on not raising the debt limit shouldn’t they alone be responsible for coming up with a plan that everyone can agree on? Doesn’t that makes sense? Or maybe not I don’t know. Answers please!

  • Greg

    No personal attack.  Pablo has historically disqualified information for association with sources he does not like.  Certain sites make him demonstrably uncomfortable…  Hence my reference to a right wing commentator making the same point.  

  • Greg

    No personal attack.  Pablo has historically disqualified information for association with sources he does not like.  Certain sites make him demonstrably uncomfortable…  Hence my reference to a right wing commentator making the same point.  

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    You’re comparing Ed to Alan Colmes ?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    You’re comparing Ed to Alan Colmes ?

  • Anonymous

    Tommy, We may or may not agree that the Treasury can run out of money in this “crisis’. To not FUND THE TROOPS”. The Treasury can not run out of money. The WH/Treasury beyond 8/2 can DECIDE not to pay or fund the troops, but Treasury has access to money.

    You should read this…it’s a good read:
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/43899646 Can the Treasury really run out of money?

    We may or may not agree that it’s a false statement that US would default on 8/2 on it’s bond obligations.  Only and IF only WH/Treasury decided not to pay on bond interest. There’s enough revenue intake to pay bond holdersNow paying non-bond (meaning items that would not constitute a ‘default’) holders is a separate issue. Like the troops (the linked article claims TROOPS would be FUNDED)

    What I’m claiming that “some” of the Rhetoric for both political parties AND media is hyperbole. Some of it real. Do not interpret that I don’t think debt ceiling should not be raised. That would be a mistake I you did that. 

    Maybe also not to be son “one-sided” when reporting. Remember all Senate Dems just ‘recently’ voted for  not raising the debt ceiling or by extension from your own arguments “default and/or NOT FUND the TROOPS”

  • guest

    What was the point of the question?

  • Anonymous

    Sorry Greg, that is NOT THE DEFINITION of cognitive dissonance, retard. Look it up. Your insult was ” I understand you have a low threshold for cognitive dissonance.”

    Your comment about the right wing commentator shows your unmitigated bias. And you have personally attacked and insulted me in several posts throwing out words or phrases, insults, of insinuations that you could not possibly know, historically disqualifying yourself from a post that you cannot refute.

    That is what all of your liberal posters here do, when the argument is lost. Name calling, swearing, homosexual slurs… a true example of your “cognitive dissonance” as you claim to hate hate speech, bashing of homosexuals, portend to be the party of tolerance and diversity… And then use that terminology against those you oppose.

    Nice try.

  • Anonymous

    Oh brother – Tommy defends the one again….honestly, the CBO has stated they “can’t score a speech” and yet you let Carney walk all over you with that comment.

    He has NO plan, never did have a plan, doesn’t want a plan.  He wants the issue because he knows the media will side with him on the issue.

    Geeze.

  • Anonymous
  • Socratease

    Yes, yes and they should all be killed right?

  • Greg

    —”In this circumstance who responsible for actually coming up with a plan?”
    Congress is obligated and limited by a constitutional mandate for the creation of a public budget.
    (Article I, section 9, clause 7)
    “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”—”Both of them?”This 1921 Act during the Harding presidency obliged the president to submit a budget and established the O.M.B.http://gaounion.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/1921-budget-and-accounting-act.pdfObama did release a budget for 2011 through the O.M.B.http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/10/02/01/Introducing-the-2011-BudgetA vote was had only after Obama conceded further cuts were needed and the original budget was thereby a no go…The vote…http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/158205-mcconnell-senate-will-vote-on-obamas-budget

  • Anonymous

    What was Barry’s point? To again act as though Bush were serving a 3rd term. Barry- sorry, ya loser, you won in 2008 and America lost.

    You invoked the name of Ronald Regan last night. Barry, RR’s debt ceiling raises were for less than 6 months on average. You want at least one year of a raise on the debt limit,  so that your reckless spending won’t be an issue in your campaign.

    But it already is. Stop penalizing America for your self-serving political aggrandizement.

  • Anonymous

    “It’s not the size of the audience…”  Really? That’s your argument? CNN is sensible? PMSDNC is sensible? I’d say that the audience that watches them are the only ones who know that. The rest watch FOX for news, not leftist propaganda from the media wing of the DNC. “Everybody knows that!”

    Here’s a secret… Want better ratings liberals? Follow the Big News model!

    It’s not the size of the audience… It is the ratings the station gets!

  • Anonymous

    Congress DID come up with a plan and they PASSED IT. The Senate killed it. AND every other plan Congress has put forth, the President says he will VETO.

  • Redleaf

    As you know, FNC lobbing softballs to Republicans (and suffering the consequences if they don’t, please see Chris Wallace) is both past, present and future. 

  • Anonymous

    Uh, that is not the same point. But thanks for playing.

  • Anonymous

    They hired KO??

  • Anonymous

    Maybe he is a (P-L-A-N-T) from the left, trying to get all of the #1 News Station FOX News’ answering machine codes….

    Don’t let the liberals know that we are on to them..

  • Anonymous

    When my boss asks me a question about what I’m doing, even if she’s asked it multiple times before, I provide an answer. Isn’t that what the Jay could have done here? Just answer the f**king question?

    And by the way, the word “Republican” was nowhere to be found in the question.

    Do all of these Press Secretaries go to the same school or what?

  • Anonymous

    You forgot to mention… If you don’t vote for me, you are a racist… I punish my enemies…

  • Anonymous

    Even Wendy’s is asking Barry- where is the beef?

