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Joe Scarborough: Nobody Politically Fears This President At All Right Now

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In the wake of yesterday’s political kerfuffle over President Obama‘s request to address a joint session of Congress on the same day as a GOP Presidential debate, pundits are quickly finding meaning in the schedule conflict. First up? Morning Joe‘s Joe Scarborough, who saw “speechgate” as evidence of Obama’s political irrelevance, adding that absolutely nobody in D.C. fears the White House. Mika Brzezinski countered with “If this were a Republican you would call the Democrats in Congress disrespectful.” Scarborough then gave an example of how he would have handled this if he were President.

When the story broke yesterday, I very early — and perhaps prematurely — called this a politically smart move for the White House, though at this stage of the overall narrative, it seems to be a renegade point of view. I still believe that the White House will eventually use this back and forth as an example of the president’s frustration with Congress, in hopes to align with independent voters who polls suggest are also frustrated with Congress. In fact, the subject line of an email sent out last night from the Obama campaign had but one word: “Frustrated.”

The other side of this strategy is that the frustration felt could be that independent voters see the President as being weak, having caved to an obstinate GOP House leadership, vis a vis John Boehner. This was the position of Scarborough, who laid in to the president with a “better to be feared than loved” mantra after establishing that August had been an awful political month for Obama.

Perhaps the most interesting back and forth came when Brzezinski expressed her frustration with the current political landscape, drawing a distinction of how this conflict have been different had a Democratic congress had rebuffed a GOP president, saying:

You know what offends me is the fact that there’s this bickering that perhaps might be trumped up by the media and reveled in. the president wants to do a joint session to doing a jobs address. Isn’t there one thing where both sides agree? don’t you lay that on the republicans a little bit? If this were a Republican you would call the Democrats in congress disrespectful.

Scarborough then responded by giving an example of what he would do and say:

You know what I would tell the Republicans if I were president? Be a man and deliver the speech wherever you want to deliver the speech and tell the Republicans to go to hell. I would start by saying ladies and gentlemen, I come to you tonight because we are in the middle of a great national crisis from california to maine, millions and millions of people are still out of work. I was hoping to go to the people os house to deliver this message to you. i was hoping to go to what i consider to be the symbol of American democracy. that light shining on top of that capital, which has been like a city shining brightly on the hill for all the world to see…”

I happen to believe that Brezizinski makes a salient point about the potential double standard at play. People have leveled legitimate criticism at the White House for what appears to be needless and petty politics with a joint session. However, the House GOP have been playing needless and petty politics with the White House for the past six months (see debt crisis debate leading to credit downgrade), though they seem to be immune to the same criticism that the White House has received.

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  • Quaker

    Obama loses again. 

  • Quaker

    Obama loses again. 

  • Anonymous

    Republicans play hardball and Democrats look weak on principle and tactics. Wake up boys, your opponents play for keeps at any cost, both to the citizenry and our founding

  • Anonymous

    They tried to pull a boneheaded , smart-aleck move and , as usual , it backfired on them .

    More of Obama’s staff will jump ship rather than be forever tainted with the stench of failure . The only ones who remain will be the true believers and the bottom feeders . The Dems should cut their losses and move on , rebuild for the future , as the Cubs say . There’s always next year ( another chance for Dems  when the Obama administration is a distant memory).

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I have to admit, I find my party’s unfailing civility and politeness trying at times, but in the long run, I think it for the best. In the long run, decent people don’t like Teapublican style boorishness, coarseness, rudeness and anger. It seems remarkably ill-suited for the American character, essentially civil and optimistic. I say, give the Teapublicans their crudeness, their lack of civility, their anger. They not only seem to enjoy it, but they are much better at it than we. 

  • Anonymous

    King Obama should jettison the smirking , lying , condescending disaster that is Carney today .
    Replace him with the press guy from the Pentagon .

    Clear Holder out before he is indicted . Obama wanted a compliant Attorney General , and he has one , but it’s time to clean house .

    King Obama may contact Big Eddie for more advice . He knows where .

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    That would be c/o Larry Craig?

  • Missed a better part

    I like the part where Mike Barnicle said if this was President Bush the media would be trashing the President for trying this cheap PR stunt.

  • Anonymous

    Debt crisis aside, this “kerfuffle” is all on the White House.  They knew when the Republican Debate was, and, if they were gonna schedule the President’s speech in opposition to it, they should’ve had the balls to follow through with it.

  • Anonymous

    Debt crisis aside, this “kerfuffle” is all on the White House.  They knew when the Republican Debate was, and, if they were gonna schedule the President’s speech in opposition to it, they should’ve had the balls to follow through with it.

  • chucker

    If you watched this, Colby, you would also have mentioned that Mike Barnacle commented back to Mika that if George Bush had scheduled a speech opposite a Democrat debate he would be crucified by the very same media.  Nice one sided reporting.

  • John_in_SD

    What a cheap political stunt by the White House.

  • Anonymous

    The only people who fear Obama are Americans who wish the best for America.

  • Anonymous

    “If this were a Republican you would call the Democrats in congress disrespectful.”

    She’s missing the whole point. I can’t think of any Republican President (or any other Democratic President for that matter) that would pull such a dick move in the first place. He brought this on himself and it was the dumbest political move he’s made so far. No matter what happened, it was very unlikely to turn out well for him.

  • Anonymous

    I have to admit, I find my party’s unfailing civility and politeness ”

    Maxine Waters: “The TP can go straight to hell.”

