Obama's Latest Hail Mary Pass: Attack GOP Leader Boehner & Push For Tax Hikes
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 3:01 PM
Barack Obama attacked House Republican leader John Boehner today in Ohio.
…Over and over and over again.
Never mind the fact that Republicans weren’t able to block any of the radical Obama-Pelosi policies this past year.
Barack Obama also told supporters today that the US can’t afford not to raise taxes.
…Especially after his disastrous policies.
Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression. The Obama-Pelosi economic plan resulted in a cumulative 7.5 million jobs deficit. By every objective measure the democrat’s Trillion dollar stimulus bomb was a complete disaster.
Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi tripled the national deficit last year by nearly a trillion dollars – something unheard of in our nation’s history.
After an unheard of record deficit last year of $1.4 Trillion the economy is on track to experience a $1.3 Trillion deficit this year.
Instead of focusing on the economy the past two years the radicals in Washington beat up on business and rammed through an unpopular nationalized health care entitlement program.
Now Obama wants to raise taxes.
The AP reported:
President Barack Obama strongly defended his opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans on Wednesday and delivered a searing attack on Republicans and their House leader for advocating “the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place.”
Obama said the struggling U.S. economy can’t afford to spend $700 billion to keep lower tax rates in place for the nation’s highest earners despite a call by House Minority Leader John Boehner and other GOP leaders to do just that.
Speaking in the same city where Boehner, an Ohio Republican, recently ridiculed Obama’s economic stewardship, Obama said Boehner’s policies amount to no more than “cut more taxes for millionaires and cut more rules for corporations.”
Obama’s comments came as the administration rolled out new proposals designed to re-ignite a sputtering recovery, including new tax breaks for businesses and $50 billion for U.S. roads, rails and airports.
“Let me be clear to Mr. Boehner and everyone else. We should not hold middle class tax cuts hostage any longer,” the president said. The administration “is ready this week to give tax cuts to every American making $250,000 or less,” he said.
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Ken commented:
He hates demorats too.
wanumba commented:
“Pick your target, personalize it, destroy it.”
Boehner has free publicity, though. He should imake the most of every second of it – introduce himself every interview as “Republican John “Cut Taxes, Save Jobs” Boehner or “Republican John “Save the doctors” Boehner … etc etc.
We KNOW how these people operate, get savvy!
squeaky commented:
[With less than an hour before President Obama's scheduled speech, 75 seats remained empty in the recreation center at Cuyahoga Community College's Western Campus]
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/09/tri-c_students_recruited_to_fi.html
Bill Fabrizio commented:
It’s not about jobs or an economic recovery. To Obama, it’s all about “fairness” which translates into we must punish those that have prospered at the expense of those who haven’t.
It’s flat out marxist redistribution rubbish brought to you by the trash collector in chief!
StrangernFiction commented:
Translation: you don’t want this Boehner guy as Speaker of the House.
Or it could be that Barry has resigned himself to the fact that Boehner WILL be the next Speaker and has begun firing away.
Kevin P commented:
“Let me be clear.” For those of you who say Socialism / Communism always fails I say Socialism / Communism always succeeds at failing!
Chrissy B commented:
Let me be clear, Mr. Obama, the Demoncrats have controlled the purse strings since January 2007, setting the stage for the mess we are currently experiencing. The Demoncrats have been and continue to drive the car off a cliff (since you are so fond of using the car metaphor in your lectures…I mean, speeches). And as for the Republicans not having any proposals–Boehner just proposed something that makes sense, yet you are fully against it. I’m tired of hearing your whining, blaming, self-serving twerpy voice. Quit blaming Bush–you’ve owned this economy since Jan. 2007 (remember, you were supposed to be a member of Congress then).
befuddled commented:
if you can’t buy them off, legally shut them up, then attack, attack, and attack. look at what this despicable man and his media lap dogs did to palin.
it’s not, i repeat, not about “fairness”. “fairness” is just another conduit for this megalomaniac. “fairness” is something he can hide behind. as for me, a chicken in every pot is not an incentive for becoming another Greece. he is a proven liar and has a far nefarious agenda.
if you are too stupid to know who the enemy is than you deserve what you get. damn right elections have consequences.
Militant Conservative commented:
Bring it on NOTUS. You have not got the stones. Your a petulant lil child. Met one of your supporters today. She stormed from the room “cuz he got all the trouble from da last forty years. He’s not houdini ya know. ”
I let her know Reagan inherited a mess, he did not go whining and crying he maned up and fixed it. Your boy is worse than Jimmy Carter. (since I live in Ga. this really hurts). BO has done nothing but pour gasoline on a large fire. He could not pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel. (in arabic)
Oh by the way, got my cheap ass koran today. MMMM MMMM MMMM gonna taste good on the grill come 9/11. Lil bacon dripings, baste it awhile, then poof irritated muzterds. How can we tell??? They going to be like out of date sour cream and turn sweet? powder is dry. bring it on.
squeaky commented:
it really does boil down to the “law of unintended consequences”. it’s the rich that create jobs and it’s the rich that make charities
operational. the school of hard knocks next class is in session.
http://philanthropy.com/article/Obamas-Plan-to-Reduce/63024/
Granny commented:
Militant, do I need to ask which source of liquid you intend to use to put out the bacon-fat fire? MMMM-MMMMM-MMMMMM
squeaky commented:
by way of free republic – what a difference 5 years makes…….
