Emo Obama is back, according to Obama-Republican tax-cut opponent Peter DeFazio, who said last night that the president is “making phone calls saying this is the end of his presidency if he doesn’t get” his deal passed. Oh, is that it? One thing doesn’t go his way, and suddenly the whole world has conspired against him and his feelings and completely ruined being president for him? DeFazio thinks the passing of this tax-cut thing actually will ruin Obama’s chances for re-election. How nice of him to look out for the young man! But he should be careful, because Obama will just quit if this doesn’t pass, because what is even the point of living if this particular package of tax cuts and economic adjustments doesn’t pass? And then the presidency will be handed to that annoying kid who thinks he’s everybody’s friend, Joe Biden.
However, Obama’s clique of mean girls says this never happened:
“The president hasn’t said anything remotely like that and has never spoken with Mr. DeFazio about the issue,” said White House spokesman Tommy Vietor.
So stop calling him a whore, DeFazio. He would never even talk to a low-life kid like you, so it’s obvious you’re just making stuff up.
Except, as The Hill notes, Obama said this same exact thing when Congress was deliberating over his health care plan.
Should an emo really be entrusted with the nuclear launch codes? It’s probably better than giving them to Peter DeFazio. [The Hill]
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A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires….
These are the days of miracle and wonder….
Lasers in the jungle somewhere….
The bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio…
OMG!!! Why isn't Obama protecting us from all these terror babies?!?!?!?!?
I like Paul Simon too- you realize he headlined the AARP conference concert here in DC two years ago
And Dylan's my Dad's age. But if you don't like rap (I don't) then you're stuck with these geezers (and Drive
That description reminds me of diarrhea.
I once told my mom that if I didn't get a driver's license by the time I was 16 it would ruin my life. The Pete DeFazio went and blabbered about it to everybody.
So I know how Barry feels.
Were you right?
Certainly his dating life for a couple years.
I, for one, always take advice from my opponents on how to win.
Opponents always have the best advice. Now, if only Obama can get Sarah Palin to like him, his presidency will be complete!
Need more salvia divinorum bong hits.
So, basically, some drunk dialing is going on. I am sure that Ginni Thomas is involved in someway.
More Dems-aren't-real-men propaganda from the REPUBLICAN HATE MACHINE℠. They love this meme, and why shouldn't they, since it helped a draft-dodging wuss beat a genuine Vietnam veteran in 2004.
The funny part is — or would be if it weren't effective anyway — that Obamer is the near-youngest, fittest, most athletic 3-point-drainingest president with the hottest wife probably ever.
And in 2000. Well not really, but the AWOL national guardsman still got into office.
Well, dammit, now I want to write a fanfic about Obama wrasslin' Teddy Roosevelt for the Presidential Fitness Medal.
Is that "emo," or just "geeky?"
Teddy was asthmatic, no? And all his rough-riding and animal-shooting was overcompensation? Whereas Barry's very, very "urban," with all that entails, except he apparently can't dance.
Not to forgot the combination of the two: riding animals normally shot
http://thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com/2010/02/pi…
Am I the only libtard that does not find Michelle remotely attractive?
Also, Jackie FTW.
De gustibus non disputandum est. But Michelle makes me think of hot, sweaty, jungle sex.
LOL You have jungle fever! Not that there's anything wrong with that, that I know of.
And perhaps my original comment was too harsh, i suppose I do find her somewhat attractive, just not that much. She kicks ass tho, no arguments there.
Pete DeFazio is part of the REPUBLICAN HATE MACHINE℠? Could of fooled the fuck out of me.
Shut up, Laverne.
Nothing's over until Boehner cries like a bitch about it on the tee-vee.
It's not over 'til the orange lady cries?
Turtle boy McConnell was the one weeping today. What is with these guys…
As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Douglas once said, “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.”
You sure that wasn't Justice William O Holmes? Or John Holmes?
But a plasma screen don't buy itself, dummy! I want my $$$$$ now!
Dahling I love you but give me Park Avenue
And then depression set in. . .
Put DeFazio in solitary confinement for leaking the truth.
