“his usual political notes including corporate jets and the burden of the middle class,”

Poisoning the well. Why is he so obsessed over corporate jets, does he not have the biggest corporate jet of them all? 

Where’s YOUR plan, Mr. President?

“Please stop effing over the country, PLEASE”

-0bama – Worst by choice-

Now that’s what you call one desperate demagogue .
The union organizer is in way over his head .
This is a rabble rouser . Not a leader .

His mistake has been that he assumes the other side wants anything other than political victory at any cost.  Smelling the coffee newbie Barry?  Ahh, but you are a shill for our Corporate masters anyway.

Our masters want default so we can  finish gutting the middle class and foist more money upon industry and the very, very well to do.  Its so predictable at this point its almost boring really…

He should have been doing his job rather than playing golf , vacationing , having parties and living it up .

Speaker Boehner did not call me back immediately !!  Not my fault !!

Republicans and their principles !!

God, I am getting such a headache watching all of this day after day…  Maybe I need a Spenditol

so the president of the united states should fly coach?

He sounded like he was a President in a Banana Republic.  He SUMMONED the House and Senate leaders….

Nothing a thousand point drop on Wall Street on Monday can’t straighten out.

It’s pretty incredulous the way he asked congressional leaders to come for a meeting. I’ve never heard any president “demand” that leaders come. Even if it’s just a formality, they have always “asked” that they come.

how do you negotiate with someone who REFUSES revenue increases?

it’s absurd.  

where’s your plan, Mr. President?  Submit your legislation now.  That’s how it works bud.  

so boehner walks away from negotiations….

and the president is a ‘rabble rouser’?

again, tell me how one can negotiate with another who refuses revenue increases?

say what you mean……….raising taxes

Obama is upset because that 11AM meeting on Saturday is messing up his tee time on the golf course.

{Dwayne Johnson voice on} 

FINALLY….. BARACK HAS COME BACK………..TO LEADING.

I like what he said about McConnell’s suggestion. If you’re not going to actually work out a deal, then get out of the way.

The time for eliminating loop holes and special interest subsidies is here.  I am ashamed to be in GOP. The deal needs these items.

that’s true

Maybe he should bow down to Boehner…  Maybe that would help.

He absolutely shouldn’t and neither should the private jet owners who purchase them with their own damn money.

You first start by actually putting something down on paper. Something that this President REFUSES to do.

as if that’s controversial *at all*

even tom coburn knows that raising taxes is imperative

A CNN poll showed that a huge majority of Americans support the Republican’s cut, cap and balance legislation.

http://nation.foxnews.com/cut-cap-balance/2011/07/21/cnn-ignores-poll-results-showing-strong-support-cut-cap-and-balance

In true CNN fashion, the network refused to tell its audience about this poll result.  And, needless to say, you won’t hear about this at Mediaite either.  Just like you won’t hear about the poll showing Romney beating Obama.  Or about most Americans favoring a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. 

Note to the mainstream media:  hiding a story doesn’t make it go away.

yes, but this is the Congressional Whimp way out, they abdicate their responsibility to hold on to their special interests.

just told you to say what you mean…the democrats and the republicans both got us in this shit……thousands of pages of tax codes, spending money, i am tired of it all

boehner golfs all the time…..so clearly the same criticism applies….

The open, brazen bias of the MSM is amazing. I watch those fools on CNN, CBS, MSNBC etc. and it is just unbelievable. They have absolutely no shame.

Actually the Republicans are all for revenue increases, in the form of more tax payers.  Unfortunately Obama has only helped destroy the job market and refuses to even address it.

Where’s Obama’s plan? 

Might as well have Al Sharpton as President .

Oh wait . We do .

He doesn’t want anything that could be used against him in the next election.

Oh Miss Loonatic is here! Hi Loon! Hear about the San Francisco courts laying off tons of employees? Howze that leftwing paradise working out for ya?

me too, i find that their brazen corporate propaganda only benefits the upper class

American people are fed up with political posturing.

I hope he is aware that goes both ways.

Which makes him a horrible leader and a terrible president. Good party leader, though.

so you are opposed to *any* tax increases?

if so, then i presume you live in a parallel, Randian universe

Does this buffoon even realize that he is the very thing that he says he despises?  His entire motivation is for being is political posturing.  He has not been a leader since day 1, he has only been campaigning for a second term.  I’m glad Boehner didn’t give in to the Messiah’s demands and raise taxes on our citizens when they are hurting the most.

He doesn’t have a plan, that would take integrity and courage, two things that Obama severely lacks.

sooooooooooo, how does walking out of negotiations help the matter?

So much for equal branches of government.

that’s funny

we’re talking about an egregious tax exemption…..

if you’re actually serious about cutting the deficit, i think it makes more sense
to cut at the very top (corporate jet owners)……than the very bottom (food stamps)

that’s just me.  i’m not sure about you faux christians…..

all liberals know is lets raise taxes

You tell me. Obama started this nonsense of leaving negotiations before they were over.

DON’T CALL MY BLUFF, ERIC.

Not to the millions without jobs it isn’t funny.

yeah, those billionaires are *really* hurting right now

He did throw himself out there as someone who could afford to do more.

That is how it works? The president submits legislation?   My social studies teacher was way wrong.

Please pay attention dummy, he proffered a plan and weepy tan-boy walked away. 

What the hell does “cut at the very top” even mean?  Are you speaking in code?  If you are so sure your ideas are better don’t be afraid to stand behind them and speak plain English when doing so.  None of this mealy mouthed liberal double speak.

lol you might want to check on POTUS vacation time facts.  wait do you know what FACT means?

obama never said that

even boehner said on television that cantor’s version of events was wrong

hahaha owned

that want a combination of tax increases *and* spending cuts

which every single economist on the face of the earth knows has to happen

it’s mr. norquist’s pledge which has retarded the negotiations from the start.