    Al Gore: “If you don’t believe in global warming, you are a racist.”

    Rep. Andre Carson: “The TP wants us to be hanging from trees.”

    Yeah, that’s really  civil of the Dems.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t believe I’ve seen anyone with such huge political capital squander it so frivolously as Obama has.

  • Anonymous

    MG, the Dems cry over everything in the world!  Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa- I wanted to speak in on Wednesday!!” Whaaaaaaaaaa, whaaaaaaaaaa

  • L_Salazar

    Obama campaign had but one word: “Frustrated.”

    Frustrated?
     
    Every first year Lawyer to be knows that it is good rule of thumb for a criminal defense attorney to never ask a question they don’t know the answer to!
     
    This White House, full of lawyers, should have known to never release this story to the press without absolutely 100% knowing that everybody was on board.
     
    No late phone calls.   Someone needs to get off their butt, walk over to the Speakers office and get it from the Speaker himself.
     
    The entire WH staff comes off looking like they just like to play petty politics, which is what they have done for 2 ½ years.
     
    Again, when the President says he wants to work across the aisle, we know he is just not telling the truth.
     
    This is what you get when you elected a man with NO experience.
     
     

  • Anonymous

    Yep — he spent it all on the health care bill (jobs and the economy be damned).

  • Anonymous

    Poor Mika…she looks crestfallen in that photo. “I helped sell this guy to the American people under false pretenses, and now I look just as bad as he does.”

  • Anonymous

    Sorry Mika and Joe, no matter how much you want it to be so, Barry is no American Caesar!

    He will give the speech when the House says he can give it.

  • BR

    Obama was an idiot for picking that particular date in the first place.  Stop trying to make him out to be a hero.

  • Missed a better part

    You come across more angry then anyone on these comment section daily. Your childish name that you call people does nothing to help you or show that you even care about being rude or uncivil. You come across as a hypocritical clown all the time.

  • Anonymous

    I love the praise of civility from you, a “man” who constantly attacked a young woman based on her Mom’s politics.

  • Jim

    Unfailing civility? Hahahahahaha Dems are the nastiest name callers in the world.

  • Anonymous

    Mark Levin has it spot on when he calls this empty suit Milhous.

  • ElJeffyBovido

    I am still trying to figure out what this moron Barack Hussein Obama was thinking. Or not thinking. I don’t know which.

    It doesn’t take a retard, yes a retard, to understand the fall out of such an idiotic fold.

    The gNOpigs are going to be gloating the whole week and the freaking whole next year until November 2012 because they made Obama to bend over and grab his ankles. And he did.

    A blind, deaf, and mute person could have seen it coming 100 miles away.

  • ObamaSux

    It’s not a matter of fear but rather NOONE has any respect for Barry.  No matter where one lives on the planet everyone recognizes that he is empty and has a job (the first one he has ever had in his life) that he is not qualified or intelligent enough for and has it solely because of affirmative action.  Fortunately his reign of disaster is soon to end (at noon EST on January 20, 2013) and a Real American will be President and the Country will continue to succeed.

  • Anonymous

    On most days I agree and tend to lean to the compromise side myself, and then some days I look back on the brutal 24/7 assault from the right the last thirty years on comity, facts, and the middle class and wish someone would finally start punching back instead of triangulating.

    One reason there are so many misinformed gullible voters in this country nowadays is there aren’t many voices in power presenting the other (factual) side with fervor.

    Someone needs to inform America how they’ve been snookered into stabbing each other in the back while the rich and powerful laugh all the way to the (Cayman Islands) bank.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Mediaite, why are you not reporting this

    “MSNBC Anchor Tamron Hall Moderated CBC Panel Portraying Tea Party as Lynch Mob”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    So, Morning Joke’s Joe Scarborough says “Nobody Politically Fears This President At All Right Now”.

    Memo to Joe: Nobody ever did! They worshiped him (Libs/Dems), they despised his policies (Cons/Reps), they carried his jock strap (MSMedia/Mediaite), but they NEVER, ever feared him. Why should they? Everyone knows ‘the emperor has no clothes’ (except an empty suit).

  • Anonymous

    Most cogent line is “this is a scared bunch of people”. I would attribute that description to conservatives though more than the generic “politician” and add that they only understand might and overwhelming power

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Mad Maxine (Waters) and the Black Caucus sure exhbited a lot of civility recently. Whole lotta love other there in your party.

  • TruDat

    Whatever.  The conservatives want a country that lives within its means; why do liberals hate that idea?

  • Anonymous

    Mr Obozo, Up yours.  Sincerely, J Boehner…LOLOLOL….

  • TruDat

    The Republicans have turned the table on the Democrats, using their tactics (crudeness, lack of civility, anger) against them, and wimps like you have the audacity to complain.  Pure gold!

  • Anonymous

    Mika, ya know what offends America? YOU!

  • Anonymous

    The president who sneered, “I won” before picking up ‘pitchforks’ and ‘guns’ aimed at ‘bitter enemies?’ That civility and politeness?

    Ok then!

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

    If the country were to live within it’s means how could the Dems buy their votes?  Name one of their major constituencies that is not in one way or another bought by the Dems… either with direct assistance programs or by subverting Federal Law…  or both.

  • ObamaSux

    When Obama loses America wins.

  • Anonymous

    Just wait, this is going to get better.  Jay Carney is opening his mouth.

    Pass the popcorn.

