Posted on 07/05/2011 5:34:37 AM PDT by JesseWatters
MARK SHIELDS: Consistency has not been a problem with Republicans. They have endorsed the Ryan plan, which of course does not provide for a balanced budget, and now they are pushing for a balanced budget. 103 House Republicans have already gone on record as saying they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless there is a cap of eighteen percent of government spending, federal spending, which is seven percent below what we're spending right now. In addition to that, they insist on a constitutional amendment and to cut spending by half, the deficit by half next year, all of which are impossible. Every serious person who has looked at this, whether in a group or a study group or commission or whatever, knows that there have to be revenue enhancements, taxes raised, as well as spending cuts. And the idea of just trying to do it with spending cuts alone is just irrational.
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I can't argue with that. I can't even understand that.
LOL. Shields is such a hack. He is only programed to spew DNC talking points. When confronted with simple questions about the Dems’; irresponsibility, he short-circuits.
No big accomplishment by CK. Mark “Maxi” Shields has ALWAYS been a drooling idiot with actual spittle running down his face.
Between him and Chris Matthews, they could be installed as lawn sprinkler systems.
Watch his eyes in the beginning. He’s desperately trying to remember the bullet-points off of the DNC fax.
I love how Shields drones on and on, but when asked a simple, basic question, he starts sputtering like someone just hit him with a blunt object. “It is there!”
Obama said he could write the fix for the government deficit on the back of an envelope. So let’s see the dimwit’s envelope.
Remioinds me of Jackie Gleason when he’d get caught in a lie by Alice” “Hummina hummina hummina.”
"I can't go around with my birth certificate attached to my forehead. Or an envelope either." -- Barack Obama
Duh OK. That works for me. LOL!
That’s what I thought. How do you ‘counterpoint’ a bunch of random English words strung together? LOL!!!
>Isn’t this TWO YEARS IN A ROW that the democraps have not submitted a budget?
Yep. They shirked the 2011 budget and there was a bunch of hoopla earlier this year as the incoming GOP congress had to throw one together. Then they proceeded to get blamed for the process not going smoothly.
The Dems don’t do their job, and the GOP gets blamed when they have to pick up the slack. Typical for the MSM.
He doesn't want to publicly show off an envelope that says "Raise taxes!" on it.
It’s in there - you just have to agree to it before you get to see what’s in it.
And this is why this entire crisis started in the first place. It wasn’t Frank/Dodd, although that did play a big part. It was the MSM attacking George Bush and his administration for 8 years.
The only thing the MSM cares about is their Marxist ideology leanings, learned at ivy league schools. They do not care if this nation collapses because most of them have enough wealth to get by and a career as a propagandist. And they do not care if their newspapers, tv stations collapse because they know that’s the sacrifice they make to help the cause.
We all know what Obama and his administration are. It’s the MSM who is the guardian and protector of Marxism. Control the information, you control the people.
Destroy the guardian of the information and you have freedom.
How can you possibly have time to submit a budget when you’re busy sodomizing the military and forcing socialized medicine on an unwilling public?
It has been close to 800 days since the Rats in Congress proposed a budget. The head Rat’s budget was defeated 0 - 97. The Republicans, I presume, looked at the deficit built in to the budget and said we cannot support that. I think the Democrats did for the same reason BUT the Democrats do not believe their own publicity that the November elections were not about fiscal conservatism, not stopping the rush to socialism, and not a repudiation of the takeover of the Democrat party by America hating leftists. And they know a vote for any budget with a deficit attached makes reelection difficult in some precints, districts, and states. At one point, the Republicans believed this but the elitist establishment of the Republican party (McConnell, McCain, Graham, Boehner, Cantor, Lott, et al) made sure that they supported the Democratic explanation of the November election. Need proof? The budget deal that in reality only cut a little over $300 Million from a $1.6 Trillion deficit. That is classic old timey, gray headed, worn out, cave quickly, elitist Republican establishment support for the status quo (which is not being hammered by the NYT or WaPo, sucking in false flattery by the Rats for compromising away conservative principles, not losing their cushy office, perks, salaries, and cocktail party invitations.)
PBS Pundits don't need Krauthammer for this. They do it regularly to themselves.
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