Republicans dismayed by Obama’s strong performance, say it was a ‘mistake’ to let cameras roll.
Republicans dismayed by Obama’s strong performance, say it was a ‘mistake’ to let cameras roll.
House Republicans were fired up and ready to go for their conversation with President Obama at their annual retreat today. According to the New York Times, members of the conservative Republican House Conference said they were “itching to quiz the president and present their policy ideas rather than listen to another lofty presidential address.” Although such sessions generally occur behind closed doors, Republicans agreed to open it up after the White House said it was willing to do so. However, after Obama’s strong performance, some Republicans are now regretting that decision. As Luke Russert reported on MSNBC:
RUSSERT: Tom Cole — former head of the NRCC, congressman from Oklahoma — said, “He scored many points. He did really well.” Barack Obama, for an hour and a half, was able to refute every single Republican talking point used against him on the major issues of the day. In essence, it was almost like a debate where he was front and center for the majority of it. … One Republican said to me, off the record, behind closed doors: “It was a mistake that we allowed the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that.”
Watch it:
“Accepting the invitation to speak at the House GOP retreat may turn out to be the smartest decision the White House has made in months,” writes the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder. “Debating a law professor is kind of foolish — the Republican House Caucus has managed to turn Obama’s weakness — his penchant for nuance — into a strength. Plenty of Republicans asked good and probing questions, but Mike Pence, among others, found their arguments simply demolished by the president.”
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So much for bipartisanship. He went – they lost – will never happen again.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:34 pmTheir big mistake was believing the astro-turf spin machines talking point that President Obama was lost without a telepromter.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:34 pmThey are already dropping Palin/Bush tactics of secret, no camera events. Stay in the dark because the light will expose!
January 29th, 2010 at 3:35 pmIf the camera’s weren’t rolling, there would be all kinds of unsubstantiated stories coming out of that meeting.
VIVA TRANSPARENCY!
January 29th, 2010 at 3:36 pmYeah, let’s do this monthly.
Having him take questions like that from the minority party (and I look forward to him being questioned by the Democratic caucus as well) reminds me of how the British Parliament does it. However, this is a level of transparency that seems completely unheard of in American history. I can’t think of a historical instance where the President was so engaged with Congress on a regular basis.
Even if it doesn’t become a monthly thing, at least the idea of following up the SOTU address (which is supposed to accomplish the same thing) with caucus Q&A sessions seems like an extremely appropriate idea.
And the fact that he totally smacked them down doesn’t hurt.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:38 pmThey consistently underestimate how stupid they are.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:39 pmSee Repugs, this is the problem. Obama is SMARTER than you. Not only that, every lie you said is biting you on your ass. So maybe next time you should try to tell the truth. But your Repugs. You can’t help yourselves.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:39 pmRepublicans dismayed by Obama’s strong performance, say it was a ‘mistake’ to let cameras roll.
The lights for the cameras tend to shrivel and dry up republican mold, fungus and filth.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:40 pmSeveral Republicans challenged Obama with lengthy complaints and sharp questions.
“What should we tell our constituents who know that Republicans have offered positive solutions” for health care, “and yet continue to hear out of the administration that we’ve offered nothing?” asked Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga.
Obama showed little sympathy, disputing Price’s claim that a Republican plan would cover nearly all Americans without raising taxes.
“That’s just not true,” said Obama. He called such claims “boilerplate” meant to score political points.
msnbc.com’s headline makes it look less devastating than it really was. But, when you read the story, it makes Obama look very, very good.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:40 pmHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Hell yes it was a mistake for them. Because they got the public smackdown of all public smackdowns. They didn’t just let it air, it aired on every news channel (including Fox). They came away looking like a group of desperate, childish idiots with a (very) few semi-intelligent, albeit roundly dismissed points, and the President came out looking calm, cool, collected, and totally on top of things.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:41 pmWhat about transparency you liars? You wanted to know what the president was thinking? He told you…he told everyone. Go back to pissing your suit pants and crying into your ties.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:42 pmReggie, sponsored by Brawndo ™ says:
Their big mistake was believing the astro-turf spin machines talking point that President Obama was lost without a telepromter.
This.
Apparently wingnuts are so captivated by the fact that he gives good speech, they completely never noticed how good he is as an interview subject as well. This is what they get for only paying attention to the memes that support their delusions, rather than the rest of the publicly available information out there.
Can you imagine what it would have looked like if Bush took questions from the House Democrats live on CSPAN?
January 29th, 2010 at 3:42 pmWell DUHHHHH. It’s always a mistake to have cameras rolling when there are rethuglicans in the room.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:42 pmIntelligence, common sense, and being informed, beats stupidity every time.
RIP
January 29th, 2010 at 3:45 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Hmmm, a strong performance, and not a teleprompter in sight.
How can that possibly be ?
January 29th, 2010 at 3:45 pmThe republicans found out that they couldn’t debate a man with intellect.
They’re also p*ssed that they couldn’t get an “uppity knee-grow” comment past the cameras.
I applaud Obama’s persistence, and the fact that he made this bunch look like stooges, but this will just force the republicans further into the box they have built around themselves.
I expect another round of rhetorical spew from the right, and a whole lot of ’secret’ meetings closed to the public so they can whip up a new load to dump on the press.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:45 pmYeah, you really don’t want the American public to see the true spirit and nature which exists today in the gNOp.
