Chuck Asay by Chuck Asay

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  1. cjkinsey

    cjkinsey said, 2 months ago

    When did this accident happen Chuck. This is at least getting closer to honest that Obama didn’t cause this crash? Even if you disagree with his potential solution, at least we must agree that the catastrophe is from the Bush admin.

  2. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    cjkinsey: stop the lies. Thanks to people like you, we got stuck with a Demoncrat congress in 2006. And CONGRESS spends all the money and passes all the bills (even garbage instigated by Treasury Secretaries, which requires congressional approval).

    Your corrupt Demoncrat Congress is directly responsible for the Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac inspired housing mortgage crisis, AND for the disastrous spikes in crude oil prices, which together triggered the economic meltdown.

    YOUR congress repealed the 1930s-era laws which kept investors from being able to trade–et al MANIPULATE–oil prices by treating crude oil as a “futures commodity”.

    YOUR congress ignored repeated efforts by John McCain and the GOP to reform fannie mae/ freedie mac’s stupid policies which underwrote mortgages for low-income people who obviously couldnt afford the payments (read: Demoncrat voters, since by design white males were not allowed to participate in the programs; white WOMEN sure, but not men).

    YOUR congress is how the Hell we wound up with the federal government now basically owning 70% of all unsold real estate in America, due to the aforementioned freddie mac / fannie mae companies being created on the picked-clean carcasses of what were once PRIVATE mortage lenders.

    I could go on but won’t. Your evil, lying Demoncrat politicians fabricated the entire 2008 recession ON PURPOSE. They did it knowing full well the media would parrot their lies, and blame everything on Bush. They knew it would get them back into power, because anyone willing to vote for a Demoncrat is easy to manipulate via the mainstream media.

    Reap what you sow. Your corrupt Party caused this gd mess, and they have done nothing since but make things worse. They want to pile on government health care and steal added TRILLONS per year from taxpayers via “cap and trade” garbage,

    Just as Rome was destroyed from within by its corrupt politicians and brainwashed, ignorant masses (who cared only about bread and circuses), so too is America being destroyed from within. This time the pols are all Demoncrats by name, aided and abetted by their masses of Godless zombies aka “voters.”

    And just as the few survivors of Rome’s collapse then tried to blame everything on THE!! CHRISTIANS!!! (with Augustine’s “City of God” brilliantly refuting these false charges), so too will you and your donkeys blame everything on “the religious right” and the GOP, even as you stand atop the shattered ruins of Western Civilization. Ruins YOU created, with Christians fighting you every step of the way.

    And the more things change, the more they stay the same,

  3. GNWachs

    GNWachsGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    It has been the goal of several generations of liberals to enact a public option, single payer health plan. They are not evil, they truly believe that is in the best interests of the country. When Obama was elected, they realized the window of success for them was very short and they had to strike while the enthusiasm of the election was fresh. So it doesn’t matter what the economy says, what the costs will be, what the consequences will be, they felt they must go for it.

    To the proponents of ObamaCare reading this wondering about the opposition, when Bush was re-elected he felt the same way about a favorite program of his. Generations of Americans wanted this to happen and he also wanted to strike while the iron was hot. He truly sincerely felt it was in the best interests of all Americans. Think of the scorn you poured onto him and eventually defeated his plan. So if you were sincere then in opposition today’s opponents are equally sincere. What was Bush’s goal. Reform social security. BTW, still not only a good idea but one that absolutely must occur.

  4. michael

    michaelGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    “Your evil, lying Demoncrat politicians fabricated the entire 2008 recession ON PURPOSE.”

    Wow, someone actually believes this? The Bush Administration was in power for 8 years and the hold no responsibility for the current mess? None?

  5. HUMPHRIES

    HUMPHRIESGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    BOO - Here comes the boogey-man.

  6. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

    And the other shoe says Bush responsible for everything Michael. Seems there is no in between. Four years from now it will still be Bush’s fault.