    Barry has not proposed a plan! He is only “willing” to look at this or that.

    Stop lying WH!

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t WANT a plan. NEEDS an issue for 2012 and like o’bamacare, this is where he is putting all of his eggs.

  • Anonymous

    You have to admit that he added a new spark last week by inferring that he has the power to raise the debt ceiling by himself-without congress! It was a refreshing new lie instead of just the stale old ones.

    Of course the media didn’t say a word when on Friday the 22nd he spoke in Maryland and when the 14th amendment came up, Mr. President was forced to admit:

    “There’s a pro­vi­sion in our Con­sti­tu­tion that speaks to mak­ing
    sure that the United States meets its oblig­a­tions, and there have been
    some sug­ges­tions that a pres­i­dent could use that lan­guage to
    basi­cally ignore this debt ceil­ing rule, which is a statu­tory rule;
    it’s not a con­sti­tu­tional rule.”

    “I have talked to my lawyers … They’re not per­suaded that that is a win­ning argument.”

  • Anonymous

    that is a very good question and i can only offer an opinion but i would imagine that it would be up to congress, because it is the legislative branch, to write and pass a budget and then give it to the executive branch to make it law.  i remember watching schoolhouse rock and seeing that bill climbing the steps of the capitol.

  • insideguy

     Ok Lisa I understand that but whats the point of passing a plan when you know it wont get passed? Thats what im asking here they know what will get through and what wont so aren’t they ultimately responsible for putting something together that will pass? At least something that will get though the Senate as to put pressure on the president I would think would be a good strategy. Im just asking cause otherwise they are just wasting time. Which everyone in this congress seems good at.

  • http://twitter.com/criticaljane Jane

    Ed Henry is playing at what he believes Fox wants.   Again, bring back Major Garrett.   

    But it appears, Fox no longer wants anything to do with Garrett.  Instead, he’s moved up to National Journal and appearances on CNN and MSNBC.  

  • Anonymous

    HILARIOUS! Can I use that?

  • Greg

    The House passed it… the Senate is an arm of Congress… if they did not pass it Congress did not pass it.  The President, taking the advice of the O.M.B. has promised to reject the Boehner plan as it will likely reduce our credit rating and mandate re-litigation of the issue in the near future.  

  • Anonymous

    Game over I guess….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Major Garrett saw the writing on the wall..

  • Anonymous

    he’s on msnbc programs and morning joe all the time

  • insideguy

    lol Chilipeppers. I agree. But this is a little different in that this is not an actual budget process this is a debate over the debt limit. The house insisted on not raising it unless they get cuts or revenue that will equal or surpass the debt limit raise. Ok I can except that, but they cant insist on that then come up with a plan or plans that nobody will agree on except them. Thats not a plan thats just a piece of useless paper. This whole argument makes little or no sense to me lol. I suspect that it doesn’t to the average american either!

  • Anonymous

    GOP Lawmakers Oppose Boehner’s Proposal
    link

  • Greg

    Not just wasting time, but pushing a revolutionary agendaunder the cover of the crisis.
    http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/07/26/279055/house-gop-repeal-environmental-regulations/

  • david r

    We elect a president to lead us.  Obama was missing in action during much of the Obamacare debate, but it didn’t matter since both houses of Congress had Democrat majorities.  These last three years, all he has done is do nothing, blame Bush, and bide his time until it is time to start campaigning again.  Poor excuse for a president.  He’s head of the moochers, that’s for sure. 

  • insideguy

     Interesting post david r but didn’t answer my question in the least.

  • Norbit

    THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!

    This LYING about everything he promises to do is right out of the “Community Organizer” playbook! – Chicago-ACORN-SEIU-Black Panther style!!

  • Anonymous

    One, America does NOT deserve a AAA rating.

    Two, Think Progress?

    Bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    “Erin Burnett reported that she spoke with an investor who talked directly with the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s…”

    S&P? You mean the S&P that gave Enron and Worldcom great ratings before they went belly up? The same S & P that downgraded Fannie Mae’s rating from A+ to A just 3 weeks before taxpayers took Fannie over?

    The same S&P that rated all those mortgage backed securities AAA?

    That S&P?

    “Together, a Bloomberg News analysis shows, these initiatives added $3.4 trillion to the nation’”

    Fact: Bush added $5 trillion to debt in 8 years= $625 billion a year

    Barry has added $3.9 trillion in 2.5 years= $1.56 trillion a year and this year’s deficit is estimated to be $1.5 trillion.

  • Anonymous

    2. Pravda is favorably cited by prominent right wingers”

    Lol Sorry, you obviously don’t know what Pravda is because your talking points didn’t mention it.

  • Anonymous

    If it’s so obvious that he’s lying, it should be very easy for you to prove it. I’ll wait….

  • Anonymous

    AS you are following your lib TPs.

  • david r

    I guess this settles it.  If the CBO can’t put a number on it, it must be bullshit.  I’ve seen them boldly go where no prudent economist would go on many occasions to support Obama.  Even they wont get out on that limb.  Obama is trying to get the GOP to piss their pants and cave in to no cuts at all.  That’s why Boehner walked out on him, saying Obama’s demands had changed during the negotiations.  That is just bad faith, street-hustler shit, hanging in there to last for the Shirley Sherrods of the country. Can you believe that sanctimonious tone when he speaks of “entitlements”?

  • Greg

    The “debt limit” is a statutory restriction created in 1917.  Congress has the power to raise the limit.  The right has decided that the current limit be linked to the larger budget.

