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George Will: Obama Needs Supercommittee To Fail If He Wants To Run Against Do-Nothing Congress

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On This Week today, George Will claimed that if President Obama should be hoping that the Congressional supercommittee convened to come up with a bipartisan plan to balance the budget and deal with high unemployment will fail, because he can’t run against a do-nothing Congress in 2012 if the public sees Congress is actually doing something.

Christiane Amanpour showed a new ABC/Washington Post poll that shows that President Obama and the Republican Congress are roughly given the same amount of trust, 40 percent, when it comes to the issue of job creation. This marks a blow for the president, whose numbers on this particular issue were more impressive only one month ago. Matthew Dowd predicted Obama’s numbers would only get worse in the coming months “unless the economy really changes and the public really feels it,” and even suggested the United States is in an economic “funk” right now.

On the subject of the Congressional supercommittee that people are expecting to draw the economy out of a funk, Will argued that rather than hoping a deal is agreed upon, the president should hope that no decision is made in the near future because it may help his reelection chances.

“The president needs this committee to fail because he’s already decided to run against what he calls the Republican Congress. While he was lecturing in Constitutional law, he missed that part of Article I that says there’s a Senate also, and the Democrats control that, and as Boehner said, they’re holding up a lot of legislation. If he’s going to run against a do-nothing Congress, it has to do nothing.”

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  • Anonymous

    King Obama is wrapped up in one thing right now . Reelection .

    If reelected , he will believe he is free to do anything he wants to the country .

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Congress have acted and presented plan after plan to correct Obama’s economic epic failures but the demarodent led do nothing Senate will not have up or down votes just to try to save face with the proggies!!!!

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

    Obama= The Wizard of Oz

  • Anonymous

    So long as congress continues to reject any proposal that includes tax increases on the very wealthiest Americans — the same people who’ve enjoyed most of the tax breaks — they will remain an enormously unpopular body. And easy to run against. In every poll, voters overwhelmingly show that they favor the approach put forth by Obama and his supporters. They want an end to wealth redistribution masked as “helping the job creators.”

  • Anonymous

    Obama cares more about America than he does his job, unlike the current batch of Republicans.

    I know it’s hard for you Rightys to comprehend that concept.

    He wants the super committee to succeed.

  • Girth

    Only a moron would believe this. You are a delusional turd.

  • NDanielson

    With Herman Cain as president, at least republicans could claim that their president was the first black president in history to pass a budget. I guess that would also make Barry the ONLY president in history to not pass a budget. Michelle would certainly go back to not being proud of America.

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

    Well…There’s always Plan B for Obama:  Rioting in the streets.

  • Norbit

    All this claptrap is meaningless.

    The whole national/worldwide political situation changes the moment Israel LAYS THE BIG HURT ON IRAN!

    It’s their ONLY self-defense.
    They WILL ATTACK, despite empty threats from the community-organizer in the WH.

  • Anonymous

    “Americans favor raising taxes on the wealthy to pay for President Barack Obama’s proposed jobs plan by a margin of two-to-one, a new Gallup poll Wednesday says.Sixty-six percent of respondents said that they backed increasing income taxes on individuals earning over $200,000 and families earning at least $250,000, while only 32 percent were opposed.” [politico, 9/21/11]

  • Anonymous

    Obama said as a Senator that a committee in Washington is the oldest trick in the book .

    When he sets up a committee , he ignores what they say anyway . ( Simpson-Bowles , etc.)

  • Goolsbee/Geithner 2012

    Phase 1.   Collect Underpants.

    Phase 2 .   ???????
    @twitter-227433062:disqus 
    Phase 3 .   Profit .

  • BR

    Obama knows that the only way that he can look good is if others look bad.  Pretty scary for the POTUS to be that way. 

  • Girth

    Only 41 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents believed that income taxes should be raised on those earning more than $200,000 and families earning more than $250,000, while 85 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents agreed.

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64017.html#ixzz1cwrcU09Z___Are you that simple ?  LMAO !!!Learn to read past the headline .Next.

