Tea Party Rep. Calls Out ABC’s Amanpour: Why Hasn‘t ’Your Profession’ Gotten on Obama?
- Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:24pm by
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GOP and Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh made an interesting observation to ABC‘s Christiane Amanpour Sunday while discussing the president’s budget proposal: “I don‘t know why your profession hasn’t gotten on him more.”
NewsBusters’ Noel Sheppard explains:
As the host of ABC’s “This Week” pushed for higher taxes, Walsh correctly pointed out that Barack Obama‘s first 2012 budget proposed earlier in the year didn’t address entitlement programs … .
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What has been totally forgotten by his devoted press is how back in February when the President offered his first 2012 budget proposal, there were many in the media that recognized how it largely ignored the recommendations of his debt commission as well as any cuts to entitlement programs.
This led Ryan to offer a proposal which did address Medicare and Medicaid, and he got lambasted by the same press that complained in February that Obama ignored such issues.
Last week, the President in his budget redo vaguely talked about Medicare fixes without naming any specifics whatsoever, and the media not only forgot about their concerns about this two months ago, but they’re also now actually praising him as being bold despite his obvious cowardice.
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UpstateNYConservative
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:13pmThe problem with liberal reporters is that they’re liberals first. They don’t behave like normal people, where their ideology must conform to the facts. Instead, every event or topic has to conform to liberal tenets. Then they can proceed.
That’s how they can say, with a straight face, Iraq was a war for oil but Libya is not.
Lib reporters seem, sometimes, to be victims of their own sound bites. They seem to think in snippets of coherence, rather then the whole issue. Like Amanpour speaking about Reagan–For every new dollar the Treasury took in after his tax cuts and booming economy, the Democrat Congress was spending $1.32. Back then the Dems were screaming about a $68 billion budget deficit–that they created!
Today, though, a $1.4 trillion deficit is nothing to write home about; don’t worry, be happy!
Liberals can’t be reasoned with. They see things through some kind of built-in mental lens or filter, their ideology coming before all else. That’s why they say Glenn and we TEAs are nuts, that’s why they ignore the trends from across the world indicating this whole planet is in serious trouble (no, you libs, I don’t mean the environment).
When the stuff hits the fan, I bet the ones who are going to be the most surprised are the lib reporters who saw it coming but fully ignored it all.
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:35pmVery good comment. Many will be surprised if and when the stuff hits the fan and they will wonder and complain why no one warned them!
Report Post »Nervous Investor
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:21pmExcellent comment UpState. For the most part, the media are utterly in the bag with the Socialist International “conspiracy” / collusion.
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:11pmAll the freshmen reps, the ones that stood firm and voted AGAINST the budget
Report Post »are the ones to applaud and watch.
West, Walsh, Lee and their many colleagues are steadfast and do not waiver.
This is a new, dynamic breed-
proof…..governing by the people and for the people is never without merit.
Let their fortitude and love for country,
rid Washington of the stagnant stench of the political hoity-toity and rotting scum,
who have disgraced the Capitol and our Constitution, for far too long.
Juan Gault
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:45pmAmerica needs more Mr Walsh’s going to Washington, and quickly. It all begins with one man/woman,standing firm. America is coming back, and will be stronger than ever!. Join us or get the hell out of the way. Semper Fi, brothers and sisters!
Report Post »denn4074
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:04pmGEORGE WASHINGTON Shirt! Help me with my last step of e4. Thank you so much for your support.
Report Post »http://www.zazzle.com/george_washington_tshirt-235721603876557413?gl=Stand4Freedom&group=mens&lifestyle=classic&rf=238087156966439050
mrmikejohnson
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:04pmThe media’s role is cheerleader for the president, isn’t it?
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:10pmYup…you bet!!! Kinda makes you want to throw up doesn’t it?
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:18pmOne would simply have to assume….wouldn’t one?
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:55pmThen why don’t they look, dress or jump around for team Obamnation?
Report Post »Perhaps we should write and encourage them to do so, at least that would make the lame stream media viewable with the volume muted?
miles from nowhere
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:04pmObama is a Muslim sympathizer and with the middle name of Muslim, he was born a Muslim. According to his lack of leadership in the US it is very apparent he is a Muslim enabler and anti-pariotic to Americans.
Report Post »Ampleforth
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:23pmI can’t tell if Rose Ellen is a fan of Al Qaeda or a member of the Democratic Party.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:52pm@Rose-ellen
That’s quite a rant; can you go more in-depth regarding the “unjust policies”? people like you only think you understand the muslim mind. Some people just need a shadow we’re there’s and now there ours.
