During his press conference today, called to announce his new gun control task force, President Obama invoked the Newtown massacre to apply pressure on congressional Republicans in the fiscal cliff standoff.
OBAMA: If this past week has done anything it should give us some perspective. I-I-I-If there’s one thing we should have, after this week, it should be a sense of perspective about what’s important. And I would like to think that members of that caucus would say to themselves “You know what, I disagree with the president on some things. We wish the other guy had won. We’re gonna fight him on a whole range of issues over the next four years. We think his philosophy is all screwed up. But right now, what the country needs is for us to compromise, get a deficit reduction deal in place, make sure middle class taxes don’t go up, make sure that we’re laying the foundations for growth, give certainty to businesses large and small, not put ourselves through some sort of self-inflicted crisis every six months, allow ourselves time to focus on things like preventing the tragedy in Newtown from happening again, focus on issues like energy and immigration reform, all the things that will make a determination as to whether our country grows over the next four years, ten years, 20 years, and if we could just pull back from the immediate political battles, if ya peel off the partisan war paint, then we should be able to get something done.”
I think, I think the Speaker would like to get that done. But an environment needs to be created not just among House Republicans but among Senate Republicans that says the campaign is over and let’s see if we can do what’s right for the country, at least for the next month! And then, we can re-engage in all the other battles that they’ll wanna fight.
This has to be one of the lowest moments of a very low presidency. Why should the Newtown killings bring any sort of “perspective” to a spending crisis that Barack Obama has created?
Obama ascribes all kinds of nefarious political motives to his opponents while never acknowledging that he or anyone else on his side have anything but the best intentions. Then he invokes Newtown as if it has anything to do with his own reckless and highly partisan spending habits, when the spending standoff has been going on for years, and he signed onto the deal that has brought us to the current impasse. His nod to a “self-inflicted crisis” should be delivered while he looks into a mirror — he is calling for unbridled and uncapped spending because spending is the only thing he knows how to do. The best way to avoid such crises in the future would be to avoid spending so much that Congress has to keep raising the debt ceiling. He shows no interest in that approach, though.
Upon what issue does Barack Obama believe Republicans are in the right to fight his “screwed up” philosophy, if not taxation and how the government spends money, and how much power a president should have over government spending? That constitutes a far more fundamental issue worth fighting for than any of the others he invoked.
Video here, thanks to Tom Elliott.
One does not compromise on core principles. Compromise means to give up something of value for something of value in return. The president is offering nothing of value for what he is asking – everyone loses in the long run, except him and his followers. Boehner, on the other hand, has a lot to lose in the short and the long run. Whatever he agrees to then becomes the basis for the next negotiation, and so on, until the president and all his men have what they want – and then they can use the same process – dialectic – to demand more in some other areas – excuse me, compromise in some other areas.
Soon the Republican party will compromise itself out of existence. So well it might, and then we can begin a new with a more determined party who knows that compromise of one’s principles is one’s defeat.
Other than both parties having a double dose of mendacity, what core principles do they have?
I have no doubt that Barack Hussein Obama would gladly jump in and liberally smear himself with fresh blood, Jesse Jackson-like, if it would get him just a little closer to his stated goal of destroying our nation.
The amount of anti-American, Constitution shredding treachery, designed by Obama and gang, is out-sized, even by third world standards.
While he gutted necessary funding, two ! times, for school security programs, he has the gall to invoke gun control, but over the kiddies dead bodies! Not only that, had there been an armed guard, administrator or teacher at the school this would not have happened.
Moreover, this radical bastard sanctioned (yes, he did) Fast & Furiou; a gunrunning operation that not only killed a Border Agent, but hundreds of youngsters in Mexico!
He is behaving like a pyromaniac who demands more fuel to light additional buildings on fire. And he will do everything to ram gun control through, thus giving him and his surrogates total control, for generations to come.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/12/18/what-the-msm-is-predictably-blacking-out-in-their-coverage-of-recent-shootings-brief-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Hub has it right: If Boehner has any cajones, he’s packing his parachute now. He’s talking to himself now and no one is listening – certainly not Obama. He’s going to have a tough time getting the tire track stains out of his suit if keeps on this path…
– Antichristmas.
