Fareed Zakaria Compares Tea Party to Terrorists, 'Un-American'
On Thursday's The Situation Room, Fareed Zakaria said the tactics used by Tea Party congressmen in the debt ceiling debate were akin to holding the country hostage and threatening to "blow up" the economy.
"So nobody has ever held a country hostage and say [sic] if you don't pass our policies, we'll blow up the economy, we'll blow up the credibility of the United States," Zakaria remarked on CNN Thursday. He called the recent debt ceiling fight "unprecedented" and slammed the Tea Party for its refusal to compromise.
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"This is why the Tea Party's insistence on holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to force its policies on the country – the first time the debt ceiling has been used this way – was so deeply un-American," Zakaria ranted in his newest Time cover story.
Zakaria is CNN's foreign affairs analyst and the editor-at-large for Time magazine, and recently made headlines for having had off-the-record conversations with President Obama on foreign affairs. He has praised the President's foreign policy multiple times and ripped Tea Party conservatives for being too extreme.
His latest knock against the Tea Party is that not only are they acting like hostage-takers, but their refusal to compromise stands completely against what America's founding fathers wished for.
Zakaria remarked that "the American system is built on shared powers overlapping authority.... and the founding fathers designed it that way because they wanted there to be an effort to create policies through compromise, through consensus. So if you take the position that it's your way or the highway, that if you literally will not give an inch, what you're doing is really against the spirit of the American republic, against the spirit of what the founding fathers wanted."
A transcript of the segment, which aired on August 4 at 5:31 p.m. EDT, is as follows:
WOLF BLITZER: Fareed, you've written the cover story of the new issue of Time magazine, "The Great American Downgrade," why the debt crisis has hurt growth and our position in the world. Let me read a line from the article, because it's very, very poignant. Controversial, I should say, as well.
"People have to cooperate for anything to get done. That is why the Tea Party's insistence on holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to force its policies on the country – the first time the debt ceiling has been used this way – was so deeply un-American."
Alright, you've gotten some feedback on that, some – some reaction. Un-American?
FAREED ZAKARIA: I'll explain why. First, understand how unprecedented it was. The debt ceiling has been raised 78 times since 1960. It has never been used this way, essentially as blackmail. It was not – the Democrats did not use it during the Vietnam War, it was not used this way during Civil Rights legislation. So nobody has ever held a country hostage and say [sic] if you don't pass our policies, we'll blow up the economy, we'll blow up the credibility of the United States.
The reason I say it's un-American Wolf, is because the American system, unlike European parliamentary systems, the American system is built on shared powers overlapping authority. Noone is in control in America. You know, there's the President, there's the Senate, there's the House of Representatives, there's state government, and the founding fathers designed it that way because they wanted there to be an effort to create policies through compromise, through consensus. So if you take the position that it's your way or the highway, that if you literally will not give an inch, what you're doing is really against the spirit of the American republic, against the spirit of what the founding fathers wanted.
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How about that post-compromise stock market bounce, Fareed?
Submitted by lsudolemite on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 7:41pm.
You know, the one that was going to happen after we passed "the best deal we could get" with 1/2 of 1/3, blah blah blah. The one that Dems love and Republicans hate according to polling? Oh dear, that didn't quite go as expected, did it?
These people are running scared of the Tea Party, it's so obvious now. At least give the little media lapdogs points for all being on the same "hostage" page as their Dem masters.
from the guy who calls for replacing the constitution
Submitted by no you cant on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 3:26am.
this jerk is the poster boy for anti-american. not a week goes by that he is not slamming americans, capitalism, the constitution, calling for one world socialism. this little traitor belongs in a small jail cell with his pal red barry.
Excuse me
Submitted by Rhymes With Right on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 7:45pm.
This foreign-born follower of the Religion of Terrorism dares to call native-born Americans with different political views "unAmerican" and "terrorists"? Oh, the hypocritical irony!
Un-American?
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:03pm.
Our Revolution began when a handful of Americans stood their ground on principle, and later, a handful of patriots signed a Declaration of Independence. They didn't compromise with the Crown.
If Zakaria needs a lesson in American history, he should talk to Chris Matthews. (Or maybe he did already.)
