“Say what you want about Sarah Palin quitting her job, but at least she finished her own press conference.”
~Jim Treacher, “Did Obama Just Quit?“
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“I’ve been keeping the first lady waiting so I’m going to take off.”
~President Barack Obama, departing the tax cut press conference to attend a party
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Great news: Bill Clinton apparently now president again
Allahpundit
HotAir.com
12/10/2010
The depressing truth: Given the alternative, it really would be great news.
I can’t do justice to what you’re about to see. The spectacle of the president bugging out of his own press conference to go to a Christmas party is weird enough, but having Clinton back at the White House podium fielding questions on the hottest domestic issue of the day shoots past deja vu and lands firmly in “am I hallucinating?” territory…
I get that The One’s trying to leverage BJ’s popularity to pressure Democratic fencesitters on the tax deal. What I don’t get is why he’d leave him alone to address reporters, suggesting either (a) that Obama doesn’t respect a former president — who’s doing him a favor — enough to change his schedule to accommodate him or (b) Obama’s confidence in his own ability to influence the caucus is now so low that he figures the tax deal will stand a better chance if he just gets out of the spotlight entirely…
Adding to the exquisite oddness of the scene: Thanks to his op-ed this morning insisting that Obama totally rolled the GOP on the tax cuts deal, Charles Krauthammer is now “a brilliant man” in Clinton’s eyes. Exit question: The White House is very keen to reassure liberals that Obama is not, repeat not, trying to “triangulate” ahead of 2012. Er, is a big showy meeting at the White House with Bill Clinton really the best way to communicate that message? What’s next, a joint press conference with Dick Morris?…
Read the entire article and watch the video at HotAir.com
Update: Also at HotAir: Unemployment Benefits Being Held Hostage by Dems
You would never know, would you? In all of the fury and progressive passion to soak the rich, no one is chattering about the expiration of unemployment benefits–except for the unemployed. With rising gas and food prices and the holidays quickly approaching, the Democrats zeal for taxing the rich has eclipsed the need to stimulate the economy and create jobs with unemployment compensation. As Pelosi states, it is “cruel” not to extend the benefits and typically the Republicans are blamed for this cruelty. But, now it is the Democrats holding up the unemployment benefit extension. And no one seems to even notice.
The agreement reached by the White House and GOP called for an extension of unemployment benefits, which now seems to be DOA according to House Dems.
The fact that the Democrats are blocking the tax cut deal between the White House and GOP–which most Americans support noted by Ed–puts out the question of are the Democrats capable of governing according to the will of the American people and in a bipartisan manner. Clearly, the Democrats are squandering this opportunity based on their Keynesian and progressive taxation ideology as exemplified here by Rep. Barney Frank…
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Update: Red Dog Report, Who Really Runs the White House?:
…I’ve been keeping the first lady waiting for about half an hour, so I’m going to take off.
Whipped.
According to President Obama…
Creating jobs for 15.1 million unemployed Americans can wait.
