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Mike Huckabee: ‘How Is It Possible To Believe The President’ On Debt Urgency When He’s Out Fundraising

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Mike Huckabee appeared with Lou Dobbs and expressed such frustration with President Obama that Dobbs appropriately wondered whether or not Huckabee was having second thoughts about deciding not to run for President? Although Huckabee threw cold water on the prospect of re-opening that door, he didn’t hesitate to take both Obama and Congress to task for saying one thing (that without a debt deal there will be catastrophic results) and yet acting completely different.

Huckabee particularly doubted the sincerity of Obama’s statements:

“How is it possible for us to believe the President when on one hand he says ‘this is so urgent we have to absolutely stay here until we get it done’ and then he’s out making fundraising speeches, he’s doing interviews with local television stations, he’s taking the weekend off . . . maybe he’s got a golf game or something.”

And Huckabee was disappointed with members of both parties in Congress since if “[Treasury Secretary Tim] Geithner is out there saying it’s Armageddon” then why is Congress taking time to play softball? “If a meteor is heading toward Earth and about to crash, do you still keep the softball game on the docket,” Huckabee comically asked. Dobbs agreed, saying that it’s completely jarring for a potential economic Armageddon to occur August 2nd, while on August 3rd Obama urges people to come celebrate his birthday in Chicago and write a huge check for his campaign.

Anyone familiar with pulling all-nighters to finish an important assignment can certainly sympathize with Huckabee’s sentiment here. If reaching a deal truly is urgent, then why don’t both sides get in a locked room, stay up all night, and not be allowed to leave until a solution is reached? Although maybe that’s still the plan for the final few days before the deadline?

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  • Anonymous

    Don’t inject truth into the conversation here bigeddieguy – the media don’t like it when the public talks about what they chose to spike.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    All Obama has done is made 2012 that much more exciting. I can’t for the Palin vs. Obama debates! Epic!

  • Kermit

    This is just terrible!!!  Asking Corporation to pay their fair share and the upper 1% to pay more is just ridiculous….  The can’t afford  to spare it. 

    But hey lets dump the burden on the rest of us who are suffering not because they sent our jobs over seas and have given us a raise in 20 years….  We can handle it!  Were used to suffering.  Bring it on Baby!!

    The only thing Huckabee is concerned about is his own money….. not what is best for this country… what a hypocrite!!!!

  • Michelle

    ‘How Is It Possible To Believe The President’ On Debt Urgency When He’s Out Fundraising

    And hosting a birthday party where you are charging $35,000.  Yeah, you’d in touch Obama.

  • Kermit

    Hello MIchelle……… are you for real?  Where has our president been every day this week?  Get some facts!  Turn off your TV, read a paper!!

  • Kermit

    Hello MIchelle……… are you for real?  Where has our president been every day this week?  Get some facts!  Turn off your TV, read a paper!!

  • Michelle

    I’m sorry, are you denying that Obama is hosting a birthday party where they guests are charged $35,000 to meet The One?  YOU get some facts.

  • Michelle

    I’m sorry, are you denying that Obama is hosting a birthday party where they guests are charged $35,000 to meet The One?  YOU get some facts.

  • Michelle

    Kermit, what is your definition of “their fair share”?  Is it 50%m 60%, 70%, 100??  I’d like a number here, not spin.  What percentage of their income do you think the rich should forfeit?

  • Michelle

    Kermit, what is your definition of “their fair share”?  Is it 50%m 60%, 70%, 100??  I’d like a number here, not spin.  What percentage of their income do you think the rich should forfeit?

  • Roderick

    WCinWI 1 hour ago in reply to NotaPoliticalComic All Obama has done is made 2012 that much more exciting. I can’t for the Palin vs. Obama debates! Epic!  You’re as retarded as Palin if you believe that Palin wouldn’t get smashed by Obama in a debate.As she has demonstrated on many occasions Palin doesn’t have the emotional maturity to be president. She takes every single criticism personally and has to take time to respond. As president you don’t have time to take every petty criticism personally or the time to respond. Maybe she could do that as governor of a state with a population of less than a million but not as president of a country of more than 300 million.

