The Associate Press, not exactly a bastion of Conservative thinking posted this story.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/SPIN-METER-Saving-federal-apf-14976290.html?.v=1

Why are libs to eager to lap this stuff up. It would appear you enjoy being had.

$100 million is more than Bush saved. You really are desperate to attack Obama, you even have to twist around positive actions.

Deane, get a real life.

Right on cue.

The Associate Press, not exactly a bastion of Conservative thinking posted this story.


Says who? When candidate John McCain spoke before the AP they presented him with coffee and his favorite donuts. When Obama spoke later, he was introduced as Osama with no coffee and donuts.

I'll admit the $100 million is not all that much considering the budget. I didn't need you or the AP to tell me that.

If you were spending $60,000 per year and decided to cut back the same percentage, it would be $6.

Hardly fodder for a big announcement unless you wanted to distract people from all of the spending increases you were contemplating.

Who was it who said "you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all the time." In this case "some" = "libs" in the equation.

This is getting so tired...

We get it. You don't like Obama. You look for stuff to post every day. You don't like what he's doing.

Gotcha. Now go outside and shuck some corn or something.

And quit saying "libs". You just sound ridiculous.

listenerpete sez: Says who? When candidate John McCain spoke before the AP they presented him with coffee and his favorite donuts. When Obama spoke later, he was introduced as Osama with no coffee and donuts.

LOL! I was hoping there would be something in this thread making it worth reading!

Deane, we can't blame you, in your blind partisanship, for missing the point; what's surprising is a couple of AP writers were so dumb that they too missed Obama's point, which was to set an example for federal agencies that they have to start watching their pennies a bit closer with the people's money. No one really believed $100M was much money overall - why would the AP writers think so?

As for you, Deane, you're showing just another example of your partisan hypocrisy. You used to crow about how awful those federal earmarks were - no? Yet they were only like 1% of the federal budget bills. And now you think $100M is no big deal so why are people worried about it? Oh, that's right: needed a reason to bash Obama today. Who cares about showing yourself as a big hypocrite, huh?

Deane's posts haven't been worth reading for quite sometime now. Deane, this is why you party is no longer in power. You have nothing new to offer, just more of how Obama is screwing up the country and give more power to the rich, the same ol shit.

Ah, you never know anymore what Deane will say. Wasn't it just yesterday he claimed he really liked the job Obama was doing other than his spending proposals?

"We get it. You don't like Obama"

Why would you confuse "not liking Obama" with not falling for some of his smoke screen.

Actually, I sort of like the guy and wish he were a Conservative.

Fact of the matter is, you can't defend his actions, so you're going to try and shift the focus to me. I knew that before I typed the first character in this thread.

I suspect you libs will continue to get more and more tense as you realize what you see is not what you got. To divert attention away from what's really beginning to eat at you, you'll get more and more viscous towards me because I was the first to call bullshit.

I suspect you libs will continue to get more and more tense as you realize what you see is not what you got. To divert attention away from what's really beginning to eat at you, you'll get more and more viscous towards me because I was the first to call bullshit.

You are too funny, Deane. Either your are a poor comedian or a poor psychiatrist.

Who knows what lurks in the minds of man? The Shadow Deane does. LOL

Most of the usual suspects have now chimed in, but not all, so stay tuned.

Deane, it looks like you need to up your prune juice intake, as you're the only one who's "tense" about Obama.

As a voter and early supporter, I'm thrilled with the success Obama has had early on and look forward to more success so we can see just how tense you'll get. Becasue we all know you're rooting for him to fail.

And as for Obama being a conservative, well, he's just too intelligent and informed to be one.

YouTube video of the Associated Press presenting John McCain his favorite donuts.

Let's see now, if I'm right about Obama's phoney intentions and Obama is heading the country toward socialism, the first thing he'll do is try to convert the bailout loans to bank equity. Let's sit back and watch what happens.

"As a voter and early supporter, I'm thrilled with the success Obama has had early on and look forward to more success"

The country will only stand so much of his success, then we'll be in total bankruptcy.

I do not have any problem with him asking for 100 million dollars to be cut. How is this bad? What amount would be good?

Explain how converting the loans to bank equity is a bad deal for taxpayers?

What would be better?

As explained on NewsHour tonight:

RAY SUAREZ: Is that how it buys the administration some time in not having to go back to Congress for more money?

BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: That's right. If I've given you $100 and told you that I want you to pay me $50 in return and then I tell you, you don't even need to bother giving me that $50, I've effectively given you another $50 and delayed the day when I need to make you an additional loan.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june09/bankinglead_04-20.html

Here's what I find funny;

Saving a hundred million here is a good thing(according to the liberals).

When I suggested all the waste in the earmarks in the handout bailout all I heard was oh, that's such a drop in the bucket it doesn't make any difference even though it totaled much, much more than a hundred million.

Just goes to show that whatever lord Obama says is gospel (to the liberals), whether it makes any difference or not. They will put their spin on it and don't you dare say anything against their savior of the world.

