....."there is a big chunk of the country that thinks I’ve been too soft on Wall Street".... Fukin A right big man, fukin A right. Enuff said. Good day.

Is the TEA Party correct about anything?

What we should cut is $100 billion or more of our offense budget.

Let's count the many times O'Vichy mentions and considers the Baggers before November. Can't blame the Politicos for chasing the money. It's just so vulgar, they don't mention the middle class, but they recite Murdoch and Koch Inc.

Obama--despite all the carping, inherited woes, and GOP obstructionism--has been doing an excellent job. He has amassed an outstanding record of legislative victories and administrative achievements.

If you want the facts, rather than the hype, study this page:

www.obamarecord.blogspot.com/

Why the f&*k would a sitting President even discuss Dick Armey's a-holes? Why is their stupidity even in the conversation? Because this Republican administration capitulates to big money and *allows* News corp's top disk jockeys to frame their discussions. Obummer and Media Inc would never mention the Green Party even if they had a pending cure for cancer, for example. Any thing that deviates from scheduled programming is shut out, and silenced.

It's the same silliness in trashcan quality local nooze, where the reporters focus on a stabbing when there are literally dozens of more important issues that will much more greatly affect peoples lives. Resist the Plutocracy!

If the corporate media ignored the teabaggers like it ignored the Green Party, they would also have little relevance...duh.

"then became jaded when he faced 100% GOP obstructionism" Comment sections are loaded with stupidity, this has to be near the top in total ignorance. Who holds the majority in the Senate again skippy? It's about da'money, not the collective delusion of two vastly different parties.
00:10 referred to the FAUX noise machine not the Greens. News corp has free reign to dictate the conversation because they have the money to do so. Access=cash. Cash buys off Congress. (Wash, rinse, repeat.)

Well, duh. But you don't say WHY, Mr. Obama, that corporate vested interests set us against each other to keep us distracted from their thieving, greedy, evil, world-domination megalomania. I understand the premise of fighting fire with fire. The extremist right is being fueled by these vested interests and if the center right wants to hold power it needs to demonstrate this. But I also believe in accountability and honesty. The Recession is not over (and a Depression is right around the corner), and saying it is doesn't make it so. We had enough magical thinking from the last guy. The economists in the administration helped create these problems in the first place, and bringing them back to fix them during an economic crisis was as stupid a thing I've ever seen a otherwise smart person do. Obama needs to own his failure to hire good people to do the work his administration needs to do, and needs to starting firing a lot of people immediately. He has hired Warren, which is one baby step in the right direction. Unfortunately we are now a corporate oligarchy and the administration is rotted through and through with corporate hacks, compounding the issues we already had with a corporate Congress and an prior administration who pulled the final strings to get us into this horrible state we're in. Obama also needs to own the fact that we hired him SPECIFICALLY to FIX the mess left by the guys who came before him, not to take half-measures on other stuff that only maintains the status quo. This first two years has been half-assed at best, and this administration is going down if it does not reverse course and start acting as radically progressive as it promised it would be during the Obama campaign.

By the way - anyone have a clue about the Newseum journalism museum? How it was funded, who paid to pour the concrete on this gaudy glass temple, where we can worship so-called "freedom of the press"?
Someone has to be laughing, laughing loudly at the perverse contradications, and near propaganda success this relatively large building attempts to promote? Even the Smithsonian is blushing in shame.

The defeatist cynicism that runs rampant on the "far left" is oddly indistinguishable from GOP propaganda. Believe me, the GOP wants you to sit this one out. However, if you care about any progressive cause under the sun--from progressive taxes to funding health care reform to gay rights to stem cell research to judicial appointments to not attacking Iran (and much more)--you will not just watch the right-wing tea party wackos return us to the neanderthal Bush years and worse.

Too soft on Wallstreet, by far! Of course this article ignores the main cause of the economic collapse--the Democrat-controlled Congress and their policy of encouraging (forcing!) loans to very risky borrowers (I used to work in the mortgage loan industry).

It was the simultaneous default on all those high-risk mortgages that is mostly responsible for the economic mess we are in (that and everyone buying cheap crap from China at Walmart!).

Sure, it was laudable goal--extend the dream of owning a house to those who never could. Thing is, there was a DAMN GOOD REASON certain borrowers should have been ineligible for loans, just like there's a reason for having credit ratings, etc.

So, don't blame the Tea Partys.....blame Acorn, Freddie and Fannie and the folks in DC making loan policies!