Still makes for great political theatre nevertheless, eh? Actions do speak louder than words though.

and btw, what will likely happen is that the bush tax cuts will merely expire

which isn’t, for all intents and purposes, a tax increase

and even grover norquist himself agrees with that.  

you teabaggers are disgusting creatures and deserve every ounce of the contempt that you receive.

Really?  The GOP demanded and got an extension on the Bush tax cuts. Where are the jobs that those were supposed to encourage?

and how does extending egregious tax loopholes for private jet owners benefit
the worker?

Where did Jesus say, “Give unto the government and let it do my deeds?”

cry me a river, you have no idea where i stand, move on little boy

i’m sorry, you were saying?  are you saying that government should cut 
any kind of welfare whatsoever?

yes or no?

Checked the link. I’m not sure it says what they are claiming it says.
Balanced budget amendment fine.
Caping and controlling spending, {Isn’t that the same thing?} great.
Not ever never raising revenue through taxes? Not what the public appears to think.

No, Boehner says that they had an agreement, all ready to go…  800 billion in new revenues, he and the pres both had agreed to it..  then all of the sudden the pres asks for more new taxes on top of what was previously agreed on…  wonder if Pelosi had anything to do with that, I thought all along that maybe she should have been locked out of the room..  Anyway  a David Burns song comes to mind.

No, Boehner says that they had an agreement, all ready to go…  800 billion in new revenues, he and the pres both had agreed to it..  then all of the sudden the pres asks for more new taxes on top of what was previously agreed on…  wonder if Pelosi had anything to do with that, I thought all along that maybe she should have been locked out of the room..  Anyway  a David Burns song comes to mind.

What in my post led you to believe that?

What in my post led you to believe that?

Please. That is exactly what he should be doing. Without even getting into the politics of it and which side is to blame, they have eleven days to get this done. Hold these politicians to the same standards that they do our troops. They demand our military go above and beyond in the performance of their duties, even putting their lives at risk. There is no reason they shouldn’t be getting this done. Leaders from both parties shouldn’t have had to have been told to meet tomorrow. They should be banging down the door at the opportunity to do their jobs. They shouldn’t even be allowed to go home until it is done. In the military it is called an LDI, Liberty Dependent Item. In other words, if you want to go home, complete the damn job satisfactorily. And no one would be graciously requesting that you do it. These lawmakers actually have the nerve to boast because they came in one day on their July 4Th vacation. Yay for them. What do they want, a cookie? I don’t care if Palin somehow gets into office, and is in this same situation with the debt ceiling, I will fully support her DEMANDING congressional leaders haul their butts into work the next day. Unbelievable.

Please. That is exactly what he should be doing. Without even getting into the politics of it and which side is to blame, they have eleven days to get this done. Hold these politicians to the same standards that they do our troops. They demand our military go above and beyond in the performance of their duties, even putting their lives at risk. There is no reason they shouldn’t be getting this done. Leaders from both parties shouldn’t have had to have been told to meet tomorrow. They should be banging down the door at the opportunity to do their jobs. They shouldn’t even be allowed to go home until it is done. In the military it is called an LDI, Liberty Dependent Item. In other words, if you want to go home, complete the damn job satisfactorily. And no one would be graciously requesting that you do it. These lawmakers actually have the nerve to boast because they came in one day on their July 4Th vacation. Yay for them. What do they want, a cookie? I don’t care if Palin somehow gets into office, and is in this same situation with the debt ceiling, I will fully support her DEMANDING congressional leaders haul their butts into work the next day. Unbelievable.

It’s symbolic and integral to his class warfare fight…  it amounts to 3 billion dollars in ten years while the pres is spending 4 billion a day more than he recieves in revenues… give me a break. 

It’s symbolic and integral to his class warfare fight…  it amounts to 3 billion dollars in ten years while the pres is spending 4 billion a day more than he recieves in revenues… give me a break. 

INCREDIBLE, our president (politician in chief) calls out others who have actually done real work, as political posturing. 

Then stop it. I just heard the cause of the break down was that you had an agreement of $800 billion in taxes and then today, changed it to $1.2 trillion.

I like Clinton’s 14th Amendment approach: the Constitution explicitly states that “the validity of the public debt shall not be questioned,” so, as chief executive of the nation Obama says “the debt ceiling is raised.”

I’m not a constitutional scholar (although Clinton is) so I can’t state with any authority that such an act would be legal, but it’d be great to see the look on Boehner and his gang of legislative terrorists’ faces when they got the word.

Here’s the story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/20/138511612/bill-clinton-says-hed-raise-the-debt-ceiling-using-14th-amendment

The GOP is asking for the elimination of Loopholes, that was the biggest part of the revenue side of their plan, don’t let Obama’s silver tongue confuse you.  It is the Dems who oppose it, oh except for the corporate and oil company part…   Don’t be ashamed for being on the right side of an issue… 

Exactly. They are the ones who decided to hold up raising the debt ceiling by adding stipulations. Now they cry that they want Obama’s plan. What? Republicans were the ones who decided to make a fight over this issue. If negotiations are being done does it really matter whose name is on what? Politically, I guess it does. They want a plan with Obama’s name stamped all over it. Not that they plan to go with it. Just so they can run back to their base and try to blast him with it. The same way Republicans childishly hounded him for his birth certificate and petulantly declared they made him blink once he gave them what they wanted. You can’t win with individuals like that.

Nonsense. Anyone who opens a post with “all liberals” (or “all rightwingers” or “all Germans” or “all Martians,” for that matter) has very explicitly defined where they stand — with the zealots, extremists, and radicals.