But to his main point, he and the Democrats warned that if the handful of Tea Party Republicans voted NO for raising the debt ceiling unless it was under their terms, the whole global economy would collapse.
Well, they voted NO, the debt ceiling was still raised.
So, what's the problem, Zakaria?
He proves that he doesn't understand the American system
Submitted by KC Mulville on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 7:55pm.
If Zakaria was correct, then no representative could ever vote No to any bill. We would all have to accept the "deals" made behind closed doors, and the vote itself would only be a formality. If we always had compromise, then all the conflicts would be smoothed out. Essentially what Zakaria is saying is that no one should be opposed to anything absolutely, and should always give in when others (i.e., the side that he favors) propose bills.
It is precisely the ability to vote No that forces the legislators to address everyone's concerns. And the willingness to "hold out" is what applies the force. You can't just propose a bill and expect others to cave in.
Legislators are sent to Washington to vote. If the bill doesn't deserve to pass, it shouldn't be allowed to.
Hostage
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 7:58pm.
Wish someone would hold him hostage until his country comes and picks him up.Who does this uneducated ass think he is sitting there bashing American's. If he is so full of hate why not leave America with that Lopaz guy. This name calling and terrorist accusations is completley out of hand since the word racist has completely worn out it's welcome. Get the hel out of America and go back to your homeland, you arrogant, foul-mouthed good for nothing jerk. Believe me, your departure will be cheered by millions!!
It's the Democrats who hold a
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 7:58pm.
It's the Democrats who hold a gun to the heads of all Americans, unwilling to stop their maddening spending and driving our economy into a brick wall. We are now in debt 100% of GDP, who holds the majority of the blame? Are Democrats even concerned? Their wreckless spending and fiat money is driving the value of the dollar into the gutter.
pssst Mr. foreigner...we did
Submitted by jkwtrading on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:00pm.
pssst Mr. foreigner...we did the same thing to King George.. don't tell anyone though or otherwise someone might think you know American History.
The Market Responded to the Democrat budget plan today
Submitted by boscokraft on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:12pm.
The democrats are like little spoiled brats wanting more and more money and services from the government. ENOUGH! I have had it. Its time the adults took over and turned off the spigot. We need real cuts and real reform now. Lndon Johnson built their castle in the sky, and todays libs have moved in..
Don't worry, boscokraft,
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:19pm.
this time tomorrow there will be plenty of people in our MSM screaming that this is all the Republicans fault.
Book it.
Really? Then why did the Repubs brag they got
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:19pm.
98% of what they wanted?
Jer
Well, I don't know about the
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:28pm.
Well, I don't know about the politicians, Jer, but the Republican voters sure weren't happy with the deal. As opposed to the democrats:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/04/democrats-far-more-happy-with-debt-deal-than-republicans-poll-shows/'%20rel='nofollow/
"The poll showed 58 percent of Democrats approve of the deal, compared with just 26 percent of Republicans. A whopping 64 percent of Republicans disapproved."
I know, NC...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:29pm.
They were evidently distressed they failed to extort the remaining 2%. To them, that signified an unacceptable compromise.
Jer
Jer
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:33pm.
Sort of the way the democrats extorted Obamacare? Oh no, they didn't have to extort any money, Obama just said "we won" and ignored the wishes of the GOP.
Rad...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:42pm.
Extorted? The bill passed was similiar in many material respects to the legislation proposed by the Republicans in the 90's as an alternative to HillaryCare--and likewise akin to what was delineated by the conservative Heritage Foundation during the Bush administration.
The abandonment of the public option by the administration was in and of itself a huge concession to blue dog Dems and Republicans.
Jer
Jer
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:54pm.
I don't think the healthcare was extortion, a big mistake, but not extortion. But I also think the whole debt deal wasn't extortion either. It was a group of politicians fighting for a something they believed in. It wasn't for any personal gain, it was to try to save the country.
The debt deal has now pushed us over the edge.
Rad---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:04pm.
Jer gets delirious sometimes.
Luckily, It usually only happens when he is building up liberal Democrats, their politics and policies; or when excoriating Republicans, chiding their policies, or lambasting Limbaugh.
