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Jake Tapper Grills Jay Carney: We Know Obama Attends Fundraisers, What Is He Doing To Create Jobs?

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With stocks plunging on Wall Street, tensions were rising in today’s White House press briefing as ABC’s Jake Tapper relentlessly demanded Press Secretary Jay Carney explain exactly what it is that President Obama is doing to help create new jobs. When Carney suggested Obama is urging Congress to pass legislation, Tapper got agitated and responded, “so the same stuff he was doing a couple months ago, calling on Congress to pass things?”

Critics of Obama will no doubt applaud Tapper’s efforts here, yet even supporters of the President can’t fault Tapper for forcefully demanding answers. Some of Tapper’s remarks that left Carney a bit uncomfortable:

“Well, what is the president doing? We know that he went to . . . fundraisers last night. What is he doing today? . . . [He stood up there and told] Congress about all the stuff that needs to be done to help create jobs and that needs to take place and then he flew off to Chicago. . . . Has he called Mitch McConnell? Has he called John Boehner? . . . Other than calling on Congress to pass things you’ve been calling on Congress to pass for months, what is he doing to help the economy?”

Carney tried his best to explain that Obama has many meetings scheduled and supports bipartisan legislation, yet with an economy seemingly very much stalled (or worse), it’s likely Carney’s job will get even more difficult as more White House reporters follow Tapper’s lead and demand answers.

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  • Anonymous

    Good for you Jake.

  • Anonymous

    Is he doing this for fox news?

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

    It’s the thought that counts. Obama’s mentioned jobs jobs jobs many times already. He can’t help it if no one takes the lead.
    Perhaps the the Gulfs off shore drilling companies will sidestep the Obama made shutdown and begin hiring.

  • Anonymous

    Carney is going to get terribly frustrated, cuz ain’t nothin’ gettin’ better for a very long long time….and even the White House Press Corps can’t look the other way forever.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Prather/100000453933554 Charles Prather

    Keynesian economics is Obama and his economic advisers choice of models, and it has never worked in any other country when tried, and that includes the failed administration of FDR.  The only way to more from the despair of failure is to accept solid economic principals of private sector growth and get the over reaching US Government out of people’s lives.  Obama and Obamanomics is an abject failure, and there is no argument to support its continuation.  Failure is as failure does according to Forrest Gump.

  • Anonymous

    The EPA and the permits process in this administration has them strangled. On purpose. Like all of Barry’s policies, its designed to grind everything to a screeching halt.

    To wit: http://www.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2011/08/03/report-obama-administration-added-95-billion-in-red-tape-in-july

    This isn’t just a liberal leaning President, this guys out to sink this nation. forever… 

  • Texan

    Jake, I see a bottle of aspirin in your future. Don’t dare question the messiah!

  • Anonymous

    Pure racism, Jake!

  • DeVoid

    The very super rich Obama attacks are the very ones paying him $37,000 a plate but these are “his” billionaires that he enriched the last 3 years.  Obama has got to go.

  • Texan

    So far they’re doing a pretty good job of it. They should be hammering the carney barker every day but they aren’t.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Tapper needs to be very very careful.Our dear leader is not to be question in this tone.Expect some nudes pics of Tapper to appear on the net soon.

  • Anonymous

    White House reporters follow Tapper’s lead and demand answers – an admission that the white house reporters haven’t done this in the past.  I view this as progress; both here at mediaite and with the media.

    This used to be standard fare, is the media waking up, finally?

  • Anonymous

    Tapper is smart enough to know he has to start to asking real questions eventually, more and more of the public is starting to notice the Emperor has no clothes, and even though Tapper is left leaning, he’s seeing the handwriting on the wall.

  • DeVoid

    The first thing I want to know about somebody iusn’t where they went to school but what job they held while in H.S. and/or college.  I found it to be a better gauge of the person.  Mr Obama what jobs did you hold in H.S. and college?   NONE.  WTF does he know about jobs!