  • Michelle

    Roderick, I think you are forgetting that teleprompters aren’t allowed in debates.  The One sounds like a bumbling moron without one.  But in his defense, when you are constantly worried you may accidentally tell the folks what you really think and want, it’s tough to talk off the cuff. 

  • Michelle

    Roderick, I think you are forgetting that teleprompters aren’t allowed in debates.  The One sounds like a bumbling moron without one.  But in his defense, when you are constantly worried you may accidentally tell the folks what you really think and want, it’s tough to talk off the cuff. 

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

    Let us ALL thank Obama for his contributions to the discussion in the last week.

    He has broken the truth about Social Security! It is NOT solvent until 2037, if it was how could he not make the payments this coming month?

    He has told EVERYONE that him being re elected is more IMPORTANT than the credit rating of the nation.

    He has stated outright that 80% of the country wants to do things his way, unless of course you look at ANY real poll and know that is a bald faced LIE.

    He is STILL in Libya bombing away and now Shrillery has come out and said that they will steal the funds of a sovereign nation and give them to someone else. Hmmmm, when do you think the leftists will call Obama a war monger?

    Thanks Obama for showing us the TRUE LEFT these past 2.7 years. Only 1.3 years to go until you are GONE!

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

    Let us ALL thank Obama for his contributions to the discussion in the last week.

    He has broken the truth about Social Security! It is NOT solvent until 2037, if it was how could he not make the payments this coming month?

    He has told EVERYONE that him being re elected is more IMPORTANT than the credit rating of the nation.

    He has stated outright that 80% of the country wants to do things his way, unless of course you look at ANY real poll and know that is a bald faced LIE.

    He is STILL in Libya bombing away and now Shrillery has come out and said that they will steal the funds of a sovereign nation and give them to someone else. Hmmmm, when do you think the leftists will call Obama a war monger?

    Thanks Obama for showing us the TRUE LEFT these past 2.7 years. Only 1.3 years to go until you are GONE!

  • Roderick

    Yeah Michelle I guess Obama didn’t do too badly in his debates against McCain without a teleprompter or is your memory that poor?

    I can only imagine how Palin will do in a debate where she actually has to answer the questions asked of her instead of just repeating non-answers as she did in the VP debate back in 2008.

  • Roderick

    Yeah Michelle I guess Obama didn’t do too badly in his debates against McCain without a teleprompter or is your memory that poor?

    I can only imagine how Palin will do in a debate where she actually has to answer the questions asked of her instead of just repeating non-answers as she did in the VP debate back in 2008.

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

    That is why he stutters and stammers. Someone a while back tried saying that it is because of his huge brain! He has to try and remember all of his lies, that is the problem with a pathological liar, they always get caught by their own lies.

    Being honest and forthright is a major problem for leftists, they continually hit head long into that cognitive dissonant wall that shatters their world view. That is why they continue to lie and obfuscate in debates.

    I do not see Obama allowing one debate for the upcoming elections. If he does, he loses on the facts alone in the debate. Anyone will be able to destroy him in the debate. They have nothing left but lies. Just one item has destroyed the left’s argument and Obama is the one that did it. He threatened that if the debt ceiling was not raised, Social Security checks would not get out. The leftists have been saying that SS is solvent to 2037, how can that be if Obama just said they had to borrow the money for it?

  • Michelle

    You’re rewriting history, she did GREAT against Biden the gaffe machine.

  • Michelle

    You’re rewriting history, she did GREAT against Biden the gaffe machine.

  • Roderick

    Wow you sound like Michele Bachmann the other night when she was stating that everything would be ok if we only pay the interest on the debt.

    First of all maybe you need to look at the typical schedule of Obama or any previous president and realize that the position requires him to multi-task. I know you don’t want to accept that fact because neither your beloved Simple Saint Sarah Palin nor Michele Bachmann would be up to the task.

