Open thread: The “If we don’t spend a trillion dollars then the terrorists have already won” presser
posted at 7:40 pm on February 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
8 p.m. ET around the dial. Skip the first 10 minutes if you have to; the fun won’t start until the Q&A. Watch for (a) whether The One has the stones to claim the Senate bill was bipartisan, (b) how soon and hard he’s pressed about the fact that TARP II is likely to be “far bigger” than the stimulus, and (c) whether the health-care provisions being buzzed about at the boss’s blog have trickled up onto the media’s radar yet. With Netanyahu and Likud on the verge of returning to power in Israel, we’re bound to see a question about Israeli hawkishness affecting negotiations with Iran, too. I wonder if he’ll offer even a pro forma statement about Iranian nukes being “unacceptable.”
A lot of minds are going to change tonight. I can feel it.
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But will he be brave enough to take a question from Fox News???
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 7:43 PM
If those mindless jerks in Congress woke up and understood the damage they have done in Osama Obama’s name, this would be his last pre-impeachment
sermonpress conference.What he — and 61 out-of-touch greedheads in the Senate — are doing in nothing less than a crime against the nation, a violation of their oaths to “protect” the United States.
They are the new terrorists.
MrScribbler on February 9, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Didn’t he answer 7 questions during the Primary?
Enough already!
artist on February 9, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Bah.. If The One says it was bi-partisan, the sheople will believe him. How many of them actually pay attention to the way their gummint is run?
TubbyHubby on February 9, 2009 at 7:48 PM
The kids are alright:
Judges tentatively order Calif. inmates released
By DON THOMPSON
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A special panel of federal judges has tentatively ruled that California must release tens of thousands of inmates to relieve overcrowding.
artist on February 9, 2009 at 7:48 PM
I’m having pork for dinner. What a coincidence.
ericdijon on February 9, 2009 at 7:50 PM
This should be a bumper sticker. Immediately.
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 7:51 PM
“We’re boned!”
/Bender
Spectreman on February 9, 2009 at 7:51 PM
I have my fax sfwr ready. Sent out 2 rounds of faxes today. I will probably be armed with The One’s own words and inspired to do the same tomorrow. Senate phones were busy/no answer every time I tried a voice call today so I assume we melted down the lines today.
Tonight, I expect we will see Dear Leader shrieking like an 8 year old girl.
ElRonaldo on February 9, 2009 at 7:51 PM
If he screws up the Westminster coverage, the terrorists will have won.
Y-not on February 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Stephen Macklin on February 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Really? I expect him to be at his collegiate-professor-looking-down-on-the-pion-stupid-students best…
….in his speech, at least.
I really hope someone in the media has the guts that woman did today and asks him a real question….
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 7:54 PM
OMG – me, too. A Spanish dish — pork with mussels.
Ole.
Y-not on February 9, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I have a question for the President:
Are you freakin’ kidding me?!!!
Oh wait, a follow up:
Are you outta your damn mind?!!!
trubble on February 9, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I miss Brit Hume on Fox.
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Yeah I have a question too: HOW DARE YOU.
Chuck Schick on February 9, 2009 at 7:56 PM
I hope Netanyahu wins.
artist on February 9, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Fred Barnes…Obama wins the battle (passing the stimulus), but Obama wants to win the arguement….the Republicans have won the argument…
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 7:56 PM
America, be prepared to be porked!
profitsbeard on February 9, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Krauthammer…Obama is saying “don’t look inside”…
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 7:57 PM
LOL I was just thinking about the act of porking. Beat me to it
blatantblue on February 9, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Juan Williams…we can’t make it all tax cuts, that is old way of thinking, it is what got us where we are now…
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Manchurian President.
Mason on February 9, 2009 at 7:59 PM
That is what Juan Williams said Obama will say…sorry…
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM
blatantblue at 7:58 PM-
Like Ned Beatty in “Deliverance“, America will squeal for Obambi’s plan.
