Rove: ‘Obama Did Not Win Much of Anything’
- Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:14am by
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama promised to change Washington’s ways. Yet he is as caught up in them as ever.
It was just at the start of this week that Obama launched his re-election bid with a sunny video of real people talking about their hopes and needs. It was the very image of life outside Washington politics.
By week’s end, Obama was mired in budget negotiations, canceling trips and scrambling to hold off a government shutdown that would surely erode the public’s faith in his leadership.
That’s the messy business of governing. And this is how it is going to be this time around for incumbent Obama.
Beyond the vision for economic competitiveness he wants to talk about, Obama is seeking a second term while having to engage in the gritty, frustrating process of governing a deeply divided government. He got bogged down in legislative tactics in his first two years, even when he won fights like health care, and is now trying to avoid all that.
Then came this test of leadership. The White House says Obama ultimately got the compromise he wanted — a bill of spending cuts that he supported without having to gut his priorities or swallow policy changes he could not accept. When it all finally came together, the administration offered it up as an example of cooperation under the highest stress.
But it was an exhausting process that left people wondering why the government was somehow on the brink of debacle.
This is change?
The showdown serves as a reminder that for all the powers that come with the presidency, one of the perils is an agenda you cannot control. Crises like Libya, Egypt, Japan’s earthquake, Iraq and Afghanistan all demand his attention.
In this case, the new House Republican majority, led by Speaker John Boehner, turned a must-pass budget bill into a political chance to give voice to frustrated voters and tea party conservatives who demanded spending cuts. And suddenly Washington was back in brinksmanship mode again, where nothing gets done until deadline. And sometimes not even then.
In public, Obama tried to keep it at arm’s length.
“I shouldn‘t have to oversee a process in which Congress deals with last year’s budget,” Obama said as the time got short this week.
But in fact he was involved up to his neck.
It was Obama’s veto threat that made clear he would not accept the scope of spending cuts Republicans wanted. It was Obama who said he would accept no more short-term bills to keep the government afloat for a couple weeks at a time unless there was a broader deal in hand. And it was Obama who kept saying it was time for leaders to act like grown-ups.
The White House said his strategy was to stay behind the scenes, work the phones and let his senior aides do the negotiating. That hard-to-see engagement provided a huge opening for Republicans to question his leadership. And it led to rumblings from frustrated lawmakers in his own Democratic Party who wanted Obama to openly attack the cuts Republicans wanted.
The White House figured it would take those hits. In the midst of this conflict and other challenges, a Gallup poll in late March found that an eroding number of people said Obama was a strong and decisive leader: A little more than half of those polled, down from 60 percent one year ago and 73 percent two years ago.
The West Wing thinking was that a better result would come if Obama not try to overheat the issue. They also believed that people across the nation were worried about gas prices, not a messy political squabble over a spending bill and that the voters didn’t hire Obama to be a legislator. Obama would go public when it meant the most.
The vocal version of the president emerged on Tuesday.
He said Americans don’t want games but rather results, the pragmatic approach. That’s the style White House strategists believe will bring back the election-turning independents to Obama. He spoke like a leader who had world troubles on his mind and demanded feuding lawmakers to keep working.
“There are some things we can’t control,” he said. “We can’t control earthquakes; we can’t control tsunamis; we can’t control uprisings on the other side of the world. What we can control is our capacity to have a reasoned, fair conversation between the parties and get the business of the American people done.”
But it wasn’t getting done, and his voice was not the only one setting the tone.
“The president isn’t leading,” Boehner said Wednesday. “He didn‘t lead on last year’s budget, and he clearly is not leading on this year’s budget.”
Obama met with Boehner and Reid four times in the White House across the week. He kept his plans to travel to the Philadelphia area on Wednesday to talk about energy, looking comfortable and almost carefree as he laughed with workers at a wind-turbine company about their families and their cars.
Yet by Friday, Washington had sucked him back in. He canceled a trip to Indianapolis, scrapping the attention he wanted to give to clean energy.
And then he jettisoned a scheduled weekend getaway with his family to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia while he kept in touch with Boehner and Reid.
