Cokie Roberts on Downgrade: 'The Problem That We Have Here is the Constitution'

Newsbusters ^ | 8/7/11 | Noel Sheppard

[Nachum]

ABC's Cokie Roberts said something on national television Sunday that made her colleague George Will shake his head on camera.

During a "This Week" discussion about the recent credit rating downgrade by Standard and Poor's Roberts said, 'The problem that we have here is the Constitution of the United States of America which actually does require people to come together from different perspectives" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

[VideoDoctor]

Did she get the name “Cokie” from snortin’ that stuff?

[jjotto]

Mary, AKA Cokie because her brother couldn’t say her middlle name Corrine, is the daughter of former Democrat House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. He disappeared in a plane in Alaska. She is, of course, like all clear thinkers, a Roman Catholic.

[little jeremiah]

(Make dogfood?)

[little jeremiah]

She’s a CINO - Cathlolic in name only. There are many FR members who are staunchly conservative and Catholic.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

[Average Al]

"(Make dogfood?)"

Lots of glue....

[org.whodat]

Poor thing starting to get oldtimers.

[mojitojoe]

Back in the day she would have been considered a traitor. Sedition, throw her in the slammer.

[raybbr]

This fits right in with Obama’s “big, messy, tough democracy...” standing in the way of progress...

[Portcall24]

ABC = All But Communist

[TMA62]

Hey Cokie, if it weren’t for the Constitution, you would be in a concentration camp.

[wardaddy]

another southerner who went north and got rurn’t

hell...she may have only ever known DC

they ever find her daddy’s body?

I think Gil Scott Heron knows where it is

[longtermmemmory]

remember Cokie’s father was a senator (i believe)

if correct, I wonder what the heck he taught her.

[FourPeas]

What you call sedition, others might consider call free speech.

[Texas Eagle]

Well, George, these are the people you've been placating, humoring and otherwise cozying up to for decades.

I shake my head at you that you only shake your head when someone like Cokie says what she said.

What should make you shake your head is that Cokie and her fellow travellers BELIEVE this and have for decades.

And you'd rather be associated with them than Tea Partiers. A shake of the head from me to you, my good sir.

[FourPeas]

Liberals blame the system when they don’t get their own way.

[ladyjane]

Hey Cokie, if it weren’t for the Constitution, you would be in a concentration camp.

Her husband Steve Roberts (US New and World Report, NPR) and the rest of the family too.

[Arrowhead1952]

Here is one thread about that ‘The Problem That We Have Here is the Constitution’. It was Kookie Roberts