Scarborough Smacks Down E.J. Dionne's GOP Obstruction Charge: Obama 'Owned Washington' for Two Years
I sure hope Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne as well as other unapologetic Obama-loving media members were watching MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Thursday.
After Mika Brzezinski read a snippet of Dionne's "Obama's Paradox Problem" wherein he basically blamed all that ails the nation on GOP obstruction, Joe Scarborough accurately noted, "the President owned – OWNED! – Washington, D.C., in 2009 and 2010" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MIKA BRZEZINSKI, CO-HOST: Well, along those same lines, in the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne writes about “Obama’s Paradox Problem,” and he says this:
"Obama hates to bring up the nasty fact that we have political parties, but very soon, he will have to point out that it is Republicans in Congress who are blocking his agenda. They will either have to start worrying about their low ratings or begin to pay a real price for obstruction."
JOE SCARBOROUGH, CO-HOST: I, with all due respect to E.J. Dionne, the President owned – OWNED! – Washington, D.C., in 2009 and 2010. Owned it! Fifty, at points he had a filibuster-proof Senate. He had a seventy-nine vote margin in the House. And E.J. Dionne, again with all due respect, he’s a nice man, but he was blaming Republicans then as well.
At some point, E.J. Dionne and other people who celebrated the triumph of Barack Obama are going to have to turn the mirror on the man that they adore and realize that they’ve been writing the same columns whether this president was, had a filibuster-proof Senate or whether they had John Boehner as Speaker.
Indeed.
Folks like Dionne dishonestly ignore how much power and control of our entire government Barack Obama had his first two years in office.
Yet after only eight months of a Republican House, all the nation's problems are due to the GOP and the Tea Party.
It's a bald-faced lie that columnists like Dionne and virtually everyone on MSNBC with the exception of Scarborough shamefully purport on a regular basis.
If the "Morning Joe" host is really sickened by this dishonesty, maybe he should talk about it every show including how prevalent it is on his own network.
A conservative can dream, can't he?
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This is the point the Rep
Submitted by Maestroh on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:48am.
This is the point the Rep nominee needs to make: he could have done anything &'chose health care over the economy - the effects of which are part of why the economy is not rebounding.
Ah yes,
Submitted by Bob K on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:49am.
think back to those early post-election days when liberals were gloating about how much was going to get done by Obama because democrats had total control in Washington. LOL!
Bob,
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:55am.
and unfortunately they were right - about getting a lot done not about it being what is best for the US.
A blind squirrel finds a nut every once and a while...
Submitted by Iron Tigers Vet on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:56am.
Joe on occasion can put a notch in the conservative belt, but he's still a Kool-aide drinker for The One.
I was just wondering....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 1:09pm.
"What's gotten into Joe lately". Now I know.....nuts! :-)
More and more folks are,
Submitted by Kenyon Schraeder on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:58am.
More and more folks are, perhaps reluctantly, coming to grips with the fact that this administration is entirely hapless and its own worst enemy. Given O's sweeping mandate and the Congressional majorities he enjoyed for two full years, it might have been a safe bet to figure that "unprecedented" legislation would have been made at every point along the way.
But, this is the magnificence of living in a free and democratic republic. The People took great umbrage at the obsession with Obamacare and many Democrats listened for as long as they could, clogging up the process and flitting away much of that mandate trying to bribe, wrestle, cajole and threaten the needed votes. Yet, in spite of all that, O has responded by wasting even more time and endless monies on expanding the role of government, trying desperately to bring his ingrained communist-leaning ideology to fruition.
And so, the moral of the story is that a person's "arrogance" will eventually become that person's undoing.
As usual, The Mikatron pivots to 90° and locks on,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:04am.
attempting to bore a hole into Shmoe's disproportionately large head. I swear, I do not know how anyone could put up with that constant weird staring. Gives me the creeps.
That being said, this story should make one very special boy very happy.
Yep---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 8:07pm.
even though what the Scab says, in reality, does nothing more than underline the fecklessness of both Obama and his administration.
One "sb" mugwump praising another mugwump.
MD
Joe's a RINO, and every so
Submitted by marpel on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:08am.
Joe's a RINO, and every so often, he'll throw the conservatives a bone...this was his bone of the week...
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
Meek-Ugggggggh, Queen of the Imbeciles
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:15am.
I swear, this sow isn't fit to steal any more oxygen. What a buffoon, with her dopey faces, and continuous tsking.
