It Begins… Media Smears GOP “Hardliners” For Not Embracing Obama’s Spend Your Way to Hell Fiscal Plan

Here’s a chart you’ll never see in the nightly news:
Obama tripled the deficit in one year with his failed stimulus plan.

The Obama deficit this year may reach $1.65 trillion. (The Captain’s Comments)

Here’s a table you’ll never see in the nightly news:
Barack Obama and Democrats added almost One Trillion Dollars to the Federal Budget in the last 4 years.

That’s at least a 30% increase in federal spending in just 3 years.

But, sadly, if you don’t agree with Obama’s spend your way to hell plan – the media says you’re a rightwing “hardliner.”

Yahoo pulled this latest biased headline from TIME mag:

The GOP’s hardliner: How Eric Cantor thwarted the Obama-Boehner debt deal

At his press conference on Monday, President Obama made clear that his frustration with House Republicans’ intransigence in negotiations to raise the federal borrowing limit did not extend to their leader. “I think Speaker Boehner has been very sincere about trying to do something big,” Obama said, one of several compliments in an extended embrace of his negotiating partner. “The politics that swept him into the speakership were good for a midterm election; they’re tough for governing.”

Tough indeed. And a death hug from a polarizing Democratic President doesn’t make the task easier for Boehner. From the start of his speakership, Boehner has been forced to contend not just with a fractious band of freshmen who would rather risk economic catastrophe than give ideological ground, but also with a top lieutenant positioning himself as Boehner’s purist foil. While Obama may respect Boehner’s forthrightness, recent twists in the plot of debt ceiling negotiations suggest that if he wants to convince hard-line House conservatives not to jeopardize the nation’s economy, he may have been negotiating with the wrong Republican.

What trash.
And they wonder why they’re not taken seriously anymore?

Related… Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey added, “What they have done is massively expanded the size of government by about 25 percent, relative to GDP, and now they come along and say, ‘you guys need to raise taxes to pay for this.”

#1 July 12, 2011 at 8:39 am
Sharon commented:

My first reaction when I saw the headlines blaming Cantor was that they were blaming the Joooos again. Just like calling the Iraq war supporters Neocons. Subtle, but definitely implied. Wonder how many others had the same reaction.
#2 July 12, 2011 at 8:41 am
Spider commented:

Doe ‘Hard Liner’ mean you are sane?

Then Eric Cantor is a hard liner.
#3 July 12, 2011 at 8:42 am
Spider commented:

Does….
#4 July 12, 2011 at 8:49 am
Nano commented:

Since when are we supposed to become the tax collectors for dem spending? They could have raised taxes if they wanted them so much while they had both houses and the Presidency. Also no tax increases in the last 6 spending limit debates. This is just all spin.
#5 July 12, 2011 at 8:52 am
aprilnovember811 commented:

The smartest thing the responsible, moral, Congress members can do is to refuse any media requests. Distance yourselves from these people. We know that tax money has funded NBC. They aren’t credible. Don’t watch the propaganda state run television, and look at the blogs for information. They are nothing but trouble. There’s a certain percentage of the country who will never be informed and Congress just has to ignore them and do what is right. History is on their side. Stay away from them, and send your budget to the Senate. If the Senate passes it, and the impostor veto’s it, it’s on his hands. Everyone is one to him. He is the loser, and he will never, never, never, never, be elected to usurp this White House again.

He should be in prison as an accessory to murder in Fast and Furious. Don’t give him any more money to provide AK-47′s to drug lords or Hezbollah, who is in Mexico. Obama
is a criminal who people stupidly honored with the presidency. He’ll always be a stain on this country. He makes my skin crawl.
#7 July 12, 2011 at 8:54 am
Swifty commented:

The Republicans don’t have to compromise at all. They won.
#8 July 12, 2011 at 8:55 am
#1AMERICAN commented:

start with firing all new government hires in the past 2 years… cut corporate tax rates to give them incentive to invest/hire…cut capital gains tax rate…make government unions illegal they are civil servants and nothing more…
#9 July 12, 2011 at 8:55 am
aprilnovember811 commented:

When are they going to submit a budget? When you liar Soetoro? Where’s your college records Mr. Brilliance? I want to see what your math grades were. Hey, Brian Williams you useful idiot, what are his math grades? Don’t make them up now, I want to see actual college transcripts. No, maybe we would be better off with an actual mental health evaluation from an objective psychiatrist or psychologist. Obama’s mentally ill, and it’s not meant to be a joke. He should be removed under the 25th amendement if it’s the only way.
#10 July 12, 2011 at 8:56 am
aprilnovember811 commented:

Barry, “We won!”
#11 July 12, 2011 at 8:57 am
RedBeard commented:

Time? What’s that, some sort of an old worn-out magazine? I have no idea.
#12 July 12, 2011 at 9:05 am
S. Wolf commented:

Zero is just waiting for magic beans or a fairy godmother or something…

‘Prior to his book sales, made possible by terrorist Bill Ayers writing the book for him, and prior to her 250% “magic beans” raise, the Obamas were deeply in debt.

How can this country trust its future and the economy to a president who has never run a business [not even a lemonade stand] or hired even one employee? What right does Barack Obama have to sit in meetings with Republicans now, after 2 years of unprecedented government spending, and tell us to “eat our peas?” Let’s look back to just a few years ago, how much of a mess Barack Obama’s personal finances were…until he managed to hitch a ride on the government gravy train. He and Michelle couldn’t manage their own household spending, no wonder he’s making such a mess of the country now. Why do the national media give this poseur such a “pass?”’

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/07/flashback-pre-2005-obamas-deeply-in-debt-living-off-lines-of-credit-until-magic-beans-arrived/

See BO and MO on tacky couch before they hit the jackpot and moved into the WH.
#13 July 12, 2011 at 9:11 am
S. Wolf commented:

It’s not Boehner’s fault.

‘
President Barack Obama could have done two things that might have saved his Mother of All Budget Deals.

First, he could have embraced market-centered, consumer -focused reforms to Medicare. That was about as likely as him accepting an Obamacare rollback. Second, he could have agreed — as House Speaker John Boehner and Republicans suggested — to sharply reduce tax rates in return for fewer special tax deductions/breaks/loopholes/subsidies. Recall that is what his own debt commission recommended.

Instead, he apparently offered to keep top individual rates where they are, at 35 percent, in exchange for tax reform. Now that’s a big tax hike. But it’s also revealing. As a GOP source on the Hill put it:

Their fierce insistence on higher taxes is beyond bizarre. … The bipartisan consensus on tax reform (broader base & lower rates) was championed by President’s fiscal commission, and yet now is being rebuked by the President. Lowering top rates that would help make America more competitive was too large a leap for a true class warrior.

Obama agrees with the left-of-center consensus that America is dramatically undertaxed.

In short, Obama sees a need for a permanently bigger government and a lot more tax revenue to fund it. Had Obama agreed with his own debt commission and Republicans, a big agreement was possible. Or he could have proposed real reforms to entitlements. But he declined and there wasn’t a mega-deal. Don’t blame Boehner for that.’

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/07/10/no-big-budget-deal-blame-obama-not-boehner/
#14 July 12, 2011 at 9:19 am
Scott M commented:

“It Begins” just doesn’t work as a dramatic device when it’s overused.
#15 July 12, 2011 at 9:19 am
Joe College commented:

Team Obama is winning the budget debate in the public. A CNN poll with the question: “Which party do you trust more in the talks over the debt ceiling?” Has Dems ahead 59% to 41%. Yes, CNN has a left readership, but not by that much

The GOP walked right into a trap, as usual. People only know what they see on the news and the GOP is too stiff to get out of the way of a fixed narrative.
#16 July 12, 2011 at 9:22 am
Finncrisp commented:

Barry is coming off as a true idiot in this DEBTGATE death match. Clueless is as clueless does. I would swear Biden is now his speechwriter. WORST PRESIDENT EVER.