  • StephenRichieKaren lol

    You know what offends me is the fact that there’s this bickering that perhaps might be trumped up by the media and reveled in. the president wants to do a joint session to doing a jobs address. Isn’t there one thing where both sides agree? don’t you lay that on the republicans a little bit? If this were a Republican you would call the Democrats in congress disrespectful.

    Perhaps Mika would garner more respect if she learned to capitalize and punctuate better when she spoke . Oh , and , quit rolling her eyes .

  • Anonymous

    Mika looks sad. I’m happy.

    She’s showing her age. Time for her to go.

  • MDHunter

    So, let me get this straight, Obama wants to pre-empt the Republican Presidential Debate that’s been scheduled for months?   This speech is so important that BO couldn’t interrupt his Vacation with it, or even better that stupid bus tour.  Nobody on the WH staff can make a call, do some coordination, deconflict some schedules?  Every other WH Staff did that.
    So the WH Staff will reschedule to Sep 8th,  but the brain trust still don’t realize that that’s the same night as the NLF Opening game.  What Morons, Guess they will blame the Republicans for that too.  Are we sure we want these idiots running the country?

  • Anonymous

    “Unfailing civility”? That’s hilarious. It sounds like you’re taking a shot at the Democrats with sarcasm.

  • Yy

    And the Tea Party Caucus is just peachy right?

    Joe Walsh talks about the President like the President is Joe Walsh.

    Why doesn’t Joe pay his bills?

    Why does Joe Walsh hate his kids?

  • Anonymous

    That is one success Obama can truly claim; He did a great job of dividing people up, pitting people against one another and polarizing the nation. Wasn’t he advertised as the “great uniter”?

  • Yy

    Yeah, the Dems really taught the Repubs how to be cruel.

    Rush Limbaugh is one of our greatest students.

    In his case you can clearly see that the student has passed the master.

  • Yy

    How do you know he “sneered” it?  He could have said it as politely as a church lady.

  • Yy

    I don’t think Bush has EVER gotten criticized for anything he has done.

    It wasn’t the mainstream media that called Bush out – it was the rest of the country.

    It was the comedians.  That is why you guys hate them so much.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You have to admit, Böner showed disrespect to our President and to the office of the presidency itself. He feels he has license to do this because of the inherent, institutional racism among many Republicans and most T-Partee Republicans. Böner was simply pandering to his racist constituency. Böner would never have treated a White president this way. It’s the reality.

  • Yy

    Chucker, the bad thing about these “If Bush did this…” or “if a Republican did this…” is that Usually Bush did these types of things and no one cared and usually Republicans do these types of things and NO ONE CARES!

  • Yy

    Do you think it is a dick move to start a war to boost an economy?

  • Anonymous

    Start thinking about going back in the closet , Robert .

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Actually, I criticized the younger unfortunate Ms. Palin. I did not attack her. And, my criticism was founded upon her poor lifestyle choices, her hypocritical and self-serving efforts to become a role model for other young women, the terrible example she set for good and decent young women in America and her ridiculous book and television appearances. The criticism was well-warranted, and the only role her horrible mother played in this criticism was by reason of her throwing her daughter and the rest of her children into our living rooms. Even that no longer counts as the younger unfortunate Ms. Palin is now “out there” all on her own, and invites praise and criticism all on her own. So, take you kart o’ krap and peddle it elsewhere.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s a president who has spent the last few speeches telling America that Congress is to blame for all our problems. “The fix is for each party to put aside partisan politics”.So what does he do? He schedules his speech on the same night as the Republican debate. These kind of backhanded slaps he continually gives the Republicans does absolutely nothing to get the parties to work together, which makes me ask does he really wan’t what he preaches.I’d really like to know who the real puppeteer is in this administration. There is NO WAY Obama can be this stupid. 

  • Yy

    You have no CLUE what a leader is.

    And you have no CLUE what the failings of our government really are.

    If you did you wouldn’t bother blaming Obama for EVERYTHING as you clearly are.

    Do you know that he DOESN’T write LAWS?

    Do you know that there is a separation of power which makes our form of government good in some ways and bad in others?

    President Obama has set forth an agenda that would be very successful for the country and bad for Republicans. Do you really think they want to follow up George Bush with a guy who knows what he want so to do and it is clearly in the best interest of the country?

    If the Republicans let Obama get the tax cuts and the stimulus he wanted the economy would be a lot better and no one would be talking about a Republican President.

    And then after 8 years of Obama you wold get at least 4 more years of a Dem.  Probably Hillary.  And if the Dem does well during the first 4 you can forget about a Republican President for a long, long time.

    They know this is at stake because anyone with two eyes can see this.

    George Bush the Dumber set the stage for Obama to be our best modern day President and that opportunity hasn’t passed yet.

    You guys are going to be upset when he does everything he wants to do without your permission in the next year.

  • Yy

    The one good thing we can expect is that Mark Levin will NEVER get an opportunity to be President.

    So tell me what does his words mean in light of that?  Nothing.

    Joe Scarborough? Nothing.

    99% of the House? Nothing.

  • Anonymous

    “Salient points” = words of the day at mediaite.

    Joe is right, no one respects or fears this guy anymore; he is a blamer not a leader and he made a fool of himself yesterday with his whole joint address.

  • Yy

    Why didn’t you losers want THAT country under Reagan?  Why didn’t you want that country under Bush?

    Now all of a sudden we have a financial crisis and you blame everything on Obama.