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2005-obama-warns-dems-not-to-seek-messiah-presidential-candidate/
Ginger commented:
Well I would spit on it, throw my left shoe at it, and then I would use my wiper hand to eat it! :>)
Charlie commented:
The people in the background do not look energized at all.
lyle commented:
wanumba #2 is right.
When in difficulty, Obama falls back on what he knows best – Alinsky’s Rules.
As the favored villain, George Bush is no longer useful. They tried, to poor results. They’d love to make the midterms about Palin but that would be a hard sell since she’s not running, and it would increase her standing post-election. They’re going to have enough trouble with her as it is.
So Boehner’s their new villain of choice, and probably will be for the next couple of years. They’ll try to slander the next Speaker into irrelevance, as democrats did with Newt Gingrich.
One problem with this strategy is that it works best for radical outsiders versus status-quo insiders. It may not work as well when the roles are reversed.
pat09 commented:
Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, does it…….”Boehner”….. too many syllables. After 3.75 years of Obama bashing “Bush” it just doesn’t seem to flow naturally……. throws his campaign cadence off a bit.
I’d love to see a split screen with these campaign performances adjacent to one of his sleeper-flat-as-a-pancake oval office speeches…… but now everyone knows who the real Obama is ……. its all fake…..he has all the substance of a fart in the wind………..
Ken commented:
obummer’s a loser
notsurprised commented:
soooooooooo does this mean he’s done blaming Booooooosh……….?!??!?!?
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Didn’t think so…………….
Militant Conservative commented:
Lots, of grain spirits or beer. Got bacon for book marks and spam for that extra yum level. Muzterds are the unwanted offspring of Abraham. They may have been the first born but did not get the blessing of Abraham. WHAAAAAA!!! powder is dry.
gus commented:
Hey Mister Affirmative Action nearly real President.
You asked for the job.
You said you were the man.
Shut the f#$k up and fix it.
aro5o75 commented:
Obowma is shaking in his $3000 loafers over the prospect of Boehner taking piglosi’s gavel.
Militant Conservative commented:
Been telling you its a tsunami. 50 seats or more in the house. 6 to 7 in the senate. Gold bricks is what he’ll poop. Not no but HELL THE F NO!!!!
powder is dry.
arnonerik commented:
We need Jobs! So the oh so brilliant President Osama’s (not a typo) solution is to increase taxes on those who can provide the jobs. Demonize the people who invest in business and provide opportunity for the rest of us.
He is just full of great ideas, ideas that have wrecked the ecomomy of every country that adopted them. All we will have left when he is through is hope and small change.
wow commented:
Pat09:
.he has all the substance of a fart in the wind………..
Thank you, lovely. Mind if I quote you?
Jofred commented:
Obama says Republicans kill people makes them happy WSJ today
Instead of coming together like past generations … their argument [ republicans ]is … denying care to folks that are sick .
FU*K OBAMA. THIS RACIST FILTH.
olds-mo-william commented:
“I do not think U.S. Treasuries are safe in the medium-and long-run,” Yu Yonding, a member of the state-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, wrote yesterday in an e-mailed response to questions.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-03/treasuries-lack-safety-liquidity-for-china-yu-yongding-says.html
squeaky commented:
from doug ross/director blue – poor barbara boxer [can you call me senator please]
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/09/barbara-call-me-maam-boxer-ensnared-in.html
now today, doug has a piece about an aide of boxers caught bringing in pot………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFSaqFzSO8
2centsworth commented:
Well, this from Boehner should prove Obama WRONG once again…
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Paul commented:
We need to hire additional workers, that can work from home via Call-center software answering customer questions and with the current leadership in both the Federal and the State of Ohio, just not going to do it. If Strickland stays in power, then we will hire out of state, if we totally get overwhelmed – simple as that All my employees need is a computer, high speed internet and a room they can use at home that the dogs don’t bark and the kids are not heard yelling. I, and a hell of a lot other business types I deal with are waiting it out. This is what we get with “leadership” that hasn’t had to meet one single payroll, other than to deposit the one someone gave them
Mark1957 commented:
Obama is the little boy who has spent all of his ice cream money and now wants us to give him more.
Hedgehog commented:
The only thing an Obama supporter can say now is ” I adore the ground that he slithers along”.
Swifty commented:
I started listening to his speech touted as “big news” and as soon as he started talking to me about the economy from 2000-2008, I switched the channel. Later I went to the movies.
Clinton was president in 2000 when a recession started after the dot com bust, the end of the milking of Y2K work, and irrational exuberance.
I saw videotape later where Obama basically said we didn’t need to repeat the mistakes that got us where we are today with the Republicans in charge for the last decade. Really?