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:27pm@Rose Ellen: Do you live in the United States of America? If yes, why don’t you go live in the Middle East? ( I don’t say this is a negative manner). There are plenty of countries in the ME that would love to have you. The Muslim religion is very fond of women.
Report Post »orangeelephant
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 8:19amDoctor!!….Rose broke out of the smoking room..We followed the trail of gibberish to the computer room and got the jacket back on….What should we do?…Rose is frothing at the mouth and defecateing on herself.
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:02pmStop spending!
Stop spending!
Stop spending!
Our government spends us into an abyss and it’s OUR fault?
(I guess we keep voting for them.) But still….
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:01pmShe is a political hack like all the urine stream media.
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:00pmWow!! A politician with a conscience? Did I hear him right? He doens’t want to lose himself in this? He doesn’t care if he is re-elected? He does’t want to lose his soul? Wow!!!
Report Post »wildwood
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:58pmThe Donald Trumps are stepping up to the plate, exposing the weasels for what they are!!!!!!They will never get it, brained washed in some liberal college years ago.When will studentd start thinking for themselves!!!!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:26pmTrump is trouble….to everyone but Obama
Report Post »Colonel-Burkhalter
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 7:33pmYes, you are absolutely right. Donald T. serves a purpose, he is one of the few people that can take on Obama. The fact that he is a showman helps. Think about it he is the only one that has the ability to debate BHO and show him up. Who else can?
Report Post »geonj
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:57pmobama makes it difficult for the mainstream media to carry his water.
Report Post »Getten
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:56pmKeep it up people – http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/
The heat is on!
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:55pmLamestream Media doesn’t even describe the MSM…They have become a FASCIST PROPAGANDA OUTLET for leftists.
Report Post »denn4074
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:54pmShow your support for what you believe in! http://www.zazzle.com/stand4freedom
Report Post »Thank you so much!
Vickie Dhaene
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:53pmI get tired of people saying they just don’t get it. They get it alright !! They just don‘t give a rat’s a$$. We need to start voicing/objecting to their indifference to us that do care. It’s our country. If you don’t like it LEAVE !!!
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:48pmI NEVER liked her. But I find it interesting how she is dodging him. She is unable to even come back with a reson why
loved his answer he may loose in 2012 but I wont loose me.. nicely put now ishe can keep it up
Report Post »sweetnsalty
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 12:45pmShe didn’t comment on it because she knows he was right .
Report Post »MASTER YODA
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:46pmToo wrapped up in her own agenda, she is. She did hear a word not, of her next incorrect statement just thinking.
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:02pmspoken like a true master………
Report Post »D. Wayne (Vietnam 69)
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:44pmThe “beeeeeen” lady will never see the hypocrisy. She IS the Queen of Hypocrisy. After all, she is sooooooo sahhphistahkayted as she has “BEEEEEN” everywayhuuh in EEEraq & EEErahn !
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:14pmShe‘s alot more sophisticated then these American mass murderers who blew the arms and legs off of men women and children in Viet Nam because somebody told them too and came back and whined about how they wern’t being called heroes and “suffered’ from PTSD whcih was a euphimism[and still is] for anger at the fact they couldn’t turn the place into to a parking lot and commit genocide like they wanted too. Just like these American mass murderers now in Iraq and Afganistan.[That Fort Hood shooter who as a pyschiatrist was in tthe belly of the beast hearing these "sophisticated' Americans talk about their genocidal impulses against Arabs understood that.[Unffortunately he succumbed to the evil mindset around him].Maybe if you would see the world and experience the people in it as a member of it rather then as an American Supremecist whose allegience is to your religion called Americanism, you wouldn’t so easily be prey to being manipulated to carpet bomb human beings cause someone tells you to.[a little sophistication regarding a “go carpet bomb people” war is not a bad thing .I don’t see Amanpour as accepting that order.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:23pm@ Rose-Ellen — You don’t happen to be related to…..“Tokyo Rose” do you?
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:42pmthorny ROSE-ELLEN
Is Hanoi Jane your birth mama?
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:02pmGreat post @D.Wayne Pay no attention to our newest lefty idiot troll who still needs to be put in its place. Do you recommend clenched teeth or a plugged nose to get the perfect inflection?
Report Post »Thanks for your service.
orangeelephant
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 7:41amWow…Rose-Ellen Now lets get you back into those restraints and up your thorizine and when you calm down you can have a cigarette in the smoking room.
