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Carney Accuses Republicans of Trying to ‘Blow Up’ Economy

This has not been Jay Carney’s week.

On Tuesday, he got into a verbal sparring match with new Fox White House correspondent Ed Henry (previously at CNN). On Wednesday, the harsh words continued, with Carney going as far as to accuse Henry of trying to “create a thing” for Fox. So what would he say to complete the hat trick today? How about accusing Republicans of trying to “blow up” the economy.

The remarks, ironically enough, came during a response to one of Henry’s questions. Henry asked what the president would be willing to concede should Republicans not back down. In the middle of a lengthy response, Carney had this to say:

“We never had a situation like this [in the past] where– there were sometimes confrontations over this … but the overwhelming number of times is the congress acted because this was not a question, there wasn’t this one-for-one thing, it wasn’t a question that I am going to blow up the economy, if you will, if you don’t do what I want. It’s just crazy.”

He also went on to call the Republicans “juvenile.” Mediaite has the audio (the relevant part of Carney’s response starts at about 1:38):

It’s worth noting that such apocalyptic language has popped up within the administration this week. On Tuesday, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said the country could sink into a “depression” if no debt deal is reached.

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  • angelcat
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:51pm

    Has anyone else noticed that the Democrats always accuse the Republicans of that of which they are guilty – racism, sexism, trying to blow up the economy, and I could go on and on. In their accusations, they are actually holding up a mirror to themselves.

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    • Brontefan
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:28pm

      YES.. all the time! It’s what they do best. And they argue opinions and feelings in place of facts and strategies. They whine and cry and when they think they might be losing ground… they come out with the most outrageous LIES you have ever heard. Basically, I’m ashamed I was ever a Democrat but at least it was in my youth and Jimmy Carter cured me.

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:28pm

      Same goes for your side.That’s exactly the same thing that we think about the repugs and the teatards.

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    • teaparty_hobbit
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:47pm

      I agree with you 100% Angelcat! I’m waiting for the mirror to break.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:18pm

      Someone needs to tell this jerk that there is no economy to blow up. My 4 grandsons under 6 years of age won’t know what economy is unless they look it up in a dictonary. I thought Bush was bad racking up a 5 trillion dollar deficit and here comes hope and change(obama) to the tune of 9.5 trillion dollars. This guy Corny needs a reality wakeup because the American people aren’t as dumb as he thinks we are.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:26pm

      How many wedgies did Carney get in school?

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    • jimtrees
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:55pm

      Why do democrats always look constipated? Is that because they are full of crap? But they all have that goofy, tilted lip expression.

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    • Husker66
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:43pm

      What a bunch of A$$ hats, This is a three ring circus, let it default, Republicans need to stand there ground and let this play out in the stock market. The problem is, is that the American public dose not watch or listen to what these clowns are doing until it affects them personally. We are at the tipping point NOW, If the republicans fall short now, there is no need for the next election. The POTUS will promise more free ice cream to the 50+% of non tax paying citizens to his re election. I am so feed up with all of this it makes me want to fire all of my employees and buy a farm where I can live off the land and tell the government to go FOOOK them selves.

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    • love the kids
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:51pm

      There is no better example of this than Chris Spewthis consistantly calling Boehner the “Tan Man”. This was said and typed on his show the other night. Imagine a person who calls everyone a racist, then making fun of the speaker of the house because of the color of his skin. What bothers me the most is that nobody calls him out on it.

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:52pm

      Carney must have been a “carney” – one of those carnival workers who went from town to town, assembling and disassembling the carousel and teacup ride, and making candy apples. He sure as heck doesn’t have the brains to have been a carnival barker, though he’s getting close to living out that dream of his in his present occupation.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:58pm

      @Oldphoto678
      That’s the thing to do go directly to name calling. Yep. That will be oh so helpful! That’s the main problem with todays Left: No solutions. Only complaing & name calling.That’s going to solve every thing.

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    • indy1
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 9:01am

      Remember Obama and the lib media lecturing us about civility back in January?

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 10:59am

      It‘s called Cloward and Pivens and it’s the Republican that are trying to do it. It the hard core idealogical leftist.