    This document from the Congressional Research Office should help.
    http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL31967_20100128.pdf 

  • Henry

    Absolutely. Major Garret was one of a kind. This guy is pathetic. He just looks like he is another fierce Republican partisan at Fox News. In reality, he should TRY TO BE an unbiased white house correspondent even if he hates Obama and Democrats.

  • Anonymous

    You mean like the Dem talking point during the health care debate that the GOP didn’t have a plan? Oh wait. You’re right. Completely different. The GOP had already presented several plans.

  • Anonymous

    Well, well, well. Looky here:

    “Standard & Poor’s has chosen not to comment on the many and varying
    proposals that have arisen in the current debate,” John Piecuch, a New
    York-based spokesman for S&P, said in an e- mail. “Any statement to
    the contrary is inaccurate,” he said.

    This is why journalism does not include repeating hearsay. Which was my point. Do you get it now? 

  • Anonymous

    You misspelled crappy.

  • Anonymous

    Man, that’s some great knowledge and information! (aka – bullshit)

  • Anonymous

    and msnbc does the same to democrats so what

  • insideguy

     Right Greg so this brings me back to my question. I know this is simplifying things but here goes. If in fact the debt limit does not get raised then it will be the fault of congress correct?

  • R.W. Conspiracy

    The President does too have a plan.

    His plan is to veto whatever bill comes out of the House of Representatives.

    Is it a good plan?  Well…

  • Anonymous

    Tommy, there is a plan or there is not. The rest is beside the point. Your “problem” is irrelevant. If there were a plan, they’d be able to produce it. The Most Transparent Administration Evah cannot produce it, even for the people they’re negotiating with who would have to (have it in writing before they could) pass it. There is no plan, period.

    Maybe they could get Ayers to ghost it right quick. He’s good with a deadline, what I hear.

  • Anonymous

    The House passed a bill that raised the debt limit. The president said he was going to veto it. The Democratic Senate tabled the bill. So to answer your question the House did it’s job and the Democrat Senate and PRESIDENT SHIRKED THEIR RESPONSIBILITY. They didn’t even bring it up for debate.

  • Anonymous

    That’s the point of asking Obama for his plan. Presumably, Obama’s plan would make it through the Senate, and he obviously wouldn’t veto it.

    OK, maybe not. But you see the point.

  • insideguy

     Ok gar1956 but once again in the end this is about compromise correct? Isn’t that what our govt is supposed to be about? The whole reason we have the house the senate and the presidency in theory is to work things out. But if the house comes up with a crazy ass plan which they like to do throughout history then its supposed to go back to the drawing board. Then the house has to come up with a less crazy ass plan and so on and so forth until all three agree to vote on the least crazy ass plan. Thats my understanding of it:)

  • Anonymous

    Carney’s pretty bad at this, isn’t he? He perpetually looks like he’s in one of those Southwest “Wanna Get Away?” ads.

  • david r

    Yes I did.  It’s the president’s job.  He is supposed to lead us. 

  • Anonymous

    Just maybe he feels liberated getting away from the Obama network CNN. They’ve lost all credibility over there. Watching them for 5 minutes you’d think the world is going to end. Marching in 1 Republican after another, badgering and interrupting, playing the worse case scenerios, trying to make them bow to their meal ticket. Who takes more “money shot’s”, Wolf or Tommy? I used to think nobody could beat Tommy but I think Wolf wins.

  • insideguy

     Right Pablo but if Obama came up with a plan which is not his responsibility as far as i can tell, but lets say he did and it went through the senate and it passed why would the house pass it? Its supposed to come from the house and work its way up correct? I know the house is always the most radical of the three wings and thats cool. But they are the ones insisting on not raising the limit. So they must come up with something that will get through all three branches. If the senate wont even look at their plan then they must go back to the drawing board and come up with something the senate will look at. At least thats what my civics class taught me.

  • insideguy

     Right Pablo but if Obama came up with a plan which is not his responsibility as far as i can tell, but lets say he did and it went through the senate and it passed why would the house pass it? Its supposed to come from the house and work its way up correct? I know the house is always the most radical of the three wings and thats cool. But they are the ones insisting on not raising the limit. So they must come up with something that will get through all three branches. If the senate wont even look at their plan then they must go back to the drawing board and come up with something the senate will look at. At least thats what my civics class taught me.

  • insideguy

     But david he cant do this because its not his responsibility to raise or lower the debt limit its congress who is in charge. He can say yay or nay but its not his job to come up with a plan.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BRXW5XYRDYVA5F6J2TDPC3CQEI gbearc

    It was an excellent question from Ed. It was the question I kept asking watching the speech. I was hoping the GOP response would include a line like, ‘Instead of wasting precious time with this prime time  address, I wish the President would get back to business.’ It was a spectacular waste of time. Nothing new. Same lines. It was nothing but a political speech/campaign speech. It was example 345 of Obama’s refusal to lead and constantly playing catch up. It was embarrassing. 

  • Anonymous

    The point of the question was to try to make the POTUS look bad to Fox viewers.

  • david r

    Every president runs on a platform, then has his party’s leaders include initiatives in the budget to carry out the goals of the president.  Obama came in while the wolves were at the door, so to speak, so the usual budget process is academic under the circumstances. 

