On today's CNN Newsroom segment at 1:00 PM (ET), anchor Kyra Phillips interviewed White House senior advisor David Axelrod. Phillips asked about the Senate's rejection of an $80 million request from President Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba:
PHILLIPS: All right. Let's push forward, then, and talk about Gitmo. You know, your party voted overwhelmingly not to give the president the money for Gitmo. I mean, 90-6. Is it the bad economy, or is there truly a huge divide in convictions on this?AXELROD: No, I think that members of the Senate were asking for a plan. We'll give them a plan as to how we're going to move forward. I think the president offered a framework for that today, and we're going to work with the Congress on whatever path that we take here.
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The bad economy, Kyra? I'm unaware of any senator, Democratic or Republican, who used a bad economy as justification for stripping what in Washington passes as chump change from a more than $90 billion spending bill. Along with Obama, Congress has been squandering money like the proverbial drunken sailor and all in the sacred name of "stimulus." Only today, KMOV in St. Louis carried an Associated Press story reporting that Missouri is using $250 million, more than three times the Gitmo funding total, of federal economic stimulus money just to pay state income tax refunds.
The principal reason senators, including a big majority of Democrats, shot down Obama's $80 million request was identified yesterday at Bloomberg.com in a piece by Brian Faler and James Rowley, "Senate Rejects Request for Money to Close Guantanamo:"
Some Democrats said they agreed with Republicans that the White House hasn’t adequately explained its plans for Guantanamo. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat, called the decision to drop the funding “rather easy” because “the administration has not yet forwarded a coherent plan for closing this prison.”
So, no, the bad economy, which we all know was inherited by The One and he's fixing just as fast as he can, isn't the reason most members of his own party gave Obama a hard slap yesterday. It's because his inexperience is once again showing.
Maybe Kyra is just too courteous to have suggested that as a possibility.
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Back to the Bathroom
May 21, 2009 - 16:33 ET by allanfKira should go back to the bathroom with microphone on.
Bathroom behavior
May 21, 2009 - 16:36 ET by Mike BatesBut I don't think she still has that sis-in-law to diss, so probably it wouldn't be as much fun.
Kyra is another brain-dead
May 21, 2009 - 16:40 ET by bigtimerKyra is another brain-dead talking head...just repeating the talking points she was given to her for the segement....she never could have come up with something that brilliant all by herself.
Sounds like Begala/Rahm/GeorgieS/Carville had a hand in this one....hehehee
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
just repeating the talking points she was given, BT
May 21, 2009 - 16:43 ET by Mike BatesAnd she does it so well.
Well, now - isn't Kyra just
May 21, 2009 - 16:52 ET by Chris NormanWell, now - isn't Kyra just so very helpful and considerate, offering up a possible lame excuse for Axelrod to use if he really needed one?
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
I think, Chris
May 21, 2009 - 16:52 ET by Mike Batesthat Kyra makes every effort to be a people pleaser. Certain people, anyway.
Does she even know ?
May 21, 2009 - 17:01 ET by jacktheripperwhat the hell she is reading....seriously the economy is at fault?
This admin has had FOUR MONTHS to come up with a plan and they have SQUAT....THATS THE REASON YOU BRAINDEAD BIMBO !!!! Congress is saying NIMBY but you can't hear!!!! I know lets send them to Vermont, that idiot Leahy voted for it. Let 'em eat Ben-n-Jerry's til they puke!!!!! Someone PLEASE pinch me so I will wake up from this nightmare!!!!
The Green Mountain State, jtr
May 21, 2009 - 17:06 ET by Mike Bateslets send them to Vermont. . .
Or maybe Illinois since the loon Durbin also voted for it. Then they could be rehabbed and become community organizers, maybe on ACORN's (taxpayer funded) payroll.
ACORN Jihad?
May 21, 2009 - 17:15 ET by Chris Norman"Register Democrat or I pull this wire!"?
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Register Democrat
May 21, 2009 - 17:15 ET by Mike Batesor I will drink your blood.
Michael,I always wanted
May 21, 2009 - 17:23 ET by Chris NormanMichael,
I always wanted to compile a list of classic radical Arab invectives that have been hurled at the US. A couple of favorites I've read (pre-Desert Storm)
"The buzzards will peck the eyes out your rotting carcasses lying in the desert!"
and who can forget:
"You will be swimming in pools of your own blood!"
