"Don't ya'll Republicans be DISSIN' me now!"
Posted on 02/05/2009 5:37:02 AM PST by Kaslin
The irony of President Obama's Blue Tuesday is that the wall-to-wall TV interviews he granted were designed not to apologize for Tom Daschle's fall from grace but to fight back against the Republicans' success in tarnishing his stimulus package.
Obama's network appearances were planned as a response to a wholly unanticipated development: Republicans — short on new ideas, low on votes and deeply unpopular in the polls — have been winning the media battles over the president's central initiative.
They have done so largely by focusing on minor bits of the stimulus that amount, as Obama said in at least two of his network interviews, to "less than 1% of the overall package." But Republicans have succeeded in defining the proposal by its least significant parts.
Daschle's withdrawal as the nominee for secretary of health and human services poses a long-term challenge to the administration's ambitious health care plans because he was so crucial to the White House's strategy. But the battering the stimulus has taken is an immediate problem.
Although Obama aides dismiss the media coverage as "cable chatter" important only inside the "Washington echo chamber," they acknowledge that Congress does its work inside that noisy hall and that the journalistic back-and-forth has tainted its key legislative objective. "We didn't give it as much air cover last week as we should," said one top adviser. "We lost a week."
This thinking was reflected during Obama's interviews, once he got through his apologies for having "screwed up" the Daschle matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
I have yet to hear any liberal who has new ideas, but that is typical of them to accuse us for taking their "ideas"
Like I said in a previous IBD thread that I posted recently, that lunatic Dionne has obviously skipped over the pork in the bill
More of the same in the name of “change”.
>>>>>> that lunatic Dionne has obviously skipped over the pork in the bill
Isn’t the entire bill full of pork?
Yea, most second graders I have seen get all pissy too when a few grownups show up and make them follow the rules.
Hey DJ, its time for your rookie to Put Up. He got the job by bashing Bush, now lets see if he can do it better. After all that’s the bill of goods you sold us.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Guidance
It must be tough when you hate both your first and middle names that you have to go through life referring to yourself as E.J. This guy is a flaming homo airhead. A liberal mutant!
Please fix your links, and in the future you may want to review how to post articles here properly.
Thanks!
Yes, Bambi was just skipping along, innocently scattering flower petals as he went, surrounded by sunbeams and butterflies...
They should know about the Washington echo chamber. They had complete control of it for 8 years.
Thanks, I asked the moderator to fix it. I copied the wrong link and pasted it without realizing it
I asked the moderator to fix it
"Don't ya'll Republicans be DISSIN' me now!"
Link is fixed
America has learned that the MSM is a partisan place.
He’s digging out that old “payroll taxes are paid disproportionally by the poor” lie again. They’re paid proportionately to the benefit received.
But, it truly is the democrats who are partisan. Tossing bones to the republicans to coax them into coming along on the porkulus bill. If it were to be a truly bipartisan effort that all these new programs would be open for real discussion and evaluation.
C’mon 0bama a messy, untidy, bill riddled with unfunded programs, mandates, and no oversight direction for new government programs or organizations?!
America is not going to sell her soul to the devil even if this partisan wet dream passes. States all across America are starting to revisit their Sovereign Rights. State Governors ready to lap up the Kook-aid my find themselves at odds with their own citizens and legislatures.
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