Dowd: Obama Didn't Call Congress Back Because 'It Would Have Screwed Up His Vacation and Upset Michelle'
As NewsBusters has been reporting, the Obama-loving media have largely been gushing and fawning over the current White House resident taking a vacation on Martha's Vineyard as the economy appears to be heading into a double-dip recession.
Giving an interesting insight into the President's decision to not call Congress back from its summer break to tackle the problems facing the nation was New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd who wrote Sunday:
Americans are rattled and want action. They don’t know or care what Congress’s schedule is. They just see the president not doing anything.
Cruising white Midwestern hamlets in his black bus, Obama tried to justify not calling lawmakers back to D.C. by saying they’d just continue to bicker. But what does he think they’ll do in September? The truth is, he doesn’t want them back in the capital any more than they want to be back. It would have screwed up his vacation and upset Michelle, who already feels trapped in the Washington bubble.
If Clinton wanted to be president 25 hours a day and W. wanted to be president four hours a day, Obama wants to be president for about 14 hours a day. And that’s fine, as long as you don’t look like you’re phoning it in when the country is dialing 911.
As the saying kind of goes, if you lose Maureen Dowd...
Just imagine what her sense of despair will be if the double-dip does arrive, and unemployment begins edging even higher next year as the nation prepares to head to the polls.
The question for many Americans that surveys show are well ahead of the media in their disappointment with this president is just how will his supporters in the press behave if economic conditions are indeed far worse when Election Day approaches.
Will they continue to back a man with obviously failed policies simply because the alternative is a Republican?
Unlike today, the economy was clearly on the rise in 1996 as was employment and the stock market. Journalists backing Bill Clinton weren't necessarily going against America's economic interest by doing so.
This means that the last time we had a Democrat president seeking reelection with an economy trending down was 1980. At the time, despite his failed economic policies, media were clearly on Jimmy Carter's bandwagon to defeat the eventual winner, Ronald Reagan.
Will it be the same this time, and America is about to once again watch the overwhelming majority of so-called journalists try to reelect a man that is clearly not up to the task of righting this sinking ship?
Stay tuned.
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Simple Question will doom Obama
Submitted by Hunter12 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 10:51am.
Are you better off now than you were four years ago? The MSM can spin things however they want, but when that curtain closes on that pollong booth, that's the question everyone will be asking themselves.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Simple Answer will also doom Obama
Submitted by davidfarrar on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:11pm.
Reboot.
ex animo
davidfarrar
Don't anger the Queen
Submitted by OldmanRick on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 10:56am.
Time to take notice that the wookie and her toddler n' thief seem to spend lots of time apart. She vacations and eats while the brat attempts to play at being a golfer.
Took 2 planes, speaking of time apart..
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:25am.
The Queen and the kids flew to Martha's Vineyard first, then Barry went separately. Wonder what that cost us.
ALL HAIL HER MAJESTY
Submitted by northone on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 4:01pm.
No, we wouldn't want to upset her royal highness, now, would we.
Motive
Submitted by Gat New York on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:10am.
One has to begin to wonder is Dowd is a lead dog to begin to push Obama to back out of re-election. Dowd has had some pretty strong words recently as had economist and (former) Obama supporter Jeffrey Sachs.
yea but did you read Dowd's shot at Bush?
Submitted by cbeyer on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 5:17pm.
Which was that he ran the Presidency 4 hours a day compared to 14 for Obama and more for Clinton. Trust me...libs are questioning their anointed one but when 2012 comes along they will be circling the wagons...attacking the Republican candidate with ferocious vigor while coddling and paying homage to 'the ONE' Obama.
Don't be foolish enough to read anything into lib comments about Obama that aren't positive! Same with the black caucus. Blacks may not be happy with the employment picture but will support Obama in 2012 95-5%.
You would expect Dowd to nail
Submitted by Gat New York on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 8:32pm.
You would expect Dowd to nail Bush and every other GOPer.
I believed from the day he was inaugurated that Obama would fail (no experience) and that he may not run for a second term. I am more convinced of that as every day goes on and more former liberal syncophants pile onto him. There is a growing and evident move to possibly force Obama not to run again which would open the door for Hillary Clinton.