Scarface is Tingles Lite, just wants to be controversial. Ass monkey.
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
Surprised Mika didn't retort
Submitted by IgnatzJFahrquar on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:16am.
the usual Liberal screed about how the Dims didn't have a supermajority. I get it all the time from the Comrade Zero Zombies. I then have to verbally 2-by-4 them upside the void between their ears and remind them that the Independents caucus with the Dims.
More times than not I get the "Well, they are Independents and not Democrats. The Democrats didn't have a supermajority. You are a liar."
And thus, my signature line below:
E. J. Dionne, along with
Submitted by TE on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:25am.
E. J. Dionne, along with whack job leftist political activists on the front page of the New York Times (i.e., Eric Schmitt, Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger) and dimwit Moron Dowd on the editorial page, is one of the few people stupid enough to allege that a clueless, career community organizer in the White House (who knows absolutely nothing about the U.S. military or military operations and who palled around with a terrorist who bombed the Pentagon) formulated the plans for the bin Laden raid and even determined the number of personnel and aircraft necessary to complete the mission! That is as stupid as you can get.
Okay,once more, from the MSM manual:
Submitted by sherlock1 on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:53am.
A. Democrats opposing policies of Republican President = principled response by loyal opposition
B. Republicans opposing policies of Democrat President = racially-motivated traitorous attack on the weak and poor
Try to keep up, okay?
With all due respect
Submitted by Gat New York on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 12:35pm.
Scarborough repeatedly saying "With all due respect to E. J. Dionne" reminds me of Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights saying the same thing to his race car owner Mr. Dennit.
Mr. Dennit: Ricky, your little obscene gesture is going to cost you 100 points. Do you know how much that costs us in sponsorship dollars?
Ricky: With all due respect, Mr. Dennit, I had no idea you'd gotten experimental surgery to have your balls removed.
Mr. Dennit: What did you just say to me?
Ricky: What? I said it with all due respect!
Mr. Dennit: Just because you say that doesn't mean you get to say whatever you want to say to me!
Ricky: It sure as hell does!
Mr. Dennit: No, it doesn't--
Ricky: It's in the Geneva Conventions, look it up!
Obama doesn't have a paradox problem.
Submitted by Conservator on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 1:06pm.
His problem is a failure to lead, solve America's economic woes as he boasted he would do within 3 years during the 2008 campaign and to end partisan bickering and unite Americans. E.J. fails to discuss Obama's campaign rhetoric and as I recall, the President said if he didn't deliver in three years then he didn't deserve to be reelected.
It's amazing E.J. blames Republicans who only control 1/3 of the Federal Government for just 8 months or as the WH likes to state, "Federal Family" which seems to poll better. Also, he conveniently leaves out that Pres. Obama had huge majorities in both Houses of Congress for 2 years as Joe pointed out. During that period, Obama and the Democrats didn't show any inkling for looking for bipartisan support.
Republicans were left out of all the back-room meeting to pass Obamacare, the Stimulus Act and the Dodd-Frank Act. Heck, Republicans were denied any opportunity to bring even a few Amendments to these legislative acts when the votes were cast - IS THAT BENDING OVER BACKWARD TO APPEASE REPUBLICANS E.J? The only paradox problem lies between Dionne's frighten lefty ears.
Airbrushing recent history
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 1:47pm.
When the Kremlin wanted to erase a bad memory such as a former comrade who turned sour, they airbrushed his images out of official photos with Party leaders as if he had never existed.
With the 2012 elections looming and Obama's re-election chances shrinking, the MSM is assisting with the airbrushing of that Democratic majority in the Hill in 2009 and 2010. They have successfully done it for 2007-2008 by constantly referrnig to the "eight years of Bush," as if the Republicans still held majorities in the Congress those last two years.
Other people/issues that will likely get the airbrush treatment include:
1. Van Jones
2. Rev. Jeremiah Wright
3. Cash for Clunkers
4. The Beer Summit
5. Democratic pork in the stimulus bill
6. ACORN
7. Anthony Weiner
8. Meeting Joe the Plumber
9. Any pre-Presidency promises/statements by Obama that contradict what he says now
The MSM parrots destroying reality.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 2:59pm.
By the time E. J. and all the other MSM parrots get done squawking about the GOP obstructionism the lie will have become conventional wisdom.
OK Joe, you DO know the truth
Submitted by amyshulk on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 8:18am.
OK Joe, you DO know the truth - now share it more often, m'kay?
Ronald Reagan