Sunday Highlights: CBS’s Smith Wonders If Tea Party ‘Losing’ Its Appeal, More Pleas to Raise Taxes
“Do you think the Tea Party is losing some of its appeal?” So Harry Smith cued up a hardly independent guest on Sunday’s Face the Nation: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic Congresswoman and Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Earlier, the fill-in host was astonished House Majority Leader Eric Cantor would want to find cuts to afford extra spending for tornado recovery efforts: “One of the things you said earlier this week is that emergency funding should be offset by cuts to the budget deficit. Do you stand by that?”
Meanwhile, another round of Sunday panels meant more pleas to raise taxes. On Fox News Sunday, a frustrated Juan Williams fretted: “Republicans -- for all this talk about oh, the deficit, the debt, we have to be serious, entitlement reform – refuse to consider raising taxes.”
Former Washington Post reporter and current columnist Ruth Marcus asserted on NBC’s Meet the Press:
One piece of the movement that we have not seen, and I understand that it cannot be shown in public, but until Republicans acknowledge that in order to get our fiscal house in order, we're going to need more revenue than we're currently planning to raise, you cannot get a deal.
Last Sunday: “NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Regrets Republicans Lack ‘Courage’ to Raise Taxes”
From the Sunday, May 29 Face the Nation:
HARRY SMITH: One of your colleagues has suggested that Medicare puts the House back in play in 2012. Would you go as far as to agree with that?
CONGRESSWOMAN DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Well, I think American voters are making it clear that they have seen a preview of what the Republicans would do to Medicare, do to the direction that this country is would go. And they're rejecting it. They're saying they don't like it. And so if Republican candidates cling, as my Republican colleagues in the House have, to the Ryan plan to end Medicare, to focusing on tax cuts for the wealthiest and insisting on that and balancing all the pain that they're imposing on middle class and working families, then I think that Democratic candidates for Congress and President Obama and other Democrats up and down the ballot are going to find some success. What we need to do is sit down together and work on our nation's problems.
SMITH: Do you think the Tea Party is losing some of its appeal?
SCHULTZ: I think Tea Party activists and Republican candidates elected to Congress by the Tea Party are finding that governing is hard. And that, you know, it's easy to, you know, to throw bombs and to be incendiary. Not so easy to sit down and actually govern...
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"do you think?"
Submitted by wizardjr on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:27am.
That was a moot question.
Closed Circle
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:32am.
A liberal interviewing a liberal for the benefit of the liberals watching.
Let's Lead the Free World in Tax Rates.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:35am.
Let's show the world our patriotism by having the highest tax rates of any country in the world!
Let's just raise the rate to 100% and we will get an allowance check every week. All U. S. money is the government's isn't it? I mean they printed all of it, it's their money.
Here's a better idea.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 12:00pm.
Let's make the tax rate 120%. So we can all be in the red like our economy. No reason to stop at 100% is there?
Great idea!
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 2:15pm.
Good thinking.
Well, I think American voters
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:40am.
Well, I think American voters are making it clear that they have seen a preview [translation: they're believing our propaganda] of what the Republicans would do to Medicare, do to the direction that this country is would go. [sic] And they're rejecting it.
Uh, yeah, Deb....maybe that's because the question they're being asked is "Do you agree with the Republican plan to do away with Medicare?"
Do you agree...
Submitted by Tuari on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:49am.
Personally, I wish they'd ask "Do you agree with the Democrat plan to completely destroy America as we know it, put our children so far in debt that they're sold into slavery, and make the US a 3rd world nation?"
Either that, or: Do you
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:54am.
Either that, or:
Do you think that Democrats are frustrated with the failure of President Obama to get this economy moving again, and that they might be looking for an alternative next year?
Oh perish the thought! Don't even HINT at such a prospect!!
"The failure of President Obama"
Submitted by ThisnThat on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 7:40pm.
And the libs counter with "that's an extremely racist comment", and immediately divert the conversation to how hateful conservatives are.
And that's exactly why we can't have a conversation with dims anymore. They are stupid, thoughtless, and emotional. They reject the truth and embrace lies at the drop of a hat. We need a big change in this country, that's for sure.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
So, either a sitting Congressman
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:44am.
(Anthony Weiner) who recently married Hillary Clinton's Chief of Staff Tweeted a lewd picture to a 21 year old college student -or- his Twitter and Facebook accounts were illegally hacked and no police report has been filed. Only one of these options is possible and absolutely true. The media has refused to cover this -on the scale of the John Edwards affair.
And so has NewsBusters.
Sorry for going off topic but there's no Memorial Day Open Thread. Disappointing on multiple fronts.
