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It was clear from Bill Daley -- the new White House chief of staff, at a roundtable with reporters this morning -- that the White House had no warning of today's events in Egypt. *** NOTE *** The roundtable was hosted by Bloomberg News.
Daley said the president's 30-minute conversation with Mubarak last night was "cordial not heated."
He said the history of the military in Egypt is "an enormous plus" for the transition. Given the history going back to Nasser, he said that there is an obvious possibility that the next leader come from the military. He also said that there have been extensive, continuing contacts with the military, but the bottom line is that the people will control this.
Based on the overnight news -- and morning broadcasts -- he said, "All the signs are there is a return of some normalcy" pointing to the Internet being back on, and some businesses reopening, clearly outdated by events.
In fact, speaking without knowing that the streets were actually at that moment beginning to erupt in clashes, Daley said that the president's message to Mubarak was that the No. 1 concern for the government of Egypt and the United States is that the transition remain peaceful, but that it is for the people of Egypt to determine what the next steps are.
Asked if U.S. standing in the region might be better off after Mubarak, he said, "We are trying to avoid being put in a negative position. The president has been very up front to say the will of the people has to be responded to.”
What if the will of the people moves toward the Muslim Brotherhood? "We would hope it came out of this crisis a stronger democratic secular nation” that tries to lead for peace, Daley said.
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There is a bunch of money in our intelligence budgets. Why did management fail this time? Are these the same bozos that never found the WMDs?
Comparing notes at the bar:
C.I.A#1: What's happening on your side? Any of the Mubarak supporters planning to explode against my side?
C.I.A.#2: Hell, I don't know. I been having trouble getting the Porn links from my buddies at the S.E.C. I guess I should ask around. Hey, look at that TV! Looks like something is going south right now! Gotta go, my boss is going to freak.
What did Obama & his democratic cronies expect when they stand up & call for Mubariks resignation? When the US President stands up & tells the rioters of another country they are supported? Everyone to go home & play nice? Only an idiot could not have seen this coming!! Oh, ya, we are talking about Obama!
I'm glad to see you people think its okay if radical Muslims take over Egypt and then the Middle East right behind it, so long as they call it democracy, who cares who really runs things. Gosh just think about that oil you're talking about, it'll bed $250 per barrel and then you'll be crying about $15 per gallon gas, but you'll still blame that on Bush. Like saying the deficit is Bush's fault because of giving the highest earners a tax break that cost us $200 million dollars a year when were talking about deficits of $3.7 Trillion. Sorry Trude babe but you're an idiot. Obama spent more money in two years than all presidents combined from Washington to GW. Don't think you can blame this on Bush. Obama is supporting Muslim radicals in Egypt so maybe they can come over here and make us a Muslim Nation but that's okay its a democracy right. Maybe they will at least kill the Health Care Bill so we can have Sharia Law. When that happens all of you women will have to shut up. All gays to the gas chambers. Those good old Muslims will clean things up.
Dr_Moon
Obama spent more money in two years than all presidents combined from Washington to GW.
You need to stop listening to your lying, bogus, so called public servants.
Even if Obama's submitted budget passes through Congress and is implemented over a two-term presidency, he would still not set the record for proportional growth. Over eight years under President George W. Bush, the debt also nearly doubled from $5.8 trillion in FY2001 to $10 trillion in FY2008. Under President Ronald Reagan, it nearly tripled from $998 billion to $2.6 trillion.
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/03/debtor-nation/
We first looked at federal spending for 2009 and the estimate of spending for 2010. Combined, federal spending in those two years amounted to a little more than $7.2 trillion.
We didn't have to add up all 200 years -- you only have to add together 2006, 2007 and 2008 to reach $8.3 trillion, which exceeds the $7.2 trillion of 2009 and 2010. So by that measure, Cantor is wrong.
Economists we spoke to on the left and the right agreed with our analysis and pointed out a few other problems with Cantor's claim.
Does the comparison actually mean anything? From year to year, the economy grows, and so does population. It's only natural that as the size of the population grows and more money is available to spend, more money will be spent in an absolute sense. A more relevant comparison would be whether spending has grown disproportionately compared to the size of the economy. And as it happens, that would have provided Cantor with a striking statistic. According to OMB, the public debt will have risen from about 40 percent of gross domestic product at the end of 2008 to about 64 percent at the end of 2010 -- an increase by more than half over just a two-year span.
But back to his words. He said that in the past two years, Democrats "spent more money than this country has spent in the last 200 years combined." That's wrong no matter how you slice it. And it's not just wrong -- it's ridiculously false. We rate the claim Pants on Fire!
http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2010/oct/27/eric-cantor/eric-cantor-tells-jon-stewart-us-spent-more-past-t/
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Don't let the facts get in your way.
Obama: Do you think we are stupid?
Omar Suleiman:
1. Where are the Weather Underground members Wade Rathke, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn?
2. What are they doing to foment trouble in Egypt?
3. Van Jones in Egypt? Any of the Storm members in Egypt now?
4. Root out the foreign agitators sponsored by either the Weather Underground or Van Jones.
5. Any evidence of “Van Jones: Bottom Up, Top Down, Inside Out Strategy” in Egypt?
6. If Wade Rathke, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Van Jones or their trouble makers are in Egypt, imprison them, revoke their Egyptian visas and ban them from Egypt for life.
Andrea and Obama: Do you think we are stupid?
Omar Suleiman:
1. Where are the Weather Underground members Wade Rathke, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn?
2. What are they doing to foment trouble in Egypt?
3. Van Jones in Egypt? Any of the Storm members in Egypt now?
4. Root out the foreign agitators sponsored by either the Weather Underground or Van Jones.
5. Any evidence of “Van Jones: Bottom Up, Top Down, Inside Out Strategy” in Egypt?
6. If Wade Rathke, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Van Jones or their trouble makers are in Egypt, imprison them, revoke their Egyptian visas and ban them from Egypt for life.