And he has a large army.
It’s just a way to label the Republicans as the reason for the “Fiscal Cliff” and when we go over he’ll get the tax money from everyone and blame it on the republicans. It’s the perfect political storm. This guy has no decency.
Obama can say these disgraceful things because he knows the press will never call him on it. He just keeps crawling lower and lower.
What an ass. Tell you what, Mr. President, you think we need compromise at a time like this? You first.
I’ll keep this short: F__K HIM!
I agree with you Rich K Flagalate a deceased equine with him.
The timing of his newton speech was very suspect…They interrupted primetime game sunday…his numbers dwindling definelty planned to help bolster his numbers.
So the campaign is over, huh? Why then is he still campaigning and asking for money. Obama has no intention of negotiating or giving in one iota. He is such a snake.
I would like to think that someday we will look at this sort of thing and try to figure out what the hell people were thinking, that any of this makes any sense, or that we must have lost our collective sanity somewhere. Of course, I have been thinking that for years now, and still this stuff goes on and gets worse by the day.
Does this guy ever listen to himself and have any shame?
Yes, and he looks at himself a lot, too./No.
Pure Saul Alinsky. Aside from the self-serving Dem narrative meme, empty words from the Empty Suit.
So here’s a guy who threw his own grandmother, the woman who raised him, under the bus when his campaign was in trouble in 2008.
You think he would have any problem throwing some dead white kids under that same bus?
When his face came on the TV Sunday evening in that hall in Connecticut, I felt so slimy I had to go take a shower.
And Democrats accuse Republicans of “politicizing” events? Good grief.
I don’t have printable words for the contempt I feel for those who reelected this ill-mannered, conscienceless cretin. Michael Barone said America is two countries that aren’t on speaking terms. He nailed it. I have no respect whatsoever for this anti-white racist demagogue or his electorate. I won’t knowingly associate with, do business with, or support anyone who voted for him and these days I make it a point to ask before I write a check. Damn the lot of them.
Still re-living the election, huh? Maybe a little retrospection. The real choices were the incumbent who won, a flaming liberal; and the only real conservative in the race, Gary Johnson, who couldn’t win.
No way I would be voting for the ultimate, spineless, flip-flopper, non-conservative; the other so-called major candidate.
Still skimming along on the surface, huh?
Let’s see if we can dig down a little.
What the election was really about – in the sense of what was at stake for our country – was whether the anti-American worst-mistake-in-our-history would get another 4 years – this time with “more flexibility”..
(VERY scary when said by someone who has made it clear that he wants to take us down a notch and rewrite our Constitution – all to take us closer and closer to European debacles)
..to finish his job of driving us into the ground so deeply that we will have no hope of recovery
-vs-
getting him the hell out of power as quickly as possible..
(hoping that he can’t do so much dirty work in the interim that we won’t HAVE another President)
..and replacing him with someone who at least won’t take us down the welfare-state road to hell quite as fast, giving us a little more time to try to redirect this headlong careening train.
…and while we’re categorizing the candidates, let’s be complete:
The incumbent is a socialist, obvious since he emerged from the miasma of Chicago-style politics and shot up the ladder amazingly quickly, nourished by an “electorate” that has finally become so clueless about the principles that made this country what it was as to vote on the basis of their gut feelings aroused by his charisma.
Your Gary Johnson is the guy who chose to run for the Libertarian Party, which chose to participate in this election even though it was obvious to the most casual observer that that would seriously threaten our chances of getting rid of the traitor.
I suggest that you stay away from your keyboard until you have learned to think in principles.
So I take it you completely satisfied with what’s happening now? I am sure chairman “o” appreciates your thoughtful “present” vote, after all, that’s how he voted well over 50% of the time he was a senator.
Unfortunately the 47% of Americans are not capable distinguish between a low life punk and a leader. Enough said.
