Who in the White House do Democrats hate more than anyone else? Who in the White House do Republicans secretly love these days?
Would you believe it’s the same person?
And would you believe it’s Robert Gibbs? Read:
House Democrats spent much of Tuesday firing themselves up over Gibbs’ Sunday morning assertion that they could lose the House — and then Pelosi stepped to the podium at a nighttime caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol to tell her members and all the president’s men how she really feels. Her aides already had gone through channels to express her displeasure to the White House, but Pelosi delivered the message directly to Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs Dan Turton, the top administration official present at the House Democrats’ meeting. “‘How could [Gibbs] know what is going on in our districts?’ Pelosi told her members.
Um… because he can read the polls, Nancy?
More seriously — but only barely — fewer things are more entertaining than the time-honored classic slapstick routine called the DC Circular Firing Squad. And think about that for a moment. The CFS gets the “Ready, aim, fire!” order when everything turns to shinola so quickly that a simple well-pointed finger doesn’t pack enough heat.
And yet… the Democrats control the White House and both sides of the Capitol Building, and by whopping margins. If they want laws, they can pass them. If they need money, they can borrow it. So what’s wrong? To put it bluntly, liberal policies have crashed head-first into reality.
You know, the reality that we can’t borrow our way out of a debt crisis, that we can’t spend our way out of deficits, that we can’t tax our way to full employment.
Oh, and the most hurtful reality of all — that when liberals implement their policies, Americans don’t like them. Not the policies, and not the liberals, either. Not one bit.
Reminds me of the old P.J. O’Rourke quote: “Democrats say government can make you taller, smarter, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans say that government doesn’t work, then get elected and prove it.”
Q. Why is Nancy Pelosi like a sleeping cat?
A. Both of them lie about the house.
Thanks Gibbster. First frank statement from ya in a while. I am sure this will get a reaction and Obama hisself will have to go out, campaign and help the Dems. we know what happens when obama helps.
Yeah- Just ask our World Cup team. Obama actually called them to congratulate them for making the final 16. A total kiss of death. Who calls a team for making the top 16?? I knew our hopes were dashed as soon as that happened.
I still can not figure out why we tax payers have to pay this (Multi Millionaire) Ms.Pelousy$ to fly hither tither and yon on Air Force jets at our expense!! I mean everyone with half a brain knows she owns a perfectly good broom!!!!
” “‘How could [Gibbs] know what is going on in our districts?’ Pelosi told her members.
Um… because he can read the polls, Nancy?”
I think what she was insinuating is that Gibbs is not yet privy to all the behind the scenes dirty tricks the dems are setting up in their districts to fix the vote.
Did the dumb broad Pelosi think hundreds of thousands of people marching on Washington, disrupting Town Halls, burning down the phones and fax lines, the internet, and talk radio were KIDDING? Is she that STUPID? Oh yeah. Left wing politicos already failed the IQ test by virtue of their politics. This intellectually challenged old hag is the personification of a dumb ass, in technicolor.
Actually, with the “progressives”, it’s more like “Ready, Fire, Aim!”
(This probably explains their love affair with BATFE.)
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And with Obama, it’s Ready, Aim…Aim…Aim…
I’m not surprised Gibbs is in the crosshairs from all sides. He’s always reminded me of that inflatable clown doll that you can knock down over and over, and it always rolls back up. Not least because he just has that look.
Seriously though, I do feel kind of sorry for him (not a whole lot, since it’s his choice to stand up there and tell what he knows are lies day after day). His job has been to cover for an administration and a president who are the most incompetent, ridiculous con artists in American history, and I use the word “artist” advisedly. These people couldn’t stay dry in an umbrella factory. For instance, how can Pelosi be irritated at Gibbs? She doesn’t know what’s going on in Democratic districts! If she did, she wouldn’t have pushed so hard at all the crap that’s rolled downhill on all of us.
Circular Firing Squad indeed, and I hope every one of these dead-eyed dicks hits his/her target.
Good news, Dana Perino is going back to college. Looks like she wants to figure out that whole Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis confusion once and for all. Maybe she should offer her claim that “No terrorist attacks occurred during the Bush Administration” statement as a topic in debate class. But hey she’s kinda cute, so who cares?
Where did that come from?
From a forum about built to slam press secretaries.
Actually, the worst thing I said about Gibbs was that he told the truth on TV.
But other than that, you’re totally on target.