  • DeVoid

    The first thing I want to know about somebody iusn’t where they went to school but what job they held while in H.S. and/or college.  I found it to be a better gauge of the person.  Mr Obama what jobs did you hold in H.S. and college?   NONE.  WTF does he know about jobs!

  • Anonymous

    Does press ferret Carney get to go to any of the parties or does he just clean up ?

  • Anonymous

    I’d never take Carney’s job of course, but I’d really hate to be him. How on earth can you represent and defend an empty suit? After a day like today things are going to get even worse for him. He’s gonna get pummeled so bad that they’ll be bringing him out to the podium in a bucket.

  • Anonymous

    How many times now has Barry said jobs were his # 1 concern? 10? 20? 30?

  • Anonymous

    Sorry America, but Obama only cares about one job–his.

  • Anonymous

    He empties the drool cups.

  • Anonymous

    Every regulatory agency under Obama has been working overtime to hogtie American business, create uncertainty, inhibit growth, and limit profits- from the EPA to the FAA. 

    You’re right, timzank. It took many years to undo what Carter did to us, and Obama is succeeding beyond Carter’s wildest dreams.

    A “new world order” is on the horizon- and ordinary, hardworking Americans are NOT going to like it.

  • Arkansas Steve

    Carney is so out of his league I’m ALMOST sorry for him.
    Only “one other” person in Washington is as inadequate.

  • Titanium Spine

    Poor guy. Jay Carney should not be taking the heat for the president’s failures or suspect priorities. The country is in a downward spiral and the president is already on the campaign trail raking it in.

  • Anonymous

    King Obama the Jobs Destroyer is blaming Bush , the Japan earthquake , Mid East turmoil and Congress .

    But Little Debbie  thinks everything is great !

    “Wasserman Schultz: “We’ve Really Begun To Turn The Economy Around”

    http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/02/debbie_wasserman_schultz_weve_really_begun_to_turn_the_economy_around.html

  • Tj7max

    Jake Tapper is one of the few correspondents  that from time to time asks non softball  questions.  Althoough laudable, we all know that Obama has been talking and pivoting to “jobs” since his early presidency and doing absolutely nothing. it is simply a prop, A real inquiry should be far more critical.

  • Anonymous

    The ONLY job NO-PLAN OBOZO is concerned about is his own – and in Nov 2012 HE WILL JOIN THE MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED HIS FAILED POLICIES HELPED CREATE.

  • Flyer

    Obama’s plan: To spend our way out of the recession.
    Republicans: Oppose and derail any plan the president (elected by the people on his economic platform) puts forward from day one.

    When Obama loses in 2012, same thing happens, only the Democrats switch roles with the GOP.

    Bye bye America’s awesomeness because no one cares about the democratic process and the greater good anymore.

  • Flyer

    Obama’s plan: To spend our way out of the recession.
    Republicans: Oppose and derail any plan the president (elected by the people on his economic platform) puts forward from day one.

    When Obama loses in 2012, same thing happens, only the Democrats switch roles with the GOP.

    Bye bye America’s awesomeness because no one cares about the democratic process and the greater good anymore.

  • Anonymous

    Obama thinks about jobs constantly .

    Obama thinks about jobs when he gets up every afternoon , when he tees off on every hole , when he’s munching french fries and when he’s planning his next vacations .

  • realheadline

    Carney looks into a room of blank stares waiting to tell next lie. It’s hard to label these things press briefings, 98 cheerleaders and two journalists. More like a debriefing (give us our next excuse Jay, people aren’t buying it!).

  • Anonymous

    His contract with ABC must be about to expire.  Surely FOXnews has room for a second WH correspondent…

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

    Your wrong Tj, Tapper always asks hard questions to any republican he books.

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

    If Fox were fair and balanced they’d rescue up Luke Russert from the sewer he’s swimming in. Ed Henry was a loud Bush bashing upsucking blowhard for the left for a long time.

  • Anonymous

    HAHAHA…yeah, the mainstream media is biased for Obama.

