When is Gibbs going to come out and say that “Gibbs misspoke”…?

I think Rush is really on to something with this. He thinks that Obama actually wants the R’s to take the house. Now before they take over, Obama and the left will shove through cap N trade, card check, and every other lefty wet dream they have during the lame duck session. Then when everything goes south, the R’s will be in charge of the house so he will say, “hey, they are in charge, it’s their fault”. Obama will try to push through more reforms that will actually make things worse and the R’s will oppose him, so when 2012 rolls around, he can say he was trying to fix things but the R’s stood in his way. He can’t win unless he has someone to run against and he can’t run against D’s. It’s a brilliant plan, IF the American people are stupid and uninformed. Then again, they are counting on that.

Maybe George Bush made him say that!

Even Gibbs can tell the truth by accident.

Gibbs was just being a realist.

I realize you GOPbaggers prefer pipedreamers…

April 30, 2010

Boehner Says Republicans Could Win 100 Seats:
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said House Republicans could win 100 or more seats in this fall’s elections”

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Big_F-ing_Deal says:
July 13, 2010 at 10:07 am  (Quote)
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Gibbs was just being a realist.

I realize you GOPbaggers prefer pipedreamers…

“This has not gone over well with the Dems. According to Politico’s Jonathan Allen Gibbs’ “too-candid remarks” have only succeed in “exacerbating Democratic anxieties about the prospect of fighting a political war on two fronts, against Republicans and their own White House.”

It’s the Dems who are freaking, preferring the pipe dreams, apparently, BFD, not the GOPer’s.

I’ll say it again… our pink unicorn president will be rendered null and void… neutered.. when the GOP retakes the house. There could be light at the end of the tunnel… it’s been two years, but god, it’s been forever.

MichelleF says:
July 13, 2010 at 9:48 am

I’ve been saying the same thing for months now!

Strategically speaking, the Republicans would be lucky NOT to take the House and Senate… they’d do better if they took a bunch of seats, booted Reid, but fell short of a majority. This would allow them to say, “the Democrats are still in charge,” and saddle Obama with all problems.

If they take Congress, I’ll predict Obama wins reelection easily, as the people tend to like it most when Congress and the White House aren’t of the same party (Clinton’s reelection is the best example of that). If the Republicans only take one house, they can still claim the Democrats are in charge, but it will be a little less easy.

Again, this is just strategy… not what WILL happen necessarily, and not necessarily what is best for the country… just strategy.

Gibbs: “Please remember as the President’s spokesperson, I do not represent the BHO administration.”

Whether Gibbs admitted it or not doesn’t change the fact that Democrats are finished in four short months. They should just pipe down and enjoy it while it lasts — which they no doubt will at the country’s expense.

Should have just titled it:

“TRUTH ANGERS DEMS” – then you could have used it on any number of threads! LOL!!

When I heard Gibbs’ remarks, I assumed it was part of the strategy to motivate “surge” or “Obama” voters.

As a quick example, a piece in Sunday’s Washington Post about ambivalence in the African-American community toward the mid-terms referenced a prior story about a $50m GOTV effort targeting the ‘netroots or Obama’s “new voters”.

Now true, the second story does cite some questions as to whether this effort is properly targeted or whether it’s a way for the re-election campaign to keep their organization intact and their lists updated, which sort of plays into some of the stuff in the Politico piece, but I mostly heard that the agenda could be threatened, so if you support the Democratic agenda, you need to vote and it sounds like the White House (Plouffe) strategy to me.

Hey, the truth hurts. Our head Doughboy doesn’t use his brain
to think or talk, so is anybody upset because he opened mouth
an inserted both feet….quite a feat, if you ask me.

Did Gibbs really say the choice is between the economy of the last 6 months of 2008 and the first 6 months of 2010? If I recall, the deficit and unemployment rate were way lower back in 2008. It might be a case of picking our poison, but I think the 2008 poison is much easier to swallow.

Dems took the house in 2006. They passed all the legislation that Bush signed.

Wow, we have a choice between Dem control of 2006 (House) or the Dem control of everything now. How about we do this:

Kick every single person in Congress out who has served more than 2 terms and get some new blood in there?

Politicians are like diapers, they should be changed frequently and for the same reason.

tjames says:
July 13, 2010 at 2:51 pm (Quote)
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Wow, we have a choice between Dem control of 2006 (House) or the Dem control of everything now. How about we do this:

Kick every single person in Congress out who has served more than 2 terms and get some new blood in there?

