Why Does Jay Carney Think Paul Ryan‘s Budget Supporters Are ’Deliberately Ignorant’?
- Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:21pm by
Mytheos Holt
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney didn‘t mince words on board Air Force One today when questioned about House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s most recent budget proposal, unveiled yesterday. In fact, based on the Huffington Post’s reporting, Carney may think anyone supporting the plan is just plain dumb:
Carney then took his criticisms a step further: He questioned the intellectual competency of the GOP lawmakers backing the bill.
“You have to be aggressively and deliberately ignorant of the world economy not to know and understand that clean energy technologies are going to play a huge role in the 21st century,” he said. “You have to have severely diminished capacity to understand what drives economic growth in industrialized countries in this century if you do not understand that education is the key that unlocks the door to prosperity.”
“The budget proposed by Chairman Ryan and supported overwhelmingly already by Republicans suggests that those problems exist in the minds of the supporters of that plan,” Carney continued.
Because the event took place on Air Force One, video hasn’t surfaced of the event, if it exists. Neither Carney nor the White House have given detailed answers about what a “smart” alternative to Obama’s budget plan would look like.
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Comments (93)
geonj
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:10pmclean energy companies are going bankrupt jay, you moron.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:44pmEveryone should stop paying taxes until a reasonable plan is implemented. They can’t be trusted with the money.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:46pmFor three years NOW !! O’Blamers Dumbos have NO PLAN, No BUDGIT.
Report Post »It’s a Democrat Senate and White House,..But the Republicans are at Fault..
HUH ????????????????????? Now that’s LEADERSHIP…..Obama has
Graduated from Blamer in Chief to Mocker in Chief….GAS UP another 6 cents
today !!!! FOOD UP #**@*^##++^#*^**##@*()^##
BarackStalin
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:53pmJay,
You have to have severely diminished capacity if you do not understand that We The People see through your lies and corruption.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:54pmAMAZING…………..and I thought it was Jay Carney who was deliberately ignorant. shows to go ‘ya.
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 12:14amIf you did not watch GBTV tonight you need to see the reply. It’s hear folks – Glen made an great point – How the American People will beg Obama to throw out the Constitution. It hear – we will see it soon – America is finished – Are you ready! I’m ready to fight or die trying to protect out freedom!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:12amAt what point… will Gov’t Officials be held Responsible for Misinformation & Lies?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:50amWho said J Carney was capable of an intelligent statement at all. I thought he was a tape recorder.
Report Post »TRILO
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:09pmI think I have to agree with him. They are ignorant. I called my (R)Congressman & expressed my thoughts on this stupid proposal. So they want to cut $5.3 Trillion over 10yrs which will add to the debt and defecit for 10yrs & some how in years 11-28 they will balance the budget? All the while, the unfunded liabilities OR the existing debt will not be touched?!
Answer: We did not get here overnight, we will not solve it overnight; if we cut too much unemployment will go to 25%; no one can agree so this is the best they can do.
My response: REALLY! We are already bankrupt. Time is short before major chaos begins. We will have to take some real short term pain to solve this problem. The Baby Boomers (largest voting block) & Poverty Pimps (loudest activitst) will never allow cuts to mandatory spending. Look at the AARP & the Left’s adds last go around from Ryan.
A word to all of your Baby Boomers who cry foul & say I paid for my benefits. You have never fully paid for your benefits, all workers have put in to the pot. Now there are fewer workers, a larger retirement crowd, more benefits for programs than was ever intended (Medicare Part D, to just name one) and now the programs are going broke. SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, Interest , HHS & Fed govt pension funds = the entire $$ brought in to the Fed govt. Discretionary budget= 100% borrowed!!!
NO ONE (except that one crazy Republican) in Washington is willing to solve the problem. THE YOUNG ARE NOW DEBT SLAVES! T
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:17pmYou are truly hopeless. Mathematically your argument is specious. You have filled your self to the point of intoxication with the kool aid of keynesian “economics”. Until and unless you look around at the REAL WORLD there is no hope for you. Mommy is calling, your spagettios are getting cold.
Report Post »So
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:39pmObama’s believers are dwindling. The lies upon lies are catching up to him. The elaborate facade is cracking.
But this administration keeps spinning and twisting those lies.
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” — Oz is calling, Jay. Come Nov. your boss will be gone and with it, your job.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:09pmThis is what happens to liars, eventually the lies come back
Report Post »to bite you in the azz…O’Blamer has been lying to us since
2006.This Administration has No credibility..DOJ,DOE,EPA….
They ALL SUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:12pm@Trilo Spoken like a true democrat.