Otherwise he would be a pain in the butt liberal 24-7 as opposed to one hundred percent of the time. :o)
MD
I know, Matthew...about every six months or so I go on a
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:41pm.
"Lambaste Limbaugh" binge for about a week [sorry, Rush Fan...I just can't help myself]. It'll be over in another day or two.
Jer
A little venting, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 11:00pm.
is a good thing.
Would that more of us could vent, as most do around here, with a bit of humor rather than rancor.
It makes the daily grind a bit more endurable, does it not?
MD
Extort???
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:06pm.
You're sounding more and more like the DNC spokesperson every day, Jer!!!
What are the odds, Jer
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:23pm.
Actually believes any of the libs BS?
I have never witnessed him defending it.
Right because the republicans
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:46pm.
wanted $7.14 billion in real cuts from the 2012 budget and only got $7 billion and we really wanted the bulk of the cuts to come out of the military, too. And the 3.06 billion in 2013, is only 3 billion, alas.
You're in pablum mode today.
Who?
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:38pm.
Where?
I'll look for the source of that number, Boudin...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:53pm.
In the meantime, you may entertain yourself with the following:
...According to a participant, Boehner told Republicans that their leaders went “toe to toe with the Obama administration and the Democratic Senate for months on behalf of the American people. First they demanded a clean debt ceiling increase. We fought, they caved. Second, they wanted revenue to equal spending cuts. We fought, they caved.”
Boehner praised Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) “for really coming up with a lot of these cuts” during early negotiations with Vice President Joseph Biden.
Cantor returned the praise and called it “an important win for the conservative movement” that positions Republicans to defeat Obama in 2012.
“This Speaker won,” Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) said. “If you look at where the White House started and where they are now, it’s a big win.”
At least initially, the response from rank and file was equally effusive.
Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.) thanked the leaders. “This was an amazing performance. I was expecting a lot worse,” he said.
Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (Wis.) said, “This gives us a leg up, and I am amazed you got one for one on cuts, no violation of conservative principles, and I am amazed you got the deal that you did.”
“You scored an eagle on the 18th hole and won the U.S. Open,” Rep. Don Manzullo (Ill.) quipped, referencing Boehner’s passion for golf.
Rep. Mike Kelly (Pa.) told the Speaker to “grab a Gatorade and smoke a cigarette — you’ve earned it.”
“How about a merlot and a cigarette?” Boehner responded."
Jer
Thank you, Jer K. Rowling.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:06pm.
What, no owls?
Notice I refrained from combining the Jer and the K.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:08pm.
I do have some principles.
Jer
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:18pm.
Appreciates that? I saw the post!
An ample helping of wit seasoned with just
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:21pm.
a dash of principle--and I'll eat it up every time.
Jer
Yeah, I saw that a few days ago, Jer.
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:41pm.
I'm reminded of the scene from "Pulp Fiction" in the garage when the guys had cleaned the car. They were patting themselves on the back and yucking it up.
What was it Wolf said? :)
Well, the GOP shouldn't have started either. The people that gave them the majority in the House are not amused. :/
btw, Boudin...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:55pm.
link to the post above.
You believed them, Jer?
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:03pm.
Because I dont, and I believe I have made that clear as of late.
Jer, bout time some one should let you know! Those Jack a$$es in DC lie!
Guess who didnt lie?
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:12pm.
The Tea Party. We are not done. Barely getting started, easily recruiting every working person in this country.
Here's the comment about 98%...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:28pm.
Boehner:....When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the White House, I got 98 percent of what I wanted. I'm pretty happy
source
You can believe him or not. I'm just reporting what he said.
Jer, please
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:38pm.
Do you think they got 98% of what they wanted? Do you think that the American folks are happy with this arrangement? Have you looked at those questions?
Jer, No-one believes their crap anymore. They sound more ridiculous by the day for crying out loud. For you (as most folks know you to be sane) to assume this crap holds any credence is laughable. Folks, especially Politicians had better understand this!
Boudin...I thought my implication was pretty clear.
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:48pm.
I'm not assuming the credence of the quoted (or any particular) per centage. I'm reporting the ratio the Repubs--well, especially Boehner--were bragging about during their self-congratulatory, self-described clobbering of the administration.
Jer
Wow,
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:59pm.