  • Anonymous

    Ya that’s what the Republicans have been doing for 3 years now.  Treating Obama with kid gloves.  *sheesh*

  • Anonymous

    Yeah what was the point of his address? He embraced a balance approach, but Reid is working on a non-partisan deal (if you can call it). Now he is issuing a veto threat, come on!!! Just pass a dam bill already…even the NFL has a new deal…

  • Frod

    I wish we were all Major Garrets having sex with replica Major Garrets. Then we’d have actual sincere fake news for twice dang some.

  • Anonymous

    Still waiting for a good answer as to why you think that moochers have moved into the WH.

  • Anonymous

    It was another way to screw with The Bachelorette….it wouldn´t be a surprise if interrupted today´s Mentalist…

  • Anonymous

    You can catch him on MSNBC and CNN.

  • insideguy

     But david its not academic in the fact that it was the house that refused to raise the debt limit. Obama didn’t bring this debate on, they did. So its their responsibility to promote a plan that everyone can agree on.

  • Shamaneye

    Henry spent the weekend sitting on Roger Ailes knee getting his instructions and then checked in with Limbaugh for a few more.

  • Anonymous

    Nah, the Prez can do that all by himself.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know that this would need to originate from the house. This isn’t a spending bill, it’s a borrowing bill. I could be wrong there, but I don’t think so.

    As for whose plan it is/should be, various Congresscritters often submit a POTUS plan as theirs. He wanted a stimulus, he wanted healthcare, etc. and all of those had to go through Congress first. POTUS always offers a budget proposal, which goes to Congress. This isn’t a new thing. And it’s also beside the point.

    Obama says he has a plan. Carney says Obama has a plan. We’d like to see it. Does he have it, or does he not? Whether it’s on him to produce a plan is certainly debatable, but since they say he’s already done it, we’d like to see it. 

    So far, all we have is a speech which, as you know, is not a plan.

  • Anonymous

    heyyy Ed…welcome to the hack happy circus….you’ve proven already that you got the right stuff to represent FIXED NOISE as The White House Corospondent, Took you less than a minute to show everybody in the room that you’re definantly the dumbest dipwad in the place…your fellow clowns over here hated every fiber in your body when you were at CNN..but now ed they’ll lick the polish off your shoes…congrats again

  • insideguy

    But Pablo my understanding is that it should originate in the house because they have the power to raise the debt limit and as far as we know at this point are refusing to do it. Thats like me saying to my boss hey i don’t wanna work today, its your responsibility to give me time off, I don’t wanna do nothing and my plan that i want you to accept is that I do nothing. He may say well insideguy your fired but he might also say well insideguy how bout you work 4 hours today and we will call it even? I then reply to my boss nope dude im not gonna do nothing in fact im not coming in tomorrow either. He then says ok how bout 2 hours? Nope your high dude in fact I want a raise to do nothing. Now at this point my boss would fire my ass and I suggest this is what we do with congress:)

  • Anonymous

    uhhhh dumbass, CC&B has already passed the house….i challenge you to tell me 1 single program and to what amount it cuts…i say you cant and neither can any of you other morons…you know why???..because the bill is only 1 page long (to accomidate Citizen Cain i suppose)and doesnt address who or what will be affected…you dummys just talk…the lack of common sense and brains among you wingnuts is appauling…no freaking way will any of your candidates EVER be allowed to run this country…i can tell NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND failed you dipshits …dayum youre stupid

  • Anonymous

    hey GOMER, you just lowered the IQ in here 100 points….good job

  • Anonymous

    “I have a lifetime of experience to bring to the WH,Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to bring to the WH,And Senator Obama has a speech he made in 2002″Senator Hillary Clinton

    Hillary sure had Obama’s number, lol!

  • Anonymous

    Yet she works for him now.  There is a world of difference between campaigning and governing.

  • david r

    He is supposed to be the leader of his party, right?  The debt limit is analogous to a speed limit on the highway.  He is driving too fast.  He can tell the Democrat leaders in Congress that he is willing too only spend what the government takes in.  You can’t foist off “responsibility” on Congress.  Whose policies are these anyway? 

  • david r

    Their plan is that the government only spend as much as it takes in.

  • insideguy

    right david I like that analogy. So congress is attempting to pull him over because he’s driving to fast. But they still need to come up with a ticket that he agrees to sign:)

  • Anonymous

    Oh, then you must like the fact that Obama trashed her foreign policy credentials by saying that as first lady all she did was drink tea and watch the natives dance…THEN…GET THIS…HE APPOINTED HER SECRETARY OF STATE! LMFAO! And you Obama idiots swallow his bullsh*t whole and ask for more. That must be why he said he’s so good he even believes his own bullsh*t.

  • insideguy

     Well thats an interesting plan but bogus on its face. The house passed that balanced budget idea knowing that it wont pass. You an I know that was purely political. They had opportunities in the past to do that very thing but never brought it up. In order to balance the budget the cuts would have to MASSIVE across the board either that or MASSIVE tax hikes. There would be so much blood in the water that politicians o both sides would never agree to it.

  • Atleavitt

    He ( Obama ) uses PRIME TIME…….WAAAAAAY To Much…And He NEVER has ANYTHING to say..
    NEVER…..He is in WAY over his head….He is a pathological liar & a narcissist & whomever voted
    for him in 08′…And there were many…..Shame on you all! He has a job to do…and that job is….
    DESTROY OUR GREAT COUNTRY…..And I’ll be damned if he is not doing it!  Put the fork in us cause’
    no-one can seem to stop this fanatic!!

  • Anonymous

    OOOOOOO I liked it. A conservative friend and I talked about forming a bipartisan group called DYDJA

    Standing for “DO YOUR DAM JOB ASSHOLE”  At the time we were thinking of politicians , but I think members of the press could be included.