Report Post »Green energy- was, is and will be a joke! You want it use it, take yourself off the grid! The technology is there- whats stopping you? Too damn exensive? Well -DUH!
As far as the debt and the current financial situation- – Lets hit the reset button NOW! No more slow bleed. Makes absolutely NO difference to me! (Well, maybe a little schaden Fruh rush).
happ77
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 10:12am338lapua
Report Post »I think you need to reread trilo’s post, this time slower and concentrate.
CptStubbing
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:34pm@happ77 Most people don’t seem to read an entire post, they read a piece and then project what they perceive onto the non-read statement and then feel the need to berate an opinion that wasn’t there.
@Trilo, Thanks for contacting your congressman, I doubt the others who didn’t read your post even took that step. We really need to get that “one Crazy Republican” into the White House so he can start educating Washington and the American people on how to move this country in the right direction.
For those in our nescient audience, the “one Crazy Republican” (who seems to be the only sane man in Washington) is Ron Paul.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:06pmClean energy is an oxymoron. There’s nothing clean about making it. Furthermore, When you introduce something new, you don’t immediately remove the current source, because there’s a good chance it will FAIL to do what they thought it would. Libs are big dreamers, but they always FAIL to think about the consequences of their actions. They FAIL to think about the ability of the market to adjust to said new source. They FAIL to realize that just because the idea is a good one, it doesn’t mean the industry is ready to go, just because they built the plants to do it. Private owned industries are the creators and innovators, not the damn government. In that alone, the Liberals FAILED. If the private owned industries haven’t done it yet, that means they don’t have the proper means to create, utilize, and market it. GM killed the electric car for a reason back in the 80′s. And now, even with the battery unit and government backing, its still a FAILURE.
Green Energy might be the future, but so are Flying Cars. They slowly walked this country into a wall called Communism, but they can’t seem to figure out how technology works. Damn College kids, take your damn head out of the books and live life outside your dorm rooms.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:13pmHey it looks good on paper so it must work right ?
Report Post »A theory is just a theory until it’s proven.
MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:16pmTo bad it is at Tax Payers expense.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:06pmOtherwise he would have to admit that we ARE ON TO THEM and their spending addiction? GOD BLESS PAUL RYAN and …..CARNEY??? …..take a flying leap! :)
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:15amThe current occupant of the job of White House Press Secretary does not possess the dignity needed to fill that title. Dana Perino, the previous person holding that title, would never have insulted, mocked, demeaned, or brought shame upon the country by acting and speaking so crassly.
Report Post »quiltgal
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:04pmOf course you’d say all that, Carney. You have to. You‘re getting paid to defend Obama’s stupid socialist schemes. Pathetic. No credibility left.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:04pmI keep wondering when every one will figure out that NObama does not want a budget!
Report Post »He prefers continuing resolutions because he can manipulate the money and you can‘t see it or stop it!
This is a game we are loosing people!
After all people he knows better where to spend our money?
Like invest in solar co’s. right! That worked out good, didn’t it?
This is his song.
“Don’t Get Him Started” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11916731
republic2011
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:00pmJay… You are the one that belongs on the short yellow bus with a required helmet. fu
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:56pmYup smoke and mirrors… Keep on pretending to hate one another while you all get together to strip away our rights. It’s like a bad soap opera, except they have real machine guns, tear gas, tasers, and unionized tin men to enforce their will.
Report Post »onedenarius
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:51pmI hate these lying bastards… they are destroying our country, on purpose.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:48pmWe do not have the answers but we know we do not like yours so we will just demonize it and have Harry R. kill it in the Senate so we can get a continuing resolution that will allow us to keep spending like theirs no tomorrow!
Report Post »That’s the general NObama plan, just spend spend spend!
His song “What’s Wrong With This Song” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9134749
wordweaver
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:48pmI understand why Carney and the White House do not like the Ryan plan. It calls for greatly reducing government spending to a responsible level (balancing the budget), as opposed to continuing to overspend and over-stimulate, and to fuel pet projects like “clean” energy solutions while stifling the production of fossil fuels available now. I understand how Ryan’s plan would not jive with his agenda. But his response, the ad hominem fallacy, is only slightly more sophisticated than the old schoolyard standard, “Oh, yeah… Well, you’re just stupid!”
Report Post »Female
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:51pmThank you for your extremely insightful comment. I have one I believe is potentially equally brillant and quite on topic.
HEY Carney, guess what, “We’re rubber and your glue whatever:
questionable intellectual; competency You have to be aggressively and deliberately ignorant of the world economy; You have to have severely diminished capacity
“you say just bounces off us and sticks onto you!”
