Rep. Anthony Weiner appearing on this Friday's Washington Journal was asked to respond to the Republicans who apparently got a bad case of the vapors and had to be carried to their fainting couches to recover after President Obama gave his speech on the budget this week.
Here are some excerpts host Susan Swain read from this article at the Washington Post -- Obama address was surprise attack, GOP lawmakers say:
“Yes,” the tenor of the speech was surprising, said Erskine Bowles, who headed Obama’s fiscal commission and is working with a bipartisan group of six senators to develop a compromise plan to rein in borrowing.
Camp said he received a call from fiscal commission co-chairman Alan Simpson, who was also in the audience and was “concerned about the partisan nature of the event and how unnecessary and unproductive and unhelpful it would be.”
Still, Republicans said, did Obama have to attack the men to their faces? “Reagan had the decency to insult his enemies when he was out of town,” grumbled one GOP aide.
Here's a rough transcript of Weiner's response:
WEINER: Boy oh boy. Have these Republicans been listening to themselves over the past three years? Have they been listening to the tone that they have used against the president when having this debate? I've got to tell you something. I was watching that speech, and I was the opposite. I was thinking “Boy the president's being so gentle and modest.” I mean, you know what I would have said. I would have said the Republican plan stinks and I will chew my right arm off before I sign any part of it. The fact is, this is a competition of ideas. And now my Republican friends, they have the audacity to say what common sense, what a fifth grade math student can tell, which is they're idea is a terrible abdication of our responsibilities as Americans. Their math doesn't add up. And if you go back and take a look at the speech, it was remarkably gentle.
The president said, look we have two different views. Did my Republican friends think they were going to be invited there to so we'd say “Oh we love the Ryan” plan that eliminates Medicare? Oh this is a terrific idea to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires and drive up the debt even more? Of course not. You know we have an expression, you know, if it's too hot, stay out of the kitchen.
If you don't want to have your program criticized by the President of the United States I say two things. One, don't make dumb proposals. And two, maybe you should think a little bit about the tone in this town when they've been eviscerating the president for everything from being a Socialist, a Communist and not even being born in this country. I thought the president's tone was remarkably measured considering the attacks that he's on every day. I mean President Weiner certainly wouldn't have been that measured.
Anthony is exactly right about the Repugs and their cohorts tearing into our President every day of the week.
even right before Mr. Obama gave his speech Paul Ryan and others were talking to the press about what bad ideas he would present and also right after the President's speech they were once again complaining about his ideas. BTW where is Paul Ryan's birth certificate??? he looks like a muslim to me.
I'm in love
or a hard crush...
The arrogance, that because you're offended by something, no one should be exposed to it is offensive.
Change the channel, don't go. But don't tell me how or what to think.
I really, really, REALLY like the sound of that.
Candideinnc
I would gladly support him in a Democratic Primary someday.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
I've been speaking up about Weiner for some time now. I believe he has all the qualities to make a good president (ok, he's not real tall). He knows the issues well, his positions are similar to mine, he speaks his mind, he's personable and humorous and, as far as I know, he's not a sellout. If we had a primary, I'd be campaigning for him. Untiil that happens, I'll be fully supporting Obama against the reich-wing insurgency.
Deterrence is the art of placing in the mind of the enemy the "fear" to attack!
Dr. Strangelove
Ditto on all counts! I have been pushing for him as Prez for ages. Now, I just have to get to the point where I can say "President Weiner" with a straight face!
Is it just me, or was that a non-denial denial at the end there??? That sounds to me like he is at least thinking about running for President! Anyone else hear that??
Me thinks he may be looking to 2016. At least it seems so to me. He's got a lot of years ahead of him.
Deterrence is the art of placing in the mind of the enemy the "fear" to attack!
Dr. Strangelove
That is kind of what I was thinking. Hope America can wait that long, or Obama means what he says and follows through with what he is saying now and gets things finally going in the right direction.
(I'm old enough to be his mother, or I'd want to marry him).
Whatta gutsy guy!! *sigh*
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
As dangerous to the U.S. economy as Republicans are in general, they are many, many times more dangerous when their "feelings are hurt".
