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Sen. Schumer: Boehner Is Not Showing ‘Real Leadership’ And Just Following Tea Party

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Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on Morning Joe and expressed his disappointment with Speaker of the House John Boehner, despite still liking him personally. Given that Boehner wasn’t demonstrating “real leadership,” Schumer insisted that now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was putting forth a new plan that could hopefully get everyone’s agreement since it attempts to meet everyone’s criteria.

Schumer explained his frustration with the Republicans:

“Everyone likes Speaker Boehner. And everybody thinks that Speaker Boehner is, correctly, a decent guy who wants to do the right thing. And there was a feeling at the end of the day he will be able to corral the hundred Tea Party people who are really way, way out there – beyond what you would ever think, and bring them onboard. But what’s happening is, instead of Speaker Boehner leading the Tea Party, he seems to be following them.”

The new Reid plan has enough cuts to equal the rise in the debt ceiling, prevents another vote on increasing the debt ceiling until after the next election, and most significantly for Republicans, has no revenue increases. Some on the panel wondered whether this was a “surrender” by Democrats, yet Schumer insisted that it proves Democrats are willing to compromise and that it should stop people from continuing to believe that “both parties are to blame.”

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  • Anonymous

    Obama is the one who is failing at leadership…Why did he wait until the 11th hr to get a budget passed when he could have done it last year when the Democrats controlled the House and Senate.
    I get soo tired of the Democrats trying like hell to switch the blame to the Republicans when they are the ones at fault…..bunch of liars yet their sheeple will just fall in line and repeat the lies!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: The spin guru speaks!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: The spin guru speaks!

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you call him ” extreme”  , Chuck U. ?

    The Big Wind from Chicago is a petulant child , worried about his party/fundraiser/tribute to Barry next week on Default Day . Also his 2 week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard ( costing the taxpayers about one million dollars) .

  • Anonymous

    CNN’s own obama advisor Fareed and Chuck Schumer singing from the shame sheet of music.

    bwahahaha

    And CNN wants to be taken seriously.  Talking points have been distributed…..tea party bad, bad, bad..Obama good good good.
    So funny how the media has simply prostituted itself for this manchild.

  • Anonymous

    Any reasonable person who actually pays attention to the news would know that Obama has offered more concessions to the GOP than any Democrat would like. But the GOP is so beholden to their failed policies and messaging that they won’t even take a short-term hit for long-term policy wins.

    That’s fine. Great even, because the way that the approval ratings on this mess are going, the GOP’s going to be on the same shaky ground that Obama’s come 2012.

  • Chris

    “Everyone likes Obama. And everybody thinks that Obama is, correctly, a decent guy who wants to do the right thing.
    And there was a feeling at the end of the day he will be able to corral
    the left wing of his party who are really way, way out there – beyond
    what you would ever think, and bring them onboard. But what’s happening
    is, instead of Bohner leading the lefties, he seems to be
    following them.”

  • Anonymous

    A bipartisan agreement has been reached, reid took it to Obama, Obama said no.  It’s his way or the highway, no concensions on Obama’s part – words, just words…unable to act, unable to lead.

  • Anonymous

    Talk about hypocrisy. 
    We are being lectured by this left wing Heb that voted four times not to
    raise it.  

    Sell crazy somewhere else
    Chucky, were all full up here.

     

     

    H.R. 2015, Roll Call Vote #241: Passed 270-162, 6/25/97, Schumer Voted Nay

    H.J. Res. 51, Roll Call Vote #202: Passed 53-44, 5/23/03, Schumer
    Voted Nay

    S. 2986, Roll Call Vote #213: Passed 52-44, 11/17/04, Schumer
    Voted Nay

    H.J. Res. 47, Roll Call Vote #54: Passed 52-48,
    3/16/06, Schumer
    Voted Nay

  • Kelc

    Senate has not passed a budget in 28 months and its Boehner that isn’t showing leadership.That’s a good one.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam

    What concessions? According to all the leaks coming out of the negotiations, anytime Obama agrees to any sort of deal with Boehner, he goes back on his word 10 minutes later. Plus out of the blue last week he demanded an addition 400 billion in tax hikes on top of what had already been agreed on.

  • Anonymous

    If he cases they would kick him out, no doubt about it. 

  • Anonymous

    chucky misses his weiner…

  • Anonymous

    This from the Dem who was heard telling people to always refer to Repub proposals as “radical and extreme?”

    Hey Chucky, how about this:

    Posted at 08:00 AM ET, 07/25/2011
    White House stokes debt-ceiling crisis
    By Jennifer Rubin

    A Republican aide e-mails me: “The Speaker, Sen. Reid
    and Sen. McConnell all agreed on the general framework of a two-part
    plan. A short-term increase (with cuts greater than the increase),
    combined with a committee to find long-term savings before the rest of
    the increase would be considered. Sen. Reid took the bipartisan plan to
    the White House and the President said no.”

    If this is accurate the president is playing with fire. By halting a
    bipartisan deal he imperils the country’s finances and can rightly be
    accused of putting partisanship above all else. The ONLY reason to
    reject a short-term, two-step deal embraced by both the House and Senate
    is to avoid another approval-killing face-off for President Obama
    before the election. Next to pulling troops out of Afghanistan to fit
    the election calendar, this is the most irresponsible and shameful move
    of his presidency.

    As for the House, why not pass the deal that Sen. Harry Reid agreed to, send it to the Senate and leave town? Enough already.