Must have been a liberal..

re-read and think, did not mean it that way

Sorry can’t do it read Article 1 Section 8 Paragraph 2 of the constitution, one very simple sentence..

There is a possibility that he could do so with emergency powers but there would have to pretty much be a default first…  Clinton is just out getting his pict splashed around, he knows better.

That isn’t even what he said, you might want to take another look.

Okay, I’ll bite. How is it like having Al Sharpton as President?

Republicans have been campaigning for the next Presidential election since the man was announced the winner of the last one.

Krugman is not every economist on teh face of the earth… 

Since you seem to think the GOP can walk away from negoiations and create a financial crisis to appease their dumass base, I would recommed they lawyer up and try to stop the President from interfering with their disaster capitalism plan.

From which lying right wing Murdoch pundit did you hear this?

Again, this is outside my area of expertise (so why am I commenting, one may ask. Hmmm.)

In any case, what is the chief executive to do when Congress fails to “faithfully execute” its duties?

Extremist language (“all liberals know is”) trumps whatever ideas may follow such a statement. If you toss your credibility away with your first breath, is it shocking when people don’t hear the rest of what you say?

The only thing our incompetent community organizer does is political posturing and blame the GOP for his failures!!
Where is his plan?

Fact:

The insertion of one man’s sack into another person’s mouth. Used a practical joke or prank, when performed on someone who is asleep, or as a sexual act is the act of a democrat.

I’m sick of Obama pointing
fingers at Republicans and blaming them for what is largely his fault. It’s his
fault that the debt talks collapsed, HIS FAULT… If it wasn’t for his lack of
leadership, call for “tax increase” and procrastination the deal
would have probably been reached a long time ago. The taxes should have never
been put on the table. It was deficit reduction for debt limit increase AND NOT
ADDITINAL MONEY FOR OBAMA TO SPEND… From my point of view Obama is playing pure
politics. He is trying to mislead people in believing Republicans something
they aren’t and then try to get re-elected. From what we have all seen Obama
uses news conferences, teleprompter and networks like MSNBC to do those things.
He was never serious about cutting deficit or the spending. ALMOST 3 YEARS IN
OFFICE OBAMA STILL HASN’T PRODUSED A SINGLE SERIOUS BUDGET PLAN… People gotta
to do their homework and see through his lies and what I think is a dark
agenda. When election comes for the good of United States people need to Unite
and extradite Obama back to Illinois- corrupt city and state.

I’m sick of Obama pointing fingers at Republicans and blaming them for what is largely his fault. It’s his fault that the debt talks collapsed, HIS FAULT… If it wasn’t for his lack of leadership, call for “tax increase” and procrastination the deal would have probably been reached a long time ago. The taxes should have never been put on the table. It was deficit reduction for debt limit increase AND NOT ADDITINAL MONEY FOR OBAMA TO SPEND… From my point of view Obama is playing pure politics. He is trying to mislead people in believing Republicans something they aren’t and then try to get re-elected. From what we have all seen Obama uses news conferences, teleprompter and networks like MSNBC to do those things. He was never serious about cutting deficit or the spending. ALMOST 3 YEARS IN OFFICE OBAMA STILL HASN’T PRODUSED A SINGLE SERIOUS BUDGET PLAN… People gotta to do their homework and see through his lies and what I think is a dark agenda. When election comes for the good of United States people need to Unite and extradite Obama back to Illinois- corrupt city and state.

Fact:
Tell your kids that you are a moron socialist pig and they don’t deserve to be
what ever

they
want to be in life because you think everybody are equal.

I was not exonerating the Dems. I think the Dems are all messed up too. They have never presented a plan. I just think the GOP should eliminate loop holes.

Ask Speaker Boehner.  He walked out of the room with a copy in his briefcase, and said he owes you nothing!

If O-Mao-Bama would resign we would probably fix the posturing and return America to its’ greatness.

Obama doesn’t have to take responsibility for anything; all he does is point the fingers and the press jumps right onto his remarks and blame the other guy.

it is the funniest thing I have ever seen; today’s media are nothing but whoring themselves out to him.  They don’ question him, they don’t criticize him, they just say what he tells them to say.

it is frightening, funny, stupid, disgraceful..and more.

There was a day when journalists understood who they worked for, no more.  they now only report what he tells them do, nothing more, nothing less.  They fight to defend him, not the constitution, not the people, HIM.  It is sreally alarming that they are so stupid and think the public is as stupid as they are.

most of us know it is Obama who wants the crisis, he wants to turn the markets into mush, his goal is to ruin this country, and for some odd reason, the media is on his side. 

They will wake up when it is too late…but for now they are still under his spell for some unknown reason.  he is their cult leader and they will be little lemmings and follow him right off the cliff.

Just call this guy the Projection President.

Tom Coburn doesn’t want to raise taxes only cut spending. It is imperative that spending gets cut or we are heading towards a cliff with an anchor on our backs.

The cynic in me says those tax cuts probably created or “saved” as many jobs as the stimulus plan.

 Obama is right… “American people are fed up with political posturing”……ESPECIALLY HIS!!!

I can’t stand to watch the guy so can someone tell me if mentioned the fact that his stimulus gave the jet owners back the tax credit he is now demonizing? Maybe he is out of his bi-polar medication? First he gives it to them and then he goes on tv to talk about how horrible it is. WTF?

No way, no how. The Constitution only grants the Congress, not the president, the power “to borrow money on the credit of the United States.” Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may trump legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.

