Bill Clinton: 2010 not as bad as 1994

HOW'S THAT TRANSPARENCY/HOPEY/CHANGEY WORKING FOR YOU?
Obama tops Bush at ducking reporters
No formal press conference in 215 days
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President Obama, who pledged to establish the most open and transparent administration in history, on Monday surpasses his predecessor's record for avoiding a full-fledged question-and-answer session with White House reporters in a formal press conference.

President George W. Bush's longest stretch between prime-time, nationally televised press conferences was 214 days, from April 4 to Nov. 4, 2004. Mr. Obama tops that record on Monday, going 215 days - stretching back to July 22, according to records kept by CBS Radio's veteran reporter Mark Knoller.
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http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/22/obama-tops-bushs-record-for-putting-reporters-on-h/?feat=home_headlines

I get a kick out of the Wingnutters on here who are already dancing in the end zone and pouring champaign on themselves, claiming that they're going to be the majority party in 2010.

First of all, it would be nearly impossible for them not to win back a few seats seeing as how they've lost so many the past 5+ years.

And secondly, looking at the numbers and the races, the Repugs are going to win some seats, but not enough to be a majority in either the House or the Senate.

Opposite Day Obama

As kids, we played a variety of games for entertainment. I recall one such game called "opposite day." On opposite day, a pledge would be made that we would say the exact opposite of what we were feeling for the entire day.

It would appear that America has been treated to a full year of opposite days with our president. We are constantly being told one thing, but the exact opposite is what really occurs. Our first-year president appears to be playing the opposite game.

Let's go back to the campaign, where the president pledged Hope and Change. What has he given us? A world of despair and more of the same -- times the power of twelve. It must have been an opposite day. He promised us transparency, yet we were treated to backroom dealings, payoffs and special interest deals. Perhaps another opposite day? We were assured that there would be no lobbyists in his White House, yet we find the payrolls riddled with those very individuals. Either our president had his fingers crossed behind his back, or it was declared on another of his opposite days. How about the assurance that nobody making under $250,000 would see a dime in new taxes? What about the stimulus bill keeping unemployment under 8%? What about televising the health care dealings, or posting any bill for 72 hours prior to voting? Of course, the president didn't really want to be in the automotive business, right?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/opposite_day_obama.html

It's time for the Dems to force Republicans to cast tough and defining votes"

It's absolutely critical -- get the Repubs on record for what they really believe in and hang it around their necks.

The fact remains, despite being systematically ignored by the corporate media punditry, on the ISSUES voters line up with the Democrats -- but most voters don't pay that much attention.

It's well past time for the Dems to put some good, populist meat on the agenda and force the Repubs to vote against it -- then bang away at them for what they are, the enemy of the middle class.

Now here is a story you should cover:

http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/liberal-blogger-calling-for-rahm-emanuel-to-resign/

The "cult" label is a key to undermining confidence in the Rethuglican party in 2010. The more the right embraces the Teabagger goons, the more they risk the average voter dismissing them as the whack-a-doodle nutjobs that they are.

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http://rackjite.com/archives/4604-Video-Bill-Maher-proves-The-Tea-Party-is-a-cult-feb-19-2010.html
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CULT, THUGS, GOONS. WAY TO FRAME YOUR ARGUMENT, KITKAT.

The "cult" label is a key to undermining confidence in the Rethuglican party in 2010. The more the right embraces the Teabagger goons, the more they risk the average voter dismissing them as the whack-a-doodle nutjobs that they are
Posted by: Kat Donovan | February 22, 2010 5:26 PM.

HOW'S THAT TEABAGGER THING WORKING FOR YOU, WINGNUTS?

"There's a major political fraud underway: the GOP is once again donning their libertarian, limited-government masks in order to re-invent itself and, more important, to co-opt the energy and passion of the Ron-Paul-faction that spawned and sustains the "tea party" movement. The Party that spat contempt at Paul during the Bush years and was diametrically opposed to most of his platform now pretends to share his views. Standard-issue Republicans and Ron Paul libertarians are as incompatible as two factions can be -- recall that the most celebrated right-wing moment of the 2008 presidential campaign was when Rudy Giuliani all but accused Paul of being an America-hating Terrorist-lover for daring to suggest that America's conduct might contribute to Islamic radicalism -- yet the Republicans, aided by the media, are pretending that this is one unified, harmonious, "small government" political movement."

