Obviously a bunch of Muppet Fuckers.
That was rather beautiful.
In a “bad touch!” kind of way?
In a ‘true believer’ sort of way. I’m not the most lefty or righty guy on earth but it was clear that, for all of him, I was an arch liberal member of the media that he had to tolerate.
Weird. Weird to be with and weird to interview.
Ya know, I thought you were going to say, “encouraging people to check their tire pressure.”
And didn’t Obama campaign on cutting waste? I seem to recall promises about having people go through the books with a fine-toothed comb in the name of a balanced budget. Was he being dishonest? Naive? Insincere? Stupid?
Better than Elmo, I suppose.
Did he?
Oh, hell, they all do! Its a “gimmee”, a note of political music you can sing that everyone likes to hear, esp. people who tend a bit conservative. Doesn’t cost anything, doesn’t commit you to anything, and may score a few hundred thousand votes.
Depends if the financial backers of the “movement” decide to re-animate it or not.
Anyone who isn’t a total moron knows that under-inflated tires do waste gas. Why not go after the low-hanging fruit?
Do you know this didn’t happen? And, please give me a cite to where he promised to balance the budget this year, or even next. Of course trying to balance the budget in a financial crisis worked really great for Herbert Hoover, so we should try it again.
Tell that to Kermit Roosevelt’s dad. I dare you.
No.
Are you joking?
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“Absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
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Promises to appoint a Chief Performance Officer to cut waste
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Cancels plan to return to the moon
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One hundred twenty six programs cut in this year’s budget
Granted, he didn’t go off the deep end and promise to cut $100 billion from the budget, but Obama most certainly did promise to cut “waste.”
Other than (1), all of that occurred after the election. I don’t think one quote about earmarks means “he campaigned on cutting waste”.
This isn’t going to help the GOP with the tea partiers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/us/politics/05fiscal.html?ref=politics
Looks like the $100 billion in savings is down to $50 or $60 billion, and it’s only the first day of the new term. Is that record time for breaking a campaign pledge?
However, this may help them:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/business/economy/05letters.html?ref=politics
The title is “G.O.P. Asks Businesses Which Rules to Rewrite”, which looks like it was lifted directly from the Onion or the Simpsons (I think Mayor Quimby had a similar rule when Hollywood was coming to town). I have to imagine the title is somewhat misleading, but it’s too much fun just to assume the worst.
Even in this election cycle, that award would go to Rand “Well, I hate earmarks except in my own district” Paul.
Well, I’m sure he’ll do the right thing and resign.
“And that’s why I think it’s important for the president to set a tone that says all of us are going to contribute, all of us are going to make sacrifices, and it means that, yes, we may have to cut some spending, although I disagree with Sen. McCain about an across-the- board freeze. That’s an example of an unfair burden sharing. That’s using a hatchet to cut the federal budget. I want to use a scalpel so that people who need help are getting help and those of us, like myself and Sen. McCain, who don’t need help, aren’t getting it.” Debate, 10/7/2008
“But there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments. Now, what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut. … And some of the cuts, just to give you an example, we spend $15 billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies. It doesn’t – under the Medicare plan – it doesn’t help seniors get any better. It’s not improving our health care system. It’s just a giveaway. We need to eliminate a whole host of programs that don’t work. And I want to go through the federal budget line by line, page by page, programs that don’t work, we should cut. Programs that we need, we should make them work better.” Debate, 10/15/2008
Too bored to look up other examples.
All spending is equivalent to waste now? I presume you don’t feel that way about your salary.
WRT a great many of the Tea Party’s members, by 2012 “re-animate” will require a literal interpretation.
But that should be no problem for Rove.