Great answer, NOT.
So who cares about reality, again? The lies are to be taken as truth?
Jer,
Mr. Zak is right in line with Dept.of Homeland Security thinking
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:28pm.
One of DHS's "Fusion centers" considers certain "right wing " groups dangerous to national security according to GOP congressman Dana Rohrabacher. The conservative congressman became famous for his support of the railroaded and imprisoned Border Patrol agents Compean and Ramos.
http://rohrabacher.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=122491
The California congressman issued a statement to the "Fusion Center" for vilifying "mainstream conservatism," by attempting to lump right to lifers and other conservatve patriotic groups in with neo nazis and terrorists.
According to the Washington Times which did a story on the mythical "right wing" danger posed by law abiding Americans the DHS even considers war vets a threat . "The return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias," The Washington Times' Eli Hudson and Audrey Hudson report on a DHS "fusion center" memo that was sent out to Sheriffs and local police departments.
>>>>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/
I met...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 6:36am.
I met with our former congressman, Bill Foster [D -Ill14] and he laid it all at Bush's feet even though the memo came from Janet Nitwit-Politano. Vietnam Vets were included in that terrorist watch list. Needless to say, Foster is a former Congressman!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Obamacare
Submitted by Joe W. on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:31pm.
Didn't see a helluva lot of compromise from the dems when they rammed Obamacare down the nation's throats by "deeming" it done. How soon the vermin maggot liberals forget, eh Jer??
touche!
Submitted by michiganruth on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:57pm.
of course, when the Dems do it, it's called "being principled."
the only thing "compromise" means to Barack Obama is that you do what he says. anything less is un-American. (and probably racist.)
And the spinless
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 11:04pm.
Capitulate
&%$#! you Fareed Zakaria!
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:57pm.
Fareed Zakaria, you are the one that is un-American.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
So Obamacare Was Passed via Compromise & Concensus?
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:13pm.
F Zakaria; "So if you take the position that it's your way or the highway, that if you literally will not give an inch, what you're doing is really against the spirit of the American republic, against the spirit of what the founding fathers wanted".
This is the funniest statement I have heard today...
I think it's long past time this imported Muslim commie...
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:20pm.
...was de-imported.
Permanently.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I don't know who the
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 12:12am.
I don't know who the 'founding fathers' of this idiots Indian Mooooooooooooooooooooooooslem heritage are.....and actually, I don't give a damn either. He sure as hell doesn't understand what OUR (as in MINE, and millions of other REAL Americans, Farreed, you stupid self-appointed twerp!!!) founding fathers did!!! I don't seem to remember them compromising with the British....and, in fact, they were called 'terrorists' and 'revolutionaries', 'insurgants' and 'right wing nationalists' and whatever the hell else was the jargon of the day - that the modern day REGIME and the MSM seems to want to call us........
And if that's how they want to compare us - to the founders of our country - then if you want to count me, COUNT ME IN!!!
And he's sitting there with Wolfie Bliltzed.............who has repeatedly proved himself to be a complete moron also!!!
So go the hell back to Bengladesh or Kashmir............or maybe go hook up with some of your buddies that have been blowing up Mumbai lately, you friggin' son of a motherless goat!!!
Jeez...............I just came home from work.............I need a drink!!!
"I need a drink!!!"
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 1:35am.
Works fer me. :-)
And the more, the better.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
A twin a brother a father?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:57pm.
Achmed
Zakaria - the Vietnam War??
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:06pm.
What? The Vietnam War? Is not that the war, where the President, LBJ, secretly and illegally hid the cost of the war from Congress? And Fareed wants to relate it to negociations and debate over the debt ceiling some 50 years later? Please someone stop me from using the F - word.
I'm just thinking here. If Fareed is using the angle (ruse) that the Democrat's didn't use, "it [the debt ceiling] during the Vietnam War," as a defense against his view that the Republicans are using the deficits and the debt (that's actually funny, when you think about the pure contextual relationship here to the current debate) against the debt ceiling now -- is he suggesting that the Democrats would have been using "it" against Nixon and the Republicans during the Vietnam War?
Nixon and the Republicans? What about LBJ and the Democrats? ? See - he wouldn't do that.
