NPR's Diane Rehm Denounces House GOP Wasting 'Precious Time' on the Paul Ryan Budget
On Friday's Diane Rehm Show distributed across America by NPR, the host could not stand Republicans getting praised -- the Paul Ryan budget to be precise.
Doyle McManus, a columnist and former Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, acknowledged, "this is a huge, ambitious, bold budget that would restructure the tax system. It would lower the top tax rate to 25 percent. That would be a great gift to upper-income families...You have to give Republicans credit for doubling down, sticking to their guns and sticking to the Tea Party government-cutting and deficit-cutting proposals that they made two years ago in the face of a lot of public skepticism." Diane Rehm wasn't having it:
She said: "But, clearly, as Ron Elving said, it's going nowhere?" McManus acknowledged it was dead-on-arrival in the Democrat-controlled Senate. But Rehm didn't acknowledge the Senate wouldn't offer a budget. She denounced Ryan for wasting "precious time" on his spending-cut proposals.
"You know what I don't understand, frankly, is that everybody knew it was not going to go anywhere in the Senate. Why waste what precious time there is to pass a bill like this?"
This is not a question. It's a denunciation. Nia-Malika Henderson of The Washington Post calmly explained they're putting down their markers for limiting spending in an election year, and Ron Elving (the political director for NPR) explained for supposedly uneducated Rehm that this is the Tea Party agenda that elected Republicans in 2010:
This is a Republican majority in the House. Unlike the House Republicans we have seen in the past, they are not focused in an election year on independence. They're focused on their own party base. They're focused on, in some cases, people who may still be voting on them or against them in a Republican primary. But even beyond that, and on a philosophical-ideological basis, these are people who came to Washington with a mission, particularly the 80-some Republicans who were elected as freshman in November of 2010.
What they'll campaign on is cutting spending, just spending. They'll say, we're going to restrict the federal government. We're going to make it a smaller part of your life, and we're going to give you more personal liberty as a result. And the rest of the details, well, we won't worry about that.
It's sort of like "wasting precious time" talking about denying taxpayer subsidies to NPR. Diane Rehm's Friday "news roundups" with journalists are often tidy summaries from three liberal-elite journalists summing up the week's liberal "conventional wisdom," and when that "wisdom" gives a little too much credit to conservatives, Rehm slams the door.
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All hail the Chief
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 7:22am.
Obama certainly hasn't wasted any time putting forth an acceptable budget over the past 3 years.
Good command of doublespeak there Diane!!
To Obama's credit he did
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:19pm.
To Obama's credit he did indeed submit a budget, it is the Senate who has not done anything but shelve or vote down any budgets. I say the GOP should shut down until a real budget is passed into law. No money shall pass through until then.
Sorry,
Submitted by texastommy on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 7:47am.
Obama's budget is not a serious attempt to do anything about the deficit, entitlement reform, or tax reform. It just went dowm 414 - 0. NO dumbocrats voted for it.
So, I don't give him credit for jack.
OK, you got me, Diane
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 7:35am.
Why waste what precious time there is to pass a bill like this?"
What precious time there is to do what, Diane, vote on the Democrats' budget?
Oh, that's right, they don't HAVE one!!
So what on earth are they taking "precious time" away from?
Global Warming
Submitted by oldfart on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 7:38am.
I don't waste the electricity watching people like this on TV.
That is my contribution to reducing CO2 and saving the planet.
I wish to subscribe
Submitted by Buckeye27 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:33am.
"Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter." -Homer Simpson
Quickly
Submitted by bmac32 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 7:41am.
She quickly points out a Republican budget she doesn't like and clearly speaks of wasted time so what have the Democrats been wasting their time on? Democrats control 2/3 yet can't seem to pass any sort of budget, even when they controlled the whole thing. DO NOTHING DEMOCRATS!
Precious time
Submitted by ant on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 8:12am.
Apparently, she has forgotten that jobs are Obama's number 1 priority (he has about 20 of those) and he was going to save us all with his 'Job's Bill' as soon as his 17 days in Martha's Vineyard were up.
She's an ideologue
Submitted by Frenchconnection on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 8:37am.
Clearly she doesn't see that Ryan can at least put forth a budget that his own party will vote for, whereas the President's budget can't even find one Democrat to vote for his.
I think I know the disconnect here.
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 9:37am.
We think of lowering tax rates as a means of financial incentive to spur the economy.
For liberals, "financial incentive" means waiting on the next welfare check.
who is diane rehm
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 9:58am.
who ever heard of the bing bat outside the precious beltway....
She is
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:38am.
the dumb ass Biddy of the day that's all. Nothing to see there.
No Praise for GOP Budget Plans
Submitted by Netstatter on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:01am.
The NPR hostess was just echoing what Timothy Geithner said not too long ago: the Administration was interested in fixing the country's financial issues, they just weren't interested in any GOP plan.
How's that for putting politics above country?
Hey Dippy Diane
Submitted by NVRAT on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:01am.
The House is doing their job at least trying. You should direct your stupidity towards the Senate where Harry Reid (Democrat Nevada) is in charge that`s the do nothing part of Congress but, you are probably happy with them because Harry has not let a single Republican bill be brought to the floor for the last 3 years only those that have Bipartisan approval with mostly democrat support. Go away dumbo.
