CNBC’s Kernen Takes Lefty Senator to School Over ‘Disingenuous’ Gaslighting on Debt Ceiling Blame

NewsBusters ^ | 5/12/2023 | Joseph Vazquez

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CNBC anchor Joe Kernen was fed up with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-RI) attempts to shift blame for the ongoing debt ceiling debacle in Congress.

Whitehouse tried to put the onus on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) despite Congressional Republicans’ passage of a $1.5 trillion debt ceiling increase coupled with $131 billion in spending cuts. Whitehouse — who erroneously dubbed the bill a piece of “MAGA” legislation in a recent press release — accused McCarthy of “trying to avoid blame and responsibility but he is the only person in that meeting who is insisting that default remain a threat on the table.” Kernen wasn’t buying any of it during the May 11 edition of Squawk Box: “[W]e kind of get tired of all the talking points.” He continued: “You're calling it a MAGA bill that's a giveaway to the fossil fuel industry. But you've got 43 of your colleagues that happen to be in the other party in the GOP that have said that they're not going to vote for that clean senate bill, so you know you can't pass it so it's disingenuous to say [that].”

[EQAndyBuzz]

Congress seems to be the only ones who have done their job here. They passed a bill. Saying they are doing nothing is not only disingenuous but it is a flat out lie.

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"CNBC’s Kernen Takes Lefty Senator to School Over ‘Disingenuous’ Gaslighting on Debt Ceiling Blame"

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FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

As as side note to this thread, please consider the following.

If it weren't for unconstitutional, unaccountable taxing and spending by the unconstitutionally big, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government, I question if the debt ceiling would be a concern.

• "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• “If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).

• ”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)

• Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)

• “Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)

• Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)

Patriots, the bottom line is this imo. What is your threshold of “pain” for peacefully stopping unconstitutionally big state and federal governments controlled by bully, constitutionally undefined political parties, from oppressing the people?

The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification, corrupt political party treason (imo)...

All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.

If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.

If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.

With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.

In the meanwhile, consider that it's not Trump's problem to pick patriot candidates for office who understand and respect the federal government's constitutionally limited powers. It's the duty of patriots to keep abreast of public affairs and pick good candidates for public office.

Again...

• “Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)

• Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)

In fact, regular readers of Free Republic could probably do a better job of picking candidates for 2024 elections than Trump imo, Trump evidently getting bad advice about who to endorse from institutionally indoctrinated, corrupt politically party-aligned advisors.

The rule for primarying candidates in 2024 is to get rid of all incumbent lawmakers since they have proven that they don't make a difference in killing unconstitutional government policy.

The definition of insanity is reelecting your state's beloved, Constitution-ignoring career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting different results every time.