Kyl to Obama: How about skipping Leno and putting your economic team in order?
posted at 6:47 pm on March 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
Stupid on the merits but good retail politics in how it syncs with the story of Duke’s coach goofing on The One for wasting time on NCAA picks instead of the economy. Politico’s flirting with heresy this afternoon by wondering if our new Great Communicator is really that great after all, in part because his famous temperament is ill suited to the angry spirit of the time. Chitchat in Burbank at ground zero for celebrity worship while the AIG story is roiling and people are screaming for Geithner’s head only underscores their point, although I assume the venue was deliberately chosen by Obama to try to lighten things up a bit and calm people down. If he can do it, more power to him.
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AP, dude. Seriously. What? Nevermind.
ammon_of_cs on March 19, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Wow. He’s tone deaf, he really doesn’t get it does he?
4shoes on March 19, 2009 at 8:23 PM
someone mentioned that Geo. W. Bush cleared brush for 6 of 8 years. well, consider who he left behind in DC minding the store. how many terrorists would invade anywhere while cheney was on-duty?
also, HR 1388, GIVE Act (more community service, but this time with uniforms–you know, like brownshirts), passed yesterday.
i’m telling you, you can’t close your eyes a second around this administration.
kelley in virginia on March 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Kyl’s comments were, “personal?” On what planet? Oh right!
Planet MSNBC.
JannyMae on March 19, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Lighten things up and calm people down?
After his “townhall” worshipfest today where he was, once again, expressing “anger” over AIG?
Um. Right. Whatever….
JannyMae on March 19, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Gee AP- do you really believe Obama’s appearance on The Tonight Show is an effort to calm things down? It’s all part of the look-this-way, but don’t-look-that-way BS. This is, quite simply, a distraction. Just like the whipped up anger over 160 million in bonuses, while the real outrage is billions and billions of dollars being laundered through AIG to US and foreign banks.
AIG just might be a distraction for the fact that the Fed just pumped in 1 trillion manufactured dollars? Has this ever worked out successfully. Weimar Republic anyone? Anyone??
alwaysright43 on March 19, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Well, if he can’t stand the heat. There probably will be no actual harm done by him running off to lala land to do a comedy show. But it sure makes him look like a giant tool. Hey guys, sorry you’re being hounded by the media and the taxpayers and congress and all, but see ya…I’m doin Leno tonight.
scalleywag on March 19, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Will O check his NCAA brackets before Leno or after?
Jamson64 on March 19, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Clowns should do their jobs instead of just saying no.
How about proposing a budget?
getalife on March 19, 2009 at 8:50 PM
BTW, the Duke coach was joking.
Watch the clip.
getalife on March 19, 2009 at 8:52 PM
It sounded like a “Don’t quit your day job” sort of crack to me as well, but I haven’t seen the clip. Just from the sound, and given Coach K’s voice, I can see how someone might take it as being more serious.
vitocorleone99 on March 19, 2009 at 8:57 PM
That was Kyl’s point. Obama isn’t doing his job. He’s doing late-night talk shows.
They did make budget proposals. Obama told them to go eff themselves. Bipartisanship, ya know!
JannyMae on March 19, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Like proposing the alternative stimulus bill that your media refused to acknowledge?
Oh, hang on. That’s right The real party of “no” wouldn’t allow it. “No” Republican amendments allowed. “No” alternative measures allowed. “No” due diligence allowed. “No” time for the public to read the bill allowed.
vitocorleone99 on March 19, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Obama is a vapid jackass. I’m not suprised he’s going to yuck it up with Jay Leno in plasticland.
therightwinger on March 19, 2009 at 9:02 PM
For an executive with limited ability to focus, Kyl’s criticism is right on.
This is the kind of thing Republicans need to do more of, to point out Obama’s many flaws.
Part of staying on message is to avoid events like Leno when there is a “crisis” going on. Imagine Bush 1 or 2 taking extended vacations while a major shooting war breaks out. Kyl is wise to use a microphone to point this out.
AP sounds like he drank the Obama Kool Aid by making excuses for The Incompetent One.
