Soledad O'Brien Defends Stimulus: 'Didn't That to a Large Degree Help the Economy?'

NewsBusters.com ^ | August 20, 2012 | Matt Hadro

[ptsal]

hard to give much weight to someone named after a prison....

[Buckeye McFrog]

why doesn’t she just go and take Robert Gibbs job and be done with it?

[illiac]

And....we all know that Soledad is a brilliant economist.....(S)

[beethovenfan]

How many pairs of knee pads has she worn out?

[henkster]

I don’t watch CNN, so I have a question:

Does she come off as stupid on the video as she does in a cold transcript? I mean, in the past week I’ve read some of the dumbest things come out of her mouth. Does she sound as stupid as these quotes, or is it even worse?

[BenLurkin]

And these things almost seemed to be payoffs to people who had supported the President during his 2008 campaign...

They were.

[Da Coyote]

Soledad - given that you - as a journalist, have the IQ of a small kumquat...I’ll give you an answer you can understand.

No.

[TigersEye]

Soledad O'Brien Defends Stimulus: 'Didn't That to a Large Degree Help the Economy?'

In China ... maybe.

[MrB]

Keynesian tunnel vision...

[spankalib]

“And I think there are firefighters and teachers and police officers whose jobs were kept, would not have had jobs, whose jobs because of the stimulus,”

Leftists ALWAYS threaten the loss of vital, protective services to cow the populace into accepting their tax hikes.

What they try to hide with this argument...well, one response to that point could be;
“We could let the firefighters, teachers, and police KEEP their jobs with RAISES...WITHOUT the stimulus,
simply by eliminating the jobs of faceless bureaucrats who populate alphabet agencies.”

That’s just one answer.
(I’m sure some clever freeper could pare that down to a howlingly funny sound bite)

[MrB]

“almost”... yeah.

And “almost” every 0bama policy to date has been to reward the groups he likes and punish those he hates.

Oh, wait, he flat out stated that that was what he was doing...
‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us…’

[Lurker]

I wonder how she’s able to talk with Obama’s **** in her mouth.

[ctdonath2]

Someone have a concise list of the various BHO-backed “stimulus” programs? Solyndra, Cash For Clunkers, etc.? Need it for a discussion...

[ridesthemiles]

As a retired bookkeeper, I would like a COMPLETE & DETAILED accounting of where each & every PENNY went.

Until then, O’Brien, stfu.

[mjp]

[I]f the stimulus hadn't been passed, then what would have happened to the economy?"

If taxes had been cut,regulations reduced, federal spending controlled, inflation reduced, money supply controlled,and wages and prices allowed to fall, the economy would have been back to normal in a year.That's the way Reagan did it.

[freekitty]

Does she put her makeup on with a trowel?

[Tenacious 1]

Does she put her makeup on with a trowel?

Very funny......makeup on with a trowel....LOL.

[TexasCajun]

New Rule!

[raisincane]

An extremely bright friend of mind tries to tell me that Obama saved the economy.......it would have been the end of US without his mega spending.