{"id":5862,"date":"2011-11-29T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T21:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2011-11-29T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T21:52:37","slug":"chris-christie-rebuts-his-hallucination-of-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5862","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie Rebuts His Hallucination Of Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video soundbite has been making the rounds of conservative media, particularly Fox News. The video presents the GOP&#8217;s favorite non-candidate, Chris Christie, in a pitched ideological battle with his own imagination.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/byvb5nrvPXU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this video Christie says&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was angry this weekend, listening to the spin coming out of the administration, about the failure of the supercommittee, and that the president knew it was doomed for failure, so he didn&#8217;t get involved. Well then what the hell are we paying you for? It&#8217;s doomed for failure so I&#8217;m not getting involved? Well, what have you been doing, exactly?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where did Christie get the idea that President Obama knew the Super Committee was <em>&#8220;doomed for failure?&#8221;<\/em> It isn&#8217;t something the President said. In fact, when he signed the legislation Congress sent him on deficit reduction Obama said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Congress has now approved a compromise to reduce the deficit and avert a default that would have devastated our economy.  It was a long and contentious debate.  And I want to thank the American people for keeping up the pressure on their elected officials to put politics aside and work together for the good of the country. This compromise guarantees more than $2 trillion in deficit reduction.  It&#8217;s an important first step to ensuring that as a nation we live within our means.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is not exactly a statement of doom. What&#8217;s more, before the committee even convened the White House produced a plan that cut more than $3 trillion from the deficit &#8211; twice the goal of the Super Committee. And the President made crystal clear his budgetary priorities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve said it before; I will say it again:  We can&#8217;t balance the budget on the backs of the very people who have borne the biggest brunt of this recession.  We can&#8217;t make it tougher for young people to go to college, or ask seniors to pay more for health care, or ask scientists to give up on promising medical research because we couldn&#8217;t close a tax shelter for the most fortunate among us.  Everyone is going to have to chip in.  It&#8217;s only fair.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Christie, were he honest, could hardly fault the President for not being engaged. The arrogant inquiry as to <em>&#8220;what the hell are we paying you for?&#8221;<\/em> illustrates the blind hostility to anything Obama attempts. The President was doing precisely what he is paid to do. And that involves much more than just deficit reduction. It also includes national security, job and economic growth, and the management of a dangerous world that includes hotspots like Afghanistan, Libya, China, and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>For Christie to criticize Obama over the deficit debate reveals just how out of touch Christie is. In addition to being unaware of the steps the President has already taken, Christie is also ignorant of the fact that Obama has to tread carefully when dealing with matters that involve Congress. The bitter partisanship of the GOP has already resulted in their opposing their own initiatives if the President endorsed them. So any guidance by Obama could cause Republicans to kick in a knee-jerk denial. It is, therefore, smart for the President to let Congress do their job without interference in the hopes of getting them to produce a workable compromise that he can sign. Unfortunately, Congress was not even able to do that.<\/p>\n<p>It is pathetic that the right-wing GOP has only shady characters like Christie to look up to. The anger Christie is expressing here is misplaced due to both his ignorance of the subject matter and his naivete with regard to political statesmanship. That&#8217;s why he has to resort to inventing phantom positions, assigning them to Obama, and then rebutting them as if they were real. And the fact that Fox News promotes this ineptitude as something to be admired compounds the patheticness of it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video soundbite has been making the rounds of conservative media, particularly Fox News. The video presents the GOP&#8217;s favorite non-candidate, Chris Christie, in a pitched ideological battle with his own imagination. In this video Christie says&#8230; &#8220;I was angry this weekend, listening to the spin coming out of the administration, about the failure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[219,1],"tags":[183,953,33],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-chris-christie","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1wy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29052,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29052","url_meta":{"origin":5862,"position":0},"title":"Chris Christie: Telling It Like It Is &#8211; If &#8220;IT&#8221; is Vulgar, Tactless, And Rude","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/30\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republican Party has its fourteenth official candidate to be their nominee for President of the United States. 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