Right_of_Attila on March 19, 2009 at 9:06 PM
If “clearing brush” is a metaphor for clearing out Al Quaeda underlings, you might have a good contrast. Otherwise, you have no contrast at all. Fail.
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on March 19, 2009 at 9:11 PM
You know what’s pre-infuriating me? Obama is doing Leno because he’s appealing to the stupidest among us. The Usual Obamamania people will fill the studio, and the majority of people who watch the show are of the same ilk.
While even a bunch of these people have been showing a little buyer’s remorse, they are obviously morons for having ever supported him the first place (that’s right, I said if you ever supported Obama, you’re stupid… or evil), so he can go on and yuck it up with Jay, and he’ll put a stop to the downward spiral we’ve seen in his approval ratings.
I promise you, we’ll see a point or 2 jump, though that won’t mean anything in the long run… Chatting with Late Night hosts doesn’t change the fact that you’re an evil socialist who is deliberately destroying the nation, so much so that we can never recover.
BTW, after his little media blitz over these next few days, I’m guessing 4 to 5 down days for the Dow next week. Any takers?
RightWinged on March 19, 2009 at 9:13 PM
I have the suspicion the only reason Obama is appearing on Leno is damage control. Spilling his fakeness,rhetoric and BS all over the air waves and thinking we’re stupid enough to fall for it. I am honestly concerned with how our country can get thru 4 years of Obama, his administration and the control of Democrats in Congress. Thus far Obama and his team have been a complete and utter embarrassment as their incompetence is glaringly clear. I’m thinking more and more people have begun to realize Bush wasnt so bad afterall. No way am I watching Leno.
Hanny on March 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM
I think late night talk show appearances should be considered bonuses, and whatever he spent to enjoy this little perk should be taxed at 90%.
Ronnie on March 19, 2009 at 9:32 PM
He may get a small bounce from this, but the problem is he’s only been in office for 2 months. At some point, he won’t be able to go back to this well anymore.
He’s already having his 2nd prime time news conference next Tuesday. He’s about to be the first sitting President to appear on a late night talk show. He’s done “town hall meetings” where he paraded a bunch of deadbeats in order to gin up support for his spending. He’s played the crisis and catastrophe cards, while also telling people not to be afraid and to go ahead and invest in the stock market. If anyone can figure out what the hell his message is, please tell me.
And the media loves to keep telling us that he remains popular which is BS. His honeymoon with moderate Republicans is over. His disapproval numbers are high due to him losing that group. Once the independents tune him out, he may be finished. The Democrat base alone won’t be enough to carry him, especially if 2010 costs his party a lot of seats and governorships.
Doughboy on March 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM
????? I’d like to state for the record that the above fulmination by DeathToMediaHacks is a COMPLETE non-sequitur, if he/she intended to be some kind of response to my 7:04 comments that he/she quoted.
Do yourself a favor, Death to Media. Inform yourself about what kind of emergency it must have took to lead to the Fed’s suddenly announcing that they are buying Treasuries on such a gargantuan scale. The sad truth is that neither party knows what the hell they’re doing right now, screwing around with hypertaxing a bunch of corporate exacts in order to cover their own asses, while our country’s entire economy is being basically gambled with by the Federal Reserve right under everyone’s noses.
Neither party is properly leading on this issue, frankly, and Obama’s Jay-Leno-happy-talk in this context should make you and everyone somewhat queasy, because the leadership sure ain’t coming from Professor Teleprompter.
This isn’t a “left” thing or a “right” thing. Get off your hyperpartisan high horse, Death to Media. This is an INSOLVENCY thing. It’s a national bankruptcy thing. Frankly with this desperation buy of Treasuries by the Fed, it appears as though Ben Bernanke has been grabbed by the balls by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his comments of last week. Wen’s alarm about the huge Chinese investments in Treasuries had to have rattled Ben’s cage. That’s not even to mention the clueless Obama on this rather critical issue, whose administration will quite plainly be roadkill economically in any fiscal confrontation with the Chinese.
But oh yeah. Sure, Allahpundit. More power to Obama if he succeeds in calming people down by yukking it up with Jay Leno.