    Riiiiiggggghhhht.

  • Michelle

    Man, I hope Jake checks his bed for a fish head before he gets in.

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

    1100 point drop in the Dow finally has gotten the attention of the mainstream…  maybe they are thinking about their 401K’s  I would also ask if he is telling his regulatory Agencies to back off and get out of the way!

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

    1100 point drop in the Dow finally has gotten the attention of the mainstream…  maybe they are thinking about their 401K’s  I would also ask if he is telling his regulatory Agencies to back off and get out of the way!

  • John

    By far the worst president this country has ever seen. People are hurting and this guy is fundraising not to help us citizens but only to gain reelection. Hang it up please. Not only is he way in over his head, but he is slowly destroying the greatest nation on earth. I don’t think as matter of fact I know you are not going to create many jobs out on the campaign trail. Wake everyone especially you liberals, this guy only has his own interest at heart. Vote Ron Paul 2012

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

    Now if we could just get the rest of the MSM to do their jobs and start asking tough questions. The problem is that our media is nothing but a bunch of Obama fanatics. 

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

    Now if we could just get the rest of the MSM to do their jobs and start asking tough questions. The problem is that our media is nothing but a bunch of Obama fanatics. 

  • Anonymous

    TO THE CLOSET FOR YOU, infidel. Press pass revoked. Do nt pass go, do not ask nother challenging question….

  • Anonymous

    Jake is mainstream? Thanks. Now he is just stuck in a BF’nCloset. Welcome to FOX Reality, Jake. Hope the fleas don’t “bite you” too much in the scalp plugs…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Iris-Boyd/611306703 Iris Boyd

    What is he doing about jobs?  Well, the only thing he can do is ASK businesses to open employment and start hiring folks.  The federal government cannot FORCE businesses to start hiring Americans.  One way they can do it is by offering incentives, such as tax cuts but that’s not working too well either.  It’s not Obama’s fault nor is Congress,  It is businesses that refuses to open jobs. 

    Jake Tapper and his ilk is not stupid, they know that… well, maybe they are.

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

    Actually I kinda like Carney, his worst day is better than Gibbs on his best…  It is going to be a rough ride for Carney if the Press really comes around and stops protecting the president and really begins to take an objective look at him..  I don’t think that Carney or any other press secretary will survive if the press decides to take its charge and obligations to the public trust seriously,

  • http://www.facebook.com/lou.brown Lou Ellen Brown

    God Bless Jake Tapper and Ed Henry!!!!! It is high time someone put some feet to the fire. That Carney guy would probably crouch down, cover his head with his hands and whimper like a little girl if several of those “reporters” suddenly wanted something real to report and spoke above a whisper.

  • Anonymous

    The private sector just gave Obamo a big -512 point ‘FU’ on his birthday. I LOVE it!

  • Anonymous

    It’s the first thing I think about when I wake up, and it is the last thing  think about before I go to bed……  I won’t stop until FILL IN THE BLANK is fixed, or my little Satan Sandwich makers change the subject…

    I got o’bama, I mean o’sama… Bush didn’t…. It’s not about me me me me me do ray so so…..

  • Michelle

    Liberal Media Still Refuse to Tie Obama to ‘Shocking’ Food Stamp Crisis

    NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announced on Wednesday’s show
    that “the number of Americans relying on food stamps has hit another
    all-time record” with “Nearly 46 million of your fellow citizens are
    receiving food stamp assistance.” Yet curiously he did not tie Barack
    Obama’s fiscal policies to this economic tragedy, something the liberal
    media was prone to do when it came to blaming Ronald Reagan in the ’80s
    for homelessness or George W. Bush for high gas prices.Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2011/08/04/liberal-media-still-refuse-tie-obama-shocking-food-stamp-crisis#ixzz1U6NdAHg6What liberal media bias?

