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President Obama’s Bizarre & Widely Panned New Year’s Eve Presser on Fiscal Cliff

Dec. 31, 2012 2:42pm Becket Adams

President Barack Obama during a bizarre last-minute presser Monday said that a “fiscal cliff” deal was “within sight” but that it was “not done.”

“Today it appears that an agreement to prevent this New Year’s tax hike is within sight, but it is not done,” said President Obama. “There are still issues left to resolve, but we’re hopeful that Congress can get it done, but it’s not done.”

But perhaps more notable than this claim was the president’s easygoing style and biting remarks directed towards Republican leaders:

Takes another swipe at Congress.

— Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) December 31, 2012

Obama takes an early victory lap: “Obviously the agreement that is being discussed would raise those rates, & raise them permanently.”

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) December 31, 2012

Obama cracking jokes on Congress:”they will use that last second.”

— Jim Acosta (@jimacostacnn) December 31, 2012

See, if you’re on the cusp of a reaching an agreement with a difficult or disagreeable opponent, it’s probably best if you don’t haul off and mock, tease, and insult them on national television (language warning):

for someone who supposedly wants a deal, Obama sure is being a d**k for no apparent reason

— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) December 31, 2012

But it seem that’s exactly what the president did.

“Seriously, this is a strange message,” National Review’s Jonah Goldberg tweeted. “Does his base really need to hear him tweak and tease the GOP? Or is this just self-indulgence?”

Indeed, considering the way he addressed GOP leaders (i.e. the people he needs to get a deal done), we’re genuinely confused with the president’s remarks. And we’re not alone. Twitter pretty much condemned the entire ordeal:

…Complete with cheap applause line. Nothing to see here folks. Click.

— Noah Rothman (@noah_c_rothman) December 31, 2012

The self-contradictions and falsehoods in this Obama talk are plentiful.

— Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) December 31, 2012

Raise your hand if you’re weary of the human wallpaper the prez apparently needs to perform.Cocky today. #poorbabystayinginDC

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) December 31, 2012

Obama isn’t making it easier for R’s to vote for this deal. But WH probably thinks that if R’s kill it, they get all the fiscal cliff blame.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 31, 2012

What is this? A roast?

— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) December 31, 2012

@rickklein he really doesnt get how badly this comes across

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) December 31, 2012

As I’ve said all along, Obama isn’t about getting a deal done, he’s about vanquishing his opponents.

— Matt K. Lewis (@mattklewis) December 31, 2012

Is the president trying to kill any possible deal? What’s the point of attacking Rs at this point?

— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) December 31, 2012

WTH was that? Did R. Kelly write that screenplay?

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 31, 2012

No substance at all. And not even so much as a mention of the debt ceiling. I really could have done with a bit of leadership there.

— felix salmon (@felixsalmon) December 31, 2012

But maybe all that needs to be said about the presser comes from an aide to Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.):

CANTOR AIDE: ‘If Obama’s goal was to harm the process…he’s succeeding’ read.bi/TsLO01

— Politix (@bi_politics) December 31, 2012

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Comments (154)

g56
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:12pm
What a dimwit! He isn’t qualified to be a dogcatcher much less a President!

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- Unix
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:31pm
  If it is true balance he wants, then raise EVERYONE’s taxes, not just the 1% who pay 17% of the taxes already…but that is not the reality, it is our spending is out of control, laws and regulations are out of control – to hell with DC!!!!
  
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- Dede13
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:38pm
  He is angry there was a deal, he did not expect one…that way he’s get all the money. I hope they hold his feet over the fire during the debt celling negotiations…this man is dangerous. I only hear a small amount of people backing him…Chris Mathews, the MSNBC mental patient and that ilk…I have yet to find any normal people that voted for him this second term…voter fraud yes….but why no investigation?
  
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- seeker9
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:54pm
  Where does he find a group of cheering middle class folks in the White House to use as a backdrop? Hope they aren’t being paid with tax payer money.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:56pm
  stay classy Barry.
  
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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:04pm
  I never voted for the Moron in Chief….
  