Look, I understand that Garry Trudeau - of Doonesbury disgrace - only remembers the Vietnam war as something of Nixon's making (he blamed Nixon for most of the deaths - not LBJ), and that most of the left only speaks of Vietnam in the context of Nixon's policies - but the Vietnam War was President Lyndon Baines Johnson's War. He took US advisors there, numbering perhaps 10,000, and turned into a war with roughly 586,000 US servicemen and women in the theater by the end of his term.
Nixon ran on a campaign of ending the war, and immediately upon winning the election, started bringing the troops home, and brought them home in immense numbers in each year thereafter until it was done (done ugly - but it was done).
Here's my takeaway - Fareed Zakaria is one of those who will at every chance, shrill his hatred at the Republicans and Richard Nixon on every aspect of the Vietnam War, but will never voluntarily mention LBJ and the Democrats, unless someone else forces it into the conversation. What a sicko.
Fareed stands once again, as NB is so valiantly and correctly pointing out now on a weekly or twice weekly basis, as an ignorant misinformed person and, a compulsive liar.
(;~> gary
You give Nixon too much credit
Submitted by lrgon on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 1:30am.
He campaigned on ending the Vietnam war by letting our troops win it in 6 months time. Once in office he let the war go on until near the end of his first term. Nixon allowed Dr Strangelove, Henry Kissinger to abandone our Missing in Action and POW to rot in some stinking hell hole in the North Vietnam or in China or who knows where they wound up.
"Peace with honor," was no honor when the man never kept his promise to allow our forces to wipe the NVA from the field. Kissinger negotiated with the communists the strangest deal in American history. He agreed to allow the North Vietnamese Army to keep 160,000 NV regular army troops in the South! After US troops withdrew the South Vietnamese army was over whelmed by the 160 k regular North Vietnamese army.
Kissinger back stabbed the government of South Vietnam, the people of South Vietnam and US troops who were sent there to defend South Vietnam's sovereignty from the communists!
The "truce' worked out at the Paris Peace Accord was kept by the communists once they saw our guys leave a war that Nixon correctly stated could easily have been won in six months. Some experts said it could have been won in six weeks.
Irgon.. this is about Fareed Zakaria - not Nixon
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 1:34am.
Give it a rest. OK?
This was about CNN's Fareed Zakaria - a shame to journalism - today.
(;~/ gary
Oh look. A k00k is doing the mating k00k dance.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 1:51am.
Shhhhhh. Be very quiet boys and girls. Let's watch the k00k in its native habitat dance and preen hoping to find a k00kmate.
Hey Irgonk00k. You will have a better chance attracting a k00kmate at the k00k museum. Go there and quit bothering us k00k.
The truth is,
Submitted by GeneralAl on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 6:29am.
The truth is we had the war nearly won when LBJ announced the partial bombing halt along with his intention not to run in March of 1968. His hope was to vicariously run the presidency through HHH [Hubert H. Humphrey for you college boys!] but the two were too closely linked and Nixon won. The final defeat of South Vietnam was orchestrated by Ted [The life guard] Kennedy when he cut off all funding in 1975. Say what you want about about Nixon but he brought our butts home alive instead of in a box and I, for one, am extremely grateful!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Right, who could forget that deafening chant shouted
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 2:04am.
by tens of thousands of lefty anti-war demonstrators: "Hey, hey, RMN...how many kids did you kill today!" Oh, wait...make that Hey, hey LBJ, etc.
the DEMOCRAT, whose dreams of a second term were shattered by the Left which also sabotaged Humphrey's bid and elected Nixon. Well, never mind.
Gary, my friend, you are rewriting history.
Jer
"tens of thousands of lefty anti-war demonstrators"
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 10:49am.
and their progeny are now in power in D.C., and look at all the good they've done for the country. They were wrong then, they're wrong now. But whatever one does, don't point that out to them.
SOMEBODY PLEASE JUST SHOOT ME !!!
Submitted by ShaLung on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:08pm.
Please put me out of my misery !!! This guy and the rest of the left are driving me nuts with their disgusting mislabeling of the Tea Party. I can't stand it when I hear people say the Tea Party wants to control every aspec of our lives. Or their fascist, or their yackety schmackety blah blah blah. Have these people ever looked at history and honestly paid attention to what the people THEY support believe and plan for the rest of us !!?!?!? They keep projecting their sins on to us.