I’m not buying the equal blame this time around. Not on this particular issue. Talk to me about some other issues and I’ll agree. The GOP are the ones who decided to make a battle out of passing the debt ceiling. This is their party. They wanted this and they made it happen. Now they cry for The President, and Dems, to come up with a plan. Not so they can vote on it but so that they can ridicule it in hopes of political gain. Do you really think a plan developed exclusively by Dems would have made any more progress than the was of time political statement that was The GOP house plan? No one party should be coming up with a plan. They should be getting together to compromise on something favorable to all parties. I think you’re already coming around to the reason that isn’t happening.

I know a few big burly guys that would love to hold you down and teabag the crap out of you. Then, you may call them a “teabagger.” However, don’t talk with your mouth full it is rude.

Did I miss the part where Norquist will be voting on this?

Did I miss the part where Norquist will be voting on this?

Knowing San Fran they will lay off the employees so they can fill the jobs with illegal aliens.

Is that your way of getting people onboard with you? Crying that Obama ruined your master plan, and insulting a whole state?

The idiot you voted for created the debt crisis-try to focus on the actual criminals.

Irrational anger and hoistility is all they have to offer.  Modern conservatives are as annoying as a mosquito buzzing around your kitchen.  Splat!
Ewwwh, messy.

Obama tells White House press corp what to go out and say.

GEEZ! http://www.breitbart.tv/when-you-go-write-your-stories-obama-calls-out-wh-press-corps/

Get out there members of the Ministry of Truth and spread your New Speak!

The Republican majority in the House apparently is willing to risk the economic vitality and welfare of the nation. It has foolishly embraced the tea party’s economic scorched earth rhetoric by threatening to vote against raising the debt limit unless all of their demands are met … or worse, even if they are met.The delusional tea party faction of the Republican Party is behaving like a deranged, estranged spouse who — rather than lose the house, investments, and parental control of the kids in a divorce settlement — decides to burn down the house with the spouse and kids inside.

How do you negotiate with someone who REFUSES to improve the economy? After all, more people working and…voila!!!…’revenue increases.’ Limp-wristed Libs seemingly can’t comprehend the simplest of equations. They deserve the bludgeoning they’re getting, these DIM LIBS.

I seriously doubt that it would get that far, but if the debt ceiling were not raised, the president would still be able to pay the debt, he would be able to pay social securtiy, military, medicaid etc. Other important departments would be severely compromised in their ability to deliver needed services, if the government became so severely compromised that it could be considered crisis, he possibly could use his emergency powers to raise the debt ceiling, these powers were designed to allow the president to react quickly with federal resources in times of crisis, they are usually only used in cases of natural diaster such as floods and hurricanes when FEMA is deployed. This is only a theory as it has never been used in this manor.  To try and interput the 14th amendment to give the president power to incur new debt is not a pratical interputation of that amendment, especially the because clause I refered you to earlier gives congress the enumerated power  ”To borrow money on the credit of the United States;” in seperating the powers of the Executive and Congress.

They didn’t walk away, they sent a bill to the Senate…  If anybody waked away it was Harry.

Oh don’t talk so loose!  The checkbook is EMPTY.  The Republican House, inspired by the Tea Party is trying to get a handle on the problem.  

If any group is behaving as if they desire the diminution or failure of America, it is the spawn of Karl Marx: The Socialist-Democrats.  Since Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution there has been play books written with addendum, concomitant to  each subsequent revolution, hither and yon.

Sol Alinsky’s book, which was important in our President’s Socio-Political development, as he sleeps with book under his pillow.  You have the chutzpah to suggest the Republicans/Conservatives are playing politics?

I wish, simply, that was the case.  Let me rephrase, the Socialists are not just playing politics, they are at WAR.  The tactics exhibited by the Socialist Democrats are little different that any other insurgency.  Furthermore, the motives, class envy and income redistribution is the same.

JEEZ!

Purveyor

Here is Something about the “Rich” Mr Obumbles wants everyone on the “Left” to Bash to continue the Class Warfare mime in order for Obumbles and the Left to create the Socialist Utopia that never worked anywhere… ever…

Many of the world’s richest such as Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page…NBA’s most valuable player for  several years LeBron James and Pop Star Justin Bieber (to name a few) …gained their wealth by making extraordinary contributions to their communities either through the products they invented, or the entertainment they provided.  They became rich NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS, but through voluntary exchanges that have enriched out society.  As with and so true of many “Rich” people in our Society…we as a society have continually reaped the rewards of the rich who have enriched our lives by their innovation(s) … these are innovations are ‘things’ that make our lives easier not harder….  Would we be having this debate if it were not for uber rich Bill Gates? Who by the way DONATES millions back by way of “giving back” to society?…  

Liberals don’t really care who’s hard earned money they “steal” …. tell me – how can ‘stealing’ make someone “feel good”??   Oh, right… I forgot who…Liberals/Progressives…

The Liberals are such “Parrots” for the likes of Obumbles…it’s a sad sad Left side of America…

I’m fed up with the tea party.  

“At the very top” is pretty much self-explanatory to me. Be that all that it may, the two percent at the very top are tax dodgers, plain and simple. They expect our military to protect their mass of wealth and they will refuse to hire them when they are returned to civil status. At the top is getting a little touchy around the collar may be that is a sign that we are about to see some other Rupert Murdoch’s take a dive.

It was a great thing to see the President stand up and deliver a TKO to the GOP.  I always knew he had it in him but when you are the intellectual being that he is you really do not have the time to stare at the forest or the tree. You must stare truth down and you must take that walk of confidence knowing that truth is science and it is also moral.

There is NOTHING rare about Obama stepping up in front of a camera – he is the MOST vain President in the history of this nation; he konws his media sychophants will use his words and pass his message on for him.  He konws the media are part of his cult followers and he uses and abuses them daily, all to their pleasure.

This president does NOT want a solution to this problem, he is the one doing the political posturing and lying to the public and he gets away with it because today’s media refuse to question him, instead they support, defend and protect him.