We need to hold the line and send this POS packing.
#17 July 12, 2011 at 9:37 am
Rose commented:

I just listened to an ostensibly Conservative Fox News Economic analyst who ONLY spoke of cutting in terms of Services to the needy – she never discussed chopping off SEIU and outrageous pensions bonuses and bennies, or ACORN funding which isn’t gone yet, or making the Interior Dept shed many millions of acres in preserves and in NON-ESSENTIAL and FRIVOLOUS govt programs – NEA/PBS/NPR, UN, funding research grants for junk research, defunding Embryonic Stem Cell Research since we know all the Solutions come from Adult Stem Cell – cut off the Advertizing Commercials and pamphlets for Govt programs – slash funding at all levels to entitlement funding for ILLEGAL ALIENS, cut off the Anchor Baby program and all funding for it. ALL funding for letting Illegal Aliens ILLEGALLY MADE “CITIZENS” to help them bring their families over, too. WE DO NOT OWE THEM THAT.
LEGAL ALIENS and LEGAL-through-the-LEGAL-CHANNELS Naturalized Citizens have TRADITIONALLY always had to fund their own family matters of that nature.

They talk EXCLUSIVELY of cutting Military Paychecks and Social Security – Never of not cutting the checks for over-stuffed and non-essential Govt Offices, and cutting the Govt Office LUXURIES.

WHY are ANY govt offices buying WINE??????????

The headlines regarding one GOP Senator buying wine with him meal with his personal money
has brought to the front the fact that many Congress and others are stocking their professional surroundings, offices and planes with Govt-paid Wines and champagnes and the assorted ET AL attendant to such purchases. HOW DOES THAT GET PASSED?
I know… their system — TIME if SOCIAL Security CHECKS to people who paid in all their lives AND ARE GETTING SHORTED ON THAT PENSION PACKAGE IN THE BEST OF TIMES as they get back a FRACTION of a personal account, AND A FRACTION OF THE BENEFITS of a personal account, I.E. INHERITANCE to spouses and children and the Family Farm!!!
That LUXURY BENNIES of the Govt Offices, and the LUXURY of FRIVOLOUS GOT OFFICES and SHAMEFUL excuses of govt programs that do not have a legitimate leg to stand on…

Slash Govt Employees by 30% OFF THE TOP, and sell the govt offices that hold them, pump the Oil and Gas and Mine the Coal, and Unions related to Govt employees and favoritism to PRIVATE COMPANIES that Govt has pretty much MANDATED those companies have unions, also.
#18 July 12, 2011 at 9:43 am
Militant Conservative commented:

“we the people” don’t want anything snake oil Obama

Is selling. That socialist Satan is almost done.

Bible says so. Powder is dry
#19 July 12, 2011 at 9:51 am
Rose commented:

KIRSTEN POWERS says Obama hurts himself critically with the base to even suggest that some issues are on the table – so why don’t the GOP have to make suggestions that also hurt them with their base too.

Well, Kirsten Powers’ view is so totally warped that it never occurs to her that the GOP has been Fatally wounding themselves with Spending Increases for 25 Years. and the Dims never allow Spending Cuts, even when a group of them “faithfully swear” that if the GOP allows a tax increase to cover a Budget “shortfall” the Dims DELIBERATELY built into the SPENDING, that the DIMS will follow the Tax INCREASE with a BIG SPENDING CUT!

That NEVER HAPPENS!

We are in this problem because of Spending, not because of TAXES – and the SPENDING of GOVT LUXURY has NEVER been slashed in 70 YEARS.

the GOP have paid their dues in hurting themselves with the Voters – it is the DIMS turn to CUT THE SPENDING.
and NOT by starting with ESSENTIAL BASICS that the Govt is most obligated to.

The Social Security program is UNCONSTITUTIONAL but the DIMS started that PONZI SCHEME and every American who paid into it would have been better with a PRIVATE SAVINGS PROGRAM – that was REGULATED OUT OF POSSIBILITY also UNCONSTITUTIONALLY the same exact way they intend to regulate out PRIVATE HEALTH CARE, too, now.

AND ARE DOING TO AMERICAN FOOD AND ENERGY THE SAME WAY.

MILITARY is VITAL AND IS CONSTITUTIONAL. They don’t have the right to talk about cutting MILITARY CHECKS.