  • Anonymous

    But, but but….the democrats have been claiming for years and years and years that it is Bush’s fault there are no jobs….so if it isn’t the “president’s fault” (and that would by ANY/ALL presidents right??) that there are no jobs, who will Obama and his media sychophants blame now?

    Oh dear, letting the cat out of the bag…all these years of pointing fingers was just politics, or something??

  • ROTFLMAO

    OMG !!! 
    This clown, Carney is making Robert Gibbs look like Pierre Salinger!
    He really looks uncomfortable, trying to defend the indefensible!

    Obama is in way over his head.

    Carney knows it, the Press Corps knows it, even the msm knows it,
    and are beginning slowly but surely to talk about his incompetence.
    Wall St sure as hell KNOWS it!
    This is becoming more obvious as each day passes.

  • Anonymous

    Nobody will hire if they can’t plan, and they can’t plan if they don’t know HeHimself is going to do next to increase costs and regulations.

    READ THIS IRIS: http://www.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2011/08/03/report-obama-administration-added-95-billion-in-red-tape-in-july

  • ROTFLMAO

    I almost feel sorry for Luke.
    I am sure Fox could find a spot over there for him.

  • BR

    Nope, other people are finally waking up too.  Its about time.

  • Anonymous

    Best way to go….Fundraise us out from this ditch…

  • BR

    Yes they are.  Glad to finally see you admit it.

  • Anonymous

    First Ed Henry, now Jake Tapper. There must be an outbreak of testosterone in the White House press corps.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Charles does reality have to smack you in the face for you to understand basic economics. Here is what’s happening… Obama came into office and was able to give the country a good kick start for recovery. Of course he had to go half ass on his program because the Republican obstructionists were filibustering every move he made but what he was able to accomplish  move us forward towards a recovery. Now that the Republicans have taken over the house and the TeaTards are jumping up and down about the national debt the country is turning around and spiraling down. this is not because of Obama. It is directly on the shoulders of the Republican party and their demagogues – the TeaTurds.  Two year of Obama policy we stopped losing jobs, we gained private sector jobs, the stock market came back strong, corporate profits were up, etc etc. Now 8 months in to the year of the TeaIdiots and here w go again. back down the toilet. So America, you reap what you sow. You send lame brains to Washington like West and the rest of Tea Morons and you are going to get the great depression in return. Charles, you are as silly as a goose. Your economics took the Dow down over 4% today and 10% in the last few weeks, TeaImbecils. Keep up the good work, Brownie!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    GAME OVER……..Mr president

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVWU6V6ORHYQ57UOHAEI52XTVU Dennis

    I guess Jay didn’t make any references to Jake having an agenda because he’s no longer with Fox. Wonder if ole Ed had grilled the same way what Jay’s response would have been? hhmmmm…..

  • Anonymous

    Sure Obama is creating jobs if you consider jobs for fundraisers and bundlers. While this probably accounts for a few hundred real jobs this administration will credit it as 400,000 jobs saved or created.

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

    You are more than just a little bit delusional…  I would try to address the things that you assert in your post but they are just to farcical to respond to.

  • Anonymous

    Obama really did nothing to help create permanent jobs in the US. As a matter of fact, for the last 2 1/2 years he did the best be could to avoid this problem. And yes I know “liberal” drones will squeal ” Obama, who loves me more than my mama, created more jobs then anybody in the history of the whole wide world. EVERRRRRRR.” I would say, yes but those where temporary jobs. You know… ok, so maybe you don’t know but a temporary job is when you work for a few days or weeks and then you go home unemployed yet again. Those temp jobs where added to the list of job growth created under Obama. A real economist (not the fake Paul Krugman ones) would tell you that unless the jobs created where permanent, the list of job growth under Obama would be as fake as the causes “liberals” claim to believe in. Thats how you can have ” THE BESTEST JOB GROWTH EVERRRRR” and still have ridiculously high unemployment.( a rational mind that has been unravaged by “liberalism” would say that this dosen’t quite add up)  Not only does Obama and the democrats incompetence of the economy show just how gullible the animal we call ”liberal” truly is but it proves who the real economic terrorists are.

