Jay Carney: Economy ‘Vastly Improved’ Since Obama Took Office
**Written by Doug Powers
In next year’s election, Team Obama may have no other choice but to campaign against ghosts, figments of the imagination and alternate universes — reality is an opponent they know they will not defeat. White House Spokesman Jay Carney demonstrated that at today’s press conference.
Transcript from Real Clear Politics:
“Well, two things remain uncontestably true. The economy is vastly improved from what it was when Barack Obama was sworn into office as president. We were in economic free-fall. There were predictions that we were headed to the second Great Depression. We were losing up to, over 700,000 jobs a month, we were contracting at greater than 6 percent — our economy was. So, the economy has improved. It has not improved enough.
“Well, there’s no question that we face headwinds, and the president has been very direct about that. And we need to do everything we can, across the front, to ensure we’re doing what we can to spur growth, spur job creation.”
When Obama took office the unemployment rate was 7.2 percent — today, two and a half years later, it’s 9.2 percent. Gas was about $1.79 a gallon when Obama took office. Today it’s $3.68. There are around 13 million more people on food stamps today than there were in January of 2009. Sure, almost anybody can find statistics to suit their own argument, but all finger pointing to cast blame aside, if Carney actually believes it’s “uncontestably true” that the economy has “vastly improved” since January of 2009, he needs an uncontested psych evaluation.
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**Written by Doug Powers
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The one thing that Carney has learned from Obama is that the more he talks the lower the approval rating goes.
I hope they keep these press conferences up from now until election day.
The economy is vastly improved? Must be all of those jobs created via unemployment compensation, right Nancy?
The Chicago Cubs are about to emerge from their 103rd straight year of failing to win a World Series. Do you appreciate how difficult it is to be the favorite team in America’s second biggest city and avoid stumbling into a World Series championship for that many consecutive seasons? “Major accomplishment.”
How are they still around? Why are they not treated like baseball’s version of the LA Clippers?
The way that he says it with a straight face is amazing.
I’ll respect you in the morning.
The check’s in the mail.
I’ve had a vasectomy.
The dog ate my homework.
The economy is vastly improved.
If you re-enlist we’ll give you the duty station you requested.
Contents may have settled due to shipping.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Yep, the economy of China.
Jay=Delusional
Carney’s “uncontestably true” is about the same as Gore’s “the debate is over”.
I would really like to see a new law in this country. I am not a big fan of too many laws, but this one can go down as a winner for the American people.
All elected office holders and their spokespeople will be sworn in before any press conference. A judge will sit by and monitor. Any lie therefore may be judged as contempt of court and off they go to spend a little time in the hoosegow. Those with licenses to practice law will have to surrender them as well.
Now this may generate a lot of “no comments”, I am ok with that. One thing I hate is to pay someone to work for me and have them lie to my face as much as these clowns in D.C. do.
Just another fantasy, I guess…
Our own Baghdad Bob!
I would love to see the candidates be hooked up to polygraph machines during debates.
Whoever the GOP candidate is ought to issue that as a challenge to Obama. If he wont agree then call him out on that as well.
Also, sh!t no longer stinks, the sun now orbits the earth and you can get a decent seat at the stadium for $5.
No, seriously.
hey, leave my cubs alone, we are not in last place, yet! with obama’s great sports book skills, i was hoping he would pick the cubs to win the world series, his extrordinary bad skill, mixed with the cubs bad luck, they might finally get us to win. i caught hell for telling everybody the bears would lose to the pack, when barry picked the bears to make it to the superbowl.
to make mr shipman look like good old bob, we should put some numbers boards behind him, showing the debt, the unemployment numbers, and the price of oil.
I’m thinking they would have to surrender future bennies too. Maybe not allow a “no comment” Similar to getting pulled over by the police and refusing a breathalizer….automatic suspension of license.
yes, we can dream
Only 21 percent think the country’s headed on the right direction. Maybe Carney needs to check with his boss, the American People, before they determine their own job performance ratings.
I’d like to see the Congresscritters hooked up to a breathalyzer prior entering chambers.
Oh how I miss Tony Snow! I have a tiny think Tony would NEVER make this statement. God bless you and your family Tony!
Having a person with two brain cells that gets daily before the public as carney does, your and your team needs major re-do bho for this worm!
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Creative visualization or a figment of his imagination…… I’ll have some pixie dust with that.
The kind of chamber I have in mind doesn’t need a breathalyzer.
Just the warden, a priest, and a guy with a hood over his face.
“Roll on One……”
Rush had a caller today that stated he had been a liberal/democrat and is now going to change to a conservative/republican because of all of the shiite that Odumba$$ has done to this country. He graduated from (his words) skrewell just a few years ago and has changed his mind about what the libs/commies/etc. have been doing to our country. THAT.MADE.MY.DAY.!
