Krauthammer Smacks Down Shields on Ryan Plan: 'Your Guys Haven’t Introduced a Budget at All'
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer gave quite a tongue lashing to Mark Shields on Inside Washington this weekend.
When the liberal PBS contributor said Congressman Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) budget proposal lacked vertebrae, Krauthammer scolded, "Talk about absence of spine, your guys haven’t introduced a budget at all on anything" (video follows with transcript and commentary, file photo):
MARK SHIELDS, PBS: It is in fact ten trillion dollars in tax cuts for the next ten years. We extend the Bush tax cuts in perpetuity under Paul Ryan. The reality is there are no spelled out eliminations of tax expenditures. That is the bold. That would be courageous. Are you going to do home mortgage? Are you going to do charitable deductions? Are you going to do state and local taxes? Because that’s where the money is when I see some vertebrae. And make one thing absolutely clear about Simpson-Bowles that Charles referenced and that is it had at its guiding principle that it would not increase poverty, and it would not increase the income disparity. And it does.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Talk about absence of spine, your guys haven’t introduced a budget at all on anything, haven’t done anything on Medicare, on Social Security or anything on tax reform. Zero. That is the definition of an absence of spine.
Indeed.
Congressional Democrats have not offered a budget in over 1,000 days, and folks like Shields totally give them a pass for this while they excoriate Ryan for at least putting something on the table that tries to address the nation's looming fiscal crisis.
Even worse, President Obama ignored his own commission's recommendations (Simpson-Bowles) on how to get the budget back in line.
The reality is the Republicans and Ryan are the only ones that have shown any spine concerning this issue while the Democrats cower under the covers aided and abetted by their media minions.
If there were a requirement for someone like Krauthammer to be on every talk show panel to set people like Shields straight, the public would be far more knowledgable about where the responsibility lies for the nations current budget stalement.
Bravo, Charles! Bravo!
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Does The Left Even Talk About The Budget Anymore?
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 12:00pm.
Remember Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND)? I heard his name mentioned recently for the first time since mid-2011 when the Gang of Howevermany were in play.
The reason the Left doesn't think they need a budget follows the Soviet government centralized planned economy concept where the people's money belongs to us and we spend the peoples money the way we see fit, so there is no need for a budget.
But that upsidedown thinking made the Soviet Union go broke.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Liberal Budgetary Mantra....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 12:12pm.
..."How can we be out of money, there are still cheques in the chequebook"...
Who let the conservative in!!!!
Submitted by Guapo Diablo on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 12:13pm.
Krauthammer provides a perfect illustration for why CNN, CBS and NBC refuse to employ on-air conservatives (ABC has George Will). They provide a BS Detector that runs totally against the networks' agendas.
The libertarians will probably be out
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 12:26pm.
excoriating Ryan's budget from the other side, but the sad fact is that during an election year, Republicans had to produce something moderate enough not to be a legitimate democrat talking point all the way to election day. Shield's is in some way arguing the libertarian position, while in fact being a leftist. Amazing the way these guys take any position that is anti-GOP even it's that position is further from their own. THAT, is the definition of spineless.
It was also a pretty insensitive analogy to use with Dr. K.
By supporting elimination
Submitted by Tiger184 on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 12:40pm.
of home mortgage deduction, Shields is targeting middle income American taxpayers. What a shill for a communist regime.
And, bravo Krauthammer!
Budget?
Submitted by ant on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 12:54pm.
That would only tie the hands of Dear Leader, who has now been given authority to spend billions as he sees fit. And you want to talk about mortgages, the regime hands out 2 million in 'homeowner education' to LaRaza? What's next, transportation funding to Hamas?
If you're a bogus President, the U.S. Constitution doesn't appy.
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 1:10pm.
It is unlawful the President to NOT submit a budget.
"Each year, the President of the United States submits his budget request to Congress for the following fiscal year as required by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Current law (31 U.S.C. § 1105(a)) requires the president to submit a budget no earlier than the first Monday in January, and no later than the first Monday in February."
Obama has submitted a budget.
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 1:41pm.
Obama has submitted a 2013 budget, just as he has for every year of his administration (they've all been rejected, to date). He submitted the 2013 budget on Feb. 13, a little late, yes, but is WAS submitted.
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Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 2:09pm.
The admins budget plans that have been proposed? How many have been brought before the senate for a vote?
Let me help you....0
None of them
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 2:20pm.
So far, the Dems have shelved, or rejected, all of Obama budgets. Thanks, Harry! You've actually done this country a favor!
Now, if only we could get you, and the rest of Congress, to STOP authorizing those "continuing spending resolutions" that allows Obama to knowingly spend a TRILLION dollars more than the US government could possibly receive in tax revenue, no matter how high our taxes are raised!
You know, it's amusing that, 4 years after the recession "caused" a trillion dollar increase in federal spending (Its an emergency! But, rest assured, that emergency spending will end when the recession does. We promise!), and three years after the recession supposedly ended, that "emergency" apparently still exists, as is evident by the continuation of that additional "emergency" spending that is occurring year after year.
Like they say: never let a good crisis go to waste, even years after the crisis has ended!
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Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
They sort of voted on last year's budget
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 2:27pm.
The Senate, 97-0, voted not to take it up last May.
Last year's was.
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 4:31pm.
I believe it was because McConnell forced a vote on it. ..............It was wildly popular. 97 No's. 0 Yes's..
And this is one reason.......
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 1:37pm.
.........the Senate won't produce a budget. They prefer to let Republicans produce one, then spend every hour of each day slamming it. Since they don't produce one themselves, there is nothing to slam except the fact that they don't produce one, but after that statement is said over and over, the sheeple don't hear it anymore (and barely did in the first place). Meanwhile, the Republican House budget continues to get slammed by Democrats and their media enablers.
There's no way the Senate will produce a budget and let America see what plans they have.for control over the citizenry.
I thought the producing of a budget proposal was required by law. If it is, then it's long past time for someone to begin proceedings for due punishment.
As a regular watcher of PBS
Submitted by Pewah on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 3:36pm.
As a regular watcher of PBS programs I have ascertained that indeed it takes at least a 3:1 ratio of liberals to conservatives to make any program that relies on a competitive exchange of ideas viable. Oh, and my special needs kid could do a more believable job hosting a show like Inside Washington than the current one. Wow, what a light weight.
My Man Krauthammer...
Submitted by FistsforLiberty on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 5:07pm.
Keep hittin' them with reality MR. Hammer.
Shields the buffoon !!
Submitted by snowwwizard on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 11:23pm.
Ba ha ha ha ha !!!!
Krauthammer
Submitted by Charlie Chaplin on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 4:11pm.
I watch less and less television. I'm down to Krauthammer as the only thing remaining worth watching.