  • Anonymous

    Reid’s plan assumes there are no wars. It’s useless and stupid.

  • Anonymous

     Reid played key role on debt bill before Obama nixed plan
    By: Byron York | Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork | 07/25/11 11:27 AM Aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid worked closely over the weekend with staff for House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on a bill to resolve the debt-ceiling standoff — until Reid pulled out after meeting with President Obama at the White House Sunday.”He and his staff were writing the bill with us,” says a senior Republican.  “We were still working on it by the time he got back from the White House.”  Asked whether Reid and his staff were fully involved in the work, the senior Republican replied, “edit after edit after edit.”  A key GOP aide confirmed the account.But the GOP bill to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling, which would avert the coming default crisis, would also require at least one more debt increase before the 2012 election, and the president, working hard for re-election, does not want to deal with the issue again before November 2012.  After consulting with Obama Sunday evening, Reid’s willingness to work with the GOP disappeared.  (The White House has all along blamed Republicans for blowing up the talks.)”I think Reid wants to get this done,” says the senior Republican.  “The problem is, the White House is so far out on a limb on vetoing anything that doesn’t get Obama through the 2012 election that it’s now kind of personal.”  For Reid to keep working with the GOP would be a slap at the president and leader of the Democratic party — a virtually impossible scenario for the Majority Leader.”Chuck, you and Barry need to stop lying.

  • Anonymous

    “White House officials talked about raising the Medicare eligibility age,
    cutting Social Security by changing the inflation index, freezing
    domestic discretionary spending and offering to preempt the end of the
    Bush tax cuts in exchange for a broad tax-reform process

    [...]

    The combined effect would have been to reduce the size of government by
    $3 trillion over a decade. That’s a number roughly three times larger
    than the cost of the Obama health care law. It also would have brutally
    fractured the Democratic Party.

    But the Republican Party decided not to pursue this deal, or even
    seriously consider it. Instead what happened was this: Conservatives
    told themselves how steadfast they were being for a few weeks. Then
    morale crumbled.”

  • Really?

    And where’s the President leadership? Where’s his plan? Any real numbers or just a bunch of lines that his friends in the media repeat?

  • Anonymous

    “ If he cases they would kick him out, no doubt about it. ”

    As usual , Mbutu (skyfet) brings his clear thinking .

  • Anonymous

    Oh, and you libs that say the world will ened id the debt ceiling isn’t raised?

    “while Congress has never before refused to raise the debt ceiling, it has frequently taken its time about doing so. In 1985, for example, Congress waited nearly three months after the debt limit was reached before it authorized a permanent increase. In 1995, four and a half months passed between the time that the government hit its statutory limit and the time Congress acted. And in 2002, Congress delayed raising the debt ceiling for three months. It took three months to raise the debt limit back in 1985 as well. In none of those cases did the world end.”
    Myth 1: Failure to increase the debt ceiling is insanity. Unless we increase the debt ceiling, the U.S. government will default on its debt. 
    Fact 1: The federal government has other options. If the debt ceiling is not increased, the Treasury Department can make interest and debt payment its first priority to avoid a default. Then it can essentially put the government on a stringent pay-as-you-go basis.

  • Anonymous

    How many bills has your Senate passed, Chuck? Where’s your Presentdent’s plan?

  • Anonymous

    Too late dummy! am too fast for ya.

  • Anonymous

    Yep. We take in 7 times what our debt service is. There is plenty of money to pay that and a whole lot of other stuff. If Granny doesn’t get her check, it will be because she’s one of the first people Barack Obama decides we’re not paying.

  • GoNavy

    like the “Bush tax cuts”, it’s so….DNC.  Try the Obama tax cuts. He owns it now.

  • Anonymous

    Sort of agreed. Point remains.

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Things must be getting really bad for the ONE if they have to send  Schumer out…

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Next time, Obama needs to run it past Nancy Pelosi before making promises.

  • Anonymous

    Chuck’s  autobiographical song!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYHSk_sepQg

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    The Republicans already passed a bill in the House that was a great compromise for the Democrats.  Cut, Cap, and Balance appeased reasonable Democrats by raising the debt ceiling by TRILLIONS of dollars.  This plan was approved by 66% of the public.  All it took was for 3 or 4 reasonable Democrats in the Senate to pass it, but the radical wing of the Democratic party held the entire Senate hostage and we had a straight party vote.

  • Anonymous

    Blah, Blah, Blah…….Blame The Tea Party……..Blah, Blah, Blah,………isn’t demonstrating “real leadership,” AKA
    he’s not caving to us………….Blah, Blah, Blah,…………..Chuck don’t you have a street corner in the five boros to go stand at and cry out for some new wacky program?

  • Anonymous

    Bush increased debt $5 trillion in 8 year= $625 billion a year

    Barry $3.9 Trillion in 2.5 years= $1.56 trillion a year.

    Projected 2011 deficit= $1.5 trillion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I know you libs enjoy living in the past, but this is 2011, try to concentrate on the wreckage Barry has rout on this country and the crises  he has caused.

  • Anonymous

    Show me the plan?

    What? There isn’t one , just Barry talk? I thought so!

