Rick Santelli vs. Robert Gibbs

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February 20, 2009
Dude Needs Decaf
If you've been out of pocket since yesterday and missed CNBC's Rick Santelli going off on the Obama foreclosure relief plan (a Google search for "Rick Santelli" offers "Rick Santelli rant" as an alternative search term), here's a snippet of his rant and Robert Gibbs' response today at the White House press briefing.

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[M3e1td0wn]

Robert Gibbs precisely peronifies the smug, elitist, "we know more than you" attitude of the Obama administration. If there is anyone in this country that does not realize how dangerous this attitude is to a representative republic and to every working American in this country, then I submit you have been sleeping at the wheel. Yes Gibbs, we read "the plan." We've seen "the plan." So, here's the question...

Are we better off now than you were two years ago?... I think not.

[j187killa]

I love how the Low income housing next to my shit hole(that looks better then my place) was paid with my tax dollars, so a bunch of drug addcits can move in there and not respect what was given to them. if you get government aid, you should be pissed tested. THUMBS UP IF YOU AGREE

[rlrieth]

Mr. Gibbs needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Rick Santelli IS one of those guys that knows more than him!

[collinsullivan]

Months before Rick Santellis organic and totally non Republican funded rant aired on T.V. two separate "Chicago tea party" website domain names were registered and then the day of the rant were brought online. Who bought these domain names and ran these websites? 2 separate Republican operatives, both of which on the Koch payroll. Google it.

[islandmuffin]

Obama and Welfare State won:

The debt agreement locked in big government, Obama's overspending will continue, and our debt will increase by an additional $8 trillion. After government spending soared by 28 percent from 2008 to 2011, the debt deal only cuts 0.6% of expenditures planned for next year. The federal government's debt will rise from $14.3 trillion to $22.2 trillion, rather than to $24.6 trillion.

Besides class warfare and higher taxes, what else do you progressives want?

[eulogyforanelephant]

pure genius: defraud investors and pensioners at the expense of the future ability of firefighters and teachers to be able to feed themselves, get a slap on the wrist from the SEC, enjoy a flood of risk-free cash from the fed with taxpayers on the hook for any losses, and laugh all the way to the bank at us mere mortals and "bolsheviks" while state governments across the nation scramble to auction off their infastructure to the private sector.

enjoy those extended tax breaks. you earned them

[jabberwolf]

9% .. really?

2 years later?!

I think those that are actually working in the market just proove that they know better than government.

Read the white house report?!

You can read a stack of comic books Gibbs - doesnt get you any closer to reality!

[mstytz]

Well, now we know that Gibbs LIED

[BrianMChampion]

I'll bet if he had to "take it outside," Gibbs would retract everything he said, whereas Santelli would defend everything he said, even if he had to take a punch in the process.

[thhhegame33]

Gibbs is water carrying smartmouth that would get smacked down in the real world. Come speak your "DC" crap outside of the beltway and some suburbs...

Maybe that's why Gibbs quit!

[mathman43]

Gibbs was an idiot. The new guy, Carney is an idiot. If you're going to speak for the government, shouldn't you have a grasp of English and be able to think. Obama keeps trying to find people dumber than he is to speak for him. There's not that many of them out there. By the way, we're tired of paying for our neighbor's mortgage.

[coach162]

If and when OBAMA goes to jail there should be a cell right beside his for the worthless piece of crap Gibbs. He has said,,,ON TV ,,in front of many reporters that he has seen the real BC,, well, you lying piece of scum, NO YOU DIDN'T ,, So much for Transparency uhh,,, BUT,,,I I I I I I I ,AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH,, what a joke this man is,,If I can even use the word man. GOD Please help us find out the truth,put ALL of them in jail for Treason,each and everyone