Boehner now directly attacking Obama — After tip-toeing around the popular new president for months, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has shifted gears and gone directly at President Barack Obama and the budget blueprint his White House unveiled last week.
Vitter: Limbaugh Is Saying ‘What I Am Saying’ — ‘I Hope’ Obama ‘Fails In Advancing Leftist Policy’
On his radio show last week, Rush Limbaugh, the “unofficial leader” of the Republican Party, declared that it was a “dirty little secret” that “every Republican in this country wants Obama to fail.” “None of them have the guts to say so,” added Limbaugh.
On his radio show last week, Rush Limbaugh, the “unofficial leader” of the Republican Party, declared that it was a “dirty little secret” that “every Republican in this country wants Obama to fail.” “None of them have the guts to say so,” added Limbaugh.
Since then, however, more and more Republicans have gone on record agreeing with Limbaugh. In an interview with CNN yesterday, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), the third-ranking House Republican, said “You bet, we want those policies to fail.” Now, in an interview with The Hill, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) admitted that he agrees with Limbaugh:
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) agreed with Limbaugh on Tuesday.
“I hope [Obama] fails in advancing leftist policy that I strongly disagree with,” Vitter said. “I think what [Limbaugh] was saying was largely what I am saying.”
Steele: ‘My Personal Opinion Doesn’t Matter In This’ — Only Limbaugh’s Does
Yesterday morning, RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on NBC’s Today Show. Host Matt Lauer asked Steele three separate times whether he agreed with Rush Limbaugh and hoped Barack Obama fails. Steele avoided answering all three times, insisting that his own opinion was inconsequential:
LAUER: I guess I’m asking you your personal opinion. Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh when he says that it’s common sense that as a conservative he wants the policies of Barack Obama to fail?
STEELE: Well, my personal opinion doesn’t matter in this. My job as the RNC chairman is to take into account all of the various views out there within our party and try to put together a strategy and a team that’s going to help us win elections. […]
LAUER: Mr. Steele, let me try it this way. There are many Republicans out there as well as Democrats who are unemployed right now. People are hurting across this country. Republicans like Democrats are losing their homes, they’re unable to send their kids to school. Do you think those Republicans want the policies of Barack Obama to fail right now?
STEELE: I don’t think that Republicans, Democrats or Independents or anyone wants policies that redistributes the wealth of this country…
Yesterday morning, RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on NBC’s Today Show. Host Matt Lauer asked Steele three separate times whether he agreed with Rush Limbaugh and hoped Barack Obama fails. Steele avoided answering all three times, insisting that his own opinion was inconsequential:
LAUER: I guess I’m asking you your personal opinion. Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh when he says that it’s common sense that as a conservative he wants the policies of Barack Obama to fail?
STEELE: Well, my personal opinion doesn’t matter in this. My job as the RNC chairman is to take into account all of the various views out there within our party and try to put together a strategy and a team that’s going to help us win elections. […]
LAUER: Mr. Steele, let me try it this way. There are many Republicans out there as well as Democrats who are unemployed right now. People are hurting across this country. Republicans like Democrats are losing their homes, they’re unable to send their kids to school. Do you think those Republicans want the policies of Barack Obama to fail right now?
STEELE: I don’t think that Republicans, Democrats or Independents or anyone wants policies that redistributes the wealth of this country…
Steele: Punishing senators who supported stimulus is ‘absolutely on the table.’
Last month, RNC Chairman Michael Steele signaled his willingness to consider retribution against the three Republican senators who supported President Obama’s recovery plan by supporting primary challengers. He reaffirmed that pledge yesterday on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, declaring such punishment is “absolutely on the table.”
INGRAHAM: Will you make good on that pledge that the RNC will not raise money and give money to Republicans who continue to put a stick in the eye of fiscal conservatism?
STEELE: As I said, that is something that is absolutely on the table for me. I’m not backing down from that
Last month, RNC Chairman Michael Steele signaled his willingness to consider retribution against the three Republican senators who supported President Obama’s recovery plan by supporting primary challengers. He reaffirmed that pledge yesterday on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, declaring such punishment is “absolutely on the table.”
INGRAHAM: Will you make good on that pledge that the RNC will not raise money and give money to Republicans who continue to put a stick in the eye of fiscal conservatism?
STEELE: As I said, that is something that is absolutely on the table for me. I’m not backing down from that
Why is Fox News trying to scare young tourists away from Mexico?
What exactly is up with Fox News' fetish about warning kids to stay away from Mexico?Bill O'Reilly pushed this story Tuesday night, and his vision of the scene in Mexico, with a bunch of tough Tony Montana-style drug lords hanging out in every smoky den, was about what you'd expect from the author of Those_Who_Trespass. Which is to say, largely bereft of reality. His guest -- who clearly knows her way around these scenes far better than BillO -- was incredulous: "Where do you get this stuff?" she asks at one point.