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- louie louie
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:06pm
  Obama doesn’t want a deal. He gets almost everything he wants without a deal. Since Mondale campaigned to raise taxes on everyone and lost badly, Democrats have learned to lie about it. They tell their base they only want to increase taxes on the rich, but that’s a lie they use to get their votes. They would love to raise taxes on everyone as long as they can blame it on Republicans.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:20pm
  If you watch the news, you will have heard Boehner and McConnell and other Republicans and all the right wing pundits taking pot shots at the President all week. And now that the President gives them a little taste of their own medicine, they are all about to cry and take their basketball and go home? Ninnies.
  
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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Of course his GOAL IS TO HARM THE PROCESS
  
  I have watched it 12X to absorb all that is in it!
  
  This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this together. Watch it. Share it. Arrange a showing in church, groups, clubs, with friends or family. Everyone who loves America needs to see this movie,
  It is free on line for the moment
  
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  If America goes down, the free world will go down with it and it will be finished for a very, very long time…
  
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- Female
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:56pm
  Just stop funding the President and save a boat load of $$$$.
  
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- mersey
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 5:09pm
  That propaganda press conference says all you need to know about progressive Democrats. How could one group of Americans applaud when Obama says taxes will permanently rise on another group of Americans? I’m nowhere near rich but I could never feel good about any American having to pay one penny more to our out of control, bloated, wasteful government. Democrats, you are sad, pathetic people.
  
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- 1389AD
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 5:10pm
  Poor dogs!
  
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- subic
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 5:53pm
  Barack Hussein Obama hates America. Both of his parents hated America. His grandfather that helped raise him hated America. His mentors, especially Frank Marshall Davis who was an ardent socialist, hated America. The teachers and professors that influenced him the most were all socialist and Marxists. One of Obama’s close friends and wealthy benefactors is terrorist Bill Ayers who openly hates America.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 6:29pm
  Really JZS/SENTTHEMORON? That’s what your college education/lefty indoctrination came up? Idiot.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 6:34pm
  send in the house slave . your so funny now get back to cleaning your gods slop jars.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 7:37pm
  Nothing but theatrics-bad theatrics! This egomaniac thinks his mere appearance will change the world. Nope and deranged.
  
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- Becks_Art_Obama_In_PeePee
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:47pm
  “President Obama’s Bizarre & Widely Panned New Year’s Eve Presser on Fiscal Cliff”
  
  That’s because … (now read this carefully) … BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA is NOT the U.S. President:
  
  The Obama File (all about “The Man Who Never Was”)
  http://theobamafile.com/
  
  “Obama has had the finest possible education. Nobody knows how it was financed or what his grades were. His academic records are all sealed and he has an army of lawyers making sure they remained sealed.”
  “Barack Obama was born of Marxists; mentored by a communist writer and activist during his formative years; spent his college days hanging around radical activists; worked as a radical community organizer … A ‘community organizer’ is an agitator — a rabble-rouser.”
  
  AP declares Obama Kenyan-Born (And 2008 AP Story Repeats the Claim)
  http://thepostnemail.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/ap-declares-obama-kenyan-born/
  
  “What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. … in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, … ‘Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.’”
  
  That’s right … Barack Hussein Sockpuppet. But who are the puppet (& teleprompter) masters?
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:25pm
  @g56
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:12pm
  
  What a dimwit! He isn’t qualified to be a dogcatcher much less a President
  ***
  Not to worry and listen closely to the point he says: “…if I’m President, and I’m going to be President the next four years [I hope]… “amidst the laughter it’s nearly drowned out, but he said, “I hope”, does he know something we don’t?
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:17pm
  AvengerK, you’re about to cry too I see. Sorry that the President of the United States said that congress was dysfunctional, a simple fact known by most everybody in the US, as well as the rest of the world.
  
  I do think the President was tweaking the noses of Republicans though. I agree with that. The Republicans have a serious problem whipping their members to vote for anything, and I mean anything that the President is in favor of.
  
  Our Democracy has failed. McConnell is in these discussion only because he can stop any legislation from being brought to the floor without a super majority of sixty votes. The Founders must be rolling over in their graves realizing that the Senate can’t even vote on a bill without 60 of a hundred agreeing to even vote on the bill. No majority rule there!
  
  And the House. Actually the popular vote favored Democrats. More people by far voted for House Democrats than Republicans and were it not for the gerrymandering, House Republicans would have lost even more seats than they did. They would probably have lost the House.
  