    As for Social Security maybe you should look up the word solvency and not rely on the Michele Bachman/Sarah Palin definition. LOL

    BTW the only side that has consistantly placed partisanship above the priorities of jobs and the debt ceiling are the Republicans with Mitch McConnel stating on several occasions that his priorty is to make Obama a one-term president.  

     But keep lying to yourself if it makes you feel better.

  • Roderick

    Only in your world would someone who didn’t answer the questions do great.

    Heck the woman kept calling Biden O’Biden during her practice sessions and that’s why she asked to call him Joe at the beginning of the debate.

    Everyone thought it was cute but it was because she’s too quirky.

  • Michelle

    His schedule seems to leave him ALOT of time for gold and vacations.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Michelle, what is so hard for you to understand that the President and the Democratic Party are the people who trying to do things to help people like you. Now pardon me for assuming that you are not a multimillionaire.  As you can see there are people who will pay 35k to hang with the president. Even though you are not one of those, the President will press these people to pay higher taxes and they will to help the country. While youconservatives sit there on your ass making smart ass remarks belittling people who have your best interest at heart. What is wrong with you? Are you really this stupid or are you just one of those who didn’t pay any attention in government class?

  • Republicans are Liars

    Michelle, what is so hard for you to understand that the President and the Democratic Party are the people who trying to do things to help people like you. Now pardon me for assuming that you are not a multimillionaire.  As you can see there are people who will pay 35k to hang with the president. Even though you are not one of those, the President will press these people to pay higher taxes and they will to help the country. While youconservatives sit there on your ass making smart ass remarks belittling people who have your best interest at heart. What is wrong with you? Are you really this stupid or are you just one of those who didn’t pay any attention in government class?

  • Republicans are Liars

    Michelle, what is so hard for you to understand that the President and the Democratic Party are the people who trying to do things to help people like you. Now pardon me for assuming that you are not a multimillionaire.  As you can see there are people who will pay 35k to hang with the president. Even though you are not one of those, the President will press these people to pay higher taxes and they will to help the country. While youconservatives sit there on your ass making smart ass remarks belittling people who have your best interest at heart. What is wrong with you? Are you really this stupid or are you just one of those who didn’t pay any attention in government class?

  • Anonymous

    He/she is in fact as retarded as Palin. Sarah, not T.

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

    I know, I know, I know, multi tasking is VERY DIFFICULT. With all the parties, golfing, fundraising, etc it is amazing he has any time to actually get ANY work done. I am amazed about his help he has given the Republicans in the upcoming election.

    Destroying the economy is a hard thing to do so I am sure we the people should give him a long vacation. By the way, point out ONE lie I stated in my comment. Prove that it is a lie. See, you just stating something does not make it a fact. This is not Al Gore’s council on how to become filthy rich.

    And what the HE!! does Michelle or Sarah have to do with my comment? I was addressing what Obama and OTHER lying Democrats have said. That SS is solvent til 2037. If that is SO, why would no checks get out? When was he lying, just now or before.

    Now go away before I taunt you a second time.

  • Roderick

    Really? Seriously?

    Can you tell me how much time he’s taken for vacations since he’s been in office especially when compared to W?

    Obama may take a weekend here and those fundraisers are usually squeezed in between official trips. But I don’t expect you to come back with any hard facts.

  • Michelle

    You’re right RaL, I am one of the people who should love your policies.  And I would if I wanted a handout or to live in a Socialist society, I would love them.  I want to live in a country where if you work hard, you can make a lot of money.  Those people are the job creators, like my boss.  If the gov’t was taking 70 or 80% of my earning, why would I continue to work my butt off? 

  • Roderick

    First of all you have no idea how government accounting is done. There are no actual funds in any government account they are just a bunch of numbers just like your bank account. That is the reason that Obama stated what he did about Social Security checks may not go out because at this time the U.S. government is paying out more money on its obligations than it is taking in thanks to the fact that taxes paid are at their lowest level in almost sixty years.

