Well, I guess that Pundit/Journalist thing can get a bit tricky sometimes, eh Mark?

Gotta watch your step when you are pushing so hard for one side over the other, sometimes you step on a few toes.

I suppose you should be happy that the White House is so "plugged in" to First Read.

A cynic may think that could be an issue for objectivity.....

Once again Chucky T. thinks HE is The News!

It's like his new Commercial on MSNBC, saying some Crap about haveing access to the WH for the Greater Good.

Move along folks, Nuttin to see here!

FR: White House: We're still willing to compromise

Obama started out by spreading the wealth around. Now he's trying to spread the failure around.

Seems like we elected this guy for 4 years of governing but only got the 2 when he had the huge advantages in both houses of Congress. Now he loses the House (through their own fault) and he stops governing and goes into campaign mode for the final 2 years. Too bad we didn't know this before his first 2 years!!!

OBAMA PLAGUED BY DEMOCRATIC INGRATITUDE

Written by Byron York

For years, Democrats longed for a president who could massively increase federal spending, impose broad new regulations and fight for higher taxes. Barack Obama did it.

For much of the past decade, Democrats longed for a president who could pull American forces out of Iraq and redirect U.S. security policy toward al Qaeda. Barack Obama did it -- and killed Osama bin Laden, to boot.

Obama did all that, and more. And now many Democrats are afraid to be seen with him. Some gratitude.

Democratic grumbling about the president has reached an all-time high. On a recent conference call of party strategists, disaffected Democrats reportedly threw around words like "betrayed," "disappointed," "furious" and "disgusted," with some blaming Obama for the stunning Democratic loss in New York's 9th Congressional District. Surveying the political landscape of Democratic disaffection with the president, longtime strategist James Carville could come up with just one word of advice: Panic!

Meanwhile, the president's approval ratings are hitting new lows, with his job approval rating bouncing around the high-30-percent to low-40-percent range in recent Gallup Polls. The numbers are even worse -- about 70 percent disapproval -- for Obama's handling of the economy. Independent voters, the key to the president's election in 2008, have abandoned him right and left.

Given all that, it's no surprise that many Democrats are running away from Obama. But here's the problem: He did what Democrats wanted him to do. Health care, stimulus, taxes, you name it -- Obama did what his party wanted. Not what the public at large wanted, but what many Democrats wanted. And now, as the negative electoral consequences of their own priorities stare them in the face, those Democrats are blaming the president.

And, by the way, the Democrats who are most unhappy with Obama are the ones who wanted him to do more of the things that have made him unpopular.

"It's ingratitude," says a Democratic strategist who asked to remain anonymous. "People are saying to [Obama], 'You didn't do everything you told me you were going to do.' If you're a member of a union, you didn't get everything you wanted. If you're an environmentalist, you didn't get everything you wanted. But the left wants to go beyond what's possible."

A lot of today's whining and fretting is the normal stuff of politics. The polls are ugly, members of Congress up for re-election in 2012 are nervous, and activists are frustrated. But Obama also set himself up for today's dissatisfaction by his choice of campaign platform in 2008. "He ran on hope, and hope is really attractive and appealing, but it's not very concrete," the strategist says. "So what it meant to everyone was slightly different." Democrats who wanted to see their personal agendas enacted were inevitably disappointed.

But look at what they got. It's not just historic measures like Obamacare, financial regulation and the stimulus. Obama has presided over lots of other accomplishments, big and small, that should warm the hearts of liberal Democrats. He has used his regulatory powers to shore up the nation's fading unions; could organized labor have a better friend than the man whose appointees are trying to stop Boeing from building a nonunion plant in South Carolina? He pushed repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" through Congress. He nominated and won confirmation of two solidly liberal members of the Supreme Court. He signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act aimed at guaranteeing women equal pay.

This is a serious question: If you're a Democrat, what's not to like? What kind of unreasonable standard would make a Democrat unhappy with a president who accomplished those things? And yet many Democrats are beside themselves with frustration and anxiety.

Obviously the economy is the source of much of that unhappiness. If it doesn't improve, Obama's re-election prospects are dim. But in 2 1/2 years in office, Obama has dealt with the economic downturn in precisely the way most conventional Democrats would have dealt with it. He didn't come up with the stimulus on his own. Just the opposite: He went along as Hill Democrats packed the bill with wish-list spending. And now people who larded up the stimulus with their own pet projects are unhappy with Obama for doing what they wanted? And critical of his new stimulus proposal? It doesn't make sense.

Yes, Obama is in trouble. But look at what he's done for Democrats. Shouldn't they think twice before bashing him?

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/obama-plagued-democrats-ingratitude

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Mr. York, we've seen this before. Only now there are more cable outlets with hosts who think they know it all.

Spoiled, selfish left. Just like always.

Willing to throw it all away because they didn't get what they wanted, when they wanted it.

This country is pathetic.

Meanwhile, most people do nothing to enact change on their own. NOTHING.

Pat

Think about it. Everything he did was a load of crap. As the article said "Health care, stimulus, taxes, you name it -- Obama did what his party wanted. Not what the public at large wanted, but what many Democrats wanted."

Perhaps he should have done what the public wanted - ya think??!!??

Pat,

Don't you see that all these things that Democrats longed for are a complete failure?

Massive Federal Spending? Really.?

What Obama has done, once and for all, is prove that Liberalism, as you all define it, is a complete and utter failure.

Not just by Conservative standards, but, by your own words, Democrat standards as well. That is why they are running away from him.