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    • thx1138v2
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 11:15am

      It’s called “projection.” Here is Obama’s plan. So far he has been quite successful at implementing it. It‘s the same as the progressives’ plan in 1934 under FDR. This political cartoon is from a 1934 Chicago Tribune. Look up the players named in the cartoon and you will find a phenomenal likeness to those inhabiting the White House now.

      http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-pod-1934-cartoon-pic,0,7114709.photo

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    • quiltgal
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 11:50am

      Yes, I too have noticed. I believe it’s a well planned strategy, in the spirit of Cloward and Piven, designed to obfuscate facts and create confusion. Have you also noticed how Democrats attempt to fool us with semantics? “Wars” have become “overseas contingency operations.“ ”Tax cuts“ have become ”government spending.” But then, Marxists and Communists believe the end justify the means, i.e. you can lie, cheat, steal, in short dispense with all values and principles, so long as it is for the “greater good.” This is hogwash, of course. Corruption never leads to good.

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  • Encinon
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:50pm

    Obama should just step in and create his own bill. It’s obvious the republicans are against what we all want with higher taxes. He should just step in raise the debt limit himself and raise taxes. There is no reason to involve congress if they are going to govern against the will of the people

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:18pm

      This is ridiculous! Where I am, it is 85 degrees today which is all the proof that I need that we have a major problem with global warming. When I was younger, I don’t ever remember it getting above 80 in the summer. Obama needs to put his foot down now, tax all of us, and figure out a solution to this problem once and for all.

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    • Rockyspoon
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:23pm

      You must be smoking dope or some other halucinogenic drug, Encinon! The current mess we’re in is BECAUSE Obama has spent us under the bus, after taking some direction from Bush. Looks like Obama was so envious of Bush’s overspending that he vowed to way outspend him. Guess what? Data now shows employment rates at Depression-era levels. Teens 16-19 yrs old are now only 23% employed. Blacks are facing the same levels of unemployment they saw in the Great Depression. Housing dropped 31% during the Great Depression; this time housing has dropped 35% and is still dropping 1% a month! Face it–You can’t spend yourself to prosperity. You can’t tax yourself to prosperity. And you can’t possibly believe your statements–they make absolutely no sense unless you’re like Obama–so clueless you know nothing better or you’re trying to destroy our economy on purpose. Which is it? Nevermind… any answer you give will be bogus and deceitful.

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    • SkiTuna
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:26pm

      What country do you think you live in? We in the United States do not support what you suggest.
      Get a grip!!! This country uses a system of checks and balances in the manner of governing. A president does not just make unilateral decisions and bypass congress to get their way. Are suggesting we have a King and Queen and no constitution. Well let me tell ya, the USA was created because of that King and Queen royalty philophsy. Ever hear of the American Revolution? Yea, the one that freed our counrty from British rule. If you are not happy living here than go somewhere that supports your desires and please take your King Obama with you. We don’t want him or need his kind of governance.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:53pm

      Yo-yo-yomaaaaeen! Got news for you,dipstick. Just because our taxes go up doen’t necessarily mean your “earned income credit check” is going to get any bigger. By thre way, is miommy complaining about the price of gas again?

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    • nomorelies
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:35pm

      I agree. Why don’t we just all leave America and let him rule to an empty lot. The only people listening to him are the blacks and the syncophants like Nancy Pelosi and Harri Reid and Al Sharptongue. Who is Jay Corny?

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:54pm

      Replying to your own comments, I see.

      Do yoiu kcuf yourself, too?

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    • Spyder
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:51pm

      Obvious Troll is Obvious.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 12:11am

      And they said President Bush was a dictator…

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 12:42am

      tax, tax, tax.. really what’s stopping all u big govnment progs from sending more of your OWN money to be wasted. Pres BO keeps whining that he doesn’t pay enough in taxes. why doesn’t he just let the Tresury keep his check. Quit spending my children’s money

      pithforks!!

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    • Cameraman
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 3:21pm

      Ok God Obama! Sure thats what he wants, it will not Happen..Civil War II..Encinon=Tool, Idiot !

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on July 30, 2011 at 7:32am

      Actually, by law Obama is suppose to submit a budget annually to Congress each and every FY year…every president before him did.

      Obama, the first evar president to hand over this specific responsibility to Congress…Why? You see why right now…Chaos. You‘re lovin’ it ENCINON, arentcha.

      Each FY year all of the agencies submit up to OMB their 5 year budget outlook…but Obama failed to give OMB his detailed plan in order to hash out the numbers for the administrative budge plan to be submitted by the president to Congress. MAJOR FAILURE OR DONE ON PURPOSE, EH?

      El Presidente needs to go and go soon.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on July 30, 2011 at 7:35am

      Carney, part of the carnival circus at the WH. Arrogant clowns do vex me.