It is pretty disgraceful to watch as this country falls apart in large measure becaues the media is refusing to do its job.

ThePresident wants us to fail, if you can’t see if, you aren’t paying attention.

Yes, Mr President, we ARE tired of political posturing.  Perhaps YOU could stop, which I suppose is difficult, since that’s all you do.

This from the posturer and Chief…  How rich, he and the democratic party have no credibility on this issue, It is amazing to me that they are being allowed to steal the thunder on this issue.  They have spent like drunken sailors to a point that even with an extension in the debt limit our credit rating will be threatened, the republicans in the house are the only people in Washington that have done credible work to solve this problem, now the mouth and chief has come to the forefront trying to project himself as someone doing the hard work of the people when the truth is that he has doned absolutely NADA, Zilch, Zero… I have seen nothing come from the President, Reid, or Pelosi, any credible plan that has been put on the table either from the House or his own commissions have been been poopooed by the Mouth himself…  The only work actually going on is going on in the house, the Senate under Reid are satisfied to keep their head in the sand, deny the train wreck that is coming, and bring their Happy Numbers to the negoiations…

Obama said, “The American people are fed up with political posturing and an inability for politicians to take responsible actions as opposed to dodge their responsibilities.”

And as he spoke those words, all across America people were shouting and cursing at their TV screens, hurling expletives at the president for his hypocrisy and dishonesty.

Most Americans switched channels, unable to countenance what they were watching; others just hit the “mute” button, then waited anxiously for it to end. But among those who continued to watch and listen, every minute President Obama kept talking cost him the support of thousands.

In yesterdays’s Journal, Peggy Noonan suggested that the president “shut up” — though she phrased it respectfully, and as advice that would benefit the president:
“The president, if he is seriously trying to avert a debt crisis, should stay in his office, meet with members, and work the phones, all with a new humility, which would be well received. … He should keep his face off TV. He should encourage, cajole, work things through, be serious, get a responsible deal, and then re-emerge with joy and the look of a winner as he jointly announces it to the nation. … For now, for his sake and the sake of an ultimate plan, he should choose Strategic Silence. Really, recent presidents forget to shut up. They lose sight of how grating they are.”

President Obama really should have read Noonan’s column Friday. And then found something else to do Friday evening besides hold a news conference.

Yes Mr. President, the American People Are Fed Up With YOUR Political Posturing, we are fed up with your lying to the American People, we are fed up with your adminstration creating so many new and unnecessary regulations that puts thousands of people out of work every week.

Yes Mr. President, we are fed up with YOU!

Keep digging, Barry.

“And as he spoke those words, all across America people were shouting and
cursing at their TV screens, hurling expletives at the president for
his hypocrisy and dishonesty.”

Got proof?

I suggest that you get the political opinions of every person you named. You may find that at least a few of them do not want you to defend them with your tax argument. That is especially true of the “uber rich Bill Gates.” He supports higher taxes on himself and will continue to give to charity no matter what. The thing he understands but you don’t is that he is rich enough to not even feel a little extra tax “pinch.”
At the same time, he knows that if there is a tax deduction, it is fair for him to take it.

Have you got proof that Devils Spawn is your real name?

Nope! 

For fun, you may refer to me as the Devil’s Pawn. Makes no never mind to me.

Does this buffoon president have even the smallest clue of how stupid he sounds?! Where the hell’s Obimbo’s budget-plan? OH wait, that’s right, it’s called TAX&SPEND!!

I believe you just made IMPACT’s point for him?  Charity should be the prerogative of the individual.  Not mandated by Law or Bureaucracy associated with a political ideology antithetical to the individuals views.

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes, the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

Thomas Jefferson

I find it disconcerting that a professed American Warrior can follow the pathway of Marx and his spawn?

PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

Obimbo wants to close some loopholes and eliminate some deductions? What loopholes, and more importantly, what deductions? This government is fleecing the taxpaying citizens of this country, and this clown is trying to make it sound like he’s giving us a deal?! What a pompous ass!!

Obama On Debt Talks Collapse: ‘American People Are Fed Up With Political Posturing’

Yes, I’m fed up.  I am fed up with the progressive Democrats who will not present a plan but will defeat the two great plans presented by the Republicans.  So, Obama, please stop your political posturing.  I am fed up with your antics.  You do not speak for the American people.  You only speak for yourself.  You caused me to lose my job over two years ago.  Everything you do makes more people lose their jobs.  Would you quit now?  If not, we will definitely defeat you at the polls on November 6, 2012.

Jerry,  Nice to see you.

Chew on this absurdity:

Did you know that when a new amendment to the Constitution is added, that Amendment, contravenes those that came before it?

For instance, The 16th amendment codified the legitimacy of an Income Tax.  The chosen method of taxation was/is a “progressive” tax, correct?

However, those opposed to the “progressive tax” cannot look for relief to the 5th and 14th amendment’s “due process clause” as those amendments have been negated by the new 16th amendment.  Huh? LOL

You have been engaged in debate with an individual who posited this argument a few days ago and adamantly refused every bit of historical evidence given to him.

Ergo,  DEVIL does not engage in discourse or dialogue, rather, he simply formulates a retort, NOT a response, a “RETORT.”  DEVIL does not ingest and cogitate on information, rather knowledge simply bounces off him.

Anyway, DEVIL will deny your assertions without providing cogent replies.  Good luck.

Purveyor

Amen, Brother Obama.
High time for those TP’ers to quit huffing and puffing and really DO something that helps the country,
like compromise on all the pork going to their districts.

Aren’t there treatment centers for recovering TP’ers?

Spinning nonsense thru the FOX filter doesn’t make it news, it just makes fodder for the cattle.

Liz, time for meds.

And they are likewise with you.