    Let me ask you was there a FREE way to get us out of the economic problems? Since you hate the stimulus so much was there a free way for us to do it without spending the 800 billion?

  • ObamaSux

    Yi? Nothing
    Barry 0? Nothing

  • ObamaSux

    Too bad FDR is not around anymore.  Yi could have asked him that question.

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

    Stop slurring your words and sober-up! It is much to early in the morning to be drinking so heavily, really!

  • Anonymous

    You’re delusional. Psychological nudity on display.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, shut up, Kook.

  • Anonymous

    No, Obama showed disrespect to Congress. You agree on a date before you announce it.

    Not only is no one afraid of this guy, no one thinks he’s the Messiah anymore either. He is SCOAMF embodied. 

  • Anonymous

    Ah, calling her Brisket was a critique, Kook? You lie, boy.

  • Anonymous

    Unless you’re talking about America’s enemies. Then they’re all about tea and cookies. But Americans who disagree with them? Terrorists.

  • TruDat

    List what you got for the 800 billion other than more DEBT.

  • TruDat

    I can’t name any.

  • Anonymous

    This is like looking in a mirror.

    http://tinyurl.com/3o4v88v

  • Grow up

    Your a child

  • Anonymous

    Aged old queen Robert thinks he’s a better female role model .

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It would be nice if someone at ‘Morning Joe’ told Scarborough to shut-up for a second and let other people express their opinions!!

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think

    You could have stopped right there.

  • Anonymous

    They should have just done an Oval Office address, then they wouldn’t need permission from Congress.

  • Anonymous

    When did Bush try anything like this? Never. You lie.

  • Anonymous

    Moochelle, on the other hand…

  • Anonymous

    Congress wasn’t even going to convene until 6:00 pm and a resolution is customarily passed to allow access. Then it takes time to do a surveillance sweep. There wasn’t enough time logistically and Obama had to know this. The president’s timing was calculated for political purposes.

  • ExPat ExLawyer

    I had the same thought last night:  would I be objective about this had a Republican pulled this stunt?  I like to think I would be, but trying to picture a Republican doing something this politically stupid and petty was impossible.  Frankly, it was pretty impossible to picture ABO doing it.  When the annoucement of the speech date was announced I was even stunned that O would be so stupid to do it.  But then I remembered that Obama also claimed doctors jack up their bills by taking out tonsils unneccessarily, to pick one of many, many examples of what an utter fool he is – utterly divorced from the real world.

  • ExPat ExLawyer

    Nice that you supported your assertions with examples.  After all, it’s obvious to everyone how much the MSM covered for Bush, right?

  • ExPat ExLawyer

    I think those two propaganda plants from Progress Now – the tag team of Valkyrie and that 116 person win the title on this one.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Joe’s absolutely right. There is no fear of Obama. He has nothing in that sack. Politically, he hit the nail on the head what any president should do when denied by the opposing party. I have no idea who runs the communications staff in the administration, but it’s a joke to attempt to hold a big speech on the same night as the presidential debate and then say it was coincidental. George Bush wasn’t the brightest bulb in the house, but he, at least, surrounded himself with the best strategists and advisors.

  • ObamaSux

    No Real American considers 0bama to be his or her President.

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

    He showed disrespect to the congress because there only there for two days and he wanted to see them the first day they got back?

    Congress is 500 people and the country is 300 million he is addressing us and he should hold back for some republican presidential hopefuls?

    Do you realize these are the people who have the power and the people at the debate don’t have any power in this situation?

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

    I guess you don’t see all the truly angry and racist comments that everyone else is making..
    And I guess you don’t see the Obozo’s or the Bammys or the Messiahs or the Man-Childs etc., etc.

    Go F yourself and your sanctamony and righteous indignation.

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

    So….you equate a real life father not paying his child support with President Obama not paying off all of the naitonal debt in one fell swoop?

    I usually don’t like to go to the worst case senario but are you on crack?

  • jim

    Did you actually have a straight face when you typed that? Really? Please explain how you completely reject any compromise whatsoever by claiming “I won” and do that “as politely as a church lady.”

    You can’t. And anyone with two functioning brain cells can clearly see that. Obama thought he didn’t need Republicans because he had large Democratic majorities. He was the one who threw down the gauntlet and started the partisan bickering practically the day he took office by essentially telling Republicans that they could go do rude things to themselves.

    And now he wants to whine because, after two years of running roughshod over Republicans simply because he could, he now NEEDS them to save his presidency and get him re-elected. Sorry. But you and your friends thought it was just great that he arrogantly dismissed Republicans when he took office, now you have to lay in the bed that the Child-in-Chief made.

    Maybe next time you’ll vote for someone who actually understands the Constitution and that the presidency isn’t a monarchy.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    The entire discussion in the clip is a bunch of bunk founded on the partisanship, maneuvering and political brinkmanship to which S&P referred in their downgrade.

    I don’t know if senior White House aides were aware of the Republican debate, but someone should have checked the schedule and I assume that it also wasn’t on Boehner’s radar initially, but they should have had someone vet the date. In another clip, Carney says someone called and it sounds like the person on the phone in Boehner’s office wasn’t looking at their Yahoo: Calendar at the time, plus it sounds like the White House didn’t wait for a formal acceptance before their announcement.