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 7:52amRose-Ellen is either a paid shill for muslims or democrats, or maybe just a dhimmi.
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:41pmBravo for Joe Walsh! A man with the courage of his convictions. It’s about time someone pointed out to the scumbags in the LIBERAL MEDIA that they are not doing their jobs! These leftist idiots wouldn’t dream of asking Comrade Obozo a tough question. Journalism has been dead for years and the Useful Idiots in the media are nothing but Obama butt kissers. A new wave of REAL JOURNALISTS are coming on strong, however, through the Internet, and they will become the watchdogs of our CORRUPT GOVERNMENT. The Liberal Media will commit political suicide and die out. RIP, maggots!
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:40pmThis woman makes me ill. She once sat down with Bin Laden in his tent of terror although she and CNN deny it and her equally sickening ex colleague Peter Arnett took all the credit for the meeting while neither disclosed his freaking location. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/17/se.01.html
That says it all where her allegiances lie, and they’re nowhere near the better interests of this country..
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:45pmThe meeting I speak of was in 97 and prior 911 but while in it’s planning stages when Slick was running wild, and Osama was wanted then and remember Slick turned him down twice. CNN could have stopped it too.
Report Post »brado9505
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:37pmThey’ll never get it…
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:36pmproblem is he’s talking to stone wall
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:15pmWith a very bad black wig laying on it…….
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:32pmLooks more like a cement head to me.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:57pm……with snakes coming out of it!
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:36pmIt is about time the GOP talks back (civily) to these liberal kooks.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:42pmI agree .. we need more with BACKBONES .. and I would say this is a good START. … TEA!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:35pmWell, when the media actually allows them to make their points, it is good!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:00pm“ your profession ”
That “profession” seems to be from what I have seen … Obama (insert OLDEST profession — starts with w ends with e — h o r — in the middle!)
Report Post »Nervous Investor
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:35pmGood for the Tea Party folk !!!!! Expose the media for the hypocrites that they are !!! Expose the bums !!
Report Post »and most particularly expose the DemoRats.
Showtime
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:27pmCan you IMAGINE where we would be today had not the American people waked up and formed a TEA Party nation? I shudder to think!
Report Post »Nervous Investor
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:17pmShowtime, that thought gives me nightmares.
Report Post »marine43
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:32pmExactly what we need is politicians that love this country MORE than their political careers!
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:42pmThat guy Walsh is my new representative. He’s the real deal.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:55pmComments from Georgia Congressmen on taxes:
Washington, Apr 15 –
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Monday, April 18, 2011 will mark Tax Day. Members of the Georgia delegation joined together to comment on the impact Tax Day has on American families and small businesses, and how improvements can be made to our tax system. Below are their statements.
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (GA-03): “Each year as I sit down to prepare my taxes, I am reminded of just how convoluted our tax code has become. It’s filled with confusing and sometimes contradicting language and secret loopholes, creating an unfair system where those who can afford high-priced tax professionals can skirt their obligations while everyday Americans are stuck with an ever-growing tax burden. That’s why I have been a strong supporter of the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax would replace the income tax with a sales tax, eliminating the confusing process of filing your income tax return each year. However, the answer to the confusion of our tax code is absolutely not higher taxes, like those proposed by President Obama. The answer to our current debt problem is less spending in Washington – not higher taxes on the backs of American families and small businesses. ”
Rep. Tom Price, M.D. (GA-06), Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee: “Washington has a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and yet we are reminded every Tax Day that there are those in Washington who still believe we need to take more from the American people in order to grow government. Every dollar taken by the government is one less dollar the American people can use themselves to pursue their dreams, grow our economy, and create jobs. Rather than higher taxes, we should focus on tax reform that will lower rates and broaden the base to make America more competitive in the global economy and expand opportunities for families.”
Rep. Jack Kingston (GA-01): “Economic growth doesn’t start in Washington, it ends there. That’s why I work every day to keep the tax burden on working Georgians low and to serve as a check on the growth of government. The road to recovery starts with allowing working families and small businesses to keep more of what they make, not siphoning their hard-earned dollars to big government bureaucrats.”
Rep. Austin Scott (GA-08): “This week the President outlined a plan that raises taxes on nearly every single American taxpayer. Americans are taxed enough already. As a small business owner, I can tell you that taking more money out of the American people’s pockets is not the way to create jobs and stimulate our economy. We must continue to cut unnecessary spending and incentivize small business owners instead of taxing them at every turn.”