What exactly is up with Fox News' fetish about warning kids to stay away from Mexico?Bill O'Reilly pushed this story Tuesday night, and his vision of the scene in Mexico, with a bunch of tough Tony Montana-style drug lords hanging out in every smoky den, was about what you'd expect from the author of Those_Who_Trespass. Which is to say, largely bereft of reality. His guest -- who clearly knows her way around these scenes far better than BillO -- was incredulous: "Where do you get this stuff?" she asks at one point.
BillO unleashes clownish attack on SEIU
Bill O'Reilly seems convinced that President Obama is doomed to failure, largely because he's surrounded by "extremists of the far left" like the SEIU, who are the cause of the continuing stock-market declines. At least, that was his theory about the continuing non-performance of Wall Street in his Talking Points Memo segment Tuesday night:
O'Reilly: The truth is that far-left extremists are unleashed, and are going for the gold. Their code words are "social justice" and "shared sacrifice." "Social justice" means empowering the government to seize the assets of affluent Americans and redistribute them to the less well off. "Shared sacrifice" means punitive taxation on high-wage earners and corporations. Now, that of course is socialism.
Bill O'Reilly seems convinced that President Obama is doomed to failure, largely because he's surrounded by "extremists of the far left" like the SEIU, who are the cause of the continuing stock-market declines. At least, that was his theory about the continuing non-performance of Wall Street in his Talking Points Memo segment Tuesday night:
O'Reilly: The truth is that far-left extremists are unleashed, and are going for the gold. Their code words are "social justice" and "shared sacrifice." "Social justice" means empowering the government to seize the assets of affluent Americans and redistribute them to the less well off. "Shared sacrifice" means punitive taxation on high-wage earners and corporations. Now, that of course is socialism.
Chuck Todd's hackery: Michael Steele could turn into Howard Dean
It looks like becoming a WH reporter for NBC has really gotten to Chuck Todd's head. He actually had the nerve to say this to Joe Scarborough about Howard Dean.
Todd: One one hand, you gotta hand it to the White House. They wanted to elevate Rush...With Michael Steel, this has been as rough of a start, you know he is bordering on becoming a version of Howard Dean on the Republican side. When Howard Dean stopped having the respect of the party insiders---Steele, if he's not careful will not have the respect of party insiders and I don't care how much the grassroots might like, and I don't want to offend Mr. Steel, who's coming on. He's gotta be careful..
It looks like becoming a WH reporter for NBC has really gotten to Chuck Todd's head. He actually had the nerve to say this to Joe Scarborough about Howard Dean.
Todd: One one hand, you gotta hand it to the White House. They wanted to elevate Rush...With Michael Steel, this has been as rough of a start, you know he is bordering on becoming a version of Howard Dean on the Republican side. When Howard Dean stopped having the respect of the party insiders---Steele, if he's not careful will not have the respect of party insiders and I don't care how much the grassroots might like, and I don't want to offend Mr. Steel, who's coming on. He's gotta be careful..
2 comments:
Scaring people away from Mexico is to keep all the rich college kids here going wild spending their money.
Rush....and Boehner is going to quote this fine specimen of the GOP. Really, drug addict, womanizer...oooummm, that takes care of most of them...guess he is in line with the GOP.
And the GOP is still disillusioned about Steele thinking he's their Golden child.
Greed got us in this mess, and now they call it socialism when the rich get their taxes brought back to where they should be. Really I saw on one of the CSPan programs that the executives at Walmart make $15K an hour when the employees make maybe $10 an hour, and when the cost of living goes up their wages don't, this guy was saying share the good times with the employees not just the bad and there would be a middle class out there spending money.
There was no profit sharing the last few years, no real teamwork, everyone was slaves to their company and the executives were like plantation owners, reaping all the benefits, giving their employees the bare minimum in wages, and all the benefits of the good went straight to the top. They cut out employee Christmas parties, bonuses, in most cases minimal wages were eliminated. The GOP says its just fine (Capitalism) for the executives to make all the money, that's how many other countries ended up with no Social Responsibility and that is why we had so many immigrants, until lately...now things are better in other countries, because this is not the land of opportunity, it's like the countries they came from where you work and work, and everything but your wages goes up.
Anyhow these executives not sharing in the good times, have lost their customers, their employees (or others just like them) were their customer base for these businesses. Now their stocks have gone down because no one can afford their product/services because the few at the top made all the money on the backs of all their employees, just like on the plantation.
Here, here! Nice summation TGCN!
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