Well, du-uh;
Don’t you know with higher taxes We can fight “mental illness” better!
Does that mean more Congresscritters would then be on medication?
What would a coherent Joe Biden or Jay Carney actually sound like?
If Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid had their personality disorder medicinally eliminated, would they be something like a semi-Republican? (Would that constitute medicinal castration?)
Could they possibly understand the intent of the Constitution, or even remember it?
And could they even be medicated to the degree that they would feel guilt or responsibility?
Stay tuned to PJM!
Addendum:
Our government is based and functions on GROWTH; Growth in this countries’ economy is what supports government.
If and when the economy stops growing, and even reverses, when does the “government” recognize this, and govern themselves accordingly?
Are they immune to the curse they themselves legislated upon the proletariat?
Some of the victims are not even buried yet and off goes Barry, using them as his point du jour and enabling to perform his weekly finger-waggle at anyone not seeing it, ‘his way’.
He was has been and will always be The Prince of Disgusting ,
and those Media B J ers who sidle up to him, and never call him out, are the only people extant who are more revolting yet…..
This is one big reason I am picking up Bill Whittle’s election eve suggestion to just refuse to continue to engage, wherever and whenever possible.
It gets much easier with sh-t like this,semingly dispensed daily. I’ve lost nothing at all………….
i call bullchit!. i just watched a bunch of self-righteous dem-femharpies tell our chief gun runner (fast & furious) on t.v. something about finding the truth about gun deaths in the u.s. seems to me some real truth is in order. not half truths from a known gun runner and accessory to mass murder.
1. why did you sell thousands of untagged guns to murderous mexican drug dealers?
2. why did you run and hide (like after benghazi) when Americans began showing up dead by guns you and holder sold to these criminals?
3. why did you not let the u.s. gov. people involved testify before congress?
4. why did you feel the need to claim executive privilege when issa got too close to the truth?
5. how many have been killed since the executive gun runners put the clamp down on honest reporting? it was in the hundreds long ago. probably thousands dead now as a result of obama/holder gun running.
6. where did the funding come from to purchase these thousands of guns? stimulus?
shovel ready for sure.
7. where were obama’s tears for those murdered by his gun running?
these scumbag feminists aren’t looking for any truth. if they wanted truth, wouldn’t bringing out the truth involve answers to the questions above? nothing but affirmative action educated, hired and promoted trash. if they were really smart, they would know that half truths aren’t truth, but lies furnished by people trying to cover up the truth.
There is no single Republican senator or congressman who can stand up and say the truth about these “negotiations”. No one is willing to make a strong statement about what is going on.
Republicans have majority in the House. It means that the president has to offer his propositions and they should decide, not the other way around. It’s just sickening to see these spineless creatures!
As Drudge adeptly linked to on the day of the newtown massacre:
10 shot, including 4 teens, Friday afternoon and night
Oh. But, this is black on black crime. *yawn-snooze*
Oh. But, this is black on black crime in an area with strict anti-gun laws. No useful idiots left in this hell-hole.
Translation: We don’t have the guns out of whitey’s hands yet. Let’s kill some white chirrens to finally disarm da crackas!
This person is the symbol of an uncrossable divide in this country.
Hard as it is to believe, there are millions of people who think that the slug is a great person.
There just isn’t any room to compromise about it. Either a person is evil, or not. People can’t be 50% evil, only 100% evil. He is evil, and people who support evil are evil thmselves.
Just think about it over 50% of the US voting public, the Racist Blacks and the morons, re-elected this doofus. Thats the real problem the USA has once the USURPER is gone the MORONS and the Racist Blacks remain.
Is there anything that can be done to help the media “get their mind right”? This is where our problems originate. They haven’t gotten anything right when it comes to the Left because they choose not to. What can we do, as Americans, to correct this?
My experience with liberals has been to step back and allow them to be mugged. It doesn’t always work but trying to save them certainly doesn’t, either. Might the Fiscal Cliff be the mugging they need? The iceberg Captain Barry seems to be steaming straight toward may be obvious to most of us, yet our ‘media’ could care less. Have they lifeboats we don’t know about?