Rep. Tom Graves (GA-09): “To borrow the famous words of Bastiat, the arrival of Tax Day marks another year of ‘legal plunder.’ As Americans review how much of their hard earned paychecks were taken by the government, the President has made a poorly timed promise to raise taxes on families and small businesses by 2013. With our towering debt and deficits, and the many years of fiscal mismanagement, it defies common sense to give this government a raise. The big government experiment has failed, and I’ll continue to make that case over the next year as we fight to defend the family paycheck.”
Rep. Paul Broun (GA-10): “This year’s Tax Day serves as a painful reminder that Americans across the country are struggling everyday to make ends meet, and unemployment is still skyrocketing in almost every city nation-wide. Our unsustainable debt and imploding deficits continue to raise doubt and uncertainty for job creators, so the economy remains in limbo. Yet, President Obama’s only plan to kick the economy into gear involves raising taxes and expanding the overreach of the federal government. The last thing families and small businesses want to do is hand over more of their hard earned paychecks to the government. Moreover, hiking taxes will only further kill jobs and drive our small businesses deeper into the red. I will continue to fight for meaningful spending cuts, to repeal Obamacare and its job-killing mandates, and to ensure the growth of the private sector – so that next year’s Tax Day won’t be such a sting.”
Rep. Phil Gingrey, M.D. (GA-11): “Today, many Americans and small businesses will file their income taxes, entrusting their government to use those tax dollars responsibly. While most believe their tax burden is already too high, if President Obama has his way, that burden will be even higher,” said Rep. Gingrey. “A tax increase on America’s job creators would be devastating to our economy and would stifle our rate of job growth, which is already painfully slow. The President must understand — in order to prevent the burden of our nation’s fiscal crisis from being passed on to job creators and America’s workforce — the solution to our nation’s fiscal woes is not more taxation, it’s less spending.”
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:26pmSunshine even takes away skunk smell…..keep the light on for them
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:35pmJust like Obama she ducked the question by changing the subject.
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:36pmThat’s my vote right there. So much better than Melissa Bean! IL-8 now rules!
Report Post »Awakened One
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:39pmAt least she let them make their points without cutting them off when it went against her Reagan misrepresentation talking points.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:40pmThe so called “press” have proven themselves just to be another “arm” of the Democrat party … they should be ashamed of themselves .. .sadly they still don’t get it. Report the news … investigative journalism … etc … to the MSM are dead.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:44pmExposing a main stream news reader as a progressive hypocrite: no very hard.
Report Post »Exposing a main stream news reader as a progressive hypocrite on her own show: daring.
Exposing a main stream news reader as a progressive hypocrite on her own show and not getting edited: PRICELESS. She may change the subject but the barb landed nonetheless.
FansLogonDOTcom
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:44pmHey “Stoic one”, I noticed that too. It’s comical how she is very selective in her follow up comments and questions and totally ignores what was just said, then quickly redirects to leftist propaganda as soon as possible. Typical lib.
Report Post »Bloody Sam
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:45pmThe Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column.
Report Post »theonefromabove
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:45pmSounds like a politician.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:45pmWell good for him. I have noticed a lot more people starting to challenge the liberal media lately. It’s about time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIMRNUGXxII The media better start getting their stuff tigether because this guy will be out in less than 2 years.
Report Post »Koolaiders
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:52pmWhat should be investigated is the far right wing Tea Party/GOP plan to abolish Medicare.
The plan: No Medicare, but rather a $15000 voucher – how long will THAT last? It will kill all seniors who depend on it.
Tea Party = Death Panels
Showtime
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:53pmFrom GA Rep. Lynn Westmoreland:
House Passes Budget Cutting $6.2 Trillion in Federal Spending
The House of Representatives today passed a budget for the 2012 fiscal year, which will run from October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012. The legislation will cut $6.2 trillion in spending from President Obama’s budget proposal over the next ten years and reduces deficits by $4.4 trillion. It puts the nation on a path to actually paying off our more than $14 trillion in debt and drops federal spending to below 20 percent of the gross domestic product.
I am proud to have joined a group of my colleagues in the House and passed Congressman Ryan’s plan for 2012 and beyond. This budget truly puts us on the ‘Path to Prosperity.’ Not only does it dramatically curb federal spending, but it also encourages economic development, works towards ensuring programs like Medicare will be available to future generations, and does not irresponsibly raise taxes on American families and small businesses.