What a sanctimonious, professional leftist purist this guy is. Amirite?
Needz moar Panic! at teh Disco.
I bet Barry looks hot in skinny jeans.
I'm still trying to figure out why it would be a bad thing if Obama was a one-termer.
Two words: President Palin!
AAAHHH! Geeze, you almost gave me a heart attack there.
Going through the Bush administration's laundry list of incompetent or actively nefarious bullshit might help that calculation.
Let's see:
we're not fighting anymore illegal or pointless wars;
the president doesn't think he can kill citizens without due process;
Gitmo is closed;
the financial sector is tightly regulated;
we all have healthcare
DADT has been repealed;
the tax cuts for the top 2% have been repealed;
shall I continue?
druggie dream
and your suggestion is ???
My suggestion would be that Obama stop throwing his base under the bus, for starters, and maybe try to fulfill at least one fucking campaign promise.
Now that's change I can believe in.
Since Obama is already calling his Presidency dead, go out in a blaze of glory and get some of your campaign promises done. If you can't, then the next two years should prove a reminder to America why a vote for a Republiklan is a vote against your own best interest.
Lest we forget 1980 when President Carter tried to "rule from the middle" and he received a challenge from Senator Kennedy in the primaries? That pretty much destroyed his chances of re-election. In 1980, had Carter not come across as so much of a "middle of the roader" pussy, Kennedy would never have run and Carter would have trounced Ronald Reagan. I'll bet Carter regrets his strategy of having tried to come across as a "centrist." Same shit happened to Humphrey in 1968. As for me, a voter who believed that Obama held out some promise as being something other than just another neocon elitist in 2008?, I ain't voting for him again.
Humphrey's loss probably had more to do with the facts that he was handed the nomination despite not having even run in a single primary, and it was during a convention in which a bunch of thug cops beat up both anti-war activists and supporters of the candidate who actually got the most primary votes of anyone still alive. That kind of convinced a lot of the left to stay home more than his centrism.
I call thug cops violating people's civil liberties and fighting unpopular wars centrism. Is there an echo in here? 'Cause it's happening again.
As Sorosbot alludes, the murder of the best candidate probably didn't help a lot either. Nor did Nixon's ratfucking squad.
The best candidate wasn't a centrist.
Quit halfway through term: Palin Political Project
Is the Palin Political Project like the Blair Witch Project with Christine O'Donnell tossed in for fun?
Except somehow, the camerawork manages to be even less stable.
I like the Alan Parsons Project. What did they sing again?
They did the groundbreaking concept album "I, Robot."
Oddly, THAT makes me think of Palin, too, for some reason.
President Biden!
Over at the MoJo, Suzy Khimm reports C'Addle's beloved pinko Rep. Jim McDermott is saying that the bill is "just awful" but that even with the 3:00 AM phonecallz and "kick me" signs from the Prez, McD thinks the libtarded DeRats will make-up with EmoBama and have more sexytime just like before.
Obama's chances of reelection will be ruined if the deal passes because…? The article ends with DeFazio just stating that, without any explanation why he would believe such a patently ridiculous notion.
Uh. Maybe because he's shit on his base one time too many?
Yes, please refuse to vote for Obama, because it worked out so well when Ralph Nader gave us four years of W.
Can you honestly say that the Obama Administration has accomplished anything qualitatively different from anything that went on in the Bush Administration. And, don't give me that healthcare reform crap because my premiums just went up another 20% this year. Now. Be honest. Honestly.
You ask me what Obama has accomplished, and then say not to mention the single greatest accomplishment of his presidency so far. That's disingenuous enough for Fox.
Except for ending the Depression and winning WWII, what did FDR do for us anyway?
Random guess: because this deal, being built around a 2-year extension, expires December 2012, meaning it will be up for discussion just in time to be the prime issue of the 2012 election, likely amid a tepid recovery. If Democrats aren't confident they can sell the expiration of the Bush tax cuts today, why schedule to revisit it during electiontime, 2012?
I have to believe that the Republiklans are already counting on the economy not improving by 2012, since they've begun the clarion call that business uncertainty can be stopped if the Bush Tax Cuts would just be made permanent.