    Way to go Jay. You may remind me of Opie Taylor a bit  but that’s okay because that was the classic Andy Taylor, “I’m sick of your crap” smackdown.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll mention it in this thread as well;

    Blue Dog Democrat Jim Cooper of TN will propose legislation that if we do default, nobody on capital hill gets paid until it’s resolved.    You Go Jim.

  • insideguy

    lol i like that:)

  • Anonymous

    Carney was joking, and the reporters all knew it. The subtext of Carney’s needling, of course, was that every reporter who missed Friday’s presser was likely pissed about it, as is always the case with these very rare, late-day surprise visits. Missing a near-empty Presidential presser is like being sick on a snow day.

  • Miljanamandich

    I guess that’s a “quote”

  • Anonymous

    Jim is a decent practical guy who is democrat, socially liberal but fiscally conservative, in that we must live within our means. His ad this last election was in black and white. Funny, and good. 

  • Anonymous

    And there is a world of difference between a race hustler community organizer who shakes down banks and thinks he’s the New Castro – and a politician fit to lead a country of free individuals. Obama won because he exploited a weakness in the caucus portion of your primary system; not because he was a real leader of any kind. Can’t you see the difference by now?

  • Anonymous

    Defunding the troops was just a hypothetical, unrelated to the debt ceiling. I agree that Democrats, and the President, have mishandled this, (and have said so) but not to the degree Republicans have. 

    As for the flexibility of that drop dead date, the perceptions of world markets matters about as much as when a default actually occurs. Once they go south, it’ll be tough to unscramble that egg. 

  • Anonymous

    I’m guessing you would not talk to a marine like that to his face… internet tough guy

  • Anonymous

    It’s NOT Barack Hussein Obama any more. It’s Barack INSANE Obama!

  • Rulierose

    omg I know. the NERVE of this reporter, asking to see specifics of a plan! how DARE he question the king? doesn’t he know that Obama is way smarter than all the rest of us (marine corpse, Austrian, 57 states)?

  • Rulierose

    omg I know. the NERVE of this reporter, asking to see specifics of a plan! how DARE he question the king? doesn’t he know that Obama is way smarter than all the rest of us (marine corpse, Austrian, 57 states)?

  • Anonymous

    I thought the same thing! Why not just call it what it is — the PROPAGANDA Ministry!

  • Anonymous

    I thought the same thing! Why not just call it what it is — the PROPAGANDA Ministry!

  • Anonymous

    Wow, ProObamaAgenda, you really nailed that… with a name like that, I’m sure you know all about fair and balanced. ONE GUY. ONE GUY! He dares ask, “where’s the plan?”. And where is it? It doesn’t exist. And you’re here to stand by those other idiots in the room who are too afraid to ask the obvious, and are too afraid NOT to cover for their guy. Yes, ProObamaAgenda stands arm in arm with the rest of the liberal media too afraid to call out the Anointed One… I’m so happy you’ve taken the time to inform us where the real bias is. The one reporter. Not the groupthink, but the individual who question them. Yeah.

  • Rulierose

    Pablo, if it wasn’t for cognitive dissonance, liberals’ head would explode. (how else to explain, just for one example, their swooning ardor for Islam, a religion under which most of them would be punished for being gay/female/Jewish/etc)

  • Rulierose

    you know what, Fox haters? Charles Krauthammer is on Fox, and Charles Krauthammer is one of the most brilliant people in the country. and if Dr. K. can appear on Fox without shame, then I guess I’m gonna go ahead and thnk of it as a “news” channel.

    fact is, when I watch Fox I hear the news, with a center-right spin for sure. (NEWS not commentary.) but when I watch MSNBC, I hear ad hominem attacks instead of political discussions.

    last nite was a perfect example: on Fox they were talking about the substance of Boehner’s rebuttal to Obama. on MSNBC they were talking about how Boehner “looked like he was looking to magnetic north” or something really weird, all the more so because Boehner was LOOKING RIGHT AT THE CAMERA.

    I’ll take Fox, thanks.

  • Frod

    Why don’t you marry Jim Cooper if you love him so much?

  • Anonymous

    This game is so blatant by now. They liked the “good ole days” of the 70s and 80s better – they could have a liberal host, 3 liberal panelists, one token RINO, and pass that off as “all the thoughts in the world”. For years, they kept the Right marginalized this way. Now, finally, there is ONE NETWORK. Just ONE. that shows a slight rightward tilt… and they can’t handle it. The illusion is shattered. They’ve gone bat crazy intolerant. Now they look MORE and MORE Left, while all they can do is impotently complain about how Right FOX is. But I like it better today, because everyone has their nametags on now. I know who is Right and Left so I can judge for myself. That’s what they really despise… they can’t pretend to be “the america people” anymore, when its obvious now that they’re just a bunch of Leftists.

  • Frod

    Hey john_robinson, you forgot to put (aged 6) in your signature. Well done by the way.

  • Anonymous

    Haha, the worst part is that I was really excited to see the end of Joe Gibbs. I thought this guy looked like he would be a huge improvement. Yet, in this Admin.’s patented so disappointing it’s funny way, they actually found somebody worse…..

  • Anonymous

    I checked into that. He’s already married and we don’t live in NY. Life goes on.

  • insideguy

     A slight rightwing tilt? I think that tilt has fallen over

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for clearing this up. It didn’t appear that way to me at the timThank you for clearing this up. It didn’t appear that way to me at the time, however, I accept your explanation.
    e, however, I accept your explanation.