  • Roderick

    Still repeating the Rush’s lies I see. Taxes are at their lowest levels in over 50 years. So please state facts not fiction.

  • skrilla

     Well Michelle…under Eisenhauer, that rate was in the 80%s and the country was doing just fine…as a matter of fact, that’s how we truly became the greatest country in the world after WW2…because we formed a STRONG middle class while asking every group to pay their fair share!

  • Anonymous

    Along with the like button shouldn’t they have a dumb as a rock button?  Just to be fair.

  • Anonymous

    Come on Mike, that’s not fair. He also has a multi-million dollar birthday bash to plan in addition to all the fundraising.

  • Bob Uda

    The president is a superb politician.  That’s all.  He is not a leader, not a problem solver, not a manager, not a good role model, and certainly does not know how to govern.  He is good at apologizing to foreign countries and bowing to foreign leaders, partying, playing basketball, golfing, lying, speaking with a teleprompter, getting suckers to donate to his campaigns, going on boondoggles, vacationing, and dividing/polarizing the country.  That’s all.  He will be a “has been” after November 6, 2012.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4OKJGDQXPXT4QFKBEKQ5W4CTVE Heather

    I like Mike Huckabee I really wish he was running.

  • Anonymous

    Actually you sound like you do not know how government accounting is done.  Government funds are defined by law and usually limited to their specific purpose (e.g., a water utility collects fees used to run and maintain the water utility – its funds cannot be used for paying police unless they are doing some activity specific to the water utility.  The water utility could be charged for general overhead costs if applicable).  Each fund is expected to carry a positive balance and maintain enough cash on hand to meet its obligations irrespective of the condition of any other fund controlled by the governing entity.  The problem with the Social Security Trust Fund is all its surplus has been borrowed and spent by the federal government.  The people who came up with this “bright idea” figured on the fund always taking in more money than it dispensed.  That is not true any longer in the current economy.  The government must now sell more debt to be able to redeem enough iou’s to send the checks out.

  • Anonymous

    Time for you to go. You add NOTHING to this site. You never have and you never will.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry. I wasn’t taught to act as crass as you. Time for the censors to flush you out. Bye bye troll.

  • Anonymous

    McCain lost the Presidency, not Palin. That’s why Palin against Obama is gonna be epic. Now please, go to a Special Olympics thread and attack the less fortunate. That’s about all you’re good for apparently.

  • Anonymous

    Was that a Big F’ing Deal?

  • Anonymous

    Everyone keeps saying that Obama won’t set up a debate. I will laugh.

    What the Republican candidates should do is have a television besides them, acting as Obama, with all of his one-liners.

    A few let me be clears, a few green jobs, a few “new tone” messages and a few “I’m not sure how I feel about those gays” comments and that would be the Obama Presidency in a nutshell.

  • Mari2JJ

     I do not expect Palin to even be left standing when it is time for the debates.  But if I am wrong, then I can say with certainty that she will need a huge amount of cliff notes oin her hands and even then, she will probably flunk out reading them.  And a comedy on that debate will be one of the all time successful acts for Hollywood..

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

    Ohhhhhh, that is going into my ideas page. The RNC is putting a contest together for creating ads and videos. I am thinking take the debates that have been aired so far, put a little television alongside whoever you would like, say Santorum and after Santorum has answered, have TV Obama or maybe telepromptor Obama say one of his canned answers.

    I really need to get a better computer. It bogs down while I run my video editing software Premiere Pro CS4. The last video I created for my nephew’s wedding pics, it took 20 hours to render a 15 minute video. It was in 720p but geez it took forever.

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

    Ohhhhhh, that is going into my ideas page. The RNC is putting a contest together for creating ads and videos. I am thinking take the debates that have been aired so far, put a little television alongside whoever you would like, say Santorum and after Santorum has answered, have TV Obama or maybe telepromptor Obama say one of his canned answers.

