Chuck Todd: GOP Has Palin, Cruz to ‘Blame’ for Bad ‘Treatment They’re Getting from Democrats,’ Obama

mediaite.com ^ | October 14, 2013 | Noah Rothman

[Tailgunner Joe]

NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and MSNBC host Chuck Todd reported on Monday that tea party figures like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin helped scuttle a potential deal to raise the debt ceiling over the weekend when they led World War II veterans to march on the White House. Todd reported that the tea party Republicans are “doing everything they can” to keep the shutdown and debt ceiling standoff “alive.”

“While the non-tea party Republicans are desperately trying to end this standoff, the tea party Republicans are doing everything they can to keep it alive,” Todd said on Monday.

He said that Cruz and Palin attended a rally with elderly veterans at the WWII Memorial over the weekend where they were actively “fueling protesters who tore down barricades and carried them to the White House where they clashed with police.”

“Every time non-tea party Republicans want to complain about the treatment their getting from Democrats and the White House, they may only have these folks to blame,” he continued.

Todd laughed after playing a clip of Cruz saying the Democrats in Congress should give up on the “games” that led to the shutdown and the debt ceiling standoff.

“The solution to the standoff, at least according to establishment Republicans, has always been to point out that the spending victories of the last few years are victories for the GOP and that they should declare that and move on,” Todd continued.

“It’s just one more example of how the tea party has been a net negative for the Republicans post-2010,” he concluded. “Gave them the enthusiasm to win the House, but what’s it done since?”

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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: 113th; blamegame; cartel; chucktodd; cruz; enemedia; idiot; idoit; lamestreammedia; palin; sarahpalin; shutdown; teaparty; tedcruz

[edcoil]

Does everyone understand increasing the debt limit is simply giving the government more money we don’t have?

It only benefits them.

[MeganC]

Chuck Todd needs the perspective he’d get from being strung up on a lamp post.

[Vaquero]

[BitWielder1]

In other words, it's their own fault for fighting back.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Hey Chuck Todd..do everyone a favor and go F yourself OK..Any Republican who wants to be friends with clowns like this don’t belong in the GOP..Dems want Republican who will bend over and do whatever they want..they dont want Republicans to fight and they cant stand it when they see Conservatives fighting for whats right

[Paladin2]

More like 0bama’s commie mommie, FMD, Alinsky. Pivard-Cloven etc. are dumping on the couple of TEA Party “moles” daring to stick their heads up outta their holes.

[KC_Lion]

Ping to Sarah's Awesome List!

I don't Always Ping Sarah's List when some MSM Idiot opens his mouth about her.

But when I do, I am never disappointed of the Epic Smack Down Sarah's List Members Deliver.

Keep it up my FRiends.

[sickoflibs]

GOP hasnt caved yet.

[Henry Hnyellar]

Yes, because the Democrats were always nice to the Republicans before Palin and Cruz came along. Chuck Todd= blithering idiot.

[Dr. Thorne]

Chuck Todd

[GeronL]

The GOPe has been getting that treatment for 50 years at least if not since its inception

[McGruff]

Chuck Todd. Obama’s Monica Lewinsky.

[KC_Lion]

Bravo Megan my Dear.

[RedMDer]

He must have gotten the White House unified statement propaganda to blame the evil TEA Party.

[MichaelCorleone]

Sure Chuck, whatever you say.

[RightGeek]

Who would’a guessed? NBC’s F Chuck Todd’s Wife is a Democrat operative! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2776271/posts

[RedMDer]

Please donate today!!
We have the need for speed!!
Let's finish this Thon quickly
so Jim can fully recover without
hosting the fundraiser for two months :)
Thank you!!

[INVAR]

Chuck Todd needs the perspective he’d get from being strung up on a lamp post.

Amen. I guess until and unless that fear of what We The People will do to tyrants manifests itself as a reality in their minds - they think they can bully and shame us into silence and capitulation.

[The Cajun]

Man!!! Poor old Chucky has his panties all up in a bunch today.