Here’s a little education from the schoolyard:
If I have $1 in allowance coming this week, I find somebody dumb enough to loan me $25 for a cool solar operated frogmen toy, I get in big trouble, when I go over to Jimmy the little rich boy, who’s cutting everybodies lawns all weekend, while I play video games… screaming it’s not fair…I want justice….sock him in the stomache and grabbed his wallet, you know what they do in the schoolyard… get the teacher, principal, cops, and parents. Mr Carney that is what you think is good economic policies. And guess what, I think you all need a political spanking and to go back to elementary school for basic mathematics.
.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:47pmI don’t think anyone is against alternate sources of energy, including House Republicans, BUT there’s a need to transition from oil to “green”, AND also a need for the private sector to fund the refinement and implementation of green alternatives. As that actress recently said: “We didn’t throw away all our candles when the light bulb was first invented”. That‘s Obama’s plan. He wants us to throw away our gas dependent cars without having a reliable replacement. That seems ignorant to me.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:46pmHeyJay, it working for us gas $5.00 a gallon, our homes are worth 30% less than 2008 and you and prez keep printing money.
Great Plan…now you are going to manage my healthcare…you guys are nothing more than stooges!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:45pmAnd what exactly are the Democrats budget plans. I’m sure that after 31/2 years they have one all ready to produce. Don’t they, don’t they?
Report Post »Copper Catfish
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:44pmBecause Jay is too stupid to understand it, so he calls others names?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:37pmJay is just following the Saul Alinsky style : target and insult your “enemies.” Either that or Jay is just a trypcail arrogant Lefty – they always think they are the smartest guys in the room !
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:42pmBaghdad Bob was a lightweight liar compared to Carney.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:06pmBetter be careful you are almost insulting ….Bagdad bob
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:50pmI think Bagdad bob was sharper than most of the Tools,
Report Post »O’Blamer has in his shed…….
momsense
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:37pmI suggest that Carney and the other ignorant Dems read Samuelson or some other lucid text on basic economics. The only ones ignorant are the Democrats.
Report Post »merik59
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:36pmAt this point I would think any plan would be better than no plan. It seems as if all our government officials would just as soon not have a budget to be accountable to so they can bilk more money than usual from the general funds. Considering the unnecessary expenditures already still in place & the fact that a program does not have to be officially approved to be funded, what does that suggest? A free for all, if you happen to be in a position to grant yourself money? Prejudicial distribution based on how well one treats the President? Last week I believed these people were too stupid to know how stupid they really are… This week I believe it is intentional on their parts. What I find ironic is that if they do this nation in, they inevitably do themselves in. Socialism, communism, fascism, I don’t care what you call it, does not work, has never worked & will never work because people are not a bunch of drones. Individuals must be allowed to achieve their individual goals at their own pace & utilizing their own talents in order to be truly successful. We may all be created equal, but we are not equal in equal ways & we never will be. Each of us has different strengths & weaknesses, some people will always work harder than others & we must be allowed to strive as individuals with individual gains or else we lose all sense of our own identities. Our government officials are corrupt, but our way of government is not.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:40pmExtremely well said! Thank you. Could you send that post to the President!
Report Post »DEFCON4
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:53pm@MERIK59, Iread your post several times. It motivated me, Thank You! You should be running for public office!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:09pmNo… their plan seems to be… Collapse the System and Rule by Dictatorship… so, their Tax & Regulate the Free Market is their Agenda… while doing Nothing (Not Taxing; Not Regulating) is the Perfect thing for Recovery!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:33pm“Carney may think anyone supporting the plan is just plain dumb” – surely he is talking about Obama’s plans for the economy.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:37pmWhat kind of spokesperson for the WH calls members of Congress dumb. They have no class or respect for anyone. Name calling is beneath anyone speaking for the WH.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:50pmNHWinter…only an ingnorant, no class fool would have such a comback….yep typical member of the Whitehouse Team
I bet he gave himself a A+ on lanuage arts like Stevie gave himself a A- on gass prices.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:32pmWhat drives Economic Growth is… a Free Market… No Tax… and… No Regulation… where anything else is Less Growth!
Report Post »kangaroo
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:27pmThat sounds exactly what Odictator lying sack of camel sheet would say
Report Post »Jezcruzen
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:26pmBecause Jay Carney is a high-paid lier for a Marxist president. What else could he say?
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:25pmHey Jay, baby! You are an insignificant know-nothing. Just like your boss; you are dealing in pure prevarication.
GOP 2012
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:24pmLiberals are like petulant children and Muslims.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:22pmWhat does he think about this:
Report Post »Off topic,
Coupe in China
http://webfarm.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-21/chinese-coup-rumors-run-wild-online-then-disappear-adam-minter.html