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  • beckwasfox
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:49pm

    Democrats are estranged from the truth. Fearmongering and lies are there only tools. Hitler and Goebbels said if you told a lie often enough people would believe it. This is certainly true in the case of Obama voters. Liberalism is a mental disorder!

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    • EXcommie
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:14pm

      I totally agree. I think LIBERALISM is the CANCER of SOCIETY!!!!

      I often wandered why libs are so removed from reality and have no concept of consequences…their thinking is like “skipping rocks on a lake”; that’s how deep the thinking and logic is, just barely touches the serfice.
      You listen to the libs (eg Colmes on Oreilley and many others) and you can almost see the holes in their brain, kinda’ like swiss cheese.

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  • This_Individual
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:45pm

    Trying to exchange talking points?

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  • bigfatslob
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:44pm

    carney is a clown or is it that clowns work in the carney ?

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    • sooner12
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:55pm

      In the administration, one has to act and talk like a clown to qualify for that job.

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    • begtodiffer
      Posted on July 29, 2011 at 12:35am

      Carney the canary in the mine shaft that some people call berry’s colon.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:43pm

    Social Security is 100% invested into treasury bonds, by law, so the administration assures us they will pay them first (even as they say publicly that they cannot guarantee they will pay them). What liars.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-Contingency-Plan-Gives-bloomberg-2604131065.html;_ylt=Ao6ZQN2EmW.u8GRxRxWNFkq7YWsA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1ZHZ1NTFrBHBvcwMzBHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawN1c2NvbnRpbmdlbmM-?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=

    So tell me who is trying to blow up the economy?

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    • Czar Casm
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:59pm

      Their panties are all in a wad because their money laundry scam and ponzi scheme is being scrutinized by the serfs and unwashed. If Obama can get credit for anything it is that he has awaken (quite unattentionally) the serfs and unwashed to the corruption of the establishment politicians on both sides.

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  • rienheart
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:43pm

    Poor, Poor Pitiful Carney, keeps digging deeper and deeper, Just like our Debt.

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  • Codger
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:40pm

    OK… here’s the compromise. The debt ceiling will not be raised but enough spending cuts shall be immediately identified and implemented to forestall a debt default and then within 60 days, create a plan to attain a balanced budget within the next ten years.

    Now get to work and do whatever it takes to get us there.

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:53pm

      Delusional self-aggrandizement, thy name is CODGER. You are POWERLESS. Your ultimatums and posturing comic. I dare you to bring to the real world any of your loudmouthed posturing and demands. I dare you……. I’m waiting.

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    • MEESHEL
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:51pm

      You smokin’ the weed Model82… or are you always this obtuse?

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:07pm

      Hey mod…codger ain’t scared of you. Youse a pipsqueak. Come outside and I’ll say it too your face. Hey I’m a tough guy dontcha know. So’s the codger.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:39pm

    I just want to point out that Obama can refuse to pay social security recipients even if we give him a 200 trillion dollar extension to the debt level, and federal reserve chief Bernanke can run interest rates to any value that he so chooses because he has power to print all the dollars he wants, regardless of the credit ratings agencies and regardless of a default.

    There is no natural threat to the nation’s economy if we hit a debt impasse. None whatsoever. Any threat is a threat from someone who can make it happen.

    Now that you know that ALL of the threats from Washington are threats of a bully, not warnings from some prescient being, make your own decision as to whether or not we should raise the debt ceiling. I say call their bluff and let’s find out how impotent Washington DC really is. It is the only path to economic freedom, really.

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    • Khthulhu
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:01pm

      I completely agree. Balancing the budget is a matter of will. The Conservatives have the will, the progressives, like a group of spend-a-holic B1tche5, do not. If it’s shiny new bling, they have to have it at the ruin of everyone else in the house. And just like dealing with a spend-a-holic B1tch, sometimes you have to let loose the back of your hand. BIP! They don’t know what happened, only that one second they were checking out more bling to spend your $$ on, the next they‘re all dizzy and they’re lip hurts and they’re bleeding. That’s the language they understand. Puts them right back into line.

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  • Not Quite
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:38pm

    I love the irony. In the real world, things are quite opposite as that certain liberals(socialists) are trying to enact Cloward and Piven. The conservatives have been the only one’s trying to come up with a solution and each and every time the President says that he will veto it out right. I don’t know how that means conservatives are unwilling to try to fix this solution. And someone please tell me how a balanced budget amendment is BAD for the United States? We should try to run this country on a surplus.

