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Obama Presser: Blaming Bush, Offering no specifics

July 15, 2011 by B. Daniel Blatt

Briefly caught the president’s presser. He seemed very defensive and subdued, almost as if he was trying to conceal a certain anger.

Toward the end, he seemed to be dwelling on the need to make investments in infrastructure. Um, Mr. President, wasn’t that what that $800 billion “stimulus” was supposed to be about? You know those shovel-ready projects (that we learned later weren’t really shovel-ready)?

He also, nearly two-and-one=half years after George W. Bush left the White House, blamed his predecessor for the mess we’re in, saying that we cut taxes without paying for them. Well, Mr. President, you signed off on continuing the tax rates set in the Bush years.

And he didn’t offer any specifics of the cuts he wanted.

He was concerned that we had pushed this so close to the deadline. Well, if he was so concerned about default, why didn’t he ask Congress to increase the debt limit when he signed onto their “stimulus” plan which ramped up federal spending?

Filed Under: Big Government Follies, Obama Arrogance, Obama Incompetence

Comments

  1. JohnAGJ says

    July 15, 2011 at 1:31 pm - July 15, 2011

    Exactly. What about all those road signs proudly touting the fact that repairs were being made due to… I forget the exact name of the law, something like “America Recovery Act”?

  2. North Dallas Thirty says

    July 15, 2011 at 1:39 pm - July 15, 2011

    Iowahawk just tweeted it perfectly: “Now we know what happens when a 50 year old man hears the word ‘no’ for the first time.”

  3. TGC says

    July 15, 2011 at 2:32 pm - July 15, 2011

    Speaking of which, 580 WDBO has a station ID ad which is a montage of all the times he said “shovel ready jobs” and ends with him joking that there really aren’t any. Like liberals, it’s funny yet pathetic at the same time.

  4. Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says

    July 15, 2011 at 2:44 pm - July 15, 2011

    Thirty-months into the Obama regime;

    Over 800-days without a unified Federal Budget…
    $800-BILLION in “Porkulus” shovel-ready Stimulus…
    A Federal Deficit triple what he inherited from Bush-43…
    Official unemployment at over 9%, and unofficial 20% un/under-employment…
    And a US Government default in less than three weeks.

    That’s “ Change You Can Believe In”.

    You broke it, you own it…

  5. V the K says

    July 15, 2011 at 3:14 pm - July 15, 2011

    Obama has let himself be clear, he is willing to cut everything except entitlements and non-defense discretionary spending.

  6. Sebastian Shaw says

    July 15, 2011 at 3:20 pm - July 15, 2011

    Obama offers nothing; he’s repeated what he said in the last 2 press conferences. Obama is the one in the hot seat as his passes the buck to Congress. He’s an idiot.

  7. Sebastian Shaw says

    July 15, 2011 at 3:23 pm - July 15, 2011

    Where’s the Democrats’ budget in either the House or Senate? Why has Obama been campaigning, yet he’s late to the real work of leading? Only when the 18,000 June numbers came out did Obama start talking about the debt crisis. Obama is only worried about his political career–not America itself. Obama is not serious.

  8. Roberto says

    July 15, 2011 at 4:03 pm - July 15, 2011

    More than Obama´s presser, the one that gave me a real gaffaw was Senator Chuck Schumer. there he was blaming the Repubs for not wanting to do the deal, singing the same old song, they want to keep the tax breaks for the rich, etc. Basically he wants taxes now and reductions later. Does he think people are stupid? That was the same ploy the Dems did to President GHW Bush conning him to break his pledge of no new taxes. Spending cuts for new taxes, except, they got the new taxes but reneged on spending cuts. I haven´t forgotten and I don´t think anybody else has who was awake at that time. Democrats are pathological liars.

  9. Draybee says

    July 15, 2011 at 4:20 pm - July 15, 2011

    Call me crazy, but I’m beginning to suspect that Obama isn’t the level-headed genius that we’ve been lead to believe he is.

  10. TnnsNe1 says

    July 15, 2011 at 4:36 pm - July 15, 2011

    “Federal revenue: $200 billion per month
    Interest on the national debt: $29 billion
    Social Security: $49.2 billion
    Medicare and Medicaid: $50 billion
    Active duty military pay: $2.9 billion
    Veterans affairs programs: $2.9 billion
    Education funding: $11 billion

    All of that core spending adds up to $145 billion, which means that in the event of a debt limit, the government can pay it all and still have $55 billion a month left over.”

    http://michellemalkin.com/2011/07/15/scare-tactic/

  11. SoCalRobert says

    July 15, 2011 at 5:47 pm - July 15, 2011

    The government has been and continues to spend $100 billion per month more than it takes in. The Dems want to continue this in perpetuity.

    Eliminating the Bush tax cuts and accelerated depreciation on corporate aircraft won’t begin to pay for this.

    Seems to me that this is easy to understand – why doesn’t the GOP try to explain this in simple terms.

  12. Sebastian Shaw says

    July 15, 2011 at 7:05 pm - July 15, 2011

    Senator Chuck Schumer never met a microphone that he didn’t mistake for a dildo when the spotlight is on; he’s a ham & egotist all in one. He certainly knows all about pork.

  13. Sebastian Shaw says

    July 15, 2011 at 7:08 pm - July 15, 2011

    According to Obama the following cannot be touched:

    * ObamaCare is off the table.
    * Porkulus is off the table.
    * Medicare is off the table.
    * Social Security is off the table.

    Just what is Obama proposing? Nothing. He has no plan. He wants the expanded government to remain & make it bigger–not smaller. All of this debt talk is smoke & mirrors. The Republicans are right to call his bluff & treat Obama mercilessly.

  14. davinci says

    July 16, 2011 at 8:34 am - July 16, 2011

    For a man of such superior intelligence, this President has no common sense.

  15. Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says

    July 16, 2011 at 9:05 am - July 16, 2011

    Why does all this bring to mind that scene on the bridge of the Reliant?; Smoke and wreckage everywhere. The bloodied survivors huddle around the leader as his dying chief lieutenant gasps, “Your’s is the superior intellect.”

    Thus is American politics summed-up,
    …”To the last, I will grapple with thee…
    From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee!
    For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!”

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