G-reedy
January 29th, 2010 at 3:46 pmO-bstructionist
P-arty
“Debating a law professor is kind of foolish — the Republican House Caucus has managed to turn Obama’s weakness — his penchant for nuance — into a strength.
Then again , it sure helps that his competition was Republicans ; not generally know for their intellectualism ….Or any intellect at all , that matter
January 29th, 2010 at 3:46 pmLOL! And where are the trolls? I guess the fact Repugs are regretting having this broadcast is freaking them out. Poor, poor trolls.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:46 pmTransparency only works (politically) when the people you are being transparent with are significantly stupider than you are. For the Repugnantcons, this pretty much eliminates everyone except the teabaggers and the potted-plants.
(I would add that, for the purposes of a representative democracy, transparency obviously works quite well. Hence the urgent desire on the part of the Repugnantcons to eliminate it.)
January 29th, 2010 at 3:46 pmI know you all can’t see me, but–trust me–I’m doing the happy dance.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:47 pmArt says:
If the camera’s weren’t rolling, there would be all kinds of unsubstantiated stories coming out of that meeting.
VIVA TRANSPARENCY!
And the so-called “librul” media would have been reporting the BS the Repuppetcans were spewing as fact.
RIP
January 29th, 2010 at 3:47 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
“Debating a law professor is kind of foolish …”
Debating a philodendron is kind of foolish if your as viciously ideological and incapable of thinking as the typical Repugnantcon.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:47 pmI intend to watch the full repeat this evening on C-Span — I only caught the last half hour today – and what I saw from Obama was very, very impressive; made me very proud that he’s the president.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:49 pmChagrined repugs now claim he “lectured” them, but they thought they would be able to overwhelm him in their debate of many voices against one; they were unsuccessful – he won with reason, truth and facts.
One Republican said to me, off the record, behind closed doors: “It was a mistake that we allowed the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that.”
Yeah, ’cause there’s nothing like having your ass handed to you in front of the public eye is there repugs?
I love it.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:50 pm14. Tired Of Fighting (Sponsored Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy MENNAN!) says:
Every time it is openly and honestly allowed to play out, I would argue. When the MSM and the rightwing Bloviathon control the presentation, then one is back in the “Schiller purgatory” …
(”Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain,” Schiller.)
January 29th, 2010 at 3:51 pmIf this were not televised and taped for replay, I wonder how the repugs would spin it?
As it is, I already hear them whining about Obama being a “professor” and talking down to them. They can’t defeat him on facts and on his determination to work with them.
The questions were all ad lib, and Obama proved again that he doesn’t need a teleprompter to speak in public.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:53 pmWell, in my opinion, they got exactly what they deserved. I watched much of the event, and the president respectfully rebutted their charges. The republicans need to get their act together, or continue to accept the fact that they are dealing with a POTUS who does his homework and knows his facts. It is always an embarrassment to send mental idjits to confront an intellectual powerhouse. They asked for a meeting. They got it. They got slammed.
Let the lying and neverending whining begin.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:53 pmThey got their asses handed to them?
Cue the clutching of pearls and the pouting at “being lectured to” by the “arrogant” colored president in 3….2….1…..
Lindsey? Lindsey? Are you there? How ’bout Grampy McSame?
January 29th, 2010 at 3:54 pmWhat a great way to go into the weekend!!
Paraphrasing the late, great Howard Cosell:
“Down goes the Republican!! Down goes the Republican!!”
January 29th, 2010 at 3:54 pmI saw the question and answer period, Boehner and Cantor looked like they got run over by a truck. Boehner looked white as a sheet, even with his tan.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:56 pmOur President Kicked their butts on LIVE TV!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA !!
January 29th, 2010 at 3:56 pmThis should end all of the talk from the Repuppetcans talkin about how the POTUS is a coward, for the real mark of a coward is their inability to be able to speak in front of a group of people that they dont agree with. You think we’ll ever see MC Mikey Steezy, Rush, Beck, HO’Reilly, Hannity, and others ever go in front of a non-fawning crowd, hell no!
That was just idiotic, to invite the POTUS over just so you could try to “put his cocky, flippant, arrogant, smug, etc. ass in his place.”
Just get it over with and call him the N-word already. You R’s are something else. Hatred created this country, and hatred is gonna destroy it. Good job.
RIP
January 29th, 2010 at 3:57 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
When the Republicans go to their next retreat, can’t they just stay retreated for good?
January 29th, 2010 at 3:57 pm27. Marie says:
The “Mr. Spock” attack — they can’t defend themselves on grounds of logic, principles, evidence or facts, so they attack Obama on grounds of “Mr. Spock Elitism.” (’Cause after all, they’re just a bunch of all Heart softies …)
(Argumentum ad Misericordiam — literally, the argument of/from the “sad heart” — http://www.fallacyfiles.org/emotiona.html )
January 29th, 2010 at 3:57 pmThe repukeliscums were caught by surprise that the president could debate them and shoot them down? guess they’re not used to dealing with someone who isn’t academically lazy and intellectually incurious like 43 and slimy sarah.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:57 pmIn rertospect, the repubs could have made this a very productive meeting. Instead , they tried to score political
points, and they betrayed all Americans.
Their constituents should be ashamed of them.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:58 pmSavor it, TP’ers, ’cause unfortunately it ain’t happening again. There’s no way the Repukeliscums are going to allow us to see the President hand them their a$$es again on live TV.
