George Will Confronts MSNBC Analyst for Comparing Tea Party to Terrorists

The Blaze ^ | August 8, 2011 | Jonathon M. Seidl

[radioone]

Steve Rattner is a regular guest analyst on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and a former Obama adviser. Recently he labeled the Tea Party “economic terrorist” for not — in his estimation — playing fair during the debt ceiling negotiations. According to him, it was “unreasonable” for Tea Party congressman not to consider any tax increases, and it was wrong for them to threaten not to raise the debt limit unless such increases were taken off the table.

As the debate continued, Will pulled out his ace in the hole. See, what Rattner failed to realize — or realized but didn’t want to admit — is that there were actually more Democrats in the House that eventually voted against the compromise than Republicans. That point wasn’t lost to Will:

“You do know that 95 House Democrats voted against raising the debt ceiling as compared to only 66 House Republicans. You do know that 26 Democratic Senators voted against raising the debt ceiling?”

[Owen]

That’s not the right point.

The correct point is the Dems had overwhelming majorities in both houses less than 1 year ago. They could have raised taxes any time they wanted. It was THEY who had the power to raise and chose not to raise.

[tgusa]

I suspect because The Massiah didn’t want that blot on his record come Nov 2012.

[mporter345]

It was THEY who had the power to raise and chose not to raise.

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Exactly!

It wasl also the RATS who failed to pass a budget in over two years...

Rats are filthy, disgusting miserable creatures.

[sappy]

AMEN!

[samtheman]

Rattner wasn’t even allowed to answer. The B*tch saw where Will was going and immediately sidetracked the conversation into “entitlements”.

[USNBandit]

Obama wants to raise taxes now, but in December of 2010 (with that majority) he signed the law extending the Bush Tax Cuts. That was in a lame duck session.

The reality is that the democrats only want to push tax increases as part of some other package to avoid taking the blame. They want a bipartisan tax increase they aren't going to get.

[Sudetenland]

While I'm glad George Will said what he said, I continue to be very impressed with this new group of young tea-party supported congressmen.

Chaffetz, like Jordan and the others was strong, not afraid to take on the liberals and their trash talk, and they all are fully conversant with the facts.

We need to send a second crop of them up to Washington in 2012 along with a conservative President.

[DaveyB]

• It must have been the Tea Party that passed the porkulas
• It must have been the Tea Party that passed the healthcare bill against the wishes of more than half the country
• It must have been the Tea Party that passed that 2000+ page bill so they could find out what was in it
• It must have been the Tea Party that shut down the WI capitol when they were asked to contribute to their pensions even though they produced inferior results
• It must have been the Tea Party that wore para-military attire outside of the polling place in PA intimidating voters
• It must have been the Tea Party that shut down oil drilling in the gulf and Alaska and the lower 48
• It must have been the Tea Party that leaked e-mails from the governors office
• It must have been the Tea Party has been hiding the records of the White house resident

  Ooops my bad - turns out that was the work of an elite terrorist cell known as the democrats.

[pepsionice]

Only an observation....but they must be fairly scared to run up these bogus comments almost daily now. I don’t think you can watch twelve minutes of MSNBC without Tea Party and terrorist being used in the same sentence.

[ammomajor]

You wrote: “I don’t think you can watch twelve minutes of MSNBC without Tea Party and terrorist being used in the same sentence.”
Why would anyone want to spend twelve irreplaceable minutes of their life watching MSNBC? Of course, I am biased as we have not owned a television nor watched any television since 2002.

[oldernittany]

Jordan is one tough SOB. Not one to back down:

“Jim Jordan was raised in Champaign County, Ohio, graduating from Graham High School in 1982, where he was a four-time state champion in wrestling with a career record of 150-1. He went on to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, where he was a two-time NCAA wrestling champion. He later earned a Master’s degree in Education from the Ohio State University and a Law Degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.”
http://jordan.house.gov/Biography/
Excerpt from his webpage: