Arianna Discusses Obama, Debt Deal On 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' (VIDEO)

Arianna Huffington appeared on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" to discuss the fallout of the debt ceiling deal.

She said that President Obama "failed" at gaining independent support.

"If Obama thought that this was really his way of saying, 'I'm the grownup in the room, I'm going to compromise, go with me,' it's not working," she explained.

Discussing the deal's economic shortfalls, she said, "On purely economic terms, this is not working...you had basically a pretty reasonable consensus among the economists, this is not the right policy long term to control the deficit."

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Comments

[FACTISFACT]

03:30 PM on 08/08/2011

I strongly feel Arianna to meet the President and suggest him what she actually thinks would work now particularly about job and the rest of the things she suggested during the discussion.

[love5pets]

01:39 PM on 08/08/2011

Heh! the Agency backtracking and its admission that it incorrectly.....

I wonder when they'll backtrack on their incorrect rating for us.

Either this agency needs a total rehaul or it should be rendered void.

[love5pets]

01:23 PM on 08/08/2011

The S&P backtracked! Now that's a laugh n' half. I wonder when they'll decided to backtrack on our rating.

Either a total rehaul is in order or someone should render them irrelevant.

[Marlyn]

09:54 AM on 08/08/2011

Joe Klein thinks polls reveal how the American people feel about what Congress is doing.

B S

Polls are opinion makers, not opinion takers.

[naschkatze]

12:37 PM on 08/08/2011

I've not seen eye to eye with you on Obama, but we do agree on many things so here's a fan for this comment and many more.

[love5pets]

08:57 AM on 08/08/2011

This is a repost.

The link you provided is to the general S&P site where it talks about how they reached the "assumptive" conclusions; that is, our dysfunctional government and our policies.

No where on that site does it specifically mention their downgrade was due to our "entitlement" programs,which is what you're asserting.

That's just not true.

And, yes, I can and do read.

[love5pets]

08:14 AM on 08/08/2011

Paul Krugman in today's column;

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/opinion/credibility-chutzpah-and-debt.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB

pretty much exposes S&P. This is the agency that refers to our government as dysfunctional.

Oh, the irony.

[cybersense]

12:27 PM on 08/08/2011

here ihttp://www.housingwire.com/tag/senate-permanent-subcommittee-on-investigationss more for you :

[grizzly bear55]

03:38 AM on 08/08/2011

I watched the program and was laughing the entire show.

The article should be about Klein who knew his stuff very well.

[sillyfrog]

09:38 AM on 08/08/2011

I saw nothing to laugh at.

[marknez21]

02:40 AM on 08/08/2011

Title of this article is wrong. Please correct it to " Fareed Zakaria GPS" to discuss the fallout of the debt ceiling with his guests"

[44jupiter]

01:27 AM on 08/08/2011

Our predatory capitalist economic system is ultimately unsustainable. We're so much more efficient than we were 30 years ago yet wages have stagnated as the wealthiest 2% take an increasingly larger piece of the pie. With the accelerating pace of offshoring to cheap labor markets and job killing automation/robotics technology, rampant unemployment resulting from increased efficiency is inevitable. There are really only two possible outcomes I can see: Some type of socialism (which people will be clamoring for eventually) or a collapse of our civilization.

[dsa1115]

01:18 AM on 08/08/2011

Obama had both Houses of Congress for 2 years and he blew it, plain and simple. This administration should stop pointing fingers and constantly blaming others for the problems they haven't either fixed or created themselves.

[grizzly bear55]

03:41 AM on 08/08/2011

He had only 46 Democrats he can count on and that was not enough to enact the bills that the house approved,

[KingGeorgetheTurd]

07:49 AM on 08/08/2011

some would argue 43

[ObamaLover1]

09:48 AM on 08/08/2011

Grizzly, dont forget the Blue Dogs in the congress..Its people like Arinna that keep dogging this President with no facts. I dont understand; if Bohner cant make the Tea Party do what he wants how and the heck is the President suppose 2. The Tea Party wants the President to fail which means they want the country to fail; what doesnt Arinna and the rest of the idiotic punditry get or dont understand..they are not going to work with this President to fix the economy...THEY WANT HIM TO FAIL!!!

