January 24, 2010
Guests:
Valerie Jarrett - White House Advisor
Sen. Mitch McConnell - GOP Senate Leader
EJ Dionne
Peggy Noonan
Chuck Todd
Katty Kay
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Gregory: Val is it true that Osama bin Laden appeared on ‘American Idol’ this week
Jarrett: he is responsible for many atrocities but we can’t verify if he wrote ‘Pants on the Ground’ or not
Gregory: what about Ben Bernanke
Jarrett: he’s failed utterly so he has our total support
Gregory: the voters of Massachusetts voted
a pickup truck into the US Senate - so will
Obama resign?
Jarrett: no Obama will fight like a crazy man
Gregory: what is his motto
Jarrett: ‘The Art of the Possible’
Gregory: that’s exciting - what else
Jarrett: ‘Fight For What You Can’
Gregory: will he finally cave in to Republicans?
Jarrett: now that’s not fair - he caved in
at the start of the process
Gregory: ok now what?
Jarrett: Obama looks to getting cooperation
with Scott Brown
Gregory: oh my god
Gregory: why push for health care reform
when no one wants it?
Jarrett: hey we prevented an economic catastrophe
Gregory: no you didn’t because there were still job losses in his first year
Jarrett: Bush didn’t create a single job in 8 years!
Gregory: yeah but he gave me a cool nickname
Jarrett: Obama told me you were a moron
Jarrett: the stimulus bill saved millions of jobs and reduced our dependence on foreign oil
Gregory: Obama seems to have found his populist voice
Jarrett: this is the New Old Obama - ‘Mad as Hell
and not Going to Take it Anymore!’
Gregory: Evan Bayh is a centrist
Jarrett: no, he’s a prick and right wing nut
Gregory: anyway he says we need to cut the debt since a black man is President
Jarrett: look Obama is the first to admit that’s tough and challenging and always reads letters people send reminding him that he’s black
Gregory: Is Obama panicking and bringing back Pluffy
Jarrett: oh no everything is hunky-dory with
Team Obama
Gregory: where is his political team
Jarrett: doing studies in the Antarctic
[ break ]
Gregory: Mitch what does the GOP want?
McConnell: the American people want us to
fix health care by ending medical lawsuits
Gregory: jesus that’s it?
McConnell: no also ban junk lawsuits
Gregory: you said that already
McConnell: also cut taxes
Gregory: what about expanding health
care coverage
McConnell: yes - we do that by cutting taxes
Gregory: how do you get young people to buy
health insurance
McConnell: cut income taxes
Gregory: is health care reform dead?
McConnell: Democrats are very arrogant - if they were in touch with American people they would win elections like we do
Gregory: you only have 41 senate seats
McConnell: the voices in my head say
‘Stop Health Care!’
Gregory: what about Ben Bernanke?
McConnell: he’s a handsome man
Gregory: what is the GOP economic plan
McConnell: cut taxes
Gregory: that’s it?
McConnell: right - in this recession small businesses are very worried about capital gains taxes
Gregory: are you serious
McConnell: Obama increased the debt which
kills jobs
Gregory: that explains why Republicans run
bad economies
McConnell: we need to cut spending
Gregory: in what?
McConnell: on black Presidents
Gregory: Jim DeMint is an obstructionist moron
McConnell: hey believe me I know
Gregory: what do you want?
McConnell: I hope Obama converts to Republicanism
Gregory: sounds like a dumb plan
McConnell: it’s all we’ve got
Gregory: you won in Massachusetts but people still
hate the GOP
McConnell: hey if the Dems are going to give elections away we’ll take it
Gregory: what’s your plan for elections
McConnell: act completely crazy
Gregory: what about the Supreme Court decision?
McConnell: finally corporations have been freed from the oppressive restrictions saying they can’t buy elections
Gregory: how will you reach out to the President?
McConnell: if he’s nice we will stop yelling epithets during his speech to Congress
Gregory: are you willing to compromise that much?
McConnell: heh not really
[ break ]
Gregory: OMG Obama outperformed Coakley
and Corzine!!
Noonan: the message is that America still doesn’t like recessions
Gregory: oh?
Noonan: also independents don’t like Obama now
Dionne: no this is just pure political incompetence
Gregory: good news then
Dionne: also they’ve lost active progressives
Gregory: that’s a relief for Democrats
Dionne: they look like Wall Street liberals
Gregory: they ARE Wall St. liberals
Dionne: yeah but you don’t want to look like that
Gregory: how do you avoid that image
Dionne: drive a pick up truck
Kay: there were valid reasons for health care and bailouts and other things but they never went out and explain it
Gregory: interesting
Kay: Obama was arrogant for using his alleged mandate to enact bold action
Gregory: such a contrast from Bush
Todd: what’s weird they are out there selling their plan a lot - and now they are dealing with anger from voters who hate things even if they don’t know why
Gregory: what does he now
Todd: run against Washington while running Washington
Gregory: the GOP does nothing but obstruct Obama
Noonan: no they proposed tort reform
Gregory: oh ok
Noonan: health care is the biggest issue
Gregory: the Republicans says it’s the economy
Noonan: never heard of them
Kay: dudes it’s only one election and Coakley
was an epic loser
Dionne: True but in 2009 the Constitution was amended to require 60 votes which is a problem for the Democrats
Todd: look they did things but unemployment is still high and that’s pretty much everything
Dionne: Obama needs to be like Reagan and speak in nonsensical parables
Gregory: he also needs have mindless optimism
Noonan: yes Reagan and Obama were both young Presidents
Gregory: um what?
Noonan: also Reagan had a clear plan - incite racial resentment, appear in front of a lot of flags and, build up the deficit and leave the problem for later
Gregory: people loved that
Kay: Obama is not clear and therefore he is
not competent
Gregory: I talked to the Dick Armey the head
Tea Party wacko and he says the Tea Party is
now the center
Todd: they’re a bunch of lunatics run by Fox News
Gregory: interesting
Todd: also the GOP politicians are all terrified of the Tea Partiers and so can’t horse trade with Obama
Gregory: Ed Rendell says Democrats should do things
Dionne: Democrats needs results more than Republicans because no one expects anything
from the GOP
Gregory: good point
Noonan: if we can take New Jersey and Massachusetts with Tea Party support we
can win anywhere
Gregory: thank you very much Peggy that says it all
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Dionne: also they’ve lost active progressives
Gregory: that’s a relief for Democrats
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Makes Fred Hiatt happy, too!
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The Tea Party Movement is an American tradition. It comes from a tradition of local home rule, where government was no further from the governed than one day’s horseback ride, and individual interests were more important than are community interests. That led to a more involved citizen, through town hall meetings and even vigilante movements. The Tea Party Movement is but an extension of these American traditions and perfectly correct. It is what the elite few who want to rule the many, as the current Democrat Party and many old-line Republicans, would oppose. The differences are cited in the Changing Face of Democrats, Our Libertarian Roots Lost, on Amazon and claysamerica.com.
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