Politicians are like diapers, they should be changed frequently and for the same reason.

Good God, someone with at least one half of a reasonable brain!!! Thank you tjames!!! Our politicized government is broken, can’t you partisan fools realize that is a fact? You use huge words to make yourselves seem important and to sound intelligent ,but to whom? The pack of partisan jackasses who frequent these media sites daily to conduct partisan arguments, with partisan fools. What the hell are you proving and more importantly, how does this bullshit waste of time make anything in our world any better? What parts of todays partisan politics can you explain to this forum that is doing anything positive FOR THE PEOPLE? Remember that phrase FOR THE PEOPLE?? Vote them all out, limit terms in office and demand absolute fiscal accountability, then….MOST of our problems will disappear. The last two years of the Bush Administration, the OJ reported in excess on $1 trillion dollars MISSING from their budget. How the hell do you lose $1 trillion dollars? Can you even imagine the space $1 trillion dollars would require tom house? Yet, you partisan fools support and argue about this corrupt government and all the thieves and liars whose main thrust is re-election. WAKE UP PEOPLE, TIME IS TICKING BY, TAKE THE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY BACK INTO OUR HANDS AND OUT THOSE OF THE POLITICAL THIEVES, AND LIARS!!!

I am inclined to believe the Republicans may take back the Congress this November, but there are two quotes I hasten to add as cautionary remarks for the non-Democrats:

1. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. –unknown (to me)
2. It ain’t over ’til it’s over. — Yogi Berra

The feigned anger that the Democrats are displaying may well be one of the best political strategies ever devised: make the Republicans think they’re going to win in a cake walk, they’ll become complacent (as they did when Mr.
-0bama won the White House); they will stay home from the polls and not make contributions to their candidates, and; the Democrats will sneak in under the radar.

Caveat Lector!

@ tjames: In principle, I agree that new blood is needed in BOTH houses–and needed badly–but I would suppose I’m like many folks who think my Congressman and my Senators are great–it’s just all the rest who need to be dumped. Hence, the demand for term limits does not come from every US citizen.

At this stage of my life, I have become convinced that neither the Republicans or Democrats have, at all times, the best interests of this country at the top of their agendae, and their history certainly indicates that neither are well-versed in the meaning of fiscal responsibility, so I am thinking that the one best hope for America is that a third party (probably a hybrid of the best parts of both the Republicans and Democrats) must emerge…and soon!

I’m inclined to think this is what the Tea Party Patriots are all about, but I’m not one, so I can’t say for sure.

obomatic says:
July 13, 2010 at 10:51 am (Quote)
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I’ll say it again… our pink unicorn president will be rendered null and void… neutered.. when the GOP retakes the house. There could be light at the end of the tunnel… it’s been two years, but god, it’s been forever.

I’m so happy that you’re getting all damp in the skivvvies about November. Now, settle down, go wash up, change your drawers, come back and explain to this forum how this change will make anything better for you and I, score one for the partisan fools you support. Seats I might add which are filled on a part time basis, because getting re-elected is way more important then legislation and/or enforcing said legislation. Either side of the fence can sling all the bullshit and allegations back and forth, but NOTHING productive will result from any election held in this country with PARTISAN POLITICS BEING THE ACCEPTED NORM.

ImNotBlue says:
July 13, 2010 at 11:09 am (Quote)
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MichelleF says:
July 13, 2010 at 9:48 am

I’ve been saying the same thing for months now!

Strategically speaking, the Republicans would be lucky NOT to take the House and Senate… they’d do better if they took a bunch of seats, booted Reid, but fell short of a majority. This would allow them to say, “the Democrats are still in charge,” and saddle Obama with all problems.

If they take Congress, I’ll predict Obama wins reelection easily, as the people tend to like it most when Congress and the White House aren’t of the same party (Clinton’s reelection is the best example of that). If the Republicans only take one house, they can still claim the Democrats are in charge, but it will be a little less easy.

Again, this is just strategy… not what WILL happen necessarily, and not necessarily what is best for the country… just strategy.

Call me crazy, but this political game sounds like a very damaging scenario, to none other than the American population and you all support this bullshit?

Whenever the Dems say things like this, two things happen. their base realizes they need to get busy and vote, if they are concerned about Republican leadership (I think this might be an oxymoron), and the other thing is the race by Republicans to see who can stick both feet in their mouth first (I think this might be moronic).