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  • Mackerel
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:37pm

    The most damaging thing to our economy has been the man child himself, not the republicans attempt to balance the budget. What a load of crap.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:42pm

      Amen, seems like even Republicans need to be reminded of that.

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  • showmerancher
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:37pm

    Where is the rational and confident leadership that promotes a sense of trust and well-being one would expect from the office of what is purported to be the leader of the free world? Instead we get despotic irrational and fanatical ramblings of threats and intimidation instilling fear and loathing into much of the populace.

    Obama is not a leader of anyone or anything… in fact, he doesn’t know the first thing about real leadership. When America needs a statesman of whom we can be proud and in whom we trust, we are saddled with an irrational despotic buffoon that is an embarrassment both here and abroad.

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:36pm

    Do you people realize the World is watching you……….can’t you atleast Try to act like adults?

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  • does this burka make me look fat?
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:35pm

    And if this were true…and the Repubs really did what to blow up the economy……to late….the dems have already done it.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:35pm

    Given that the government has now bloated into a whopping 25% of the economy, I suppose he might be able to twist it into that, lol.

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  • loriann12
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:33pm

    Republicans threatening to blow up the eonomy? That’s all Democrats do, that’s their main tool in the toolbox….threats, inuendoes, insinuations, and out right lies.

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    • conservative510
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:42pm

      Yes, democrats are such experts on economy. They are much more interested in cutting government spending and creating jobs. HA! ROFLMAO!

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  • grandmaof5
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:33pm

    Carney speaks for his boss so here is another example of an Obama smear. They don’t seem to handle a reporter asking real questions and expecting real answers – a bit defensive I would say. Keep playing that game Carney because the American people will see what is really going on, especially with the MSM parroting you. We ‘rednecks’ are alot smarter than you pseudo elites think we are.

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  • teapartyconservatism
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:33pm

    Federal Reserve:
    Usury private banking cartel manipulating our money, no longer backed by gold but by taxes on your labor, loans this to U.S. with interest.

    16th amendment (not ratified):
    Income tax, voluntary via Social Security Ponzi scheme.

    17th amendment:
    Required election of formerly incorruptible Senators by popular vote, removing your ability to elect locally trusted leaders to your State Assembly who similarly selected two trustworthy Senators. The Founding Fathers wisely precluded Senators from campaigning, knowing if one couldn’t buy Senate influence, it’s useless to bribe House members or a President. Exposing entire law making process to equal financial pressure invited wholesale corruption.

    Solution?

    Abolish Fed Res, dissolve debt & end gov usury borrowing.

    States must repeal 16th & 17th amendments to abolish IRS and end political influence peddling.

    States must collect all taxes as their citizens deem best, while providing proportionally shared funding sufficient for federal functions enumerated by the Constitution.

    States must specify by amendment, that any agreements or cooperative functions not enumerated in the Constitution but voluntarily entered into by any states, may be enacted, administered, financed and enforced only within and by those participating states and shall remain beyond the purview of the federal government.

    Griffin, Jekyll Island
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7auQEXTWomA

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:33pm

    Definition of Carny; person who works with a carnival. Granted Carny is not how he spells his name, but his job and what he does, fits the definition. He is more like a Barker, but that’s another nut to crack.

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    • nomorelies
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:38pm

      I thought his predecessor was a nut job. Wow. They really did find a dumber and worse press secretery.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:24pm

    Didn’t take very long for Jim to lose his cool. I wonder who his replacement will be.

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    • Susan Harkins
      Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:34pm

      If this guy delves any further into Fantasy Land, I am afraid that we are going to have to institutionalize him. As stated before: ‘Since when does, cutting the household credit card, “BLOW UP” a house? Does this bimbo really think that America buys this apocolypic garbage that the sky is going to fall if we freeze the waste and have to sit down at the table and start cutting expenses?

      What a fiscally irresponsible moron!

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  • Blackhawk1
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:24pm

    Mr. Claire Shipman is about to have his head explode if he is asked one more common sense question that he has no answer for. Time for the next idiot Obama spokesman to step up.

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  • TX_45_ACP
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:23pm

    I am almost wish we had Robert Gibbs back. Can’t believe I am saying that. They are all so full of it aynway. Obama’s socialist policies are not working. They know it, all they can do is blame others and twist the truth.

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  • KyLafoon
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:22pm

    Where is Dr. Suess when you need him?

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:21pm

    Carney — if you cannot tell the truth and take the heat; then quit and run like the rabbit you are.

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  • Susan Harkins
    Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:20pm

    CARNEY…since when does, cutting the household credit card BLOW UP a house?

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