    I really need to get a better computer. It bogs down while I run my video editing software Premiere Pro CS4. The last video I created for my nephew’s wedding pics, it took 20 hours to render a 15 minute video. It was in 720p but geez it took forever.

  • CarmanK

    39% . After they cut the tax loop holes like taking interest on a yacht as 2nd home mortgage interest. The rate doesn’t really matter, if the tax loop holes provide for no  taxable income. And there is nothing more unjust in the income tax code than allowing hedge fund managers to have “their ordinary income” taxed as capital gains. You go to work, you earn your salary and some work at salary plus commissions. You pay taxes on your ORDINARY INCOME. Hedge fund managers, go to work, earn commissions on transactions and then pay taxes as though they were risking their funds on investments, all the while their “commissions’ are guaranteed, no matter the customer win or lose on the transaction. It is EARNED income, just like the guy selling real estate, classified ads etc… They should pay their SS and Medicare and then income tax both federal and state where applicable.

  • Mari2JJ

    Yes, that combination is going to be comedy central.  Obama is very bright and articulate and Palin is, well, Palin.    But I cannot imagine our party allowing that ditzy woman to represent us.  I lived in Alaska and still have kids living there.  Palin was no picnic even as a governor in that oil rich state.   But imagining her in the White House is just a bridge way, way too far for even me.  She is simply far too ditzy!

  • CarmanK

    Palin is not going to run, she is enjoying her celebrity and money, far too much. Her star is on the wane. She is losing spotlight amongst the othern OP whackos.  The republicans picked the wrong battle and with the implosion of the MURDOCH empire, they won’t have the big lies for cover. WI is just the beginning of the CHANGE FROM THE BOTTOM UP. There is no place more symbolic of the atrocious republican violations of democratic rights than Benton Harbor, MI. It is the poster child for taxation without representation, where the republicans installed an Emergency Financial Manager to dictate the future of the town and its assets. And more insulting the 2nd generation CEO of Whirlpool threatens the town’s people: iF THEY don’t stop their protests, and embarrassing his company, he will move his jobs. He thinks Benton harbor is his fiefdom and the republicans in MI have made that possible.

  • Mari2JJ

    I looked and looked to see if anyone here posted any negative statements about GW when he squandered our country’s resources on his silly off-budget wars..  Nope, not a peep out of anyone here that now complains about Obama’s handling of the economy.   So, I am unsure if our Republican  party members are just a pack of racists or are we just unable to read facts and assimilate truths.  But to lie to ones self seems the height of stupidity.  So I really suspect all this hand wringing about Obama is just an act.  And, frankly, it makes no sense in light of the lack of response to Bush’s spending like a drunken sailor.

  • Mari2JJ

    Well, the work ethic of President Obama is refreshing after the long dry years of GW’s Frat boy’s reign.   People in our party seem to forget Bush’s silly record and all of his foibles.  I doubt there will ever be a more feckless person thaty GW that occupies the White House.

  • Anonymous

    Although Huckabee’s a douche that’s responsible for giving us McCain, he’s right on this one, and it’s another reason why America has Armageddon fatigue.

  • Anonymous

    I forgot to add that I hate this new comment section. My local paper uses Disqus and it sucks. Without a timeline, comments are useless.

  • Anonymous

    I forgot to add that I hate this new comment section. My local paper uses Disqus and it sucks. Without a timeline, comments are useless.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t have a clue, you read some stuff on some left wing site and you think you’re in the know. Bush, on paper, had lots of vacation days, no? But… if you look a little closer, most of those “vacation” days were days spent at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. The place was set up similar to Reagan’s “Western White House” in California, and there’s almost nothing that he could do from the real White House that he couldn’t do from his ranch. In short, you’re a douche and a puppet.

  • SYSPROG

    yeah…Hey Huck?  How come you gave up all your ‘principles’ to become a media hack for FAUX and now suck at the teat of the VERY RICH?  How come you think you are even QUALIFIED to ask the President a flippin’ QUESTION when you can speak without your talking points?  Yep you’re such a good Christian and American that you would screw over the common man.  Bleeeccchhhh!