Funny, seems to me the Democrat majority in both houses for the entire term of George W. Bush set this all in motion. The blame lays squarely with them. Sorry, Republicans in this case of the wrecked economy are not the bogey man.

The Democrats in control either by design or by irresponsibility failed to create and make law a budget for the federal government to operate for over two years. Two Years. Too bad we can’t impeach The Congress.

Funny I have the same opinion of modern liberals.

Totally unconstitutional, but why let that get in the way?

Actually the financial crisis was created by spendthrift liberals. Do your homework.

First of all it is Tea Party not teabagger – that’s something you learned in prison. Your contempt is infinitesimal compared to the offensive nature of your infantile posts.

“There she was, just a walkin down the street, singin…”  Very cool, my compliments.  It just occurred to me.

“snappin my fingers and a shufflin my feet…”

One huge exception – he is not the President.

It’s time we changed to a British Parliamentary form of addressing members of the other party. It would be more truthful.
 
Some uniter. Some leader.
 
“We should set politics aside and compromise to get this thing done” (paraphrased) – meaning you compromise 100% and I compromise 0% – that makes it bi-partisan.

The problem is these parties have two different missions.

If this poor excuse for a potus thinks the folks are fed up with “political posturing”, why in hades doesn’t he quit  doing it??  All he knows how to do is endlessly campaign and run his mouth, that’s the only experience he has.

They define the jobs they are trying to perform differently.

The president wants to get the debt limit increased, so he can borrow more money.

The speaker wants to stop spending so much money, so the government won’t have to borrow so much money.

The president appointed a debt reduction committee, and it reported last December. He ignored every one of its recommendations. Instead he proposed a budget with trillion-dollar deficits far into the future — a budget that assumed there would always be someone wiling to lend that money to the US. His budget was defeated 97-0 in the Senate. He has not presented another plan.

During his 2008 presidential campaign, in the 2nd debate with Senator McCain, Mr Obama set as a goal the reform of both Social Security and Medicare in his first two years — he said they were not fiscally sustainable in their present form. Now he resists every proposal that touches either entitlement, even though the Ryan plan would help him accomplish his campaign promise.

President Obama is in full reelection mode. The Republicans are willing to put forth some unpopular but necessary proposals, while the president and the congressional Democrats only want to attack the Republican proposals, but not offer their own.

Some constitutional scholars think otherwise. Are you a constitutional scholar?

You may well be right. I’m not qualified to judge. But innovative thinking is probably called for when the opposition party has decided to play economic terrorist. Bush bent every law in the book in his dirt-stupid “War on Terroism.” Who says Obama can’t do the same against Johno Bin Boehner?

Actually, the financial crisis was created by Wall Street criminals playing chicken with our money. Do your homework.

I’m very glad we don’t have dumb clucks like you in postions of leadership, or we’d be doomed.

Uh-oh.

Expat, what country do you live in now, that is not lead by dumb clucks?

Ditto, daddio.

There are plenty of dumb clucks to go around, but few at the pathetic level of “Dik Gozinya.”

The country I’m currently residing in has a similar but not identical political system to the US, but significantly less politicking and hence less big money in political contests (election season for national leadership lasts 6 weeks). Political dumb clucks are less likely to succeed here because elected leaders are more accountable on a press-the-flesh basis to their consituents and the nation’s ethos is egalitarian to a fault.

Using the term ‘teabagger’, especially in public, is deplorable. It shows a lack of character. It’s is rude and despicable. Barry said it repeatedly on the campaign trail in ’08. Wonder if he’ll stoop so low this time? At least with Rahm, it was second hand swearing and behind closed doors. But coming from the POTUS? Shame on him.

I’m so sick of his posturing and saying “the Aerican people this and the american people that.” How would he know? He doesn’t listen to the American people! But he’s right about one thing: we are fed up with HIS political posturing, leading from behind (if at all) and blaming Bush and Republicans because he is inept.

Since you are such and expert, maybe you can tell me how Wall Street gets their hands on taxpayer’s money? I was taught you had to be in Congress to accomplish that.

Nope, just a guy who took the oath after volunteering for service in the Vietnam war. I don’t believe that you have to be a constitutional scholar to understand The Constitution. Most of it is written plainly enough so the common man can read it.

The US Codes on the other hand require the interpretation by a lawyer, which is of course by design. Complicate to obfuscate the truth; that truth being they don’t want the common man to understand what they are doing to them with the complex language.

Your opinion is your right, but if Bush was as bad as you say then why wasn’t he impeached. The simple answer is there was no actionable offense to charge him with. Your ideas of what John Boehner is doing are humorous but not really honest. Boehner is the only one standing between Obama and the Democrats way in their plan to destroy our children’s and grandchildren’s financial future. If the plan proposed by Obama and company goes into effect, he will spend even more, tax even more and make token cuts in spending that will never balance the books of the Treasury Department.

So far Obama has us taking military action in Libya without cause and he has exceeded the War Powers Act provisions for military force engagements without justification or Congressional approval, so it would appear that Obama is more of a war monger than the man you accuse. Taking into account the strikes in Yemen it seems he has doubled the number of conflicts we are involved in militarily speaking. How stupid is that?

Well, he apparently thinks he can order everything he wants. Last time I checked that is not the definition of what a President is does. That is more like a king, dictator, or emperor.

Yup…. congress doesn’t toe his line, go around them to the agency that is running whatever and have them take it over . ref: Cap & Trade, Net Neutrality

Yup…. congress doesn’t toe his line, go around them to the agency that is running whatever and have them take it over . ref: Cap & Trade, Net Neutrality

A phrase like “totally unconsititutional” really needs some authority to back it up, or it quickly gets relegated to the “some guy said” category. Clinton — a towering figure notwithstanding his feet of clay — doesn’t seem to think it’s totally unconsititutional. Who’s more credible?