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

    Ah.. Yes, little Chucky Schumer, The partisan hack who verbally assailed a flight attendant because she had the gual to ask him to turn off his phone as the plane prepared for take off, as she had also asked of all the other passengers on board the flight, what were the words he used to describe her?  Oh well never mind as that is unimportant being in the past and all.  But it does remind us to his over inflated ego and since of self importance, and his lack of judgement as rather than turn off the phone as required by law and FCC rules and regulations he chose instead to launch a tirade of F’in Bitc….  etc.  But then again, dems consistently show us that the rules only apply to the little people…  Good Luck Chuck…  your new plan does not stand a chance, but I am sure that you will be waiting by the phone as you know that nothing important in DC will happen without your input and consent. 

  • Anonymous

    Where is his plan?

    Show it to me- don’t just parrot Barry- show me in writing his plan.

  • Anonymous

    You have to love the interpretation of politicians who ran on budget responsibility, got elected on budget responsibility, and are acting responsible via the budget being labeled as pawns. Doing the job you were elected to do is what a politician is supposed to do.  Not surprisingly the party that was incapable of passing a Constitutionally mandated budget would look at the Republican actions as odd.

  • GoNavy

    The Dems follow their master’s.  Unions, environmentalists, and anyone else that donates to their campaign, but to chuckie that’s OK. What a joke that human is, he is human, right?

  • GoNavy

    The Dems follow their master’s.  Unions, environmentalists, and anyone else that donates to their campaign, but to chuckie that’s OK. What a joke that human is, he is human, right?

  • John

    Why doesn’t anybody in the media ask where the presidents plan on his specific cuts are. That’s because he doesn’t have plan. Neither does the senate. How long have they had,over two years. Hey Chukee your a real leader. A leader in denial. You and these democRATS just love the size of government and don’t want to cut anything. Spending us into bankruptcy. Tax increases are not revenue incentives to cut but to keep spending and spending. Tim Pawlenty was right on when he said Obummer and democRats are only ducking bobbing and weaving around this debt issue. Boy that’s what real leadership is all about.

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

    Hey Chuckeeee, theirs more coming from the Tea Party…… sad 4 u

  • Anonymous

    A whole lot of us independents support the tea party’s small government, fiscal responsibility mantra.  The more they attack the ‘tea party’, the more they lose independents. Shocker.   The blue dog dems are going to have to distance themselves from party leadership big-time…

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Obama is the President of NO!   dNOpigs!

  • Anonymous

    “The new Reid plan has enough cuts to equal the rise in the debt ceiling,
    prevents another vote on increasing the debt ceiling until after the
    next election, and most significantly for Republicans, has no revenue
    increases.”

    In the 11th hour, we should all be thinking, wouldn’t cutting spending negate the need to raise the debt limit? This raise is extremely important to the very same people who opposed it in 2006! “Preventing a vote on the debt limit until after the next election”? WHY that terminology? Does Reid think that the next election will go his way and he will have the votes to defeat the republicans without republicans being able to have enough votes to stop it? I’ll bet that is his gamble.

    Anyone else deeply offended by the government using the term “REVENUE INCREASES” when the revenue is coming out of OUR POCKETS? Isn’t that what we mean by TAX CUTS? A reduction of “revenue” to the feds who waste it?

    The hundred TEA party members way, way out there? More are coming your way Schmuckie.

  • Anonymous

    “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt
    limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Governmant
    can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial
    assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal
    policies. … Increasing America’s
    debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the
    buck stops here. Instead, Washington
    is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and
    grandchildren. America
    has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
    b. Hussein o’bama 2006

  • Anonymous

    good! now fix this one…

  • Anonymous

    Where’s your leadership, Chuck?  No budget the past two years….nothing at all.  Now that is real leadership.  This con should have been tossed out for election year dumpster diving and spying on his opponents two years ago.  He is a wart on the asshole of Washington.  Go do a Monica on Bill Clinton…another liberal fascist in a suit bankrupting the country.

  • err don’t think so!

    Cut, Cap and balance was not approved by 66% of the public you lying b^stard. Cut, Cap and balance is a right wing piece of crap that shouldn’t be touched with 10ft poll. The President’s been very weak throughout this process but the Republicans have been an absolute fcking disgrace!

  • Anonymous

    Or, o’bama has sent Granny off to the “farm” after a bunch of blue and red pills…

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for pointing out the hypocrisy of our president = in his own words he is hoist on his own petard!

    Priceless retribution.

     

  • Anonymous

    Now it’s easy to see why all of President Snow Job’s records are non-existent—- he doesnt write anything down.  He hasn’t even scribbled numbers down on a cocktail napkin for his party members.  Capital D doofus.  How can anyone “believe” in this punk simian fool and his big butted Wookie wife?

  • Anonymous

    And he got a hold o Michael Steele’s social security number and his credit background… He called it opposition research!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Democrat underground Chart info is BS! Lets use real government facts like what Obozo can’t understand! here;  http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/NPGateway

  • Anonymous

    Unless you are an illegal alien. Then the Country is wide open…

  • Anonymous

    That’s it, never let go of your imagination.

  • Rudy Gonzales

    I want to echo Schumer’s words as the TEA party is leading the GOP around by the nose!

  • Greg

    “It’s appropriate, therefore, that CCB has become the vehicle of Republicans determined to avoid any bipartisan solution to the country’s fiscal problems. Their affection for the measure, particularly among those who have adopted it as the only acceptable approach, makes it clear they don’t much care about deficits and debts if dealing with them interferes with their agenda of cutting taxes and limiting government to only those functions it performed in the distant past.  That the CCB pledge could produce a debt default perfectly reflects the priority conservatives have assigned to paying the country’s obligations, material or moral.”
    http://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138536054/new-republic-cut-cap-and-balance-is-sabatoge

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    CNN Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Support ‘Cut, Cap and Balance’ Plan

    http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/21/cnn-poll-two-thirds-of-americans-support-cut-cap-and-balance-plan/

  • Anonymous

    I can’t help ya, You still can’t capitalize. You are a failure.