I can’t wait for the C-SPAN replay tonight.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:59 pm“One Republican said to me, off the record, behind closed doors: ‘It was a mistake that we allowed the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that.’”
Well, the Party of Obstructionists are getting what they deserve. They screamed for transparacy for Obama to provide to the American people and government. But, it never occurred to these knuckleheads that transparacy means too when the camera is rolling on them. They are being exposed for who they are: hypocrites. And Ezra Klein is right. The need for transparency sounds great in press conferences by the GOP than it does in practicing it and applying it.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:59 pmthe poor cancervaturds ought to spend less time on pox news where a follow up question is gretchy carlson blowing you after you spew your talking points and more time on networks where they’ll be challeneged.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:00 pmGuys, the teleprompter argument is DEAD.
After all, the Governor of Virginia needed it for his rebuttal to the SOTU.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:04 pmI agree, TOF. I believe that one of the purposes the republicans hoped to achieve with this meeting was to show that a ni99er POTUS is inadequate and unqualified to lead. Being AA myself, I’ve noticed this as an underlying theme of the republicans since before the election. I also believe that they are just itching to call him an uppity, arrogant ni99er to his face, but for some reason are restraining themselves from doing so, but I also believe that they make no attempt to restrain themselves from saying it behind closed doors. IMHO, it pervades almost everything they say and every move they have made since January 20, 2009.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:04 pmNow the line of Republican pundits who will want to have the President on their program to debate them changes exponentially. All the blowhard wannabees will be covering more important things. Like anything that would keep this guy off their show.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:06 pmLOL! I just scrolled down and not ONE troll. Damn, they’re weak.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:06 pmGary Herstein says:
14. Tired Of Fighting (Sponsored Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy MENNAN!) says:
Intelligence, common sense, and being informed, beats stupidity every time.
Every time it is openly and honestly allowed to play out, I would argue. When the MSM and the rightwing Bloviathon control the presentation, then one is back in the “Schiller purgatory” …
I concur 1000%
RIP
January 29th, 2010 at 4:06 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Ok, TP…this is just repetitive.
:-D
The GOP can only hope to survive through the use of imagery and bravado, and today discredited even those.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:07 pmI just dropped by to read the headlines here at TP.
Made my day.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:09 pmA Presidential SMACK DOWN of the highest order.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:09 pm“Republicans dismayed by Obama’s strong performance, say it was a ‘mistake’ to let cameras roll.”
– - This goes right next to Marcia Clark saying, “Your honor, the prosecution would like Mr. Simpson to try on this glove in evidence.”
January 29th, 2010 at 4:10 pmOh, the humanity!!!!!
*snicker*
January 29th, 2010 at 4:10 pmonly a teabagging tard would believe you can edit a live speech.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:10 pmright laura ingraham’s camel toe stain?
According to HuffPo, the president’s skewering of the GOP was:
“So effective was the president that Fox News cut away from the broadcast 20 minutes before it ended.”
So much for Fox’s “we report you decide” or “fair and balanced” mantra.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:10 pmLt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
Dude, fake is LAME.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:10 pmReally, really lame.
@48, LOL! You are a moron!! And I guess the Earth is flat and only 4,000 years old too? In fact, You give morons a bad name.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:11 pmThis sort of thing shows the basic weakness of both the Republicans and the trolls. They believe they are the epitome of intelligence. No one could possibly be smarter than they are. I’m glad the President finally showed them just how weak of a position that is.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:11 pmLt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
The tapes were edited by the liberal media. The real story is in the stuff you didn’t see.
Dear stupid:
What part of the phrase “LIVE TELEVISION” don’t you understand…?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:11 pmLt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
The tapes were edited by the liberal media. The real story is in the stuff you didn’t see.
– - Cameltoe isn’t really a troll. His attempts at smack are as half-hearted as putting a bumper sticker on the inside of the car.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:12 pm44. P.D. says:
… troll. … weak
(Gary adds, “Redundant …”)
January 29th, 2010 at 4:12 pmLike WMD’s?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:12 pmi thought repiggies liked to be spanked?
“What they need’s a damn good whacking.”
January 29th, 2010 at 4:12 pm-GH
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Lt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
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The tapes were edited by the liberal media. The real story is in the stuff you didn’t see.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Please explain how exactly a direct live feed from C-Span is “edited videotape” , you dishonest shitstain ……….
January 29th, 2010 at 4:13 pmBINGO.
BTW – Check out FIXed News, this story about the POTUS isn’t anywhere NEAR their home page. But a story about a Russionn fighter jet is.
Gotta love it. Good ole FOX, always talking up the GOP when it’s convenient. Or when Palin’s around.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:14 pmLt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
The tapes were edited by the liberal media. The real story is in the stuff you didn’t see.
– - Rosemary Woods begs to differ.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:14 pm48. Lt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
Nobody wants to know what you do in your Tijuana job.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:14 pmLt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
The tapes were edited by the liberal media. The real story is in the stuff you didn’t see.
And we never put a man on the moon. Elvis is pumping gas at a convenience store in Kalamazoo and Jimmy Hoffa is his room mate.