Apparently no one remembers why they're working from home today.
What is there to be covered?
Submitted by NL207 on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:53am.
No facts are known save what has been reported by Breitbart and discussed at Ace. There needs to be some investigation here before anyone will have the courage to report more. These are VERY powerful people you are discussing. Look how long it took for Edwards to get caught. It took Arnold even loner to get nailed for this and both of these guys impregnated the women in question. To date, Weiner has only be accused of sending lewd pictures.
NL
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:13am.
Are you serious?
The picture has been saved in cache; it's not like someone is simply making an accusation. The girl is only one of less than 100 that Weiner is "following" on Twitter. Her entire internet presence is being scrubbed included having her name removed from articles she's written for her school paper. And Weiner made the claim that his accounts were hacked- a crime that resulted in a guilty verdict for the kid that hacked SP's email account a couple years ago. And he apparently hasn't even filed a police report.
Also, there are a ton of facts known. Breitbart and Ace aren't the only one's covering this. The DC ran it as headline yesterday. Moe Lane has done some great reporting on it. HotAir has mentioned it on multiple occasions. Ace has bedunked the story given by AW's press office and exposed their response the the New York Post as pure fabrication. Someone is covering something up.
The media is saying- eh, nothing to see here- just like the did with John Edwards. Whether Weiner sent the picture or his account was hacked, it's newsworthy. The fact that the media finds it not to be, is entirely indicative of the D after his name.
And then you have Chris Lee, who took a picture of himself shirtless and sent it via Craigslist to another woman -he resigns, immediately, and his district just went to the Democrat in a very nasty race, just last week.
As for Arnold- as soon as it became public, every news entity carried it for days. Well, Weiner's package went public -or his passwords did- Friday night and nothing yet from the media. Edwards- same deal. The NE had the goods long before the MSM covered it, and still they covered only in regret. How many threads did NB have about that?
And now NewsBusters is taking a pass. And you seem fine with that because he's very powerful. NL- the yellow is showing through your shirt.
Little Weiner....
Submitted by adamsmith on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:33am.
I'd like to see this little Communist A-hole have to step down. Unfortunately, Democrat-Socialists usually get a promotion for this type of sexual behavior. If Barney Frank can run a Male Prostitution ring out of his apartment and still be in government so many years later......Bill Clinton was a RAPIST for God's sake. Non story. Look who controls the media.......
It is really sad what the MSM has become.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 11:35am.
Pathetic, actually.
No one has reported anything NEW ...
Submitted by NL207 on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 12:05pm.
since the original disclosures. Give it some time. The ball is being carried by alternative media who generally work with far less resources than the MSM. It will take them some time to ferret out the truth. Eventually, they will find these women and one or more will talk.
Off course the MSM isn't going to discuss this, at least not until the story is so big they can no longer spike it.
Let Weiner continue to try to cover his tracks. It is the denial and obstruction that hangs all these guys in the end.
Dense
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:47am.
"a frustrated Juan Williams fretted: “Republicans -- for all this talk about oh, the deficit, the debt, we have to be serious, entitlement reform – refuse to consider raising taxes.”
It's all part of helping the economy grow, Juan. Tax hikes would hurt the economy. Why do you refuse to understand this? It's not a complicated concept.
Why do they refuse to
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:02am.
Why do they refuse to understand this?
Because it goes against everything that they want!
Even their messiah understands it, even though he's in favor of it "for the sake of fairness."
mb,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:08am.
I had hopes for Juan. Even though he is a liberal, I thought he was an honest and intelligent man who, while disagreeing with conservatives, would at least understand where we are coming from. But, he keeps going back to just spewing dishonest liberal jibber-jabber.
Why ask Debbie?
Submitted by pbthinker on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 9:49am.
I'm sorry but Debbie hardly knows what the Democrats policy is, let alone if the tea party is losing its appeal. Trust me, as long as there is Debbie, Chuckie, Harry, Nancy, Kerry, Waxman, Boxer, Barney, and Rahm, the tea party will be strong.
We have a president who had 2 bites at the apple, trying to put forth a budget and he couldn't even get one vote, from his party, in the Senate. Epic fail. Secondly, the Senate hasn't passed a budget in over 2 years, you'd think the illustrious LSM would be on them about that!! Oh, I forgot, the Democrats run the Senate.
She actually had some great comments, which will be fodder for everyone trying to show the world what their Democrats are thinking. She's really great a partisan political rhetoric but terrible at thoughtful comments on the important issues.
You can tell she’s a D when
Submitted by Reaver on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:32am.
You can tell she’s a D when she can get away with saying these two statements in less than a minute.
