Krauthammer Challenges Shields: Where Is Democrat Budget? What's Their Plan?

NewsBusters ^ | 3 jul 2011 | Noel Sheppard

[mandaladon]

As he normally does on "Inside Washington," PBS's Mark Shields Friday was waxing moronic about Republican plans to balance the budget.

Not pleased by the fictional account on display, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer challenged his fellow panelist saying, "Democrats have not even produced a budget for 2012. What’s their budget?" (video follows with transcript and commentary): MARK SHIELDS: Consistency has not been a problem with Republicans. They have endorsed the Ryan plan, which of course does not provide for a balanced budget, and now they are pushing for a balanced budget. 103 House Republicans have already gone on record as saying they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless there is a cap of eighteen percent of government spending, federal spending, which is seven percent below what we're spending right now. In addition to that, they insist on a constitutional amendment and to cut spending by half, the deficit by half next year, all of which are impossible. Every serious person who has looked at this, whether in a group or a study group or commission or whatever, knows that there have to be revenue enhancements, taxes raised, as well as spending cuts. And the idea of just trying to do it with spending cuts alone is just irrational.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Democrats have not even produced a budget for 2012.

SHIELDS: The, the, the, the…

KRAUTHAMMER: What’s their budget?

SHIELDS: The case is there. The President is on…

KRAUTHAMMER: Where are their numbers, where is the plan?

SHIELDS: The President has…

KRAUTHAMMER: Where are their numbers and where is the plan?

SHIELDS: It’s right there in the President…

KRAUTHAMMER: Where?

SHIELDS: Look, I mean, the president in the dealings with Joe Biden, and the sixth, and the Senators and Congressmen. It is there.

[mandaladon]

The idea that in the midst of a serious budget crisis in this country, one political party has completely abdicated its primary responsibility should be drawing media ire on a daily basis.

Instead, these shills point fingers at the only party trying to rectify the situation.

It really makes you wonder how they look themselves in the mirror when they brush their teeth....The Kraut was tough on Shields.

[deadrock]

Big, tough Kraut. Taking candy from a baby. Shields is a mental midget.

How about challenging yourself, Kraut, on why you dislike conservative GOP candidates? Most would love to here the answer.

[fantom]

C’mon Rock. Neck face deserves a public beating just for being stupid.

[rockrr]

Who says that they brush their teeth? LOL

[Jim Scott]

Charles Krauthammer was simply challenging mental midget Mark Shields in response to his stereotypical left-wing whining about the GOP budget proposal. Kraut asked the glaringly obvious question: "Where is the Democrat budget?" Shields sputtered and had no real response because no one anticipated Krauthammer would pose this relevant question so it wasn't on Shield's list of talking points. Without those, most liberals become incoherent. Well, more incoherent than usual. Shields should have yelled 'Sarah Palin!" at Krauthammer. Then, after Kraut had stated, for the umpteenth time, that Palin won't run but if she did, would lose big-time, they could both have found agreement on something.

[rockrr]

I swear that I made my snarky comment before I viewed the page and saw “Grumpy in Arizona’s” comment:

...they know how to brush their teeth?

- Grump :o)

[Timeout]

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[apillar]

KRAUTHAMMER: Where are their numbers and where is the plan?

SHIELDS: It’s right there in the President…

Does that mean somebody shoved it up his..uhm..posterior. Or was Shields making a freudian slip and admitting that the presidents budget plan was crap.

[LibLieSlayer]

That means that obama just pulls the figures out of his arse as needed.

LLS