The Scariest Thing
Submitted by NC Boy on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:02am.
is that Diane Rehm is probably the most objective host on NPR. It's a vast wasteland.
Its really quite easy
Submitted by Spock on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:03am.
When you understand the differances.
Republicans believe in personal responsability and rewarding hard work.
Democrats believe nothing is your fault and you should be compensated.
Reagan
Submitted by Buckeye27 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:36am.
"Conservatives believe everyday in July 4th. Liberals believe everyday is April 15th."
-Ronald Reagan
Sums it up nicely.
Acting like a catty high school cheerleading captain.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:41am.
At her age, Diane had several decades to grow the hell up and start acting maturely. She chose the path of reliving her catty high school years instead.
How much time did Obama......
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 11:03am.
.........and crew spend concocting his budget that was just voted down in the House 418-0? Yes, that's a ZERO. Or last year when his budget was voted down in the Senate 97-0? Yes, that's a ZERO.
How much time in the last 3 years has the Senate spent proposing a budget? ZERO minutes. No Senate budget proposed in 3 years. Dereliction of duty because they don't want to have to put their numbers to paper where we all can see the monstrosity that they would propose.
Dereliction of duty.
"Precious time" = "Democrat controlled time"
Submitted by Edward Lee on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 11:23am.
Those confused by Diane Rehm's denunciation haven't passed her statement through the liberal to English translator. "Precious time" means the time remaining while the Democrats still hold the Senate and Presidency. "Wasting" such time is doing anything that Democrats won't agree with.
Here's "why," Diana.
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 11:29am.
"Why waste what precious time there is to pass a bill like this?"
Because, if they didn't, you'd be complaining that the republicans can't even produce a budget even though they have a majority in the House!
By the way, Diana, since when it is a waste of time to create next year's budget?
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.
The left's intelligence is foolishness
Submitted by Slyrr on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 11:35am.
Sounds like Rehm is one of those 'drunken sailors' everyone keeps talking about. Spend, spend, spend, spend, spend. Is that ALL these liberals know how to do? Have they no concept of mathematics? Do they really think that taxpayers are a magic sponge they can just keep wringing and twisting and stomping on until they've bled out every last penny for their 'gay cowboy' poetry recitals?
Couple this tripe with that stupid study that 'links conservatism to low brain power' (link on Drudge). Liberals really think they're the smartest people in existence and everyone else are morons.
Well - the liberal left thinks you can take NEGATIVE 5 trillion dollars - SUBTRACT 23 trillion more - and come up with a POSITIVE number!
If that's 'intelligence', I want no part of it.
The permanent lack of insight
Submitted by celator on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 12:07pm.
The permanent lack of insight and wheelbarrows full of political baloney of Diane Rehm is what you get when your dial is set on government sponsored radio and television.
Oddly enough, and speaking of stealing taxpayers' money to fund propaganda, in this morning's Maine Sunday Telegram --now 75 percent owned (as of last week) by democrat socialist Chellie Pingree's husband Donald Sussman-- there were two letters to the editor demanding that the Maine Public Broadcasting Network continue to be funded as they have been in previous years. The letters were a result of Gov. LePage's desire to stop forcing taxpayers to continue paying MPBN to disseminate their leftist propaganda. You could tell this was part of a letter writing campaign based on the language, etc.They were typical of the O and A stuff progressives like to write, i.e., "I am OUTRAGED and APPALLED that Governor LePage wants to defund our beloved MPBN", etc and so forth and ad naseum.... Pretty funny stuff, actually.
almost 4 years of "precious
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 12:53pm.
almost 4 years of "precious time"
She said what
Submitted by mmilesll on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 12:58pm.
Who is this "reporter", lucky me, I have never heard of her. Now that I read what she has been saying, why would I care who she is. She is truly a "dumb blonde"
very funny
Submitted by giatn on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 3:23pm.
Every bill Obama has proposed has been designed specifically to insure failure.
His "new" jobs act was exactly like the stimulus, his "energy" plan to tax oil/gas companies
and "double down" on Chu's failed green agenda was irrevocably stupid and the Buffet Rule
are just a few of his most recent futile political machinations. The Senate hasn't had the
courage to even propose a budget! Your indignation is seriously misplaced.
I agree, we should all be
Submitted by O2bnAZ on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 4:41pm.
I agree, we should all be talking about the Senate budget...Oh...uhhh...that's right...
Beltway R's in Congress, incl.Ryan, vote 4 pro Homosexual agenda
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 10:36am.
Republican leadership has evolved, too. It has quietly worked behind the scenes to kill amendments that reaffirm opposition to same-sex unions, several sources told POLITICO.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74661.html#ixzz1qtSef59u
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Ok Ms. Rehm
Submitted by chiefpayne on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 2:21pm.
Show Congress ANOTHER budget they could waste their time on.
WAITING.....!
Rehm's Sermon on Rush Limbaugh
Submitted by tricityjdw on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 3:02pm.
Taxpayer-funded Rehm, who likes to brag that she is fair to both sides in her selection of guests, said the following about Rush on March 9:
"I think what he did with Sandra Fluke is disgusting. I think he gave a weak apology. I think he ought to be repudiated by every single candidate out there, and I think his apology was pure cowardice."
For some unexplained reason, Rehm has not found the opportunity to denounce Bill Maher, Ed Schultz, or other lefties.