Bush had two full terms for eight years. Where does a decade in charge come from, Mr. High Level Math?
As far as the houses of Congress, let’s look at who’s been in charge over at least part of this past decade, since clearly Obama has got amnesia on history over the last 10 yeats.
Many people forget that Tom Daschle was the Senate majority leader, a Democrat, from 2001-2003. And, Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, both Democrats were (and still are) majority leaders in Congress from 2007-2008 and going on four years now. And Obama, now amazing elected president despite logic and common sense, was also in the US Senate from 2007-2008 and quit his job to be president. The House does the spending bills. So, Nancy Pelosi and his minions have been treating Americans to a losing path for almost four years now.
Thanks, Obama, for the history lesson on the economy. Now get your guilty parties correct and you might be onto something. Don’t lecture us on the Republicans being in charge for the last decade. BS. And don’t tell us that the Republicans have no new ideas. So what? How about using old ideas that actually work rather than the old ideas you and the Democrats are using that are not helping.
Obama is a damn disgrace.
Swifty commented:
>> his minions
her minions
Annaleesea commented:
You’re assuming that most Democratic voters know how to read a graph. “Thats your first mistake:”
kato commented:
Jivemaster said something like: “There were fewer jobs created between 2000 and 2008 under George Bush than during any previous recovery.”
The key word here is “previous.” Since 2008, there has been a jive recovery during which millions of jobs have been lost.
At least jobs were created during that recovery. Bush didn’t need to lie about a bogus stat called “jobs saved” and he didn’t need to steal a trillion dollars of private wealth to get the economy going after a double-whammy — the collapse of the dot-com bubble followed by 9/11.
befuddled commented:
“Oh by the way, got my cheap ass koran today. MMMM MMMM MMMM gonna taste good on the grill come 9/11. Lil bacon dripings, baste it awhile, then poof irritated muzterds. How can we tell??? They going to be like out of date sour cream and turn sweet? powder is dry. bring it on.”
couldn’t help but to laugh. i know it’s a bit childish to be burning the koran and resorting to impish methods to provoke the Mohammedans, but there’s another part of me that also wants a little eye for an eye. we’ve sat back and watched our religion and our nation be defamed, pissed and crapped upon (literally) by the leftist fascists in the name of tolerance–seriously.
so if burning a koran shows a bunch of backwards, 12th century mohammedan fascists that America still stands for freedom of speech and ,most importantly, freedom from religion, than to hell with them, burn baby burn.
bg commented:
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“Let me be clear to Mr. Boehner and everyone else. We
should not hold middle class tax cuts hostage any longer,”
they’re exactly where he wants them,
he belonged to a cult that advocated:
Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.”
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Dracovert commented:
Your chart is misleading in an important way. It looks as if the surplus peaked and as soon as Bush took over it started down. THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED. But that is the way the Demonicrats try to sell the idea: Clinton created the surplus, Bush created the deficit. The Demonicrats are lying, as always.
The surplus peaked in 1999 (30 Sep, the end of the fiscal year) and was down by half in 2000 while Clinton was still in office. The Clinton surplus was down by half in Sep 2000 because the Dot.com Bubba Bubble popped in January 2000, one solid year before Clinton left office. The NASDAQ fell $2.5 trillion during Clinton’s last year in office, signalling the start of what could have been a disastrous recession. But Bush took the proper corrective actions and the Bubba Recession was uncomonly mild, with unemployment advancing to only 6.1%.
A vertical line on your graph at the end of year 2000 would graphically and correctly show when the surplus started down on Clinton’s watch.
sandy commented:
The guy whose financial policies have made a mess of this country — trashes John Boehner. Obama’s arrogance stinks up every room he enters. Maybe if he listened to someone beside himself he might learn something. But then this know-it-all thinks he has nothing left to learn and who could doubt him after all the great things he has done for our economy ahmmmmmm.
sandy commented:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Panel-examining-recessions-apf-3720520503.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
Check this out. Obama has sent a panel to Vegas who decided that the problem of the 14.5% unemployment is the fault of the people of Nevada.
This is exactly what Reid is saying. This mob of Democrats blames the people for all their problems.
Even ordinary Democrats know that they are hurting because of Obama and Harry Reid. So lying to people just makes the Dems look like total jerks.
Andreas K. commented:
Excessive spending leads to tax hike. Tax hike leads to more excessive spending.
Don’t believe it?
Look at Europe.
billy sol commented:
when he was just a pup he was mistreated at his kennel, but when they cropped his ears, he lost his identity as a beagle according to his brother snoopy! i thought obumma had this covereed! <8% unemployment by now!!! that was the promise!
thomas mc donnell commented:
obama is always criticizing the rich and business people as having too much money and being greedy and corrupt. hell he belongs to the richest, most crooked ,corrupt, immoral, unethical, incompetent group in america, the american politicans. there are probably less than ten thousand politicans in the country. yet they take half the money that one hundred and eighty million people earn. that is the greatest concentration of wealth in the hands of a few in the history of the country. where the hell do they get the nerve to criticize anybody else.