Posted on 12/31/2012 8:26:07 AM PST by morethanright
Mr. Curmudgeon:
"I do begrudge what he's done in this fiscal cliff talks," said syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer to Fox News host Sean Hannity. "It's been very clear from the beginning that he [President Obama] had no intention to solve the fiscal issues. He's been using this, and I must say with great skill and ruthless skill and success, to fracture and basically shatter the Republican opposition. The only, you know, redoubt of the opposition is the House. And his objective from the very beginning was to break the will of the Republicans in the House and to create an internal civil war, and he's done that."
Krauthammer gives the president far more credit than he deserves. The division separating establishment and conservative Republicans has existed for decades. Now that America is poised to venture past the point of no return - assuming a crushing debt that can never be repaid, while diminishing individual freedom in the process - establishment Republicans are forced to choose sides.
GOP House Speaker John Boehner marginalized the conservatives of his party to help the president increase taxes and raise the debt ceiling. It's disingenuous for Krauthammer to say a crafty Obama made Boehner do it. Republican leaders, in the end, made the conscious choice to follow Obama's lead.
Furthermore, Krauthammer forgets that the GOP's "internal civil war" began during the 2010 Republican primaries for the House and Senate. That's when the Tea Party successfully unseated many a Boehner-like Republican. If, as Krauthammer insists, Obama seeks to "break the will of the Republicans in the House," the Tea Party must increase its efforts to unseat easily breakable, Boehner-like Republicans.
If the contest between President Obama and Speaker Boehner is viewed as a boxing match, why does Krauthammer condemn Obama for landing skillful punches to Boehner's glass jaw?
Krauthammer should stop making silly excuses for the GOP's slow-witted bums.
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Yet, the jug-eared moron's agenda prevails.............why's that?
Not bad. I now understand where you come from, and your intent.
It’s a different perspective on the same problem, but it makes sense even if I don’t agree with it.
Carry on.
Exactly right. They dance the jig to get the pay.
We can replace ALL of the thieves, bums and incompetents in the House of Representatives in just under two years, in November of 2014.
Let’s vote for the ones who attach “Tea Party” to their campaign literature.
Better yet, make it an organized movement. Call it a “third party” if you wish, but make the “conservative” label worth something again.
Unfortunately it won't matter. The 1937 depression-in-the-depression, which came in the first year of FDR's second term, was never blamed on FDR, but on Hoover, who hadn't been in office for five years (sound familiar?). "Low-information voters" don't follow ideas; they follow people, and Obama is the person they are following right now. We have no equivalent "face" on our side, and it will take a while to "grow" one, because, unlike Obama who could leapfrog into the public consciousness without vetting, anyone who attempts to become our "face" will experience withering scrutiny (cf. "Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann"), and will have to be able to overcome it by dissing it openly and appealing directly to the 53% on a constant and consistent basis.
Thanks morethanright — this is just a hatchet job on Krauthammer, nothing more.
Yeah, no doubt, we do have different perspectives on what is a serious challenge to freedom as we know it.
From my own eyes I cannot see any easy or fast solution, because of the involvement of other people as well as the slow turning wheels of government. In fact I believe those wheels turn in the other direction all the time.
In the very least if you have a people that wants to be free, then a chance exists for freedom to win. But if you do not have a people that wants to be free...then you have what we have in this country. Certainly this does not speak to everyone, but it does speak to enough of them to land us in our current predicament.
So my answer is to boil it all down to my freedom. How do I live free in a world of people who do want want to be free and people who do not want to let me be free? I do that by the choices I make in my own life. I do what I want, when I want and I do not do what others want. Of course I have to temper that will. if I take action that lands me in jail, then I have forfeit my freedom, and that is not my goal.
I suppose that someday my rebellious nature will lead me into direct conflict with the masterminds, but I do not fear that day.
So long as I live free, every day of my life has worth.
And the fat pensions, solid gold healthcare, insider trading, and Swiss bank accounts. Hence my tagline...
Ironically, that is also exactly what two parties ensures.
The problem here is that the Scumbag Rinos are negotiating to get the Conservatives to be able to Vote No on any tax increases by getting enough Democrats to vote with them and ace out the republican conservatives
I don’t see any way to stop the DC Party, no matter how many Tea
Party Congresscritters we send to Washington.
The K-Street money changers will either corrupt them or work deals with
RATS to pass bills with very few GOP votes needed.
Trent Lott once said “you can’t change Washington”.
I am beginning to believe he was right, even though I despise Lott.
The DC Party, the party of Washington always seems to find a way to
get their tax and spend bill through, no matter what.
I’m guessing the only outcome that can stop them is a collapse of the entire
economy.
that is a real problem indeed!
amazing.
we need to start campaigning specifically to replace any “representatives” that vote or negotiate for any more tax increases, or do not sponsor and vote for the tax cuts we need
a member of the House that negotiates for any higher taxes needs to be retired at the very next election (2014)
meanwhile, tighten your belts and save everything you can (to pay all of Obama’s tax increases and new taxes he’s created that previously didn’t even exist)
I won’t vote for any Repub who votes for this deal.
The negotiations are nothing but pantomime. We have about twice the government we are willing to pay for, and no one in Washington on either side of the aisle is talking about reducing the scope and reach of government. They need to axe about two trillion from the budget per year, and they are talking billions over ten years which is essentially nothing at all (especially as it depends upon future congresses and future presidents).
The argument is about hitting bottom at 100 mph versus 99.9 mph. This is not a serious discussion, it is eyewash.
I wouldn’t vote for any Dem involved in this, and I don’t see why I would vote for any Repub who agrees with this. They aren’t serious people, they aren’t honest. They are collapsing the dollar and no one is prepared to say so out loud.
Gutless, morally vacant, and unprincipled limp-wristed pansies, a immoral, vile, perverted socialist-loving propagandists posing as a “free” media, and a parasitic, productivity-draining entitlement class created by a Demonic Party who seeks to perpetuate the very policies that continue to prevail.
Krauthammer is right. Obama has cleaned our clock in the only court that matters...the court of public opinion. It’s true that he had the media in his pocket but that doesn’t alter the facts.
Krauthammer has only ever given grudging praise to the presiden't political successes -- not his policies.
And it's important to remember that the "jug-eared moron" won the election. I think Krauthammer's been right.
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