",,,but the ability of the other side to hold the economy hostage doesn't exist," Pfeiffer explains to First Read."

That's the kind of language I've been hoping to hear.

The GOP has been reduced to constant flailing.

What a shame to themselves, that they have been so bent on failure.

They are wearing out from blindly swinging.

If McConnell and Boehner came out today and said they would agree to the $4 Trillion Big Deal, or any other grand bargain that has been repeatedly offered to them, the president would work with them. But as we all know, it is the Teapublicans who are unwilling to compromise, and in fact the radical minority in the GOP/TP want it that way. The only thing new is the Party of No doesn't even pretend anymore.

Not with this loser anyway.

All those polls showing support for the president's job plan and deficit reduction plan are too complicated for right-wing low-information voters to understand.

last poll I saw had 51% against obama's "american jobs act".....

and please don't site that stupid poll about people approving higher taxes on someone other than themselves.

Rob, your poll says one thing and other says something else, what does that tell you about polls, dime a dozen. Be like George and Dick polls who cares we don't listen to polls. What about the people, so what. Now that is sharp thinking we should all listen to. You claim the majority does not want hire taxes on the rich, whos majority is that yours or mine. You show me yours and I will show you mine. You have a great day in the clouds.

"Obama is all alone in a little little box. LIES LIES LIES - they do tend to catch up with you sooner or later!

Poor little obama..."

Sounds like something an unschooled 12 year old would say.

If you weren't already, Rob, I'd suggest you get lost.

soldier - and you think the libs are better. get some soap and water and wash your glasses. BTW - fiesty and mo were suspended for not being adults.

So show us one where the majority supports the Teabagger Do Nothing position. At least be intellectually honest enough to provide an average of all the polls. You're only making my case.

Thanks for the update, american.

LOVE YOU GUYS, FEISTY AND MO!!!!

Come back soon!!!!

And bring your hip waders. The sewer backed up, and is stinking the place.

true - nice attempt at a strawman argument thru deflection. Tommorows assignment is to ask your high school debate coach what a strawman argument is.

Now it smells bad in here too.

Obviously following your lead my friend.

You should be well familiar with 'sh!it for brains', jed.

It's probably your nickname.

Go lose yourself. It's all you got.

Very Cool! It was written just after the last election. For good reason.

NO? Hell NO!

Each "NO" is a nod to each of the 67 GOP Congressman and 6 GOP Senators elected in 2010, to say NO to Obama's failed socialism, and YES to the free market and freedom!

Many more "NOs" coming in 2012, when a GOP President will say NO to failure, and YES to a new beginning.

Leona - greetings and salutations! Yesterday I watched obama speech and his targeting corporations and the wealthy for failing in creating jobs, but his answer was to punish them and throw even more uncertainty into their future growth plans for their investments and businesses.

Last night I realized that obama effectively shot his leg off by threatening to veto any bill sent to him without tax increases for the wealthy and corporations. Taking his case to the people isn't going to help him either. There is no incentive by either the senate or house to pass any bills, the president will only veto it. Now the WH says wait a minute!... we are still willing to compromise.,,

Is this really how the American people want a POTUS to act?

Yes, one and done is a fair observation. If it was 2010 I would have said impeach him for incompetence, now it is just not worth the time or effort.

Gary of course you could not notice the govening part, you had your head up your a@@ for so long you got use to the smell. Poking the air with your finger is better than poking up the A%% of the person next to you

Ramming unwanted and destructive legislation down the throats of an unwanting majority is not compromise or good governing. Even if you do have all three branches in your pocket. As the polls have shown since.

tis - it was TP who had the problem with taste, smell and watering eyes!

Gary, you're talking about the Do Nothing Teapublicans, right? Where's their jobs plan? And don't start up with the Paul Ryan plan or Balanced Budget Amendment, or Louie Gohmert's joke of a bill. Just compare Pelosi's first term to Boehner's -- it's like 304 bills versus 14 bills or something.

What the president said is if Teapublicans would agree to making taxes fairer and thereby raising revenue, then he would consider adjustments to Medicare. If Teapublicans send him a bill that only cuts Medicare benefits without revenues from fair taxation, then he would veto it. In other words, he's saying the same things he's always said, and he's asking for give and take. How does that equate to the president being the uncompromising one?

The right-wing can try to turn the tables with their spin such as class warfare, but we all know it's a middle class massacre, or a veto threat as uncompromising, but we all know who the hostage takers are, or how closing loopholes and ending subsidies are job killers, but we all know the real job killer is the Bush era "trickle down " voodoo economics, and on and on... the wall isn't big enough for all the sh!t they hope will stick.

true, got the links to justify your arguments or do you need more tp to wipe the diahhera off your mouth?

Interesting that you brought up class warfare. Didn't obama say yesterday that "it's not class warfare, it's math"

Doing an internet search on what the bush tax cuts cost over 10 years brings up some interesting results. Like obama points out, eliminating the tax cuts for the top 2% tier results in about $800 billion in revenues over 10 years. The really interesting thing though is that if one eliminated them all across the board revenue over 10 years would amount to someyhing north of $3 TRILLION. Last I checked 3 trillion was far greater than 800 billion. obama must like using fuzzy math, or is it new math?

Which American majority are you talking about, its only the majority of Republicans and they do not speak for everyone not matter how important they think they are. DA

A fairer tax code is somehow a bad thing? And what's with insurance regulation, A.K.A. "Obamacare" that doesn't even go into full effect until 2014? Turn off FAUX Noise and Hate Radio. Seriously.