I don't think the Dems want to intentionally lose the White House in 2012 and Obama right now looks like a 100% loser to anyone the GOP puts up.
That's why I think salvos like Dowds are trial balloons to see how this plays and there does not seem to be a lot of pushback in the press. People like Dowd and Sachs still want a Dem in the White House which is what this is about.
2011 is not 2008
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:13am.
This Martha's Vineyard vacation is perfect timing. obama had the country's attention because of his pointless bus ride and then goes on vacation. Perfect! ....for the Republicans. It reinforces the publics perception that obama is not a serious President. obama is on his way out.
Let's hope so
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:18am.
It fits with that theory I had yesterday about him trying to do as much damage as he can and then just spend like crazy on his personal things like that bus trip, good God that was a lot of money spent for such a short thing! Someone concerned at wanting to save money would have had a heart attack at the idea! But this bogus potus and the flotus(the F stands for FAT by the way) have been acting like royalty and spending like it too without a care about it.
I'm still hoping my second theory about him preparing for something is wrong, except that he's preparing to go the hell away.
-Jon
Moochelle to Barky concerning
Submitted by MikeB on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 4:53pm.
Moochelle to Barky concerning the peasants: "Let them eat sugar free, fat free, taste free cake: it'll be good for them. In the meantime, take Airforce One and get me a triple bacon cheeseburger, large fries, a large chocolate malt, and a diet Coke from New York City. Be sure to buzz the Statue of Liberty, that always gives the riff-raff a thrill."
Priorities
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:14am.
If that's true, nice to see the bogus potus has his priorities straight.
Hm, take care of the country or take care of the wife, hm, which is more important.....I thought the flotus was supposed to be proud of her country, hm, now there's concern about screwing up the vacation among dozens and dozens of vacations taken before?
Come on, Dowd, that's a load of crap. You're right that it would have screwed up his "vacation" but if he were truly a POTUS instead of the dictator in chief, he would have had to put the country first instead of his own personal desires. That's part of the job. Given that you consider the vacation more important (nevermind all the other ones) than the country shows how screwed up YOU are.
-Jon
Flying Pig Alert!!!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:19am.
Cruising white Midwestern hamlets in his black bus, Obama tried to justify not calling lawmakers back to D.C. by saying they’d just continue to bicker.
Isn't this just as irresponsible as the parents who don't "bother" to ground the teenager because he/she will just sneak out?
Now our enemies will know the best time to launch a surprise
Submitted by virginia republican on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:25am.
attack. When President Downgrade is on vacation.........which is a lot of the time.
Actually for our enemies Obama on vacation
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:43am.
is their worst time. He would spend at least a week polling before making any statement and it would be "Oh we're gone sanction them into next week. Cause I'm duh Man".
Ahhhh....Mooooooooooooooochel
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:40am.
Ahhhh....Mooooooooooooooochelle Antoinette feels 'trapped by the Washington bubble', huh??? I guess that's why she's always going to some nice locale on our dime..........or having never-ending parties at the WH to keep her spirits up, after being trapped and cooped up all the time.
Der Schlickmeister wanted to be President 25 hours a day, GWB wanted to be President 4 hours a day, so from that Ms. Dowdy deduces that Barama wants to be President 14 hours a day??? I don't think he wants to be 'President' at all.........since he doesn't like a 'messy, complicated democracy', or 'the way Washington works', or the fact that 'politics' are coming between his agenda and trying to get it done - which is why he does as MUCH as he possibly can WITHOUT having to go through the usual process in Washington.
'Cruising 'white' midwestern hamlets in his 'black' bus' has got to be one of the most 'RACIST' statements I've read in a long time!!! I know that Maxine Waters said the same thing, but...........well, she's a member of the Black Congressional Caucas, which is known to be a racist organization. I'll bet that if some conservative newsperson said something like that, they would be under assault allready.