“And so if Republican candidates cling, as my Republican colleagues in the House have, to the Ryan plan to end Medicare, to focusing on tax cuts for the wealthiest and insisting on that and balancing all the pain that they're imposing on middle class and working families…”
“I think Tea Party activists and Republican candidates elected to Congress by the Tea Party are finding that governing is hard. And that, you know, it's easy to, you know, to throw bombs and to be incendiary. Not so easy to sit down and actually govern...”
Yes Debbie, if you’re a D it is easy to throw bombs and be incendiary and to sit around not governing. Note dear old Harry sitting there nodding his head the entire time.
the chicken egg debate--tax rates vs tax revenues......
Submitted by merly1 on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:05am.
Tax rates often dont correlate with tax revenue, but economic growth always does ;o)
Still, lib's angst over this is hilarious as THEIR huge Dem majorities wouldnt let the Bush/Owebama tax rates expire last December. Why?
liars
Submitted by jessieH on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:12am.
What fool, in his right mind, wants higher taxes? As for the Tea party, only time will tell. If O'bama is still in the white house in 2012, we all lose.
Ignorance Leads To Tryanny
Submitted by iveseenitall on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:53am.
Taxation for the sake of taxation is tyranny. Government waste and corruption are at an all-time high--- not only in Washington, but in all 50 ( or is it 57?) states. Washington is Saddom and Gamorrah.The majority of Americans are economic slaves to the few. Socialism and communism create the welfare state and nothing but misery for all but those in charge --- history proves this, over and over again. Nonetheless, American "liberals" continue to support the Godless, anti-Western,anti-American philosophies which got their foot in the door in the 1960's. The Tea Party are groups of informed American citizens who are finally fighting back---to the dismay of our ignorant "journOlists". [Never,Never trust a "liberal" (progressive)]
50 or 57
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 12:08pm.
Don't worry ODumber said he's gonna hold their "FEETS" to the fire. And with such a genius manning the helm: "What Me Worry"?
The Tea Party...
Submitted by adamsmith on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:25am.
The Tea Party has the Progressive Socialists completely baffled. They simply cannot deal with the paradigm of the movement in total. They called it a miniscule movement at the beginning, a false movement created by the Republican Party. As the movement grew, they then shifted critical focus the only way they know how, blaming it on RACIST Republicans. As more blacks became visible within the movement they are now claiming the air is coming out of the balloon.
What these Progressive Socialists don't understand on an existential level is The Tea Party is not a political party. There is no leader to humiliate and laugh at a la Alinsky's "Rules fot Radicals". The Tea Party is not a branch of the Republican Party, it's a movement against Progressives in both parties, the idea being to vote in as many non-Big Government representatives as possible in order to make the INDIVIDUAL the basic political unit of representation. The Tea Party is an IDEA, an expression of Constitutionally minded citizens whom truly desire to take political power away from parties, their lobbyists and their UNION thugs in order for the individual US taxpayer and citizen to be the primary focus of our government, why it was created as it was in the beginning, and how the citizen class has been subjugated to the TYRANNY of the "Ruling" or Political class which now rules rather than lead the citizens it was elected to represent.
No the Tea Party isn't diminishing in size nor in its zeal in returning governmental power back to the people. As the saying goes, "They ain't seen nothing yet". The Progressive Socialist Left as of late says the Independents don't support it. The Independent vote is what got these Communists into power. However as most Independents are suffering just as much as the next American during these intentional(by the Soros owned left) days of economic hardship due to corruption and Progressive ideas of redistribution, they will not vote Democrat this time around. Americans have always voted with their wallets and Independents vote that way more than any other. This may turn out to be a "perfect storm" for Republicans this time out. Democrat/Socialists can lose the Senate, continue to lose seats in the House, and Obamalinsky may suffer the largest defeat in any Presidential race to date. I predict Obama will lose bigger than Jimmy Carter in his failed Presidency. Obama is the biggest failure and anti-American piece of garbage ever to occupy the White House. Jan. 20, 2013 can't get here soon enough. I hope we still have a country by then.....
Irony, You Know?
Submitted by yabkpjo on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:31am.
"And that, you know, it's easy to, you know, to throw bombs and to be incendiary. And that, you know, it's easy to, you know, to throw bombs and to be incendiary."
Says the woman who in the same interview ducked a question about what her own Medicare plan is, and kept demagoging against the Ryan plan.
"You Know"
Submitted by iveseenitall on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 11:06am.
LOL, yabkpjo. "You know" is also Hillary's favorite phrase. Listen carefully---she's been doing it for at least 20 years. I guess she can't break herself of the habit. I believe it demonstrates her inability to clearly articulate her thoughts...you know. [Never,Never trust a "liberal" (progressive) ]
Shame on you.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 12:14pm.