While striving to avoid a shutdown, Obama‘s team privately thought they would come out OK in the public’s mind if it came to that.
The thinking was that the president had presented a reasonable case of agreeing to spending cuts without going too far, and that people would frown upon Republicans if the government stopped fully running over an unrelated policy conflict like abortion.
One Gallup poll found that 58 percent of adults, and 60 percent of independents, favored a budget compromise over a shutdown.
But another reality lurked for Obama.
The politics-saturated budget battle graphically demonstrates how government is not supposed to operate. No matter who is to blame, all will be blamed.
The everyday Americans Obama talks about so often just want a Washington that works. That means staying open for business.
And for incumbents with opponents who run the House, it can mean getting encumbered by Washington, once again.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — White House Correspondent Ben Feller has covered the Bush and Obama presidencies for The Associated Press.
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Comments (129)
workinghard
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:41pmRove, you are missing the point!!! Who cares what politicians got, what about us you moron!! Remember-for the people, by the people!! Somebody is tallying the scores for politicians and we keep getting screwed!!! And nobody gets screwed (or scissored) more than the unborn!!
Report Post »Somebody needs to offer a bill, that if you morally object to abortions you don’t have to pay taxes!!
We’ll see how many pro-choicers there really are.
earthrise
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:39pmROFLMAO Workinghard…..
I suspect even Nazi Pelosi will jump on the pro-life boat!!
Report Post »fortyfivenorth
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:34pmObama saved planned parenthood, the epa and npr. Those are worth billions to the democrat party. Rove was pretty good at political chess playing in the twentieth century but it is a whole different game today.
Report Post »temple62
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:26pmIsn’t it interesting that with all the division, the disagreements, the partisan politics as usual that the 535 members of congress in Obama’s 57 states and Obama have passed legislations to insure their checks would be direct deposited even in the event of a “government shutdown”. The lesson proves they CAN compromise and reach agreement when it affects their own pocketbooks! Now, who’s your Daddy??? This needs to be changed, they are not worthy! Perhaps the Tea Party can take this cause on now that the congress is singing *** baya?
Report Post »felina g
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:56pmgood point.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:22pmObama won an all expense paid one way trip back to Chicago…..
Report Post »parlayer
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:08pmI believe Mark, $37,000,000,000.00 is only a teaspoon full.
Report Post »dk_ship
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:06pmRove you must be pretty stupid to believe Obama didn’t get much but then who side r you on not the american people
Report Post »American Pride
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:59amBoehner has dropped the ball. This was a major loss for Conservatives. Raising the debt ceiling is next. This will be the true test to see what is really happening. If he caves then….yep it is time to talk about running a primary against him. VERY DISAPPOINTED.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:59amOnce again the republicans have grabbed victory from the jaws of victory.
Report Post »Stopit
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:58amWho cares what Rove thinks. He‘s a globalist with the Bush’s, and a member of the ruling class Washington political repugants. His focus is partisan gain, and not country, otherwise he’d get on board with the agenda of the Tea Party. Idealogical character as a constitutional patriot regardless of the negative consequences never enters his mind. It always the analysis of what will sway the moderate independants. Hence, the powerful message and communication of the conservative patriot is always watered down to progressive light, politically correct, double speak. Makes you want to puke!
Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:58amDid anyone catch the story a few weeks back that the Iranians can now boost a “man capable” satelite into earth orbit?? Couple that ability with a large enough nuke warhead and can anyone say: EMP boys and girls. Imagine ALL the electrical circuts East of the Mississippi FRIED. Experts predict 6 months to a year to restore the electircal grid. Now just imagine the Eastern US without electric power for at least 6 months!!! How long until the Goblins (loved Jeff Cooper) in the cities realize they have nothing to eat and nothing to stop them from swarming out into the countryside in search of food, shelter, etc. Nightmare scenario? Yes maybe it is. But remember–President Tom is a Twelver. If he says he wants to destroy–BELIVE HIM!! It doesn’t have to make sense to us, it makes sense to him.
Report Post » felina g
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:00am
The only one mentioning this is Beck.
Why do you think they took Beck Out ?