[FlyHuffington]

07:49 AM on 08/08/2011

The fillibuster proof Senate proved to be a disappointment, To say that Obama had both houses of Congress for two years is disingenuous. Everything in the Senate required 60 votes. With some Democratic Senators (for example Ben Nelson with a narrow focus on their own interest) the country was essentially ungovernable. The Republicans in the Senate, narrowly focussed on making sure the President was a one-term President deserve the majority of the credit for the inaction of the first two years.

[cclaker]

12:15 AM on 08/08/2011

I watched Ariana on Fareed Zakaria, and I saw her admit that her editorial policy, for herself and her writers, has been to criticize the president for many of his policies, specifically what she categorizes as his failure on growth and jobs. How is he supposed to do that when he can't even get the Congress to approve the head of the Consumer Protection Agency, or any number of appointee positions? The GOP doesn't want him to succeed at anything, so they've sabotaged his policies and proposals at every turn. So where is Ms. Huffington's criticism of the right? How can the editor overlook the filibusters, the stalling, the complete hijacking of the legislative process? That's why our nation received the lowered rating--Standard and Poors couldn't see any end of the obstructionism, based on what Mitch McConnell said about the GOP's plan to oppose the debt ceiling increase every time it comes up.

I also disagree with the editor regarding Obama's approval with independents. Joe Klein also disagreed with her. I don't think that group is likely to abandon a leader who tries to act in a bi-partisan manner, considering all the people of this nation, not just Democrats and not just Republicans. It would seem the criticism of the president is personal, and I think HP would serve its readers better if a more fair appraisal of Obama as well as conservatives is presented.

[akurosawafan]

10:54 AM on 08/08/2011

Nice call.

[Frank Stanek]

02:30 PM on 08/08/2011

There is NOTHING bi-partisan about Obama. He takes Paul Ryan into his office and congratulates him on the courage of his bill and then sits him in the front row of his news conference and belittles him. Everything that goes wrong he points at Bush or the republicans. All he is doing now is trying to pander for every vote he can get to try and get another term. It is absolutely appalling. Remember, one of his many (broken) campaign promises was to bring Washington together. I have never seen any president tear it further apart.

[WoodyCPM]

11:30 PM on 08/07/2011

Drew Weston on Obama:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/what-happened-to-obamas-passion.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=opinion

[bridgeman]

03:09 AM on 08/08/2011

wow...thnx

[Erdgeist]

10:53 PM on 08/07/2011

What nobody mentioned is the burgeoning liquidity trap. A liquidity trap occurs when monetary policy is unable to stimulate the economy (which is the case right now). Faced with this prospect, anticipating a bad economy, businesses with liquid assets (presently 1.8 trillion dollars) are unwilling to invest. Everyone sits on their dough, in other words. By not investing, unemployment rises, the economy looks even worse which serves to make businesses even more cautious.

[SouthernRaised]

12:22 AM on 08/08/2011

The liquidity trap is all Bernanke, through monetary policy, and Geithner, through fiscal policy, have focused on for the last couple of years. The results have been somewhat successful to date but all the money is out in the economy but coming to an end soon. The bet was that growth would have picked up by now. I hasn't. That's the issue; back to square one. Continued liquidty trap.

[cincinnati]

01:42 AM on 08/08/2011

It seems we were doing better, confidence coming back, until
the price of gas went up [roughly 30%+] over a short time.
There was no real change in demand around the world, not
that fast, it was the greed of speculators who can use
margins to drive the market, in effect, nuts.

Even conservative Exxon has said speculators have
added an unnecessary 50-80 cents to every gallon.
So the small opening of Strategic Reserves recently
must be done 2-3 more times, to shock the spec's
and force some out of the market. This one
step could save 2-300,000 jobs soon.

[Si1ver1ock]

10:31 PM on 08/07/2011

At least pro-growth policies are being discusssed in a major media setting. They keep trying to make it into a horse race rather than a policy discussion.

[saintjule]

10:15 PM on 08/07/2011

Arianna:crisp clean thinking isn't she?

[Gmoney1]

12:07 AM on 08/08/2011

nope!