The soon-to-be disarmed aren’t going to take lightly to others packing themselves into exit pods when it hits the fan. Such bad timing.
Someone comes in and robs the store after the feds collect guns you might have used to thwart them. I can’t help thinking all of this is planned.
The Old Media, Democrat Media Complex as Breitbart properly labeled them, fused with this administration during the ’08 campaign, they will never be objective. They lie with a smile on their face, they laugh at fly over country and mock conservatives.
Obama. OK, to my chagrin, he’s President, and modern Presidents see themselves as consolers, grief counselors, and dispensers of teary hokum. But this one, really? This one talking about gun violence? This is the President who to make political points against the NRA and those who defend the second amendment had his administration ship thousands of weapons to some of the most violent and best organized criminals on the planet, the Mexican drug cartels. He sought to blame the violence in Mexico on Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. The result? At least two dead US agents and hundreds of dead Mexicans, including teenagers and children. Yes, children. Children with parents who grieve as much as the parents in Newtown do. The grieving American parents, however, know that the man responsible for their children’s murders is dead; the grieving Mexican parents, on the other hand, know that the man responsible for their children’s murders got re-elected to a second term as President of the United States–in large part thanks to the votes of Mexicans in the US. It seems that the lives of Mexicans only count when they emigrate to the US and vote Democrat.
You can add Mexican beauty queen Susana Flores Maria Gamez and four others to the list of Holder’s “victims of incompetence”. The FN Herstal pistol recovered near the crime scene in November was originally purchased by an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) manager.
That does look awkward, doesn’t it? According to wiki, he’s one of the people recommended for dismissal already, over gunwalking involvement.
That said, he does have a story, and it deserves to be investigated. What might sink him is the suggestion that he (allegedly) supplied incorrect addresses for his residence. Maybe an ATF officer doesn’t want to be telling gun shop owners where he lives (think about it). On the other hand, maybe that means he shouldn’t have been buying the thing in the way he did in the first place.
It does seem vaguely possible that the story that he sold a personal weapon legitimately will stand up. He presumably has a name, which he will no doubt supply to the relevant authorities forthwith. But … sheesh, it’s an odd thing that he ever owned the thing in the first place. It’s not really a very interesting collector’s item, is it? And he would already have had a firearm for self-defense.
I agree. It smells.
He has one speed- Obampromise: his way, the whole way, or no way.
If Obama’s demands are not met then all those children will have died in vain.
“Obama ascribes all kinds of nefarious political motives to his opponents while never acknowledging that he or anyone else on his side have anything but the best intentions.”
This MO has seen better days – it will not stand.
FUBO…
So Obama deserves to win this one, after the bad day he had at Newtown.
We heard the same thing after 9/11. “After what just happened,” they said, “the New York Yankees deserve to win the World Series.”
What a crybaby.
The complete morons that reelected this clown will most likely get what they think they want. Too bad it will take a while for them to realize how totally ignorant they were about what’s really happening and what they will actually get. Then it will be too late for everyone.
You know what’s more disgraceful? The BOHICA Republicans. Has one Republican spoken up about this or turned it into the issue it should be? Does anybody within the Washington Right know how to fight the Left? Stupid questions. We’re pathetic. We redefine pathetic. We’re the be-all and end-all of pathetic.
Obama is disgraceful one. He is disgusting.
This is the most disgraceful pres in history. Expect what you get. He is methodically changing our free country into a welfare haven and the entire world is laughing at him.
You white people need to get over the fact the a black man beat you at the game up set for only your kind to win. And then you wonder why this country is getting more and more divided. I cannot wait for wait sexist comments you will make when Hilary is president.
Obama called a press conference, specifically to talk about gun control
The assembled press only wanted to talk about the budget votes and the “fiscal cliff”.
And this is somehow obama’s fault?
Sooner or later he was going to bring the discussion back to the point (squirrel!), and there was PJM, poised to say “gotcha!”
Get a grip.
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