He went from being a NUISANCE to being a THREAT.
People are waking up and realizing this crap is something like a dream or movie….Hollywood at it`s best. It is sort of a replay of “The Wizard of Oz”
Is Soros the Wizard……..Pelosi MUST be the “witch” ?
Step out of the audience, find out what is important in your Life and then DO IT. We will pick and choose our own battles as they come. NOT what “they” want us to do.
THAT is the seat of our own empowerment.
Report Post » tobywil2
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:06am
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS OVER THE LAST 6 WEEKS:
In spite of the defeat in the Nov. 2 elections President Obama’s agenda is making outstanding progress. Did the Republicans really win control of the House of Representatives? Obama’s agenda is still rolling ahead, full steam!
On February 24, 2011 President Obama declared that he would not enforce the “Defense of Marriage Act”. Was Mr. Obama was declaring himself a Dictator and renouncing our Constitution? Is this our new form of government? Our constitution requires that the Executive Branch enforce all laws. Selective enforcement of the law has been a hallmark of the Obama Administration since he took office.
To ensure that we understood his declaration he ordered the military to attack a sovereign nation and he got away with it!
Having effectively repealed the Constitution, President Obama passed 2 Billion dollars of credit to his crony, Mr. Soros, allegedly to finance an oil drilling scheme off the coast of Brazil.
With these recent accomplishments, the Obama Administration is flying higher than ever. His “Brown Shirts”, (Union s and Community organizers) are becoming bolder every day.
God bless and save the American Revolution! http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post » GIDEON612
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:07am
When the left is polarizing an issue enough to get the right to bite always watch the stage hands on the side. They are the ones that keep the show going.
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Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:57amhussein obama is the twelver and he should be impeach by now……what is the Congess doing ….this man is a traitor and imposter – not a president
Report Post »Dartmaxx
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:51amsomtimes soros pulls the wrong string…..
Report Post »BelowAverageJoe
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:51amI wouldn’t call this a win for Republicans like the rest of the media is. If there is a victory it is only political and only a very minor fiscal victory for the country. I still have hope for Boehner, but I am not completely sold. I fear this is more of the same type of compromise we have seen in the past, not nearly enough to save the country. We will see what happens in the real fight that is this years budget and the Paul Ryan bill. So many people inside the beltway like Rove (the ultimate insider country club repub), and Kristol, and sometimes Krauthammer (although I actually like Charles) look at things only as black and white political victories and forget what is a victory or defeat for the country.
Report Post »Barack Must Go
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:45amI’m surprised they could even talk Barack out from under his bed to speak.
Report Post »peezee
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:42amMr Obama has never really done much of anything other than be a far left zealot as far as we can tell. So much of his past is hidden that he is mostly a mystery anyway.
Other than his Momma making any foreign man who hated the US very happy, her primary focus seems to have been creating a little racist commie to fulfill her dream of ending our “imperialism” ( And punishing Daddy’s success maybe? ).
It seems that his ONLY purpose in the world is to be judge, jury and executioner of The United States of America! And because of a bunch of REALLY STUPID “voters” he has tried really hard to do just that!
ANYTHING THAT IS GOOD FOR HIM IS BAD FOR OUR COUNTRY!!
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:42amI was VERY disappointed as most, but I’m not so sure yet. I know there‘s much we don’t know. I’ve been listening to all the opinions of the Tea Party people, etc. this morning & surprisingly there are some like Huckabee and others that felt it was probably the best we could get under the circumstances of having both the Senate & Presidency as stubborn Dems & they thought Boehner did the best he could with hopes this will help down the road on the bigger issues like the debt ceiling coming up. Cavuto says he thinks he did a remarkable job under the cirumstances. It still isn’t a “done deal” & may not get the votes needed to go through. Too soon to know. So….think it’s too soon to be making conclusions about having the Tea Party be a third party, etc. Don’t think that would work & would just make it easier for Dems to win. We’ll see…….
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:59amAs much as we were all hoping there would be no concessions, the dems still hold the senate and the white house. Hopes and prayes aside, they probably did the best they could under the circumstances. (wish we could have had everything we wanted though)
Report Post »GreatAmericanBeckFan
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:01pmHuckabee really wanted a deal he said for them to compromise and live to fight another day, and did not want the Government shutdown at all costs, he is worse than John McCain.
