‘Lame Duck’ Obama Fires Salvo At Hill ‘Shills’
His latest broadside was aimed at Sen. James Inhofe (R-Pigheaded Knownothing) and his allies:
President Barack Obama told Vice News in an interview released on Monday that it was “disturbing” that the chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works denied the existence of climate change.
Obama was referring to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who threw a snowball on the Senate floor earlier this month to help make his case that climate change isn’t real. Even though Inhofe cited record low temperatures across the country as evidence that climate change was overplayed, the country has actually been experiencing a warmer than average winter.
“That’s disturbing,” Obama said when Vice’s Shane Smith pointed out that the stunt would have been funny if it weren’t for Inhofe’s chairmanship.
Inhofe, who wrote the book The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, has also cited Scripture as part of his argument for why climate change isn’t real.
Obama said he couldn’t fault people who were concerned about gas prices and that climate change was a difficult political issue address because it had no immediate payoff. But he also attributed some of the challenge to the influence that the oil and gas industry holds with elected officials.
“In some cases, though, you have elected officials who are shills for the oil companies or the fossil fuel industry and there’s a lot of money involved,” he said. “Typically in Congress the committees of jurisdiction, like the energy committees, are populated by folks from places that pump a lot of oil and pump a lot of gas.”
As president, Obama said that he hoped to get the country to get the country to see climate change “as a serious, immediate threat, not some distant vague thing.”
There’s a term used outside the Beltway that you’ll likely never hear from Sally Quinn, Cokie Roberts, or John McLaughlin that succinctly summarizes the magnitude to which Obama is pummeling Hill GOPers: “Boo-yah!”
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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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OldLefty March 17th, 2015 at 07:10
Calls to mind Digby’s The Villagers, from 2009 (when she mentions Sally Quinn specifically; “that it stems from the notorious Sally Quinn article about the Clintons.);
The “Village is the permanent DC ruling class who have managed to convince themselves that they are simple, puritanical, bourgeois burghers and farmers, even though they are actually celebrity millionaires influencing the most powerful government on earth.
It’s about their phoniness, their pretense of speaking for “average Americans” when it’s clear they haven’t the vaguest clue even about the average Americans who work in their local Starbucks or drive their cabs.
It’s about their intolerable sanctimony and hypocritical provincialism, pretending to be shocked about things they all do, creating social rules for others which they themselves ignore.
The Village is a metaphor for the faux “middle class values” that the wealthy, insular,
privileged, hypocritical political celebrities (and their hangers-on and wannabes) present to the nation.”
rg9rts March 17th, 2015 at 08:41
Up dated animal farm?
OldLefty March 17th, 2015 at 08:51
Sounds like.
dave-dr-gonzo March 17th, 2015 at 09:11
Animal House might be a better analogy. “We’re from Georgetown. We can do whatever we want!”
dave-dr-gonzo March 17th, 2015 at 09:11
Animal House might be a better analogy. “We’re from Georgetown. We can do whatever we want!”
Warman1138 March 17th, 2015 at 09:05
I remember back some years ago when a conservative representative made a public statement that average middle class income was 140,000 dollars a year. It was at that moment I was convinced that being exposed to most republicans was like dealing with the mentally challenged or purposefully deceitful.
OldLefty March 17th, 2015 at 09:20
You always wonder if they don’t know or they just assume their audience doesn’t know.
Look at this Cotton guy saying that Iran is controlling more territory, even Tehran!!
Always leads one to the question, “Lying or stupid?”
John Tarter March 17th, 2015 at 09:39
Lying. Funny you should mention that word in a story about Obama.
jybarz March 17th, 2015 at 09:47
I always wonder what rightwingers think Obama lied about. Can you enlighten me please.
Red Mann March 17th, 2015 at 10:32
They’ll respond with the “keep your doctors/insurance” nonsense. It was, at worst, an exaggeration, even though it was true for the vast majority. Of course PolitiFacts stepped all over their dicks by giving it The Lie of the Year, giving endless delight to the right.
dave-dr-gonzo March 17th, 2015 at 12:12
Obama was in fact telling the truth – if your insurance complied with Federal law and wasn’t a junk “plan”.
