BTW: since Faux Noise cut away from the President after 20 minutes on Friday, if you knuckledraggers are interested in the way things went, you can read -- or watch, if reading is a problem for you -- at:

You're welcome!

Way to create a new atmosphere of comity Junie, call anyone who doesn't agree with Dear Leader an idiot. That'll work. After declaring himself for the umpteenth time receptive to good ideas from Republicans, the One behaves as if he is at a candidates debate. After claiming he wants improved communication he denies ever hearing about alternatives to the failed Porkulus bill costing 1/2 as much.  He declares himself not an ideologue, then refuses to even consider any alternative out of loyalty to those increasing the size and scope of government control.

To the One consensus building is attached to his personage, ODummy shows up, recites a speech dramatically and that ought to do it. When Republicans are unimpressed by ODummy's one trick pony Presidency and dare to question him, he resorts to defensive posturing spouting talking points his staff has carefully programmed into his memory.  The sultan of "change" on the campaign trail is unable to even consider alternatives to his ambition to remake America.

I don't "hate" the Dear Leader Junie, it's clear his political skills are those of a 1 term state senator who voted "present" more than 100 times and that is exasperating in a President. I along with many Conservatives support his decisions to surge troops into Afghanistan and follow Bush's Iraq withdrawal schedule. I think he is sincere in his belief that what he is trying to do is for the best. He has been puffed up by cult followers like Junie to the point he is incurious about alternatives to what his staff tells him, he is unequipped to focus on points of agreement instead of demanding passage of sweeping legislation he hasn't read. For that I do fault him.  But hate him like the Left rabidly hates Bush, not hardly.    

THIS is JUST the TALKING POINTS of the BLUE TEAM...

And JUST TALK....

Transparency?
Closed Gitmo in a YEAR?
Leave OILRAQ?
Televise Health Care procedure?

See like a 5 year old, lil Junie YOU CANT tell the difference between TALK and TRUTH....

And LIKE a 5 year old, YOU HAVE NO PROBLEM PLAYING THE BLAME GAME:
link:[www.voiceofarizona.com]

Or playing TALKING POINTS about the party of NO....

Blame?

• At a picnic with labor officials in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sept. 7, 2009, Obama complained that the critics of health care reform — he didn’t identify them as Republicans, but it was clear he was referring to them — were not offering their own solutions. He said, “I’ve got a question for all those folks: What are you going to do? What’s your answer? What’s your solution? And you know what? They don’t have one. Their answer is to do nothing. Their answer is to do nothing.”

• A White House blog post attacking the Republican health care plan said it offered “no ideas.” (The posting appears to have a typo. It reads: “The Republican bill offers new no ideas.”)

• White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on April 19, 2009, described the Republicans as “the party of never . . . the party of no new ideas.” (He was referring not just to health care, but also to fiscal discipline.)

• At a White House briefing April 28, 2009, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made a very similar comment, saying that, “I think you heard me and others say that you can’t just be the party of no or the party of no new ideas.”

The White House doesn’t dispute that aides have portrayed Republicans that way, but a spokeswoman said the Democratic health care plan includes many amendments that were proposed by Republicans.

So WHAT is IT that YOU find distastful about BLAME?

I guess that THIS is just the FASCISM of Democrats...

Besides I have ALREADY covered the lil game Obama is talking about:
link:[www.voiceofarizona.com]


To find SOLUTIONS you can't keep JUST BLAMING the other side of the PARTY, you have to BLAME THOSE who are RESPONSIBLE and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE ....and THEY BELONG TO BOTH PARTIES....

If you dont FIND the SOURCE of the PROBLEM you can never find the BEST SOLUTION.

Talk is CHEAP and Obama is a GREAT SPEAKER...

But it is ACTION that we need.

And so far his talk about Transparency, OPEN MEETINGS, GITMO, OILRAQ and MASS MURDERING MUSLIMS is all CHEAP and UNFULLFILLED...

denies ever hearing about alternatives to the failed Porkulus bill costing 1/2 as much.

Have you a link?

Face it r/w, you just hate the idea that the majority of American voters went for the dems and Obama the last 2 election cycles, and since then, you don't like the way "compromise" works. Yeah, makin up rules for others....

During Bush's term dozens of democrats supported his policies, unpaid for as many were, (a Reagan no-no we've been lectured about year after year). Yet now that tables have turned, the repub side has decided all that "bi-partisanship" is over rated.   Please. The hypocricy is overflowing...

it's clear his political skills are those of a 1 term state senator who voted "present" more than 100 times and that is exasperating in a President.