I know there have been some irresponsible public figures who have been using scare tactics and out-and-out lies to put fear and doubt in Americans about the impact of this budget, especially with regards to the changes to Medicare. So I would like to set a few things straight. First, this legislation does not create a voucher system for Medicare. What it does is allow individuals to pick a plan, just like federal employees and Members of Congress do now, and the government will pay for the plan rather than directly paying the doctor. We are not trying to end Medicare; we are trying to save it for the next generation. Without reform, Medicare spending will eclipse all other federal spending in the next decade and completely bankrupt our budget. This solution allows us to keep Medicare without dragging down our entire economy. Second, if you are age 55 or over, these changes will not affect you at all. Both your Medicare and your Social Security will remain exactly the same as it is now. So any comments made in the press about this budget ‘killing seniors’ or ‘ending Medicare’ are completely false.
I also know that there are those out there who feel these cuts are ‘extreme.’ However, the mess we have gotten ourselves into over the last few years is also extreme. Our national debt tops more than $14 trillion, almost equivalent to our entire economy. If we continue down President Obama’s path of ‘spend now, pay later,’ we would see the national debt double over the next ten years. This mentality is simply no longer sustainable and we must make some very serious changes to the way we operate here in Washington if we want to pass on a better country to our children and grandchildren.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:54pmPRESIDENT OBAMA’S LEADERSHIP:
Where is our country headed under President Obama’s leadership?
Legend has it that before civilization invaded the Mid-West, the Plains Indians used to stampede herds of buffalo over a Clift to harvest the buffalo for food. The herd had a lead animal that the herd followed to disaster or to the feast, depending on your point of view.
Slaughterhouses are supposed to use a Judas Goat to lead the goats into the slaughterhouse. The Judas goat steps aside just before entering the slaughter house and the goats continue on into the slaughterhouse.
In 2008, Mr. Obama was elected the leader of the free world. President Obama’s policies will result in the destruction of the greatest economy in the history of the world. The whole world will sink back into the poverty and despair that has characterized the Mideast and Africa for thousands of years. The oppression of the “Middle Ages” will dominate our lives. Except for the elite, the 21st Century version of King George III and his peers, the population will wallow in oppression and poverty.
Is Mr. Obama the lead buffalo headed over the cliff, or is he the Judas goat?
The question is actually irrelevant it makes no difference whether Mr. Obama ends up as the Dictator of or just another casualty of the disaster he is precipitating!
Regardless of Mr. Obama’s ultimate fate, if we continue to follow him we all face the oppression and poverty resulting from the unbridled use of government force! http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:57pm“I know that is your possition…..” talking about business raising revenue which increases tax revenue.
No, Christine, that isn’t “opinion”, that is economic fact.
Why do I feel like i am talking to a chunk of stone everytime I post on here…
Lib: “The sky is red’
Me: No, it is blue. Look at it.”
Lib: “nuh-uh!”
“As surely as water will wet us, as surely as fire will burn,
The gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter return…”
-Rudyard Kipling
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:02pmWhy Hasn‘t ’Your Profession’ Gotten on Obama?
Report Post »———–
because when it comes to their boy Obama, their profession is the oldest one in the world
Dale
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:06pmCatB
“The so called “press” have proven themselves just to be another “arm” of the Democrat party … they should be ashamed of themselves .. .sadly they still don’t get it. Report the news … investigative journalism … etc … to the MSM are dead.” What a great analogy, the media‘s ’arm’ is growing, just like Pinocchio’s nose; and the left hand’s knuckles are dragging the ground – while the right arm has all but withered away.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:10pmCheezewiz, from now on please post before me. You always are one-upping…no, strike that….TEN-upping everyone else on here.
I still love you.
Marry me?
Sorry, Showtime….
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:15pmI assumed he meant Prostituion.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:22pm@My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:10pm
Cheezewiz, from now on please post before me. You always are one-upping…no, strike that….TEN-upping everyone else on here.
I still love you.
Marry me?
Sorry, Showtime….
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That’s okay. I “got your number.”
Cheez, you’re a lucky girl. If you’re not a girl, My Sacred Honor will withdraw his request! Count on it!
RepubliCorp
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:27pmShe was okay…it was pretty tame
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:29pmTrue, indeed sunlight is the best of disinfectants.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:33pmI was surprised that she had TWO Republicans and no Democrat! AND, she let them talk!
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:38pmSHOWTIME:
“Cheez, you’re a lucky girl. If you’re not a girl, My Sacred Honor will withdraw his request! Count on it!”
First, I know Cheeze is of the female persuasion.
Report Post »Second, I ain’t gay, but if CHEEZE WERE a dude, I’d ask “him” to move to Massachussettes with me and be my “hetero-life partner” Like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon did!
