Summarized: “Millionaires and billionaires need to pay their fair share. My plan would have cut the deficit. John Boehner, a GOP hardliner held hostage by the extremist TEA Party, refused it, because he wants to protect fat cats and deprive the government of revenue. That I would happily spread to you. Once I took my cut. For fairness.”
Repeat as necessary.
And to think, we’re paying for this.
Of course, were Obama really interested in cutting spending, he’d have made his plan — shared with that hardliner Boehner, we’re told — public. And he’d insist that the “one-time” stimulus — now a baseline for the $1.6 trillion budget deficit (that automatically increases yearly by 8%) — be excised from future budgets, that baseline spending be frozen (he’s calling for this, incidentally, but calling it a $7 trillion cut next year, when in fact it’s a cut of precisely nothing), and insisting that, going forward, we cut, say, 1% every year for 6 years, then move to limiting government spending to a certain percentage of the GDP, moves that would balance the budget.
At which point he’d be Rand Paul.
Obama is not interested in cutting spending. As we all know. And the media knows it, too.
The moment they begin reporting it is the moment we’ll know that the king is good and dead.
Despite my presumption that the crowds to whom he speaks are carefully combed, I’m somewhat surprised I didn’t hear more shout-back at his lies and misdirections. Americans are sheep.
Drive faster and fit in more speeches Obama.
Obama speeches: Flash mobs of stupid
If you heard the same clip I heard Rush play, you didn’t hear much assent either. The sheep are bored.
I heard lie after lie after lie Ernst and not one shout calling him on them. Not one.
“And to think, we’re paying for this.”
Rush said Obama bought four new buses for this tour.
While telling the successful Americans that paid for them they need to fork over even more taxes.
What a goon…
It’s Minnesota sdferr, it’s hard to shout “excuse me, but, y’know, I don’t think what you just said there is entirely the truth.”
Heh.
I did suppose they were carefully combed. Still, were Wisconsin drivers license holders turned away?
#8 – unless they had AFSCME or NEA credentials.
Good thing this isn’t a re-election tour. Because that would be wrong of Obama to use taxpayer money for that. very wrong.
nudge nudge, wink wink.
Maybe Iowans will prove they have more crud on their hands? I sure hope so.
I notice that the news articles today deftly ignore the fact that Fuckstick McJugears shut down a major airport for an hour on a busy Monday morning. Some of my cow-orkers were Not Amused.
Obama’s saying, basically, that you take a leetle teensy bit of balance-the-budget and balance it out with a great dollop of spend-us-bankrupt, and that‘s balance.
Further balanced out by the fact that: you wingnuts, everyone knows we can’t go bankrupt if we can still print money.
Stupid right-wingers.
He also pulled out of a Clinton-plagiarism nose-dive:
“There is nothing wrong with America that can’t be fixed………… That’s it. That’s the end of that sentence, that I just made up off the top of my head.”
Juggy is an imbecile. Compromise, like bipartisan, now is defined as R’s acting like D’s, as it could never involve D’s acting like R’s. Only one side can be expected to compromise. Fuck them.
@5. It’s my understanding the he’s only using two buses on the tour. There’s a failsafe policy that the two teleprompters can never travel together :D
Hardly anyone in DC is interested in cutting spending. That became obvious when the best that Boehner would Pledge was to “put common-sense limits on the growth of government”. They don’t want to cut spending, they just want to fix the blame on the other guys when their fiscal house of cards comes crashing down. That’s all the debt limit debate was really about in my humble opinion.
And I take great pride in being humble!
Levin just said 3 buses, at $2.5 million apiece.
Isn’t that illegal to use public money for a campaign tour? And lets be honest, he’s making partisan speeches at tour stops, making it a campaign tour.
Seems as though when it comes to spending other people’s money EmpLamDukO is just another Honey Badger. He don’t give a shit.
Obama bus tour…..
AKA “The Magical Misery Tour”
The Magical Misery Tour cruising down Plunder Road..
So Limbaugh is talking to the crud handed Iowan who stood up. Good for him.
I happened to catch the Blakeman interview live as well. It was thoroughly disgusting, just as Limbaugh presents it. The plain implication of Blakeman’s view is simply that we the lowly people cannot speak back to the President without “disrespecting” the Office of the Presidency.
One bows to a king, one doesn’t mouth off.
Thankfully, there’s no such thing as a Republican establishment anymore. Otherwise we’d have to worry about guys like this Blakeman fellow.
bumble is capable of being embarrassed?
link?