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?”

[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!

[CedarDave]

The Todd in that picture is the only one that Sarah needs to be concerned about!

[kcvl]

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

Kind of hard to do anything politically when you have the Gestapo IRS (lead by Obama) holding up your tax exempt status and auditing you, sending in the ATF, FBI and OSHA, Todd, you A-Hole!

[Col Freeper]

NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and MSNBC host Chuck Todd reported on Monday ...

Ah yes, Chuckles the Clown weighing in with his vast intellect.

Chuckles is just trying sooooo hard to help the Republicans.

[jonrick46]

[Tax-chick]

Pregnant Lady saying what she thinks!

Oh, man, I could tell some stories about that ... but I have to go to Walmart.

Hang in there, MeganC.

[jonrick46]

[Waryone]

When the dems are unsuccessful vilifying conservatives as a group, they go after individuals (Palin, Cruz) and try to turn them into bogey men.

[bgill]

Chuck who?

[MeganC]

Thank you!!! (-:

[Amagi]

What the heck is F. Chuck on about?
Fed gov't Democrats have long treated the GOP with contempt and the GOP always rolled over for them.
When fearless Tea Party challengers get in the face of the Dem bullies they start to whine.