Cokie Roberts Wonders: Do Republicans 'Really Want to See Jobs Increase?'

Newsbusters ^ | 1/8/11 | Ron Futrell

[Nachum]

You don’t find many “gems” on a Saturday morning. It’s a lazy day, getting ready for football and a late breakfast---then Cokie Roberts, speaking on ABC’s Good Morning America, dropped the bomb.Roberts has apparently bought into the far-left's conspiracy theory that Republicans simply do not want to see Americans get jobs. Yep. Republicans are more interested in defeating old media’s Dear Leader than they are in Americans' well-being. ABC's Dan Harris sounded off in agreement.Harris set it up this way: “In the modern era no President has won re-election with the unemployment rate higher than 7.2%”

[Nachum]

Well, Cokie... Getting rid of your job wouldn't bother me at all...

[GeronL]

these leftists are getting on my nerves with their projection

[Paladin2]

I have no interest in seeing any new jobs in the gov’t or NPR.

[lonestar]

A better question is, “Does our POTUS really want to see jobs increase?”

[Paladin2]

That’s kookie thinkin’.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I didn’t know Cokie was still around. I’ve sure lost my grip on pop culture.

[SaraJohnson]

Kookie is asking the wrong party that question. She should be asking her comrades about jobs.

[VeniVidiVici]

The Democrats haven’t worried about jobs for four years. Obama didn’t worry about it for 20 months. The Republicans take the House and within a few days the Democrat minions in the press are already speculating that Republicans don’t want to create jobs?

Of course plenty on their side will believe it.

[Lazlo in PA]

Oh no! a Lib Rat power couple thinks the county is in disarray. What to do?

[Squantos]

Kooky Cokie and Krazy Couric need to understand opportunity created by polidiots lowering taxes creates jobs,... any other approach will fail IMO.

... Stoopid Presstitutes !

[RobbyS]

Cokie’s political universe has changed quite a bit since David Brinkley was running the show. I think she is a little mad, e.g. insane.

[freekitty]

Yep, and you don’t need to bother your empty head.

[USNBandit]

Do they really want to see jobs increase....?

The answer to that question is that the question itself is irrelevant......as long as Obama is in the White House there will be no job increases. He says "jobs, jobs, jobs" to the people, but his agenda does exactly the opposite.

[Ramonne]

I was born into a democrat family, but somehow been a republican conservative God fearing person since 1952 when I was 10 years old and would write 'I like Ike' on notebook paper and let fly out the school bus window. We didn't know about littering then. Besides no one mowed the grass on the shoulder of the road...it was all weeds. There wasn't litter, except for me I guess. But I can see both sides of jobs story, republicans and democrats. I am sure the very rich care not one bit about the poor. That includes more than jobs, no matter what their political affiliation.

[FormerACLUmember]

Cokie Roberts = A truly Despicable Democrat Party Operative

[FormerACLUmember]

Third rate alcoholic political hack. Have another drink, Cokie.

[Nachum]

I am sure the very rich care not one bit about the poor

I have known some extremely wealthy people in my life and many are very generous and give regularly to the poor.

[Post Toasties]

What would Cokie, subscribing to Leftist disinformation, even know about what would benefit the job market?

[warsaw44]

Good ‘ol Cokie Roberts.
My one and only Cokie moment came back when Dole was running for president. I attended a very small republican function on election night and Cokie and crew were there.

I wasn't too far from them and they were on break standing around. I approached Cokie with a smile and asked if I could get her and the crew some juice or ice water from the bar.

You should have seen the look on her face as I approached her. She was looking at me as if I was carrying a stick smeared with dog doo.

Her answer was a quick, sharp ‘ No! ‘. I said ‘ well, have a nice night ' and she just stared at me wide eyed and looking like she'd been sucking a lemon. What a piece of work that woman is.

[clintonh8r]

Cokie’s on to something...I would very much like to see her unemployed.