Last I heard, Congress was still split,as far as power structure goes..............so if Boy Blamegame, and Ms. Dowdy, are going to continue to rip Congress, they ought to be identifying who they're ripping, because the Dems haven't done a damn thing about a damn thing, and the TEA party types are the only ones trying to make things happen in accordance with our Constitution and the tenants set out by our founding fathers...............oh, yeah, a bunch of WHITE SLAVE OWNERS!!!
So Boy Barry is faced with a hard decision here - screw America.........or Mooooooooooooooochelle. Well, he's allready 'done' us...........just like he 'did bin Laden'.
What does DOWD know that we don't?
Submitted by davidfarrar on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:06pm.
Just may be Dowd and others have stopped and actually looked at what the Supreme Court case of Minor vs. Happersett actually means. It means there is a prima facie case against Obama meeting his required Article II qualifications to take the oath of Office of the Presidency -- and this time around, it will be successfully addressed.
The only other alternative is to back Obama out and run a successful primary challenger. Obama may even be in on the plan if it saves him from prosecution afterwards.
It means that Dowd and others are "birthers", and that their numbers are increasing...
ex animo
davidfarrar
it's Simple
Submitted by Ogundipe S.O. on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 11:59am.
There's a saying that from the day you're elected an American President your life change forever.
With that in mind. Why does the Obamas still find it pertinent to vacation? With a luxurious building like the White House, the best air fleet anyone could dream of, and the sensitivity of suffering American workers are all the more reasons Obamas should have jettisoned their insulting vacations.
But we can look at it from other angles:
Axiom Une: Obama doesn't care about what sufferings the working class and investors may be living through. He knows very well they aren't his base.
Axiom Deux: Obama knows he's only lying to advance his chances at the polls whenever he claims to be agitating for the unemployed, minority proletariats. And he also knows very well that they will vote for him come rain or shine.
So it's simple: next election would be a campaign between the productive and free loaders in America.
I'll keep my fingers X and stay tune to Fox News in my barn here in Nigeria.
The way I see it
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:08pm.
Since he has to be on top of things (or as on top as he gets) 24/7, the butlers, party planners, private pilots, chefs, etc are there to make it as pleasant as possible--and $50,000 rental vacays and phony bookstore runs don't have to be part of it. Being president is a weird deal--you don't get time off. All he has shown is he can read paper briefings, lead from behind, vote present, and wave and show the ivories -- with sand.
Next Election
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:13pm.
"So it's simple: next election would be a campaign between the productive and the free loaders in America."
Unfortunately, we may be well past the 50% threshold of too many free loaders. Obama doesn't seem to focus too much on telling people that they have the opportunity to improve their lot in life through hard work. That the one thing America does guarantee is the opportunity to improve oneself. That would destroy the free loader base of the Democrat Party.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
time well spent
Submitted by Rackie on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:07pm.
Obama needs time to work on his "why I'm like MLK and where are you going to put my statue" speech.
As long as she's finally proud of her country...
Submitted by krendler on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:08pm.
...that's all that matters. The point of pride being, of course, her husband as president.
Equally disturbing was Obama stating during the 08 campaign that Michelle would be his number one adviser (Is the woman really qualified to advise anyone on anything?)
like a rock
Submitted by markprice1983 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:15pm.
Obama needs time to work on his campaign to put himself on Mount Rushmore.
They are working on him a
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:40pm.
They are working on him a monument now. It will the back end of Crazy Horse's horse in the Black Hills of SD.
Black Hills
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 1:34pm.
You said "Black Hills". Don't let Ed Schultz read this post.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
I'd really like to see that
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 3:11pm.
I'd really like to see that 'sick man who needs help'...........bKeyser.........put together a photoshop of the finished product, with the proud figure of Crazy Horse urging his horse forward............and Boy Behind facing the opposite direction - trying to go backward!!
And, yeah..........I think that Barama needs to issue an executive order to make some kind of changes to the 'black hills' name.
It's really quite racist, you know??
Let's just face reality...........
Submitted by richard on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:27pm.