Edouard on March 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Wha-a-at???
I want people angry.
jgapinoy on March 19, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Saying no to anything Obama proposes is the most useful thing any legislator can do right now.
Yes we can say no to the power hungry freak in the oval office.
Take a break Obama go to another party… smoke a little weed… snort some crack… There’s nothing happening in the country right now anyway… Washington is just in a tizzy over your stupidity…. Go where they all just lay back and smoke dope… You’re the hero there.
Arnold should be laughed out of office.
petunia on March 19, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Really? This is what UNC coach Roy Williams said after the Radford game today:
From scout.cam
genso on March 19, 2009 at 9:49 PM
oops…scout.com
genso on March 19, 2009 at 9:50 PM
You mean lying is useful? Everything this idiot touches turns to mud.
petunia on March 19, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Along with the ‘most intelligent administration’, with the ‘highest ethical bar, evah’, AND the most ‘open, honest, transparent Congress, evah’…………we sure are in a lot of deep shit and up to our eyebrows in hypocritical politicians.
Hey Barry, if the election were held today, still think your ass would be in Air Force One?
GarandFan on March 19, 2009 at 9:52 PM
good for Jon Kyl.
one republican started to grow a pair at long last.
notagool on March 19, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Obama says he was “stunned” by the bonuses that HE put into the bill that he insisted we get passed “RIGHT NOW OR THE WHOLE WORLD WILL FALL TO PIECES!!!!!! NO YOU CAN’T READ IT!!!!! THEN YOU WOULD KNOW THAT I JUST INSISTED THAT WE GIVE BONUSES TO AIG!!!!!! DON’T READ IT JUST TRUST ME!!!!!! I’M YOUR PRESIDENT I’D NEVER DO ANYTHING TO HURT YOU!!!!!! TRUST ME!!!!! TRUST ME!!!!!! DON’T READ OR THINK ABOUT ANYTHING!!!!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS A DEMOCRACY OR SOMETHING!!!!! DON’T READ IT!!!!!! I’M THE SUPREME RULER!!!!!! TRUST ME!!!!!!”
And that is a direct quote.
petunia on March 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Thank you. He’s my Senator…the good one…
petunia on March 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Bottom line, if the government wasn’t bailing out companies, then the share holders would decide who got bonuses and who stayed on as executives.
If these companies were allowed to fail, we would be through with this mess, there would be fewer fat cats and fewer bonuses.
Vince on March 19, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I call BS. There’s no “UH”.
Ronnie on March 19, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I don’t blame Wheeezy for gettin a little Airtime and Partay time while he can, the guy knows he’s a fraud and won’t last long.
Hell, he can’t even fill his cabinet posts. Whats’ he got like one guy at Treasury? Probably the most important job in town and Wheezy the Pinnochio Presidente can’t fill it with more than one washed up, tax evading train wreck of a failure. One guy and 17 open positions below him. Does Geitner even have a staff or Secretary?
You’d think his Homeboy Rev. Wright could dig up a couple of applicants that didn’t have tax problems, or at least somebody who never owed any.
dhunter on March 19, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Hey Republicans, how about staying away from the podium with the awful gray background and providing real solutions filled with compromises instead hack partisanship?
PresidenToor on March 19, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Can’t compromise with a false premise without legitimatizing the false premise!
Can’t compromise on principles without abandoning said principle!
Thats the maistake the RINO’s and Blue Blood GOPers have made. It gets us nowhere, all the negatives and no postitives.
But Thanks for the advice,how about tryin the same on Presidente Pinochio or Nasty Pelosi?
dhunter on March 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM
As in ‘real solutions’ did you mean like, stop campaigning to boost his own popularity and get back to work getting his economy team in order? His economic team that is in DIRE straits? That’s what Sen. Kyle is saying!!!
Attn: America, what we have here is a Do Nothing president!
TN Mom on March 19, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Partial list of the things Obama has done in office while the Treasury Department still has 17 vacant positions requiring Presidential appointments (and remember, as we’ve been reminded, this is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression).
1) Tonight show appearance.
2) St. Patrick’s day party.
3) ESPN appearance to make NCAA tournament picks.