Remember, it was a handful of House Republicans who reneged on their whipped votes for the much anticipated TARP bill at the last minute, causing it to fail to pass, triggering our generation's "October, 1929" worldwide stock market and economic panic and collapse on September 29, 2008. The DOW lost almost 800 points that day and businesses around the world plunged into the deepest economic paralysis and job elimination since The Great Depression.
And they pulled their votes at the last minute, dooming the passage of that bill because, according to them, Nancy Pelosi had said something that "hurt their feelings" right before the vote.
There should be a maturity test for public office.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Colbert: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/colb...
Stewart: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/jon-...
far left loon >.<
without first using his title, "That Windbag"?
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
What a bunch of crybabies. They say horrible, insulting things all the time, then whine when Democrats rudely return the favor.
Here's chapter one of my book...
http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Become-Death-ebook...
I want President Weiner!
Keep telling it like it is and those oh, so polite Southern-style 'vapors' of the Republicans have to be called out for the fraud that they are. This is the party of the Chris Christies who want to take a baseball bat to a 73 year old widow's head, and they claim the PRESIDENT isn't being 'respectful' enough of them?
Oh, yeah. He's got brown skin. "Eyes to the front"; show your massa RE-SPECT!
MyMy
God I wish there were more Dems in the house like Anthony Weiner who has no problem calling a spade a spade. Unfortunately, he is in the minority where most of these guys (Repubs and Dems alike) are nothing but corporate whores!
You here that Dems? Now you know what it's going to take. Now you know what you have to do.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
There's lots of AIPAC-subservient Democrats. Weiner just happens to be the most media agile among them.
Exactly! A Republican would never stoop to shouting something like "You Lie!" to the President's face. He'd have the decency to do it when he's out of town. Right?
Republicans are freaky.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
----RONALD REAGAN RECORDS AS FIRST---------------------------
(1900-1989)
(Peggy Noonan pay attention)
1.First to turn America into a DEBTOR nation in Peacetime
2. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of national income in eight years
3. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of gdp over eight years
4. First to double the deficit in just eight years
5. First to “almost”: triple the national DEBT in just eight years
6. First to increase SPENDING by 80%--over 8 years.
7. First to SPEND more in eight years than was spent in prior 50 years.
8. First to have “real” INTEREST RATES of 8% after averaging 1% over 35 years.
9. First to keep PRIME INTEREST RATES at 20%.
10.First to over value the dollar to the yen at rate of 262 yen to 1 dollar.
11.First to have served as Governor and increase STATE SPENDING by 112%
12.First to have HOME LOAN INTEREST RATES as high as 16%
13. First to CUT TAXES by 60% for his rich pals
14. First to allow the SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY to be raided after signing a deregulatory bill and proclaiming “I think we have hit the jackpot”. Come and get it the vaults are unguarded.
15. First to deal with TERRORISTS
16. First to send an AUTOGRAPHED BIBLE to a man he called “The Satan of Terrorists”.
17. First to have an ADMIRAL plead the Fifth Amendment.
18. First to have a stealing, lying, gutless wife abusing MARINE LT. COLONEL plead the Fifth Amendment.
19. First to have a “sitting” CABINET MEMBER INDICTED
20. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE INDICTED.
21. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SENT TO PRISON.
22. First to have over 100 MEMBERS OF AN ADMINISTRATION CHARGED WITH CRIMES..
23. First to have more members of his administration charged with crimes than CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS in the twentieth century