My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:41pmShowtime
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 4:33pm
I was surprised that she had TWO Republicans and no Democrat! AND, she let them talk!
God must have just openned the second seal:
“And lo, I saw the Lord open the second seal, and upon the earth there were great multitudes of honorable men talking on the magic box and i wept, for I knew the anchorwoman was embarrassed…”
I THINK that is how John wrote it…
Snow? Am I right?
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:12pmThe mainstream media DID report that Obama had ignored the recommendations of the bipartisan budget committee. They also reported that Obama was not willing to be the first to jump on the budget issue since whoever does will get hurt in the elections, since the average American wants the unsustainable position of spending more than we pay for to continue indefinitely and will reward the next politician that credibly claims that this is possible with an election win. Because Obama knew this, he let the GOP walk the plank first. Ryan, who is young and less experienced as a politician, was all too happy to oblige, which has many establishment Republicans privately incensed and even provoked public rebuke from potential Presidential hopeful Donald Trump. To claim that this is the media’s fault, therefore, is a ridiculous claim. It is also a cowardly one. If the Tea Party is so bold, then lay the blame at the feet of the American people, where it ultimately belongs.
Speaking of cowardly, Ryan has put out a plan that is politically designed to satisfy the Tea Party movement, which is about 99% Republican. It doesn’t call for tax hikes, which the bipartisan committee also recommended, nor does it touch defense. Heck, it doesn’t even touch Social Security. More fundamentally, Ryan’s proposal assumes that discretionary spending, including defense, drops to 3% of GDP over the next 30 years, bringing our government back to 1909 levels. FT Chief Economics Editor Martin Wolf has described these details as beyond fantasy, but the mainstream media, which is not biased, but very lazy, has not reported these details beyond the esoteric discussions on Fareed Zakaria’s program. But the Tea Party Rep interviewed on ABC is not upset about these clear omissions, since they are helping his political “boy,” Paul Ryan. This is amusing.
At the end of the day, Ryan, like Obama, is being very cowardly about this, as are the establishment politicians. Meanwhile, the Tea Party is filled with economics-illiterate folks who let Bush spend much more than Obama without saying a word, but now suddenly even well-spend stimulus money is being lambasted as they claim that nothing short of austerity is needed even though the bond market is saying that the US is far from insolvency. If I had to choose between the intelligence of the bond market and the intelligence of Tea Party folks like this guy, I’d go with the bond market every day, and twice on Sunday. Ryan, Obama and the establishment politicians are even more foolish, since their assumptions are beyond dumb when providing their own budget “proposals.”
Here is the only solution that will work:
1. cut entitlements by means testing all of them, and by raising Social Security retirement age to 70-72 years of age
2. fundmentally reform health care cost inflation with benchmarking (and shut Palin up the next time she calls this rationing or a death panel), allow the government to negotiate monolitically versus drug and device manufacturers, and pass comprehensive tort reform
3. cut corporate loopholes while lowering effective rates, so companies again begin to pay about 6% of GDP
4. cut personal income tax loopholes while raising rates back to Clinton levels
5. cut defense spending by about 30%
All of these measures, taken together, will eliminate the entire structural deficit, while bringing under control the demographic time bomb of the Boomers retiring and receiving the same kinds of benefit packages that their parents got.
Paul Ryan‘s plan doesn’t cut entitlements this deeply, but more important, he fails to raise taxes, which is also necessary to close the deficit. He also doesn’t like health care cost reforms, which are needed, since that is the biggest future driver of out-year deficits.
Obama‘s plan doesn’t cut entitlements this deeply, and his calls for cuts in tax loop holes doesn’t return us to Clinton-level taxes, which are necessary to cover our deficits (even with deeper cuts than he envisions), and which were not an impediment to the fastest GDP and employment growth seen since the JFK/Johnson administrations. His health care reform, which focused on bringing the uninsured into the system to avoid them taxing that system at the high-cost ER entry-point, did not go far enough to cut costs associated with defensive medical practice (because of lawyers), fee-for-service overbilling (because of doctors) or overpricing of drugs and devices (because of corporate control of monopoly positions).