Report Post »earthrise
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:30pmY’all listen carefully…
The VOTE that Really Matters is the DEBT CEILING vote. For the FIRST time in a very long time…. this IS THE VOTE THAT WILL CHANGE “BUSINESS AS USUAL” inside the beltway….
Do give pause to consider this vote…. The dems/progs (etc.) are livin’ in denial, the RINO‘s haven’t considered the implications…..(they’re TOO comfortable in their “world”.) The Tea Party hasn’t considered the FULL implications thereof….
There is not one of the usual Pundits that understand this up and coming vote….. hmm.
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:37amWheres Glenn?He wasnt on at 1am central either.Gut check,something is not right big time.How does the third largest show on tv just stop?I pray for all real Americans
Report Post »Death to the wicked!
missionarydad
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:40pm@UNTAMEABLE-KATE,
I truly understand and respect your opinion, but I think what we are seeing here is a charade, the Republicans think this makes them look good because originally they were only proposing 30 billion in cuts and they got what appears to be 38 billion.
So what we are seeing is several weeks of a dog and pony show because many of us called our congressman and expressed our outrage at only 30 billion and in all that time they were only able to up the cuts by $8b and when it is all said and done the real numbers will be more like 100b added and nothing cut. That is the reality.
Report Post »earthrise
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:18pmAt ease Uncureable Wound….
Just because you’re missing him does not mean that You cannot “do your own homework”, Yes?
Chuckle/Wink…….
earth
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:36amRove has spent to much time in Washington, I respectfully disagree with him.
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:45amYou are not watching the other hand……stop looking straight on and start looking AROUND. You will see what is REALLY going on. I do believe the Republicans have sold the American people down the river, YET AGAIN. I can’t believe this!!! BOEHNER HAS GOT TO GO!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:34amHey Rove, Obama won Planned Parenthood and at least 25 billion in tax cuts. Funded Obamacare!
Report Post »MORON!!
Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:28amRove needs to change his perscription! He’s starting to sound like Obamas press secretrary!
Report Post »earthrise
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:08pmGreat Flippin’ Day In The Morning…… the current “press [secretary]” (wink) is still in puberty.(uhhhh….. i‘m STILL attempting to figure out if he’s better than the previous….. uhhhh, good thing i uhhhhh…… errrr, have a spare brain cell to ……… ummmm…… spare).
Report Post »suzy000
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:26amWhat did we win? Truly? What is different today than it was yesterday? With 3.6 Trillion going out the window, what did Conservatives do to make 2011 a better year? I hope their is a positive answer…can anyone give it to me? I want to be able to feel good about the negotiations last night as a Republican…I just feel like it was still business as usual in Washington and that debt crisis is still coming at us.
Report Post »Zcat
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:25amMark Levin said this morning as usual the American people have been scammed, and Carl Rove was wrong and full of it…He also said that money was appropriated from a last years budget that never excisted…We didn’t have a budget and yet both dems and republicans claimed money from a budget that never existed….
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:22amDidn’t win much of anything?
Report Post »He won everything! The Repubs caved yet again, and out of trillions of dollars he only had to give up a few pennies!!! 38 billion? Pffft. the Government farts more than that a day!
Looks like P.Bo is sitting with his feet up on the desk in the oval office smokin a cigar and laughin his head off.
democratgirl
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:43amYes, we need our own revolution – AT THE POLLS. We also need to begin IMPEACHMENT hearings. Isn’t there ANYONE out there that will HELP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE do this?????
Report Post »neverending
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:45amI agree with you – he manages to win everytime and so lookout in 2012.
Report Post »GreatAmericanBeckFan
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:48amI am learning that if we move too fast that turns the public off. Unfortunately there are many, probably the majority of Americans, who believe that cuts are ok as long as it doesn’t effect them personally that is what we are up against. In Florida Gov. Scott has become very unpopular and he is basically just trying to do the necessary things to get Florida back on track and create jobs yet his popularity is plummeting because he is working at cutting away at socialism. To his credit he is not worried about the polls but what will probably happen is he will be so tarnished for doing the right thing that by the time his next election comes around he will be defeated and everything he has accomplished will be undone.