24. First to set a record for the LARGEST ONE DAY PERCENTAGE DECLINE in the DOW in history. 10-19-87
25. First to have over $10,000,000 INCREASE IN WEALTH from serving for 8 years as president.
26. First to testify ”under oath” 130 times that ”I DON’T REMEMBER” .
27. First to have an Admiral with a photographic memory testify 128 times “ I DON’T REMEMBER”.
28. First to undergo BRAIN SURGERY a few months after leaving office. No pain no gain.
29. First to, repeatedly, FALSIFY HIS WIFE’S AGE. As tho anyone cared.
30. First to promote his religious faith and never have an ACTIVE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
31. First to rarely use the term JESUS CHRIST in speeches.
32. First to seek GUIDANCE FROM THE STARS not from God
33. First to have had a SHOTGUN WEDDING.
34. First to have worked as a lead-on in Las Vegas.
35. First to call a Stealing, Lying, Psychotic, wife abusing Marine a “LIAR.
36. First to have been OPENLY ALIENATED from his children.
37. First to have served with ALZHEIMERS
38. First to have UNEMPLOYMENT AT 10.8% since great depression.
39. First to attack a small unprotected nation with 88,000 inhabitants and 10,000 bb guns then PROCLAIM -“America stands tall again”— “we have whipped the Vietnam Syndrome”-we have defeated communism”. Gosh! What if we had whipped Cyprus?.
40. #1-in FARM FORECLOSURES
41. #1-In BANK FAILURES
42. #1-In SAVINGS AND LOAN FAILURES
43. #1-In Percent increase in PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES
44. #1-In recorded MISSTATEMENTS
45. #1-In never having a single press conference in which he did not make at least one or more INCORRECT STATEMENTS.
46. #1-In needing a staff person standby during press conferences to tell the press “WHAT HE REALLY MEANT”.
47. #1-In having SERVICEMEN KILLED during peacetime.
48. #1-In largest DROP IN POPULARITY in one week.
49. #1-In being first to HONOR NAZI STORM TROOPERS by calling them” Innocent Victims”
50. #1-In being first to be labeled “BRAIN DEAD AFFABLE DUNCE’ by this writer.
51. First to lie-over and over-to reporters “I DO NOT DYE MY HAIR my barber uses a special shampoo”
52. First to have a wife who ”forced” him to WEAR THREE SUITS in one day
53. First to boast “Not bad for a DUMB GUY who worked only 20 hours per week”.
54. First to have his wife sit nearby and WHISPER ANSWERS to questions
55. First to FALL ASLEEP while the Pope spoke
56. First to invite the Pope to visit the White House and “BRING THE WIFE AND KIDS”
57. First to have his press secretary remove him from the microphone because he could not answer questions. Then, as the reporter
yelled out “answer my question” he replied “MY HANDLERS WON’T LET ME SPEAK”. Quick get the white coat.
58. First 20th Century president to have historians RATE HIM BELOW every president of the 20th except for Richard Nixon. 1994 Poll.
59. First to give us a First Lady with a past reputation for giving the BEST BJ in Hollywood.
60. First to suggest his eldest son undergo PSYCHIATRIC examination
61. First to have been voted in British polls (twice) as the ”MOST FEARED LEADER IN THE WORLD” sic em Rambo.
62. First to serve as Governor on a ”conservative” platform and INCREASE SPENDING BY 112%.
63. First Governor TO INCREASE personal income taxes by 60%, tax increase on cigarettes by 200%, state tax collections by 152%.
64. First Californian Governor to INCREASE TAXES BY ONE BILLION in one year.1967.
65. First to have a Special Assistant say on national TV “sometimes you had to HIT HIM ON THE HEAD with a 2 x 4 to get his attention”
66. First to have his official biographer state on national TV ‘After he was shot in 1981he GOT SLOWER AND SLOWER EACH YEAR. His speech got slower. He deliberated more and he hesitated more when he spoke. He lost his physical quickness and would not make decisions on the spot. It was a very, very slow and steady mental and physical decline”.
67. First to have a POPULARITY RATING OF ONLY 35% after his first two years in office.
68. First president to have been DIVORCED
69. First president to have the Geriatrics Department of a major
university study his behavior and conclude that AFTER THREE YEARS IN OFFICE HE HAD ALZHEIMERS.
70. First president to have been known to, before presidency, SHACK UP with the love of his life while his wife was in the hospital giving birth to their first child.