Barry the Fine Cutter is carving "Mitch" and "Iron Eyes Boehner" into his arm at this very moment.
As a self-avowed RADICAL LEFTIST ZOMG!!! I'm not personally offended by Obama's strategic liberal bashing. But I find this strategy's constant failure to successfully persuade anyone of anything pretty intellectually offensive.
I question why he doesn't use the same language to hammer the Republiklans. Sure, he said that they held the unemployed hostage to get a deal on tax cuts, but then Drunky McNicotineStain comes out with a statement that they are offended that Obama would use such language, then nothing from Obama in response.
hear hear
New strategy at my college: sob and tell the deans that if you don't get tenure, your time at this college is FINISHED.
Oh wait, that's demonstrably true.
I love on Tv shows or movies- someone doesn't get tenure and says- oh, well, maybe next year.
And yet, the reference to "Send In the Clowns" fits so well…
I wanna giant omnibus for Christmas,
And only a giant omnibus will do!
No tax deals, no filibusters,
I only want giant spending omnibuses.
And giant omnibuses want me too!
And Dubya said that if he didn’t get his war in Iraquistan it would ruin his prezdincy. Thank Jeebus and all the saints we listened to him.
DeFazio's just pissed because Obama ended their phone conversation by saying:
"You had better back down before I drink your milkshake, you fucking gnome. I drink it up!"
I'd really like to believe this was true.
And, we all know that it isn't. Most likely, Obama ended the phone call with a completely unnecessay and effusive apology for interrupting Rep. DeFazio's dinner.
Making phone calls? SRSLY who still does that?
Would texting be better?
<prezO> dude srsly wtf? tax deal ftw!!1!
<DFaz> OMG! NO WAY
<prezO> i haz a sad
<DFaz> LOL UR A LUSR! ROFLMAO!!
Who does DeFazio think President Obama is…Sarah Palin?
DeFazio is just spreading rumors and gossip again. He does this because he wants to be with the popular kids. The popular kids don't really like him but allow him to hang because he brings the booze and broads. Just wait until the Faz's mom finds out! Holy shit. Some bitch slappin' and a good long grounding will fix things right up. The hammer always hits the nail, eventually.
Obamer is using the same strategy as the sherriff in Blazing Saddles.
…if he doesn’t get” his deal passed.
Uh, it's Boner and Mitch Monkeypuss' deal. Bambi's just along for the lulz. And one-term is a distinct option.
Note to self: Remove DeFazio from group "sexting.fwd"
right. come election time 2012, does anybody seriously think the american public will remember anything that happened two years earlier?
or if they do, that it be random political skirmishing over a tax package and not the blantant theft of bristol's crown on DWTS?
What happens when a presidency is ended, anyway — does the White House collapse like a souffle? Does all legislating and executiving (or whatever the hell they call it) just stop? Do we have to get little elf puppets to go on a quest to find some sort of crystal and get things moving again? Do all Republicans get their notions of cause and effect out of fairy tales and kids' movies? It's what gave them the idea that if we overthrew Saddam that Iraq would spontaneously turn into an oasis of democracy and western values as though the king exerts a magical spell upon the land, I'll bet. It's too bad they didn't notice that eight years of the worst fuckuppery known to human civilization wasn't enough to ruin George Fuckhead Bush's presidency though.
I think all legislating has been stopped for a couple of years now. The only time Barry wins is when he goes all Emo and gives everything away to the Repugs.
Isn't there any good news to make me laugh, like maybe Cheney's death? I'm hoping to get that for Christmas.
So do we call this latest leak from Defazio a Peterleak? The man better be careful or Emobama will banish him back to Eugene, land of the lumberdyke.
Emo-bama is cute. I say he quits the presidency and forms a blues band with Rahm.
Ah, this whole goddamn country is too emo. Conservatives whine about being victims of the War on Christmas or illegals stealing their jerbs or tax increases or whatever else Fox anchors shout about through their noise holes; CEOs of businesses and banks whine about being demonized over the financial crisis that they, you know, CAUSED; many on the left are crying because they apparently weren't listening during the twenty months Obama spent campaigning and are only now realizing that the guy is not a flaming liberal and will vociferously defend himself on that point.