Think a kid of about 6 or 7 poking his head into a room where adults are soberly discussing adults matters. The kid can’t understand the conversation. He can’t add anything, so he marches into the room banging a spoon on a pot as hard as he can – ‘Notice Me, Notice me!’
Now picture that kid, banging the spoon on a pot as hard as he can, with the pot on his head. That is skeeziks.
” . . . a room where adults are soberly discussing adults matters . . . ”
You know what, I can imagine that. And unless somebody died, it’s a dreadful, desperate, tedious image. Y’all spend so much time describing your maturity. One can’t help but wonder why.
‘Y’all spend so much time describing your maturity.’
Let me fix that for ya.
Y’all spend so much time acting maturely.’
There ya go.
‘One can’t help but wonder why.’
Do tell. Complete mystery to ya. The maturity thing. How’s bout ya spend a coupla more years in high school so ya can understand when someone tries to explain how to handle adult concerns to ya.
The “maturity thing” doesn’t confuse me. It’s your relentless self characterization that disappoints me . . . you live in constant need of validation . . . needy . . . narcissistic . . . insecure. “I’m mature! Damn it. I’m not a child like people say. I’m mature!”
Good, Fredo, now go out for a row.”
The adults are having an adult discussion here. Go back to the little kids’ table and finish your peas.
Hey skeeziks: Why do you hate conservative women so much? Dana Perino has more intelligence in one eyelash than Gibbs will ever have EVER. And, the attacks on Sarah Palin are getting OLD. Why don’t you find something new to hate. Don’t liberals ever have anything positive to say?
Gibbs has less credibility than the average palm reader.
He is a sure cure for insomnia, though.
Palm reader . . . you mean Sarah Palin? Because i agree with you, she’s a good standard for lack of credibility.
At the moment, skeeziks, you are not demonstrating any credibility with these rather uninspired, lame Palin slams. And as for your above, Perino showed an order of magnitude more intelligence than Gibbs – but then that’s not a challenge. The challenge seems to be for you to come up with a sneer that is not more than two years old.
What order of magnitude is that? I just two awesome gaffes on her part. What you got?
I’s really groovy when Leftards try to show off by claiming that anyone to the Right is ‘stupid”- and only show that they have yet to master basic English grammar.
I’m stunned that the Dem’s are stunned at their poll numbers. We warned them — loudly and often — all last year that if they insisted on doing this, that or the other Obamacare thing, we would vote their skanky asses out.
Didn’t any one in Washington hear us voters when we told them that?
Didn’t any one in Washington *believe* us voters when we told them that?
Hasn’t any one in Washington ever seen a foaming at the mouth, rabidly-angry voter before determined to do an “out out damned spot” worthy of Lady MacBeth? If not, I suggest they look up and talk to all the Republicans who insisted on impeaching Bill Clinton in the face of voter disapproval and see what happened to *those* doofuses.
No, they listened to the Pied Piper who sold them the fiction that Obamacare would be more popular after it passed and people started feeling the effects of the heavy hand of government.
What this country needs is another beer summit. C’mon Nancy. C’mon Robby. Show us the way. Show us that you can work with members of your own party. You can do it. Yes you can!
Nothing helps the Republicans at the ballot box better than having the Democrats in power. Unfortunately, it works the other way as well.
Double unfortunately–we’re stuck with one or the other. Better to have both so neither gets all their toys. Vote Republican in 2010 and Hillary! in 2012!
perhaps gibbs is noticing the amount of egg on his face he’s accumulated having to cover for the won’s failures hasn’t improved his complexion.
Speaking of dumb left wing moonbats you might find this UK Daily Telegraph article of some interest.
“Why middle-class Lefties believe stupid things – because their friends do ”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100047245/why-middle-class-lefties-believe-stupid-things-because-their-friends-do/
That article does a reasonable, if not stellar job of explaining things like groupthink and informational cascades, but really, the central idea–that people believe stupid things because their friends believe stupid things–is as inherently problematic when a conservative writes it about those out-of-touch middle-class liberals as when a middle-class liberal writes it about those poor, uneducated, racist conservatives. It only depends on who’s in the driver’s seat.
Personally, I think that the problems described in the article often characterize *both* sides, but that’s probably the dumb left-wing moonbat in me talking.
Difference is that you will never find a conservative telling “How X could be elected in 49 states? None of the people I know voted for him”.