  • Your Hypocrisy stinks

    …Just like the Republicans following their master’s. Wall Street, Corporations, and anyone else who donates to their campaign.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John
  • Anonymous

    Charles Schumer, (D-imwhit-NY/Wall Street) = the nitwit who thinks the three branches of the US Government are “the House, the Senate, and the president”   Chucky is, without doubt, a PUPPET SENATOR 100% OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY WALL STREET.

    Every time nut-job chucky opens his mouth I get a thrill up my leg. His insane remarks discredit and disgrace the entire lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist extremist ideology better than anyone else or anything else could possibly do

    Now that the ONLY ADULT in the debt reduction process, Speaker Boehner, has sent man-child obozo off to play so he can’t further muck-up the negotiations – America can look forward to some REAL progress on fixing the reckless, out-of-control, irresponsible SPENDING PROBLEM in Washington.

    (Yes, NO-PLAN-OBOZO was out playing golf on Sunday as Boehner and others were hard at work trying to solve the SPENDING PROBLEM!)

    One can be certain that “YOU LIE!” obozo will do the worst possible things to inflict a petulant, spiteful, petty, mean-spirited revenge against those who won’t give him his beloved MASSIVE JOB-KILLING and ECONOMIC-GROWTH-STIFFLING TAX INCREASES, like stopping payments to the elderly, the poor and the sick and even defaulting on the debt – all without any real need to do so. Why? Because, as leftist TOOL mark halperin so aptly described him, he’s a “D-I-*-K”. I feel sorry for Speaker Boehner who has to try get this sanctimonious, demagogic, self-righteous and arrogant clown to do something constructive and beneficial for the country, which is clearly a thankless and horrifically difficult task.

  • Anonymous

    Big news!  Stop the presses!  Pandering, lying, hair-plugging old Democrat demagogues the Tea Party!  

    What a joke.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWUI6JH3KWIAFWIWHBZGHPFIN4 Cotton Picker

    Obama is held captive by the far left dems, SEIU, ACORN, their public service union ilk and the communist party USA.

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t see Libya there.

    Officials at the White House, Treasury and Federal Reserve can now
    transition from designing the biggest financial bailout in 70 years —
    which could ultimately cost more than $2 trillion — to executing it. “More than…” which means, double it, and send us the bill.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: All the democrats know that entitlements get squashed if you balance the budget and live with what you earn. That’s crazy to Cap spending under the level that you have as earned income, Cut a little more to reduce the 14 trillion you owe to others and then have on the books and balance budget that the spending will in a way be that the sacrifices are shared. Crazy people think up nonsense!

  • HawkCW4

    You might want to check who gets what from those you whine about.  You Liberals have been fed that mantra for so long even the ones who created the mantra now believe it.   But you will find IF you check that tons of money from Wall St,  Big Companies,  The Rich as you so fondly refer to them finds its way to Liberal Law Makers in DC.  But then who dont like hypocrites Right.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Hack web news site! Good lib source!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Duh what illegal? These are future voters!

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

    At the end of this mess it would be nice if a Congressional commission were set up to work with both the GAO and the CBO to continously review and make recommendation on efficiency of governmental programs and spending.  A commission whose charge it would be to bring to the house cost cutting measures based on program review by accountants of the accounting measures and efficiencies of the thousands of governmental programs that run rampent out of DC…  Who is actually looking into the billions upon billions of dollars that the government spends with little further thought?  A Large business or Corporation constantly reviews its opperations for efficiencies and effectiveness in meeting its desired results, conversely with our government once a dollare is spent it is expected that it will be spent year after year with adjustments for real inflation, not the CPI they use for Granny’s SS check.   Is this to much for the tax payer to ask of its government?  But no Chucky, just label us a fringe idealogs with no understanding of the real world in which we live…  We should be graced by your presence in our lives, and compliantly welcome the train wreck that lies ahead. 

  • Anonymous

    The only advantage to delaying the vote is to lay the blame at the feet of the republicans when the ceiling falls in. It won’t work, but that seems to be their strategy if you look at past behavior. The liberals don’t care if the credit rating of the US is dropped as long as they can blame it on republicans and use that as a tool to leverage more votes for them within the undecided and uneducated. The only way they can win is by the appeals to the less learned among us. The fact that they can get large numbers of votes from the dumbed-down youth who have been educated within their schools with their revisionist texts is somewhat disturbing. Why didn’t anyone see this and stop it? When it became apparent in the late 1980′s that this was their strategy we should have seen it.

    Now we have lifetime career politicians like Chuck who really is a puppet of party leadership out there in front of any TV camera he can find making ignorant statements to the public like this, and a segment of people who have been taught this philosophy from an early age all just can’t seem to get enough of this propaganda minister’s pronouncements.

    I think that the liberals will find out that they have something in common with Japanese Admiral Yamamoto – a fatal underestimation of the real America.

  • Greg

    Attacking a source instead of an argument qualifies as a logical fallacy… and it’s just plain lazy… but you do you famo.  

  • Anonymous

    This plan was approved by 66% of the public? No one asked me. Where did this poll occur and who did the polling?