  7. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    Cheezit, folks, scottfreitas is onto us! He’s figured out how we are destroying America and Christianity with our evil, liberal schemes. Don’t feed him any more info; he might figure out the rest of it.

    But it’s too late. We’ve won, he can’t stop us.
    Bwah-ha-ha!

  8. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    WELCOME TO PLANET OF THE APES

  9. toasteroven

    toasteroven said, 2 months ago

    Wow, Scott. From zero to crazy in under sixty seconds. That’s pretty brilliant. I mean, I couldn’t pull that off, though lord knows I try.

    Also, you may want to reread your Roman history. I think your timeline is a bit off.

  10. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

    You won Canuck, but America now has lost leadership.

  11. M Kitt

    M KittGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    More absurd comparisons, like yesterday’s “Out to kill grandma” scenario.

    Asay’s critique about Obama calling the GOP less than honest (liars) for their accusations of his intention to put the elderly to death is both bizarre and without proportional context, like someone falsely shouting “Fire” in a crowded building and then feigning complete lack of responsibilty for their actions when members of the crowd are injured or killed as a result.

    GOP perception and accusations against the POTUS as being criminally insane (indirectly, of course) deserves to be examined in a legal setting, how about an impartial Grand Jury investigation? His answer to this intensely immoral, twisted fabrication is to call them “Liars”, they deserve much worse.

    Let’s look into the details of why (and who) anyone would think these actions fall within the framework of moral, let alone legal, behavior, why not just put on a KKK hood and hang him in effigy on national television? This would inspire about the same result in terms of directing hatred toward him.

    What lengths won’t right wing sycophants go to to inspire hatred against the President?

    Fair and Balanced, right? Like the rest of the Corporate owned media…….

    Just another example of the supposed GOP “moral superiority” turning out to be immorality on a huge scale.

  12. senorbullwinkle

    senorbullwinkleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    I thought it was Clinton’s fault, Boy am I Dumb !

  13. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    I’m tired of Presidents being treated like gods and blamed for everything, good or bad. While CONGRESS–the actual branch of government whom writes ALL the laws, funds ALL the wars, etc–gets off scot-free, as though they don’t even exist.

    REPEAT: the Demoncrat congress elected in 2006 repealed decades-old laws which prohibited crude oil from being manipulated via the commodities futures market.

    The Demoncrat congress created the housing crisis by the laws THEY wrote which first nationalized mortage underwriting (via fannie mae / freddie mac), then financed millions upon millions of mortgages to people with bad credit ratings and piss-poor incomes.

    I wont even blame Obama for the gd “stimulus” package if y’all lefties like. since HE DIDN’T WRITE THE BILL. the Demoncrat congress drafted and passed the bill…

  14. dsped

    dspedGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Scott, re crude oil manipulation, exactly to which act of “Demoncrat” congress are you referring?

    I’m familiar with the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, but that passed the GOP controlled Congress in 2000, and was Phil Gramm’s baby.

    I’m also familiar with the loophole that CFTC made for ICE Futures (and has been blamed for increasing speculation), but that was in early 2006 and didn’t raise an eyebrow in the then GOP controlled Congress.

    The “Demoncrats” didn’t take control of Congress until early 2007.

  15. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Internet headlines touts Obama making 5 appearances over the weekend on the Sunday shows. The question is: Do Libs think by the 5th appearance Americans will magically decide to start liking Obama’s “Plan”?

  16. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

    I’ll concur with you on that senor!

  17. dsped

    dspedGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    NFP, very few Americans are going to watch all 5 of those Sunday shows (or even more than one). Any savvy politician, from either party, knows that the television audience is so fragmented among the plethora of shows that you have to make multiple appearances on multiple shows to reach the same size of audience you could’ve gotten 20 years ago on Meet The Press et al.

  18. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Why is he afraid to talk to Chris Wallace?