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:52amWell it’s getting loud in here with all the yelling – what would the grounds of impeachment be? Just asking!
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:08pm@democratgirl;
I remember, years ago after moving into a new neighborhood, a couple invited me to their home. They began telling me that something (I forgot what) needed to happen, and somebody needed to do something. I listened for some time, offering a few non-committal comments, but they insisted someone should do something. They finally pushed as far as they could and I told them that if they were that concerned, perhaps THEY should do something. Apparently, I passed the test and we have been friends since then. The point is: YOU (and WE) need to do something; joint a TEA PARTY, a 9/12 group, become politically involved: run for office. We need everyone, and for everyone to be involved.
Report Post »earthrise
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:55pm@ sleazy… (i SHAN’T disgrace the Hippo…..)
Well it’s getting loud in here with all the yelling – what would the grounds of impeachment be? Just asking!
“Just asking”…. eh? Thou art truly a “useful idiot” indeed. I hope your “pay” was worth it. Perchance i ( the “i” IS on purpose… cf. O. Wilde) could point out your foibles…….. but then i’d have a better chance of actually getting through to any given brick wall thereof.
I must admit that you “trolls” make it Way too easy…… I do my best to avoid you lot…. and yet…
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:20amHow’s that Hope and Change working out for ya?
Report Post »scoter
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:31amNot very well.OBAMA need to GO
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:01pm“There are some things we can’t control,” he said. “We can’t control earthquakes; we can’t control tsunamis; we can’t control uprisings on the other side of the world. What we can control is our capacity to have a reasoned, fair conversation between the parties and get the business of the American people done.” IS THIS THE SAME obomba WHOSE ELECTION WOULD CAUSE THE EARTH TO HEAL? I guess he failed at that, too!
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:10pmChange and hope you mean
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:17amObama only has one job and that is the one Soros gave to him and that is destroy the US, otherwise it is back to a golf vacation.
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:19amBachman 2012 she voted NO!
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:21amObama is just a Shill mouthpiece for a dying political ideology. People are seing what the true root of the Democrat thought process is. This could have been taken care of months ago. But Peelose, Dingy Harry, and the other Minions of Obommunism wanted to play games with our lives.
Liberalism is a mental disorder
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:41amWhy isn’t Obama being impeached yet? What has to happen before the American people see that Obama just wants to destroy our country and then move on to his paradise vacation? Of all the Presidents we have ever had, this Obama has lied and cheated on the American people; avoided laws; gone around Congress; gone against our allies, aided and abetted our enemies, and STILL he is President. EITHER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE DUMBER THAN A BOX OF ROCKS or someone else is pulling the strings of Obama, the puppet. I don’t get this.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:44amToo busy planning his next “getaway” weekend! Or is it week? Or two week?? Month? Here’s an idea, how about going on and STAYING on vacation??!! I think this country would be better off if he did! Just sayin’!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:54am@Miles From Nowhere:
Exactly, Obama and Soros are getting exactly what they seek…more pressure and more chaos to divide people and keep the reality of their darkness under wraps.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:56am@DemocratGirl:
There is a puppet master, by the name of George Soros. This guy has brought down four government by revolution and destroyed many economies for the sake of doing it. He DOES know exactly how to manipulate events and set plans into motion to achieve his ending, which right now is the USA. He has stated we as a nation are the one place standing in his path to a world without borders.
Report Post »chexfive
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:03pmIs Carl Rove a partner at the Blaze? I’m just failing to see why the Blaze has one of the biggest propagandist out of the atrocious bush years on this website. This man had a very harmful affect on our country, why are people like the Blaze looking to figures like this for positive spin?
There are many, many people that are way smarter, more patriotic and more about sustaining America than this guy is. Every time I see Rove I want to (and do) turn the channel, I simply refuse to listen to anyone with his record and affiliation try to tell me what is good for us, when obviously it is good for him, not for us. Get rid of this progressive repuke, just listen to his words, I know he does, he has a know it all better than you kind of thinking, and all his policies were great for America right?