How could you possibly suggest that our intellectual elite are nothing more than morons that have bullied their ways into controlling our country?
Exactly, yabkpjo
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 1:13pm.
There's the ad depicting a Ryan-lookalike pushing a wheel-chairbound elderly woman over a cliff.
And let's not forget Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson during the Obamacare debate, stating on the floor of the House that the GOP medical plan for everyone is "Die early!" And that quip came from the Party that was in control of the government.
We're just seeing the opening salvoes of what promises to be one of the ugliest campaigns in American politics.
Ditto that. And from the
Submitted by ClassicFilm on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 4:07pm.
Ditto that. And from the mouth of the same woman who bashed Republicans about foreign-made cars... while she drives a foreign-made car.
Losing its patience
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:40am.
"Do you think the Tea Party is losing some of its appeal?"
No, but it is losing its patience with the GOP.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Throw Bombs?
Submitted by bmac32 on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 11:42am.
I'm betting the Democrats have thrown 10 to 1 on the bomb throwing. Every commercial they come out with has no information other than twisted lies.
Wondering or
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 11:59am.
Hoping?!
When was the last time a
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 12:13pm.
When was the last time a "journalist" asked a Republican if he/she thought the Democrats had something to worry about?
The "pleas" to raise taxes are all coming from . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 1:21pm.
. . . the Democrats. Instead of reading WH talking points,
it would be real journalism if CBS would take another look at Obamacare and report on how much it is actually going to cost us.
Or why 1300+ enterprises have been granted waivers to Obamacare compliance. and how union workers -- representing about 17% of the work force -- make up over 50% of the workers covered by the waivers.
But then, that might be real journalism, and CBS doesn't seem to be interested in that..
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:
Submitted by goon on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 1:34pm.
I find it funny that the Democrats would put Debbie Wasserman Schultz out front on any issue, the woman is a buffoon and has a lot of trouble with the english language. When she talks she sounds like she has a box of rocks in her mouth.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Well, I
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 5:53pm.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Well, I think American voters are making it clear that they have seen a preview of what the Republicans would do to Medicare, do to the direction that this country is would go. And they're rejecting it. They're saying they don't like it.
Wasserman-Humpledink-Roaraford-Schultz-Junior then went on to say......"What they ARE liking is our Democrat plan, which is........oh, did I leave the iron on? I need to go Harry, thanks!"
If CBS was a reputable news organization,
Submitted by ThisnThat on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 8:09pm.
...then the conversation would have gone something like this:
SHULTZ: the Ryan plan to end Medicare..
SMITH (CBS Reputable News Anchor): Stop it right there. When did Ryan say he wanted to end Medicare?
But the conversation didn't go that way. And instead of CBS being a reputable news organization, they have simply turned into a shill for democrats.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
The DNC pays this woman to lie for them.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:22pm.
I'll say this, she IS good at lying. An expert liar, and thus the perfect face of the DNC.
Take this for example:
"...all the pain that they're imposing on middle class and working families..."
Where in Ryan's plan, or in ANY current GOP policy, is there ANYTHING 'imposing pain' on middle class and working families? She's making crap up. Now, the tax increase the Dems want so badly will most certainly impose a lot of pain on the middle/working class, by hurting the economy, causing prices to go up, and bringing even more unemployment.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Make Republicans The Tax Collectors For The Welfare State.
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 12:16am.
Making the Republican Party the Tax collector for the Democrat good time Party spending was a political plan that the Democrats came up with early in the twentieth century when they realized that the economy could not afford Social Security and the income tax would never collect what they thought it should. It worked well through Dwight Eisenhower’s administration when the Republicans tried to be responsible and pay for the Democrat's socialist programs and the spending that the Country needed. Johnson expanded spending beyond what the country could afford and Good time Nixon went along with Democrat's new spending on an education department and the EPA. It didn't help him make friends with the Democrats. Ford once again tried to be responsible for the Democrats debts as the nation's debt and stop needless spending. In his brief time in office he issued 66 vetoes regular and pocket vetoes combined.
Reagan changed the game. First he spent money on the things that the country needed, the Hunan Genome Project, Commercializing the Internet, and National Defense. Second he cut taxes where doing would produce more revenues or create jobs. It worked and now there are millions of Republicans who will not play the Democrat's game. Juan Williams does not understand that if no one plays the Democrats lose.
Hey Harry...
Submitted by guinsPen on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 8:57am.
Do you still wear your wife's lingerie while broadcasting?