Oh.....sorry......... was asking to be shot violent language ?
Zakaria -- no no no .. it's we the people that have the power
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:22pm.
No no no. It is all American. The American system was built on the voice of the people - it's citizens.
The founding fathers designed it that way Fareed. It's citizens are speaking out. Try listening.
(;~> gary
Very good Gary,
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:29pm.
None are so blind, as the ideologues. Contradiction in words and action, as my Grandma used to say.
Hey Fareed...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 6:17am.
Hey Fareed, where was the so called "shared power" during the health care debate? How about the "Stinkulous" bill? Your hero basically told Republicans to "Sit down and shut up!" Hey Sahib, how about his demeaning reminder to John McCain of "The election is over. We won, you lost"?
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
hey ZAK the arab ....
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:45pm.
... this is no way to be during ramadan. allah (purposely in lowercase) may punish you for lack of peaceful discourse. But I digress ... your kind knows no peace ... just third world banter ..... and hate of all inspiring AMERICAN ingenuity. So get your sandy ass out of my country, and take the camels with you. And don't forget to leave all the unearned wealth behind ... you won't need it in your slum burka wearing desert!!! NEVER FORGET
Zak Came to Yale from Bombay, India And From There To N.Y.
Submitted by Avitar on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 3:07am.
He has never been exposed to an American community.
After he left they changed the name of Bombay and took down all of the old road signs. I'm not saying that it was to keep him from finding his way back but ...
America or Pakistan
Submitted by needle on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 11:11pm.
I suspect what Fareed Zakaria considers as ‘American’ actually closely resembles Pakistan.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Really?
Submitted by notinstl on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 11:55pm.
A guy named Fareed is calling tea partiers un-american? Really?
What did I miss?
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 12:53am.
...they wanted there to be an effort to create policies through compromise, through consensus.
I coulda swore that is what happened with all the meetings, and Presidential press conferences, and more meetings, and Presidential press conferences, and more meetings, and finally one last Presidential press conference and a last minute meeting that hammered the whole thing out.
Now we may not be happy with the resulting bill but Uncle Jer and a whole bunch of talking heads in the MSM are absolutely livid at the process and/or the result. So something went right somewhere.
Sincerely,
A Veteran of a 1000 Psychic Wars and an economic terrorist that will hold the economy hostage if, shut up, I got a gun and I will shoot this economy right in the head if you dare say one thing. ah. ah. ah. Not one word or I will shoot.
That's okay, Vet...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 12:58am.
My disappointment pales in comparison to Boehner's jubilation over himself and the result.
Jer
Ya sure?
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 1:22am.
Uncle Jer: ...that debt ceiling stunt engineered by the House Republicans over the past few weeks is the sorriest political spectacle I've ever witnessed.
sorriest spectacle ever witnessed.
sorriest.
spectacle.
ever.
I realize that's a pretty strong statement, Vet...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 1:29am.
but it still pales in comparison to Boehner's jubilation.
Jer
Well then.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 1:53am.
The spectacle paid off. Good on him.
as opposed
Submitted by notinstl on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 7:58am.
to pelosi's victory lap on obamacare
Pelosi's victory lap dance?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 8:03am.
There! Fixed it.
Thanks for that image,
Submitted by NC Cop on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 8:29am.
Thanks for that image, Cool!!!!!!!!!
I just hurled all over my keyboard!!!
You're welcome
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 8:34am.
I wonder if there's a video of the "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" she did last night.
May the good Lord have mercy on my soul.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 9:18am.
Boy oh boy, I do love me a spectacle. I am starting to have a good time again. First in 3 years.
...it's hard to look at the debt-ceiling compromise and see it as anything but a conservative victory. It's not just that Speaker of the House John Boehner succeeded in imposing some conditions in exchange for an increase in the debt ceiling. It's that the deal has Democrats, including the president, essentially signing on to the Republican framework for defining the Beltway's budget problem: spending that is too high rather than taxes that are too low.
Knick Knack Patty Whack give the dog a spectacle.
Vet, this all makes sense if
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 10:35am.