  • SYSPROG

    yeah…Hey Huck?  How come you gave up all your ‘principles’ to become a media hack for FAUX and now suck at the teat of the VERY RICH?  How come you think you are even QUALIFIED to ask the President a flippin’ QUESTION when you can speak without your talking points?  Yep you’re such a good Christian and American that you would screw over the common man.  Bleeeccchhhh!

  • Mari2JJ

    So others have to PROVE their statements but you do not?  Sounds like racist garbage to me.  I am a life long Republican but I have never in my lifetime (and I am really, really old) heard so much racist and/or partisan garbage as I constantly read in these posts about our President.Towards the end, the cracks about GWBush got bad but nothing even close to this sort of hate mongering.  As Republicans, we need to win on the issues and not on this racist, un=American garbage.  It is disgusting here but attend a Republican precinct meeting and then you will know what I am talking about.  For years I lived in the deep South, and have never heard such hate mongering in all of those years.

  • Anonymous

    Exposed, why poor Huck would have been a poor prez. Here he goes again, charitably assuming CommieO and his pals have a working brain, or even know the word work. Brain damage, prerequisite #1, fail economics 101, prerequisite #2, call business evil and mean it, prerequisite #3— my list approaches infinity as to why one must never negotiate with subhumans. Even their own tame muslims say women should be kept barefoot and pregnant, they love sharia law— me too, now if I could just get my wife to go —

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Obama has work ethic?  Wow please tell me another funny one.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Obama has work ethic?  Wow please tell me another funny one.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Obama has work ethic?  Wow please tell me another funny one.

  • Mari2JJ

    Here’s one. ” Our guy, GW, had a work ethic”.  Well he did work tirelessly on the golf course all the time.

  • Mari2JJ

    The proof though is in who won in the General election.  Obama and Biden comes to my mind as the clear winners, eh?  When our party gets decent nominees, we will have no problem winning.  But saddling McCain with that ditzy Palin ended any chance he might have had.  She even tried her “sexy” wink and a nod” but to no avail.  It is a credit to our country that that sort of hip wiggle, then a big wink and then a nod does not affect their vote in the least.

  • Mari2JJ

    You need to check up on the facts.  The Social Security fund is solvent for years to come.  The government is what is having financial problems.  Guess who issues the checks?  Yep, the government.  Social Security funds are NOT in a lock box.  In fact, the only box it has is full of IOUs.  And those IOUs seem to have been equally given by our party and the Democrats.  No one has a good record on preserving funds in the Social Security account.  YOU probably need to read up on government finances so you are not so laughable on these issues.  Both parties have very poor records in preserving special funds in a lock box.  Just did not happen regardless of which party was in power.  That is reality!

  • liggy

    Hey Sparkey, nobody cares.
    What’s up with GOPers and their constant whining ?
    Grow up and accept the fact that this world ain’t about you!

  • liggy

    Hey Sparkey, nobody cares.
    What’s up with GOPers and their constant whining ?
    Grow up and accept the fact that this world ain’t about you!

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

    Yes it is, prove that it isn’t. LOL

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

    Yes it is, prove that it isn’t. LOL

  • liggy

    If you think hard work in America equals “a lot of money” you’re not paying attention.
    Hard work in this right to work state equals low wages and few benefits.

  • liggy

    If you think hard work in America equals “a lot of money” you’re not paying attention.
    Hard work in this right to work state equals low wages and few benefits.