Congress and Barry: Dueling Dumbos.
profitsbeard on February 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM
No doubt the inmates will want to be stimulated as well.
Maybe Obama can have them over for a South Lawn
release party with the Gitmo inmates?
izoneguy on February 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM
How many times will The One mention that his porkulus bill has received bi-partisan support…
JetBoy on February 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Obama is late…again.
How rude.
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Is that a drinking game?
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM
I’m not watching. While the “uhs”, and “ums” might be entertaining, the gloating would be too much.
Wethal on February 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM
I watch one stinking network show and it’s being bumped for this.
jmarcure on February 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Off Topic
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icwnbejl-iJTMsx_JWAIgMXlweOAD9671DF00
First US case of Marburg
That shiite always freaked me the F out when I was a kid!
blatantblue on February 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM
You all can be Ned, I am Burt with a longbow.
Now bend over and squeal like porky pig.
izoneguy on February 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM
blah blah blah….rattle rattle rattle…blah blah blah….
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM
I’m watching “Groundhog Day” instead.
Slublog on February 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Perfect….he goes to the place that least represents the rest of America!
LEBA on February 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
He doesn’t read as well as he used to.
Tuning Spork on February 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
I can’t believe Zero was on time tonight…
flyboy777 on February 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Nobody in my community is going to a food bank looking for food.
church on February 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Why are they out of work??? ‘Cause no one is buying RVs because of the price of gasoline.
Idiot.
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
I can’t watch this a-hole… I’ll just clean my condo instead.
D2Boston on February 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
“recovery and reinvestment plan” my @$$…
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Works for me!
JetBoy on February 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM
He really just said only government can break this cycle. Give me a break
church on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
With all the pork being flung around, no Jihadist will have anything to do with us!
grapeknutz on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
“Only the government can save you now”
CookeyD on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
While The One speaks, assuring us all is well, I am…
1) Upgrading my emergency kit BIG time.
2) Buying yet more ammo.
3) Thanking God I live in one of the remotest areas of the nation.
You can put a fork in America, ’cause she’s all but done now. It makes sense now how Rome and other great empires fell.
I see no way to climb out of the hole this puts us in, but I’d be happy to hear an argument to persuade me otherwise. Any takers?
wccawa on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
F$%$# is taking two of my shows off the air for this crap.
Enoxo on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Yep, even Helen Thomas will flip to the Republican side after discovering that The One plans to ration her health coverage for the greater good.
Alert the A.A.R.P.
Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).
The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.
In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests before the board reversed its decision.
If the Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill passes the Senate in its current form, seniors in the U.S. will face similar rationing. Defenders of the system say that individuals benefit in younger years and sacrifice later.
The stimulus bill will affect every part of health care, from medical and nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined (90-92, 174-177, 181).
H/T Rush Limbaugh. Of course.
Buy Danish on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
He seems angry.
LEBA on February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Just try to catch up to me, boy….
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:05 PM
I’m missing “House” for this. The nerve of the guy.
Gina on February 9, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Why doesn’t he talk about that Great Society strategy that worked out so well. Oh, I forgot, that doesn’t help his agenda along
church on February 9, 2009 at 8:05 PM
He is so full of crap.
Babino on February 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM
give me a break…he brought up Katrina…
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM
It’s OK. He is going to SO own this plan. Somebody has convinced him it WILL work. He could not have gotten there on his own.
Yoop on February 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM
We don’t count anything in billions anymore:) That’s so fiscally responsible like a decade ago.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok
Dr Evil on February 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM
you can’t save billions of dollars in health care and save lives…sorry, it does NOT work that way…pick one or the other…
…oops, sorry, you have….
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM
President Teleprompter……
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
I would be too. Deep down he knows he’ll be taking the fall for Pelosi’s idiocy. Barry just didn’t have any better ideas.
Chuck Schick on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Compromises?? What has he been smokin??
LEBA on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Bit from NRO. Arlen just a wee bit worried, even with the rumored Dem promise of a Operation Chaos help in any GOP primary fight, even if Toomey is apparently now sending signals he won’t challenge?
