Schieffer Hits Christie for How He ‘Demonized Teachers’ and Presses Him to Offer ‘Straight Talk’ on Raising Taxes
CBS’s Bob Schieffer hit Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie from the left on Sunday’s Face the Nation, claiming he has “demonized” teachers and urging him to give some “straight talk” about the necessity to raise taxes.
After asking if he thinks “Governor Walker out there in Wisconsin has gone too far?” in trying to end collective bargaining, Schieffer ludicrously asserted “everybody in this country on all sides of this thinks we need education reform,” but he wanted to know if Christie realized his stance has “demonized teachers and will raise questions in young people's minds as to whether they want to go into the profession?”
“Banal Bob” soon implored Christie with his standard plea: “You have a reputation as a straight talker, I think. Do you believe that the budgetary problems across this country can be resolved without raising taxes?”
Christie zinged Schieffer with solid retorts to Schieffer’s left-wing presumptions, telling Schieffer “I disagree with the premise of your question which is that everybody agrees there should be education reform. It’s everybody but the teachers union who believes that everything is fine.”
On increasing taxes: “We raised taxes and fees 115 times in the last eight years. And we still have one of the worst budget problems in America.”
From the Sunday, February 27 Face the Nation on CBS:
BOB SCHIEFFER: You really came on hard against the teachers' union. I think everybody in this country on all sides of this thinks we need education reform, that we got to do something to make our educational system better. Do you worry that the stance you have taken has somehow demonized teachers and will raise questions in young people's minds as to whether they want to go into the profession?
GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE: No, I don't. I think quite the opposite. Listen, I think that the teachers in New Jersey and there's thousands and thousands of great ones, deserve a union as good as they are. They don't have it. And I disagree with the premise of your question which is that everybody agrees there should be education reform. It’s everybody but the teachers union who believes that everything is fine. If you listen to them in New Jersey they'll tell you everything is fine. It's great. It's great except for the 104,000 kids in New Jersey that are stuck in 200 chronically failing schools....
SCHIEFFER: You have a reputation as a straight talker, I think. Do you believe that the budgetary problems across this country can be resolved without raising taxes?
CHRISTIE: Let's take New Jersey, for instance, Bob. We raised taxes and fees 115 times in the last eight years. And we still have one of the worst budget problems in America. And so I think unless you deal with the underlying structural expense problems -- and we've been dealing with them in New Jersey -- there’s no amount of taxation will keep up with the amount of spending increase that we have....
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CHEERS TO GOVERNOR CHRISTIE
Submitted by Metsie62 on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 4:23pm.
I saw this interview and I think that the Obama softness that has gripped the "drive by" media has engulfed their ability to think and do and honest and respectful interview. Hopefuuly, straight talkers like Governor Christie will help snap them out of it and responsible journalism will come back to Main Street
Bob Schieffer snap out of it?
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 5:31pm.
The walking dead have a better chance of doing that.
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So
Submitted by JustAl on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 4:31pm.
How come it's called "Face the Nation" when what's being "faced" is an ass?
Grok meets advanced being from future:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 4:32pm.
GROK: "What spend less mean?"
I would like to see all
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 4:33pm.
I would like to see all Republican politicians boycott each and every of Obama's media outlets from now until election day 2012.
Not one of them is interested in what the guest has to say, rather the interviewer bombards them with rehashed White House talking points or argues the left wing bomb throwers side of current events like some Obama cult member on Kool - Aid.
" FOX NETWORKS " and the conservative bloggers, etc. offer more than enough honest exposure. Besides these outlets are where the majority of Americans, including many dems turn to get the real news anyway.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
I disagree
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 4:56pm.
I would pay money to see Chris Christy go against Ed Schultz or Rachel Maddow. on their shows. It would be great fun to see him take intellectually take them apart.
Agree
Submitted by csmrjerry on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 5:00pm.
It will never happen because they are chicken shit..........Ed and Rachel need to be flushed down the toilet. How do these idiots stay on TV? what a stupid pair.
This is my prayer to save this country
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 4:43pm.
This is my prayer to save this country. Mitch Daniels as president for the next two terms followed by Chris Christy for the next eight years after that.
Uhm...
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 5:13pm.
I'm not sure whom you're praying to, but I'm sure that Mitch wouldn't appreciate that. He wants a truce on "social" issues, you know.
Visions and Principles blog
Hard to see the facts in the dark
Submitted by csmrjerry on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 4:55pm.
Bob and the rest of the liberals and demorats will never understand or see the problems of out of control spending because it is others people's money and they have thir head's up their a_ _!
The definition of insanity
Submitted by ArrowSmith on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 4:57pm.
