Krauthammer: Obama Is 'President Zero - Zero Economic Expansion, Zero Jobs, Zero Ideas'
Charles Krauthammer on Fox News's "Special Report" Friday offered Republicans a 2012 campaign slogan to defeat Barack Obama.
"President Zero: zero economic expansion, zero jobs, zero ideas on how to cure the economy" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: That assumes the speech he thinks will turn the economy around. This is not that speech. This is to frame the debate for his reelection. This is not a serious jobs proposal. It will include things he knows Republicans will reject. And thus he sets up the premise, because his own White House has now said we are going to be nine percent up employment next year as well. The premise will be we are at nine percent on election date because the obstinate Republicans who care only about reelection and not about the country have rejected the great ideas he is proposing.
Look, I think the Republicans have their perfect slogan - President Zero: zero economic expansion, zero jobs, zero ideas on how to cure the economy. The recession ended two years ago. We were supposed to have a recovery summer last summer. In the numbers you showed, the unemployment, the slowdown in jobs started at the beginning of this year. He threw $1 trillion dollar stimulus at the economy assuming you'd have a Keynesian effect, a multiplier effect. It didn't.
And at the same time he piled up regulation on regulation, spending on spending, Obamacare, EPA, the financial regulations. He has his foot on the economy. And he doesn't understand that his administration has stopped the recovery in its tracks.
Yes, but Obama still has all of his devoted fans in the media.
So he's got that going for him - which is nice.
(H/T NBer Bourbeau)
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We have been referring to him
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 12:59pm.
We have been referring to him here and elsewhere as Zero for a long time. The Hammer is just now finding this out?
Look at this way . . . .
Submitted by Bourbeau on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 1:25pm.
You may have been using it around your circles for a long time, but nothing was more inspiring then hearing Charles deadpan it last night, particularly with the zero jobs report - it was absolutely perfect! Now, if only the GOP contenders can utilize it to their benefit.
there's been a considerable ammunition
Submitted by kata on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 1:14pm.
for quite a long time. I am keeping my fingers crossed they don't use it to shoot themselves in the foot.
I sure like Krauthammer. His deadpan spot-on delivery is such a pleasant contrast to the hyperbolic hollering you see so often.
those that can,do..those that can't, give speeches
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 1:50pm.
I believe obama thinks he can again work his magic with a speech before cheering congressional dems and that will galvanize the nation to demand that congress pass obama's proposals.
Just one major flaw to this scenario.... probably few people from main street will watch the speech. That will leave it up to the sycophantic media to follow up with days of hyped up reports on the brilliance of obama's plan.
Watching paint dry is more interesting than Zero's speeches.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 1:59pm.
His scripts are so predictable. Starts with blaming Bush, complains about congress and ends with blaming everything else. Sometimes the order of the three is subject to negotiation, but all three elements are there whenever he speaks on anything from the Middle East to ordering dinner.
Not to mention his incredibly boring, sing-song delivery.
Submitted by KyWriter on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:17pm.
Of course, he thinks it is professorial and if hoi polloi cannot appreciate it, it's because they are incapable of higher thought. I believe now there is a circle in Hell where Obama would hold forth for eternity, although offhand I can't think of a crime so heinous that it would warrant such a punishment.
'Heinous' - as in 'rhymes
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:26pm.
'Heinous' - as in 'rhymes with'????? I think I'd rather get a root canal, a catheter insertion, AND a colonoscophy - ALL AT THE SAME TIME - before I had to sit down and be forced to watch and listen to Boy Blah-Blah!!!
Not just listening
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:41pm.
Do you realize what the last three years have shown us when it comes to Soetoro doing his speeches, even his smallest ones(3 minutes to introduce "economic expert") to children in a classroom?
When he comes on TV(thank God it's less and less these days, but not soon enough), we as an audience should we decide to continue, are watching him read! Nevermind the so-called townhall meetings he's done and the few times he's spoken off the cuff, but in general, head swiveling back in forth tennis style or where a single screen is directly under the camera and his eyes moving, he's just reading out loud. That's worse than listening to him!
That's all it amounts to! It's pathetic when you think about it.
Hardly the great communicator that Reagan was, which was one of the lame-ass comparisons done recently. And when he's reading, there's no emotion on his face, none, zip, NADA like a damned animatronic! You could put one there and it would amount to the same damn thing.