And as for your comment about the US codes, I sneer at lawyers as much as the next guy, but let’s not be childish. The codes are complex because the subjects they cover are complex and maddeningly detailed. The fact that legal language is hoary and impenetrable may be evidence that lawyers have been conspiring to bamboozle the common man since time eternal, but that is in a distant ninth or tenth place to actual complexity.

Bush wasn’t impeached because of party loyalty during his first six years and naked political calculation by Democrats (defective, in my mind) in his last two. There’s still a chance he’ll have his moment in the docket at The Hague, and emerging scandals about the fixed 2004 election may sweep up a swathe of his little friends. One can only hope.

Three major factors got us in the economic swamp we’re in today: Bush’s useless wars, Bush’s insane tax cuts, and Bush’s lapdog enabling of Wall Street thieves. Obama has earned every bit of criticism he’s received for not shutting down those wars, for not getting the Bush tax cuts rescinded when he had a Congressional majority, and for half-hearted reform of banking and investment laws.

Unless he gets his act together, Obama will be remembered as a president who compromised fatally with nutjobs on the right and did not listen to the people in the center and on the left who elected him. The sheer economic insanity of killing jobs through spending cuts in the middle of the worst recession in our history might well drive the country (and the globe) into even worse conditions — worldwide depression.

Boehner and his gang are no better than terrorists and fools: willing to destroy the nation so they can rule over the ruins.

Let’s try a litte reality here. In what way has Obama demonstrated that he can “order everything he wants”?

I base my comments on the attitude of Bill Gates on reading about him, reading quotes from him,  and on seeing him speak (TV and u-tube). The same goes for Warren Buffett.

Both are famous for two things. 1. Pledging half of their fortunes to charity. 2 Asking other billionaires to do the same. Mr. Buffett has also publicly stated that he will not leave anything to his children. Some may think there is a family problem or something, but he paid for their education and otherwise made sure they are well established on their own. They have their own wealth and don’t need his.

Nice Icon. Currently active duty?

Some Guy Said: “Three major factors got us in the economic swamp we’re in today: Bush’s useless wars, Bush’s insane tax cuts, and Bush’s lapdog enabling of Wall Street thieves. ”

The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been about $1.2 trillion — since 2001 the federal government has spent about $29 trillion. So about 4% has been spent on those two wars, the waging of which was government policy endorsed by Congress. (And in fact Congress voted in 1998 in favor of regime change in Iraq, at which time George W Bush was governor of Texas.)

I do not know if the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts generated enough additional economic growth, to produce enough additional tax revenues, to pay for themselves. I have read that they did, which was surprising since they were designed for political benefits and not economic growth. But they were not insane, not like the 2009 “stimulus” bill, which was only about 10% stimulus and 90% pork.

As for Wall Street, we know there were thieves, but the financial crisis was created in Washington — in the Congress who created established FNMA and FHLMB, and in Clinton administration who put Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines in charge of Fannie, and in the Federal Reserve who for more than a decade created one asset bubble after another. It’s creating new ones today in precious metals and other commodities, and in farmland, and in government bonds.

Some Guy Said: “Boehner and his gang are no better than terrorists and fools: willing to destroy the nation so they can rule over the ruins.”

The House Republicans put forward the Ryan budget, which the Senate has not taken up. The House Republicans then passed the cut-cap-balance plan, which failed along party lines on a procedural vote in the Senate. Now they are putting together yet another plan today, with a vote coming on Tuesday or Wednesday.

So they are doing their jobs. on the other hand, the Senate has done nothing and the president has been all over the place, putting proposals on the table then yanking them back when it looked like Boehner and Canter might accept.

Gate’s and Buffet’s actions are commendable, putting it mildly. My point…is their actions were voluntary…not coerced by the power of the State, which may be philosophically abhorrent to them or to any tax payer. (hence, Jefferson’s quote) Thus, the necessity for “equal protection” when assessing tax or property.

Gates and Buffet might be Liberal Democrats. That is their prerogative. However, other people, Wealthy people might not be, in fact, may be Conservative, like Sam Walton. That is why equal protection is such an important American concept. Putting a man in a higher Tax Bracket, then spending the extra Taxed money on programs he disapproves of is inherently UN-equal!

Look back on America’s beginning and the issue that set the fire of the Revolution: Taxes, without representation. (Taxes, without “equal protection”)

tell me how Wall Street gets their hands on taxpayer’s money?

Bush signed the TARP bill.

You should be clear. The investment banks and brokerage firms repaid the taxpayer loans. In fact, some of them were forced to take money when they did not need it… then this money was repaid with interest

AIG took at least $152 billion from the US government and paid it out to US and foreign banks which had bought credit default swaps. So the taxpayers took the hit and not the bankers… but that was a decision made by the Federal Reserve Bank, not by the Bush administration. The total cost of bailing out AIG is unknown, but it could be more than $180 billion and is likely to go higher. (Incidentally, it was AIG’s London branch that insured $450 billion worth of collateralized mortgage securities, though it probably didn’t make any difference.)

Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac lost so much money because Congress pressed lenders to give mortgages to people who could not afford over-priced houses, and Congress pressed FNMA to buy and repackage those mortgages. If there had never been a Fannie Mae, then there would have never been a housing bubble, even with super-low interest rates it would not have been such an immense bubble. The true cost of bailing out FNMA and FHLMB, to this point, has been estimated by the CBO to be about $317 billion. As you know, Fannie and Freddy are located in Washington and are GSE’s supervised by Congress. They are not Wall Street firms.

The other big recipient of taxpayer money was General Motors. Chrysler repaid all but about $1.5 billion, but the bailout of GM leaves the taxpayers with a loss of about $26 billion. 