........the reason this clown and his clownette didn't want to forego their vacation is that they both know their merry-go-ride is coming to a halt in about 18 months, and they don't want to give up a single perk until they are ejected by the public. Obama may go around giving political speeches about his need to strenghten the government, etc., as if he's gungho about his re-election prospects, but he already knows his ticket has been punched. In any case, he has to put on this sincere face, just in case a miracle should happen for him.
Their pillow talk at night must center on how much they need to ramp up their largesse opportunities before the funnel runs dry.
When all is said and done with this loser, and he once again becomes just another ex-president, the questions that have never been answered about his qualifications to be the president, and the lack of any paper trail or background vetting will now become fair game for the supposed journalists, who should have been pursuing the facts along.
America may just wake up and wonder "how in the hell did this ever happen?"
I think The Hammer said there
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:36pm.
I think The Hammer said there were more blacks in the Tea Party than lived or vacationed on Martha's Vineyard.
Maybe I'm nit-picking but I
Submitted by HelenS on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:55pm.
Maybe I'm nit-picking but I can't seem to get over feeling offended at the flippant and disgusting comment about President George W. Bush. He deserves more than that dismissive remark.
I know I shouldn't expect more from the kool-aid drinkers but it really gets tiresome.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
~You're not
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 6:02pm.
I caught that, too. I seem to remember reading something about Bush getting up at 5 in the morning to exercise and get into the office by 7 or 8. I just did a search and haven't found anything yet, but a refutation of that "4 hours a day" crap would have been a nice addition to the piece.
Here we go..
Mr. Bush has always been an early-to-bed, early-to-rise kind of guy, and he typically arrives at the Oval Office by 6:45 a.m., Ms. Perino said, for briefings from his national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, and chief of staff, Joshua B. Bolten. He holds regular secure video-conferences with various world leaders, among them the president of Afghanistan and the prime minister of Iraq.
Noel - last time was 1980? Not 2000?
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:59pm.
OK - but we had a Democratic VP (Gore) seeking election in 2000 - and well, the MSM were supporting guess who?
Last time I looked over all of the many leading economic indicators back then, they were all headed south during the period of the great dot.com economic bubble collapse. That was 2000.
Here? (now NS, is going to make fun of me, I know). Yes - 1980 was much worse - as was 2008 - but!
(;~> gary
Gary
Submitted by Noel Sheppard on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 2:23pm.
Gary,
The unemployment rate was 3.9 percent when Americans went to the polls in November 2000. The GDP in the 2nd quarter of 2000 grew by 8 percent. The recession didn't officially begin until March 2001. Are you REALLY comparing then to now? ns
Noel - 2000
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 10:34am.
No. Was not comparing. In fact, I think I was clear that it did not compare to 1980 or 2008. Noting that it was not an unknown going into the 2000 election that the grease was off the skids, that we were headed for a recession, that CA was in an energy crisis, that gas prices had soared (remember the failed auction, LOL), and for some of us it was a gimmie that we'd lost the surpluses, already.
Perhaps I'm noting that it should have been in the air .. "what's the next guy going to do?"
(;~> gary
A question for Dowd ...
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 1:05pm.
DOWD: "If Clinton wanted to be president 25 hours a day . . ."
Does getting fellated by White House interns in the Oval Office count as being on the job when you're President?
Sometimes I really wonder
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 1:23pm.
I like reading the posts on this site because they are different POV. But the Clinton thing is ancient history..and really boring. Given the current state of things couldn't you come up with something relevant?
Sticking my nose in...
Submitted by m4ster chief on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 1:46pm.
With all due respect, Mandrake, Maureen Dowd brought up Clinton's name in her little diatribe. I don't think Galvanic was making a serious point with his comment; I read it as a humorous aside. You are too sensitive, Manny...or is it that you just need to pick on somebody?
Nah, no worries.
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 1:52pm.
Just had to get in my daily dose of stupid. It's an OCD thing, I'll sleep better tonight now.
mandrake---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 5:12pm.
Jon Stewart works his "I'm only a comedian" schtick to the same effect.
It fools his group of LDD followers, anyway.
Liberals, Democrats, and Dolts.
MD
You mean it's not working?
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 5:19pm.