Wethal on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
oh please…not a “single pet project”….
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
No earmarks??
LEBA on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
He’s lying…
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Is he going to say, like he did in Indiana, that there are no earmarks in the bill?
Quisp on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
no pet projects? Seriously?
CookeyD on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Try this: Get down on your knees and place your forearms on the floor, clasping your hands around a pillow, facing away from the television. Look down your belly up at the television and tell me that you don’t understand where the pres is coming from. Take a bite of the pillow. (If you don’t have a pillow, bite the carpet.)
ericdijon on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM
LEBA on February 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Angry = Leadership
aquaviva on February 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Hey Obama……
……… ever hear of the Community Reinvestment Act?
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM
He brings up the failure of Katrina, but forgets to mention he sent Kentucky, my state, food kits with salmonella during our recent disaster. Hey where is my $2500.00 debit card anyway? Only the government can stop this
church on February 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM
He’s depressing.
jewells45 on February 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Bribe us, lie to us, make us so very afraid…..Oh please save us……
PaCadle on February 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Osama Obama has been talking for three minutes, and has not said anything truthful yet.
This is sickening.
We’re in deep, deep fertilizer.
MrScribbler on February 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Yes Mr. Obama. I’m still waiting for you to lead as well.
CookeyD on February 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Thank you, sir, may I have another?
Thank you, sir, may I have another?
Thank you, sir, may I have another?
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM
“THE SKY IS FALLING………… THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!”
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 8:09 PM
The audacity of hope was for his campaign
Fear and scare mongering will be for his reign
His candidacy was as a Henry Houdini
His presidency will be as a Benito Mussolini
But for the traitors who voted against the state
It was bipartisan even if it was a little late
If you are a Kennedy you get the finest surgeon that money can buy
If you are a peon you have some forms filled for you by a bureaucrat while you bend over and kiss your ass goodbye
MB4 on February 9, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Our grandchildren need this?
ladyingray on February 9, 2009 at 8:09 PM
angry = fear
LEBA on February 9, 2009 at 8:09 PM
The Boy King sounds angry tonight, my friends.
He will not be defied.
Rae on February 9, 2009 at 8:09 PM
HA HA HA!!!
aquaviva on February 9, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Quesions???
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 8:09 PM
He’s got his trusty teleprompter.
Enoxo on February 9, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Is the ACORN money still in?
Boomer Sooner on February 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
It’s ok. We’re the government. We’re here to help you.
CookeyD on February 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Time for ……….
“unnggnnn……… emmmm ……… unnnnggghhhhh”
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
My BS meter is shrieking
Ann on February 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Oh I can’t watch I’ll watch you guys type about it. I’m taking a break from homework.
Brat4life on February 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
First question: Jennifer Loven.
Barack: Hey, Jen. Lead me off with a softball and find a way to blame Bush for everything in your article, tomorrow.
yo on February 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Obama’s too effeminate to get angry. He gets testy. His wife, well, she gets angry. Enough said.
BuckeyeSam on February 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
And if it has his list of “approved questioners,” he will no doubt have the answers on it, too.
Wethal on February 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Ok, he’s off the prompter now and here come the uhhh ahhhs. This is gonna be good.
Oldnuke on February 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM
my lord, has he looked into the camera yet. at least bush would look into the camera. he is just reading. he is full of crap
kara26 on February 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM
It’s been stricken of projects that both parties found objectionable, Barry? Or was it stricken of projects that Democrats were willing to ditch to get three Republicans on board.
And here comes the “I inherited a disaster so I’ll make it worse” bit.
amerpundit on February 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Notice the “Before Teleprompter”…..
………. to “After TelePrompTer”?
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Damn. That first question was a zinger and he is already off his game,
Yoop on February 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM
How many times is he going to say the worst economic situation since the Great Depression? Fear mongering! Where’d the hope go?
church on February 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Oh, yes.
Wethal on February 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM
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