If we're not a nation full of whiny giant pussies, our loudest voices are certainly giving the impression otherwise.
God, do you have to be such a drama queen about our whining?
Shut up Dad! I hate you! Nobody gets me! I'm going to go sit in my room and put Boys Don't Cry on repeat…
Ah, just hand the fucking keys to the Republicans and stop pretending. The country is already in the ditch with their fingerprints all over the blood smeared steering wheel. It's 10 years too late. You wanted this country to thrive, you had to kick Freemoneyforever Greenspan to the curb in 2001. It's over. Forget about it.
Give them back the keys, shut the door and walk away. At least the bullshit whining will stop and we can all have some peace and quiet while we climb in this nice handbasket to hell. Jesus, enough already.
Poor guy. He's trying so damned hard to get the Republicans to reciprocate the burning love he has for them. Maybe this time, they'll love you Mr. President. This time is different. Just keep at it, and they'll recognize and laud your genius….
I really wish he'd get to the stage where he realizes he's too beautiful for them, anyway, and just quit this dysfunctional relationship. This president is the neediest bitch I've seen in the White House in decades. I actually appreciated that Bush was straight-up with the fact that he didn't think shit of liberl folks like myself.
If no one didn't see this coming with him praising the transformative nature of Reagan for years then they just weren't looking.
And asking for an itty bitty public option was asking for too much? The fucking healthcare reform that we got was the same shit that the Thuglicans were offering up in the early '90s. And now, they're bitching about it, because the O Man's sales job on the crap that we got was so piss poor. C'mon. You're missing the point: Coke/Pepsi; Time/Newsweek; Bush/Obama. Ain't no difference.
Bring on the food riots.
Also, don't mention financial regulation–which, yes, certainly should have gone farther, but is a damn sight better than we'd have seen under the McCain-Palin administration (shudder!).
Hell, the simple fact that Obama knows that science is REAL, not something that is open to debate with "Intelligent Design advocates," is a significant improvement over Bush.
And sure, maybe–just maybe–a public option could have passed, but it still would have been weak at best. Even so, the Obama reforms are a significant improvement over the clusterfuck that currently passes for a health care "system" in this country. The goal still has to be genuine universal coverage, and I honestly don't know whether the incremental reforms of Obama care will move that forward. Maybe we'd get single-payer sooner if more people continued to suffer under the current non-system, to the point that it became intolerable. As it is, by 2015, some 30 million people that don't currently have any insurance will be covered, and I count that as a good start.
Yeah, the guy began the Iraq war and they guy who out there protesting it when it was dangerous for a politician to do so and has pulled most of the troops out are exactly the same. As is the the guy who gave us health care reform and the one who tried to destroy social security. And I'm sure Bush would have extended unemployment benefits as long as Obama has.
You know, maybe if the O man would have gone out and prosecuted the thieves responsible for creating the economic mess in the first place, clawed back all of their ill-gotten gains, nationalized the banks, enacted serious trade policies that put a halt to the job drain to cheap labor sanctuaries, gotten the economy back going again, through some real FDR like actions, we wouldn't be needing unemployment benefits into perpetuity.
Both health care reform and the stimulus were weaker than they should have been, but that's the fault of the Blue Dogs, not Obama; if we had President McCain there would have been no mention of health reform, he would have responded to the recession by eliminating the capital gains tax, and we'd still be mired in Iraq, would not be at least planning to get out of Afghanistan and would probably have bombed Iran by now.
But there's no difference between Obama and the Republicans.
(goddammit, accidentally gave you a downthumb. I'm glad I don't have the nukular launch codes.)
I'm scratching my head as to where this meme that "Obama should have had everyone from the Dubya admin up on war crimes charges" comes from. Does anyone believe that, if such charges were brought, they would actually stick? In our legal system? With the Supreme Court which brought in Bush v. Gore? Or should we be prosecuting Scalia et al as well?
Did he even try? Or is that how we get business done in this country? "Oh well. So you broke the law. No big deal. Have a nice day."
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