[VIDEO] MEGYN KELLY RIPS OBAMA SPOX JOSH EARNEST, SAID HE REMINDS HER OF ‘THE JERK’

In disbelief of Josh Earnest’s comments suggesting the Obama strategy against ISIS is successful, Megyn Kelly said she had to read his comments three times just to understand it, referring to it as ‘nonsense’. After Brit Hume weighed in on it, Kelly then played a clip from ‘The Jerk’ saying this is what Josh Earnest reminded her of after his comments today.

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Brit Hume's AWESOME Takedown of Obama: The Jobless Benefits Push Is an Admission of Your Own Failure

Hume: Jobless benefits push an admission of WH 'failure'?

Fox Senior Political analyst Brit Hume sounds off on the political implications of jobless benefits extension fight

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BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Senior political analyst, Brit Hume, has some thoughts tonight on the political and practical fallout from the fight over the jobless benefits. Good evening, Brit.

BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Hello, Bret. The administration's appeal for a further extension of unemployment benefits may succeed in putting Congressional Republicans in a tight spot if they resist. In that sense, it may be a shrewd political move, yet embedded in it is an extraordinary acknowledgment of failure by the president and his party.

We're now four and a half years into an economic recovery that Democrats keep telling us is getting better all the time, yet, the job market remains so weak, the jobless rate so high that the president considers it an emergency. Indeed, that is the official name of these extended benefits, emergency unemployment compensation. Normally, unemployment payments run out after 26 weeks, but that was extended five years ago to 99 weeks and has been repeatedly extended since.

Now though, it's running out for an estimated 1.3 million people. No one is arguing that these benefits should go on forever, and the White House notes it is only asking for another three more months at a cost of about $6 billion. So, will that be the end of it? Will the emergency at last be over? All Obama advisor, Gene Sperling, would say today is that three months would provide time to discuss what to do for the rest of the year.

Upon taking office, the president and the party set two big goals. One was to revive the economy, the other to reform health care. The Obamacare mess tells us where we are on one, the call for further unemployment payments tells us where we are on the other -- Bret.

BAIER: Well, the White House denies this, but what about this as a political tool and what are the prospects of jobless benefits getting through this Congress?

HUME: Well, if the administration and the Democrats are willing to find some offsets -- another spending to cover the cost of these extended unemployment benefits, my guess is it sells through. If they don't, Republicans at least have a talking point to counter the administration's argument that they once again typical Republicans are being hard-hearted and not showing sufficient compassion to downtrodden and those who are out of work.

I still think the issue has some mileage for the president and his party, particularly, if the Republicans resist, but I don't think it overcomes the other issues that I mentioned earlier.

BAIER: Okay, Brit, thank you.

HUME: You bet.

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Brit Hume: Obama ‘fix’ meant to ‘shift blame,’ says media has turned against him

On Thursday’s “The Kelly File,” Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume explained to host Megyn Kelly why even the so-called fix President Barack Obama proposed earlier in the day was fraught with problem of its own — and that it was meant to shift blame away from the administration.

Kelly asked Hume if Obama helped himself during Thursday’s press conference.

“Probably not very much, Megyn,” Hume said. “This is such a small effort here with all kinds of problems associated with it — whether it’s even possible for it to work, even if he’s legally authorized to have done it. I mean, I keep thinking about some insurance company going to federal court saying this is illegitimate. There is no constitutional or other legal authority for the president to have done this.  And poof, whatever effect this has could be done. And the other thing, of course, is his answers while he was more apologetic than before in some ways and was saying the blame was on him. I think a lot of people’s answer would be, ‘Yeah, no kidding.’”

Obama’s new maneuvers could be deeply problematic for the insurance companies as well, he said.

“I must say, Megyn, I have my doubts as to whether he can,” Hume continued. “I also have doubts as to whether this is possible. You know, we have talked about the insurance companies, unlike the Obama administration, were ready for the law to roll out. And they took all the measures the law required them to take — to participate in the exchanges, to stop selling the no longer qualifying policies and all the rest of it. And what the president is now saying, ‘Oh, oops, well you can go on doing things kind of the way you were for another year.’ Well, they are really in no position to do that.”

As far as Obama’s objectives, Hume said it didn’t appear to him Obama was looking for an actual solution, but instead for a way to avoid blame.