  • Anonymous

    Schumer is a parrot of the Obama regime and has admitted so on national TV in the past.

    On senators who were to talk with reporters about the current budget stalemate.

    Schumer instructed the group, made up of Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Tom Carper of Delaware, Ben Cardin of Maryland and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, to tell reporters that the GOP is refusing to negotiate.

    He told the group to make sure they label the GOP spending cuts as “extreme.”

    “I always use extreme,” Schumer said. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use.”

    Someone must have finally told Schumer that the media were listening and he stopped talking.

  • HawkCW4

    AND because you said so its fact right?   You are one of those who would stand in the rain and tell us how dumb we are for suggesting we are getting wet.  Dont you understand that most people who take time to post here would have some clue what is real and what is BS?   I suggest you know also but so addicted to the Liberal Mantra you cant help yourself.  Your idea is to spend spend spend.  and that takes money, which means you need to tax tax tax.  Have you noticed,  there are 14 million people out of work and rather than paying into the revenue stream in payroll taxes,  they are drawing unemployment and welfare, further draining our economy.  Not their fault, its Obama and his gang of thieves who just cant get past re-election first.  So Be IT.

  • Anonymous

    Well he is almost life-like…

  • Anonymous

    see if your english-(whatever language you speak) dictionary has the word “intentional” in it…

    ! am too fast for ya. <—you are missing something here.

  • HawkCW4

    So that would be sorta like the Obama and Liberal vehicle of Liberals determined to avoid any bipartisan solution by demanding more and more taxes on an already over taxed Nation.  The very fact of 14 million out of work non tax paying citizens right now DEMANDS no new taxes,   You tax now and you will kill another 5 million jobs.   Do you really think you can kill jobs and make up for that lost revenue by just increasing taxes again and then again and then again.  Who in hell do you suppose will end up paying when the dust settles?   Every business in America will move over seas.  This country will be owned by China and you sir WILL learn to speak chinese and you will see your precious freedoms,  starting with speech go down the tubes.   Mexico will become the new receptor of illegals because Americans will be leaving this country by the millions rather than live under what Obama is trying to create.   Think about it.

  • Anonymous

    Capitalization Joker, Capitalization. How hard is it?

  • Anonymous

    ! am too fast for ya.

    so why isn’t the “a” capitalized? you dont do “A”s in your country?

  • HawkCW4

    Obama can offer all he likes, but until tax increases are not one of them, he is out of line and will be ignored.  You see,  Republicans can be just as stubborn as Liberals,  and when your right your right, and the liberals are way wrong to even suggest increased taxes in the face  of the Job crisis. 

  • Anonymous

    Are you the same joker that blamed his failure on a hardware? Shame on ya. Big freaking shame.

  • Anonymous

    Are you the same joker that blamed his failure on a hardware? Shame on ya. Big freaking shame.

  • Anonymous

    Are you the same joker that blamed his failure on a hardware? Shame on ya. Big freaking shame.

  • Anonymous

    Are you the same joker that blamed his failure on a hardware? Shame on ya. Big freaking shame.

  • Anonymous

    Are you the same joker that blamed his failure on a hardware? Shame on ya. Big freaking shame.

  • HawkCW4

    Im sure you had a thought there but some how it got lost.

  • Anonymous

    are you waiting for google translate to work before you can answer?

  • HawkCW4

    Agreed Bear but would be best to leave his wife out of this.  Please.  You have many targets to shoot at, we dont need to pick on family.   Thats a Liberal way of life and it sucks.  

  • Anonymous

    You like taking a lot of beating, you are like an abused wife. Capitalization, Capitalization. Learn how to use it.

  • GoNavy

    You really have no clue, do you? Try checking BHO’s campaign donations Einstein.

  • HawkCW4

    Sorry Rudy,  but they are doing exactly what they were elected to do.   I know,  I know, thats  foreign idea to liberals and many conservatives,  BUT it is the new way,  so get used to it.   By the way,  its called integrity, honesty, responsibility.  words we all need to learn to accept and live by.

  • Anonymous

    “You like taking a lot of beating”

    more good engrish rittre ferrow…

  • Anonymous

    Schumer should stop nipping at Boehner’s ankles and try to finally contribute something constructive to the debate.

  • http://capitolcommentary.com Harrison

    RIght… too bad Goldman Sachs and its employees were the largest donors to Obama’s campaign.  Oh, right, GS isn’t on Wall Street.

  • Anonymous

    I must have touched a nerve.Ahhhh
    Boys and Girls, Don’t grow up to be like this guy here. He needs to learn how t make use of the capitalization process. He just doesn’t get it, I’ve tried so many times without any success. What a shame.

  • Anonymous

    Chew on these facts, Schumer:

    Ohio under Kasich has had it’s credit outlook upgraded by Standards and Poors due to the confidence they have in Kasich’s budget.
    http://blog.cleveland.com/metr...

    Wisconsin under Walker was responsible for half of all jobs created throughout the entire country in June.
    http://www.jsonline.com/busine...

    Indiana under Daniels has a 1.2 billion dollar budget surplus.
    http://www.courierpress.com/ne...

    The Republicans are on the right side of this debt/budget debate. The proof is in the results.

  • Anonymous

    ill reply in your native tongue so you can understand.

    ping pong ching chong ding dong wrong

  • Anonymous

    Ahhh! I think I may have touched a freaking nerve.

