All in all it was a great day for the President. He made them look like the fools and idiots they are. Here is a video of his address to them before they started the q and a session.
It is about 20 minutes long and is very good.
Next is the q and a session and it is quite a bit longer. When asked later, the members of the Party of No, stated they wished they had closed it to cameras because they felt they came off looking badly. Well....DUH....lol
The President was in top form and in his element, refuting their lies and setting the record straight in every way he could.
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As I stated in my post yesterday, this President will not stop reaching out to these idiots... This is how our government is supposed to work.
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what a day! PRICELESS!!
Yes it was.. this was history in the making.. I loved it .. every minute of it..
because it was so compelling - Fox News cut out early -- what a loser organization (but we already knew that)
But of course.. they couldn't let anyone see the President calling them out on their lies and showing them up for the idiots they were...lol I thought it was wonderful. I think it should happen at least once a month and it should be the Democrats too.. They need to be on the carpet just as much as the Rethugs do...
This was great, I watched the whole thing and the Q&A session. Obama is bloody brilliant.
"across the board tax cut" = tax cuts for the wealthy = tax cuts for mega corporations
I think the congressman from Indiana has some memory problems. Our economy is in shambles because of the Republicans and G. Dubya Bush and their cronies. Demagogues always want to lay the blame anywhere except where it belongs.
Republicans can't do maths. XD
"We have not been obstructionists." THAT is right up there with "Read my lips, no new taxes."
You know, the hyperbole spouted by the Republicans is such BS. They rant about earmarks, but some of the earmarks fund projects that employ people. They always manage to take whatever is unpopular in the mind of the public and twist it just enough to make it seem like they're for it or against it, depending on which way the wind is blowing.
Lulz @ Bolshevik Plot
"If you say we can offer coverage for all Americans, and it won't cost a penny, that's just not true. You can't structure a bill where suddenly 30 million people have coverage, and it costs nothing... That's great politics, but it's just not true." FTW!
The Republicans are just upset that Obama won't roll over and do 100% of what they want. I love how Obama looks like he wants to laugh every time that the Republicans say something absurd and untruthful.
Thanks for visiting A World Quite Mad, I hope you come again... Yes, this is very good... I love how he destroys them with just words... very simply, very quietly...
He is the master....lol and I don't mean that in the way of deity... so let no one take my words out of context...
He was a bit defensive at times, but was overall successful in making the point that a civil debate is a prerequisite for moving forward. They're going to have to make that point over and over in the coming months.
John Beohner made today what was in effect the Republican response, saying that his party would have to stand on principle (as if the Democrats don't). However, I think that will make them seem unreasonable in the face of the recession. He overplayed his hand somewhat, claiming for example that portable medical insurance (which the Republicans support) would not require federal oversight. That's a joke, and he knows it. Whether the MSM holds him up to ridicule over it is another question.
I heard him say that... and of course they won't hold him up for saying that... they haven't bothered to hold their feet to the fire for any of the other lies they have told, what would make the difference now.
Refuting obviously ridiculous claims with facts seems like such a novel idea in this atmosphere of poisoned partisan politics. It's so refreshing to see someone have a forum to actually tell the truth. The truth it seems is not as sexy as outrageous lies. The press revels in reporting outrageous claims but usually sticks the truth in a small corner of the broadcast or newspaper.
I wish we could see more of this. The press should be confronting these lies when they are spouted instead of debating them as if they deserve the same weight as the truth. The President was phenomenal and took the Republican leadership by surprise. I'm sure that they expected more partisan spin, but instead they got smacked in the face with the truth.
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