4) Wednesday night parties with entertainment provided by the likes of Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind and Fire (complete with Conga line).
5) Coordinate attacks on radio talk show hosts and television commentators.
6) Practice his bowling (Hey, he did bowl a 129!)
Perhaps someone in Congress (Eric Cantor maybe) could propose a resolution demanding (or at least requesting) that President Oprompter not host any more parties at the White House or make any more television appearances until the Treasury Department appointments have all been made. They could really paint him as being out of touch the same way Oprompter did to McCain.
JohnInCA on March 19, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Ahhnold- “ya but he looks so good doing it”
2ipa on March 19, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Ditto. I just got my letter in the mail from John McCain last week, announcing he is running again in ’10, and asking for my dough.
Ain’t happening. I hope that we can find a Republican to challenge him. PLEASE!!!!
JannyMae on March 19, 2009 at 11:46 PM
He cannot, he has a campaign to run.
Johan Klaus on March 20, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Good try, but no cigar. (Rush analogy).
Johan Klaus on March 20, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Gawd. . .I can’t stand these media pigs. . Speaking of Pigs. . . .Is Rick Sanchez on Leno with HopeNchange ? ?
Texyank on March 20, 2009 at 1:08 AM
The more time wasted by democrats the better.
darktood on March 20, 2009 at 2:22 AM
More time with Leno for Team Obama and less time in Washington would be a good thing. Let them run the country from The View. Radical sob’s.
petefrt on March 20, 2009 at 2:47 AM
Its a party right? Lets fly around, get on tv, stink up the plane, play some round ball, get back on the plane, call in a Presidential Pizza. Yeah the Obabba Special at Papa Johns. No sauce, just cheeze and crust.
Get your economic team together and quit using up all the free jet fuel Oblunder. Or..at least find Hillary. Where the hell is she? You know where she is? Off the radar is where she is. Waiting for the next chance to run for the next office. She’s letting Bomma flub, so she can come in and say ‘look I can fix al this and I’ve been Secretary of State so elect me’. Seems she’s working off site a lot eh?
Ya’ll better get a handle on the both of them.
Eh, being on Leno is no way to get to the American peoples hearts. We need Obama Monopoly at McDonalds. yeah.
Get Board Walk and Park Place and win a billion Dollars, free fries and a house.
Someone tell Mr. Obama being President is more than just wearing a bathrobe that says “The Prez” on it or having cool
bulletproof hub caps on your car.
johnnyU on March 20, 2009 at 5:09 AM
Been there, done that, and all while A bomb,eh? was busy getting his ego stroked, and whiing about his performance being Special Olympic – like.
A bomb, eh? is more clueless than his teleprompter, but he isn’t useless. He makes Bush look good!.
DannoJyd on March 20, 2009 at 6:59 AM
I beg to differ. A bomb, eh? is doing a magnificient job of making Bush look good.
DannoJyd on March 20, 2009 at 7:01 AM
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And the MLB Fantasy draft is next week.
gonnjos on March 20, 2009 at 10:03 AM
He’s also my good Senator. He has answered everything I have ever written to him, and they weren’t form letters.
rlwo2008 on March 20, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Kyl’s statement is NOT “stupid on the merits”–with the economy in a tailspin, why is there only one guy in Obama’s Treasury department doing the work of 17 normal staffers, two months into the Administration?
Obama just signed into law a bill to spend $787 billion that most Congresscritters never read. Does Obama or anyone else there have any idea what they’re doing with OUR money?
People are losing jobs, people have lost half their retirement savings, and they want ANSWERS, while Obama worries about who will win a basketball game and insults handicapped people over bowling.
2008: Bathing beauty: I’ve got a crush on Obama.
2009: Voters: I’ve got
ato crushonObama!Steve Z on March 20, 2009 at 12:29 PM
The Presidential election of 2008 really didn’t give us much of a choice did it.
I voted for McCain, but I understand why Obama won. The choice was McCain or Obama…
Heck I probably would have chosen Bush again over McCain…
I know McCain too well.
And now here we are. Poor America.
petunia on March 20, 2009 at 1:49 PM
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