  • Anonymous

    A blonde was weed-a-whacking her yard and accidentally cut off the tail of her cat, who was hiding in the grass. 

    She rushed her cat along with the tail, over to Wal-Mart!

    Why Wal-Mart??

    Wal-Mart is the largest re-tailer in the world!!!

  • Anonymous

    Well, whenever anyone claims that Fox has a “Right wing tilt”…
    So much so that it’s “fallen over”…

    …Just remember the truly incredulous and jaw-dropping words of MSNBC head honcho Phil Griffin, as he laughably tried to defend THOSE nitwits: “Sure, we have a Progressive slant. But we’re not ideologues.”

    Oh, by the way, I actually didn’t “like” your comment. I’m getting used to a new laptop that I bought, and I MEANT to hit the reply button instead!

  • justaguy

    Ed henry is a joke of a newsman.He’s were he belongs

  • justaguy

    Ed henry is a joke of a newsman.He’s were he belongs

  • Anonymous

    LMAO!  After reading through the comments so far, it’s hysterical to see just HOW MUCH the Liberals here have already gotten their panties in a bunch over Ed Henry.

    Truth be told, Henry scored a bulls-eye the first time out. Because he did EXACTLY what a solid White House reporter should ALWAYS do. He asked a pointed and direct question, to either (1) generate an INTELLECTUAL response that will shed information on a topic or (2) get an EMOTIONAL rise out of the White House, which in turn can ALSO tell you a lot about them.

    Bottom line: given the way that Jay Carney reacted and answered…
    And given the way the rest of the Press Corps reacted as well, openly scoffing at Carney…
    Hell, given that even Chuck Todd got into the act and went after Carney’s LAME reply too…

    …It only goes to show that Henry is off to a GREAT start.

  • insideguy

    lol LA your comparing apples to apples both are bad you think im gonna say MSNBC doesn’t have a progressive agenda? I would never say that but it appears hard for some to say the same about fox and their agenda, I don’t know why but oh well.

  • Shark City

    Ed Henry is going out with no reservation. FOX philosophy…..get the truth, we report  you decide.

  • Wncrob

     “Republican talking point” ……is that what the left wing bomb throwers have been ordered, by the Obama administration,to be referring to ‘  Barack’s got nothing ‘ now?

  • DONAL

    I’m a staunch conservative–and I don’t like plenty of decisions President Bush and the GOP made, TARP spending, bailouts etc. However, what Obama has done in increasing our debt to 14 trillion dollars and making us an unreliable world power and ally is so much worse, there’s NO comparison–absolutely none! This is not a contest between ‘perfect’ presidents and who hit that mark best. It IS about holding our present president accountable for what he’s done, and what he continues to do. Period.

  • Doneagun

    who cares about this faux news ass..faux news won’t be around too much longer

  • DONAL

    You sound like a jackass… jeez, are they STILL making Proggies this stupid?!

  • Glenn Bovine

    I am going to spell it out for you wingnut morons.

    YOU CANNOT BALANCE THE DEBT AND THE BUDGET WITHOUT TAX INCREASES.

    Go ahead and tell the baby boomers “you have to go back to work, you useless filth. WE HAVE TO PAINT ANOTHER SCHOOL IN IRAQ”

    Just try it.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: That’s right moron spending cuts first as much as we can survive thus no Obamacare. Next tax some more across the board with a fair tax not soak the rich. Then never raise the debt ceiling because the card is at max we can’t just pay intrest alone or the debt clock will never move in right direction! Cut Cap and Balance WhooHoo…….. moron!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Get help for you, don’t end it all. That isn’t the way out! Promise Fox will not report you being gone unless this is your jihad letter?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: The highest rated News Group in the world! Fox News fair and balanced!

  • Anonymous

    Funny how differently posters interpreted the clip. What I heard was Carney dismiss a talking point with relative ease. We’re not privy to everything going on in the negotiations but trying to further the meme that the GOP has a detailed plan on this issue and the Dems do not didn’t work out for that fair and balanced reporter

  • Anonymous

    Funny how differently posters interpreted the clip. What I heard was Carney dismiss a talking point with relative ease. We’re not privy to everything going on in the negotiations but trying to further the meme that the GOP has a detailed plan on this issue and the Dems do not didn’t work out for that fair and balanced reporter

  • Glenn Bovine

    Fact:

    The debt ceiling was raised SEVEN TIMES under Chimperor Bush. Talk about buying ammo on a credit card.

    Not to pay for any investment on America’s infrastructure, but to pay for his, YOUR, f-d up wars wingnutz.

    Furthermore, I just LOOOOOVE the idiots who barely pay into the system, that would be you gNOPIGS, arguing they DON’T want to soak the rich, because they consider themselves rich.

    FACT: UNDER CHIMPEROR BUSH, YOUR TAXES DIDN’T GO UP, YOU MORONS.

    It was the opposite. 3% TAX CUTS. NOT FOR YOU, LOSERS. 3% for the TOP income brackets. NOT ONE OF YOU, gNOpig clowns.

    FACT: Those 3% TAX CUTS, for the “job creators” PRODUCED A DAMNED THING.

    And now you idiots are asking to SOAK granpa and granma because YOU gNOpigs f-ed up.

    Brilliant.

  • Anonymous

    A saw a clip of this this morning on Fox, and I was really surprised to see how rest of the reporters jumped on board Ed’s question.