  • NDanielson

    Too bad about that little republic thing, huh? Thank God that we are a republic and not a democracy, yes? With your lying media, you little sheep could be led to believe just about ANYTHING they wanted you to, oh wait…

    A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself;
    and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker
    party or an obnoxious individual.  Hence it is that such [pure]
    democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have
    ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of
    property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have
    been violent in their deaths.  – James Madison

    Because Madison believed that pure democracies would trample INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, and oppress minorities. The ONLY minority in America IS the INDIVIDUAL.

  • Norbit

    Obama’s actions bring back those timeless words of wisdom from Don Clemenza, “Every so often you need a good shooting war to clean out the system”. – or split the country.

  • Anonymous

    “Pretty scary for the POTUS to be that way.”

    I guess you were asleep during 2004, huh? 

  • NDanielson

    That is the only “politics” that Barry knows, and it is the only way he won his senate seat and launched his “career”. The only politics he knows is the politics of division.

  • Anonymous

    Alas, you’re wrong again. From a Bloomberg poll, Oct 11:

    “More than half of Republicans say wealthier Americans should pay more in taxes to bring down the federal budget deficit. Fifty-three percent of self-identified Republicans back an increase in taxes on households making more than $250,000, a sentiment at odds with the party’s presidential candidates…”

  • proud2teabagu

    Kerry didn’t need any help looking bad.

  • Girth

    LMAO !!!!

    I quoted the next paragrapoh of the poll you cited .

    You quote a Politico poll and use a different Bloomberg poll to support it ?  LMAO !!!

    You have your head up your ass and can’t explain the smell. Jesus, you idiots are pathetic.

  • proud2teabagu

    You misspelled. Barry wants us to be Amerika.

  • Anonymous

    I love how you conservatards shake your fists and scream about “the will of the people” anytime a poll shows support for one of your cherished positions, and then — without any sense of irony — pull out this tired canard when a poll shows the opposite. Your hypocrisy stinks to high heaven. 

    The bottom line is that two thirds of the nation is fed up with the wealth redistribution of the last three decades. Most of the tax breaks and most of the income has been redistributed to the top, creating an income inequality gap that’s never been greater. Middle class voters are fed up with this f–k you attitude of the Teapublicans and it’s going to come back to haunt them in 2012. 

  • Girth

    Have some pudding with your Thorazine drip.

  • NDanielson

    Yes, asshat, the will of the people through their representative government. A government for the people of the people. Asshat. Most of the country is fed up with spoiled little idiots rioting, throwing fits, and thinking that they have rights to OTHER PEOPLE’S PROPERTY, through socialism. In your own words: f–k you.

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

    Al Capone style..
    Chaos on roids..

  • Anonymous

    “If reelected , he will believe he is free to do anything he wants to the country .”

    lol…this is the only true part of your post and it has you shitting your pants.

  • Anonymous

    “Huge asteroid headed for close encounter with Earth”

    Obama blames ” do nothing Republican astronomers” .

    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/huge-asteroid-headed-close-encounter-earth-185047555.html

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

    An ABC/CNN poll resulting at 40% trust for congress is as funny as the poll itself considering America gives them an approval rating of 13%. The internals must be a real gem. Who do they think their fooling ?
    I don’t know which is funnier Saturday or Sunday morning cartoons. Neither the host’s with exposed agenda’s or the supposed know it all guest offer any substance. wizards blah blah blah.

  • NDanielson

    The problem, then, with our republic is how you liberal clowns have bastardized our constitutional government into a socialistic nightmare government. All with the assistance of a wothless educational system that makes you too stupid to recognize your MSM as the enemy of the republic, the cause of your ignorance, and a tool of your beloved government.