"The Right is petrified that this fraud will be exposed and is thus bending over backwards to sustain the myth. Paul was not only invited to be a featured speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference but also won its presidential straw poll. Sarah Palin endorsed Ron Paul's son in the Kentucky Senate race. National Review is lavishly praising Paul, while Ann Coulter "felt compelled [in her CPAC speech] to give a shout out to Paul-mania, saying she agreed with everything he stands for outside of foreign policy -- a statement met with cheers." Glenn Beck -- who literally cheered for the Wall Street bailout and Bush's endlessly expanding surveillance state -- now parades around as though he shares the libertarians' contempt for them. Red State's Erick Erickson, defending the new so-called conservative "manifesto," touts the need for Congress to be confined to the express powers of Article I, Section 8, all while lauding a GOP Congress that supported countless intrusive laws -- from federalized restrictions on assisted suicide, marriage, gambling, abortion and drugs to intervention in Terri Schiavo's end-of-life state court proceeding -- nowhere to be found in that Constitutional clause. With the GOP out of power, Fox News suddenly started featuring anti-government libertarians such as John Stossel and Reason Magazine commentators, whereas, when Bush was in power, there was no government power too expanded or limitless for Fox propagandists to praise."

"This is what Republicans always do. When in power, they massively expand the power of the state in every realm. Deficit spending and the national debt skyrocket. The National Security State is bloated beyond description through wars and occupations, while no limits are tolerated on the Surveillance State. Then, when out of power, they suddenly pretend to re-discover their "small government principles."
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/02/21/libertarianism/index.html
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Posted by: ThankGODI'maConservative | February 22, 2010 5:14 PM

HOW'S THAT TRANSPARENCY/HOPEY/CHANGEY WORKING FOR YOU?
Obama tops Bush at ducking reporters
No formal press conference in 215 days
Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | February 22, 2010 5:02 PM

You'll have to choose one or the other...is it we see too much of him or we don't see enough? Funny...I don't seem to remember Bush taking on democrats questions on Iraq...do you?

I have to believe the Clintons are still fuming over losing the nomination to Captain B+.

You know you're in the political septic tank when you have Bill Clinton cheerleading for your idiotic Healthcare Reform.

Well played sir, well played.

THE NEW BFF's OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!

Glenn Beck loves them. The Teabaggers court them. Republican Congressmen listen to them.

Meet the fast-growing right wing domestic terrorist "patriot" group that's recruiting soldiers to resist the Obama administration - "the Oath Keepers".

Unlike the Wolverines of Red Dawn, these right wing nutjobs are better armed and their enemy isn't invading Soviet surrogates. It's fellow Americans.

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers
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The Republicans have remained amazingly unredeemed. Unlike the party of Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole, which gained standing with each battle with Bill Clinton, today’s Republican Party looks like a cult. During the 2008 campaign, the Republican Party fell to its lowest level in the history of our thermometers measuring the party’s popularity, and it has not improved its standing since Election Day. The Republicans’ widely held conviction that Obama has a hidden “socialist” agenda, and the ascendancy of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck as ideological spokespeople, indelibly defines the party.
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/02/07/palin_at_tea_party_nation/index.html?source=rss&aim=/news/feature
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The Republican Party Modest Proposal - put the very same Republican criminals who ruined the economy, emptied the treasury for our corporate friends, hate science and kept anything from being done back in charge of the country.

Nobody bothered to rip that mask off Scott Brown, Chris Christie, and Bob McDonnell, but just as soon as the Republicans win back a few seats and actually have to take some responsibility for governing again - it will be easier to rip off all of their masks again.

It's time to start attacking every Republican who voted against the tax cuts for the middle-class in the Stimulus bill. One thing we need to do is to attack every Republican who voted against that middle-class tax cut for the non-rich.