Mush have hooked up his suspenders to the wrong place :)

[dead]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin helped scuttle a potential deal to raise the debt ceiling over the weekend when they led World War II veterans to march on the White House

What he's actually claiming here is that Obama scuttled any deal because he was insulted by their presence at the rally. What other possible effect of the rally can he be referring to?

So President Stompyfeet continues his tantrum, and this toady scolds those who mussed Obama's hair just when he was starting to calm down.

[alloysteel]

Scuttling a potential deal to raise the debt ceiling does not sound like a bad thing to me, as the “deal” would in no way bring any discipline to spending.

Any “deal” with the Current Regime now squatting in the White Hut (or “Spite” Hut) is invariably totally unilateral, with no lasting social benefit to anybody, and only to the greater shame and degradation of the Republicans.

[Don Corleone]

The Marxist are in power. As long as they are this sort of thing will continue and only increase in intensity. There is only one way they can be removed. History! History! History!

[KC_Lion]

Pregnant Lady saying what she thinks! Lol!

[tet68]

he concluded. “Gave them the enthusiasm to win the House, but what’s it done since?”

Given us the enthusiasm to win the Senate?

[SteveH]

Alinsky Rules for Radicals #12:

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

[TADSLOS]

What is a Chuck Todd, some kind of girly drink?

[csivils]

They need to make up their mind... “if the vets rebuffed them for trying to hijack the demonstration” then how can they blame them for “leading it”.

They can’t keep their lies straight.

[jimfree]

Who does Chuck Todd have to blame for being so stupid and silly?

[yldstrk]

that loser has obama to blame for the treatment from the American people they are receiving

[onyx]

Chuck Todd: Obama’s Monica Lewinsky.

PREFECT !©

[Billthedrill]

Sheesh, can this get any more juvenile? What’s next, Hillary on her broom spelling out “Surrender Dorothy” in sky writing?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

dead :" So President Stompyfeet continues his tantrum, and this toady scolds those who mussed Obama's hair just when he was starting to calm down."

The ( media) beatings will continue ..
until morale improves !!!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin helped scuttle a potential deal to raise the debt ceiling -—

I don’t believe the Commie, but we know who he hates.

Viva the Tea Party! Fight the power!

[Democrat_media]

Sarah Palin is looking so pretty in these pictures.

I hope Sarah runs for President

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpnwfDbEVs8

[From The Deer Stand]

And you, Chuck, have Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Durbin and a few others to blame for bad treatment from Republicans.

[Migraine]

For once this nitwit is right. Cruz, et al are fighting an heroic battle on the last hill we have to live or die on. The few, the proud, we band of brothers, etc.
Sometimes, when the steamroller is about to steamroll us, a landmine is about our only defense. Oh, we could jump out of the way — but at what cost? At the cost of having the rest of the country, the Constitution, the American heritage, murdered. We have a few heroes; but we need some more. More Clarence Thomases and fewer John Robertses.

[Timber Rattler]

Blame the victims, eh, Chuck?

[TexasCajun]

Chuck Todd is just one of many of Obama Gerbils!

[MeganC]

Any time now! (-:

[Polyxene]

Chuck you, Todd!

[Diogenesis]

Chuck Todd the Shameless PR Rep cannot tell the truth;
and shows it with his increasingly shifty eyes ,
and sweating upper lip.

[KC_Lion]

Sarah Palin is looking so pretty in these pictures.

Yes She Was!

[KC_Lion]

Pryaers for you Megan and your family!

Do think it will be a Boy or a Girl (or BOTH!?!) O_o

[JPG]

The WH memo to Chuck Toad told him to amp up the rhetoric because Plan A is not working.

***ALERT***

GO TO PLAN B!

***END ALERT***

[RedMDer]

Yes #45 maybe? I hope so too. Thanks for posting the video.

[mrsmel]

He’s complaining about “what have they done lately” as he helps to sell them out?! Hypocrite..

[LibLieSlayer]

We have satan to blame for chuck breathing.

[VRWCarea51]

Who does Chuck Todd have to blame for being so stupid and silly?

You could blame the President. He crossed his legs and now Chuck suffers from Brain damage due to lack of oxygen.

[onyx]

Thanks very much!