Fightin' For Health Care Reform, Fightin' For Climate Change Legislation, Fightin' For Deficit Reduction, Fightin' For Jobs, But Most Of All, Just Plain Old Fuckin' Around...

You just can't make this kind of stuff up:

President Barack Obama said he can't catch as much college hoops as he'd like, but relies on ESPN to keep him up to date.

In a mid-game interview on CBS during today's Duke-Georgetown game at the Verizon Center in D.C., the president tried his hand at some color commentary.

You know, when times are good and things are going well, this sort of shit flies. When times are bad, and things aren't going well, it doesn't. Bambi's doing college hoops, and in the mean time 59 Democrats in the Senate are waiting for him to do something - anything - to give them the sort of guidance (and political cover) they need to get his top legislative priority passed.

Lordy. Isn't there anyone in the White House with the requisite amount of brains/balls necessary to convince Barack Obama that it might be better to be seen working at his job than fucking around calling a basketball game? Do you get the feeling Bambi will still be "fighting" for health care reform in January of 2012?

His man needs to focus. What it's looking like more and more is that what we have is an ADD presidency.

Comments

[chuck]

Blessing in diguise, Dennis, blessing in disguise. Consider the alternative.

[Lefty]

Call your congressman and senators Dennis and tell them you want them to vote for the bill if it bothers you so much.

[just passin by]

He's The Messiah...all he HAS to do is show up and look pretty, and some dumbass will congratulate him on being smart, or give him a Nobel prize.

[pffft]

Oh noes! It is completely unheard of for a President to do photo-ops, media appearances, etc. Obviously the entire executive branch ground to a halt because Obama did an interview about basketball. This is a Serious Matter Worthy Of Being Outraged About.

[Randy Rager]

Hopefully by 2012 O'Bambi won't be fighting anything except the impeachment proceedings. It would be nice if they were over before then, though.

[just passin by]

Of course it's a horrible thing for Presidents to do other things than the Prez biz...isn't what you pinkos established when Bush went golfing and y'all went apeshit?

[Dennis The Peasant]

Lefty-

I know this is past you, but What bill? The House bill? The Senate bill? The bill Bambi wants? There is no bill... just lots of maybes.

pffft-

You have a point. If nothing else, Bambi has been underexposed media-wise over the past year.

[richard mcenroe]

"Lordy. Isn't there anyone in the White House with the requisite amount of brains/balls necessary to convince Barack Obama that it might be better to be seen working at his job than fucking around calling a basketball game?"

Yes, and they him as far out of DC as the rest of us.

[Lefty]

Dennis -

You evidently haven't been paying attention. The House should pass Senate bill. Then pass a reconciliation bill that the Senate will pass to fix the problems with it.

Lemme ask you. Why are you so angry if things are going so well for you guys?

[just passin by]

Contempt does not equal anger; taxing working people to support non productive people is not compassion; blaming ourselves for the world's history of oppression and violence is not effective diplomacy...

Freedom is not slavery and ignorance is certainly not bliss...

But then again, we're not liberals.

[Randy Rager]

"Why are you so angry"

We're not. You're projecting. Again.

Maybe you should obtain treatment for that?

[Dennis The Peasant]

Lefty-

Oh, I've been paying attention.

Q: Just when has Bambi formally and publicly endorsed the Pelosi plan of House passing Senate, then passing more via reconciliation?
A: He hasn't.

Kinda the point of my post, if you'd been paying attention.

[Lefty]

I thought the point of your post was he's lazy, ADD addled and takes too much time off. Kind of funny in light of George W. Bush. And talk about projecting.

[Dndrko]

Dennis, You got a troll! Congratulations.

[Dennis The Peasant]

Yeah, I'm stepping up in the world, aren't I?

[just passin by]

Amazing.

Other then spending huge piles of money for no real reason, The Obamessiah has failed every other demand of the pinkos:
Still killing terrorists in both Afghanistan y Iraq
Gitmo is still open
No "warcrimes" trials for Bush/Cheney
No transparency in government
No destruction of the economy via cap and trade
No healthcare socialism, or EVEN a modicum of effort to push for it

In fact, the only thing he HAS done is to give fistfuls of cash to the Sinister Enemies of The Peepol, Big Brother Business.