As it turns out, my record label’s art director was one of those affected by this glitch. She got a big fat letter from her insurer. The bad news in paragraph 1: her old plan was “cancelled” due to non-compliance with federal regulations. The good news in the following paragraphs: she was offered a new plan with MORE coverage (including allergic rhinitis which had been deemed a “pre-existing condition”), LOWER deductibles, new CATASTROPHIC coverage, and a 12% CUT in her monthly premium.
Yeah, that lyin’, stinkin’ Kenyan Muslim socialist… er… um… oh wait, never mind.
OldLefty March 17th, 2015 at 12:56
Plus;
Here is the
law;
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590enr/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590enr.pdf
If you believe that it was a lie, you should be
able to point to the part of the law that spells it out.
(I can point to HR 3200, Subtitle
C–Individual Affordability Credits
Sec. 246…. to show that Joe, “You
lie”, Wilson, lied or was misinformed)
I assume you can do the same.
And….
Did you want the law to forbid insurers from continuing
the practice of canceling policies that they have been doing for decades?
Did you want the law to forbid insurers from continuing the practice of canceling policies and narrowing networks that they
have been doing for decades?
William March 17th, 2015 at 15:02
I always like to keep things simple when explaining these things to the “challenged”.
OldLefty March 17th, 2015 at 10:08
That’s what we always said about Reagan, Bush and Bush and the ENTIRE GOP.
So what?
Anomaly 100 March 17th, 2015 at 10:48
John, if you want to continue to comment here, tone it down. I removed a previous comment. Ah hell, I’ve removed a lof of your inappropriate comments.
Last warning. Thanks!
oldfart March 17th, 2015 at 11:20
the most touching dear John letter i’ve seen in a long while.
Anomaly 100 March 17th, 2015 at 14:39
Ha!
dave-dr-gonzo March 17th, 2015 at 12:08
Like the time he lied about knowing that Oliver North sold arms to a terrorist state and took the profits to back a regime that killed nuns.
Oops… that was Reagan… sorry, John, my bad!
Surf such March 17th, 2015 at 09:39
Arrogant and Selfish,Got a cool Million from Israeli supporters.
Warman1138 March 17th, 2015 at 09:42
I’ll choose lying, it’s difficult to get where they are by being outright stupid but then again…..
Budda March 17th, 2015 at 09:15
Obama should have been doing this 6 years ago as well as other Democrats
dave-dr-gonzo March 17th, 2015 at 09:43
Agreed. Democrats are still scared of “putting off” their base by talking tough and backing it up with action. They have not been paying attention to how politics is played on the Hill, in the White House, or through the media for a generation. The truth is that most people will respond positively to an aggressive progressive.
John Tarter March 17th, 2015 at 09:37
And of course the Bamster isn’t a shill for anyone, right?
dave-dr-gonzo March 17th, 2015 at 09:41
Not for Big Oil.
jybarz March 17th, 2015 at 09:55
Yes, he certainly shows he’s no lame duck. If anything, the GOP Congress is looking more like a cage full of ducks that quack, quack, quack.
William March 17th, 2015 at 11:08
Perhaps the right is maybe stretched too thin. When you divide your resources between attacking a sitting president, and a woman who hasn’t even announced her intentions to run, it’s got to be difficult. Be that as it may. The presidents cool, and calm demeanor seems to be more in favor with Americans than the screeching of the lunatic crowd that wants him, sued/arrested/impeached, or whatever is in vogue this week.
oldfart March 17th, 2015 at 11:15
Mr. President, don’t stop with just global warming…
you were handed 6yrs worth of priceless buffoonery
make the most of it.
William March 17th, 2015 at 11:41
“you were handed 6yrs worth of priceless buffoonery”
…and that is likely the most profound thing I will read today.
thank you.
Scopedog March 17th, 2015 at 12:35
He simply has no more f**ks to give.
William March 17th, 2015 at 17:15
It’s sad when my President has to explain that he’s not telling a joke when he talks about congress.
fahvel March 18th, 2015 at 05:10
the man should have been calling these morons out from day one instead of being a nice guy – LBJ would have handled the dopes quite differently.