  • Michelle

    “I don’t have a specific reaction to the market. Markets go up and
    down,” Carney said in reaction to the DJIA dropping nearly 400 points by
    mid-afternoon.

  • NRA1776

    Step away from the bong.

  • Anonymous

    I heard part of Obama’s speech from last night.  Again, he made a joke about the recovery not being as fast as “people” expected and the audience laughed.

    What is wrong with this man?  Every time he opens his mouth he steps in it!  

  • Anonymous

    His resume? Being able to persuade urban trash to get pissed off at “the man”. Seriously, what _is_ on his resume, other than being at the right place at the right time? It’s a sad commentary on the voting public, that a guys whose unwillingness to divulge his past would preclude him from most work outside of the landscaping industry in the private sector, elects him to public office and the presidency for his ability to enunciate words off of a glass screen.

  • Tory

    What a marvelous piece of scathing satire. So good, one just might think you were serious.

  • Michelle

    In his State of the Union address on Jan. 25, 2011, President Barack Obama suggested that the economy is in recovery mode.“We
    are poised for progress,” the president told a joint session of
    Congress. “Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever
    known, the stock market has come roaring back. Corporate profits are up.
    The economy is growing again.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U6DFWB2IH2IMT7QQCJI3NWGE6E Lee

    Ya gotta hand it to Gibbs, he saw this coming and bailed.

  • Anonymous

    It’s kind of sad really….a member of the WH press corps asks a question of the WH spokesman, and it’s a tough question, and it gets headlined on a site that focuses on the media.  How sad is it that it is a well known fact everywhere that today’s WH press corps is well known for it’s softness and when a member gets tough, it gets a headline.

    Kind of mixed up crazy, upside down world as far as the WH press corps is concerned, wouldn’t you say?

  • Anonymous

    Well, we are back to the old way of scrolling forever to get to the end of the comments so that I can post a comment.  I don’t see much improvement here.  And it’s not as though they are in a block, they all run together.  Not very nice.

  • Glenn Bovine

    gNOpig clowns

    This is what you get for getting another loan without ways to pay for it, you morons.

    BTY, another school got new paint in Iraq.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Y47CVSVEWK3ESN3WUYTZ7JKPNM Aeeaxx Aeea

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  • PammyFaye

    This is satire, right?  I mean, really…..the economy was “kickstarted” when 0bama took office?  And please let me know how the Republicans could filibuster when the Democrats had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.  That’s how 0bamacare passed.  The economy has been getting worse every single day since your Messiah was immaculated, so either this is satire, you have the IQ of a moron, you’re delusional (as Fedup in Florida said) or you need to “step away from the bong (NRA1776).  Which one is it?

  • PammyFaye

    I’d love to be Carney!  Of course, I’d only last a day, but it would be a fun day!!!!

  • Anonymous

    …and those Obama created (fund raising/bundler) jobs are only temporary.

  • posterchild

    The last time he created jobs, the right-wing went effing nuts. 
    How dare we fix our crumbling infrastructure.
    So when Bush was the President, what did he do besides cuts taxes for millionaires that resulted in NO NEW JOBS. 

  • Anonymous

    LOL & three cheers for >>> “Obama, who loves me more than my mama, created more jobs then anybody in the history of the whole wide world. EVERRRRRRR.”

    Also, I LOVE seeing reference to the haughty faculty-lounge elite Paul Krugman preceded by the cheerful identifier, ‘Former ENRON adviser.’

    Finally, I’m laughing at all the bleeding Libs who have 401(k)’s…’Your Boy’ did it to you…Tee Hee!

  • Anonymous

    ABC is only in bold freakin print in the third line.

  • Anonymous

    I’m confused, where is this guy when the GOP constantly say the Govt. should not be in the business of creating jobs, that’s for the Private sector. You can’t eat your cake and have it at the same time. If he is advocating more Govt. jobs, then he is surely a big Govt. guy (his choice), but he can’t force his choice down the other 50% of the country. 