  • Republicans are Liars

    You do work in a country where if you work hard you can make a lot of money, but it is more important to work SMART. Your boss isn’t even coming close to paying 70 – 80% income tax. Do you know what the corporate tax is? Obviously you don’t and if he is a small business man, he probably empties to corporations coffers every year at the end of his fiscal and pays just regular income tax on the profits which is what most small business people do. However, you have got to come to the great realization that we are a socialist society. There is socialism every where and we are better off for it. What part of socialism do you want to get rid of first, the fire department, the police department, the highway department the FCC, FDA, FAA, the army, the VA, the EPA, where do you want to begin dismantling all of these great parts of our society where we come together for the protection of all of us? Get a grip Michelle. Socialism is a great thing in combination with a capitalistic society. But what we are coming to in this country is not capitalism but an oligarchy of corporations that will control all of us. Mom and Pops are going to be a thing of the past. Wal-marts and all giant corporations will take away all incentive and the ability for new ideas to come into the market. That is what’s taking place

  • Mari2JJ

    “not being able to remember all his lies.”  You must be talking about GW.  His answers always depended on the day it was asked.  You know Monday it was “yes”, Thursday it was “no”  and Friday it was, “I never said it”.

  • Mari2JJ

    Do you actually think our party will nominate this ditzy woman.  I simply find that unbelievable.  I guess if they want another drumming on their hands, they could do that,  But I doubt anyone wants to go through all that drama again!

  • Anonymous

    you continue to be the stupidest asshole on the net…..eat ya peas dumbass….and tell your wingnut congressmen to DO THEIR JOBS and legislate…why does President Obama have to all the work for congress????…hes kicking boners sorry ass ….better start thinking for excuses for the republicans allowing the debt ceiling being raised without a single cut of anything…..Obama own you dumb mofos and you know it……

  • Timcajun

    How would Obama’s fundraising, differ from any other past pres, 2nd term running!

  • Anonymous

    Michelle, you clearly don’t understand the tax system. Let’s take 50%. That is not a 50% tax on all income. Everybody pays the same rate on the first dollar they earn, and then a higher rate on their income in the next bracket. The effective tax rate is a combination of the income in the various brackets.

    By the way, I just looked up Marcus Bachmann’s clinic, and I see that he charges on a “sliding scale.” Those who can afford to pay more are expected to pay more, while those who have less income pay less. Isn’t that nice?

  • Anonymous

    Michelle, you clearly don’t understand the tax system. Let’s take 50%. That is not a 50% tax on all income. Everybody pays the same rate on the first dollar they earn, and then a higher rate on their income in the next bracket. The effective tax rate is a combination of the income in the various brackets.

    By the way, I just looked up Marcus Bachmann’s clinic, and I see that he charges on a “sliding scale.” Those who can afford to pay more are expected to pay more, while those who have less income pay less. Isn’t that nice?

  • Anonymous

    Sheez, don’t Americans know by now that Republicans view the average(middle class) American as mere serfs, and their plan is to take America back to the days of merry old England of the 1700′s. Their wet dream is to be addressed as Duke or Baron or other such moronic titles.

  • Anonymous

    Next time you see a politician of substance making a big speech, look for the teleprompters. They are the angled see-through pieces of glass or plastic on poles. Every president has used them since they were invented! Any president you are old enough to remember used them at least as much as Obama does.

  • Anonymous

    Next time you see a politician of substance making a big speech, look for the teleprompters. They are the angled see-through pieces of glass or plastic on poles. Every president has used them since they were invented! Any president you are old enough to remember used them at least as much as Obama does.

  • Anonymous

    It is very easy for those who are not in any office at all to complain every time a president isn’t doing exactly what they want him to do, and Huckabee would have the president working 24/7 at his desk or in meetings with Republicans. Would Huckabee himself be doing that sort of thing? No way.

    Huckabee changed from being a decent man with a conservative point of view that I could respect to a complete hypocrite who now comments from the sidelines while collecting big bucks from books and speeches and his Fox News program. He has gone from worthy to worthless.
     
    As for the comments about Obama using teleprompters, there is no difference between him and every other president since the teleprompter was invented. When presidents give long speeches, they use teleprompters, but those who can’t think of good criticisms pretend that teleprompters were invented specifically for Obama.