Reynolds Wrap thanks you for your support.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:15 pmHey Lt. Did you return your ‘Tea-Bag-Party’ tickets? From what I hear, a lot of ‘Tea-Baggers’ are demanding their money back because of Queen sarah’s speaker fee and Crazy Bachman and Blackburn are no-shows.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:15 pm“why not allow the comittee meetings on the health care bills be braodcast on CSPAN”
i agree 1000%. they should film comittee eetings and broadcast them on the evening news. then we can see exactly how big of scumbags repukes are.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:15 pmThis is what needs to be done with every one of these meeting proposed by the President in his speech Wednesday night. If he keeps putting these idiots on their asses and holding them accountable for their lies and inaction then things will go well for him in 2012. I personally hope he spanks the dems just as badly, but they probably will not televise it after this. I hope that the Dems are paying attention and use their reactionary tendencies to stand up to the minority all the time. If the Mass., NJ, and VA elections made them tuck their tails and pee themselves this should have them standing with their chest out and heads held high….until it’s their turn.
Thank you President Obama!!!
January 29th, 2010 at 4:15 pmThis will be the first and last time Repukes will do this and will try put the blame for that on Dems.
The white wing noise machine will be busy with their smoke and mirrors for the next couple days to make sure their ignorant base promply forgets about it other than to be mis-informed that Repuke=good, Dem=bad.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:16 pmThe parody troll is just being ridiculous to garner a reaction. I suggest simly ignoring it and voting it down so it will go away.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:16 pmmajii says:
I agree, and to take it one step further, though they may not have said the actual word, their action (or inaction) everyday scream the N-word, you hear it whenever they say his name, you see it in their faces, its killing them that the POTUS is black. I am also Black (disclaimer) and I didnt need to go to college for 20 years (as I know you didnt have to either) to learn how racist and racism work.
People can scream all day long that they want to take “their” country back from, taxation, infringement on their freedoms, liberty, blah, blah, blah. No, they want it back to it being the house for whites only, no need to sugar coat it, dress it down, nothing, and believe me its not just the R’s, the Dems who all of a sudden have found their “fiscal conscience” please, look at where most of them are from, you even have dumbass Matthews saying that he “forgot” that the POTUS was black for an hour, HOW THE HELL COULD HE NOT SEE THAT!
Being in the Army I had to go to places and jobs that had been neglected for years, and I was expected to come in and either add to or fix the problem, and if something was broke for 5-8 years how the hell do you expect me to fix it in 11-12 months? And as soon as I get it the way I want it its time to leave for another job and the same thing happens all over again.
These idiots are the problem, and they dont like the fact that the sheriff is an N-word, and telling them what they need to do PERIOD
RIP
January 29th, 2010 at 4:16 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
weakest shot – ever.
must be another of slappy’s airball cadets.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:18 pmDid Boner cry afterwards?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:19 pmNo, it would have made his spray-on tan run.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:21 pmA question for our trollish visitors. A room full of politicians, no teleprompters. A whole bunch of Republicans, one Democrat.
So just who got spanked? Repeatedly?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:21 pm80 – a dick army?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:23 pmLt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
Faker.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:23 pmRepublicans haven’t got a clue how society/government operates…
…and when you are totally clueless you shouldn’t try and take on someone who isn’t.
Name ONE GOOD THING CONSERVATIVES HAVE DONE IN THE LAST 40 YEARS.
Nothing…nothing at all…although they have done alot of damage.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:23 pmNEW RULE!!
Lets not vote the trolls down, lets leave their moronic post up for all to see, then maybe, just maybe ,
Lt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
The tapes were edited by the liberal media. The real story is in the stuff you didn’t see
…er nevermind, carry on!
RIP
January 29th, 2010 at 4:23 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
An early spring thaw
January 29th, 2010 at 4:24 pmSends shivers of excitement
For the year to come
majii says:
I believe that one of the purposes the republicans hoped to achieve with this meeting was to show that a ni99er POTUS is inadequate and unqualified to lead. Being AA myself, I’ve noticed this as an underlying theme of the republicans since before the election. I also believe that they are just itching to call him an uppity, arrogant ni99er to his face, but for some reason are restraining themselves from doing so, but I also believe that they make no attempt to restrain themselves from saying it behind closed doors. IMHO, it pervades almost everything they say and every move they have made since January 20, 2009.
Still claiming he’s “unqualified” at this stage, as well as the “teleprompter” thing, really exposes what they’re actually thinking. Can you imagine a white guy who was as eloquent and quick-witted as Obama, who displayed as much deep thinking on issues as he does, being treated like this? Hell no. They might attack him on other fronts, but they’d definitely respect his acumen if he was white. They’re still thinking there has to be some kind of gimmick or trick for how we can get a black guy to appear smart. They are simply incapable of admitting that he’s actually that smart. They refuse to believe it.
Even more extreme is the pervasive wingnut notion that he’s secretly out to “get whitey.” Like he’s just a smiley-face tacked on to some sort of 1970’s-style Black Panther / Symbionese Liberation Army / Communist revolutionary front. The only way you could even entertain that notion is if you’re seriously concerned that all, most, or even a significant amount of people of color in this nation secretly want to rise up and kill all the white folks in their beds, or force them into slave labor in the plantations of the future. And that notion – that there’s an inevitable race war – underlies the most virulent forms of political racism as embodied in groups like the KKK and various neo-Nazis organizations.
