This is an update.The Media in this case ABC is astroturfing for the Obama
administration it looks like this Diane Sawyer special was intentional
to drum up support for the so called Stimulus Bill, listen to her on
the View last Monday, then listen to Mitch McConnell’s Minority Leader
of the Senate from KENTUCKY’s opposition to the Bill on CSPAN. Since
when are journalist supposed to be promoting legislation in Congress?
This is an update.

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/02/diane-sawyer-2020-hidden-america_15.html

. . . .and yet he maintained his popularity around the country.

Hmmm, maybe he 'maintained' because they are sweeping dissent into the wastebin, like they did with the e-mail decrying the stimulus bill I sent to him at comments@whitehouse.gov. Here is a copy of the reply, notice the highlighted portion, where you are told, long after the stimulus bill was passed, your e-mail was ignored.

Dear Friend,

The Presidential
Correspondence Team

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

And Democrats never wanted to be "stewards of spending"  so they are allowed to spend as much as they want and can't be called hypocrites?

 In fact, Gene, every president since Reagan campaigned on cutting taxes INCLUDING Obama.

Campaigning is one thing; which Presidents actually delivered the cuts? 

Eugene Robinson....isn't he the WaPo buddy of Colbert King, who said it's ridiculous to say that Ronald Reagan had more substance than Obama?????

Birds of a feather.....

But Wow! 

<BRRRPPPPT!  BRRRRPPPPPT!  BRRRRRPPPT!>

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

I watched a portion of this this morning, when Axelrod was on.  And unlike many Americans, including David Gregory (or he just chose to let it go), I heard this (see bolded text)........

MR. GREGORY: So the lack of bipartisanship in this bill, not a major concern to the president?

MR. AXELROD: Our concern--look, first of all, bipartisanship isn't just measured by the number of votes you get. It's measured by the dialogue you have. He, he meant--he, he...

MR. GREGORY: You were the ones who said you wanted 80 votes in the Senate, though.

MR. AXELROD: I wanted 100 votes, David, but I don't think that that is the measure. The measure is do you move it forward and do you have productive conversations? President met with members of--Republican members of Congress. He went to both caucuses. Our staff met with most members, or many members of the Republican caucus. And, and that is a healthy thing. But old habits die hard, we understand that. We're going to keep on dealing with both parties on Capitol Hill and trying to set a standard of civility that we think ultimately will pay off.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/02/david_axelrod_tells_nbcs_meet.html 

*****

The measure of bipartisanship is moving a bill forward?  Votes aren't the measure.  Can anyone of a logical thinking mind comprehend that nonsense?  If moving a bill forward is bipartisanship, then why are they concerned with Republican support?  They have the numbers to move bills forward by themselves........hmmm, by themselves, which, as Axelrod believes, is bipartisanship.

Maybe he thinks bipartisanship is agreement between Democrats in House AND Democrats in Senate.

Did anyone notice the if the table seemed to levitate as those two exchanged their verbal adorations for The One? Talk about having your "O" faces on.

I make it a point on Sunday's to be as far across the dial from this show as possible. It is nothing more than a DNC echo-chamber and Dear Leader schmoozefest.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

Through the simple act of turning on the television the american public is served a unhealthy helping of liberal media bias. 

"....I mean, as Gene said, the magnitude of the--this bill was a presidency in a box. He achieved more of his aims in this single legislation than many presidents will achieve in an entire term. I mean, there is more new net public investment here on things the Democrats consider essential for long-term growth--like education, scientific research, alternative energy--than Bill Clinton was able to achieve in two terms....."

It's official, his presidency is a raging success.  He's now entered the top 20 presidents of all time, after 3 weeks.  Everything else just works him up the ladder toward the top 5.

Noel,

Great piece. There are so many claims these idiots are making that I would love to pick apart but you did a bang up job as usual.

The one thing I would like to point out these elitists failed to is that all but 3 Republicans didn't sign it because IT'S A SPENDING BILL THAT WON'T STIMULATE ANYTHING BUT OBAMA'S EGO! That's called standing up for your principals, something Democrats, Liberals and Leftists don't have!

After being a stealth member of the Obama campaign, twisting every story so that it benefitted "The One" during the election, Chuck Todd is starting to feel like a jilted lover:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/02/13/1794356.aspx

 From NBC's Chuck Todd
Obviously, I'm one of the newbies here in the White House press corps, so maybe I'm unfamiliar with the ways of how this place works. I have to say, nothing is more frustrating than covering an actual event here at the White House if you at all believe in anything remotely having to do with the First Amendment.

more...

It saddens me that so many people in this country actually believe that this hideous, freedom-destroying bill was ever intended to stimulate the economy in the first place.

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

“Even though there was lagging support for the stimulus at points, when Obama was attached to it, it was still popular.”

Oh yeah?  At Caterpillar at least this claim is a complete lie.  Check out the first of the two videos clips here:

http://mypetjawa.mu....

1400 Caterpillar employees urged their Congressional Representative Aaron Schock to oppose the so-call Stimulus Bill, despite a DIRECT appeal by Obama;
NOT ONE asked Aaron Schock to vote for the so-call Stimulus Bill.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

Are there any Sunday shows that will actually look at the Democrats and their legislation?  With the exception of Fox News, it seems the other networks are going zombie like reportage on Obama and the Democrats. 

We have NBC, with thrill up the leg commenters at MSNBC, now we have, what used to be a fairly dependable show, in Meet The Press, that becomes a liberal love fest on the spending bill.

ABC, has George (Yes I am in the loop) Stephanopolis who is now in the, is it truth or is it from Rahm?  I don't believe I can watch any more and listen to him, without asking that question.

CNN and CBS have become cartoons, after their coverage of the last election.  So, when it comes to the MSM, who do you trust?  I trust Fox News but want to watch someone else to balance it all out.  The other networks have proven themselves to be unreliable and untrustworthy.  The American Public deserves better from their "free" press.   

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

What is disgraceful is John Boehmer lying through his teeth as he announced to reporters last week that he had presented an alternative stimulus package to President Obama that would have created twice as many jobs and cost half as much. This plan involved yet another $350 billion giveaway to corporate executives, just like Bush/Paulson did four months ago. Just like the tax rebate checks that were sent out last year that were supposed to "boost" the economy. Just like the tax cut two years that had no detectable impact on the economy. All tax cuts do is add to the national debt, and they only amount to a few dollars extra per paycheck. Not enough to pull us out of this vertical nose-dive, much less keep us from turning into a Third World country. More importantly, a tax cut would do nothing for the millions of people who are out of work and already collecting unemployment. The Republican Party knew that the stimulus bill was going to pass, with or without its votes, so the RNC decided to vote against the bill en masse in order to preserve a campaign slogan for the next election. The thing is, if you heard all those people in red states cheering when they found out that the stimulus bill passed, you know that those states are turning bluer by the minute. You can bet that the governors of those states are already going blue. Voters are not going to forget the way people like Boehmer, McConnell and McCain chose to protect their political party rather than the people who voted them into office.  There are only a handful of blogs like this one where a few ideological fossils are still angry about the outcome of the last election. These are people who share Phil Graham's philosophy, that corporations will always do what's right for America if they can just get those tax breaks and incentives. Right. Just like Enron and the entire banking industry. It sounds like many of you people need to emerge from your basements once in a while and read other blogs. Get an opposing view and read what most of the country thinks about the way your political heroes are handling the economic crisis. If you continue to just listen to each other, you'll have no one else to blame when the Republican Party evaporates in the next election. How's it feel to be the "Party of No" and puppet of a radio talkshow personality?