“[H]e’s not looking to accomplish anything,” Hume said. “He’s looking to shift blame. He doesn’t want his law, and his party and himself to be blamed for cancellation notices. So he’s created this apparent fix that says, ‘OK, folks, you really can keep your policies. Sorry about that.’ Well, you know, I’m not sure that will work. When you think about it, it shouldn’t work. It’s dishonest.”

Hume predicted another wave of cancelations as the more of the law takes effect — and noted the media may have turned against Obama in a way it has never before.

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Hume: Tea Party pushed budget stand-off because GOP 'utterly failed' to restrain bloated gov't

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume explained on "Special Report With Bret Baier" Monday night why Tea Party Republicans originally started their confrontation with Democrats over the bid to defund ObamaCare. 

He argued that they're taking an unconventional approach, because the mainstream GOP has "utterly failed" to stop the growth of government. 

Hume said: 

"Veteran political observers on both the left and right are still trying to figure out what the House Tea Party caucus and its Senate pied piper Ted Cruz were thinking when they insisted on using the threat of a government shutdown to defund ObamaCare. 

"It was a hopeless strategy that has not only failed in its stated goal, but helped send the Republican Party to its lowest favorability ratings ever. 

"In conventional terms, it seems inexplicable, but Senator Cruz and his adherents do not view things in conventional terms. They look back over the past half-century, including the supposedly golden era of Ronald Reagan, and see the uninterrupted forward march of the American left. Entitlement spending never stopped growing. The regulatory state continued to expand. The national debt grew and grew and finally in the Obama years, exploded. They see an American population becoming unrecognizable from the free and self-reliant people they thought they knew. And they see the Republican Party as having utterly failed to stop the drift toward an unfree nation supervised by an overweening and bloated bureaucracy. They are not interested in Republican policies that merely slow the growth of this leviathan. They want to stop it and reverse it. And they want to show their supporters they'll try anything to bring that about. 

"And if some of those things turn out to be reckless and doomed, well so be it."

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HUME TWEET: 'This May Be The Single Most Devastating Take-Down Of A Piece Of Journalism I've Ever Seen'

Oh no! We can’t let Romney win, he’ll let lobbyists in the White House!!!

By Timothy P. Carney | October 16, 2012 | Washington Examiner

If Romney wins, will lobbyists defile the White House that Obama has kept so clean and so pure? That’s what Politico suggests with this piece today headlined “Lobbyists ready for a comeback under Romney.”

President Barack Obama’s gone further than any president to keep lobbyists out of the White House — even signing executive orders to do it.

In crafting and signing those executive orders, I wonder if Obama relied on the help of White House deputy counsel Cassandra Butts (1), White House special assistant Martha Coven (2), or the chief of staff or the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Michael Strautmanis (3), all of whom were registered lobbyists. (I’m only numbering registered lobbyists.)

Politico’s Anna Palmer reports:

Industry insiders believe that Mitt Romney will unshackle the revolving door and give lobbyists a shot at the government jobs their Democratic counterparts have been denied for the past four years

Yeah, I bet those Republican lobbyists will get envious stares from the likes of Fannie Mae, Cigna, Credit Suisse lobbyist Laricke Blanchard (4), whom Obama named deputy director of policy for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. Former teachers union lobbyist Gabriella Gomez (5) would be jealous – if her job as assistant secretary of Education gave her the time for such self-indulgence. Former crop-industry lobbyist Krysta Harden (6) must be thinking “why couldn’t I get a government job – besides my job as assistant secretary of Agriculture.”

Palmer writes of the possibility of Romney

“Allowing lobbyists back into the White House”

You mean after he kicks out the lobbyists in Obama’s White House like Patton Boggs lobbyist Emmett Beliveau (7), O’Melveny & Myers lobbyist Derek Douglas (8), and Pfizer’s, AT&T’s lobbyist at Akin Gump Dana Singiser (9)?

Romney would have to toss out Obama’s orders, which shook up how President George W. Bush did business and let Obama claim his agenda wouldn’t be hijacked by special interests.

Yes, it let Obama claim that – falsely. Remember how the stimulus was a pork fest for K Street? Remember how the drug lobby wrote much of Obamacare. Remember how Obama gave Chrysler to the UAW? Remember – oh, I could go on, but I’ll return to the Politico piece...

 

Via: Washington Examiner

 

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