  So what was Obama doing with his statements? He was tweaking the House, who have to deal with the fringe Republican weirdos, those who feel they were elected to vote “no” on every issue unless it’s a vote to give their rich benefactors more tax breaks. If legislators voted their conscience we would never have these debacles.
  
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- mersey
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:44am
  Sendthemeteors, the stupidity of your comments are astounding. Where to begin? Do you know why there are three branches of government set up by the founders? Because they didn’t want some Messiah to come along and impose their ideology against the people. Obama received 51 percent of the vote, and that hardly constitutes a mandate. There is a large percent of the population who demand checks and balances in our government.
  
  ” The Founders must be rolling over in their graves realizing that the Senate can’t even vote on a bill without 60 of a hundred agreeing to even vote on the bill.” I think not. This is what a Republic looks like. Have a problem with it? Europe is always looking for some good new socialists. But the Founders would be rolling over in their graves knowing that a Senate hasn’t passed a budget in over three years, and the budget is part of the Senate’s official duties.
  
  “And the House. Actually the popular vote favored Democrats. More people by far voted for House Democrats than Republicans and were it not for the gerrymandering, House Republicans would have lost even more seats than they did. They would probably have lost the House.” Were you born yesterday? This has been going on for decades now, and it’s not just by the Republicans. You want to see gerrymandering, check out states like New York, Maryland and California.
  
  Learn your facts. Know what a Republic means before making inane comments.
  
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- mersey
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:51am
  Sendthemeteors, if I could commission a poll and have it show that 60 percent of Americans think that you should be waterboarded every day for the rest of your life, should we do it? There is a reason we don’t run our government on polls. Mainly because there are too many morons in this country who have opinions but no facts to back up that opinion. Every time you make a comment about polls and it’s relationship to governing, you show your ignorance.
  
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- snooop1e
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:42pm
  President Obama is relying on the only experience he has, community organizing. Community Organizers rally their supporters and make televised statements, they isolate their opponents and ridicule and demonize them. It’s rules for radicals 101. I have never cared for the President because from the first time I saw him speak at the DNC (when Kerry was running) he came across as very self indulgent. I think he is a great motivational speaker and he knows how to get people riled up but he hasn’t shown any true leadership skills like a Lincoln or Reagan. A true leader has the character and charisma to bring people together when times get really tough. To me Obama is a divider, he lacks the character to put aside his pride and solve complex issues. Community Organizers are really good at pointing out problems and dividing people but great leaders are really good at uniting people and SOLVING problems. I’ve yet to see Obama do or say anything that brings people together in the middle of a crisis. He’s really good in a room full of people who adore him and terrible at dealing with adversity and rejection. He tends to say and do things that just make the situation worse, this presser is just one example, it was very juvenile and not presidential at all. When Brian Terry was killed there was no press conference and no statement, same with Benghazi, the President was no where to be found. It’s really sad, now more than ever we someone who can unite us and LEAD.
  
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tess q
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:11pm
what a ass!

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- U.S. Constitutionist
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:24pm
  That is… “What An Ass”
  We must call it properly to be heard…
  
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- BreeZee
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:24pm
  Thank you 51%’ers for four more years of this man child called barry. I am ashamed this man is our president and even more ashamed of the uninformed and racist idiots that put this tyrant back in office. I pray the left pays for his evil before the rest of us have to.
  
  I am also going to campaign, and vote against every GOP that votes for anything the left wants, including the laughable two month late “EMERGENCY” sandy relieve pork laden bill and any gun control reform…look up the Dick Act of 1902
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:29pm
  Pride comes before the fall.
  
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- Dede13
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:33pm
  but you knew that…nothing changes with him
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:46pm
  The Whiner-in-Chief wants to go home. Aww.
  
  Send him packing to Hawaii, Boehner. Pleeeze grow a pair. Don’t delude yourself, dude. Your balls are gone. That’s just phantom pain you’re feeling, after those Obamanists castrated you.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:12pm
  AvengerK
  Pride comes before the fall.
  ***
  I do not want to fall with him.
  