That means every Republican then in the House, and almost every Republican then in the Senate.

2010 is the year in which Democrats can hang Faux News on Republicans' necks.

Every race ought to be about Republican candidate's affiliation with the Party of Beck and Palin.

Beck and Palin. Beck and Palin. Nothing but Beck and Palin.

Find quotes made by Republican candidates and show how alike they are to Beck and Palin. It will be easy to trash the Republican brand in 2010 because of their past on the record lies and hateful rhetoric. The Wingnuts are on the ropes, people. No one likes them. Let's finish it in 2010. For a generation. For 10 generations.

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You know you're in the political septic tank when you have Bill Clinton cheerleading for your idiotic Healthcare Reform.

Posted by: Chris | February 22, 2010 5:48 PM
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I've got news for you, Slick. Americans aren't cheerleding for the Republican version of health care reform - which consists of continuing to allow the Corporate Health Insurance Industry bean counters to rearend Americans out of their life savings when they get sick.

The minority party doesn't get to make the rules Chrissy, I don't care what your Teabagger friends have told you.

NEW WAPO POLL: TWO THIRDS OF VOTERS SAY SCREW REPUBLICANS AND PASS COMPREHENSIVE REFORM!!!

Obama and Congressional leaders will head into the healthcare summit (which Eric Cantor has agreed to) with some good polling backing them up for finishing the job, even without Republicans.

"Americans spread the blame when it comes to the lack of cooperation in Washington, and, in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, most want the two sides to keep working to pass comprehensive health-care reform. Nearly six in 10 in the new poll say the Republicans aren't doing enough to forge compromise with President Obama on important issues; more than four in 10 see Obama as doing too little to get GOP support. Among independents, 56 percent see the Republicans in Congress as too unbending and 50 percent say so of the president; 28 percent of independents say both sides are doing too little to find agreement."
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2010/02/americans_spread_the_blame_whe.html
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WaPo can call that "spreading the blame," but with 58 percent saying the Republicans are resisting compromise, the summit can provide much needed clarity on where the hold up remains. At the same time, healthcare reform can't fail--this summit can't be used as an attempt to shift the blame to the Republicans and set up a failure. Too many people are counting on reform.

Look at that graph--63 percent want comprehensive reform to pass, and more Independents want to see it pass than Republicans want to see it fail. But a note of caution, while the blame is primarily falling on Republicans now, ultimately the blame will be shared if it fails, and the bulk of it would fall on Obama and the Dems, since they are in charge.

Elizabeth Warren: Why Washington Is Not Reforming the Financial System

"The problems could not be more obvious, and quite frankly, the solutions are just about that obvious, but we just can't seem to get the two together...The reason that we are not changing things right now is because the banks have lobbyists in Washington in numbers I have never seen...People who just want to advocate for American families, people who want some changes to level the playing field do not have that kind of lobbying power. And so what we are really watching here is a David and Goliath story."

http://tinyurl.com/yjtytsa

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HOW'S THAT TRANSPARENCY/HOPEY/CHANGEY WORKING FOR YOU?Obama tops Bush at ducking reportersNo formal press conference in 215
Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | February 22, 2010 5:02 PM
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More all caps screaming from The Swamp's resident talking bumper sticker (Bobby Mobbie).

Hey Slobby Mobbie, next time do some research before you shoot your mouth off, ok?
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http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2010/02/obama_eternal_optimist.html
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Rep. Boehner: If Democrats are finishing the healthcare bill, why have a summit?
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"We’re one week away from the ‘bipartisan’ White House health care summit, and Washington Democrats are scrambling to salvage their massive — and quite partisan — government takeover of health care," the statement says. "But for all that, Democrats may not even have a backroom deal ready by the summit despite promises to post it online in advance.