71. First president to have applied for PERMANENT DEFERMENT from the Draft.
72. First to increase CORPORATE TAX RATE from 46% to 51% in 1986.
73. First to replace strict regulator volcker with non regulator greenspan and create recessions in 1991-1992-1992-2007-2008-2009 plus big market crash 10-19-07
74. First to Tax Social Security Benefits-50% of income in 1984—big tax hater???
75. First to whup Soviet single handed—read debunking of myth in book-“Way out there in the Blue: “Reagan, Star Wars, and the end of the Cold War” by Frances Fitzgerald 2000
76. First to talk tough and one of first acts in office was to lift Carter sanctions on the evil empire which was still in Afghanistan.. Sic em Rambotongue.
77. First to promote Apartheid
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clarence swinney
clarenceswinney political historian lifeaholics of america
I suppose that a press conference would be euphemistically referred to as a Weiner Roast.
If he did badly he would become the wurst president ever.
Instead of the hot seat he would be in the bun warmer.
The official limousine would be called the Weiner Mobile.
Secret Service designation would be corndog 1.
WH cabinet would be labeled the condiment drawer.
"I did not play hide the sausage with that woman".
Presidential decree that hot dog buns must match the number of hot dogs in a pack.
'Talk to the hand'
Can he cut the mustard?
Yes. He can. And he'll relish it.
... You guys should write for The Onion.
would have constitutional power to mustard troops for war.
'Talk to the hand'
Weiner did all those jokes and more at the press dinner. I think the video was posted here.
Funny! Innocent, but funny.
Of course, knowing Republicans, they'd be making explicitly pornographic dick jokes about his name, and then calling for him to resign so that the poor children wouldn't have to hear their words.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
One dick joke about Boehner, and you're a bad person.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
They're really sayin that we thought we had our boy under control and now this.
ROCKS!
He's one of my man-crushes...his gasket-blowing tirade over the 9/11 health benefits bill remains one of the greatest smackdowns in political history.
THE GENTLEMAN IS CORRECT IN SITTING!
Just 'Cos You Got the Power...THAT DON'T MEAN YOU GOT THE RIGHT!
Weiner/Feingold '16
I second that!
NOBODY 2012
I guess I am a card carrying member of the lunatic left, because I find Weiner's remarks in turn "remarkably measured".
That said, God knows he is a breath of fresh air.
Do you think the Republican criers had the whiny, hurt feelings patter coordinated beforehand? That is the way they do everything else. Talking points. The President could have given them everything they wanted and they still would have found fault. Scumbags.
I wish more Democrats had backbones. There might still be more Democrats in Congress if they had. And for those who think there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the parties. Look around. Pelosi's crew might be under the thumbs of the corporatists but we wouldn't be subjected to the soul crushing sanctimonious anti-human scary ideas we are getting from Republicans today.
They were probably holding night classes with the orange boner on weeping and wailing (he's so skilled at it)
"we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and [to] bid defiance to the laws of our country." …..Thomas Jefferson
We can always count on him to highlight the abject stupidity of the rethugs with humor and a healthy dose of truthiness. But of course, we all know that truth has a liberal bias.
"we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and [to] bid defiance to the laws of our country." …..Thomas Jefferson
of the Democrat party has insulted them politically is a bit like a elephant with a cold saying that it has a little runny nose today.
For people who are willing to kill grammaw and granpaw ad starve school children, RepoNazi sure are sensitive.
Weiner:
First, Republicans don't think.
Second, even had President Obama made a speech that said, "Golly gee, the Republican plan is the greatest thing in the world! I wish I had thought of it, and I can't wait to sign it!" the response from the Republicans would have been largely the same: "How dare he just go ahead and agree with us?! What good does that do for democracy? He's so uncivil and uncivilized! He's a terrible president only interested in partisan bullying!"
Personally, I would have liked to hear something at least a wee bit more along the lines of Weiner's:
Of course, if President Obama said that, I'd worry that he might soon be chewing off his right arm on national television to show how bipartisan he is.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Grayson/Weiner?
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
I think America is ready for President Weiner! Bring 'em on!
