Last week the President was not doing enough!!!!

This week, he is TOO OPTIMISTIC!!!!!
Before his non-state of the union speech, NOT OPTIMISTIC ENOUGH!!!

Too much detail, not detailed enough!!! He shouldn't be the spokesman for the Treasury Dept. He SHOULD be the spokesman for Treasury!!!

These idiots are spinning so fast from one position to another they are about to churn themselves into butter...

Week before last: let the banks fail!
Last week: NATIONALIZE the banks!
This week: Let the banks fail!!!

The media is simply too lazy to do any real reporting of substance.

By the way did you know the President is a CLOSET SOCIALIST!!!!!! the NYT is reporting that they asked and he answered and called them back to reinforce his answer, which clearly means he is. And Michelle's biceps are named Thunder and Lightning!!!!

The "Obama is doing too much" is the STUPIDEST mem around.

Obama can walk and chew gum at the same time.

The only suggestion I have for Obama is to put a task force together to come up with a plan to deal with the banking crisis similar to a task force that is looking at the auto problem. That would help calm the markets as well knowing that a task force is spending a lot of time determining a plan rather than lonely Geithner.

Obama's Too Distracted

Thats it henceforth no chewing gum and walking at the same time.

Multi-tasking: Forget about it.

So the question is, is Halperin parroting Eric Cantor, is Eric Cantor parroting Halperin, or do they just happen to think alike?

When I read yesterday that Cantor had blasted the stem cell order as a distraction from discussion of the economy, I howled.

Today Halperin, MSNBC and others have picked up the theme, I think it is time for Cooper to concede Marshall's contention that the DC media is indeed wired for the Grand Old Party of Wurzelbachers

For me, the worst example of "A president doing too much" is intentionally cooking the intelligence books so as to have an excuse to attack a country that never attacked us. That counts as a really bad use of POTUS time. Spending half a day giving scientists permission to develop new cures for diseases, not such a waste of time.

When all is said and done, the modern MSM, and especially the TV asshats, simply do not know how to either evaluate or report on a President who doesn't think the daily (or hourly) news cycle is very important. They are used to polticians who worship the daily news cycle and who think "winning the day" and "winning the week" are actually important activities, more important, even, than getting things done. This was and is a big part of their infatuation with McCain and mesmeration by Rove.

The result is a blizzard of contradictory memes and image from day to day. It's like pulling someone out of a stone age culture and dropping them into the middle of Times Square; they simply don't have any reference points or way to evaluate what they're seeing, so they just spout what sounds like gibberish.

Lots of people, especially blog commenters, had the same problem with him during the campaign, except they were on the Internet cycle, where every minute equals a day in normal time. They'd log on and react to every story of the minute with reams of panic-stricken advice about what he needed to do and then an hour later get back on to express their fear and outrage that he hadn't done it yet. The idea of picking your fights and taking a few days to see how events played out was simply incomprehensible, and endlessly alarming, to them.

Come to think of it, all of that kind of applies to Paul Krugman, too.

Presidentin' is hard work! Doesn't President Obama have some brush that needs clearin'?

Like I mentioned on another blog. Republicans would rather have Obama focus on one big item at a time so they can all attack it at once. Now, if they get put in front of a reporter, they'll have to attack stem cell, cap and trade, health care, taxes, his economic position, etc etc etc. Their coordinated attack messages get lost and forgotten.

To top it off, they are still having to answer questions about Rush as long as he keeps opening his slobbering mouth.

I don't think America is used to having someone that is serious about his job and is able to multi task. The GOP better hold onto their hats because Obama is about to take them on the ride of their life.

Obama's doing too much = Obama's outmaneuvering us

It's nice to hear that our media are still getting their talking points directly from the GOP leadership. It'd be a shame if they actually had to do some work for themselves.

Yawn........................no matter what Pres Obama does, I think the press is going to just keep hitting on him. And multi-task? Well, duh, lets hope he does.

I say just keep on going Mr. Pres and don't give a darn what the press says!

It's good that TPM has picked up on this nonsense. I'm having trouble taking anyone seriously who complains that Obama is "doing too much." People have complained for years that people in Washington don't do enough. Then along comes Obama, being all reasonable and sensibly linking issues together and saying that they all should be addressed -- not immediately necessarily, but as soon as is feasible -- as a part of a long-term outlook, and what do people do? Complain that our President has the audacity to get things done.

Obama's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. The media needs some asinine "story line" to feed on and regurgitate, and they've settled on this one. They'll try it for a few days and drop it for something else just as absurd in another day or so. That's what they do; it's their M.O.

They couldn't muster the courage to question GWB on an illicit war, but they've got the moxie to stop that "evil Obama" from from trying to address issues that have set on the shelves for far too long. Lord knows we don't need to address the issues that could undermine the long-term stability of this nation.

Oh, what's that, Mr. and Mrs. Media (aka "regurgitators" of Republican talking points)? You want the issues addressed, but just NOT right now? Oh, I see. You do know that the president doesn't literally run the country by himself, right?