    Nevertheless, once the date was out there and blogs like this called it a shrewd political move, Boehner’s office had no choice but to push back. Colby and others claimed it’d diminish the Republican field and some bloggers implied that it was purposeful, what else was Boehner to do? The problem in this instance isn’t that they aren’t politically afraid of the President or in this era of anti-pork, the President is going to effectively lobby against one of Speaker Boehner’s pet projects. Instead, the date should have been cleared by the White House, Boehner’s office needs to coordinate better with the Republican field and the speech should not have been announced until it was on the calendar.

    Of course, what makes this all the more of a political loss for President Obama, in addition to a blowhard saying he “caved” or Morning Joe calling weak is that the speech is going to be a disappointment, especially after all of this added hype. Short of direct hiring, something the Republicans aren’t going to allow, most everything the President will propose will have to go through Congress and the political system, then whatever gets passed will need time to work. There’s not going to be an instant creation of jobs next week and programs to goose the economy or rhetoric geared toward the private sector are going to need time to work, a hard row to hoe, especially in an election year.

  • Ksim42

    Really? How does that work? I mean, beyond a knee-jerk, “I hate this guy so much, if he says the sky is blue, I’ll disagree” kind of way. How exactly is rooting for a President to fail helpful? Full disclosure in that I was highly critical of Bush, but it was out of immense frustration in how bad a president he was, not a schadenfreude orgasm at all his plentiful mistakes.

  • Ksim43

    Wow, two examples. You sure pwned him.

  • Ksim43

    So the GOP claims the president is ignoring the jobs crisis and when the president wants to convene a joint session to address the jobs crisis, that’s no good either because there is a debate of candidates before any actual primaries in what is essentially the equivalent of an exhibition sporting event before the games count. And Obama is being disrespectful…wow.

  • Ksim43

    You’re an idiot.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Now, who could keep up with the Palin children’s names? What kind of names are Bristol, Willow, Track, Piper and Trig for Christian children? If people confuse these names with Brisket, Sap, Gym, Cessna and Algebra, what of it? It’s no reflection on the children, simply on some really poor choices by their parents. And, besides, I think Brisket encouraged her to lose some pounds. Is that a bad thing?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Right. That’s why we captured and killed Bin Laden. Deposed tyrants in Egypt and Libya. Are in the process of deposing a tyrant in Syria. Soft on bad people. That’s us. What would you have us do? Fly Saudis out of the US? That showed them, didn’t it? 

  • Ricci Dats Me

    I think its amazing that she has a mystic lens into the world of “what would have happened if.” There are a lot of pundits and posters out there that share this same mirror. They also have this magic ability to say “who would have done what” regarding past matters like, for example, the way Bush responded when told about the 9/11 attacks. You KNOW today.. and if you want a reminder of the “WHAT” and “WOULD” people scroll back to the election a few years back and scratch your head about the fact that Obama is president against all of the whats and woulds. I suggest taking it upon yourself to determine if ANY of these fools are up for the job and if not, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY because, uh, we’ve had a few decades of decline in a certain population and in certain areas (education, health care, taxes) and we may be due to 10 more because NO ONE IS TELLING YOUR A SOLUTION.. NO ONE.. its all about WHATS and WOULDS.

  • Anonymous

    Good call.

  • Anonymous

    Mercy! You got all that from my simple statement of the obvious? I think you need to temper your imagination with some discipline and objectivity.

  • Curt

    Are you serious?  “Unfailing civility and politeness”?!  Did you HEAR the democrat just say yesterday that the tea Party wants to see blacks hanging from trees? Are Rep Waters (Democrat) saying the Tea Party can go to hell?  Are these comments from Deocrats “essentially civil and optimistic”?  I am a Tea Party person, we are regularly called Nazis, Racists, Tea-baggers, Homophobes, and recently it’s been escalated to terrorists.  I’m no fan of the Republicans either, but these “civil and polite” comments are always, yes always, coming from Democrats.  And even you, who sounds somewhat reasonable, call Republicans Teapublicans, a snarky little dig.  How can you possibly sit in such denial of what your party sounds like?  It’s utterly amazing to many of us.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    As far as incivility is concerned, and if YOU are concerned about it, address it when either party is deemed guilty, not selectively. My history teachers convinced me that there never was this Utopia in American politics when there was NO incivility. Politicians verbally attack other politicians. My own concern would be the hypocrisy (Libs).

    Joe Walsh was right (proven) Obama lies!

    Joe doesn’t pay his bills because Charlie Rangel convinced him that it was alright not to.

    Why does Joe hate his kids? Why does Bill “love” Monica. I dunno. I choose not to get into Joe’s personal life.

  • bhodie

    I have the feeling President Obama doesn’t want people to fear him, but he would like their respect and an ability to work together…Do most of you morons not have to work together in your profession, or do you teapublicans only crave fear from other people…I guess that is why Perry turns you on, you fear him…..Morons!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    and don’t leave out the thousands of “Bush is a ____” (monkey, chimp, hitler, cowboy, drunk, druggie, daddy’s boy, draft dodger, etc.)… I’m sure that’s just an oversight on your part.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Did you even READ the memo Boehner sent to the president? What was in it that was disrespectful? These are equal branches of gov’t. Obama is no “Real Royal Emperor”, he just plays one on TV (and in D.C., apparently)

    Oh, I forgot, NOBODY, but NOBODY, is supposed to even look like they are challenging the liberals’ Dear Leader!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Two? I guess “progressives” can’t count too well either. If you want even more, just Google “Democrat makes racist comments”… and BINGO!