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- ledbythnose
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:17pm
  Let’s not bring reproach upon an Ass. This self indulgent , Dictator wanna be couldn’t run a Coyote off from a heard of Cows if his life depended on it. He is too busy wrecking what’s left of a once Great Nation to see how utterly disgusting he looks to the rest of us. OY VEY!
  
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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:39pm
  Hes he hole the azz surrounds
  
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- haras42000
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:29am
  I AGREE!!! and the ears to complete the picture
  
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RaydocX
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:09pm
I hope SCOTUS is taking notes from the French…
And that convervative lawyers are preparing to use Civil Rights laws to protect the minority 1% in the US who Obama and the 47% are throwing under the bus…

And whoever believes that the rates are ‘going up permanently’ needs to stop and reread how our nation’s government operates… if ‘permanent’ is the goal, it had better be made an amendment, or the next time a rational administration and Congress are in place… or even this one, after the machinations and miscalculations are made painfully obious, tax cuts for ‘the rich’ will bring things into some semblance of fairness (unless the taxes for EVERYONE will have to be raised to 55% to pay for Obama’s orgiastic spending)…

The moment he claimed a ‘permanent’ tax hike every reporter should have asked why he would like like that… but they’ve gotten used to his lies… usually they just help push the lies along, pretending they are facts

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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:09pm
God, I wish we had a leader!!!

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- U.S. Constitutionist
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:22pm
  “…wish we had a leader.”
  On paper, We The People are the leader…
  The United States Constitution is deliberately inefficient.
  The Separation of Powers devised by the framers of the Constitution was designed to do one primary thing: to prevent the majority from ruling with an iron fist. Based on their experience, the framers shied away from giving any branch of the new government too much power.
  
  The following are the powers of the Executive: veto power over all bills; appointment of judges and other officials; makes treaties; ensures all laws are carried out; commander in chief of the military; pardon power.
  
  NO WHERE DOES IT SAY THAT A POTUS IS A LEADER, except for Commander In Chief
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:32pm
  @ USC
  
  you are correct, and i grind my teeth at the powers the various Presidents have usurped in just the last 30 years, BUT if he wants to be the one to make proposals about the economy he can damn well listen to all sides and bend over backwards to find a reasonable COMPROMISE and then not be snide and arrogant to his opposition.
  
  growing up, when my dad coached little league, when it came down to me or another kid riding the pine, I rode the pine, irregardless of various skill levels… part of being the leader is taking the hit when it’s close to even so that a deal can be made.
  
  But that’s lost on a community organizer whose only tools are race baiting, class warfare, and insolence.
  
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- U.S. Constitutionist
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:37pm
  Your FATHER is a smart man to have had you take the falls so as to be prepared in life as you matured.
  
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no1hd
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:08pm
Where did all these people come from and who do/DID-hopefully work for.

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- TurboCat
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:44am
  Note to the ‘props’ er, I mean people in background: You are being used!
  
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Chris.underhill
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:06pm
Well heres to we made it in 2012, and to many more just like today starting tomarrow..

If this is not a show of things to come huh?? 2012 the year Americans went to sleep and woke up in 2013 to a hole new country. Was good while it lasted.. Fare well my beloved-ed.

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- Anamah
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:22pm
  What a small limited mind he has! Where is the president stature? This is no more than a community organizer, cheap and dangerous!!!
  
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RepubliCorp
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:04pm
One word……. A-Hole

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Ironeagle
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:03pm
The more this progresses the more it looks like DOTUS (Dictator of the US) or, shall we say, DICTUS (Dictator, US) doesn’t want any deal to go through–another blatant provocation.

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environmentalandawake
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:03pm
It’s all by design folks…..He fully intends to pervert every aspect of “The American Dream.” Said it before will say it again, “He is a Slimy Fascist!!!” Mathew 24 is a good read. Prepare, prepare, prepare!!!

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tothepoint
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:01pm
Notice the women standing behind Obama as if that gives him female “Cred.” He and his gang
kill off millions of unborn women through abortion and he pretends that he is for women’s rights.
I look for the day when a true American who loves unborn humans and loves this country becomes President.

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melbach
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:00pm
A little confused..He continues his talk of “balanced approach” in regards to no spending cuts without increased revenue. Assuming he gets the higher taxes this evening on the “wealthiest” Americans, is he alluding to additional taxes to offset whatever spending cuts they may tackle later? It sure sounds like it.

