Dana confuses charm with smarm.

(look it up)

You can´t be serious associating charm with carney or a goofy tie.Carney´s main job is to be as less transparent as possible,

Posters must not have read the article. Milbank - of all people! - is pointing out how utterly clueless this "charm" offensive has been.

Why, I believe that Diana might be upsthet.

is dana having a come to Jesus moment???

0´s "charm offensive" includes DHS purchasing billions upon billions of rounds of ammunition and thousands of armored vehicles with gun ports. Are the bullets, vehicles to be used against those who are not "charmed?"

President Reagan was charming. W was charming and loved by his military and by millions upon millions of Americans despite the constant beating of the liberal heathen media´s "hate Bush" drums for eight years. A charming man does not tell the Jewish people to stop beating their chests about the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Please be sure you have read an article thoroughly before commenting.

Obama and Carney, et al can be all smiles for a couple of weeks but behind the scenes, still the nastiness and attacks on Republicans - the smae old blame game.

Liars lie. They have grown accustomed to the media swallowing whole every lie they tell so why should they not expect media to now take their new lies and run with them.

Milbank will come back with a stroking commentary next so that he doesn´t lose favor with these criminals. He just has to throw something out there every now and then to make it appear he is balanced.

Have you ever looked at the eyes of the prezzy? There is a darkness and hate in there.

Another attempt to fool those the asshat sees as fools and pawns while 90% of us turn out to be exactly that, fools and pawns.

Are there no founding father types left among us? And if one comes along, perhaps a Rand Paul, those within his own party seek to shout him down.

Good for Milbank - though it is about time. Better late than never, however.

He notes something others have long since observed and commented on: the astonishing habit Obama and his supporters have of representing themselves as inherently bipartisan and compromise-friendly, while claiming that those who disagree are being partisan and unwilling to compromise.

All politicians are prone to such misrepresentations, to be sure - but never before Obama Inc. have we witnessed self-delusion on such a scale and with such intensity. There is really something kind of crazy about it. I think people like Carney actually believe such nonsense.

The tyranny of Leftism is built in. It is part of the ideology itself. Leftists lack a conceptual category for political disagreement. Their grandiosity and dogmatism cause them to believe they know it all, are always right, and have only the highest and purest motives. They experience disagreement as offense, as a kind of hate crime. Merely to disagree with a zealous Leftist about politics is to invite personal, ad hominem attack and character assassination. Leftists regard opponents not merely as wrong but as wrong for being wrong, i.e. their motives are bad, their characters are corrupt. It is the only way Leftists have of explaining disagreement over politics.

Milbank comes out with an article like this every few months and then he goes right back to his 0bama kneepads.

Those Carney responses to reporter questions are hysterical. The press secretary for the nothingburger does it again. This would be a great skit for SNL but they would probably not touch it-might hurt Urkel´s feelings.

Etyhl: "When is Obama going to actually do something, do some work, Mister Carney?". Carney: "Ethyl how long have you been a reporter now?! Would you like to rephrase the question and try again? Would you define ´something´?".
Ethyl: "you know something, as in some-thing, some-thing tangible, something we can write about, print and sink our teeth into".
Carney: "Obama is not a cook or chef, Ethyl. He´s the president of the United States. Next?". ha ha ha ha.

Well, I read it.

FTA: “...The offensive began last week, when Obama took a dozen Republican senators to the Jefferson Hotel for a meal of blue crab risotto, lobster Thermidor, sea bass and the like. Next, he invited House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan to the White House for some more sea bass, accompanied by vegetable soup….”

They eat well! Life is good!

I’ll be thinking of this at lunch when I sit down to Spam on white!

Jay Carney is a joke. The only place in America someone with his snarky, adolescent attitude and dishonest, obstructionist mean could succeed for more than a week is Washington D.C. There, he´s perfection. But that´s no compliment.

I am a little surprised at the total disrespect Carney had for Bill Plante. These people are really vicious. Oh well, Tom Coburn said Obama and his staff were really nice folk.
With the greatest of intentions.

The WH dweebs all need to spend some time doing a real job. They´re all nonentities with delusions of grandeur.

So Dana observes that Carney was argumentative, snappish, offensive, and makes strange (untrue?) claims.

Want to know who to blame for that Dana? Look in the mirror.

BO and his crew have learned that their mindless followers and a sycophant press will either ignore their behavior and lies or embrace them. The WH crew often talks out of both sides of their mouth and if challenged on it in the slightest, a rare occurrence, they quickly become nasty and raise charges of racism and other idiocy.

BO, Carney, and their ilk are your creation Dana. Like Dr. Frankenstein, you have created a monster.

Charm !!! Just another word to make us all think that things will change.

Yea, right and the Pope is not Catholic. /s

This Carney clown is appropriately named...just call him Bozo for short!

Thanks, Dana! For years I’ve been dyin’ to know how old Mara Liasson is:

Q. How old is Mara Liasson? A. 57

Q. How’s good ol’ Mara Liasson? A. Just fine, and thanks for askin’.

Now, THAT’S reportin’!