  • Norbit

    …And nobody watches MSNBC either Joe, so what’s your point?

    The real hope for the country is that his coat tails will sweep about a whole bunch of other Democrats with him!

  • Anonymous

    Only 39% approve of the president, so 61% of the country are racist! 

    (It’s called Maxine Waters/CBC math!)

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    “However, the House GOP have been playing needless and petty politics with the White House for the past six months, though they seem to be immune to the same criticism that the White House has received. ”

    That’s because Obama is the PRESIDENT.  The President is a more high profile position than a body of people. Therefore he gets more attention as the person who is President as opposed to a group of people.  That’s part of being President.  It comes with the job, Air Force One, living in the White House, Marine One, Camp David, etc.  Something Obama doesn’t seem to understand, nor does Colby.

  • Anonymous

    He’s getting his joint session. He’s just not getting it the day Congress reconvenes. He shouldn’t have announced it without agreement on the date. And if he wants to give that speech Wednesday, he can do so. He just can’t do it to a joint session.

  • Anonymous

    What does any of that have to do with you lying, Kook? 

  • Anonymous

    We deposed Mubarak and Gaddhafi? No, Kook, we did not. We’re not deposing Assad either. We did depose Saddam Hussein, though, so yay! for America.

  • Anonymous

    No, that’s not what I did. I was staying on topic.

  • Anonymous

    NO-PLAN OBOZO is so irrelevant that his teleprompter readings sound like nothing more than background static.

    While America burns, obozo fiddles – and by fiddle I mean: parties in the White House, golfs, goes on taxpayer-funded vacations and attends fund-raisers for his re-election.

    One Term obozo – guaranteed!!!!

  • Anonymous

    One Pissed Off Nation Under Obama

  • Anonymous

    Your buddy 0blamey is the one that got pwned.  He tried to pull a power move and got straight-up stuffed. 

  • Anonymous

    Al Gore: “If you don’t believe in global warming, you are a racist.”

    You are so full of crap your eyes are brown. Do you understand what quotation marks are and how to use them? You’re either a lying piece of crap or an inbred hillbilly teabagger not educated enough to understand the proper use of quotation marks. Come to think of it, you’re probably both. Let me help you with a definition of quotation marks.

    Definition:
    Either of a pair of punctuation marks (“curly” or “straight”) used primarily to mark the beginning and end of a passage attributed to another and repeated WORD for WORD.

    See how that works dumbass? Pay attention to the word for word part and show me where Al Gore said if you don’t believe in global warming you are a racist. In other words, you can’t make shit up, slap quotation marks around it, and pass it off as a quote. I understand that the complexity of Gore’s analogy went over your head and inside your pea-sized teabagging brain that is what you heard, but that’s not what he said. Since you probably won’t understand this post, next lesson I’ll explain what an analogy is to you.

  • Anonymous

    If that were the case he would have scheduled his appointment before announcing it. That is how you work together. He didn’t and he looks like an idiot.

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

    “When the story broke yesterday, I very early — and perhaps prematurely — called this a politically smart move for the White House”

    Well that’s because you’re stupid and carry water for Obama for a living. If you can call this a “living”. But anyone else with more than half a brain saw it for the petty political move that it was which would only please simple fools. Case in point.

  • Anonymous

    You are a a$$hole.  Say what you really mean no true hillbilly teabagger considers this black man to be his or her President.

  • Anonymous

    Obama could have made this an oval office address.  What he wanted, however, was a way to scold Congress in their own house, not unlike he did with Rep. Ryan some months back.  So, he got called on his pettiness, and rightly so.  He could still make this an oval office address on the 7th, but nooooo…he needs to wag his finger at Congress.  And they’re not buying it, nor should they.

  • ObamaSux

    MM is just upset because his boyfriend left him last night.

  • Anonymous

    Just wait, this is going to get better.  Oregon_conservative is opening his mouth.

    Insert testicles.

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

    Obama, and plenty past and probably future presidents, conveniently likes to forget that his position wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for Congress and the American people. We’re the boss, not him. And I like seeing any power-hungry person being put in their place.

  • Anonymous

    “You are so full of crap your eyes are brown. See how that works dumbass?”

    Ah, libby boy, the King was saying something about Dem civility and politeness????

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    Here is a fourth one, child:

    “Let us all remember who the real enemy is. The real enemy is the Tea Party,” Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) said at a Miami town hall, according to a report by the Miami Herald. ”

    And that’s just in 2 weeks!

  • Anonymous

    If it is such an important speech, why not give it on Tuesday. You know, the first day of the work week?

  • Anonymous

    You really want to stay with that statement? lol

    Goodness gracious man, have you been living in a bubble?  Bush never got criticized?  lol

  • Anonymous

    another bone head statement – ask Maxine about unfailing civility.  Are you for real?  You are trying all the time sweet cheeks.  

  • Anonymous

    Cause we had the honour of watching it, remember?  The Pres has said more rude, condescending, outright childish things to the republicans and then he has the nerve to  DEMAND co-operation.  

    He figures that we are like parents who forget when our kids say dumb things to us and just keep slogging along – hoping he’ll grow out of it.  Not happening.  

  • Anonymous

    This speech is so vital to America’s future that Obama spent 10 on vacation at Martha’s Vineyard  playing golf

  • DietCokeHead

    I don’t hate Obama, but i’m highly critical of him b/c of my immense frustration in how bad a president he is. happy?