    Did you see Chuck Todd go after Carney for this?  Amazing.  I was shocked, Chuck works for NBC, theNational Barak Channel, and is usually very easy breezy with Team Obama,. but not yesterday.

    I note the clip posted here cuts off Chuck Todd’s questioning, which was of course follow-up to Ed’s and shows his completele disgust, yes, Chuckshowed disgust, with Carney.  Now that is NEWS!!!

    I’m surprised Tommy didn’t highlight Chuck Todd’s complete disgust with Carney.

  • Anonymous

    Hopefully Ed, now that he works for a ” real ” news organization, will ask more actual questions like that, which got the rest of the room chiming in.

    Obama cannot even run anymore…let alone hide.

    ” BOOM ” goes the Obama regime dynamite…….again.

  • Togola

    I bet she called Soros to get spin instructions.

  • Anonymous

    http://youtu.be/S1hQh3AFsdE

    Check this out, as a CBO report obtained by Foreign Policy’s blog The
    Cable shows it’s based on simple math with no connection to any policy
    realities. They just took this year’s costs for the wars and added
    inflation for every year in the future.

    RT America (The Alyona Show) Mainstream Miss

    (Lauren Lyster fill in for Alyona Minkovski)

  • Saxcanc

    And King Hussein of Jordan was one of our greatest allies……..
    What’s with the STUPIDITY!!!!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D7PBZ3RBZ42BSOI52XBTJEJFY4 bill q

    Is it racist to notice barak obama is a blithering idiot?

  • Morgan_Said

    Obama is just collecting video “footage” for his 2012 campaign. Remember to watch for these.

  • Morgan_Said

    Obama missed the meaning of the word when he was watching The Graduate.
     
    Mr. McGuire:            I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin:                 Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire:             Are you listening? Benjamin:                 Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire:             Plastics.

    $3.9 trillion — that’s a lot of plastic

  • Anonymous

    (((EXCUSE ME))) THE ONLY THINGS I AM NOT HEARING IN THIS ONE SIDED DEBATE IS THE FOLLOWING COMPLISINT CRAP.
    1. U.N. FLAG STANDS TALLER THAN U.S. FLAG IN CIVILIAN COURT IN N.Y.?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJSwUFNTI04
    2. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PLACING SATANIC STARS ON THE U.S. FLAG?
    http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=117056

    3.
    3.
    WARNING , S.O.S. Investigating Terrorism and Criminal Extremism Terms and Concepts

    PLEASE LOOK UP: Constructive Treason: This D.O.J. manual says “This is a doctrine not recognized by the United States.”
    PLEASE LOOK UP:
    Constructive Treason: This D.O.J. manual says “This is a doctrine not recognized by the United States.”
    , ……………~…………B.S.

    THIS MANUAL NEED TO BE POLITICALY EXPOSED & PUBLICLY DISTROYED.

    FOUND AT:
    THIS MANUAL NEED TO BE POLITICALY EXPOSED & PUBLICLY DISTROYED.

    FOUND AT:

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/36624151/Investigating-Terrorism-and-Criminal-Extremism-Terms-and-Concepts

    3 STRIKES YOUR OUT. YOU ALL SHOULD GO TO JAIL STILL.

  • Anonymous

    4. Quartzsite Arizona Mayor Exposes MARTIAL LAW AND HOUSE AREST?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tlxNT3sUXM
    5. Martin Earl -V- Navajo County Court, Case No. CR2009-0303………………?
    http://freedom-school.com/evidence/martin-fisher-1.html
    6. Obama tells Students: “It’s true I’m not American”… ” I come from KENYA”
    A. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zsQ-v7kD5Q ( PLEASE TURN UP THE VOLUME )

    Barack Obama Admits He Is Not A Natural Born Citizen …………..Anamated

    B. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0_LNLA9GY&feature=related

    Proof Obama Admits He Was Born In Kenya
    C. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR7EziYspXM&feature=related

    7. ( PLEASE PRAY AND SUPPORT )

    (Ret) Lt. Cmdr. Walter Francis Fitzpatrick III ( THIS MAN IS IN A KANGROO COURT FIGHTING ON THE FRONT LINE. HE NEEDS YOUR HELP. )
    A. http://riseupforamerica.com/

    Natural Born Citizen for Dummies

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGJdN2KPf0g&feature=player_embedded

    8. BREAKING PROOF! OBAMA BORN IN KENYA – Long Form BC A FRAUD?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fECpVS6DrQ&feature=related

    9. BREAKING! BHO Birth Certificate – SEVEN MONUMENTAL PROBLEMS – This is FAR From Over.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgIMsSEAkYc&feature=related

    10. Court rules: Illegal aliens not ‘illegal’ ……………Please refer to The True Original intended definition at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGJdN2KPf0g

    FOUND AT:
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57266

    11. Michelle Obama Loses Law License For Extortion! ( If this is true would you her in the White House? I DON’T ) – ( Birds of a feather flock together. )

    http://seeingthroughthefog.com/?p=631 or ARDC – ATTORNEY REGISTRATION & DISCIPLINARY COMMISION: https://www.iardc.org/index.html

    12. The US State Department is spending $770 million on mosques in Middle East to upgrade there sewer systems.
    ( While our S.S.I. Disabled & Old People will go hungry.)………………………….?
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/02/us-state-department-spends-770-million-on-mosques-in-middle-east.html

  • Anonymous

    13. ELABORATE WELFARE HOUSING PROJECT…..~….For people from other countries paid for by S.S.I. while our elderly and disabled get cut back in pay………….?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu6ok5ykyuQ&feature=email

    14. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) ‘The tea party can go straight to hell’’

    Maxine I refuse to go were you apparently came from. You should be dismissed from duties. You have dishonored the American people with your following comments.