So every time somebody says “Obama’s secretly trying to take everything over,” or “Obama may say this but he really wants to do that,” they’re pretty much giving cover to white supremacist ideology, whether they know it or not. My suspicion is that they know it and are fine with that.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:25 pmtombaker, after the spanking the President gave those Republicans they are going to have to goose each other to find enough dick to pee with.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:25 pmI saw bits of it. The GOP came off as dismissive, insulting, robotic, stiff, and disrespectful. Everything from their body language and diction towards President Obama. Everything they did and said showed how little they were willing to work with the President or even thing about the good of the country.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:26 pmI thought that went out the window looooooong ago.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:26 pmLt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
The tapes were edited by the liberal media. The real story is in the stuff you didn’t see.
Like the Republicans giving each other hand-jobs under the table?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:27 pmElBruce, owned and operated by NewsCorp, Inc. says:
So every time somebody says “Obama’s secretly trying to take everything over,” or “Obama may say this but he really wants to do that,” they’re pretty much giving cover to white supremacist ideology, whether they know it or not. My suspicion is that they know it and are fine with that.
Ed Zackly, and believe me they know what they’re doing.
RIP
January 29th, 2010 at 4:28 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Churlish pansies
January 29th, 2010 at 4:29 pmcalled out
no rebuttal
Lt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
The tapes were edited by the liberal media. The real story is in the stuff you didn’t see.
LOL! Live feeds were edited by the media? What liberal media? The entire media is owned by a hand full of GOP retards!
The real story is that Obama pwned your unprepared “leadership” and you are too insecure to handle it! ;)
January 29th, 2010 at 4:29 pmCan i get a OLD HAPPY DAYS from all
i see Obama has shown them the lid to the box and said i am not afraid to close you all in.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:29 pmIt is good to see that our President is finally learning a basic rule of politics.
You step on the other guy’s toes until he apologizes. Just like they have been doing to him. Rock on, Mr. President.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:30 pmAll trolls who have gone on and on about his “need” for a teleprompter front and center.
Your thoughts please on the Republican session with Obama today. Maybe he had an ear bud and a radio hidden on his person like Bush did during his presidential debates. How could a guy who so needs a teleprompter control that room so masterfully?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:32 pmwell it be real interesting to see the polls on his approval rating,,,
guessing he be back up over 50%
January 29th, 2010 at 4:33 pmHoodathunk,
January 29th, 2010 at 4:34 pmIf he’s gonna start stomping on their toes…he should wear garden cleets (the ones with the long metal spikes). And Pelosi should wear these.
Genius.
When given the chance, Obama will deliver your a$$, on a silver platter featuring a crisp white embroidered linen napkin with your name on it.
Enjoy the shit sandwich.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:35 pmonly in our idiocracy is nuance considered a weakness.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:36 pmnuance
“There’s that f*g talk again”.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:37 pmNinerFan says:
All trolls who have gone on and on about his “need” for a teleprompter front and center.
LOL! No kidding! Obama trashed them off the cuff! The myth of the teleprompter is dead – except of course where Bush had Rove beaming his debating script into his ear!!! ;) Poor little retards have to project though, because otherwise they’d have to admit what miserable failures and incompetent morons they are in comparison to the “intellectual elite” of liberalism!!! ;)
January 29th, 2010 at 4:38 pm“allowing the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that.”
January 29th, 2010 at 4:38 pmLMAO ! Obama jumps into the rethugs cage match and throws them all out of the ring. What a great day !
Lt. Laura Cameltoestin says:
The tapes were edited by the liberal media. The real story is in the stuff you didn’t see.
even the ones form Saudi fox news????
that has to be some good electronics to edit live feeds.
Obama show them that a TelePrompter is only a tool. and they all of the repugs brain power could not even equal a brain popcorn fart
January 29th, 2010 at 4:38 pmYou folks HAVE TO SEE THIS.
Mining on the moon was an actual comment here.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:40 pmbizarrobrain, do they make those in Harry’s size?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:40 pmDNFP (brought to you by Carls Jr) says:
nuance
“There’s that f*g talk again”.
LOL! That’s my favorite response of insecure right wing morons when confronted by their own intellectual inadequacies!
It’s like limbaugh calling a woman fat just because he can’t get a chubbie! It’s all her fault Rush is impotent! LOL! Has nothing to do with his preference for underage dominican boys! LOL! ;)
January 29th, 2010 at 4:41 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
i love the sound of repiggies squealing.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:43 pmmorning, noon and night!
Hoodathunk,
January 29th, 2010 at 4:44 pmHaha…what about either baseball cleats (again with the metal spikes) or instead do what they’ve been doing to us for the past 30 years and start wearing steel-toed boots…and start aiming for the GOP’s pompous big balls.
OH little trolls were or were are you?????
guessing they are very scared seeing there PX hero`s schooled!.
trolls you call that being b!tch slapped.
You all this really makes my week its been a good one for our side.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:45 pmI’m betting that Fox won’t be showing any clips from this event.
This is going to sting for a while.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:45 pmwildweasel says:
Maybe he should try some humility
Was he too ‘uppity’ for you?