  • DietCokeHead

    If you weren’t such an obtuse moron, I would think this is meant to be a highly ironic joke. Liberals are the most ill-mannered, selfish, disgusting, boorish human beings on the planet. You’re completely deranged, but at this point I think you’d fit right in with the mediaite staff. This site is jumping the shark in ultra slow motion, and tommy is rockin’ the leather jacket.

  • ObamaSux

    MM could give OC instructions because he has a great deal of experience.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_J6K37DAH5SHYQQ5Y77FKNJYFBM Rodolfo V.

    Joey boy! The only poll that will make any difference is the one in November 2012! Everyone is taking shots at president Obama and you should not take one either! Here’s my view: I knew This would be the out come of when to address the Congress. President Obama does not have to compete with the seven dwarfs or “Queen Tears”! With a better standing in the polls than any of the dwarfs, the president and everyone else knows this will be one contentious Republican primary. We need to know who will come out on top, and I personally want to see if there will be a debate. Last time there was no debate, they just took turns hammering the president. This “do nothing-inhibit the president” Congress will again do nothing as their entire concentration is to stymie the president and kill every bill passed by the last Congress. This Congress has been taken over by the confrontational TEA party, rendering the GOP defunct and useless! It astounds me that people are easily manipulated and gullible to fall for the lies and falsifications put forth by the TEA party. How can educated Americans get so hood-winked by these single viewed, one-eyed career politicians? There is repeated emphasis that this is President Obama’s legacy. The failed recovery and a double-dip recession, is in fact this Congress’ failed recovery and recession. Congress has the purse strings and legislation which controls the US economy. The president is a class man, effective leader authorizing the killing of Bin Ladin, moving out of Moammar Khaddafy, and second-in-command Atiyah abd al-Rahman is dead! Let’s see who’s gonna be his rival from the TEA/GOP/Republican primary!

  • Darladoon

    great, 4.

    we’re talking about millions vs. a handful

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    You can’t blame Democrats for being truthful now can you?

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    Really, someone gives you a cogent explanation and you come out with a homophobic snark, what are you 5?

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    You should get yourself checked, you’ve apparently fallen and hit your head very hard at some point.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    Nope, it was Bush who claimed to be the great uniter.  Remember how well that worked out?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    You say Obama has a “better standing in the polls than any of the dwarfs”?

    perhaps you have been reading them MSNBC inside-the-beltway polls….

    However, at least one poll has Perry up by 3 in the general election: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/elections/

    And by 46% to 42%, a poll found that those surveyed said they believed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would do a better job than Obama. They split almost evenly 43% to 41% on whether Obama or Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the GOP front-runner according to most polls, would be better on the economy.
    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-quinnipiac-cnn-obama-economy-20110901,0,2392659.story

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    exactly right…

  • Jayamerican1

    In other words our ideas and beliefs have proven to be total failures..let’s try not to look like total losers as we slink out.

  • Jayamerican1

    Why does Joe Walsh hate his kids”

    Probably because they are progressives

  • Anonymous

    Hey I’m just a guy with very little education, but Donald trump hit the ball out of the park several times in his rating OBAMA as a president NO FORIEGN Country trusts. (On Fox News)

  • Snake5875

    I think that says something about the people getting polled Mitt ” the man who would dissolve companies  profit at any cost” Romney or Rick “2.2 and D IN ECONOMICS” Perry. The idea anyone would vote for them speaks to the ignorance of those voting for them.

  • Snake5875

    Obama has taken about half or less vacation days than George “W.M.D.’s, WATER-BOARDING IS OK” Bush, wait thank God Bush was away from the Office if he was there any more There would be no economy, no liberty, and he would of started 10 more wars.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    How very, um, “civil” of you…

  • Anonymous

    If this speech were so vital, why didn’t he give it THREE YEARS ago when we needed it desperately?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    well, look at Obama – he made it all the way to president! GTFOH!! There’s hope for us all!

    btw, anybody seen Obama’s transcript? should be all “A’s” from the way his toadies portray him (and the way they look down at his college educated opponents).

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    or ask Obama about Lybia…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    “Clear Holder out before he is indicted “? I’d rather indict Holder before he clears out!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    “the only ones who remain will be the true believers and the bottom feeders”? … that’s where they started!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    I know you “followers” don’t remember half the shit Dear Leader says but…

    Obama Said He Can Unite U.S. ‘More Effectively’ Than Clinton http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401939.html

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    um, no, not at all… definitely not during this administration… we’ll never be able to blame them for being truthful… noway, nohow.

  • Anonymous

    That was a rhetorical question to remind the reader of an obvious fact. In 2008 “The Great Uniter” was used in many publications describing Obama in order to promote him. Yes, he was touted as the one who would bring the world together, not just the United States.

  • Anonymous

    As if Trumps foreign policy expertise, grab dat oil,  or his birther nonsense makes him credible?

  • Anonymous

    Sorry but most racists are right wingers like today’s cons and teabaggers. Just for the record, it was a righty here who started running his ignorant mouth about those chimerical liberal racists

  • Anonymous

    Tossing out quotes from random people is a terrible way to prove a point, but that is the way talk radio trains its feeble minded fans to respond.

  • Anonymous

    And what kind of civility or reason do you bring here? NONE!

  • Anonymous

     No one ever thought he was the messiah. Right wing talk radio scums got that meme going to gin up their theotard fans

  • Anonymous

    Wow, that is so elevated. At best that is a two wrongs do make a right argument.