Ok, I feel that I must stick up for Jay Carney here. In the Beltway around Washington DC, where the federal government dumps billions of $$$$ every day, the economy is booming. Housing prices are up, there are more government jobs than ever, compensation is through the roof, and you can’t get fired. Things are vastly improved there.
Now, for the rest of us out here in flyover country…
#10On July 21st, 2011 at 6:50 pm, Common Sense said:
Love it!
Baghdad Bob, count the empty store fronts….
I see Geithner just parked in the American taxpayer’s keister for the tune of 1.3 Billion on the Chrysler bailout today. Yes sir Carney (think carnival), we doing just peachy.
Every time this clown speaks Satan has an orgasm.
Carney’s tenure in the WH is going to feel like one big, bad hangover when he leaves after Barry’s term is over and wakes up the next morning.
Carney’s tenure in the WH is going to feel like one big, bad hangover when he leaves after Barry’s term is over and he wakes up the next morning.
The first time he was sworn in, or the later time behind closed doors with Chief Justice Roberts?
The first time he was sworn in, or the later time behind closed doors with Chief Justice Roberts?
The first time he was sworn in, or the later time behind closed doors with Chief Justice Roberts?
Carney’s tenure in the WH is going to feel like one big, bad hangover when he leaves after Barry’s term is over and he wakes up the next morning.
Jay Carney is a poor man’s Chip Diller. Total ministry-of-propaganda type straight out of Central Casting.
I’ll take some of what he’s smoking!
It HAS to be the gov’t sanctioned “good stuff”…..
Working for this administration is EXCELLENT training for used car salesmen.
HAHAHAHA! Funny that! I always wound up ‘non-volunteer long tour’ to Camp New Amsterdam, Holland no matter how I requested it.
Went there TDY from the UK and found out why I couldn’t get there on a PCS status. All the single guys DIDN’T want to leave. Extension paperwork was knee deep at the personnel office.
Senator Roark: Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big, and gettin’ the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you’ve got e’m by the b*lls.
J. Carney Barker. I know it’s been said before. I just want to reiterate it!
Well of course, by Carney’s definition, the economy really is ‘vastly improved’. More people than ever are relying on government assistance which fits right in with Oblowme’s scheme.
I do not think that means what he thinks it means….that or he lives in OPPOSITE LAND!!!
The Morning Talking Points and Memes for the supplicants.
Most people put sugar on their cornflakes in the morning, Jay uses peyote buttons!
We’re used to them revising history, but revising the present? Nobody is that good a liar.
As ObumbleCare continues to cause the job situation to stagnate the lies will get bigger and bigger. If it wasn’t so dangerous for the country it would be entertaining to watch this administration implode.
Finally, Illinois can be proud of something:
Here’s the link to Congressman Walsh’s website.
“Are you serious? Are you serious?”
“Click the pic of a comedian at the height of his craft for video:” Uh..NO THANKS. Ain’t none of this funny.
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Ii was a lot more dismal view below decks on the Titanic than it was up on the bridge after the ship hit the iceberg. Lots of optimists above decks as the water poured through the fatally damaged hull and the rats scampered for the exits.
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Jay Carney is really smoking, snorting, or shooting up some really bad stuff. Or had a 1 liter Tequila lunch before this “presser”!
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The newly unemployed and long term unemployed / underemployed / overtaxed voters won’t be buying any of his “painkiller” in Nov. 2012.
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John Bibb
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AJsDaddie,
I have been watching the Distinguished Gentleman from Illinois. I wish him God Speed.
On another note, Judge Lambreth has reconsidered and asked attorney Orly Taitz to resubmit her redacted opposition to summary judgement in the Obama SSN case in the D.C. District Court.
There may still be hope in the courts.
Any lie and ZAP!
My son was about 10 when I explained to him taxes. He turned conservative that day, and could hold his own in discussions with the raving leftist mother of his friend…particularly after I explained the UN to him. The mother who refuses to allow the radio be played, but will play over and over some leftist propaganda CD.
…so leftist, these are people who believe Cheerios are evil, I sh!t you not. I never heard why.
Some take longer. Some never learn and become Democrats.
I’d like to park something in the keister of whoever authorized that stupidity 6 years early.
No matter how small a of profit Chrysler made, a percentage should have went to repay that debt to us, the taxpayers.
Or you could call it what it is, the Chickensh!t Plan.
Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way.
What the Carney barker said:
Now, for the truth:
Jay, I told you what would happen if you broke a couple of those CFL bulbs in your home.
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
2003 – 2006: Republicans controlled Congress, and with the help of the Bush Tax cuts, unemployment decreased and revenue increased.
2007 – 2010: Democrats controlled Congress, and both spending and unemployment skyrocketed.
Just the Facts.
The economy is vastly improved for Obama’s political allies. The UAW owns two car companies, Big Banks are stuffed with TARP, Fannie and Freddie are rolling along, and GE’s profits are up 13% without one penny of tax paid.