  • Dahni

    Hmm… to me, and a lot of other moderates, ‘cut, cap and balance’ means the government needs to cut spending, cap spending (limit spending, lol) and balance the budget by only having spending bills that are matched by revenue sources.  Why am I considered stupid by many progressives on this site?

  • Dahni

    amazing that some people don’t get the truth of your post.

  • Anonymous

    Your handle stinks. Grow up. 

  • Dahni

    While I’m posting, I’m still looking for a plan from the Democrats that involves something besides increasing spending…..how about a budget from them?  Can they define ‘budget’?  Doesn’t look like it to me.

  • Anonymous

    Like the CBO said, we can’t score a speech. Talking is talking. Put it on paper, and let’s have a look at it.

  • Anonymous

    my typing style is intentional and you keep making unintentional mistakes. you are funny rittle guy…

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

    Damn John, that was one of the biggest AND QUICKEST smackdowns I’ve seen on Mediaite yet.  It’s almost worse than the daily intellectual beatdowns on Kitty and Staci, our resident bimbos.

  • Anonymous

    And there was none of this political RHETORIC if the debt limit was not raised in 2006:

    “We cannot guarantee – if there were a default – that any specific
    bill would be paid,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said, seeking to
    leverage public pressure on negotiators from both sides who are headed
    back to the White House this afternoon.
     

    President Obama also raised the specter of short-changing recipients of federal benefits, telling CBS’s Scott Pelly in an interview that “there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.”

    More than 80 million Americans who receive benefits payments from the
    government each month could be at risk, the Treasury Department said.
     Most of those checks cover Social Security recipients, veterans and
    civil service retirees.”

    THIS my friends, is what Schmuckie considers leadership?

  • Douglas W. Rodrigues

    Democrats will never “get it,” because they lack logical reasoning ability.  The Treasury is bankrupt. Obama wants to spend even more money and tax us more!  Now tell me if that’s “Leadership” or stupidity?  A real leader would would cut spending on unnecessary programs.  The 200 billion a year spent on illegal aliens would be a good start. Oh….I forgot: Obama doesn’t want to risk losing the Mexican votes.  Yeah…real leadership.

  • Anonymous

    Double dog agree Hawk. Also, the only issue here is the fact that o’bama has not put his PLAN on paper. We know it is because he does not have one, does not want to be held accountable to anything in writing (think of all of his “present” votes), and he wants to “blame” the TEA Party and Bush for his failures. He is still voting “present” in this argument!

    Hey Bear, let’s leave the name calling and the off topic related comments to the liberals. They are masters in the craft…

  • Anonymous

    Double dog agree Hawk. Also, the only issue here is the fact that o’bama has not put his PLAN on paper. We know it is because he does not have one, does not want to be held accountable to anything in writing (think of all of his “present” votes), and he wants to “blame” the TEA Party and Bush for his failures. He is still voting “present” in this argument!

    Hey Bear, let’s leave the name calling and the off topic related comments to the liberals. They are masters in the craft…

  • Anonymous

    Hey Clemenzza, glad to see the “family” is still around! Here is what Boehner should say…
    In the words of Michael Corleone, “I’ll give you your answer now, Senator Schmuckie, and it is the same as you have voted for… ‘NOTHING’. And I would appreciate it if your party put a cap on the spending and the debt limit so that we can achieve what the voters sent US here for.”

    You get the dead fish, and I’ll get the horse’s head! Deal?

  • Jadd

    Every day more evidence that the boner needs to be removed from office

  • Anonymous

    Maybe he could defund the First Lady’s anti-obesity campaign and recoup enough to pay the Social Security recipients, veterans and civil service retirees.

    Since all the members of congress and the president are wealthy, (most are attorneys), perhaps they could renounce all claims to federal money such as Social Security and their overly generous pensions. By their own pronouncements they don’t need all that money in benefits and should be willing to part with it, after all it is only their fair share of shouldering the debt burden they created for all of America.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    The tea party segment of the Republican party are bargaining from a position of no compromise on anything because they only believe in limited government, as we use to have in the gilded age, when the robber barons roomed the land.
    They believe that smaller government will improve the economy for all of us. Really, it didn’t before the New Deal, and then the liberal programs were put in place, like the Glass Steagall Act. The average per capita income was the highest 3%, between 1950 and 1973, and one and a half percent before, and after then.
    After Reagan came into office, the right wingers got out their 19Th century economics plans, brought to you by the Chicago School of economics, with trickledown economics, telling us that shunting the wealth to the wealthy among us, through the Wall Street bankers would increase jobs and economic prosperity; as Kudlow laments, Free market Capitalism leads to prosperity.” Well where is that prosperity?
    Its’ on Wall Street and in other countries, and the people who believe in this are the diehard 19Th century tea baggers and Republicans, that promote this road to serfdom. The more these people promote their Hoover austerity programs, the more you will find yourself in a 3rd world, similar to the conditions before the middle class had its glory days in the 50″s, the golden age of capitalism with regulations and high taxes on the rich.

  • Anonymous

    Leave the gun . . . . . take the cannoli.

  • GoNavy

    Do you have the shirt?  Saw it last weekend.   “Oh, Paulie, you won’t see him no more.”

  • Anonymous

    Is Big Union Labor technically an evil corporation? How about planned parenthood? BP gave 77 million, and then he screwed them.

    Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.
    Gips,
    a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered
    more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two
    other company executives collected at least $150,000 more.