    A. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBi2y84l1cQ&feature=fvsr

    B. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-waters-tea-party-can-go-to-hell/2011/08/22/gIQAfMvnWJ_video.html

    15. Maxine Waters (D) Slip of the Tongue Reveals True Intentions (Socialism for America)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3I-PVVowFY

    16. Rep. Frederica Wilson Says The Tea Party Is The Real Enemy
    ( What is wrong with this woman? Dose this woman not know that this is a very large part of American voters? Other wise known as the majority. )
    A. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-rnjVUo_Oo&feature=related

    B. http://nation.foxnews.com/tea-party/2011/08/24/2012-tea-party-attacks-and-democrats-motivation-problem

    17. Blacks Call for Democrat Carson to Resign Over Tea Party ‘Hanging’ Slam
    http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Blacks-Carson-West-Tea/2011/08/31/id/409354?s=al&promo_code=CF48-1

    18. Battle Hymn of the Republic ………This is proof that Maxine Waters, Frederica Wilson & Carson have not studied what history has stride for.

    May history never forget the sacrifice of the True American Loyalist.

    PERHAPS MAN DOSE TAKE GOD OUT OF OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? HE WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCfM60RriM&feature=player_embedded

    18. NAACP Covers George Washington On Martin Luther King Day (Pictures)

    http://www.blogster.com/feralpuppies/naacp-constructed-a-box-to-conceal-the-father-of-our-country-from-view

    19. Hoffa Video ‘TAKE THESE S.O.B.S OUT!’ ……………….That sound like a terrorist threat. Is he calling a large majority of America S.O.B.S?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d2Qz3XTtKI

    20. Why are those chiefly involved in the fast and furious mess being promoted while he whistleblowers roast?

    http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/558012/ATF-Promotions–Part-of-the-Problem.html?nav=511

  • Anonymous

    21. 55 QUESTIONS ABOUT The Clinton Body Count

    Note: James Milam: Milam had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was decapitated.

    The state Medical examiner, Fahmy Malak, initially ruled death due to natural causes? WTF?

    A.
    http://www.etherzone.com/body.html

    B. http://www.infowars.com/the-clinton-body-count/

    22. DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICAN SATANIC STARS & FLAG

    http://riseupforamerica.com/archivedpages/whatdoesourflagmean.html

    23. le nouvel ordre mondial (episode 1) le changement pour 2012
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EommHiK3oZM&feature=related

    24. YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS If you doubt that the birth certificate says informant go look at the birth certificate that Obama submitted himself

    it says INFORMENT WERE HIS MOTHER SIGNED HER NAME. Do you know why it says informent? This video will tell you.
    By …………………….Jordan Maxwell

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1YCvvSwIgM&NR=1

    25. Obama submited his birth certificate. …………………………………..I AM STILL QUESTIONING ITS AUTHENTISITY. BUT HE DID SUBMIT IT HIMSELF.

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

    26. This one I have not tried. It is interesting though. ((( WARNING ))) I AM NOT TELLING YOU TO DO ANY OF THIS STUFF. SO DON’T DO ANY OF IT.

    A. Birth Certificate Bond–How to look it up on the stock market…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8O_flYaRe0

    B. Birth Certificates Traded On NYSE Stock Exchange – How Much Is Your’s Worth? Who Owns You??

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6j9wuI6znU&feature=related

    C. YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE = MONEY + FREEDOM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlab_2oJPok&feature=related

    27. California Appellate Court Declares Red Light Camera Contracts Illegal
    More than forty California cities have red light camera contracts of the type declared illegal by appellate court judge.

    Some reasons for this ruling appear to be:
    A. city pay a financial bounty.
    B. The Moss ruling sets a precedent that a photo ticket issued under an illegal contract is inadmissible as evidence.

    A. city pay a financial bounty.

    B. The Moss ruling sets a precedent that a photo ticket issued under an illegal contract is inadmissible as evidence.

    Highwayrobbery.net has examined the contracts of several photo enforcement programs across California and determined that the following cities used similar cost neutrality clauses: Baldwin Park, Bell Gardens, Capitola, Cathedral City, Citrus Heights, Corona, Covina, Culver City, Daly City, Davis, Escondido, Gardena, Glendale, Grand Terrace, Highland, Laguna Woods, Lancaster, Loma Linda, Los Alamitos, MRCA, MTA/Metro, Marysville, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Modesto, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Napa, Newark, Oroville, Rancho Cucamonga, Redding, Redwood City, Riverside, Rocklin, Roseville, San Bernardino, San Juan Capistrano, San Leandro, San Mateo, San Rafael, Santa Maria, City of South San Francisco, Union City, Ventura, Victorville, Walnut, Yucaipa and Yuba City.

    28. █║▌│█│║▌║││█║▌│║▌║666

    Bar coded humans is NEXT. WAKE UP AMERICA

  • Anonymous

    Obama tells Students: “It’s true I’m not American”… ” I come from KENYA”
    A. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zsQ-v7kD5Q ( PLEASE TURN UP THE VOLUME )

    Barack Obama Admits He Is Not A Natural Born Citizen …………..Anamated

    B. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0_LNLA9GY&feature=related

    Proof Obama Admits He Was Born In KenyaCAN YOU SAY TREASON? …..YES WE CAN ………….YES WE CAN……………………………………………

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for nothing.

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