Report Post »ISn’t this guy a CFR member? He’s probably on the Soros payroll somehow.
CatB
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:11pmIf he has been impeached he is still winning….. the man is a disgrace to the office.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:15pmNow its time for the Republican and Democrat talking heads to crawl out from under their rocks to tell the cattle Horray for our side…we won!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:17pmI don’t like Rove … let’s move on .
CatB
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:29pmCatB
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:11pm
If OBAMA hasN’T been impeached he is still winning….. the man is a disgrace to the office.
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I got my coffee I’ll be fine now!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:32pmRight on MiCHAEL48
For those of you who have not attended one yet … TEA Parties are happening all over the country .. this weekend and next for TAX DAY TEA … please find on in your area and attend .. TEA!
Report Post »AZfreeman
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:42pmThe author of the (AP) article above just doesn’t get it !!
Quote: “..
The everyday Americans Obama talks about so often just want a Washington that works. That means staying open for business…”
NO, NO, NO!!!! It means having the ****** to shut the Government down and make the necessary changes to solve the problem. PERIOD !!! We, “everyday Americans” are sick to death of compromising with the corruption of Washington. Boehner did O.K, but we had them over a barrel and then let them up? Why? …to let them save face? …rf
The stench of Cherry blossoms is in the air again!
Impeach the great imposter on the basis of non-citizenship! Do it now!
Report Post »Mikeyyy
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:57pmQuick comments:
In order to be impeached, you general have to commit a crime.
Rove is strategy guy and consultant. He’s not the problem. The problem are those in office.
Report Post »AZfreeman
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 1:12pmHi Mike,
Report Post »To be elected to the office of POTUS, you first have to fulfill the qualifications for that office as stated in the law of the land (that’s the Constitution…for liberals who have not read it). What part of “natural born citizen” do you not understand? Holding the office is a crime. In fact it is many, many crimes. He should be in prison. ….rf
Showtime
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 1:31pm@dawg of gawd
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:33am
Oh, Turd Blossom, it must be spring! It’s wonderful, ins’t it? Hey, good news, there’s still time to salvage your digni . . . oops, too late, no dignity for you. Sorry. But that doesn‘t mean you can’t keep “catapulting the propaganda.” Tell you what, forget this whole politics things. I think it’s clear that it has passed you by. Your time is done. BUT! BUT! There’s still time to get in on the ground floor of the new Glenn Beck Tea Party Media Dynasty. It’s where all the forward thinkers are headed. Heritage Foundation? Cato Institute? Americans for Prosperity? Pikers, I tell ya. Get on board. We’re all headed for the Promised Land, with stop offs along the way to pick up cake Pepsi and Funyons (and maybe a young boy or two, just like your dear old dad wold have done).
All aboard!
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~
Obama’s approval rating is -17, that’s MINUS SEVENTEEN.
What’s yours? Here, even less.
Showtime
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 1:34pm@chexfive
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:03pm
Is Carl Rove a partner at the Blaze? I’m just failing to see why the Blaze has one of the biggest propagandist out of the atrocious bush years on this website. This man had a very harmful affect on our country, why are people like the Blaze looking to figures like this for positive spin?
There are many, many people that are way smarter, more patriotic and more about sustaining America than this guy is. Every time I see Rove I want to (and do) turn the channel, I simply refuse to listen to anyone with his record and affiliation try to tell me what is good for us, when obviously it is good for him, not for us. Get rid of this progressive repuke, just listen to his words, I know he does, he has a know it all better than you kind of thinking, and all his policies were great for America right?
ISn’t this guy a CFR member? He’s probably on the Soros payroll somehow.
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He doesn’t make sense to you because you and all your Progressive buddies hate THE TRUTH!
Point your finger…but you’ll have three pointing right back at you — your own. You make all these vile statements, but you (again) offer NO FACTS!
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dawg of gawd
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 1:52pmSHOWTIME . . .-17, that’s nothing. Palin’s number is MINUS ELEVENTY HUNDRED!