    Overall, 184 of 556, or about one-third of Obama bundlers or their
    spouses joined the administration in some role. But the percentages are
    much higher for the big-dollar bundlers. Nearly 80 percent of those who
    collected more than $500,000 for Obama took “key administration posts,”
    as defined by the White House. More than half the 24 ambassador nominees
    who were bundlers raised $500,000.

    Among big fundraisers, Obama has drawn close to a third of his money
    from people in the finance industry, up from 20% during his 2008
    campaign, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics.

    The amount raised so far is more than two-thirds what Wall Street
    elites helped Obama raise in his entire 2008 campaign. And it is enough
    to make the finance world the single largest source of big-ticket
    donations for Obama. By comparison, the legal profession was his top
    source in 2008.

    Obama listed 244 bundlers in the disclosure last week
    and is well on his way to raising more from bundlers than he did in
    2008. Outside the finance industry, big names on the list included
    Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel and producer Jeffrey Katzenberg.

    All together, these bundlers raised at least $34.9 million for Obama,
    at least $11.8 million of which came from people in the finance
    industry. Among the nine bundlers who raised at least $500,000, four
    were from the financial world. The numbers are inexact because the
    campaign gave only broad ranges for what each donor raised.

  • Douglas W. Rodrigues

    Any compromise would be like agreeing to be shot in the head once instead of twice.  The Treasury is broke.  What part of broke don’t you understand?  It’s broke because the politicians keep inventing programs to spend more and more money on.  Would you run your personal bank account the way Big Govermment runs the spending?

  • Anonymous

    Some say Chucky is a blowhard , some see him as a windbag , still others say he’s a bag of gas .

    All are correct.

  • Douglas W. Rodrigues

    Wall Street donated how many millions to Obama’s campaign?  …a lot more than they donated to Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    Bear, please… Let the liberals do the gutter talking and the swearing. Posting like that does not defeat liberals in the arena of ideas. It puts you in the gutter with them.

    Schmuckie got Michael Steele’s social security number and then got his credit report, and then leaked it to the press under the guise of “opposition research”. Was it a crime? Yes. And the liberal media covered him, which should be another crime…

    We have to wonder if Schmuckie has a Tiffany’s account and what the credit level is…

  • Anonymous

    HEY BARRY:
    Pessimism overflowing in new poll By: CNN’s Jeff Simon(CNN) – While most Americans are feeling a fiscal pinch, a new poll reveals a stunning amount of pessimism over the long-term outlook of the nation’s economy.According to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday, 84 percent of Americans feel the economy is in poor shape. While some expect economic conditions to improve, a majority-59 percent-believes the economy will still be in poor shape one year from now. It’s the first time in the 14 years that CNN has asked the question that a majority has been pessimistic about the country’s economic future.”

  • Anonymous

    And all of the “farm subsidies” that they vote for themselves! Funny, though, that the politicians are in no danger of getting their checks cut off but the military and the veterans are.

    We allowed these politicians to exempt themselves from the laws they impose on us in the days when Americans got their “news” from the liberal media. The TEA Party had better start to reverse those laws and put “skin in the game” as they demand from us.

    Would social security, mediscare, or any other “public” policy be screwed up if the politicians had to rely on it a well?

    Lobbying is a crime against the taxpayer.

  • Douglas W. Rodrigues

    What bipartisan solution?  The only solution to the debt problem is for the politicians to stop spending!  The Democrats and many Republicans don’t seem to “get it.”  In how many ways can someone be told to not spend more money than their income.  In how many ways do you convince a politician to stop inventing more programs to be paid for with borrowed money?  In how many ways can you convince the “takers” in society that the gravy train has to come to a stop?  Hey, you so-called Liberals want to make a difference in the debt?  Easy….donate 200% of next year’s Federal Taxes to the debt.  The Treasury will take your money.  Put your money where your mouth is.

  • http://societyfordaintydamsels.wordpress.com/ artemesia

    I just know the tax cuts of those earning or should I say making $250,000 or higher was a main cause of the deficit in the first place.  Its called sacrificing , compromise and all sides must compromise not only people are of the lowest income.   Plus the most if not all the major financial institutions are urging Obama to raise the debt ceiling.  Why can’t the military budget be reduced by not fighting in uncessary, unjustified wars.  What is the justification for the wars we’re fighting in currently.   What’s wrong with everyone paying their fair and I emphasis fair share in taxes?

  • Douglas W. Rodrigues

    Name a few of those concessions that actually made a difference in bringing down the debt?  

  • Anonymous

    Two things the o’bama’s want to outlaw! No guns… No cannoli… And the thermostat needs to be controlled by the government… “Where my children sleep, and play with their toys…”

    Thanks for the laugh!

  • Anonymous

    We need a shirt that reads, “We made o’bama an offer he couldn’t refuse”!

    GoNavy, Semper Fi!

  • Anonymous

    If only it were true that she is just family.  She is running an agenda from an unelected position which is affecting the life of my 13 year old.  I don’t know if you have children— but I for one do not need an unelected individual running my child’s personal life and choices.  So the target is legitimate in my opinion.  I appreciate your sentiments, so the grandma and the kids are not targets.  

  • Anonymous

    fair share is the question. who determines fair share

  • Anonymous

    how much should the lowest income bracket  pay?

  • Anonymous

    “I just know the tax cuts of those earning or should I say making $250,000 or higher was a main cause of the deficit in the first place. ”

    Really? Why don’t ya prove that?