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lisalake
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:00pm
F-this crazy basttard.

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bannedfromCNN
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:58pm
The thrill is gone.

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- Hotconchick
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:32pm
  Not for Chris Matthews…
  
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- Dede13
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:34pm
  no kidding…but the thrill only lasted about 2.4 seconds early in 2008
  
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Cavallo
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:58pm
Drudge is reporting that new deal has no cuts. Bend over the barrel ladies.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:30pm
  F/ck
  
  Bunch of Blind mullets.
  
  There could be cuts in the Pentagon. Maybe not as many as the liberals want, but they could be found. You look at QDR & start from there. You let the joint chiefs fight over it have the porking Congress stay out of it
  
  http://www.defense.gov/qdr/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrennial_Defense_Review
  
  You can find cuts in the rest of the budget. Worse case scenario you trash baseline budgeting for a decade if not forever.
  
  You get more growth with honey than with vinegar. It is better to say “Morning in America” than “You didn’t build that”. obama’s tone is wrong & always has been.
  
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- subic
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 5:30pm
  Make cuts to DHS, TSA, all the fed money going to police depts all across america to miltarize police forces. There are thousands of useless govt jobs that could be cut. The NSA is spending 2 Billion of our money to build a facility to spy on all of us.
  
  Look at all the money Hussein & Moose have spent on lavish vacations. Something like $4 million. Pitiful, utterly pitiful.
  
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- rickroland
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:07pm
  No cuts? What in the heck? Did some alien race douse the D.C. supplies of water and alcohol with a substance that removes all rational thought? It must be, as “no cuts” makes absolutely no sense at all.
  
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tothepoint
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:57pm
Everytime Obama speaks we realize how low-class, sophomoric and thuggish he is.
With all his failings, lying, America-bashing, undermining the military and our allies, etc., he still was re-elected. Shameful.

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- Anamah
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:34pm
  Shameful… or incredible? This circus can not be true.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:58pm
  The Mayan prediction was correct. It’s all over.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:55pm
Mr obama, I call for YOU to IMMEDIATELY Resign the office of POTUS, and to place yourself in custody the U.S. Marshals for HIGH crimes committed Against the UNITED STATED OF AMERICA!

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- Crazyotto
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:05pm
  Please give Barry a break… Michelle is in Hawaii and he has a big date with Reggie tonight.. So he is more than a little distracted..
  
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- environmentalandawake
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:07pm
  I thought about initiating a petition for him and his admin to step down for his obvious mismanagement and disregard for the Constitution, just to see how many signatures it would get…..my bet is that less people like this idiot than voted for him, which begs some serious questions, does it not?
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 5:00pm
  Good plans, fellas. Wow. Why you’re not heading up the Cato Institute is a mystery to me. Hey,while you’re at it, maybe you can draft another petition to clean up our global economic challenges. Maybe something like this: “I (your name) support getting rid of icky things that make stuff hard and I really really support other things I like.”
  
  Could change the course of history.
  
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melbach
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:54pm
A little confused…he keeps speaking about “balanced approach” when addressing future spending cuts. Assuming he gets this immediate deal with increased taxes on the “wealthiest” Americans, is he alluding to additional “revenue” (taxes) to balance with the spending cuts when they finally get around to them? Sure sounds like he is.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:54pm
The maniacal Marxist doesn’t want a deal he wants the rates to go up to temporarily hold of the inevitable collapse of the dollar.He’s following Cloward & Piven to a T and if anybody thinks otherwise you’re naive and a fool.

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- U.S. Constitutionist
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:08pm
  I am neither naive nor a fool… ALL 13 Apply
  Saul Alinsky – Tactics for radicals (The bulk of the rest of Rules for Radicals is concerned with tactics)
  
  1) Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have
  2) Never go outside the experience of your people
  3) Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy
  4) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules
  5) Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon
  6) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy
  7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag
  8) Keep the pressure on
  9) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself
  10) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition
  11) If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counter side
  12) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative
  13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:29pm
  That’s correct you’re neither and you know the enemy well,like I said we are witnessing Cloward & Piven and I hope everyone will be prepared as best they can when the system collapses.
  