  19. dsped

    dspedGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    I can’t presume to know the President’s emotional reaction at the prospect of talking to Chris Wallace. Why is his refusal to appear on a FOX news program invariably characterized as being fear-driven? Seeing as the audience for their programs is likely to include mostly Obama detractors, he’s at little risk of losing much support from a “tough” interview. So it might - just might - be that he doesn’t care to help boost the ratings on a network that’s helping to lead the charge against him.

  20. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    He’s skeered.

  21. dsped

    dspedGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    “Skeered” of what, Pup? What exactly does he have to fear from being interviewed in front of an audience that likely will never have a favorable opinion of him regardless of what he says or does?

    He has nothing to lose nor anything to gain from going on FOX.

  22. churchillwasright

    churchillwasright said, 2 months ago

    DSPED: You obviously know nothing about marketing. The idea is not to persuade people who already agree with you, it’s to persuade people who don’t agree with you.

    The fact is that Obama would reach more NON- Republicans by appearing on Fox News than he will reach by appearing on all the other cable news outlets combined.

    Just look at these statistics from Real Clear Politics:

    And look at these numbers from a Daily Kos/Reseach 2000 poll (of course I am more than skeptical of anything that the Daily Kos puts out)

    DAILY VIEWERSHIP BY PARTY:

    Rep - 25 Dem - 11 Ind - 7 Other/Ref(?) - 8

    (Note: I don’t know what these numbers mean, they don’t explain them, they’re not ratings figures, and they don’t add up to 100)

    In other words, there are 25 Repubs watching, 25 “other than Repubs” watching.

    http://tinyurl.com/o8hhlc

    There is only one thing that you can conclude from these number: Obama won’t appear on Fox News because he is afraid he won’t be thrown softball questions like he will get everywhere else.

  23. dsped

    dspedGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Churchill, as interesting as your breakdown of FOX viewership by party registration is, it doesn’t begin to address the likelihood of encountering an appreciable number of viewers who are WILLING to be persuaded. Their choice of FOX as a news source reduces that likelihood, despite their party registration. Not registering Republican doesn’t automatically make you more amenable to Obama.

    As for this “fear factor”, this aversion to “tough questioning”, you forget that FOX news already trumpets Obama’s every wrong move and statement - real or imagined. It throws hardball at him 24/7.

    So you’ve got a pitching machine throwing hardballs 168 hours a week. Let’s say Obama comes in for an hour to try to hit some of those hardballs. You’ve still got 167 hours worth of balls piled up, minus those balls he managed to bat away.

    For days afterwards, FOX viewers will be treated to nonstop replays of all the balls he missed, with a few (if any) of his hits mixed in to keep up the “fair and balanced” facade.

    There is only one thing you can conclude - after it’s all said and done, the number of viewers who would say “Hmm, Obama might have a point” would be far outweighed by the number of viewers who would say “Ha ha, Wallace really pwned Obama!” (or words to that effect).

    So what’s the use?

  24. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Yea, what’s the use talking to Americans…Oh, wait-a-minit! That’s how Republicans are supposed to think.
    dsped; you say Obama has nothing to be scared of… then provide your own scenario of why he is scared. Thank you.

  25. dsped

    dspedGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Let’s put it this way, Pup - should Bush 43 have consented to filming an interview with Michael Moore while he was making Fahrenheit 9/11? To have sat down with Al Franken on his Air America show?

    Of course not. He had enough sense to know that everything he said would very likely have been taken out of context or selectively edited and used to make him look bad for the gratification of those in the audience who wanted to believe only the worst about him.

    They did it anyway, but not with his active participation.

    FNC does the same thing to Obama, with or without his cooperation.

    So was Bush being as “skeered” as Obama, or is Obama being as media savvy as Bush?

  26. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Howie, Bush didn’t do anything. You are just too thick to realize what he didn’t do.

  27. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Scott, man, you are seriously paranoid about Democrats. You can’t be for real. Get back on your medications!

  28. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    ^Good point, dsped.