How many times in President Barack Obama’s first press conference (pictured) as President did he defend the stimulus bill by saying that the near unanimous Republican opposition is due to their desire to “do nothing”?

The McCain Plan is not “nothing” and it is only one of several GOP plans.

I lost count of recitations of the big lie tonight, just as I lost count of the big lies over the last 40 years of all the times that Democrats told Americans that Republicans, if elected, would starve the elderly and the poor and that black churches would burn.

The first question of the night was devastating:

And let me go to Jennifer Loven at [The Associated Press]. There you go.

Question: Thank you, Mr. President. Earlier today in Indiana, you said something striking. You said that this nation could end up in a crisis without action that we would be unable to reverse.

Can you talk about what you know or what you’re hearing that would lead you to say that our recession might be permanent when others in our history have not? And do you think that you risk losing some credibility or even talking down the economy by using dire language like that?

Unable to reverse? The United States of America?

He spoke for over ten minutes before calling on the next reporter for question number two, but never answered the question.

A president of the United States got called out as the anti-FDR, anti-George Washington and even the anti-Abraham Lincoln. He must have realized immediately, when an AP reporter dared to commit the greatest slander one can commit against a Democrat by accurately quoting them that, he was, at that moment, Jimmy Malaise Carter II.

Ten minutes of yak yak followed. He hoped that so long an answer would make us all forget the question.

Not a chance at the Examiner

The President was called out on his “The Only Thing We Don’t Have to Fear is Obama Himself?” fear-mongering routine of the past ten days, and probably realized how insulting it sounded to many of his voters when hearing it repeated from the lips of the usually friendly Associated Press in public.

So he rambled for ten minutes plus.

Its hard to be a liberal Democrat. One simply can’t say what one actually believes and maintain credibility with the American public. So one has to ramble for ten minutes and say nothing or forever repeat big lies.

The GOP has not advocated doing nothing, but if the only two choices were this 25%+ GovernmentGrowthulus bill and nothing, then sign me up for the latter. In fact, the GOP has advocated doing exactly what has actually worked in the past to end recessions in the 1920s, 1960s, 1980s and 2000s, i.e. tax cuts, and especially those for them that actually create jobs.

President Obama says he wants to create jobs, right? But, it seems that the only ones he wants to create or “save” are those held by state and federal government workers that we have to be taxed in perpetuity to maintain.

But our President uttered The Big Lie numerous times that the only choice other than Pelosi’s bill is doing nothing.

Do Democrats care about the poor?

For decades, the national Democratic Party has regularly rolled out the Big Lie that Republicans don’t care about the poor or the unemployed. Yet, the Democrats repeatedly advance proven failed policies and the GOP advocates for the very policies that have better helped poorer and lower income workers.

This lesson was taught in spades in the 1960s, 1980s and early 2000s. The President seems not to know this history and then compounds the problem by alleging that tax cuts for the rich caused the present crisis when it is patently obvious that the liberal Democrat policies at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac caused the housing bubble by forcing lenders to take mortgages from borrowers that could not afford them and then guaranteeing the mortgages with taxpayer dollars.

The evidence suggests that Democrats don’t care about the poor, and that is The Big Truth.

Bold political leadership that carried us through a horrible crises caused by the neocons evil war, and greedy fat cat wall streeters.

You haven’t yet figured out that we are living in the world of Big Brother, He is never going to be blamed until we are all dead and gone.

I wouldn’t be so nice in wording as you so eloquently put things, so all I’ll say is this………… truth:
Just for the fact that some HuffPo wanker was “randomly chosen” to ask a question made me go out and by a little extra ammo.

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That abject mess today in Ft. Myers cemented something in me that will have many people call me a cold-hearted bastage…….. The people I do not feel sorry for in the least are the ones who voted for this Fascist-In-Training-Pants……. They’re the folks who are gonna have their lives terribly altered first and hardest by any “problems”.

Some dude works at Mickey D’s for around 4 years and expects the world…………….. The rest of ‘em were “gimme, gimme, gimme”.