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know if your reply is sarcasm in reply to my SARCASM. in the case it’s not. you’re a fucking idiot

  • PammyFaye

    Well, maybe Jake Tapper isn’t stupid, Iris, but you sure are.  You’re right – the federal government can’t FORCE businesses to start hiring, but they CAN force them to raise their pay, provide insurance, work around all the EPA regulations, etc…..THAT’S what’s STOPPING them from hiring.  Maybe if you got away from the Obama cheerleaders in the MSM, you’d learn something.

  • Rusty Shackleford

    If I could “like” this article then I would. Mediaite is on the top of their fair and balance game today after siding with the left ever since the debt ceiling deal on Sunday night. Seriously, I got on here Sunday night (after napping during Big Brother and Obama’s speech) and wondered what planet I was on with all these liberal headlines.

  • Anonymous

    Way to go Jake. Seems that media has finally fallen out of love with Obama and started to ask the questions that some us have been for years. I have nothing against Obama personally, I just think he got a job that was “way above his pay grade” and we are all paying the price. Its TIMETOGObama.com

  • Anonymous

    Um they’re idiots. But we all knew this.

    “It’s not the Governements job to create jobs…..but 9% unemployment and a falling stock market are Obama’s fault!”

  • Anonymous

    You suck at sarcasm.

  • GatorGirl

    The economy started going into the crapper about 2007.  Hmmm….just when the Democrats took over Congress.  From 2009-2010 they had a monopoly on government–both houses and the White House.  Even now they only control one side of Congress.

    Now whose fault is the bad economy?  Hmmmmm???

    You liberals are insane.  Simply insane!

  • GatorGirl

    Umm…talk to oil companies who would love to get Americans back to work but can’t because of Obama.

    Ask farmers in California’s Central Valley if they’d like to get back to work but can’t because of environmentalists.

    Ask Boeing’s South Carolina employees if they’d like to start working but can’t because of the NLRB.

    Ask construction worker, realtors and mortgage brokers if they’d like to get back to work after Barney Frank and Chris Dodd ruined their industry.

    Ask coal miners and nuclear plant workers if they’d like more jobs and opportunities.  Your Messiah said on the campaign trail that if a company wished to open a coal plant it would bankrupt them.

    Wake up Iris.  Your guy is as Anti-American as they come.  He wants to bring this country to its knees.  It might appear that he’s succeeding but I don’t think Americans will stand for this in the end.

  • Anonymous

    The economy is stalled because there’s no demand for goods in the Real Economy where real people live because real people don’t have any money, they don’t have a house, they lose all their investments and they’ve been out of work for a year. The Fake Economy of trickery and computer wizardry that Wall Street lives within controls all the money, them and the top 2%. 80% of Americans have 15% of the wealth. Worse income disparity than before the Great Depression and right on par with South American banana republics and African countries like Uganda. They can cut spending all they want but they have to increase revenues, too. And they can’t get it from us, we’re tapped out. The richest 400 Americans pay on average 18% income tax. That’s criminal. They tank the economy with the largest orchestrated heist in world history and we’re stuck with the pain AND the bill. Something’s gotta give or this country will tear itself apart at the seams in the Blame Game. We already are, but the plutocrats and oligarchs are seemingly innocent in the eyes of the Tea Party who has twice the anger towards the government it should and none at the scheming banksters and manipulators like the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch that have personally engaged themselves in our political process for their own personal gain and our great loss. I don’t see how you can be mad at politicians while ignoring the corporations and lobbyists that are bankrolling them and telling them what to do. They own our Supreme Court, state houses, they got judges in their back pocket and they’ve been calling the shots out in the open now for far too many years. The military industrial complex and Wall Street completely owned our foreign and domestic policy during the Bush years and now we’re still dealing with them while also seeing major astroturf movements and blatant deceitful fear-mongering and intransigent obstinence, trying to bring down a President by taking down the whole damn country.