Now, how about a REAL number . . . 46% of Mississippi Republicans think interracial marriage should be banned.
Saaaaalut!. Good job, Dixitives!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 2:22pmThis is GREAT!
If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result … all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment… with enthusiasm.
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, none of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.
Why, you ask? Because in their minds…that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress operates… and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
Report Post »A Conservative Against Republicans
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 2:38pmWe Karl has it all wrong as usual. I spend much of my time showing him up for the republicon he is. Mark Lavin had it right when he said this deal is nothing but a giant scam. Get ready conservatives. Hannity and Limbaugh will be firing up the propaganda machine in the next few weeks. Get ready to hear the same old line that “a vote for a third party is a vote for a democrat.” Ive listened to that garbage for the last twenty years and for the time. I pray that the tea party will now see the republicans for what they are…..the opposite side of the same coin as democrats!!!! A conservative third party would only force republicans to be honest!! They would vote together on most issues and would not give up power to democrats. I would rather have one tea party senator with one republican senator and one democrat senator, than to have two republican senators with one democrat!! Think about it.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 2:44pmObama just played games with this whole budget fiasco. It was HIS responsibility to pass a budget. Check out the budget game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG-QQ9eQKZE
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 2:49pmAm I the only one who is wondering why there were not thousands of people in the Washington mall demanding more from their representatives. The Democrats/progressives, like Schummer, Pelosi, Reid, have controlled the argument more than what you believe. They have driven a wedge in the Tea Party with the help of the media by calling them racists, extreme, etc., where people have actually lost hope. You can write, call, email your representatives and it seems to be in vain cause at the end it all comes down to the lobbyists and Wall Street as to what is cut and what’s not. This sickens me that citizens no longer really matter other than for the money for these idiots to piss away. The supposed conversation won’t change until the masses (concerned citizens) decide to make it happen. I’d like to see how Washington D.C. would act when we decided to take the matters into our own hands and quit sending them money to spend. Now that would be a true government shutdown.
Report Post »A Conservative Against Republicans
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 2:58pmBachman for 2012 Tea Party Candidate
Report Post »olddog
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 3:11pmYou are 1000% right most of our problems these days with the libs stems directly to sorass…He was looking for a weak minded group of people to rule and found it easily with the libs, who are an ever increasing danger to this country..Funny how everyone can’t see it..
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 4:15pmI don’t trust Rove as far as I could throw him. Sooner listen to Mark Levin, for strait talk.
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 5:17pmIF THEY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THE TASTE OF TEA LAST ELECTION, WAIT UNTIL THEY GET THE TASTE OF TEA NEXT TIME AROUND. CUT THE SPENDING YOU COWARDS! And why would you support Plan Parenthood when they donate $1 million to the democrats for your defeat. These estabs are a bunch of dumb a$$s including Carl Rove.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 5:55pmSorry I didn’t want this on page 3…
And who can we thank for the progressive tax code of 70,000+ pages — Woodrow Wilson started this crap! Abolish the IRS, flat tax baby! You save money #1 – no more IRS, then everyone pays fairly, the tax coffers would be full! This BS we pay into now is fraud! LOL, freedom of information is a thing of the past in this communist adminstration…why ARE unions so prevalent in the WH? Why are so many self-avowed communists in the WH? This is a travesty, treasonous and we should deal with this…all of them worship Saul Alinsky, who said the FIRST radical was Lucifer — HAVE YOU READ ‘Rules for Radicals’? I hope you have, cause Hillarous Clinton and Barak Obumbler both worship this man, thus Lucifer! Take that to the bank and deposit it…
Report Post »earthrise
Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:30pmOMG….. AZDEBI!!!!!
“This is GREAT!
If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result … all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him.
…etc….”
have you considered running for congress? LMAO… even the current trolls here don’t have the “units” or fortitude to answer your post!
Report Post »lisarg39
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:39amI can’t help but that we r the only ones to see the writing on the wall regarding soros being the puppet master. It is up 2 obama to lay out the US for take over and soros demise. He is doing a great job. The gop better be paying attention to soros as well.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:48amPlease just go away Karl!
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