January 29th, 2010 at 4:46 pmmary lacewing says:
Nope, I think he was too black for the weasel.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:47 pmI saw the last 20 minutes or so and if that was indicative of the entire session, they should have never let the President in the room. He gave it to them straight, with a fair amount of wit and humor. I very much appreciate his excellent appraisal of the kind of partisanship we’ve been subjected to for the last year; certainly, the people in that room who can not or will not accept the fact that he’s President has gone a fair distance to continuing the poisoning of the politcal atmosphere and he called them on it – not by engaging in finger pointing, and not by denying that it comes from the other side too, but by talking to them like the adults they’re supposed to be.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:47 pmbizzarrobrain, kicking a Republican in the crotch is about as effective as taking a 2X4 to their head. Their nuts haven’t dropped and their brains are encased in at least 4″ of bone. The only place a Republican is vulnerable is either in the hip pocket or the mouth.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:48 pmYes, it is.
That’s why the GOP is getting it’s balls busted.
You can’t be fu*kin’ serious. Obama is the reason NOTHING got done? Wow. Your dreamland must be awesome.
How about the fact that he just spent over an hour by HIMSELF in a room of uncooperative GOPers.
You seriously need to get your head out of the sand…
January 29th, 2010 at 4:49 pm“Waaah, he made us look bad, waaah”
January 29th, 2010 at 4:52 pm109. wildweasel says:
TRANSLATION:
*snif* *snif* “Obawma is a BIG MEANIE! He THtood up in pubwic and towd the twooth!!!”
Yeah; what an “elitist” …
January 29th, 2010 at 4:54 pmI think it will go farther than you want to believe.
pop goes the weasles head.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:56 pmHoodathunk(sponsored by Scroomall Health Corp) says:
bizzarrobrain, kicking a Republican in the crotch is about as effective as taking a 2X4 to their head. Their nuts haven’t dropped and their brains are encased in at least 4″ of bone. The only place a Republican is vulnerable is either in the hip pocket or the mouth.
Damn. Well at least Obama should drop the dueling glove and pick up a metal gauntlet and fight back or they’re just gonna walk all over him.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:56 pmThe Republicans’ mistake was thinking that President Obama only had talking points like they have. President Obama had reason and logic behind his answers.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:57 pmFred,
January 29th, 2010 at 4:58 pmSaying that the trolls head could explode implies that he still has braincells left to start some sort of reaction that would cause his head to blow up. At most you’d hear a *pop…fizzzz* noise followed by a puff of smoke before they slump to the ground.
Finally! Some political theater for the rest of us! Take that Corporate Media!
January 29th, 2010 at 4:59 pmTest my new sponsor tag.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:00 pmbizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!), true enough but I will settle for that pop…fizzz*.
It’s good to see the phony republicans eating humble pie I tell ya.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:01 pmwildweasel says:
Yep….one day of verbal sparring is going to wipe out an entire year of constant FAILURE by the Obama tax-avoidance gang.
LOL! Constant failure? Is that why Obama has passed more bills in his first year than any recent president and why the GDP 4th quarter was almost 6% – the highest in 6 years? ;)
wildweasel says:
Folks, this isn’t going to turn polls upside down and create some ground swell of sudden support for Obama’s initatives.
Why would you need to create something that already exists?
wildweasel says:
All it shows is that the Republicans invited him in to talk and he reverted to his egotistical, confrontational self…..that’s gotten him and us exactly NOTHING in the last 12 months.
LOL! Lets work together is “Confrontational” to you? LOL! What’s gotten us “nothing” in the last 12 months is pretending you extremists are anything but the seditionists, traitors and terrorists you have proven yourself to be!
wildweasel says:
Hollow vitory, at best.
You mean like the “party of no”? Yeah, that’s a really solid victory you retards have achieved!
wildweasel says:
Maybe he should try some humility and open mindedness.
Maybe you should take your own advice you arrogant little piece of sh!t.
wildweasel says:
Last time he stood up for any candidates in open elections (NJ and MA) they got whooped. Doesn’t he realize that?
Because in polls progressives said they were upset that he didn’t do exactly what he did today! Obama got the message, but you remain clueless! shocker! LOL!
January 29th, 2010 at 5:03 pmFred ♪♫♪ says:
bizarrobrain (Sponsored by Tysons chicken in a tube!), true enough but I will settle for that pop…fizzz*.
It’s good to see the phony republicans eating humble pie I tell ya.
Haha…yes it is. And I hope the pie tastes horrible…as in worst pie ever! We’ve had to swallow their shit for years…now it’s their turn. Thank you President Obama!
January 29th, 2010 at 5:04 pmRayFerd (sponsored by Dewey, Cheatem & Howe) says:
Test my new sponsor tag.
Nice!
January 29th, 2010 at 5:04 pm126. RayFerd (sponsored by Dewey, Cheatem & Howe) says:
You “Marx”-ist, you …
January 29th, 2010 at 5:05 pmThe Weasel: “Indeed, having the cameras rolling in a meeting is a foriegn (sic) idea to this administration.”
This is what is so hilarious about today’s conservatives. They’re so full of themselves that they don’t even get it when they’re having their asses handed to them.
Yes, Weasel, great idea! Run it past the Republican leadership. I’m sure they’re in a great mood to hear from someone who now wants to televise all of Obama’s exchanges with lawmakers. In fact, turn the cameras on and just keep em rolling until November!
January 29th, 2010 at 5:09 pmChrome Child – sponsored by Hudsucker Industries® says:
53. zxbe says: So much for Fox’s “we report you decide” or “fair and balanced” mantra.
I thought that went out the window looooooong ago.
True, but they still claim it, so it’s nice to find examples that help to prove that they are liars. :)
January 29th, 2010 at 5:10 pm5.7% growth in GDP
best in SIX YEARS.
still no effect from the stimulus, right gnopers?