I know that no one can get elected if they proposed my plan, which means that American citizens need to educate their neighbors and teach them that there is no free lunch, and that the last 40 years of partying, in which consumption growth has outstripped GDP growth, must come to an end. We now have to pay the bill of all the reckless partying by paying much more while receiving much less. We’ll have to do this for about another 40 years. And no accounting chicanery will save us from the bitter pill we must swallow. Tax cuts will not magically generate outsized GDP or employment growth. Even Laffer cannot state mathematically what his famous supply-side curve looks like, since it is a rhetorical device rather than economic law, and guys like Paul Ryan had better learn that what they take as gospel, Reaganomics, is actually the road to ruin. Meanwhile, Democrats are going to have to learn that the days of kicking the can down the road on entitlement reform are nearly over. We might have another year of vulnerable economy to defend, but very soon the deep cuts must hit. China’s economy is more unstable than many realize, and when they experience deflation, our obligations to them will not be monetized away, but will grow, and they will demand payment. Hence, we need to fix this mess in the medium term. By then, I suspect the Republicans will hold the Presidency and the Congress, which means that we’ll see whether they truly object to big government spending or just the kind undertaken by the opposing party. I suspect the latter, in which case it will be the bond markets that eventually discipline us, as they have Argentina, Greece, Spain and Ireland. That’ll be fun. Better to avoid that disaster by taking the pain today.
Don’t be fooled by Obama, nor Ryan, nor the Tea Party. They all are not telling you how bad it will have to be. We need lower spending and higher taxes, and anyone who says otherwise is LYING to you. Demand that we take the medicine now. Our kids and grandkids deserve that much…and more.
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:14pmWe all know the answer to that question …
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BetterDays
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:50pmJust got back from watching Atlas Shrugged, great movie, theater 3/4 full in a very liberal county in Wa. State, how sweet it is we are waking up!
Report Post »Now for my thoughs on the post.
Amanpour is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. ( CFR.org ) and is part and parcel to the disease that infests the Fourt estate. I seem to recall a conspiracy of colusion was discovered not so long ago involving many liberal so called journalists, does any one else recall that? http://Www.YouTube.com/watch?v=yOLGyXFgeVs
So let’s get this straight, we are fighting the fraud in the tarnished house, the RINOs in the lower houses, the liars in the media house, the Islamists in the mosque house, the radicals in the burnt down house, the racists in someone else’s house, the takers in the out house, the socialist’s in a mud house and the unions in the dog house, right? Wow, they got a full house! But let’s see what we have? We have GOD, the bill of Rights, the declaration of Independence, the constitution, and our house called America. Seems we have a royal flush, GOD (on) high, looks like it’s a good day to be a patriot !
nosycophant
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 5:57pmThe word Sycophant applies here looking to be part of the elite.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:17pmWhen will the media begin to actually report factual information rather than carry the water for this so-called president.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:25pmMade her look the fool. Give those men a cigaaaar!!!!!
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 8:34pmJust goes to show how having a British accent in no way means you’re intelligent.
Report Post »stevefim5
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 8:44pmThat woman sickens me.
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 8:49pmKoolaiders
What should be investigated is the far right wing Tea Party/GOP plan to abolish Medicare.
The plan: No Medicare, but rather a $15000 voucher – how long will THAT last? It will kill all seniors who depend on it.
Tea Party = Death Panels
Hey celery stalk why did you have to address this thread with an answer like that.
We seniors have been using a quasi voucher system for eleven year now and it’s proven to be a winner for the people that is utilizing the program. Its call Advantage Plus.
Once the insurance carrier submits the paper work to Medicare to see if we are eligible, then the Fed Gov cuts the INS carrier a five thousand check. At this point Medicare is no longer responsible for our health care, the responsibly shift to the INS co.
It’s a win, win, win situation for the Feds in that it takes the burden of them and saves billions annually in fraudulent claims and misuse. We seniors win with a few extra benefits. The INS carrier wins because of the new premiums and can turn a small profit running the program much cleaner and ten times more efficient.
“The plan: No Medicare, but rather a $15000 voucher – how long will THAT last? It will kill all seniors who depend on it.”
Your mischaracterizing the voucher plan is nothing more than a BIG BAD SPOOK TELL meant to scare us poor old seniors. Shame on you! Woo I’m frighten.
Celery stalk the $15,000 would go to purchase a great INS health-care plan. Have you got it, YET or do I need to go farther.
Report Post »Vital
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 8:50pmYep, I saw Amanpour pretended she didn’t hear the congressman
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:09pmdoesn’t General Electric own NBC and MSNBC and the weather channel etc. and was it G.E. who didn’t pay any taxes this year because of a loop hole? these people know that they are being used but they are so far in bed, most have gone beyond the turn around point
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:05pmWhat a mouth on that Bintervewer!!
