Fareed Zakaria Asks Rahm Emanuel 'Should Obama Run a Campaign Against Do-Nothing Republican Congress?'
Fareed Zakaria on Sunday actually asked former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel if the president should "run a campaign against a do-nothing Republican Congress."
Such actually transpired on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, a program hysterically presented by the so-called "Most Trusted Name In News" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST: But the president has proposed a number of things, like the Infrastructure Bank, infrastructure -- other infrastructure proposals.
RAHM EMANUEL, CHICAGO MAYOR, FORMER OBAMA CHIEF OF STAFF: Yes.
ZAKARIA: They don't go anywhere. Should he run a campaign against a do-nothing Republican Congress, a kind of reprise of the Truman campaign?
So now Zakaria is part of the administration's propaganda team. Not too surprising given his previous involvement in advising the president on foreign policy.
Consider first that the Democrats control the Senate, a fact that virtually all of the Left and their media minions such as Zakaria conveniently ignore.
As for the often-touted Truman comparison, when he ran against a do-nothing Congress in 1948, the Republicans controlled both the House AND the Senate.
In a bicameral system like ours, it does indeed take two to tango. I guess it's too much to expect liberal media members to remember that.
As for Obama's infrastructure plans, they were part of his American Jobs Act which never made it out of the Democrat-controlled Senate.
It failed to pass cloture on October 11, 2011. Three Democrats voted against cloture including Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
As such, blaming this on Republicans is preposterous.
But that's par for the course for shills like Zakaria.
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What's his name is so
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 4:54pm.
What's his name is so stooopid. Republicans only control 1/2 of Congress. It is the Dingy Harry controlled Senate that is do nothing because he won't allow nothing to come to the floor. Trouble is that there are a lot of stooopid people in this country that will believe this BS.
I'll go along with the 'do-nothing republican congress' part
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:22pm.
...especially as it pertains to the House.
They have had all kinds of opportunities over the last year and a half to have thrown all kinds of big, hairy monkey wrenches into the machinery of Obamunism.
Instead, the idiots have been greasing the friggin' gears for it.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Fareed don't like it
Submitted by frank14 on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:11pm.
Rock the bias! Rock the bias!
intelligent
Submitted by driguana on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:13pm.
Fareed Zakaria is not very intelligent.....but he sure thinks he is.
I could not
Submitted by NYCMiddle on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 10:10am.
agree with you more.
The man only has one message: America is in decline.
There are significantly better thinkers out there such as Fouad Ajami.
I would suggest that Mr. Zakaria does not think strategically in a meaningful way.
Feedback Loop
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:16pm.
"But the president has proposed a number of things, like the Infrastructure Bank, infrastructure -- other infrastructure proposals."
Fareed seems to be stuck in a feedback loop. Someone needs to re-tune his Talking Points receiver.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
What about that Do-Nothing Senate?
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 6:09pm.
It wasn;t that long ago that the "Do-Nothing" Senate (controlled by Democrats) voted down UNANIMOUSLY Obama's Budget. THOSE BASTARDS!
Quiet!
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 6:24pm.
Don't you know that we can't associate the Democrats with any negativity, especially during an election year? That's reserved exclusively for Republicans!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
The Democrats are still in
Submitted by robert108 on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 7:27pm.
The Democrats are still in denial about the 2010 elections; the American people voted to stop the obama agenda, and so the obamabots are whining about it. What else is new?
Run against Congress? Why not?
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 8:22pm.
Baracka has tried to run, standing on Osama's dead body. He's tried to run riding a drone all over the Middle East, he's tried to run as the "First Gay President", he's tried to run as the "Focused like a laser on jobs" President, he's tried to run as the President who got us out of Iraq, he's tried to run as the "Tough on Terrorists" President. why not take a shot at this idea, too?
If the media and OFA throw enough crap at the wall, maybe they'll get something to stick.
Ah, the irony
Submitted by Dave81 on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 11:23pm.
Yes, the do-nothing president and former do-nothing senator should blame the do-nothing congress.
In point of fact
Submitted by chiefpayne on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 11:09am.
it is the DEMOCRAT Senate that has been doing NOTHING! The House has passed NUMEROUS bills which the Senate REFUSES to even bring up for a vote. And the number of bills passed by the Senate are few and far between.
The SENATE is where the bottleneck is...and HOPEFULLY it will be cleaned out in November.