"We don’t need a six-hour infomercial for the latest Democratic backroom deal. We need to start over on real health care reforms to lower costs. That’s what the American people want, and what they deserve."
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/81957-house-gop-if-dems-are-finishing-healthcare-bill-why-have-a-summit

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Rep. Boehner: If Democrats are finishing the healthcare bill, why have a summit?
Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | February 22, 2010 8:22 PM
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Because America deservess to see for themselves that Spray Tan Boehner and the Rethugs have nothing to offer them other than giveaways to the Corporate Health Insurance Industry and hateful rhetoric. It's called TRANSPARENCY....you know that word, right? You should, seeing as how you used it for one of your recent wingnut bumper sticker slogans on here.

GO TEABAGGERS!

Find quotes made by Republican candidates and show how alike they are to Beck and Palin. It will be easy to trash the Republican brand in 2010 because of their past on the record lies and hateful rhetoric. The Wingnuts are on the ropes, people. No one likes them. Let's finish it in 2010. For a generation. For 10 generations.

Posted by: DrainYou | February 22, 2010 6:37 PM

Down the Drain, The liberals have already proven that they can't find their way out of a "transparent" environmentally safe bag. They can't run the country for ONE YEAR, let alone a generation, God forbid.

California has been in the hands of you liberals for the last 15 years and is bankrupt, the nut jobs liberals want to run everything you do in life, what kind of car you can drive, what kind of job you can have, what kind of light bulb you can use, how much electricity you can use...and they have one mantra: higher taxes, higher Taxes, Higher TAXES, HIGHER TAXES. They are absolutely insane. They have killed jobs in the State and want to kill a Million more.

BOEHNER DEMANDS THAT PRES OBAMA TELEVISE THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE - THEN HE CRIES ABOUT IT WHEN PRES OBAMA DECIDES TO TELEVISE THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE!!!

"After slamming the Obama administration for "secret deliberations" and going back on his campaign promise to televise the health care debate, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) criticized the President yesterday for televising the bipartisan health care summit on Feb. 25, asking "is this a political event or is this going to be a real conversation?"

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http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/boehner-how-dare-obama-televise-the-health-care-debate-after-i-demanded-he-televise-the-health-care.php
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Hey K what DON'T you understand of what a "formal press conference" is?
It surely isn't a drive by press conference, like the one your link refers to.

HEY SPECIAL K. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT THE DEFINITION OF IS, IS. . . . I GUESS JUST CAUSE THE WH SAID IT IS . . . IT IS. BOY ARE YOU GULLIBLE!

"It had been more than six months since President Barack Obama held a formal news conference, and, although his SURPRISE appearance in the press briefing room of the West Wing today ISN'T WHAT WOULD NORMALLY PASS FOR ONE, THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY DECLARED, IN THE AFTERMATH, THAT THIS INDEED HAD BEEN A NEWS CONFERENCE."

Many political experts, according Reuters, believe the Democrats will experience double-digit losses, but won't lose the 40 seats needed for the Republicans to regain control.

Republicans like Boehner play to the lowest common denominator to dupe the uneducated republican base. Calling the Dems health care bill a "government takeover" is one of the biggest lies in the history of congress. "Regulations" are not a take over. Even a "public option" would not be a take over. Unless Boehner has a different definition of "OPTION" that I'm not aware of.

The fact is, and what the right wing controlled media won't tell you, is most American's do not have a problem with what is in the bill, it is with the slow movement to get reform passed.

READ A LITTLE CLOSER THERE SPECIAL K . . . IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT THE MEANING OF THE WORD IS, IS. OF COURSE YOU BUY EVERYTHING THIS WH SAYS (ALL TRUTH ALL THE TIME, RIGHT?)
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It had been more than six months since President Barack Obama held a formal news conference, and, although his surprise appearance in the press briefing room of the West Wing today ISN'T WHAT WOULD NORMALLY PASS FOR ONE, THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY DECLARED, IN THE AFTERMATH, THAT THIS INDEED HAD BEEN A NEWS CONFERENCE.

I think Mr Boehner is spray tanning too much. The man is starting to turn orange. Also think Boehner has a problem with the truth and honesty and dealing with the American people. Most aren't as ignorant as he (thinks they are). Another Republican who has done absolutely nothing for the good of the American people.