  • realheadline

    Is this serious? Who has been telling you this garbage? This makes sense to you? Really? I don’t know how to respond.

  • Anonymous

    “The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity.

    “It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucrac­y. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear.

    “Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.. corporatio­ns have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed.­”

    ~Abraham Lincoln

  • Republicans are Liars

    Well Pammy you are WRONG. The Democrats did not have a filibusterer proof majority. Go do some research before make yourself look like the idiot you are.

  • Anonymous

    “I hope we shall… crush in its birth the aristocrac­y of our moneyed corporatio­ns which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
    - Thomas Jefferson (­1816)

    “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
    - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)

  • Republicans are Liars

    You can’t address them because they are the facts. Obama inherited the worst this country had ever dug itself into a hole by the idiot Bush’s doings. Yes we still have plenty of time to blame the moron Bush for where we are at because it his doing. He got us into a phony war. He gave tax cuts to millionaires. He gave away free medicine. He allow further deregulation and nod and wink enforcement of banking and SEC regulations. You right wingers are just stupid to think this is Obama or you are just a bunch racists who don’t like having a black man as president. Obama has done all the right things to get the economy back on its feet but wasn’t allowed to go all the way because of the obstructionist GOP. LOOK AT THE STOCK MARKET TODAY THIS IS THE FAULT OF YOU IMBECILIC T-BAGGERS. IT IS YOUR FAULT THE WORLD IS LOOKING AT US AND THINKING WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS. it is your fault if we lose our credit rating. WE HAVE LET THE UNEDUCATED AND YOU KNOW YOU ARE INTO RUN THIS COUNTRY. IF YOU POST ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT I AM SAYING AND YOU TAKE ME TO TASK JUST PUT DOWN YOUR LEVEL OF EDUCATION TO GO ALONG WITH IT. Fedup you should go out and work to recall your idiot governor.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Why don’t you turn your guns in and take what founding fathers said you could have. – A flint lock musket.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Why don’t you try a little reality. It does the heart good.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Another idiot from Florida. You can see how smart these people in Florida are by who they elected governor of their state. The country was in the sh$&%er way before 2007. Bush put us in the war. Bush gave away to the rich. Bush gave away drugs with no way to pay for them. WTF up! Just ask yourself the question why is their the biggest gap between rich and poor that there has ever been in the history of the country? Ask yourself? How did this happen. Whose policies has allowed this to happen.

  • Republicans are Liars

    You don’t know how to respond because he is correct. You guys are asine idiots who don’t even know whose for you and who is against you. You’re a moron.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, Bush “put us in the war”, and then Obama kept us there and now we’re even involved in Lybia. That’s THREE wars. Bush gave tax breaks to the rich, and Obama CONTINUED THOSE TAX BREAKS. Bush gave away drugs with no way to pay for them, and that policy CONTINUES with Obama! Ergo, Obama must like those free drugs, tax breaks for the rich, and wars with no end in sight.  

  • TruDat

    Dude, you forgot to mention George Soros, GE, Media Matters, MSNBC, et. al., in your rant.

  • Waterman3

    You sound like the newest salesman for the ministry of truth. Let’s take that stroll down memory lane, right after fannie got convicted, and paid a 400 million dollar fine for 10 years of cooking the books, and defrauding investers and taxpayers. 2006. The repubs are talking serious regulations to prevent a recurrance, and rein in the runaway bubble.

    And fannie goes to her big swinging dicks, the ones always there to take the bribes, er, campaign contributions….the ones after elections. Rep barney franks, sen chris dodd, and then senator barack owebama. And the gang of three made the regulations go away. And the bubble kept growing, unrestrained.

    Should we discuss the incestuous relationship the dems have with the vampire squid of wall street, goldman sachs?

    How about treasury suckretary robt rubin, clearing the way to revoke glass steagel, so citibank, travelors ins, and solomon could join together, and hire him as ceo? That way he was first in line to get bailout bucks.