Just like Party members in the old Soviet Union.
Since they are the only ones the Regime cares about, Carney is essentially correct.
In some utterly perverted sense it is impressive that he can say things like this with a straight face…
See pathological
He probably thought somebody asked him to comment on China…oops
One Barry Presser, 36 Barry Lies and Deceptions
Barry held a press conference last Friday, July 15 which turned out to be a purely partisan effort to increase taxes and increase the American debt. His speech and the answers he gave to cherry picked questions from the press was fundamentally dishonest: in all I counted three dozen lies, deceptions and misleading statements.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/one_obama_presser_36_obama_lies_and_deceptions.html
Pure (misleading smoke and mirror) politics.
These statements are just screaming for a Baghdad Bob Photoshop job. Doug, get right on that! =b
I think what he intended to say was, “The economy of Zimbabwe is vastly improved from what it was when Barack Obama was sworn into office as president.”
I suppose it was lost in editing…
Is there any more proof that leftwingwackoism should be in the psychiatric diagnostic manual under Insanity?
False on the face of it. Barack Obama was never sworn into office as President.
He is not qualified to hold the office.
There is one fatal flaw in that American Thinker article:
The budget is the responsibility of the House of Representatives. Period, end paragraph. The McConnell plan is condemned, in part, because it cedes the Congress’ power to the President. The requirement that the President present a budget does the same thing.
However, the Constitution places responsibility for the budget with the House:
How many of these powers are now tacitly placed under the purview of the President?
Then there’s this little gem from Section 9:
Dat means dat nobody spends money wit’out what Congress says it’s okay, and dat Congress has gotta tell us how da money is bein’ spent.
The saddest thing is that Jay gets to be that disingenuous because half of the country is dumb enough to believe him. For those with IQs over 50, it’s like listening to Bernie Madoff saying that he didn’t con anyone out of their money.
Rod Sterling could not have written a better Twilight Zone script about what this group of maroons are doing in reality at the Obama Administration.
Jay Carney’s job is to lie for the president.
He does it well.
Someone on a local news forum regurgitated this from somewhere (I don’t know the original source)…
I was troubled by the number of people nodding their heads (virtually, anyway) in agreement with this tripe. I find it interesting that the author of this screed had glossed over the facts that 1) the dems had the majority in congress during the banking collapse and 2) those same dems (along with Obama) did nothing of substance to fix the economic mess.
Gas is more expensive.
Moe people are on Government assistance.
More people ae loosing their homes and living in Government housing.
From a socialist perspective, things are GREAT!
Carney behaves like a person in the final stages of Syphilis.
Yeah, but that was all by your campaign and related sycophants.
I predict that we will be invaded by hoards of locusts if I don’t take a bite of this bagel.
Mmm. You’re all welcome. You may thank me now.
Drug test this guy.
Three words:
Delusions of grandeur.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Pathological Liars Anonymous (Saturday Night Live Season 11)
Tommy Flanagan…..Jon Lovitz
Announcer: “And now, a message from Pathological Liars Anonymous”.
Tommy Flanagan: “Hello, my name is
Tommy FlanaganBarack Obama, and I’m a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous. In fact.. I’m the president of the organization, no the WORLD, no the UNIVERSE!Carney knows his audience and this “sound bite” is intended for them.
Ya, that’s the ticket…..
“Are you serious? Are you serious?” Uh, oh…I just had a Nancy Pelosi channeling episode.
C’mon, Carney just can’t be serious.
Apparently, the real world doesn’t matter to Dummycrats. Maybe the press jackass (their party’s symbol) should spend a few minutes in my neck of the woods, and see what a horrible reality the policies of Mr Worthless-In-Chief, his boss (head jackass),has wrought. It is just not good out here. Just more lies and propaganda, another veiled attempt to make the Jackass-In-Chief look half-way (read: no way) better than reality! More smoke and mirrors.
It’s too bad we have another year-and-a-half of this crap!?!
Oh yeah, Congratulations all you “Hopey-Changey” folks! Oil is back to $100 a barrell, or $4.00 a gallon!!! I hope you all love those “hotdogs & beans,” if you are even able to afford those, thanks in large part to the Eco-Terrorist-In-Chief’s assinine energy polocies, that you so ignorantly elected!?!
Now this is funny:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-urges-rick-perry-not-to-run-for-president,20981/
does a lie become true if a clown utters it?
Just great…ILoveMyStinkinArmpits cites “The Onion” website for credibility. Put down the drugs and get a job, putz. Oh, wait….YOUR psuedopresident lost the jobs. Well, still, put down the drugs.
Oh – so you mean God didn’t really do an interview and asnwer questions?
Oh…. I must be doing too many drugs here in Africa…..
DRUG TEST ALL DEMON-CRATS IN THE WHITEHOUSE