[thethirddegree]

Obama needs to be arrested, tried for treason and brought to justice for the harm he has done to America.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Legalized theft of the national treasure. Tea Party patriots need to gear up to further drain the swamp in DC in 2 years. Many GOP incumbents need to go as well.

[ProudFossil]

Charles:
Why must you keep harping that we have to borrow this money? Quit spending it and you do not have to borrow it. Simple.

[LibLieSlayer]

Go to fox and read the transcript of kraut with the All Stars from last night and the night before. He praised this bill... and for the second night in a row he said obama was back... that he shown real leadership and that this is a win win for him. He also said that tax cuts were a cost to the budget and that we could not afford them. The other conservative... the guy with the beard... told charles that he was absolutely without a doubt wrong. chuckie is a liberal and he still has a tingle for obama... he loves the guy.

LLS

[ClearCase_guy]

Krauthammer is very, very bright. However, he is one of the "conservative" pundits with whom I no longer have any patience. Noonan is another.

Sorry. Not an actual Conservative. Just plays one on TV.

[Cicero]

Krauthammer has been acting like a real jerk.

There is a huge difference between throwing porkulus funds into the gutter for your friends to fight over, and letting hard-working taxpayers keep their own money.

In reality, the first did not succeed in stimulating anything. In fact, it resulted in more job losses. The second won’t stimulate anything either—because we already HAVE the Bush tax cuts. But if we don’t keep them, then it will be like dropping a large rock on the remains of our economy. It will cost MORE millions of job losses.

Krauthammer does not understand that there is a difference between balancing the budget by raising taxes and by cutting spending. Raising taxes makes things worse. Cutting spending makes things better. Spending cuts are the only rational way to balance the budget in this disastrous economic collapse. It will hurt, but not permanently.

[DTogo]

It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U.S. economy over the next two years

No Charles, excessive and wasteful spending by Congress of money we don't have will result in unnecessary borrowings from China.

[fightinJAG]

Obama's public exasperation with this infantile leftism is both perfectly understandable and politically adept. It is his way back to at least the appearance of centrist moderation. The only way he will get a second look from the independents who elected him in 2008 - and abandoned the Democrats in 2010 - is by changing the prevailing (and correct) perception that he is a man of the left.

While I am still mulling the bulk of Krauthammer's analysis, I have to say the above was my first reaction to Obambi's reaction.

The problem, though, is that while Krauthammer may be absolutely correct on the facts, as Tony Blair says, "mood always trumps politics."

It's not clear yet how analyses such as Charles' play, or don't, with or against the prevailing mood, which is the foundation for the mood of the country during the presidential election cycle.

[Jim W N]

The “swindle” this time around is not reducing government. The Right must cut government and extinguish ObamieCommieCare

[gitmogrunt]

If Jim DeMint is against this so-called Tax cut, then so am I.