The "I'm an idiot" schtick isn't going to fly? Now, you've undone everything. I won't be able to sleep tonight..seriously!
mandrake---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 5:25pm.
My apologies for being a sleep deprivation harbinger.
I enjoy your posts, they are always cordial; and I do believe you are far more intelligent than you let on.
MD
Im all for O'Bozo taking his vacations, long and often!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 1:09pm.
Just dont bother him while hes on it-he may make a decision that will further screw up this once-great country! Id rather him take several lengthy trips, so we can put him on a PERMANENT ONE IN 15 MONTHS!
Personally, I don't give a
Submitted by jessieH on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 1:35pm.
Personally, I don't give a rat's assteric what upsets mrs. Uhbama. Her husband is an idiot.
She's pretty much of a dope
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 3:14pm.
She's pretty much of a dope herself, as far as I'm concerned........
I didn't know a president could set congress' schedule.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 2:22pm.
.
"W. wanted to be president four hours a day".....
Submitted by WarEagle01 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 2:58pm.
Wow, I though that ridiculous meme died out about two years ago. Bush worked his tail off compared to the lazy f##K currently inhabiting the White House.
Just five words
Submitted by HelenS on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 3:21pm.
I could guarantee Obama a head-spinning turn-around in the economy and a land-slide re-election if he uttered just five words and then stepped away from the teleprompter and never said another thing for the rest of his term:
"Unlimited drilling, starting right now."
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
Not the desired outcome
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 5:27pm.
That would violate his oath to Islam to destroy this country. He would never do that. He already said he wasn't finished doing what he's been doing and it certainly wasn't helping the country to begin with.
So at this point, he's done major damage, he SUCCEEDED where Rush and many others wished he would fail, he doesn't need to be re-elected. He might want it, but he'll be sitting pretty from here on out.
And yes, it was intentional on his part. Not incompetence.
-Jon
President Downgrade, Even Your Lefty Pals Are Sick of You
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 4:57pm.
Lovely.
Freaky Maureen Dowd has had enough of the Pimp-in-Chief.
This jackass is so arrogant, I can tell you a few things that won't happen:
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
Motormouth
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 5:11pm.
Points 1-4, agree.
Point 5: He won't need to know what to do. Virtually every liberal college and university in the country will be throwing open their checkbooks to get him to pontificate his socialist nonsense in their lecture halls, along with healthy doses of how he was thwarted at every turn by those mean, nasty, evil Republicans. And it will all be met with thunderous, sycophantic applause.
Re: number 5. I suggest he
Submitted by MikeB on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 5:14pm.
Re: number 5.
I suggest he move to Cuba, become a Cuban citizen, and wait for Fidel to die. Then Ear Leader might get to become a ruler of a country without a pesky, "outdated" Constitution full of negative rights that prevents him from turning this country into another worker's paradise. He'll have such a worker's paradise already prepared for him, and he can see first hand the glorious benefits of such a system. Either that, or he'd be stood in front of a wall.
We are being screwed...
Submitted by jdripper on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 8:24pm.
Word has it that the democrats have enlisted many Republicans in Washington, DC, to increase spending in the billions to hire people to do highway construction. I knew the GOP couldn't wait to get back to being democrats light.
The Wall Street Journal is already reporting it. When BO gets back the democrats will present the legislation he talks about in his speech. James Inhofpe has already agreed to co-sponsor it.
Washington, DC, is back in full swing, if you have a problem dump billions of dollars on it.
Jack
oh lovely Michelle
Submitted by cdnrod1 on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 9:11pm.
these two are the biggest hacks not only to live in the White House, but to have ever walked through those doors
Two quick observations:
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 10:42pm.
One - I don't believe for one moment that Michelle Obama "feels trapped in the Washington bubble". If she does, then why in the hell did they go to all the trouble (and deception) to get him elected as president? No, they love every last privilege and perk that living in the White House offers and they love strutting around on the Washington DC stage.
Two - Would the media fawn quite so much over this president's vacation if he stayed in, say, a log cabin in Wyoming? Not that he'd ever do so. They love him even more for vacationing in the liberal holy ground of Martha's Vineyard.