    Hamilton
    made a further, pertinent comment in number 78, in connection with the duty of
    public servants to avoid any violation of the Constitution and not to yield to
    any popular opinion of the moment which would involve such violation–instead,
    adhering to the Constitution as it exists at the time until the people properly
    amend it to suit their purposes: “. . . and no presumption, or even knowledge
    of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives in a departure from it,
    prior to such an act.” An exceptionally enlightening statement of the governing
    principle involved–especially as to the limited authority of the courts under
    the constitutional system, chief of all the Supreme Court as the highest judicial
    authority–was made by the Supreme Court in the 1905 South Carolina case, quoting
    the 1857 Dred Scott case. Its statement is presented in a special section of the
    Appendix and it is believed that the reader will find it most interesting and
    instructive, meriting careful study. (See pages 291-293, post.)
    Such
    unvarying fidelity by all public servants, as public trustees, to the Constitution–construed
    according to the original intent with which it was framed and adopted (as to the
    initial instrument and each amendment)–is required by the oath of office and
    is the prime requisite for the successful and enduring functioning of constitutionally
    limited government and, therefore, for the security of the people’s liberties
    and the Republic.

  • Anonymous

    Wasn’t the committee Sen McConnell’s idea?

  • Anonymous

    BFD not worried about the future since he has his man Robert to keep him in the beans and franks lifestyle he has become accustomed to lately .

  • Anonymous

    BTW, danielson. Enough with your idiotic, long-winded cut-and-paste “facts.” Your schtick is very tired and I’ve long since given up reading a word of them, as probably most readers have. We can all do that to make our points, but the idea here is try and express original thoughts and, as much as possible, not rely on pre-digested talking points. You don’t sound smart enough to do that, but you should at least make the effort. 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, but facts never get in the way around here. The entire last second, “supercommittee,” cut spending without cutting any spending thing is mostly McConnell. Which he promptly blamed on everyone else.

  • david r

    Armwood, what happened to you, man?  Sounds like you’ve lost faith.

  • Girth

    LMAO !!! You are a classic whack job. Totally brain dead.

  • NDanielson

    You aren’t smart enough to understand the founding documents, let alone care about them, and you post poll results as if that is how we run our country? You are laughable. I countered, directly, your poll-driven form of governance with the very words that formed our government! Here is the only poll you seem to understand, and sums up your choice of party/ideology:

    Which party offers more “free cheese”? Too stupid to know nothing is free is why it is “free cheese”.

    1. Democrats
    2. Republicans

    The US Constitution is not a stand-alone document. It actually does require that you take into account the original intent as to how we GOVERN. The fact that you have quotations of the accurate written word of the authors, shows your deep and impenetrable ignorance. In your own words f–k you.

  • Anonymous

    Can’t wait for Obungles to start blaming Bush again.  He likes that strategy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DM4NW7GOQUHTAQ2KSNS5VYSLOI fe

    Fox News Contributors, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Mike Huckabee and the GOP Candidates are all White Collar Criminals aiding and abiding fraudulent activities by reporting – No Truths and still on the air. They should be subject to Dan Rather’s Fate as News Caster.  We wonder how much FCC has been paid, to stay on the air.  These are the FACES that should be undergoing Drug Test and Psychological Evaluations,…. Test for Competency, since they are VOTING ON BILLS and WRITING BILLS.Fox News reported that Post Office and Social Security were losing money like Wall Street, which was false.  Post Offices’ DAILY Postage Sales bring in at least 1 million dollars in each 50 States which equals 50 million dollars.  They knew Wall Street was crashing, that why they passed the Post Office Retirement Legislation in 2006 because that the only department that can bear the burden.
     
    Along with Automatic Payroll Deductions FICA for Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare bring in monthly: at least 1 trillion dollars from each 50 states, which equals to 50 trillion dollars a month.  
     
    This steady Monetary Intake is not Entitlement, It’s a Trust Fund,…. This Trust Fund is what the Republican Senators and House of Representatives are diverting to Defense Budget.  To avoid any Improvement of their Campaign contributors- the Fortune 500s and their Relatives are Defense Contractors, operating NON-PROFIT Organizations (Nursing Homes, Group Homes, Home Healthcare Outlets)Republicans and Fox News are promulgating economic Armageddon, while  living high on the Hogs without any HUMILITY or any remorse on ROBBING THE POOR TO FEED THE RICH.  Since 2008, every sitting Congressional Representatives – 100 Senate and 435 House of US House of Representatives’ personal wealth have increased 25%, sharing combined GRAND TOTAL: 2.04 BILLION DOLLARS (Kickbacks?).