    How about Barry’s spending over $800 billion on a Stimulus bill that didn’t stimulate anything?
    Even if you took Barry’s fraudulent figures on jobs created or “Saved” ( a term NEVER used before Barry took office and which is NOT tracked by Barry’s own DOL)  the CBO says that each job cost $278K!!!!!!!!!!

    Barry could have helped more Americans but giving the money away!!

    ” Its called sacrificing , compromise and all sides must compromise not only people are of the lowest income.”

    Really? All have to sacrifice?

    Fully 50% of Americans pay NO TAX!

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jul/08/john-cornyn/john-cornyn-says-51-percent-american-households-pa/

    Two unnecessary wars?

    Barry is continuing them.

  • caconservative

    Does Schumer think policy is dictated by personality? That is the depth of that idiots reasoning. We, in the Tea-Party, are sick to death of the little backslapping, good ol’ boy BS both Party’s like to delve in. We have told them to get their house in order or their gone. We proved our strength in 2010 and we will be even more organized for the 2012 election cycle. Apparently, many didn’t get the message in 2010. They will be leaving right along with Obimbo in 2012.

  • Anonymous

    My 13 year old cannot drink chocolate milk in school anymore, fryolators are banned, and no trans fats may be used. Candy vending machines are gone, and the parents that make cookies for fundraising, are no longer allowed to sell them on school grounds. She brings her chocolate milk in a thermos, and as always, has a home made lunch of our choosing. Italian subs filled with fatty meats and cheese are her favorite with chips and her favorite… apple and nutella. She is by no means obese. Screw the government intolerance. Maybe they should bring PE back. “Let’s Move”???

    Calling names and swearing in the posts is what is at issue here. You are 100 percent right about her unelected influence on personal choice, especially when she is a hypocrite about it by professing her love for fries, and then going on 1700 calorie benders, all the while denying children the same thing. Who knows, she may invent o’bama day at schools where they stuff their faces with all of the banned food at least once a month. Her message is confusing to children, at best.

    Until then, and we have a thread for that, stick to the issues in an intelligent manner and let the libs fill the gutter. Your posts are valid and appreciated. Just post as if your 13 year old were reading them!

  • Dart Rt

    The Tea Party congressmen did what they could to change Washington but, there just isn’t enough of them. Next election they have to get control of the senate.

  • Anonymous

     Chuck Schumer wouldn’t know a true statement if it bit him on the @ss.  All he ever does is regurgitate prepackaged, focus group tested Democratic talking points appropriate to the current Party line.  He is a very smart man, but even he’s not sharp enough to keep his lies straight, and they keep changing all the time.

  • Anonymous

     Chuck Schumer wouldn’t know a true statement if it bit him on the @ss.  All he ever does is regurgitate prepackaged, focus group tested Democratic talking points appropriate to the current Party line.  He is a very smart man, but even he’s not sharp enough to keep his lies straight, and they keep changing all the time.

  • thinkbetter

    I know this is happening. Do you have an idea of how to stop that? or how can we stop those lobbyists from hampering our growth? (from both parties)

  • Marlee

    On which planet do you live??  The Republican party  are primarily responsible for the condition of this country.  Why do you put down the people that are trying to make it right again, have you forgotten it was the Republican government that took us to 2 wars, and the first so excessively wrong, there were no weapons of mass destruction.  What is your thoughts on that??

  • UpChuck.Liberals NoBO12

    Wow, and this out of Chuck U Schumer who is like a leech on Barrys butt.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    Face it Boehner is a coward. It is amazing how Republicans will lie to you with a straight face. Coward Boehner says the House passed a bipartisan debt bill, the Cut, Cap and Balance budget. How much BS can the Republicans feed the American public? The vote was 234-190, with just 5 Democrats voting for it.  That’s like saying the Senate passed a bipartisan bill 54-46, with one Republican voting for the bill. There was no bipartisan bill passed in the House, Boehner basically lied to the Public to win sympathy for his position. Which is not being received well by the American public. Which is another lie the Republicans always repeat. They always say that the President and the Democrats don’t listen to what the American public want. When in actuality it’s the Republicans who don’t listen to the American public. They think their minority, is the American public, well guess again. Republicans and their “Tea Partiers” are in the minority.

  • Ski Wolf

    That should tell you something about the insanity of the republican Ideas

  • Ski Wolf

    But! The problem is
    that “Trickle Down”, or Supply side economics imposed by Bush did not
    work. Corporations and wealthy individuals are sitting on trillions in cash.
    They did not invest in new jobs, nor will they. The only way to put any of
    those assets to work is to “Tax & Spend” them; the government needs to
    spend money to boost the economy because the private sector refuses to. If you
    are not making $250K, don’t worry. If you are, either spend some of it, or shut
    up.

    The separation of the
    ultra rich & everyone else is growing, while the middle class disappears.
    That is what the Tea Party wants. They might as well be called the Feudalism
    party.

  • suzieQ

    It is my greatest desire that these selfish, greedy tea Party’s are successful.  The only way American’s will wake up to their idiocy and failure of compassion is for complete financial demise.  Perhaps then, Americans will search for politician with educatio, spine, guts and really willing to work hard for this country.  John Boehner has been sleeping with lobbyist since day one in D.C.,  With that kind of cash in his pockets, why would he care about the nation’s financial situation?  Do my Fellow American Voters ever compile the $’s we are giving these dis-respectful ninconpoops in salary, far overboard health care and expense accounts?

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