They were like "Karnak the Magnificent" with a slight edge. :)
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a slight edge, Chris
May 21, 2009 - 18:34 ET by Mike BatesIs what they want on their scimitars.
Only it didn't work out too
May 21, 2009 - 22:02 ET by Chris NormanOnly it didn't work out too well for them the last couple of times... :)
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You may not have to be a moron to be a CNN commentator...
May 21, 2009 - 17:12 ET by wnaegele...but obviously it doesn't hurt.
CNN commentator...
May 21, 2009 - 17:14 ET by Mike BatesHow'd Roland Martin get dragged into this? :)
Krya's Krap!
May 21, 2009 - 17:48 ET by blazermaniacOh, yes you have to be a moron to be a CNN commentator. I wouldn't have said that if Lynne Russell was still there.
Lynne Russell
May 21, 2009 - 18:40 ET by Mike BatesLynne now has her own lampshade company.
Some of the folks on CNN could wear one of her products on their heads and it wouldn't diminish their credibility. At least with me.
I mean, 90-6. Is it the
May 21, 2009 - 18:06 ET by MidAmericaI mean, 90-6. Is it the bad economy, or is there truly a huge divide in convictions on this?
She could have said "is it because we are getting closer to the next election cycle and the democrats can't run on stupid as a campaign theme."
running on stupid as a campaign theme
May 21, 2009 - 18:41 ET by Mike Bates. . . the democrats can't run on stupid as a campaign theme.
It's worked for them many times. Unfortunately.
Well yes but as the
May 21, 2009 - 20:43 ET by MidAmericaWell yes but as the minority party they were able to shift all responsibility for everything that was wrong or perceived as wrong on Republicans. It's going to be a little different next election because they now own all the issues. Only the RINOs can save the dems if they continue obamas policies and the economy is still in the tank.
Dear Kyra Phillips,
May 21, 2009 - 20:46 ET by BarkerIt's the economy?
Are you stupid?
Sincerely,
Barker
The Age of Obama will also
May 21, 2009 - 20:56 ET by snaggletoothieThe Age of Obama will also be Known as the Age of Obfuscation
and Misdirection, or The Time That Truth Forgot.
If I'm not mistaken Kyra dyes her hair. I believe her true color
May 21, 2009 - 21:29 ET by Rush Fanis blond. Do you know what they say about liberal journalist who are blond? (Yes, this includes you Anderson Cooper).
Q: Why did the blonde only tie one of her shoe laces?
A: Because the tag on her shoe read: Taiwan.
Q: What do you call two blonde's sitting at a milk shake counter?
A: Double Thick.
Q: Why did the blonde get mad at her boyfriend after she asked him what college he was going to?
A: Because he said FU.
Q: Why did the blonde go into 'Hooters'?
A: Because owls are her favorite animal.
Source: Blondesville.com
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes
because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not
blonde.
Dolly Parton
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing
but a dumb blonde.
Marilyn Monroe
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove
me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
W. C. Fields
It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy
to impress.
Pamela Anderson
Source: Allgreatquotes.com
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Wow...did someone order some
May 21, 2009 - 21:56 ET by balboaWow...did someone order some material from 1983?
Sorry, Kyra, but this was a major smackdown of Obama...
May 21, 2009 - 21:39 ET by R D Helm...by his own party.
And I think we are going to start seeing more of these in the days ahead, too, as more and more Americans begin to see the "real" Obama.
-Dave
Maybe Kyra was being ridiculous on purpose.
May 22, 2009 - 17:58 ET by needleIs it possible that Kyra was being subtly sarcastic? She could have quite understandably have said: “Is there truly a huge divide in convictions on this, or WHAT?”
But what would have been the consequence of that? Her media colleagues have become so hopelessly partisan that she would have been essentially ostracized from their guild for her rudeness, and required to seek a job as a waitress with sunglasses. As a result of the media’s protective coddling, the White House has come to expect only fawn chauvinism from the press corps; anything less has become more detestable than terrorism (which is only an abstraction nowadays anyway) – Kyra could have lost her White House press pass on the spot, and been put on a secret list for future degradations reserved for Rush Limbaugh and his like.
Sure, Kyra's question was obviously ridiculous. It just might be that that was the point.
Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.
Kyra subtly sarcastic?
May 22, 2009 - 19:45 ET by Mike BatesIs it possible that Kyra was being subtly sarcastic?
In the world of the MSM, subtlety isn't usually a desirable trait. But I guess it's possible.