  • troy l bowen

    I am a Republican we do not  have a prayer to recaptured the w.h., people like you make wonder what has become of our party, you sound like an idiot extremest in my party, is that what we have become insulting idiots

  • troy l bowen

    that is why I am becoming so away from GOP, we used to be the party of the thinkers, now becoming the destructive GOP, so sorry with individual are brainless as you!

  • troy l bowen

    please shut up

  • Girth

    that is why I am becoming so away from GOP, we used to be the party of the thinkers, now becoming the destructive GOP, so sorry with individual are brainless as you!

    You sure you’re a thinker ?

    LMAO !!!

  • Patti*TN

    One cannot win an argument against an ignorant and uninformed (white) man!   Republican old white men, not long ago, wanted Sarah Palin to be President…enough said!

  • Anonymous

    The do nothing congress is comprised of mostly Democrats in the senate. The house has sent 16 bills to the senate and are all being held up by Harry Reid.

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

    You are a republican as much as Mao was a philanthropist. Would you Leftists quit attempting to argue both sides?

  • MontyPyth0n

    I knew you lefties were racist!

  • Anonymous

    Love the biased reporting and polling by Mediaite and WPost.  ”President Obama and the Republican Congress.”  Did the GOP get control of the Senate somehow, and I missed it?  The Dems controlled the White House and both houses of Congress to two years and made the economy worse while driving up debt (piling on what a Dem Congress did for two years before that).  Now, they still control two out of three of those institutions.  And the House has passed 17 job creation measures that the Dem Senate refuses to even vote on.

    In response, the Dem Media is parroting the Dem line that Congress is run by the GOP, a blatant lie.

  • Anonymous

    Chuckles;
    President Obama and the 111th Congress did pass a budget that was filibustered in the senate by the republicans.  Here is the 2010 budget sent to the senate in 2009.  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/index.html

    Next time do your home work before you make yourself look like a republican.

  • Anonymous

    If Israel should attack Iran, then the blow back should not involve the USA as we have told Israel we would not back them up.  If they want a war in their own backyard then go for it but do not expect the USA to help them out.  Remember that the GOP told us we are broke so there should be no expecting of help from us.

  • Anonymous

    There you go lying again.  Compromise is the only way to get things done and if your bill is going to cost 370,000 jobs then it doesn’t deserve to be voted on.  You goppers think that just because you won the house, the senate has to do what you say.  Dream on suckers.  The senate can work on your bill or not and that is how it is.  Also the GOP jobs bill hasn’t been scored by either the CBO or an independent economist as the president’s bill has.

  • Anonymous

    There you go lying again.  What happened was the the wars, tax cuts and Medicare Part D that Bush and the republican congress left off the budget were finally put on the budget.  If you can remember all of the emergency appropriations that Bush and his lapdog congress deemed as “Emergencies”.  Well they didn’t get put on budget to be paid for and President Obama is now paying for Bush’s drunken spending spree.

  • NDanielson

    He couldn’t even get his own democrats to PASS the budget. Idiot.

    The Senate voted unanimously on Wednesday to reject a $3.7 trillion
    budget plan that President Obama sent to Capitol Hill in February.
    Ninety-seven senators voted against a motion to take it up.
    Democratic
    aides said ahead of the vote that the Democratic caucus would not
    support the plan because it has been supplanted by the deficit-reduction
    plan Obama outlined at a speech at George Washington University in
    April.

    Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) demanded a vote on Obama’s
    budget to show that Democrats don’t support any detailed budget
    blueprint.

    McConnell said Obama’s budget “continues the unsustainable status quo.”
    He noted during a floor speech Wednesday that Democrats initially applauded the plan.
    The
    president’s budget called for ending tax cuts for the wealthy and a
    three-year domestic spending freeze, saving an estimated $1.1 trillion
    over 10 years. Democratic senators at the time called it “an important
    step forward”, “a good start” and a “credible blueprint.”
    No
    Democratic senator was willing to support it
    , however, after Obama
    discussed a more ambitious plan at George Washington University to save
    $4 trillion over 12 years. Republicans criticized his speech for lacking
    detail.
    The White House Office of Management and Budget declined
    to comment on the president’s budget receiving zero votes in the Senate.