The flaw in that theory is that it’s really the lefty worldview that is still dominant in the mainstream media. So, if you don’t sit down and really think hard about the issues, it’s very easy to default to the lefty view, because that’s what you’re bombarded with day after day on the evening news, unless you watch FNC.
Fair point. My counter would be that following Fox/the Right’s side of the blogosphere tends to produce the opposite effect; and many people who get put off by the lefty view swap over to Fox in response. (Which has the added bonus of an underdog effect, which–pardon me for not citing–I believe tends to reinforce convictions.)
Granted, I’m taking as a premise here that you can sit down and think hard about the issues and come to the Left’s conclusions.
I’m gonna challenge your last premise.
Tell me how one can increase individual prosperity by taking more out of their pockets in taxes, to start with. The proposition is absurd on the face of it: you increase individual prosperity by removing boundaries to earning wealth.
Now, most lefties at this point will scream, “but what about collective prosperity?” They seem to forget that the collective is made up of individuals, and if the individuals are not prosperous, neither will the collective be.
If you really are open to a very good dissertation on the topic of where the lefties get their ideas, I strongly recommend Dr. Thomas Sowell’s older book (but still in print the last time I looked) The Vision of the Anointed.
This argument is about to spiral out of reasonable scope for VP’s comments section, so I’ll try to keep this reasonably clean and concise.
A lot of lefties would argue that your definition of collective doesn’t work, because the collective prosperity of a society is not merely the aggregate wealths of its members. Markets are efficient, not fair; and there’s plenty of evidence that unfairness is self-reinforcing. Granted, I don’t tend to think a system should go as far in mitigating unfairness as the current Democratic Congress does, but I do still think that mitigating a certain degree of unfairness is a necessary function of a government.
(Similarly, it’s also completely reasonable–and debatable ad infinitum–to think that markets are not prima facie close enough to a First Welfare Theorem market that markets are prima facie efficient either.)
I could also go on and on about social issues.
Sorry, not as concise as I wanted.
Finally, thanks for the recommendation. I’ll put in on my queue.
Thanks for a reasonable debate. Feel free to drop me a line (use the contact page on my humble little blog) if ya want. But on economic matters I might just pass the buck to a friend of mine who’s more of an economic guru than I am.
Back at’cha. I’ll throw you onto my RSS reader; I can always use a little more reading material. If I see anything else I want to engage you on, I definitely will.
Have a good night.
Wow! Gibbs is criticized by the Democrats for telling the truth.
Obvious conclusion: When Gibbs is NOT criticized by the Democrats, he is NOT telling the truth.
Great column! As far as Liberals and Groupthink is concerned, if I didn’t know that some far-Lefties converted and became Conservatives, I would think that Liberalism was possibly genetic. My (very few) Liberal friends just don’t seem to be able to understand what Conservatives consider as logic.
Thanks Joe. I’m near the same conclusion since their gene pool seems to be akin to the hard headed attitude of their party quadruped mascot. They can’t learn by experience if they never look back at results. Beware of anyone using the phrase “moving forward” if they can’t specify the exact destination. If the lead in is “having said that” it probably means that they’re not quite sure of their starting point or their destination and don’t even understand all the propaganda planks traversed to the present calamity.
The scariest phrase coming out of the Whitehouse to Democrat incumbents is, Hey this is Barry, I’m going to campaign for you………………….Ouch!
I seriously thought the disastrous Gibbs would be gone within a month of January 2009. As each month passed and Gibbs was still there, I kept asking myself why this administration would retain such a completely inept individual.
Then I began to realize that Gibbs is the perfect mouthpiece for an adminstration that seems unwilling to answer questions,excels at blaming others for their problems, and is woefully inept at everything.
I suspect Gibbs is setting the stage for the second half of the Oba Mao administration. If the GOP falls short by any measure in taking both chambers, the administration will claim it’s “mandate” was endorsed to continue.
Gibbs is the gibb that keeps on gibbing.
Re: “The only mistake Gibbs made was to say in public what every Democrat must now fear in private.”
It wasn’t a mistake. O wants to win 2-d term and in order to do this he has no choice but to ditch the Dems and ride to victory on the shoulders of Reps. A la Clinton after 94: don the red shirt, jump in front of the parade and claim that you lead it.
As Chicago hacks if their policies went south they could hit up their buds in DC to slather on the pork, so who is the deep pockets sugar daddy that’s supposed to bail them out now?
After old Bob climbs out from under that bus, maybe he’ll start hanging out with a better class of people, after all you are known by the company you keep.