    Maybe you should do some research?

    Although I must admit, your namecalling almost approaches the brilliance of rhetoric I heard last time I walked my 9 year old grandson down to the playground to join your educational peers.

  • Dflojak

    No, actually you’re too stupid to “get it”

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm wonder if Obama et al will watch what Gingrich had to say on Greta about job creation.  For a change I was rather impressed with him.  Had good ideas.  
    (i’m assuming everyone in the whitehouse will have slept in and perhaps a little partied out this morning, but maybe!!!)

  • Republicans are Liars

    do you think Obama could have done anything but maintained a policy that was forced on him or people like yourself would have been HOWLING about how weak he was on defense. You have to be kidding me. Obama didn’t continuwe the Bush tax cuts the republicans forced him to. ARE YOU JUST BLIND TO REALITY? Wake up. The republicans are the ones keeping these policies in force. If Obama has a flaw it is he hasn’t told you right wing idiots to pound sand and stop comporimising with you lunacy.

  • Anonymous

    No, he’s doing it for America.

  • Anonymous

    Would you mind working in a paragraph break or two now and then, psycho?

  • Anonymous

    Trust me “Dflojak,” I get it.  You suck at sock-puppetry too.

  • Anonymous

    Do you work for Sherwin Williams?

  • Anonymous

    No, he can do what businesses are asking him to do so that they can create jobs: Get the hell out of their way.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Let’s put a % on who is to blame here. A screw up with Fannie vs. taking our country into a war against a nation that never attacked us or harmed us in any way? Hmmm That is a tough one. Now lets add all of the other screw ups made by Republicans and maybe the Fannie situation might be slightly under 10% of the problems as opposed to the Republicans 92% creation of the problem. Perhaps a little dementia is setting in there Grandpa. Just go on and keep voting those Republicans in and watch them take your medicare and social security away from you. Do it. Vote against your own self interest. Oh BTW… Who was the Treasury Secretary under Bush? Where did he work before he got there? Oh, why did he take the job? In case you didn’t know, he took the job so he could sell off all of his stock and not have to pay ANY TAX ON IT!!!! See they screwed you again and you didn’t even know it. WTF up.

  • John in N.O

    Now it’s not on the President to create jobs but just 2 years ago they claimed that the stimulus created/saved hundreds of thousands of jobs. Which one is it? The true jobless rate is about 11.8% and if you counted the people that have been unemployed over 40 weeks would be over 22%.

  • http://www.larry-kelly.com Larry Kelly

    Tapper has been pretty tough at the press briefings starting with the very first. Regardless of his own leanings, he takes his job to hold the administration’s feet to the fire seriously. Doesn’t hurt that he is very smart.

  • Hagen619dj

    What is your beef with Fox News???  They give the news just like all the others only they are rated number one and have been for several years.  Is it because all dems. just learned to dislike Fox because your wonderful president is afraid of them and what they report.  They don’t bow to him and that’s what he doesn’t like.  You can tell people are getting upset with the way he is paying attention to fund raising over getting this country on track.  You see, Obama is all about big money.  Big money talks, it got him into the WH and he is working his tail off trying to return.  I personally hope he doesn’t….it would be so sad to have that happen again. 

  • Hagen619dj

    Do you realize what a story teller you are.  The unreasonable stupidity of some people is awesome. You know the difference but continue to blast away with rediculous sarcasm about something this important. My guess is that you are between 24-34, have no comprehension of what is happening in this country and are convinced to be the opposite of everyone else. You pick up words from others and try your darnest to sound educated. Only someone like you can actually believe what you say. You show your ego by name calling and by the way….your economics doesn’t make sense at all. Your pitiful.

  • Hagen619dj

    Rep. are Liars:   Maybe you should read your own title. Dayoh just read you the facts.  The true story of what has happened in the PAST.  Get over it and move on. How stupid does a person have to be to keep rambling all this junk and then to show it in writing. Get a life dude.

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