I guess Ryan thought the President was going to shine his knob like the media has been doing for months. What about a bunch of sack of shit cry babies the republicans are. They can throw a punch but take one. This from the same party who shouted down our President during the State of the Union
Vice President Sanders.
Let's set the stage for the Republican party to viciously ATTACK (as is their time proven manner) the entire Jewish people. Let's listen for words like "Jewish cabals" or "Conspiracy".
The GOP will finally become the party of White People once and for all. Why should we get in the way of their "progress?"
MADE MY DAY-- BEST THOUGHT TODAY-- WONDERFUL THOUGHT
clarence swinney
clarenceswinney political historian lifeaholics of america
BARBARIANS IN OUR HOUSE SUCCEED
120,000,000 WORKERS WILL BE IN THE STREETS
WERE THERE NO SAFETY NETS PICTURE THIS
Republicans should refuse;;;
weekly unemploy checks
monthly social security checks
food stamps
mediicare treatments and low priced drugs
medicaid for disabled keep them in your home
vet pensions
vet hospital care
on and on and on
Inequality=Unhappiest citizens march in middle east
Equality=happiest citizens
Republicans do not comprehend the value the Common Good and One for all and all for one
They worship Jesus Chrst but vote against his most valued goal of POOR HELP THE POOR LOVE EACH OTHER
They are totally unaware that we have Great Inequality in America
1% own 43% total financial weath--get 24% all individual income
80% or 120,000,000 0wn 7%
When the 120,000,000 workers finally realize their situation it will be marching in the streets beginning in large cities.
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clarence swinney
clarenceswinney political historian lifeaholics of america
Obama is brilliant. Prove it.
He will not tell the people?
He inherited a disaster.
Numbers rounded
Clinton left Bush an 1800B Budget
Bush Left Obama a 3500 Budget
Clinton left Bush a 250B Surplus as far as the eye can see
Bush left Obama 1400B Deficit as far as the eye can see
Clinton left Bush a 5700B of Debt
Bush left Obama 11,800B of Debt
Clinton left Bush a 237,000 net new jobs created per month
Bush left Obama a 31,000 lowest since Hoover.
Clinton left Bush 17 Million Manufacturing Jobs
Bush left Obama 7 Million Manufacturing Jobs
Clinton left Bush a 10,800 Dow
Bush left Obama an 8028 Dow
Clinton left Bush Peace on Earth Good Will From Most Men
Bush left Obama Hell on Earth Two disastrous wars. Enmity of 1500 Million Muslims
Clinton left Bush a President most highly rated of any peacetime President in Asia, Africa, Europe.
Bush left Obama the most hated President in history
Bush left Obama an Housing Tsunami and Financial Volcano
Bush left Obama, in 2008, an 8500B Bail out commitment Yes! 8500 not just 700
Bush left Obama his Takeover of Fannie/Freddie, AIG, and first bailout of Chrysler
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SHHHH do no tell anyone keep it our secret
1945-1980=Equality
1980-2009=Inequality big time
3 so called Conservative Presidents did this
1980 budget of 600B to 3600B in 20 years less wjc itsy bitsy
1980 Debt of 1000B to 10,000B
Deficit of 240B Surplus as far as eye can see to 1400B Deficits as far as eye can see
Cut Carter 218,000 -- new record of net jobs created per month-- to 99,000
Got us into 8 International conflicts in which hundreds of thousands of innocents died
How can any sane person vote to send a Republican to Washington?
They preach Jesus Christ but are most Anti-Christ party no contest.
Jesus used one word more than any. POOR. He spent his ministry fighting for the underclass and ciondemning the greedy upper class
Today in America-- Jesus Christ has LOST.
He would be furious at the new Barbarians in Our House
cswinney2@triad.rr.com.
olduglymeanhonest mad mad mad at Inequality in America.. .
clarence swinney
clarenceswinney political historian lifeaholics of america
Agree with you on all counts, but especially;
"How can any sane person vote to send a Republican to Washington?"
I have no answer. I don't know how anyone with blood in their veins (and not cold-blooded) , a heart and at least a double-digit IQ could do it. Guess I am giving a lot of people waaayyyy too much credit.
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