Posted on 01/31/2010 7:17:34 AM PST by IbJensen
Complete headline: Axelrod: 'Is the Republican Party Going to Take the Position That They Are Simply Going to Sit on the Sidelines and Hope That the President Fails and the Country Fails?'
(CNSNews.com) - In an interview with CNSNews.com after Wednesdays State of the Union Speech, Senior White House adviser David Axelrod asked: "Is the Republican Party going to take the position that they are simply going to sit on the sidelines and hope that the president fails and the country fails?"
Transcript: CNSNews.com: Given this past year and spending habits, do you believe that Barack Obama--well, Republicans have said that Barack Obama doesnt have the credibility to reduce the deficit. How would you counter that?
David Axelrod, senior adviser to the president: Well Id say a few things. First of all, as he mentioned tonight, the biggest run up in spending weve seen was in the last 8 years, under the last administration, in which item after item was undertaken--wars, tax cuts, a prescription drug program--without ever being paid for. We went from $5 trillion projected deficits for the next decade to $8 trillion of red ink projected over 10 years. So, I think if it becomes a battle of whos credible, the president acknowledged that we have to spend money because we didnt just inherit a fiscal crisis, we inherited an economic crisis and a financial crisis. And we had to deal with all three.
But Id say this on the subject of credibility: Yesterday there was a vote in the United States Senate. The president endorsed a fiscal commission to--a bipartisan effort--to deal with the deficit that had teeth. There were seven--the vote went down, 53 votes, we needed 60. Seven of the people who didnt vote for it, seven of the people that walked away, were Republicans, who actually were co-sponsors of the bill. And this is the core issue: Is the Republican Party going to take the position that they are simply going to sit on the sidelines and hope that the president fails and the country fails and that they will somehow benefit from this politically? Or are they going tog join with us in a bipartisan effort and deal with our problems. And thats what were waiting to see.
The communist Axlerod wants the GOP to rescue his creation. You made it David, it's all yours. You own it.
Wow that sounds very desperate. It comes across as if he’s asking the Republicans to save them. (Not that he is but I can see it sounding that way to the general public.)
Seems to me that a Republican "leadership" that was interested in gaining ground would take a camera crew with them to meetings where the Dims have reportedly locked the 'Pubbies out. They could document the Dims "our way or the highway" form of "bipartisanship" for all to see. Probably wouldn't get any play on PMSNBC, CCCPcnn, See-BS or any of the other Obamalamadingdong networks, but I'd bet Fox News would run it. They could put it up on Youtube, too. I bet Fox would even send one of their "in your face" reporters, like Griff Jenkins, to cover it.
I agree, but the GOP never has implemented the effective Dem weapon of talking points, and that’s too bad. If all of them would get on the same damned page and step up to the microphone and state they’d been shut out on every phase of the Dem’s radical agendas on health care/ cap and trade / excessive taxes, the public would finally get the message!
Effective leadership in the GOP is missing big time.
Very well stated. A train wreck is a great analogy for the Obama administration’s policies to date. All Axelhole is looking for is partisan cover. This bs about the “party of no” is really wearing thin. Google health care reform and republican and you will see hundreds of articles on solutions to health care other than socializing it. My concern is that they get this cover by a few RINO’s being thrown a bone, which Obama is becoming increasingly known for. Republicans will be fine in November if they espouse conservative principals and keep fighting this closet marxist tooth and nail.
So, it is not a matter that I wish to see BHO fail, it is that the damage that will naturally come as an unintended consequence of his leftist policies will do as little harm as possible before he and his band of liars and thieves are voted out.
If anyone has any doubts about my claim, please see:
Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth By Ludwig von Mises
http://mises.org/econcalc.asp
Also: Socialism can't calculate at: http://www.reasonforliberty.com/economics/socialism-cant-calculate.html
"... Mises pointed out that without private ownership of the means of production, in other words, without competitive bidding from various private players for the ownership of capital and land, there was no way to rationally ascertain the prices of the various higher-order goods (capital and land).
This further means there is no scope for profit-loss calculation, and there ends any dream of rational allocation of resources under centrally planned socialism. The acquisition and usage of capital resources in a centrally planned economy are merely `internal transfers’ within a single body since the State is the only owner of capital goods...."
You won't win the war by giving up your life for your country. You'll win by getting the other SOB to give up his life.
For America to succeed, Obama MUST fail!
Because Obama’s objective IS for America to fail!
THAT is the difference Ax!
The closer his and the Democrats core temperature comes to reaching ABSOLUTE ZERO the better!
axelrod from central casting—this guy, i`m sure, was the bad guy in every b movie i saw when i was a kid back in the `40s!
Neah.
Hopefully, we’re gonna get in the trenches to fight to make SURE the President fails so that the country can survive and succeed.
Axelrod should should be in PRISON for the huge fraud he helped perpetrate on the American people.
The Republicans should reply with, "No, our position is that the President and the Democrats in Congress have ALREADY FAILED and in a most spectacular fashion!"
BTW, Harry ‘the undertaker’ Reid proved he hoped America failed, when he proclaimed that the war in Iraq had failed, not would fail, not failing or flatering, ‘HAD failed’. The democrats are getting quite good at accusing others of their own strategy, projecting their own disease onto others. Question is, will the voters in 2010 do what needs be done to turn them out of office so the vileness oozes away from the remaining democrats?
Hey Axeltard - if Zero’s policies fail the country will win. This isn’t a socialist economy, and to turn it into one would be disasterous.
Here’s to failure!
Adolph Axelrod happened to be riding the train that brought the ghetto clown to DC. Now the circus train has spilled over in the whitehouse, assuring America a front row seat to a freak show.
And Adolph thinks he’s a genuis? Carry on, caterpillar lip, carry on.
Axelrod, Nimrod , there must be a connection there somewhere.
Hey Axelhead, You are a FAILURE. Shut-up.....please.
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