January 29th, 2010 at 5:10 pmExplain how the “liberal media” edited a live broadcast.
The only “editing” done was by Fox. They couldn’t stand watching their beloved GOOPs getting their heads handed to them on live television, and cut away to spare themselves any more anguish.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:16 pmNo shit. This is why TRUE bipartisanship would be amazing. Actual “competition” ala the free market of ideas. Republicans don’t want to make things better, so they had better not ask good questions like these that actually HAVE ANSWERS and start just tarring the president like they always do. Throwing out nonsensical attacks works much better for them and their voter base.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:17 pmYes oh Yes>> Obama feeds the repugs a Sh!t sandwich and does even ask if they wanted any more mayo or muster on it.
Go get them Obama this is what i voted for. the using your head over fighting them.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:18 pmAre you a Naderite or a Republican? I can’t actually tell which :D
January 29th, 2010 at 5:20 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Of course it is a mistake in the minds of the GNOP to let cameras roll. This way they can not lie, spin and smear in the fashion they are used to.
What ever are they to do when the public sees the real truth.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:23 pmYou lose. If you don’t know anything, it’s best to just keep your mouth shut.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:23 pm…a meeting? seriously folks? is that what the excitement is for?
No, for this!
January 29th, 2010 at 5:24 pmhttp://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/obama_and_brown.html
mausium says: to ‘popgoestheweasel’s head’
Are you a Naderite or a Republican? I can’t actually tell which :D
I think of Naderites as optimists while Republicans are, amongst many other things, delusional.
So I’m going with Republican.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:26 pmGrowl1971 says:
AWWWW lookie here another (or new name) wing nut troll, who also has its head so far up its 4th point of contact.
good day newbie,, but funny you have the same old stink.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:27 pmNow they’re parroting each other. That’s just sad.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:28 pmGrowl1971 says:
you betcha!
That pretty much tells me all I probably really need to know about you.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:32 pmLt. .. iiiicceeeccccrrreeaamm. Lt. I got you some iiiicecream.
Lt?
January 29th, 2010 at 5:43 pmReggie, sponsored by Brawndo ™ says:
Their big mistake was believing the astro-turf spin machines talking point that President Obama was lost without a telepromter.
And taking questions from the repugs was probably easier that taking them from his students when he was a professor.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:44 pmGrowling Bushie: “So enjoy your little friday high…for what, I have no idea!”
Yeah. We get it. You have no idea. That’s pretty obvious.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:46 pmI’m guessing Frank Lutz was pissing his pants and the staffers who green-lighted the TV cameras are looking for another job. The President so thoroughly handled House Republicans that many of them looked like the fools they are.
And even FOX was covering it, though they did cut away a while after it became clear that it was a political disaster for the Republicans.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:52 pmrepugs: But…but…lapel pins…but…but…sparkypants bomber…but…but…ketchup is a vegetable…but…but…you’re a poopy pants…kill,kill,kill.
Unbelievable they thought they could embarrassed our President Obama. HAHAHAHAHA
One Great President against all the teaturds. HAHAHAHAHAHA
I LOVE OUR FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN, BLACK PRESIDENT!!!
January 29th, 2010 at 6:20 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Mr.Duke says:
Obama’s strong performance? Now that is too funny.
Very insightful, loquacious and informative comment, Mr. Duke.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:53 pmYour intellect is very impressive.
God, if only YOU were President, our problems would be solved!
I’ve learned so much just reading your intelligent and witty comment!
You should collect these witticisms in a book and have it published!
I’m sure it would sell millions of copies!
I caught some of this excahnge, and my President was cool as a cucumber. Everything they threw at him he handled, and came off really looking like the one who wants to move the country forawrd while they looked like the partisan hacks they are.
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January 29th, 2010 at 7:56 pmThat was my take anyway
Reggie, sponsored by Brawndo ™ says:
Their big mistake was believing the astro-turf spin machines talking point that President Obama was lost without a telepromter.
har5125 says:
And taking questions from the repugs was probably easier that taking them from his students when he was a professor.
Out-Debating Republicans in a open, TRULY fair-and-balanced froum is about as difficult as putting on hat.
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January 29th, 2010 at 8:00 pmIMHO
The Republicans didn’t lose the “debate” because of Obama’s superior ability at debating, but because their positions are indefensible. You don’t have to be too bright to be able to knock down their positions, just well informed and able to pull together disparate threads to show how ridiculous they are.
“It was a mistake that we allowed the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that.”
The mistake wasn’t the cameras. The mistake is the Republican policy and positions. If they would actually work with reality and act rationally, they wouldn’t be in the position that they look so stupid. There is only so much lipstick can do to a pig, and when someone wipes it off, the pig is revealed in all its glory.
January 29th, 2010 at 9:26 pmShorter GOP : “It’s that da** uppity ni99er’s fault!”
January 29th, 2010 at 9:28 pm26. RayFerd (sponsored by Dewey, Cheatem & Howe) says:
I call plagerism.
Click and Clack Tappet
January 29th, 2010 at 9:33 pmNow all this news about the GOP smackdown by My Prez O is pleasant surprise. You go Prez!!
January 29th, 2010 at 9:42 pmOh, and Fox cutting away ’cause they’re a bunch of mealy-mouthed cowards…priceless
January 29th, 2010 at 9:43 pmObama took their lunch money.