  • Anonymous

     Brisket is just a roast, so what is the big deal?

  • Anonymous

    But you are crude and ugly yourself, it is your essence, So you never had a problem with that

  • Anonymous

    As if the non thinking, non elitist types like you and the talk radio scum who gin you up were totally into working together and finding common ground? Your low class ilk hated Obama long before he even won the election and did your level best to slime him incessantly with all sorts of garbage like the birther lies, Only a totally mental midget can pretend that it was all or even mostly Obama’s fault, look in the mirror.

  • Anonymous

    Always?? Only Democrats and liberals do that?? You sound like just another simple tea bag head. You are no fan of the GOP since they are too left and elitist for a simple minded fanatic like you,

  • Anonymous

    You seem to be giving them a run for the money.

  • Anonymous

    For what exactly? Come on, I want to hear you come up with something rational and significant to indict Holder on, I still have a lot of hope for you.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, they bought them all off. What a load of cynical rubbish. Actually the people on the dole usually vote the least of any demographic.

  • Anonymous

    So, I’m a low class hater for pointing out the demonstrably obvious? Aren’t you going to call me a racist too? Denying the reality of Obama’s divisiveness won’t do anything to turn it around.

  • Snake5875

    He has been The GOP has been stonewalling him.

  • Snake5875

    Both Houses are only there on Wednesday and Thursday.

  • Snake5875

    Harvard law Cum Laude nuff said ,  Rick “2.2″ Perry that’s not graduating that’s failing if you can’t graduate on the deans list you are wasting time!

  • Snake5875

     Teabagger Anti-American what do you think Bush’s Presidency or the ignorant Oafs in the GOP. Republican wins 2012 all America’s unemployment rate 80% corporations make record profit, camps with tens of thousands of starving Americans, UN sends aide to U.S. starving rate higher than Somalia, more record profits minimum wage now $.10

  • Anonymous

    Well show me your Harvard grad transcripts first, professor

  • Anonymous

    When the Republican win the whole country fails except for the top 2% of course.  Even FDR said it.  

  • Anonymous

    When the Republican win the whole country fails except for the top 2% of course.  Even FDR said it.  

  • Anonymous

    Because the Jerk was too busy playing with his socialistic tinker toy set and masturbating over ObamoCare.

    Obamo is an IDIOT…he needs dueling teleprompters for every effing thing he says and we’ve never seen his transcripts, either. Obamo was ‘helped along’ in college, we all agree.

    Libs who kneel Lewinsky-like before Obamo must be so depressed that Their Boy is going to get destroyed in 2012 and is a Lame D_ick now.

  • Anonymous

    For a Lib guv-mint worker in D.C., Tuesday is the ONLY day of work. The other four weekdays they’re busy tending to their mansions and Cadillac Escalades.

  • Anonymous

    The only song Maxine Waters sings—from Hell–is the one titled, ‘Guv-Mint can HEP U.’

  • Anonymous

    Mika = ‘Tears of a Clown.’ This Leftist media shrew is like all the others…sad and crestfallen with the knowledge that they forced Obamo on us and that the noose is around their necks, too.

    I LOVE seeing the anger and despair on the faces of Lib media hacks as their socialistic world-view gets napalmed from within. Paul Krugman, for example, is due for a jump from a tall Manhattan building…if only he weren’t so limp-wristed. The haughty faculty-lounge Enron adviser is always rage-filled; I pray for the safety of his family…if he has one.

  • Anonymous

    That picture of a forlorn-looking, sad Mika was probably repeated this morning when no new jobs were added in August and the unemployment rate remained very high. “I sold this man to everyone and now I look like an accomplice to a crime…which I guess I am.”

  • Anonymous

    Funny how you can provide no similar quotes made by Repubs.

  • Anonymous

    Dragoon, that was just from the last 2 weeks! I see you could provide not one example of a Conservative saying such crude things.

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans have beaten down this Obama guy to the point where he is nothing to the American people anymore! He is no longer allowed to even speak to the country without their permission. He needs to return to the comfort and safety of academia. History will not be kind to this ‘president(?)’.

  • Anonymous

    Like when Reagan was President? Yeah, right, it was just the top 2% who prospered. What a moronic statement!

  • Anonymous

    First time Mika ever got anything right.

  • Anonymous

    Real wages were stagnant under Reagan caused by deregulation and trickle down economics that didn’t trickle down.  

  • Anonymous

    GOP has been playing needless and petty politics with the White House for the past six months such as with  debt crisis debate that lead to credit downgrade, but MSM has immune the same criticism that the   White House has received.  MSM does not frame the tenor of their question so that they point criticism at the GOP.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s not forget that GOP disrespect is just not happening
    to the President, but it is happening to all Americans.

  • Anonymous

    If President Obama were not an African American, this would not have happen.

  • Anonymous

    The Speaker of the House, third in line to succeed the presidency was spineless.   He is Limbaugh use puppet.  Limbaugh vetoed civil behavior between the two branches of government.  Boehner was weakling for not standing up to Limbaugh.  Boehner played needless and petty politics.
      

  • Snake5875

    And dumb *ss Sarah has to read it off her hands because she is to illiterate to use  a teleprompter.

  • Snake5875

    How many more vacation days did George “WMD, can’t say nuclear” Bush.

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

    Americans shouldn’t be fearing it’s President. This one you have to fear. He’s in the process of destroying what took a long time to build. Had enough yet?

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