Pathetic!
-Jon
It could be a good torture
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:57pm.
It could be a good torture procedure down in Gitmo. I think even the moooooooooooooooslems would finally throw in the towel!!!
Dr. K, like most Americans, was asleep during Obama's campaign
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:15pm.
Obama and his groomers couldn't be happier, as he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams in bringing this nation to it's economic and financial knees.
Obama can now do pretty much anything he wishes, because he knows this congress will sit on it's ass and just let him do it.
-Dave
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Name Contest...... President
Submitted by DWoSD on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:22pm.
Name Contest......
President Commie
President Laser
President Transparency
President Gun Runner
President Golfer
President Vacation
President I Have No Idea of What I am Doing
President I Do Have an Idea of What I am Doing Which is to Destroy American Capitalism
President Empty Speech Maker
President Failure
President One Term
President Liar
President Downgrade.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:29pm.
Downgraded the office, downgraded the country, downgraded America's position in the world and downgraded Americans to their faces.
PRESIDENT PLATITUDE
Submitted by libBuster on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:34pm.
My own favorite is President Platitude. He speaks in lofty, non-specific platitudes. You shake your head after one of his speeces and wonder did he just spend half an hour saying nothing.
Name Contest...
Submitted by Tracker 3 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 4:05pm.
How about
resident President or
President resident
no,...President present (alluding to 0's Senate record)
I dunno about the 'zero
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 2:28pm.
I dunno about the 'zero ideas' part of the Hammer's statement....................I think Boy Blunder has delivered on a LOT of his ideas over the past two and a half years....................it's just that the sum total of his ideas HAS been ZERO (and even negative numbers) for the rest of us.
I don't disagree
Submitted by Bourbeau on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 3:08pm.
However, I think Krauthammer was referring to zero sustainable ideas to turn the economy around. Obviously, it's open to interpretation, but the gist of it was beautiful.
I got the point also, and the
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 5:01pm.
I got the point also, and the Hammer has come around pretty good within the past couple of years, although he was a little late off the starting blocks with regard to Barack the Destroyer. But I still have to believe that Boy Barry has got to be pretty pleased with the direction the country has gone under his REGIME.................I think this is all by design - although it's almost unimaginable that someone would want what he wants............this is one main reason why I have no respect for the Dems that 'get his back', and, of course, the MSM..............who are complicit and just as guilty as Obama (and his handlers) is in orchestrating this whole scam, and the disasterous results that we now face because of it.
We Know What He Isn't Do We Know What Obama Is
Submitted by Avitar on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 3:06pm.
There has been a lot of name calling but whatever put Obama in the Whitehouse has not gone away. There is the $170 million dollars that somebody directed from a foundation to a minor "community organizer" to improve education in Chicago. Of course education was not improved and the money was converted in to political patronage but $170 million is not minor league money and that happened before Mr. Obama served in the Illinois State legislature.
The scope of what has happened should not be overlooked in the light of this man being a buffoon. How could a buffoon who did not know that the German Benz invented the automobile win the Presidency? How did John McCain one of the five worse Republican Senators get the Republican Nomination so that he could be beaten? The five million dollars that friends of Clintons spent in 1995 getting Bob Dole the nomination we understand but who was behind getting a Senator of personal character but completely inept politics the nomination this time? If we do not answer these questions we will wind up with Romney as a nominee who makes us wish we had a Dick Nixon for President.
I've referred to him as
Submitted by texasborngranny on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 4:09pm.
The Big 0 for some time now...
yep, President 0 started with 0 Experience and has given us 0 jobs, 0 economic growth, 0 reasons to reelect him.
I be luvin
Submitted by Bodini on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 5:02pm.
me some Kraut!
Very funny ending!
Submitted by Bill The Bold on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 8:26pm.
I love that slightly modified quote from Caddyshack.
I've referred to him as
Submitted by texasborngranny on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:00am.
The Big 0 for some time now...
yep, President 0 started with 0 Experience and has given us 0 jobs, 0 economic growth, 0 reasons to reelect him.
Zero is Good
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:24am.
I'm very glad that President 0 has "zero ideas on how to cure the economy" - it's his and the congressional Democrats bright "ideas" that have done so much damage in the last few years. Doing absolutely nothing would be much better than anything they can devise. As it is, their "ideas" on how to "fix" health care will be a huge drag on the country forever unless it is repealed. So, please, President 0 - no more "ideas" until you exit the White House in a year and a half.
