White House Briefing Live-blog [Feb. 11, 2009]

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Waiting for the press conference to start. I may also tweet some over at Twitter.

I'll be particularly looking for any questions on Wall Street's reaction to Geithner's plan (382-point drop, market stagnant today) and how Gibbs would respond to it. Should be fun.

I'm watching via Fox News.

14:15: We're 15 minutes late. Par for the course with Gibbs.

14:16: Chris Cillizza of Washington Post tweeting @TheHyperFix: Is this like a concert? If we all start clapping, will Gibbs come out?

14:18, Fox was at commercial break when Gibbs came out, switched to CNN. Sneaky, Mr. Gibbs.

14:19, Jennifer Loven of AP asking if Geithner didn't realize how bad the market reaction would be yesterday

Gibbs says the plan wasn't designed for one-day market reax.

14:23, AP's Loven with followup saying markets thrive on certainty and a lot of commentyesterday was the plan didn't further certainty.

switched back to Fox News

14:27, male reporter asking if president was pleased in how the plan was rolled out yesterday.

14:27, male reporter with followup.

14:28, same reporter saying regardless of market's reax, there was widespread confusion as to the plan's details, what they mean.

14:30, Jake Tapper, ABC: Notes CEO of Caterpillar's comments, opposes buy American provision, notes Caterpillar supports Colombia Free Trade Agreement... does Caterpillar's support for CAFTA, opposition to buy American have any influence on president's thinking.

14:35, Tapper: Wouldn't CAFTA... wouldn't rethinking that free-trade agreement also be a logical step?

14:36, Ed Henry, CNN, asking what the president's involvement is in the ongoing stimulus negotiations on the Hill.

14:37, Henry: Barney Frank is saying he's disappointed there's nothing on the housing crisis in the Geithner plan. Where is your [housing] plan?

14:38, Henry: Why wasn't that [housing] the top priority of the Geithner plan?

14:40, Henry still presses Gibbs.

14:41, Chip Reid, CBS: Is the president at the point where he's saying he won the election, Republicans can either join or get out of the way on the stimulus?

14:43, Reid restates the question, asks if there's a change in Obama's attitude about bringing in Republican cooperation on stimulus.

14:45, Chuck Todd: Are we in the 7th inning stretch?

14:45, Chuck Todd, NBC: Secretary Gates said potus will make decision about troops in Afghanistan in a few days and that was a few days ago.

14:46, Todd with followup: MIght this be implemented [troop build-up in Afghanistan] before he announces it to the American people?

14:47, Todd: Will there be a speech?

14:48, Todd, question on what Obama will tell Gates at meeting

14:48, Todd asks about first lady's Vogue cover shoot

14:48, Todd: What does that say about the role she wants to play as First Lady?

14:51, Fox News cut away to Harry Reid press conference. So have other networks. That's all for today, folks.

—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters


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"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves

Just taking after his boss...

...although he may just be getting some last minute instructions, like, "Don't be such a moron this time, OK?"

I saw his audition Monday night...

Have they put a dress and red lipstick on Ed Schultz and substituted him for Helen Thomas yet? 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

What a waste of human flesh.

What a waste of human flesh. If you put a wig on him he would look like Debbie Stabmenow. (No offense to women out there). All I here him say is blah blah blah blah, nothing that makes sense comes out or any real answers at all.

"Chip Reid, CBS: Is the

"Chip Reid, CBS: Is the president at the point where he's saying he won the election, Republicans can either join or get out of the way on the stimulus?"

Once again, this is not a question - this is friendly political advise. Way to go Chip - you're a real dandy journalist... 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

it was accompanied by a wink and a nudge...

no, really! :)

The way Gibbs stutters and

The way Gibbs stutters and stammers (gibbserish) from friendly questions like he gets, can you even imagine what he would do if faced with a hostile press like Fleischer, Snow, and Parino? The blubber-buss would melt down on television...  

 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

OMG! Collins is speaking

OMG!

Collins is speaking about the agreement they have all made about the Porulus bill...after Reid announced what brave patriotic americans collins, Snowe and Specter are.

Just lovely...gag me with a spoon!

Talk about traitors to the party.

Rush's parting shot..

"They're as dumb as the people showing up for Obama's townhall meetings." lol

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Bolton/KEYES 2012 

BT, looks like we are going

BT, looks like we are going to have to go to DC and burn congress to the ground then start all over again.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Reid and patriotism

Harry Reid doesn't have the slightest inkling of the definition of patriotism. He calls these weak minded RINO's patriots and called the war in Iraq lost.

Both him and Pelosi need to do the patriotic thing and resign before they do anymore damage to our country.

Sefton... It made me ill

Sefton...

It made me ill him using the the word patriots, let alone brave... how dare he?!

Of course trying to slam the rest of the republican memebers who voted against this outrageous, pork-filled, total socialist bill.

I will always despise the three of the traitors as long as I breathe.

What total asses these three are! Reid and Pelosi

would not allow them in on the 'negotiations conference' and they still back them!!!  TRAITORS ALL THREE!!!!!!! 

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

Exactly Gibbs - it was a "three-day market reax"

Exactly Gibbs - it was a "three-day market reax" 

Jennifer Loven of AP asking if Geithner didn't realize how bad the market reaction would be yesterday

Gibbs says the plan wasn't designed for one-day market reax.

Day 1: Obama wins election - market crashes

Day 2: Obama is inaugurated as the 44th POTUS - market crashes

Day 3: Geithner speaks on bailout plan - market crashes.

"I may also tweet some over

"I may also tweet some over at Twitter."

It may be because I had just read the Barney Frank article, but that just doesn't sound right.

Yea, Gibbs lets talk about the housing crisis

 Yea, Gibbs (and Ed Henritta) lets talk about the housing crisis

14:37, Henry: Barney Frank is saying he's disappointed there's nothing on the housing crisis in the Geithner plan. Where is your [housing] plan?

14:38, Henry: Why wasn't that [housing] the top priority of the Geithner plan?

How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis

There are as many starting points for the mortgage meltdown as there are fears about how far it has yet to go, but one decisive point of departure is the final years of the Clinton administration, when a kid from Queens without any real banking or real-estate experience was the only man in Washington with the power to regulate the giants of home finance, the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), better known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country's current crisis. He took actions that—in combination with many other factors—helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded "kickbacks" to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.

Oh yea.. let's talk. You'd think that someone in the national media would consider that the broad public has the right to expect that this piece of the puzzle might be just a little part of the discussion - that censorship here, would not be allowed.