I NOTICE they don’t talk of cutting SEIU GOVT EMPLOYEES’ CHECKS AND SALARY AMOUNTS AND BENNIES AND NON-SOCIAL SECURITY PENSION CHECKS, etc etc etc…

Cut the Interior Dept and EPA, and Ed Dept and FCC and FDA, Homeland Security,

And revisit the FACT that the IRS Amendment was NEVER PROPERLY RATIFIED by WE THE PEOPLE.
#20 July 12, 2011 at 10:18 am
avery commented:

I” vote for Rose if she run.
#21 July 12, 2011 at 10:19 am
garrettc commented:

Yes I am am a rightwing hardliner, and my position on government excesses is getting harder by the day. Be proud of it and vocal.
#22 July 12, 2011 at 10:24 am
gus commented:

Eat peas!??? No eat $hit mutherfu**ker. If Boehner gives an inch, his career ends.
#23 July 12, 2011 at 10:25 am
StrangernFiction commented:

And according to Bob Beckel, folks like me are terrorists who should be in Guantanamo.

We will either DEFEAT the left, separate ourselves from them, or be destroyed by them.
#24 July 12, 2011 at 10:29 am
gus commented:

Boob Beckel is a loser. A fat phuck who writes checks to hookers. He pays for sex and his checks bounce.
I think Boob Beckel can shut the phuck up and eat his peas.
#25 July 12, 2011 at 10:30 am
lizzy84 commented:

I want to see the word cloud on this fog of oBama BullSH**T:
“It’s not because I have some grand plan for bigger government”…but he didn’t say he doesn’t.

Show us your PLAN, first, Barry. Where’s your PLAN??
#26 July 12, 2011 at 10:33 am
gus commented:

My local 10:30 news on WTMJ 620, the biggest station in the state, just said that REPUBLICANS ARE STILL SAYING NO TO ANY “REVENUE INCREASES”.

Republicans are saying NO to TAX INCREASES. The NEWS MEDIA is a joke. A 6th grader can read the LIBTARD talking points much cheaper.
#27 July 12, 2011 at 10:35 am
tommy mc donnell commented:

obama is the hardliner.
#28 July 12, 2011 at 10:46 am
gus commented:

Obama is a phucking coward. When is he going to debate Paul Ryan and where?
#30 July 12, 2011 at 11:16 am
MVH commented:

…Eric Cantor thwarted the Obama-Boehner…
Oh, what a telling phrase. Oh, what telling key words.

Frankly, ~~the Cry-Baby Orange Guy~~ Boehner is a squish but, boy, is he shrewd. He saw the TEA Party parade coming and he put himself right in front of it like a drum major; as if he were there all along [Someone correct me if I'm wrong. But, I don't remember him attending any TEA Party gatherings]. As soon as the 11/2010 election is over, voila! he’s “elected” SOTH.

Spineless GOP fossils like ~~bonehead~~ Boehner are part of the problem. Because those fossils were present when today’s problems were begining to fester way back when, and they did nothing to stop it!

THANK G-D FOR ERIC CANTOR!
Bing on the “Hardliners.”
#32 July 12, 2011 at 12:09 pm
A new day, new threat commented:

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in an interview on Tuesday that checks to recipients of the Social Security retirement program may not go out in early August if he and congressional leaders do not agree a debt deal.
#34 July 12, 2011 at 1:59 pm
bg commented:

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#36 July 12, 2011 at 4:47 pm
silentcal_rox commented:

cantor, ryan, bachmann . .thamk god for these people . .thee is hope!!!
#37 July 12, 2011 at 6:41 pm
JudithNYC commented:

They say if you repeat a lie enough it becomes accepted no matter how fictional & Obama et al triumph on fiction. So, I applaud the way GATEWAY challenges Obama’s lies by repeating in numerous posts the fact of the trillions of dollars Obama added to the debt & budget…keep up the good work…w/ maverick conservative bloggers like GATEWAy, hopefully the truth will prevail despite a corrupt Administration & a Pravda media.
#38 July 13, 2011 at 7:42 am
burt commented:

“Hardliner” is the latest focus approved term for the media. I stopped watching the evening news when Dan Rather did his hit job on the people of Pittsburgh after their World Series win in the 1971. His story was 100% lie. I knew it, he knew it, and I am sure anyone who live in Pittsburgh and watched his broadcast knew it. Don’t believe anything you see in the media. Don’t be brain dead.