Charles Wants to
Submitted by Bill The Bold on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:04pm.
to rollback policies to the ones that led up to the economic collapse? Good thinkin.
PolitiFact: "True" That "Most Job Losses" Happened Before Obama Policies Took Effect.According to PolitiFact's analysis of President Obama's statement that "most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect": "Looking at BLS data on seasonally adjusted non-farm employment from December 2007, when the recession officially began, to January 2009, the month before the stimulus was enacted (a 25-month period), the jobs number declined by 4.4 million. ...
Seems to me Charles is the zero here
Submitted by Bill The Bold on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:06pm.
Since The Recovery Act Took Effect, The Private Sector Has Gained 1.2 Million Net Jobs
Since June 2009, The Private Sector Has Gained Over One Million Net Jobs. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, there were 107,936,000 private-sector jobs in June 2009. As of July 2011, the most recent report available, the data show that total is up to 109,156,000 - a net gain of 1,220,000 jobs in the private sector. [BLS.gov, accessed 8/14/11]
as opposed to what?
Submitted by kata on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 8:49pm.
during this time how many people entered the workforce?
AGGGH !!
Submitted by creekrat on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 10:01am.
You are a posting democrat talking point !
Link please. And please note
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 12:13pm.
Link please.
And please note you didn't include
a) how many new unemployment claims have been filed in this same period
b) how many of this "net gain" job are minimum wage or lower salaried jobs
After reading Krauthammer's
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 9:56am.
After reading Krauthammer's comment the thought occurred to me that someone needs to write and perhaps animate a parody of the old Schoolhouse Rock song/video "My Hero, Zero". If animated, perhaps talking heads from MSNBC such as Chris "Tingles the Clown" Matthews and Al Not-So-Sharptoon can be spoofed as being the chief singers.
interesting timeframe
Submitted by coin of the realm on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 9:43pm.
He was sworn in 1981--22 months later unemployment rate was over 10%
How long did it take Reagan to reduce the unemployment rate to below 8%?
1/1981 - unemployment rate 7.5% .... Reagan sworn in.
1/1981 - 7.4%
3/1981 - 7.4%
4/1981 - 7.2%
5/1981 - 7.5%
6/1981 - 7.5%
7/1981 - 7.2%
8/1981 - 7.4% * Reagan CUTS taxes for top 1% & said unemployment would DROP to 6.9%
9/1981 - 7.6%
10/1981 - 7.9%
11/1981 - 8.3%
12/1981 - 8.5%
1/1982 - 8.6%
2/1982 - 8.9%
3/1982 - 9.0%
4/1982 - 9.3%
5/1982 - 9.4%
6/1982 - 9.6%
7/1982 - 9.8%
8/1982 - 9.8%
9/1982 - 10.1%
10/1982 - 10.4%
11/1982 - 10.8%
12/1982 - 10.8%
1/1983 - 10.4%
2/1983 - 10.4%
3/1983 - 10.3%
4/1983 - 10.3%
5/1983 - 10.1%
6/1983 - 10.1%
7/1983 - 9.4%
6/1983 - 9.5%
7/1983 - 9.4%
8/1983 - 9.5%
9/1983 - 9.2%
10/1983 - 8.8%
11/1983 - 8.5%
12/1983 - 8.3%
1/1984 - 8.0%
2/1984 - 7.8%
Took Reagan 28 MONTHS to get unemployment rate back down below 8%.
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Good evening coin
Submitted by cocodrie on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 10:09pm.
Yes it took two years to undo the harm Carter the Kook did to this country. You neglected to include that from 1982 onward the rate dropped and remained below 6 % until your hero Obabble took over. He put us on a downhill crash and it will take a conservative years to straighten out the mess he has put us in.
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There has been a lot of name
Submitted by bagtree on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 2:40am.
There has been a lot of name calling but whatever put Obama in the Whitehouse has not gone away. There is the $170 million dollars that somebody directed from a foundation to a minor "community organizer" to improve education in Chicago. Of course education was not improved and the money was converted in to political patronage but $170 million is not minor league money and that happened before Mr. Obama served in the Illinois State legislature.
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