I’m sure there have been other bailouts, but here are three that come readily to mind, totaling nearly $500 billion. I do not know about you, but I could sure use $500 billion. The GM bailout was really a payback to the UAW; but the bailouts of AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddy Mac came about because what’s called “moral hazard” — creditors assumed risks because they were pretty sure the US government would step in to make good any losses. There have been no changes since 2008 in this respect.

What a Frikin’ joke, coming from the “Political Posturer-in-Chief”.

EVERYTHING this guy DOES or SAYS in Political Posturing.

Hey, Mr. President HOW many days has it been since the Democrat Controlled Senate passed ANY budget?  Answer (in LESS than your typical Obama ten-minute monologe):  over 900!

Mr. President…  HOW MUCH over-spending is “enough”? (in other words, HOW much further abouve the 14,300 BILLION [sounds more "real" when you say it that way, rather than 14.3 trillion [the magnitude kinda' gets lost in the use of Trillion] dollar CURRENT [so-called] “Ceiling” do you expect the Debt to be increased)?

Mr. President…  WHY is this a “Crisis”?  Didn’t you KNOW there was a “ceiling” to the nations borrowing?  WHY did you wait until the LAST MINUTE to demand YET ANOTHER increase?  Do you REALLY believe that there SHOULD BE no “limit” to the debt that this nation incurrs?

WHY, Mr. President, are YOU unwilling (or are you simply UNABLE) to LIVE WITHIN our Nations’ MEANS?

Mr. President…  As a symbol of “Shared Sacrifice”, are YOU willing to NO LONGER take VACATIONS (especially outside of the United States)?  Are you willing to ask that YOUR WIFE do WITHOUT all 24 of her servants?

Mr. President…  Don’t you think it’s “fair” to ask EVERY Income Earning to pay SOMETHING toward the nations expenses (aka Taxes)?  WHY do you think it “fair” that 47% of Income Earners pay NO TAXES (not even ONE PENNY of every DOLLAR they earn)?

Mr. President…  If you want to “close tax loopholes”, don’t you think the loophole which allows SOME tax payers to get a “refund”, when they have ZERO Tax Liability should be closed?  Is it “fair” that people who PAY NO TAXES, get a “refund” (I’m STILL trying to figure out how THAT works, exactly:  Hey Credit Card Company [known for "cash back bonuses"], I KNOW I didn’t spend any money on your card, but can you send me a “cash back bonus” too?).

Mr. President…  Isn’t it time to STOP the “Political Posturing”, and ADMIT to the American People that EVEN without a Debt “Ceiling” increase, there is NO REASON the Nation should go into “Default”!?

Isn’t it TRUE, Mr. President, that EVERY MONTH, the Federal Government receives approximately $275 BILLION in tax revenue?

Isn’t it ALSO TRUE, Mr. President, that the payment on the Nation Debt (in order to avoid “Default”) is a “mere” $30 Billion a month?

Isn’t it TRUE, therefore, that with the money that the Federal Government ALREADY RECEIVES, we can pay our Debt Obligations, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Active Duty Military, and Federal Law Enforcement (like Customs and Border Enforcement) – and STILL have about $10 BILLION left?

Doesn’t that mean, Mr. President, that ANY talk of “Default” or not paying Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. is NOTHING MORE than Scare Tactics and “Political Posturing”?

Finally, Mr. President…  Isn’t it PAST TIME to start acting like an ADULT?  We have a SPENDING (nay, an OVER-SPENDING) problem in Washington D.C.  “Eating your peas” is NOT going to solve ANYTHING!

Admitting YOUR Addiction (You, and members of Congress who REFUSE to STOP your addiction to OVER-SPENDING) is “the first step”.  WE, THE TAXPAYERS, allowing you to CONTINUE your addiction for ANOTHER DECADE (at least) is NOT THE ANSWER!

Blaming the BANK for NOT increasing your Credit Limit is NOT the reason you’re bankrupt, Mr. President – your OVER-SPENDING IS!

The sooner YOU (and your co-addicts) admit it – and get SERIOUS about ENDING YOUR ADDICTION, the better this country will be!

ONLY THEN, can we BEGIN the long and hard process of getting back to SUSTAINABLE spending!

EVEN if we were to STOP ALL of the Over-Spending NOW…  How many Generations will it take to PAY OFF the Debt YOU and Pelosi/Reid have racked up?

OH, and speaking of Pelosi…  WHAT ever happened to that “Pay-Go”?

Were all of you sleeping last evening(28th) when the Speaker & the 1/2 American president 
agreed on cutting medicare app. 800 billion ,another promise out the the window,but haven’t been on the news today.Walter Reed Hospital is all over the news though and we know what that means,or I hope you do. They weren’t satisfied,prez/followers,to just to shut down NASA,over 9,000 unemployed now,and now Walter Reed Hospital is being closed .We need to become ”ONE NATION” again & not “ positions” in the parties you vote under.We need “togetherness” amongst us and not seperation like Ocommie is trying to take us. We’ve never had a prez who cares more for himself than the  country he serves than this one.
No president,before this,cared more for the mid-east either. Ones before him trusted & bonded with friendly countries which are becoming few under this one.He is embarassing our country with no manners,even the African 
prez ignored Moo-chelle on her trip there— THEY HAVE NO CLASS & other countries want them to stay away,sad!
These are my feeling about “shooting” each other down ,which I think is ridiculous,when we should stay as “one” in order to keep our country free and harmonious to each other & countries that needs to see it too. 

Mr. Commenter, could you find your ass with both hands and a surgically implanted GPS?

Also, we got a note from the double-quotes people. It seems you’ve used up your quota. The keyboard guys were saying something about taking away your capslock key, too.