  • Jsoler1

    I think that your old, old age is responsible for your still racist outlook on life. The Muslim terrorist that lives in the WH and has created havock to our National Standards and values, was elected because white people voted for him. We have overcome the racial barrier years ago and Obama being our President is the proof of it. Where have you been llving these past 40 years? The truth has no color or race! He is an incompetent socialist Muslim disguised as an American. I cannot wait for Nov 2010 to get here, that is if your President doesn’t destroy our Country before that date.

  • spike1

    Obama has spent 4 1/2 trillion in 2 1/2 years, he now wants another 2 1/2 trillion for 2012, that’s 7 trillion dollars for 3 years. Bush spent 7 trillion in 8 years, it almost seems like Bush was a bargain.

  • Anonymous

    John Adams spent more during his term, than Washington did! Inflation and time is a terrible thing!

  • insideguy

     I had the opportunity to watch huckabees show tonight and I have to give him some credit. He actually had a normal articulate debate with two liberals and it was a good exchange of ideas. Both sides agreed with some things and disagreed with some things and neither side came off like complete morons. They didn’t yell at each other and seem to have their facts straight. I was dumfounded that I could still find this type of conversation on cable, thank you.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Who is this Huckabee character??  He’s not even running and he less relevant than Palin.  

  • Anonymous

    Change the names. Obama to Bush, and change apologizing to insulting, and I will say you finally got it right.
    As for the teleprompter thing, presidents have used them since the day they were invented.

  • Zelei7ke

    Keep fire, police, army and VA.  Get rid of the rest.

  • Dik Gozinya

    Sh!tcan Obamacare and the debt crisis goes away!

  • Dik Gozinya

    Sh!tcan Obamacare and the debt crisis goes away!

  • Anonymous

    How ignorant – can you cite some proof?  Obama is always on vacation, playing hoops, golf or campaigning.  He does the least executive work of any POTUS in my lifetime (& probably well beyond)

    Dubya, for all his flaws, at least gave up his golf game saying it was the least he could do while we had boots on the ground in the Middle East.  Obama doesn’t even do that little bit – he sacrifices for no one but himself.

  • Anonymous

    Or is it possible that what’s best for Huckabee’s bank account is also what’s best for this country? 
    Duh, let’s see – how do corporations pay taxes?  D’oh, they roll the expense – JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER CORPORATE EXPENSE – into the price for their goods & WE THE CONSUMERS PAY THEIR TAXES.

    Soak the rich?  Oh, yeah, like they have their money sitting in American banks just waiting for the govt to pry it out of their hands.  Hello?  Do you think they got rich by being stupid?

    No, what O & the Dumbocrats are doing is taking a down economy & attempting to sock it to the very people who create REAL jobs.  But I guess the “progressives” think that it’s Dubya’s fault that the economy has gotten worse during O’s reign and has nothing to do with O’s Keynesian economics. 

    You people need to study economic history instead of just believing what your socialist teachers taught you.  There’s a substantial reason that Europe’s Democratic Socialists are returning to their right minds (pun very much intended)…

  • anonymous

    It’s people like YOU who caused Governor Huckabee to eliminate himself from the visciousness of the presidential election circuit.  YOU are the reason we have no good candidates.  Why should a good decent person put himself and his family through the ridiculous criticisms one gets when they run for public office.  It’s a wonder anyone would want the job.

  • anonymous

    Huckabee was leading all the polls and was the ONLY Republican beating Obama in those polls.  He is not running, probably because he did not like the poisonous hatred spit out at him and his family like last time out.  And, why should he go through all that when he had taken over Paul Harvey’s old radio spot and has a number 1 hit weekend show at FOX….

  • Anonymous

    The crisis started long before Obama was elected.

  • Jocieo

    You should be jailed for the lies you tell, you are a traitor in my eyes.

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

    Wow, for some reason my Outlook threw all your comments into the waste basket. That is one hell of a program.

    It seems I have read your comments through this article and I find you to be pretty funny. You say you are a Republican and you attack all the conservative positions, conservative candidates and praise Obamao.

    You are the PERFECT example of a sockpuppet playing the concern troll technique. No one believes your spew.

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