And yet, these fools continue to grovel at his feet.

I knew a guy that dumped his entire life savings into a Nigerian oil scam over a long period of time. He'd rather dump his life work into the pit then admit he was wrong after the first time he'd been scammed.

Reminds me of pinkos.

[richard mcenroe]

"Other then spending huge piles of money for no real reason, The Obamessiah has failed every other demand of the pinkos:"

That IS one of the principal demands of the pinkos. The deeper into the hole Obama drives us, the longer it will take to fix what he breaks. Most of what he does makes no sense viewed from any other perspective, unless you presume some kind of mental disease on his part.

Ooh. A post idea. I should go write it.

[mojo]

Bambi got elected as a feel-good "reform" candidate, long on talk and with no background at doing anything well. And, typical of the "reform" Dem candidate, he sees his job as largely ceremonial, a shining figurehead just dripping with high morals and soothing words to lull the fractious herd. Actual work is for the hoi polloi.

He has no plan, and nothing he believes in enough to fight for. He's a cardboard cutout, waving in the wind. That's where all this "jump down, turn around, pick a new position" crap comes from. Carter was a rock of determination next to this mook.

[Lefty]

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-quiet-revolution

Obama’s three Republican predecessors were all committed to weakening or even destroying the country’s regulatory apparatus: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the other agencies that are supposed to protect workers and consumers by regulating business practices. Now Obama is seeking to rebuild these battered institutions. In doing so, he isn’t simply improving the effectiveness of various government offices or making scattered progress on a few issues; he is resuscitating an entire philosophy of government with roots in the Progressive era of the early twentieth century. Taken as a whole, Obama’s revival of these agencies is arguably the most significant accomplishment of his first year in office.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012902516.html

A very productive Congress, despite what the approval ratings say

By Norman Ornstein
Sunday, January 31, 2010

this Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society 89th Congress in 1965-66, and Obama already has the most legislative success of any modern president -- and that includes Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson. The deep dysfunction of our politics may have produced public disdain, but it has also delivered record accomplishment.

The productivity began with the stimulus package, which was far more than an injection of $787 billion in government spending to jump-start the ailing economy. More than one-third of it -- $288 billion -- came in the form of tax cuts, making it one of the largest tax cuts in history, with sizable credits for energy conservation and renewable-energy production as well as home-buying and college tuition. The stimulus also promised $19 billion for the critical policy arena of health-information technology, and more than $1 billion to advance research on the effectiveness of health-care treatments.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has leveraged some of the stimulus money to encourage wide-ranging reform in school districts across the country. There were also massive investments in green technologies, clean water and a smart grid for electricity, while the $70 billion or more in energy and environmental programs was perhaps the most ambitious advancement in these areas in modern times. As a bonus, more than $7 billion was allotted to expand broadband and wireless Internet access, a step toward the goal of universal access.

Any Congress that passed all these items separately would be considered enormously productive. Instead, this Congress did it in one bill. Lawmakers then added to their record by expanding children's health insurance and providing stiff oversight of the TARP funds allocated by the previous Congress. Other accomplishments included a law to allow the FDA to regulate tobacco, the largest land conservation law in nearly two decades, a credit card holders' bill of rights and defense procurement reform.

The House, of course, did much more, including approving a historic cap-and-trade bill and sweeping financial regulatory changes. And both chambers passed their versions of a health-care overhaul. Financial regulation is working its way through the Senate, and even in this political environment it is on track for enactment in the first half of this year. It is likely that the package of job-creation programs the president showcased on Wednesday, most of which got through the House last year, will be signed into law early on as well.

Sometimes it really pays to have a numbskull media that doesn't cover this stuff very much at all.>/i>

[Randy Rager]

Well how about that. Lefty isn't any more tolerable when someone else does her thinking for her.

I'm kind of surprised by that, actually.