January 29th, 2010 at 10:06 pmRepublicans get so uncomfortable when faced with ethics, honesty, intelligence, and an actual plan to make the country better. The GOP has nothing to offer. Nothing.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:20 pmPresident Barack Obama, Master of teh Snark!
January 29th, 2010 at 11:26 pm“Saying ‘no’ is not leadership.” That’s goddamned right.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:39 pmDamn, your beyond idiotic and stupid. You’re downright Looney-Tunes!
January 30th, 2010 at 12:12 amThe republicans are lickin’ their wounds tonight, wonderin’ if they just had an encounter with a Badger!
Poor, irrelevant bunch. Just waiting their demise. Evolution, you know. Poor, poor, weakening progeny. Small wonder the trolls are spouting gibberish. Shell shock is hell!
January 30th, 2010 at 12:18 amidle crank says:
I saw bits of it. The GOP came off as dismissive, insulting, robotic, stiff, and disrespectful. Everything from their body language and diction towards President Obama.
Well, they were reading pre-written questions that were predicated on crazy wingnut memes that he could easily smack down. “When. I. speak to my. constituents. they. want. Communism. out. of. America. why. are. you. Hitler?” You couldn’t have made it easier for him to knock all of these out of the park if you tried.
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wildweasel says:
Obama tax-avoidance gang.
What is this? Are you referring to all of the taxes he cut, or do you mean someting else?
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wildweasel says:
Folks, this isn’t going to turn polls upside down and create some ground swell of sudden support for Obama’s initatives. All it shows is that the Republicans invited him in to talk and he reverted to his egotistical, confrontational self…
Hardly. He came off as gracious and personal. Also, GOP strategists are already starting to sound the retreat.
What Obama has managed to do in two days, is point out to America that the GOP has a responsibility to lead the country as well. They can’t just sit on the sidelines and fling poop without ending up covered in poop themselves. They need to take credit/blame/responsibility for the significant number of amendments that they themselves have been getting into the same bills they oppose. That’s a huge tipping point.
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Growl1971 says:
I love reading through the posts here, it’s like a middle school cafeteria with the name calling, put downs
I fcuked your mom.
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Growl1971 says:
you blow health reform, and you get excited about…this?
I don’t hear any fat ladies singing over the public option. Do you?
January 30th, 2010 at 2:27 amI’m afraid I see this all as a bit of theater to cheer up Obama’s disheartened base.
It will be followed by more neocon policies. :(
That will probably be Obama’s MO for the next three years: 1) continue sh*tting on progressives over and over again; 2) placate the base with some hot speeches till they calm down, 3) repeat.
The Chronicles of Rahm
January 30th, 2010 at 6:40 amIn a word, I would describe this event as brilliant!
January 30th, 2010 at 9:31 amLt Cameltoeface
You are a liar and a fool and a brainwashed moron. Things dont become true because you spew them like the empty headed mongrel cur that you are
January 30th, 2010 at 9:51 amShitweasel
STFU you ignorant troll. You are a liar and a fool on your best day. Just regurgitating what Rush TOLD you to think makes you look like the stupid brainwashed pile of dogshit you are.
January 30th, 2010 at 9:54 amMr Duke what is funny is how stupid and brainwashed you are. Just STFU you will always be far too stupid to make sense
January 30th, 2010 at 9:58 amThis was a HUGE mistake for the Republican Party. I was actually very surprised Obama was invited to this event. Perhaps he was invited, and not expected to actually accept the invitation? If Obama declined the invitation, Republicans would have used it against him.
Clearly they did not seeing this backfiring the way it did. Remember, he was shown shaking hands with everyone in that room, after it was done (even tho it was on CSPAN)! Now, those Republicans can be seen laughing and shaking hands with the pres, which can backfire on them come election time, with their tea-bagger base.
I think they should air the Dems caucus event as well. It’ll be an even harder slamming of the Republicans than this event was! He used very strong language against the Republicans straight to their face, and all FOX can say is he is “lecturing” too much! All of our great presidents have been great lecturers, so what FOX is saying, ultimately, is Obama is a “great president”! Idiots.
I like the idea of Barack-O getting out there more. Seems he laid low his first year, probably to see how bad things can really get (and did they!). He bit his tongue, and now its time to lash out, right to their face! I think this is only the beginning. I see Obama getting a lot more involved, especially in critiquing Republicans who have been trying to call him out (on slanders) the last year or so.
Hopefully, he is able to get some things done, like Healthcare, global warming policies, etc, easing the gridlock in congress. I recognize they won’t get everything done, and things will likely be scaled back. Better to get some things done, that can potentially help millions of people, than not get anything done at all.
January 30th, 2010 at 11:36 amThe GOP can’t stand it when they can’t control the message, which explains why Fox bailed halfway through the event. No way was Roger Ailes ‘n’ the crew going to let their beloved party of No get punked on their channel.
January 30th, 2010 at 1:06 pmUmm even shorter GOP:
January 30th, 2010 at 2:45 pm” The big scawy libewal made us look bad. WAAAAAH, mommy!!”
Remember how the President swatted the fly during an interview? Well that’s what he did to the repugs.
I couldn’t resist :>)
January 31st, 2010 at 7:31 pmGOP,
February 4th, 2010 at 4:15 pmHow would you like your butts served?
Medium, rare, or well done?