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Robert Gibbs: Can You Imagine if, 5 Years Ago, People Had Protested With Hitler Pictures?

November 6, 2009 By Jeff Leave a Comment

“I will continue to say what I’ve said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler.

Hopefully we can get back to a discussion about the issues that are important in this country that we can do so without being personally disagreeable and set up comparisons to things that were so insidious in our history that anybody in any profession or walk of life would be well advised to compare nothing to those atrocities.”

Oh hell yeah Robert, I can’t just imagine it… I can remember it!

I’m assuming Mr. Gibbs misspoke, either that or he’s in deep, deep denial about the rhetoric used by the left over much of the last decade. Fortunately, Mary Katherine Ham has pulled together the links necessary bring Mr. Gibbs up to speed.

And for the record I thought fascist/Nazi/Hitler rhetoric was misplaced when left when using it against the Bush Administration and I think it’s just as misplaced today.

H/T: Hot Air.

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Jim Cramer Responds to White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs

March 5, 2009 By Jeff Leave a Comment

First it was Rush Limbaugh and then Rick Santelli now it’s Jim Cramer who seems to be at the top the White House’s “enemies list”.

While I’m no fan of Jim Cramer and his often over the top rants he’s right on the mark with his criticism of Pres. Obama’s agenda:

This is an agenda that must be held back for better times. It is an agenda that at this moment is radical vs. what is called for. I am proud to have voted for the Obama who I thought understood the need to get us on the right path, and create jobs and wealth before taxing it and making moves that hurt job creation — certainly ones that will outweigh the meager number of jobs he’s creating.

Most important, I believe his agenda is crushing nest eggs around the nation in loud ways, like the decline in the averages, and in soft but dangerous ways, like in the annuities that can’t be paid and the insurance benefits that will be challenging to deliver on.

So I will fight the fight against that agenda. I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there. And when they get there, if times are good, we can have them give back or pay higher taxes. Until they get there, I don’t want them shackled or scared or paralyzed. That’s what I see now.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we can not spend our way to prosperity… A limited amount of short term government spending on infrastructure projects is a necessary evil in times like these. That alone though will not get our economy moving and provide for long term growth, we need to free up capital… Suspending payroll and capital gains taxes for a year would put more money in peoples pockets that they can spend or invest now. That will have a far more immediate affect on the economy and the stock market than government spending proposed by the President.

Exit Question: Am I the only one who’s starting to miss Jimmy Carter?

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CNBC’s Rick Santelli Responds to White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs

February 23, 2009 By Jeff Leave a Comment

CNBC’s Rick Santelli seems to have struck a nerve with his impassioned rant against Pres. Obama’s home mortgage bailout plan.

To be honest I’m not at all surprised, there seems to be disconnect between those inside the beltway and those outside. I tend to think most Americans instinctively don’t like the idea of the government using their money to subsidize someone else’s bad behavior.

Michelle Malkin has details on the growing “Tea Party” movement, AJ Strata thinks “President Obama Is Economically Insane” and James Pethokoukis has more on “The Man Who Talked Back“.

Update (4:00 p.m.): Rick Santelli isn’t alone here’s a few key numbers from a new Rasmussen Poll:

… 55% of American adults say the federal government would be rewarding bad behavior by providing mortgage subsidies to financially troubled homeowners. Among investors, 65% hold that view. … 77% of Republicans and 60% of those not affiliated with either major political party believe the mortgage help subsidizes bad behavior. Most Democrats (51%) disagree.  … 76% of Americans are not willing to pay higher taxes to help people who cannot afford to make their mortgage payments. … 14% say higher taxes for this purpose are okay with them. … 10% are undecided.  … Most Americans–53%–also oppose a plan for the federal government to pay off a portion of the mortgages only for people who can’t afford their current payments. … 32% think it’s a good idea. Support for that plan is even lower among homeowners.  … Just 33% of all adults support having the federal government to pay up to $100,000 of the mortgage balance owned by every single homeowner in America.  … 51% reject such a plan. Even though they would directly benefit, a majority of homeowners (52%) don’t like that plan.

I wouldn’t call it overwhelming opposition but it would seem that American’s aren’t crazy about Pres. Obama’s plan.

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