Chris talks to Politico's John Harris and New York Magazine's John Heilemann about the big political stakes of this week -- tomorrow's Republican debate and Thursday's big jobs speech by the President before a joint session of Congress.
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Get the racist buchanan off the program .. He is a disgusting piece of pap! we are contacting the sponsors as we have on Scarcrap....They are not happy and you will not be either!
He should have been fired..for the 'boy' comment..He is neither cute nor funny..just an old ugly throwback to the racist bigoted days of the past!
Get rid of buchanan!
Chris you need to wise up! Your presupposition that everyone is going to watch the President's speech is at best wishful thinking. We have heard it all before, and informed and thinking people are getting tired of hearing Obama's voice! The President is a liar, and we know it. We'll likely tune in to old TV Land re-runs!
Of course everyone is not going to watch. Tea partiers are already saying they will not watch, and it's no surprise. They don't want to hear anything he says. He might say something reasonable or worse, he might tell the truth, and then where would they be? Listening to Barack Obama, that's where.
Enjoy your reruns. Those of us that care enough to want to know what is happening will be watching.
Chris-Barack Obama is not going to get anything done with the Republicans controlling the house. They anounced their goals before the 2008 election-Make Obama fail even if the country suffers-What an attitude. He needs a Democratic congress. He has already proposed initiatives developed by the republicans and then the Republicans rejected those initiatives. If you want Obama to make progress for the country give him a Democratic Congress. I'm ready to do this.
The only way Barack Obama is going to have any success is if he is given a Democratic House. Look at the first two years, he had some success. The Republicans announced in 2008 that their only goal was to make Barack Obama fail, even if the country suffers. Why do they wave the flag? Barack has already proposed Republican initiatives, but after Obama proposed those initiatives the Republicans rejected them. Why go down this road again? So far the Republicans have been successful in preventing any progress. I'm ready to give Obama a Democratic Congress which will lead to some recovery. I hope the rest of the country is ready to give him the tools he needs.
His success was to spend more money than all of his predecessers combined, and to plunge this country deeper into debt than we've ever been. When Obama took office the national unemployment rate was 7.8 %, it has not been below 9% since. 7.8% you can blame on Bush but are you willing to be as consistent as to hold Obama responsible for the remainder? When Obama took office gas was $1.79 per gallon, what have you been paying since he took office? No, it's time to get real and throw the Keynesian Socialists out of power before its too late. The disciples of Saul Alinsky are already irrelevant. Watching the President to find out what's happening? That's a kneeslapper- you know what he is going to say already, and you also know at what level of integrity, for he is consistent- if his mouth is moving, he's lying!
$1.79 a gallon? Where was that, in Bachmann's dreams? If the damn GOTPers would quit giving the oil companies all the breaks we might get down to $3.
Talk about revisionist history! Can't wait to watch the debate tomorrow. We actually have some REAL folks asking the questions and it should be great! No fan of Ron Paul, but watch him take Perry down. Get the popcorn ready for this one. And Michelle is fading faster than fresh paint in the heat.
Sorry, but it's going to be "4 More Years for 44" - get used to it!
Seriously Chris? Thirty-six percent want Perry to be president? You mean 36% of Republicans, and being one of those "Sputnik Kids" who can do the math (you were too), with 20% of the country identifying themselves as Republicans, I come up with a figure barely higher than Congress' popularity ratings.
How about some polls that show the President's popularity among Democrats? Otherwise this amounts to the sort of cherry-picking I might expect from the FAUX crowd, but it is unworthy of MSBNC.
I can think of two explanations: either the altitude out here in the Rockies had an effect on your thought processes, or the new MSNBC owners, the Roberts family, have cast another chilling pall over the American media...
In 1963 President Kennedy's Tax cut to stimulate the economy was 11 billion dollars. In 2010 and 2011 Obama's deficit as a percentage of GDP is 10 times higher than Kennedy's. Obama has been in office for 31 months and Keynesian Economics has not worked. By medical analogy the effectiveness of treatment depends on the general health of the patient, the diagnosis of the illness and the dosage of the medicine. Paul Krugman's recommendation to increase the rate of deficit spending is analogous to increasing the over-dosage for a very unhealthy patient whose illness has been misdiagnosed. Keynesian Economics would suggest that spending cuts would hurt the economy but since massive spending increases did not improve employment or growth we know that aggregate demand is not the problem. The benefits of the stimulus spending have been offset by the side effects of the deficit drag. There are too many other real systemic economic problem to list here that need to be addressed. If these reforms are not implemented and even if Obama blows through another 2.5 trillion dollars of deficits in the next 17 month, GDP and Employment statistics might look better for a few months but everybody will feel poorer. People working to produce valuable goods and services, paying taxes and incurring public debt to pay people who don't work and people who work but don't produce anything of value is called perverse incentives. When the productive people who work for a living are out numbered by the people who vote for a living the Constitutional limited republican democratic form of self government experiment is over.
Pat Buchanan is the new middle....