  • Anonymous

    I love how idiots like you forget one thing, Article 1 Section 7.  All spending bills begin in the House, not with the President.  So that budget you are complaining about should have began not with the President but with the Speaker.   Neocons are soo stupid.

  • NDanielson

    And did he get his gang to pass ANY budget YET, sweetpea? Is there a budget that has passed since Barry took office sweetpea? Idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Chuckles;

    I would like to debate with you the merits of your idiocy but remember all spending bills originate with the House, not the president.  The budget the president submits is his list of priorities and the congress can use it or trash it.  The real bills from the house and senate “appropriation committees” are what are signed into law.  Got it now!  Son you are too stupid to vote but yo do anyway to our country’s detriment.

  • Anonymous

    Your command of logic and the facts is missing.  First, I never said Bush and the GOP Congress did not overspend.  I agree they did–but that still leaves you just making up the charge of lying.  And let’s also remember that the deficits before Obama and the Dem Congress were a few hundred billion per year (still ridiculous) while under Obama they have been well over a trillion per year.

  • Anonymous

    Here is your quote:     The Dems controlled the White House and both houses of Congress to two years and made the economy worse while driving up debt (piling on what a Dem Congress did for two years before that).

    Do you think that it is easy to turn around an economy that you gopper destroyed?  President Obama had to spend money to right the ship after you clowns nearly destroyed the USA.  Now you talk about everything except fixing the mess your party created.  Corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars but want more non-job creating tax cuts.  People like you are too stupid to vote.

  • Anonymous

    thats not accurate data. this is 
    http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm

    The republicans have used the filibuster to force the senate to a 60 vote rather than a majority vote. If more americans knew how the government actually works instead of counting on the radio and tv to give them opinions, we would all know what’s really happening here. Majority in the house, and slim minority in the senate equals gridlock. Isn’t that what the republicans promised when they took office in the mid terms.? 

    Senator ryan from WI today re: make obama a one term presidenthttp://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/ryan-make-obama-a-one-term-president/1?plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:684959a8-c8d4-49a2-adac-7a1747ccf461 

  • Anonymous

    republican voters who are getting screwed just like the rest of us have to believe these lies so that they can justify maintaining an allegiance to a party that has no loyalty to the citizens of the country who aren’t millionaires and billionaires. If the republicans had not used their latest filibuster to stall the president’s job’s bill, the pressure would have been on the republican house to not pass the jobs bills that would help unemployment and strengthen obama’s position. There is a fairly large number of americans who don’t know what a filibuster is, much less how it is used. poor people voting for republicans is the equivalent of saying “Thank you sir, can I have another?”

  • Anonymous

    how about asking your republican reps what have they done for you lately? they are going to get your vote because you can’t stand obama, not because the republicans are a better choice. they suck as well.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, that chart shows exactly what I said.  Dems took over Congress in 2007.  We then had our first trillion dollar deficit.  Not a dollar can be spent without Congress authorizing it.  I never heard the GOP promise gridlock.  They did say they would stop bad ideas.  As for gridlock, what do you call Dems in Senate blocking all the GOP bills to create jobs?

  • Anonymous

    I guess even a simple chart can be spin doctored. The national debt grew by 5 T from 2000-2008. Obama took his oath of office in 2009. Whereby the debt has grown by 3 T. How did you miss that one mitch?

    as for job bills,read those bills. then come to us. You aren’t supporting legislation, you haven’t read are you? how about the republicans having the bills looked over by the CBO and other non-partisan economists. the last republican jobs bill that I saw was on the subject of cutting more spending by cutting the number of government employess. If I am not mistaken thats job loss. not gain

  • Anonymous

    Hes absolutely right. We all want tax increases on the wealthy. sorry, we don’t love them and yearn to be one of them. We never cared about how much money they had until they took all of the money there was. The wall street crash was a greed and corruption driven exercise. We shouldn’t have bailed out the wall street firms, the american car companies was a good bailout. so yes, raise taxes on the mega wealthy, end all of the tax loopholes and have the IRS investigated why massive corporations pay no taxes AND get money back from the american people in the form of “losses” would you like to see a list of those companies?

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