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 1:40amI’m glad he did this, but I know, that he knows, the answer to his own question. Maybe this should be a standard question by any and all Conservatives, Tea – Partiers, and Republicans when they get in front of a camera. Putting pressure on both the media and the Democrats has never been tried before, it could be productive and entertaining.
Why Col. Allen West Should be President
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pakaeboiboi
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 3:45amIslamabad Amanpour ….. you go girl!!!!
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 6:26amBarack Hussein Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos. . .thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.
Barack Hussein Obama was my college classmate (Columbia University, class of ‘83).
He is a devout Muslim do not be fooled. Look at his Czars. . .anti-business. . .anti- american.
As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussein Obama is
following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University
They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands.
Add up the clues below. Taken individually they’re alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival. . .and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government.
Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
Universal health care . The health care bill had very little to do with health care.
It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions).
Obama doesn’t care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government .
Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill
in the middle of a depression?
Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care,
cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama’s biggest contributors.
Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns
NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama
wants.
They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to
Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power.
The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars,
bigger homes and businesses helps Obama “spread the wealth around.”
Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who’s asking for a 51st state?
Who’s asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government
entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression?
Certainly not American taxpayers.
But this has been Barack Hussein Obama’s plan all along.
His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and
a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
Legalize 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted
on to support big government.
Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security .
Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions. . . including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country.
It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues.
It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out
(after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).
A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union
dues).
All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America.
The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama,
the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful.
The ends justify the means.
Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20% of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama).
Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government.
Barack Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political
opposition.
With the acts outlined above, Barack Hussein Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you’ve got the perfect Marxist scheme. . .all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Hussein Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.
True per snopes: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 8:19amThe MSM has been carrying Obamas water for so long that they dont even know that they are under his “Yoke”. America needs more politicans who dont want to sell thier souls. I applaud that.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 10:01amLook, saying one thing and doing something entirely different is right off of page 115 of the communist manifesto. It’s about distraction. Every magician uses the same technique. It’s no wonder magicians are so popular in America, it reminds people (subliminally) of their politicians.
Report Post »taxpayer99712
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 10:49amDoesn’t really matter WHO takes the hit. If we don’t get a handle on these “entitlement” programs, we’re ALL done!!!
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 11:56amand again as they are taught they SIDE STEPPED the question.. NOTICE no ANSWER.. just like when you ask OBAMA a hard question.. after 15 minutes of a question that SHOULD have been a simple YES or NO still NO answer.. THINK people are waking up to that.. even THE LEFT wants ANSWERS..
Report Post »thebarbarian
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 12:20pm@ abc a bogus crapshooter
Ryan is not cowardly you marist are. go the f*%#$&* away too dasmned stupid to reson with!
Report Post »this sets stage for the only fair taxes. an equal tax for all. that means no loopholes for anyone . this also sets the stage ( and where the left goes nut ) to tax the underground economy and the illegals that smuggle into America (people,drugs ,weapons,terrorist,etc.)
pull your collectivst heads out of your a$$ so you can see. it’s the pussgirlyboy marxist who try to talk tough that are the cowards. the instant attachs and demogogary before even seeing, thus not reading the proposal, is in itself ample proof.you have nothing of substance to offer. you do have death and distruction to offer. DON”T GO THERE. the very history of EVERY IMPLEMENTATION of the marxist ideolgy prooves this to be 100% factual!
hologram5
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 12:20pmKoolaiders
Report Post »Posted on April 17, 2011 at 3:52pm
What should be investigated is the far right wing Tea Party/GOP plan to abolish Medicare.
The plan: No Medicare, but rather a $15000 voucher – how long will THAT last? It will kill all seniors who depend on it.
Tea Party = Death Panels
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You sir are brain dead as you don’t know the truth of the matter. The DEATH PANELS as you call them have already been implemented under your moonbat messiah. Read for once in your life and learn.
thebarbarian
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 12:28pmkoolaide quit drinking already
Report Post »history lesson. you ovomit care has the death panels. admitted by holdren,sunstien,sebelius and more.
this should’nt be any surprise though you leftist trash seemed to have perfected the death panels in the last century . hitler,mousolini,stalin,mao,che,hussien,amin,shaw,castro, and the list goes on.
how do you like your admitted liberal progressives now. i‘m sure that you’re still enamoured.
spewing your filth here only fuels the flames of true freedome. the harder your ilk pushes the harder you will fall.
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Posted on April 18, 2011 at 1:37pmChristiane Amanpooooooourrrrrrrrrrr, Is an Anti Semit & Anti American & Libterd Loving HACK!
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