
Pictured: Nooners with the owner of the 1982 recession
Nooners gives Chimpy another pass today:
At a certain point, a president must own a presidency. For George W. Bush that point came eight months in, when 9/11 happened. [...] The American people didn’t hold him responsible for what led up to 9/11, but they held him responsible for everything after it.
So George Bush “owned” his presidency — the day after 9/11. How convenient!
President Obama, in office a month longer than Bush was when 9/11 hit, now owns his presidency. [...] It’s his now. He gets the credit and the blame.
Ah. The negro doesn’t get the same mulligan as the Bush. Club rules.
The president doesn’t seem to like this moment. Who would? He and his men and women have returned to referring to what they “inherited.” And what they inherited was, truly, terrible: again, a severe economic crisis and two wars. But their recent return to this theme is unbecoming. Worse, it is politically unpersuasive. It sounds defensive, like a dodge.
Right. Obama should be a real man like Reagan, who in 1982, sacked up and totally owned the recession.
Reagan owned the recovery and assigned away blame for the pain. Even in 1982, the economy was described as suffering from the “Carter Recession.” Every bit of bad news was assigned to the previous regime; every morsel of good news was evidence of a Reagan-led recovery.
And I doubt Nooners was complaining that it was “unbecoming” of St. Ronnie and Republicans.
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Who the hell appointed her judge and jury of responsibility?
Noonan is working on her ‘legacy’. You can believe that she’s counting to revolve through the door into one of those special jobs reserved for wingers of total lack in conscience and fact.
Of course there are 3000 less dead people this far into BO’s administration which means he wins! And Bush ownede 911 he was totally to blame!
hahaha! Guess that month really makes all the difference.
Hey my front home page looks funky. Two headlines overlap. When I click read more it all goes away.
Nooners strikes me differently on different days.
Sometimes she somehow triggers my gag reflex, and other times all I notice is that my skin is crawling….
Yeah guess she forgot about Bin Laden determined to strike in America, “Now watch this drive”.
The republics are famous for ignoring inconvenient facts.
OT; shout loud at us when you find out about the undecideds in “democratic” congress. We will give them a nudge with a small sledgehammer.
The whole thing is a game of 3-card Monty. She’s tying Obama’s “ownership” of the Great Recession to the completely unrelated date of 9/11/2001, which is absurd, and then saying George W. Bush’s clock didn’t start until 9/12.
And of course, Reagan’s clock didn’t start until 1983.
And of course, Reagan’s clock didn’t start until 1983.
…and stopped sometime around 1985 – right before all the Iran-Contra stuff got to boiling.
“Right. Obama should be a real man like Reagan…”
Just like Reagan, Obama needs to sharpen up his HERO credentials by building more cruise missiles to bomb the Soviet Union into military and economic submission. Lots and lots of long, thick, hard cruise missiles.
Poor Peggy, living in an imaginary past when real men wore codpieces and cowboy hats.
Bush spent like a drunken sailor for 8 years. I don’t think he vetoed one appropriation bill the entire time he was in office. Not to mention the cost of 2 wars while simultaneously giving away the biggest ever wellfare tax package to the top 1% of the country. I could go on but for the sake of my blood pressure I will stop there. The stupid, it really burns.
9/11 was the result of long standing American Foreign Policy in the Mid East. As such it was larger than any one Administration. Same can be said about this Recession.
Keep Focused!
It is not Red vs Blue as much as it is 1% of Haves vs the rest.
Yep. I mentioned it in the previous headlining post. It appears they’ve fixed it now. At least the headline post now renders correctly on my firefox, where it didn’t before.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.
This is the same fight we’ve been having since the beginning of this nation. The Royalists versus the rest of us. The royalists have been winning lately, but the rest of us are starting to wake up and flex our muscle just a little bit right now.
Peggy Noonan should be in prison.
So, I still see the “party of personal responsibility” fails to accept personal responsibility while simultaneously blaming someone else, always.
SOS, different day. One thing I’ll give ‘em. They’re consistant.
So, by her reasoning, Obama has already done a better job of protecting our country from a terrorist attack, which would be the fault of W.
So should George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John(????) Yoo (can’t remember his first name.
Apparently, Bush didn’t even know about that veto thing until July 2006. Maybe it took that long for him to understand the procedure, what with all that bike ridin’ and brush clearin’ that he had to do.