True bumper sticker I saw today in downtown Portland "Obama. It's what happens when the uninformed vote" Just sayin.....

Bill, I think you are a bit confused. Earmarks are a congressional process, controlled by numerous committee chairman. And more earmarks were requested by Republican Senators than Democratic Senators, even though Republican pundits made such a big stink about it in the first place. (And Republicans lied about Obama's campaign pledge to reform earmarks - he never said he'd veto ANY bill with earmarks, only that he'd reform them.)

The Executive Branch reports to one person, the President, who is instructing his cabinet officers to cut spending by $100 Million. He as one leader can do that. No "liberal" is claiming the amount Obama requested is a lot of money, only that it's a message to the government that even small amounts of tax money spent are important. It's largely symbolic but it sends a message: you can't spend whatever you want, and you are going to have to start thinking more as a fiscal conservative.

I am having trouble understanding how Republicans were upset about the earmarks their own party's Senators were eagerly requesting while dismissing Obama's attempt to instruct his departments to start saving some money as insignificant. Help me understand how this isn't just partisan hypocrisy?

Bill, do you think Obama was wrong to instruct the government departments to start saving money? Or should he have told them to spend as much money as they wished? Did Bush ever ask his cabinet officers to cut their budgets by even a tiny bit during the boom times when it would have been a lot easier than it is now?

Bill, do you think Obama was wrong to instruct the government departments to start saving money?

Absolutely not. I think it's great. You have to start small, and start somewhere.

However, saving money is saving money. It doesn't matter whether it comes from government departments or from earmarks.

Savings are savings.

He just as easily could have instructed Congress to not include any earmarks in any legislation that was sent to him. But he knows if he does that there will be a lot of supporters who are pissed because they didn't get what was promised to them when they made their "contributions".

As I stated above, the part I find humorous is that some people are making a big deal out of this when it is peanuts compared to other spending.

It's a start. Now they need to get serious and cut, cut, cut.

Edit:
I am having trouble understanding how Republicans were upset about the earmarks their own party's Senators were eagerly requesting while dismissing Obama's attempt to instruct his departments to start saving some money as insignificant. Help me understand how this isn't just partisan hypocrisy?

I don't care which side of the isle the earmark came/comes from. There should be NONE. All they are is bribery pay offs.

WOW!
DA's hatred of Obama is staggering!

Most of the usual suspects have now chimed in, but not all, so stay tuned.

We were thinking the same thing about you EXTREMIES hatred for Obama. You should REALLY look into professional help...

Tense? Not hardly.

I'm thrilled and happy we finally have a president who is TRYING. Who is DOING SOMETHING. Who is working WITH people instead of against them. Who is attempting DIPLOMACY instead of sabre rattling.

And Deane, since I can tell by your posts all you want is reaction, not discussion, I will go back to passivity as regards to you.

"And Deane, since I can tell by your posts all you want is reaction, not discussion, I will go back to passivity as regards to you."

Promises, promises!

Maybe President Obama doesn't like donuts. Did anybody ask him? Maybe MC-Cain was supposed to share his donuts, but those Palin kids ate them all. Maybe MC-Cain sent some donuts over to Obama, but Bill Clinton found them first.

I heard Obama prefers Kobe Beef.

Would MSNBC offer Boosh or Cheney donuts?

Can't they all get together and share them?

Let's send a box of Donuts to congress and they can share them over good conversation. Nothing like a box of donuts to bring everyone together.

Life can be so simple.

Some of you just like to pull each others hair. It's like being in a car on a long trip with a bunch of kids

"Some of you just like to pull each others hair. It's like being in a car on a long trip with a bunch of kids"

Wisest words posted yet this year on the forum.

True bumper sticker I saw today in downtown Portland "Obama. It's what happens when the uninformed vote"...

I agree with that...had the uninformed not voted for Bush in the previous two elections, giving him the opportunity to run this country into the ground, we may not have ended up with Obama as president.

Thank you uninformed voters!

Fearing change of direction is human. Deane doesn't agree with new policies that are contrary to his life's experience. Today's report that TARP is just another pro big business boondoggle doesn't make me happy, either. But remember the proverbs of King Solomon:

Do not accuse a man for no reason - when he has done you no harm.

At least Obama is doing something. Bush did as close to nothing as is scientifically measurable. The Republican Congress sank this economy by letting Wall Street run wild. Every other reason is traceable to that fact. The rest is just a smokescreen.

At this time during DUHbya's first 100 days he was still on vacation ignoring all the bulletins that Osama might strike inside the United States with airplanes.....
I think he was playing golf and working on his horseless ranch....

Trixter said: ...vacation ignoring all the bulletins that Obama might strike inside the United States with airplanes.....

I'm sure he meant Osama

Yep! That's what I meant Sky... I was watching CNN on split screen while on the internet and Obama was talking.....

It's corrected...
Thanks....