Anyone that supported someone as inexperienced as part time gov. GWBush should know better than to say stupid s*** like this. (Or didn't the Bush financial meltdown of 2008 register with you?)

It's time to take the country away from the corporate gangsters and their republican enablers. Working people have been getting screwed too long by these failed Reaganist policies and are sick and tired of financing the corporate elite. Time to roll taxes back to the Kennedy levels of the early 60's.

And I don't give a rats ass what color team that does it...........AD-AM.

And I don't give a rats ass what color team that does it...........AD-AM.

IF that were the case then WHY BLAME IT ALL ON REPUBLICANS?

I.e.

It's time to take the country away from the corporate gangsters and their republican enablers.

Sure looks like you STILL support the democrat enablers....

Sorry, Wringer, your recanting reminds me of Nixon's contention, "I'm not a criminal" -- there's too much evidence to the contrary!   And now this:

ODummy made the absurd claim during his "chat" with Republicans in Baltimore recently. It is the latest iteration of Dear Leader's faux request to hear "good ideas" he made the same offer at the healthcare address at the joint session and at the SOTUS a few weeks ago all the while turning a deaf ear to anything except fawning praise. As I wrote earlier, the Callow One is unable to distinguish between outreach and debate thus he spent his time in Baltimore defensively arguing instead of listening.  I wouldn't expect him to agree with the Republicans but he could at least make an effort to understand or a show of considering the input he solicited.   

I don't hate the American electorate for choosing to vote for Dimocrat candidates, Nic.  You are projecting Progryssve denigration of any opposition as an ignorant mob, clinging to God and guns. A majority of voters were seduced into electing the One by his personal charisma and the "historic" cache of his election. I am confident the voters will set things Right in a big way in November continuing the work started in NJ, Virginia and Massachusetts. Errors in human judgement like electing an inexperienced ODummy are inevitable, the task is to minimize damage as voters have done in recent elections until the error can be corrected. Voters are not convinced by being insulted, a lesson Progryssves haven't bothered to learn.

Bush was elected twice as Texas governor along with having significant experience in private enterprise before running for President. Odummy had no comparable experience having worked as a community agitator, a part-time ice cream scooper in high school, and Bomber Bill's puppet on the CAC.  This complete lack of relevant experience is apparent in Dear Leader's failure to pass significant parts of his agenda despite super-majorities in both houses of Congress. Childishly the One blames Republicans and his cult followers chorus the complaints.       

What's absurd is your claim that Obama taking on questions from 100+ republicans on their turf is somehow defensively arguing instead of listening. Huh?  I'd love to see the repub leader (pick one) do the same.

I'll admit you don't get far if the repubie-baggers out there percieve you are talking down to the slack-jawed ignorant, even if it is unavoidable at times. (Undoubtedly the source of those cutesy Obama names you use.)

When he took the Republicans to task for switching positions on important issues just to score points with voters, he pretty much silenced the room while America watched the party of NO in action. On TV.  Too funny.

Then he flushed out the repubs for being opposed to last year’s stimulus package and who continue to argue that it isn’t creating or saving jobs, but that they also haven’t shied away from taking credit back home for projects the bill paid for.  Genius!

The fact is you can't compare the previous political experience of Bush to Obama without also discussing their intelligence and competency at the same time. Experience only gets you so far...you also need good judgment, personal integrity, and the ability to lead in times of crisis. Bush fails miserably in these regards whereas Obama has consistantly demonstrated his possession of these qualities.

Who is to say that someone who is well endowed with presidential qualities is less deserving of office than a man with the equal level of limited experience but unable to display ANY of these qualities? If you focus on just one aspect of a candidate, i.e. length of direct experience in Washington, you lose sight of the bigger picture. Obama has been a professor of law for a decade (at a legitimate and respected institution), which, to me, counts for a lot.

He also has more brainpower in his little finger than Bush does in his whole body (he graduated from Harvard at the top of his class of his own accord, not because of who his father was).

To wrap up, what Obama lacks for in Washington experience (which is also, to me, a good thing to be unmarred by the politics of Wash.), he makes up for in his many other abilities, and then some.

Now the question is, will the repubs put country or politics first where there is legitimate agreement? Or are we just going to keep playing this 60 vote fillibuster game?