Being able to do that is the first qualification for Republic Party membership.
The exact same individuals who planned and brought you 9/11, also brought you the destruction of our economy. They enriched themselves by shorting stocks, prior to 9/11, then going long everything, knowing that they could rely on Greenspan to take rates to zero, then went short again when they knew that the bubble of their own creation had run its course, enriching themselves all the way down, only to get long at the bottom, once the TARP funds were stolen from the American people and placed under the control of Goldman Sachs and the President’s Working Group On Financial Markets. They will inflate it until it is no longer profitable, then flip sides yet again to enrich themselves at your expense as they crash the market yet again – then steal more of your money for yet another round of alleged saving of the banks and the financial system.
It was all scripted years ago. No one named Osama Bin Laden exists. There is however a man named David Rockefeller that you would do well to focus 100% of your attention on. He controls the script, the politicians, the message, the banks, and the “agenda.”
Lying is always unbecoming. Period.
Oh, Peggy. Give it up. Ronnie’s dead. That time has passed, and his legacy for some of us leaves a bitter taste. ptewwie. (how’s that supposed to be spelled?)
AND THE KILLIN’GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Blue Texan and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
What is a Peggy Noonan and why is it followin’ us and why am I s’posed ta care what the fuck she says??!! Obviously Noonan is a creation of the corporate oligarchy through the corporate media and it is the corporate media that has been tryin’ ta tag Obama with the economic Hiroshima that we are experiencing. So why do I care and why are we takin’ valuable time away from callin’ House members and Senators and other unfortunates about the “public option”?
Conservation of entropy or somethin must rule at some point here, Citizen Blue Texan, ‘cuz this old broken down Grampa doesn’t have enough sauce left ta drown out all the lumatics that need drownin’ (out).
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, AND KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE TARGET!!
She’s just a lonely Reagan-casket-humper, we can’t expect much better from her.
Jane has a new cross-post up: “Reid Covering Up Secret Filibuster”
SOMETIMES she triggers your gag reflux? Just Sometimes?
That women can heave the BS at you like no one else – in a “soft tone” – so you won’t take it too hard.
Her party has never done; nor will they ever do, anything wrong or incompetent. That’s cause she says so.
Thank you, Ann.
Still, I liked what Teddy said. Even if it gave me a chill. Not a thrill, but made me thinking of Anna Nicole Smith wanting to jump into her son’s grave. Don’t know why I thought of that.
Is there anyone out there even remotely as nauseating than Peggy Noonan? I thinketh not. Please make her go away.
Recently some jerkwater signed off on Tweety with the big steaming lie: “Bush kept us safe”.
Tweety just let it go. Someone tell him the proper Tweety whackdown is: “Try that one on the widows and orphans of 9-11″
She must be suffering from that “Bush derangement syndrome” I heard so much about.
Peggy Noonan is a professional liar.
Dame Pegginton Nooningtonhampshire doth protesteth too mucheth. Methinks m’lady’s nickersith is in a buncheth maybe becauseth she saweth Annie Liebowitz’s neweth portraitureth of the-eth firsteth family. Dame Peggleston doth not liketh the negroeseth besmirching the whitest memories of Sainted Ronnieth of the Raygunz.
Shoo awayeth noweth Dame Rottweiler. Us villagers don’t give a rats shit about you, your petty b.s. lies and your racist douchebag double standard.
Take a coupla yer vicodins, swill ‘em down wid yer likkor and STFU!
Right and remember when it was Ronnie’s time to serve he stayed home just like G.W. A real man indeed.
She is Teddy, in her own prison of ignorance where there are no keys .
Peggy Noonan is a washed up conservative speechwriter who appears on This Week (why, I don’t know….the same should be said of John McCain, Georgie S’s BFF) and sounds as if she’s on something and as if she can barely stand to speak to the unimportant little villagers……..they are waaaaaayyyyy beneath her. Her very tone reflects disdain and malaise. I agree with onitgoes………she should STFU!
You see people like Her have every right to say what they want, but the fact people listen is the real problem.
Every program I see her on, treats her like she was a goddess of opinion. Morning Joe acted like her wisdom had all the answers, it made me so sick I had to change channels before I threw up.
I wish she was washed up, only on some desert island.
Are you Roger Ailes, old fat guy. You sure could pass for Him.