Missed The Smackdown! Will Watch Later, But HOW IS IT Playing???

[Beetwasher]

Sound like it was great! Is it getting a lot of coverage?? Is it a big story?

What's your impression so far?

I have a feeling this is all part of the big rollout of Obama's second year strategy in which he takes the fight to the Repubs after giving them a year to play nice. Now the gloves come off.

[LWolf]

1. What smackdown? nt

[daleanime]

2. Obama showed retreating repugs....

that they need to keep retreating:rofl:

[LWolf]

16. Like this?

<snip>

Mr. Obama said it makes ideological sense for Democrats and Republicans to work together on some issues such as charging fees to banks that benefited from a federal bailout, temporarily freezing some government spending, keeping jobs from being exported and paying for new government programs when they are created.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703389004575033121215646944.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEADNewsCollection

[Common Sense Party]

3. It's been hard playing chess with those dang boxing gloves on. n/t

[Gregorian]

7. Haha.

Althuogh, I'm not quite sure who's side you're on.

[Better Believe It]

4. The gloves come off the day Democrats make the Republicans filibuster.

Once again:

Why do Democrats still allegedly need 60 votes in order to get legislation/appointments passed?

That's what all Republicans, many Democrats and the mass corporate media falsely claim.

The Democratic majority in the Senate make the Senate rules.

And Senator Reid, under Obama's instructions, can force Republicans to engage in traditional on the floor Senate filibuster under Senate Rule 22. Right now a Senate Republican when leaving the Senate chamber can hand Senator Reid a piece of paper indicating the Senator is engaged in a filibuster while he leaves for dinner and a hooker! Reid has the power to change that.

And Senator Reid can withdraw at any time his "two track" Senate debate concession made to Republicans.

And the Democratic majority in the Senate can invoke the "Constitutional option" that can stop any kind of Republican filibuster.

Senator Reid's acceptance of the Republican 60 vote super majority procedure is a very convenient excuse to justify inaction and legislative paralysis.

[Beetwasher]

6. Oh Shut Up

If you want to start another thread about your idiotic whining do so. That's not what my OP is about.

But keep babbling your nonsense anyway.

[Better Believe It]

11. Well, I do think we need a lot more than populist sounding rhetoric, don't you?

Do you have any viable suggestions on how we can get around that nonsense about needing 60 votes in order to challenge Republicans?

I've heard enough whining, lame excuses for inaction and babble about that 60 votes and have grown tired of it. How bout you?

[Beetwasher]

13. Why Don't You Start Your Own Thread About It?

I won't be distracted by your off topic babbling.

[babylonsister]

5. I missed it, too, but the blogs are buzzing, ALL positive. Lots of

articles posted on DU. :fistbump:

[malaise]

12. Billionaires don't need new tax cuts

He PWNED them.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/obama-to-republicans-dont_n_442213.html
<snip>
He said a GOP-driven "politics of no" was blocking action on bills that could help Americans obtain jobs and health care.

In a sometimes-barbed exchange, he said some in the audience have attended ribbon-cutting ceremonies for projects funded by the stimulus package they voted against. Obama also questioned why Republicans have overwhelmingly opposed his tax-cut policies, which he said have benefited 95 percent of American families.

"The notion that this was a radical package is just not true," Obama said. "I am not an ideologue."

GOP lawmakers pressed the president to pledge to support a line-item veto for spending bills and across-the-board tax cuts. Obama demurred, saying billionaires don't need new tax cuts.

:rofl: :rofl:

[OHdem10]

8. Fox News today unequivocally showed their colors. They proved

beyond any doubt they are the Megaphone for the Republican
Party. They pulled out in the middle of the program and
went to a NEWLESS interview with Cong. Peter King. Protect
the Republicans at all costs and never let the good side
of Obama be seen.

I had given Fox the benefit of the doubt--no longer.

[AlinPA]

9. I watched about a minute of Gloria Berger (sp) on CNN and she was sickening. After

watching the entire session w/ Obama and the GOP I think that any story calling it anything other than an ass kicking is disingenuous.

[Juche]

10. Its good

He isn't falling for their stuff. When Pence said the GOP had a policy that would create 2x more jobs than the stimulus for half the cost, Obama said the reason he didn't do it is because he couldn't find any credible economists who supported the idea.

I'm only halfway through, but so far it is good.

http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002521/

[sad sally]

14. It was GREAT!

Husband and I agreed this was the very best President Obama we've seen yet. He answered every question, looked them right in the eye and patiently explained where they were wrong and even where they were right. Took responsibility for some mistakes that have been made by him and some by Democrats.
But the best was explaining the mess he'd been left - never once mentioning Bush. When asked why he wouldn't enact the freeze on spending now, he reminded the crowd that the current budget was put together by them and theirs before he became President.
Toward the end, since we were on MSNBC, the person in our house with the tv clicker looked to see if CNN and Fox were carrying it also. And what a hoot, just as the President was about to answer the Congressman from Illinois, Fox cut away to start their criticism. I turned on the little tv and guess what, Fox never came back to the LIVE coverage, instead they brought out ole Turd Blossom. Believe they knew the President was batting 1000 and making Republicans look very very weak and very very bad.
The President was confident, strong and definitely a LEADER!

[bigwillq]

15. I thought it was another strong speech.

We shall see if this leads to any positive action by the repukes.

[SteveG]

17. NPR reported

That several unnamed Republicans, after it was all over, told reporters that they thought it it was a "great mistake" for the Republicans to have allowed the Q&A session to be televised. I wonder why?