Vet, this all makes sense if you consider a double dip recession to be a conservative victory. They handed Obama the 2012 election on a platter with this dog and pony show.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Submitted by Djinn1975 on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:17am.
Ooowww! I pulled a muscle. Dream on dim horse. The left is abandoning Obama in droves. They now own the economy. I'm mystified how anyone that hasn't had a frontal lobotomy can say they Republicans got ANY percentage of what they want. "Future spending cuts" can be called no cuts at all, the debt ceiling was raised after all, which is what the Left cried for and dangled a 'crisis' and threatened things that might happen to scare the legislation into passage. So, time will tell if the left will get on board with the rest of the math and concept world, you don't solve debt by paying with debt, that this will fail miserably. The attention has been masterfully deflected from the spending problem. A harsh reality awaits the left in less than 15 months.
Sorry PaleHorse. Wrong.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 12:49pm.
The double dip started months before the debt ceiling became an issue. Where are you hearing that? I am pretty sure this is already a meme being put out by the left. I have already heard the counterargument.
Behold, a PaleHorse, and the
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 2:10pm.
Behold, a PaleHorse, and the name that sat upon it was Troll . . . and ignorance followed with it.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
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Fareed Zakaria Asked To Leave the Country
Submitted by Avitar on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 2:57am.
Fareed Zakaria, please leave the United States.
If India won’t take you back, they certainly do not need another Muslim; maybe we can get Gadhafi to take you in, if we will stop bombing him. If you hang around until a nut in Iran or Pakistan cuts loose a nuke to attack the United States then hanging will be too good for you. That is the American way.
Many liberals feel shame because of the detention of Japanese during WWII and well they should. We had decoded messages from Japanese diplomats bragging about organizing a hidden army of Japanese immigrants. It took the group thinking of FDR and J. Edgar Hoover to believe that the Americans of Japanese origin should be detained after NO evidence was found of the mythical 20,000 man army. That was a 100% liberal operation.
The Muslims however, have attacked repeatedly throughout America’s history. There has never been a shortage of evidence of hostility to America within that community. They were attacking before there was a United States and after. The US got Florida when Spain would not go to war with Muslim Pirates who were using it as bases for raiding the US and Andrew Jackson, the founder of the Democrat party, routed the Muslims from their bases.
If Muslims, as is their habit, once again become America’s primary enemy, as Un-American as Fareed Zakaria is, he should run NOW,
Zakaria, the shameless hate peddler.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 3:02am.
Knowing nothing of type of people Americans are and the foundation of the Tea Parties, Zakaria is in no position to comment so disparagingly of them. This idiot who remains rigidly and willfully ignorant of those things is merely a street variety hate monger.
The management at CNN should be profoundly ashamed to let him spew this divisive trash. Don't they realize how many millions of Americans they insult every day by not muzzling this vitriol? -bidn-
They don't care.
Submitted by johnsonl on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 12:13pm.
It's more important to spread the propaganda than to report the news, have good ratings or make a profit. George Soros will take care of everyone after the dust setttles, you'll see. Journolists won't be rounded up like the rest of us, will they?
"First, they came for the Tea Party..."
Liberals are running scared.
Submitted by jessieH on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:05am.
Liberals are running scared. "The sky is falling and it's because of the Tea Party." Even chicken Little had some sort of proof. Libs just believe what their handler's tell them to.
The vitriol from the left is
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 5:11pm.
The vitriol from the left is proof enough that the Tea Party is making a difference. We cannot let up.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonNo, Fareed...
Submitted by johnsonl on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 12:09pm.
the Tea Party IS American, far more American than you could ever hope to be. You wanted change, buddy boy. I hope you're ready for it.
Say what you want about Zakaria,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 12:29pm.
but if you ever saw him scurry up a 40-foot coconut palm you'd be mighty impressed.
Tea Party congressmen
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 5:08pm.
Tea Party congressmen supported and passed Cut Cap and Balance which would have granted the debt limit increase. So by Fareed's logic I can call regular old Democrats terrorists for holding that up.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonIdiot
Submitted by ferv888 on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 6:49pm.
Look up the word in the dictionary and Fareed's picture magically appears
Ferv888