White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer offered a pre-buttal to the speech, writing on the White House blog that while Boehner's rhetoric "may be new, the ideas remain the same: out-of-control deficits, decreased oversight of the big Wall Street banks that helped create the financial crisis and putting special interests first by maintaining tax loopholes for corporations that ship American jobs overseas." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Tarullo's pre-buttal -- which sort of asks voters to take a lot on trust (and hey, that's worked for BHO so far!) -- is after the jump. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The critiques echoed those offered by others in the Democratic Party, including several members of the House, who hosted a pre-buttal conference call mocking Boehner for a lack of substantive ideas for economic recovery. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Whats interesting is that Clinton can't pre-buttal or otherwise stick her nose into this issue. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As a somewhat long-ish aside, and a pre-buttal to the "Obama's just the same" crowd - As you all know I've been a major critic of Obama's FISA vote. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I noez she licks her hol self clenz wif dat veree same tongue, an dat incloods her buttal rejens. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Before Bush gives yet another BIG SPEECH about the Iraq disaster, the National Security Network put together a pre-buttal to set the record straight. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I guess they called it a ‘Pre-buttal’ because it provided noth Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi with opportunities to makes asses of themselves several days prior to the SOTU. ❋ Unknown (2005)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave a "pre-buttal" yesterday to Bush's SOTU address next Tuesday night which provided a defensive White House with an opportunity to play a little political offense. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In their “pre-buttal” to the State of the Union, they promised, among much else, that, according to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, if they come to power, “every American will have affordable access to broadband within five years.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
It's unclear how total Furious George's emotional meltdown will be at this point, but his tangle of lies on matters domestic is already available for review via the Center for American Progress '' pre-buttal, already on line. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I am humbled by your intelligen, witty and well though out re-buttal to my opinion of Wish. ❋ Unknown (2003)
M. O'BRIEN: Democrats, meanwhile, Suzanne, I guess you can't call it a rebuttal, it would but a "pre-buttal," because they're doing it in advance of the speech. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Already tonight, the Gore campaign putting out a five-page pre-buttal, as it calls it, saying -- trying to convince the American people, they will hear tonight about Governor Bush's tax cut. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Michelle Bachmann gave a Tea-buttal which was laden with false information. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Watching the video of her Alaska-buttal, she came across as angry, ugly and hateful and it was reflected in her face as well as her words--beauty really is only skin deep. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It seems [the Republican] [rebuttal] [writers] didn't read the actual speech they were rebutting, huh? Does that make it a "buttal" instead? ❋ Arpie108 (2009)
today [i told you] i would put [2 things] [in your butt]. sorry for my buttalism. ❋ Ashley Bergquist (2009)
That was such a good [buttal], [I can't even] think of any way to [rebuttal] it! ❋ SuperLoona (2019)
