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Meltdown on MSNBC: The Leg Tingle Is Gone?
NRO.com ^ | February 23, 2009 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 02/24/2009 3:49:33 AM PST by Scanian

I can hardly believe what I'm watching on MSNBC right now. Chris Matthews is almost critical — no, not even almost, he's flat-out critical of President Obama on the economic front. He mentions an earlier conversation with CNBC's manic stock analyst Jim Cramer and a University of Maryland professor (Peter Morici?) knocking Obama for several economic decisions — that the stimulus bill needed more real infrastructure and less pork, that the housing bill isn't inspiring confidence and doesn't look like it will work, and that no one has faith in Tim Geithner's solution for the banks.

Howard Fineman of Newsweek says Obama has been "grim and a little distant at the same time . . . Tim Geithner hasn't inspired any confidence anywhere, as far as I can tell."

Matthews: "He seems like Barney Fife to me."

Eugene Robinson: "I actually referred to him as Doogie Howser, Treasury Secretary, and I think it's a little unfair." Much laughter ensues.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bhotreasury; doogiehowser; geithner; liberals; media; obama
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To: Hardastarboard

The Kenyan should just come out of the closet now.

Slap the Sandinista Beret on. Let the soul patch grow out.
And start letting all the cabinet members start wearing camo jump suits.


61 posted on 02/24/2009 5:14:49 AM PST by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa (Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Kenya.)
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To: devane617
How can anyone deny the fact that the stock market is in free-fall when Obama was about hope and change.

Obama's biggest fans are the unemployed and the welfare recipients. Pretty soon he'll have another 200 million members of his most loyal base.

62 posted on 02/24/2009 5:15:21 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: shove_it
I'll know the shine is off The 0ne when Jay Leno starts cracking jokes about him.

Once that starts happening, look for the Democrats to pull out their Trump Card...

You know it's coming....

Just a matter of time...

63 posted on 02/24/2009 5:22:45 AM PST by gridlock (BTW, Mods... It might be time to add "Barack" and "Obama" to spellcheck)
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To: mewzilla
Has anyone actually seen Timmy the Tax Cheat lately?

LOL!

64 posted on 02/24/2009 5:25:45 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO Kenyan Usurper - "Let his days be few, and let another take his office." Psalm 109:8)
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To: Scanian

Chrissie’s creating a smoke screen since Coulter told the world that he loves Hussein and he wants to have Hussein’s baby. Now Chrissie has to act indifferent toward Hussein for awhile.


65 posted on 02/24/2009 5:30:52 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Senators --- Will Rogers)
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To: mylife

Give it time> They are still waiting for their free house and car. Wait till they get the bill and their pink slips!!


66 posted on 02/24/2009 5:34:48 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: saganite

room should have been none to blame.

Just watch the video at the specific time.

The trader is saying OBAMA is causing the crashing market and democrats can not blame anyone because the DEMOCRATS dominated the financial committees.

(seriously, what do they call it when a politician gives favorable legislative treatment to a bank which gives the politician a sweetheart loan...)


67 posted on 02/24/2009 5:36:18 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Scanian

It’s a snowball now, but these wealthy libs are seeing their assets going down....down just as the snowball gets bigger and faster rolling down the hill. God willing, Obama will be a one termer. Next time around, the fat cats in big business might think twice before endorsing socialist thugs to take over the country.


68 posted on 02/24/2009 5:36:38 AM PST by kenmcg (cOMMBYAH)
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To: Scanian

Chrissy is still desirous of the spending, he just prefers it to be on other things, just like Bill Bennett and Hugh Hewett and Mike Gallagher, and to a lesser extent, Neal Boortz. I have been totally exasperated with the talk show hosts that I get to listen to. I work at night so I get to listen to the guys the local station buys for nighttime reruns. I am asleep through Rush. But Boortz, who proclaims himself a libertarian who votes for Republicans? He has spoken before this started like he understands economics and free market capitalism. What has happened to these fellows?


69 posted on 02/24/2009 5:38:09 AM PST by arthurus ( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
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To: mylife
Is Sissys portfolio down?

Big time.

70 posted on 02/24/2009 5:38:18 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa

This could all be reversed if someone in the court system had the balls to force Hussein to produce a legitimate birth certificate. Anything this foreign born usurper has signed would be null and void.


71 posted on 02/24/2009 5:38:21 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Senators --- Will Rogers)
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To: kenmcg

Let’s hope lonesome George Soros is one of the first to take the hit.


72 posted on 02/24/2009 5:38:56 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
If the media ever turns on BHO, he will go down faster than the Titanic.

Never happen. Especially the women. They drool every time they mention his name while totally ignoring any problems.

73 posted on 02/24/2009 5:39:49 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: kenmcg
It’s a snowball now, but these wealthy libs are seeing their assets going down....

No way. The wealthy libs keep their money offshore. Only the little people pay taxes.
74 posted on 02/24/2009 5:40:44 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Senators --- Will Rogers)
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To: Hardastarboard
"I thought 8,000 was the floor, and it looks like 6,000 is the floor. People are angry, I'm getting angry." What bet that Chrissie poured his money into the market between Hussein's election and his inauguration, just knowing that O'Bama would send the market straight back up?
75 posted on 02/24/2009 5:41:13 AM PST by arthurus ( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
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To: ontap

May we have a volunteer from the audience?


76 posted on 02/24/2009 5:41:21 AM PST by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa (Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Kenya.)
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To: newfreep
I suspect what's really happening here is that all of these media outlets are scrambling for viewers/buyers to fill the void left in the aftermath of Election Year coverage.

They're simply "reading the tea leaves" right now -- and they've realized that criticizing Obama is going to get them more viewers than fawning over him.

77 posted on 02/24/2009 5:42:16 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: shoutingandpointing
Predictions for today's close? . . . .

6973. I think we'll hit 6500 by the end of the week.

78 posted on 02/24/2009 5:42:43 AM PST by nina0113 (Hugh Akston is my hero.)
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To: mad_as_he$$
I think you are right. They may give him one last chance to instill the confidence that he has so far been unable to muster. That would mean a sideways/holding pattern today and then it'll be a touch-and-go or a fillings-rattling hard landing. Just the same, given what is going on abroad this AM, I will not be at all surprised if our markets get spooked, pending pep talk be d@mned. The inept 0ne and his even more inept team have put our country in a row boat without oars and set it adrift in the lake, and now they are trying to convince the people that they must push the shore to the boat if they "hope" to save it.

Today is a tag-team match: Bernanke’s testimony; the 0ne’s spiel. My gut tells me there will be a lot of barking and hawking before tomorrow dawns but scant few fools are going to buy what these two vendors bring to the bazaar.

Because my cardiologist warns me that I get too excited keeping track of the growth of moss in the terrarium I'll have tonight's “big talk” on the idiot box for its numbing effect, while listening to the reaction from across the pond on shortwave, and watching the Nikkei on the Net.

79 posted on 02/24/2009 5:43:33 AM PST by shoutingandpointing
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To: ColdWater

All the drooling will stop when the pink slip arrives and the bills can’t be paid. A lot of our liberal friends are just beginning to see the results their stupidity is having on their 401k’s. Give it time he’s just been destroying the economy for a month.


80 posted on 02/24/2009 5:43:34 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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