We raised taxes and fees 115 times in the last eight years. And we still have one of the worst budget problems in America.”
Yep, keep raising those taxes another 115 times and maybe, just maybe we'll have a balanced budget.
Even Joe Biden....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:49pm.
says YES! [We can spend our way out of bankruptcy].
Economics 101.2 - The Democrat Years.
thanks for covering these interviews
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 5:00pm.
otherwise i'd have no knowledge of what takes place on these sunday morning shows. quit watching them years ago out of disgust and will not watch them until the hosts and lopsided panels no longer serve as mouth pieces to the democrats.
Right, Bob, they should raise taxes in NJ tomorrow morning
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 5:04pm.
That way they will drive even more productive people out of the state and go TU financially even faster than they are now.
Idiot.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
→ But it works for Schieffer
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 5:10pm.
Schieffer can't get it through his thick skull that people will actually pay extra to get FOX News when the News arm of his own institution has to rely on the success of its sitcoms.
How about CBS requires the actors in said sitcoms to kick in an extra 10% so there will be no more cutbacks in the CBS newsroom.
He is CBS, isn't he?
Nice retort
Submitted by libfail on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 5:20pm.
Oregon passed two tax measures in 2010 to retroactively tax the wealthy and businesses to avoid a budget shortfall. Guess what happened, still had the budget shortfall and pissed off every major employer in your state, good plan Oregon.
Straight Talk.
Submitted by Ashrak on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 6:32pm.
That is what is happening all over this country. The substance is that raising taxes as the solution is not happening this time (outside Obamaland) and that the spending must be addressed (cut).
It is like the illegal immigration debate. No more will the race card stifle the reality that the border and Citizenship status must be dealt with properly before anything else happens on that front.
Progressive Liberalism is going extinct before our eyes and some in the Old Media aren't dealing with that reality very well. They have failed and like an alcoholic refusing to admit their problem exists, they deny, deny, deny, deny.
Ashrak...
Submitted by iveseenitall on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 7:52pm.
"they deny,deny,deny"
Right on. The only reason for talking to a modern "liberal" at all is to expose the nation to the truth by telling the truth ( something a "liberal" will never do). And every time a conservative does talk to them, he/she has to be prepared for a verbal assault --- lies and innuendo used as weapons. Be ready to shut down them down. Christie seems ready for it, as does Rand Paul . Some of the others?--not so much.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" ( progresive)
Schieffer: "Talk straight,
Submitted by Cowboy on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 8:27pm.
Schieffer: "Talk straight, and give me the answer I want to hear from you..."
Am I the ONLY person in the world...
Submitted by BBallleaper on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 10:48pm.
who knows NOT to go on these shows??????? What is it? Arrogance, stupidity, a need for even more exposure, that drives these idiot pols to sit down with the hateful leftist morons who MC these shows??????? Stop going on! Are you people crazy??????????????
The Only One Explanation
Submitted by Bourbeau on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 8:00am.
They all think they're going to convert the uncovertable with their rationale. An absolute miscalculation of the worst kind. You'd be better off talking to a wall. My only gripe with this is when they go on these shows and subject themselves to the liberal line of questioning, they are not forceful enough in pushing back at the host exposing their liberal bias.
OK, here's the optimist in me.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:54pm.
If they don't appear, the poor, publicly-schooled, progressively indoctrinated Left will never get any truth; only continuous mindless progressive drivel from the likes of Scheiffer, Williams, Couric, et al.
Teacher Reform
Submitted by swiftnick on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:09pm.
What is truly needed is teacher reform. The right of tenure should be eliminated in public schools and public school teachers should be required to submit to annual merit evaluations on which raises and promotions are determined.
The end result attempting to
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 1:09pm.
The end result attempting to be accomplished across this nation IS teacher reform. Unfortunately, with corrupt, and they are all corrupt, unions with forced ( collective bargaining ) policies that protect the bad, sometime criminal teachers, the deck is stacked agaist the American taxpayer, worse yet our children.
There are as many failing schools, as not in this country. The root of all the problems lie with the teachers and the corrupt unions whom are paid hansomely to protect them, even when they've broken the law.
The wave of Charter schools introduced during the Bush administration, against the objection of the teachers and unions, have proven once and for all, it's not the students, parents or governer that are the problem.
We the People are not going back to the status quo when it comes to the criminal enterprise that is public education in America.
So all you whiney libs, good for nothing teachers and criminal union bosses, it's time YOU sat down & shut the _____ up for a change. There's a new wind of change blowing through America, just in time to clear your stench out of our Capitol buildings, classrooms and our children's lives if you can't conform. There are plenty of more qualified, dedicated, real Americans just waiting to take your place. The decision, for right now anyway, is yours.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...