“What was the point of giving a prime time address to the nation without an Obama plan?”
Must watch video of Obama’s mouthpiece getting hammered by the press corps for the lack of ANY Obama plan.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cqmMhzybek[/youtube]
Longer version here
We all know why he hasn’t produced a plan. They are scared that the GOP will use it against him next year. So instead of offering a plan all he does is give speeches with flowery rhetoric…but gives no plan and then has the gall to blame “the other side.”
It’s all politics to this candidate.
Over the last five days, the president has (a) undermined a bargain with John Boehner by introducing an unacceptable eleventh-hour condition, (b) rejected “out of hand” a bipartisan compromise that he found to be politically unpalatable, and (c) delivered a speech that painted his opponents as the intractable extremists. In light of this behavior, it’s entirely reasonable for Americans to wonder what, precisely, Barack Obama’s proposed solution might be.
And when the White House press secretary is asked WHERE IS HIS PLAN? All he does is say it’s a GOP talking point.
Really?
It’s a talking point to wonder where in the flying f&!* is Obama’s plan?
Todd asked Carney about the White House’s reluctance to release its plan to deal with the national debt and raising the debt ceiling. Carney acknowledged the White House was playing games. “We’re showing a lot of leg,” he said. When Todd pressed for details – “Why not just release it?” – Carney seemed surprised. “You need it written down?”
What a difference two years makes. In the spring of 2009, with Republicans in the minority in the House of Representatives, the White House and its Democratic allies were demanding specifics. The House GOP had to produce an alternative budget, the White House demanded, in order to show that they were serious about governing.
On March 24, President Obama complained that the White House and its friends “haven’t seen a budget from the Republicans.” Two days later, after the Republicans presented a 19-page budget framework, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, mocked the plan for its lack of specifics. CNN reported that Gibbs “laughed off the Republican’s proposal, joking that their blueprint has more pictures of windmills than charts.”
What a difference a few years make eh?
UPDATE
After bobbing-and-weaving for nine minutes, Carney finally says what everybody knows: the president won’t put his plan on paper because he doesn’t want it to become “politically charged” before a compromise can be reached. In other words, you’ve got to pass it to find out what’s in it
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That was painful to watch.
Obama wants another trillion to reward his political loyalists before the election. He called it a Stimulus the last time. Give me a trillion now and we will reduce the deficit by a trillion over ten years. No wonder they wont let anyone know what is happening. We are being sold down river once again.
Plan? Plan? We don’t need no steenking plan!!
I was just paraphrasing Carney…
Gripe, gripe, gripe. No plan, no budget, I gave you 35 Czars aren’t you satisfied with that? Cheeze.
Here is another interview of Jay Carney, this time with Bret Baier.
Scan forward to about the 2:15 point.
Carney is explaining why any bill failing to push the debt ceiling problem past the next election is unacceptable.
“It would leave the cloud hanging over our ca– economy.”
(Watch it here.)
Doesn’t the word “campaign” seemed more likely to have come out than “economy” in that sentence?
It certainly has been important to Obama.
It isn’t the responsibility, as Cry Baby Boehner pointed out, for the WH to bring a plan to the negotiations. His job is to either sign or veto legislation.
I know you guys know the constitution, but don’t get too carried away with the propaganda.
Either way, he did present a budget and it was rejected. Now it is up to the Republicans and Dems in the Congress to present a budget.
That is true, Ivan. And it’s long overdue they threw Obama to the curb. However you also have to acknowledge that this POTUS, himself, inserted himself into the mix as the saviour and with grand style and high profile media attention. I suspect he thought he’d be walking out, looking like the “adult” in the room instead of the petulant loser. He deserves not only criticism for overreaching and attempted bullying, but also for his failures.
@Ivan:
Harry Reid:
If Reid doesn’t want to pass a budget, then a budget won’t be passed; the majority leader controls what is and what is not considered in the Senate.
The last time the Senate passed a budget was April 29, 2009.
@Nan G: Good find, Nan! Nice little Freudian slip there, Mr. Carney.
INRE Reid’s remark…. to his defense, budgets do not originate in the Senate, and since the House is now held by the GOP, it would be foolish for the Dems to propose a budget. It’s not their place to do so, altho wise to consult with them for potential passage in the Senate chamber with proposed ideas.
OTOH… it would be remiss that they… being the Dems… not only find it “foolish” this year, but felt the same way in the immediate previous years, while holding the sway of power, as well. Unfortunately their big spending proposals wouldn’t have gone over well politically, a’top their other infamous big spending deals in the “stimulus” (cough, cough), O’healthcare and Dodd-Frank. So it was easier to do the shuck’n’jive/dodgeball game instead.
So what Carney seems to be saying is they didn’t want it to become politically charged in the same manner that the all the Republican proposals have been “politically charged” by Obama, Carney, the Democrats and the MSM. The Democrats are playing political games with the debt crisis counting on the SOP that no matter what the result is, they and the MSM will blame it on the Republicans. Am I the only one who sees the cynical hypocrisy in this?
@Ditto: No Ditto, you’re not. I see it too and wish the GOP would just pass a budget that cuts, caps and balances (or comes darn close to doing so), send it to the Senate and then stop all the nonsense. They are supposed to do that, not make some historic “compromise.”
“We’re showing a lot of leg,” Carney said about the Obama administration’s verbal jousting on the debt ceiling. How appropriate for the White House to use that metaphor. The last time I dealt with anybody showing a lot of leg, it was a hooker trying to part me from my wallet, probably in exchange for a case of crabs, or something worse.
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HI, that was funny,
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