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- U.S. Constitutionist
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:34pm
  Roger that…
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 5:02pm
  UN Conostitutionalist . . . Sounds like pure conservative neo orthodoxy. Lee Atwater to Karl Rove to Fox News. Despicable string of traitors.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:51pm
Just Marie Antoinette making another speech.
Nothing new. The same ole thuggery crap he always spews.

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Salamander
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:51pm
The way this guy dances on the edge all the time, you’d think he’d fall off the cliff!

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- foosgoddess
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:02pm
  Obama falling off the cliff is merely wishful thinking! He’s a d#ck. Actually being a d#ck is the only thing he is real good at.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:51pm
He be choomin’.

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- booger71
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:02pm
  He definitely had the looney bin at Bellview emptied to get his audience.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:49pm
Obama is completely insane. One more proof of it was seen today.

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Cavallo
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:48pm
Dump it. Vote no. Pass your own bill and GO HOME. PASS YOUR OWN BILL(S). Force the Senate to shoot it down. Cowardly spineless weasels.

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skippy6
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:47pm
This whole administration is bizarre…It reminds me of the circus and a freak show…Loonies on the left leftists on the right…..

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- JRook
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:55pm
  Like to see how the folks here thought about Reagan throwing Congress under the bus when they deserved it. This whole issue is nothing more than a sad comedy. Neither side has any realistic plan for how to cut the current and long term deficit in a meaningful way. And for the chronic naive take a break from listening to the “feed the angry mob” talking heads long enough to follow the money. The VAST majority of federal government spending goes to corporations, not 15 year old crack head mothers and not to food stamp recipients. And besides you will find that the lobby for food stamps is funded by the food producers and food suppliers, not the poor. The biggest beneficiary of federal welfare in this country are corporations.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:13pm
  @Jrook, It’ll cut itself sooner rather than later. The math doesn’t work. The longer they delay the more impossible it will be to come to a solution. The likelyhood of taxes being used to reduce the deficit are about the same as space aliens finding a way to resolve our economic problem. The fiscal cliff is nothing compared to the abyss that the real correction will wreck when people stop buying our fake money. (The wedding of corporations and the State is Mussolini’s fascism, National Socialism)
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:14pm
  Rookie
  He gave raises away for this. He gave raises to the PO system and they run what, 50 B in the red annually? You voted for and support a known idiot, a practicing liar, and you obfuscate on. Piss off, lick his boots some more and cheer like the good little cheer leader you are.
  
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- skippy6
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:21pm
  @ rook I agree with you in part… Mr. GE is inside the white house sucking up to Obama for those big welfare funds… But he also is getting a lot of people hooked into the welfare system with record numbers..Close to 60 million people on food stamps,not to mention social security disability and unemployment. My point is that we need to cut big welfare altogether and ween the people off the suck teet system. No more entitlements/handouts…..
  
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One Man Mormon Blues Band
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 2:46pm
Obama was re-elected. He owns the fiscal cliff.
And the debt.
And the violence.
And the terrorists.
An d China.
And Russia.
And the . . . well, you get it.

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- U.S. Constitutionist
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:01pm
  One Man Mormon Blues Band – Not to correct and here is the but…
  YES – “Obama was re-elected. He owns the fiscal cliff.”
  NO We citizens do – “And the debt.”
  YES – “And the violence.”
  YES – “And the terrorists.”
  NO, they are #2 in owning the U.S. – “And China.”
  NO, Russia is the powerhouse now – “And Russia.”
  YES, we do you get your point – “And the . . . well, you get it.”
  
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- Mess23
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:03pm
  And Bengahzi
  And Fast & Furious
  And Obacare $1T tax increase
  And a diminished military
  
  PINO = President In Name Only
  
  POS = Piece of (you know the rest)
  
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- Hotconchick
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:31pm
  When will you all get this through your heads:
  
  IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!!! (Oh yeah and Congress too)
  Bush is the one who has spent more than all of the other President’s combined- all his fault.
  
  Dear Leader is working hard to save us all from Bush- the evil one…He wants what’s best for us. No?
  
  In all seriousness- this out of control government and theater has me feeling like I’m trapped in a bad dream- someone needs to wake me up from.
  
  It’s really sad that only a few of us actually know what we are in for.
  
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