Any self-respecting person wouldn’t put themselves in that position of grovelling or elevating a mortal man to God-like status…………. and NOT ONE so-called “leader of men” would come remotely close to accepting behavior like that from anyone who placed their trust in him/her.

I’d better stop before I really lose it.

and he’s right.

I guess there’s nothing like living under Marxism for teaching you that Marxism doesn’t work.

just giving us the Chicago treatment. As to his base eroding, when the checks don’t come, the gas tank isn’t filled and the mortgage isn’t paid, by someone else, they’ll really turn on him.
And, dismissive, patronizing. shallow and insulting are his good points.

billions in Caterpillar orders to build those roads. Will the Caterpillar execs limit there pay to $500,000 per year if they take stimulus funds?

Meanwhile the business without unions or a democratic inside track will have to cut millions of more jobs. Looks like USSR 2.0

you’re looking at 80 years of socialist governemt. 8 years of BHO is a minor problem.

Caterpillar is just like other businesses. Why not accept the stimulus being offered by the Government? It’s almost free anyway. Caterpillar can always have a room to defer its job cuts, if that’s the cost of receiving the freebies being offered by Obama. But make no mistake: When the business futher slumps in the future, Caterpillar and other businesses will still have all their right to reduce their manpower as part of their overall contingency strategies.

The way I see it, many businesses are really supporting and welcoming Obama’s Spending Bill.

STIMULUS PACKAGE AND MARKET ARE JUST TWO DIFFERENT ANIMALS:

Private sector’s support to Stimulus Package does not necessary represent enthusiasm on their part to make new investments and even roll their money in the financial market. Consider these assumptions:

1. Supporting The Stimulus Package is exclusive from Making New Investments/Flowing Money to Financial Market.

You may ask me why the market is still bearish despite such support from businesses. Support to Obama’s Spending Bill is not fully intertwined with the private sector’s investment psychology. They can support the Spending without compromising their investments.

2. Why invest if it’s already the Government doing the investment for them?

Cost of Government Money is much much cheaper compared to required return by the investors. So the investors will just say, “alright, consume the Government Money for all its worth. Let’s just wait where we can use our money later when we can already see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

3. The Stimulus Package is just a wrong signal for the private sector to make investment commitments. Private sector may support the Package but will continue asking for TAX CUTS.

Financial market will continue to plummet because the root cause of the problem still remains (or sadly, even gets worse). Note that all the advocates of the Stimulus Package have failed to provide a clear value chain framework on how the federal funds will trickle down to its intended end-users and yield the intended positive impact to the financial market.

In crisis like this, even technicians/chartists in the financial market also turn into as fundamentalists (who trade based on economic outlook). Fundamentalists know the bad impact of Government intervention very well: such intervention replaces and reduces the value of private funds.

Problem for Obama: Tax cuts and Stimulus Package are just two opposing policies. How can Obama pays the debt component of the package if there will be no corresponding tax increases in some sectors? Any drivel that harmonizes the two is just a big LIE.

4. Despite the promise of the Stimulus, the private sector will continue to regard the market as TOO RISKY (i.e., money is more safe if kept away from the market).

They have already a concrete example, the 1st Stimulus and Bailout signed by GWH. They could hardly track its outcome, except maybe for its inflationary impacts.

5. Private sector investments normally cover scenarios at short-term or medium-term, but not REALLY long-term.

Obama says that we are on this crisis for a long haul and we need much much Bigger Stimulus (now really a Porkholous.) This policy is double-bladed. We all know that this logic will support Democrats’ long term goal. I mean that if we continue on this policy, we will have welfare state as the only viable outcome in the long run.

We might think that Businesses will factor it as part of their overall decisionmaking, but generally, it’s a BIG NO But this is a long run scenario. Entities like Caterpillar don’t factor this planning horizon in their immediate decisions.

EXEMPTION: Of course, we have those “conservative” investors who are opposing Obama and will not invest further (or actively participate in the financial market). These investors intrinsically don’t support Obama’s policies and will most likely not actively participate in the financial market or in making additional investments, except in some industries where government intervention is still limited.