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Posted on 10/06/2013 10:24:04 AM PDT by 4rcane
When Ronald Reagan was President, he was hounded by media and Democrat claims of extremism, too conservative, etc. When George W. Bush was President, he was given similar treatment.
It’s amazing how things change. Now, liberals occasionally praise Bush for his willingness to work across the aisle, and Reagan is viewed as having been too moderate for today’s GOP.
Enter Chris Matthews and the articulate body-slamming he took from Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) on government shutdowns. Matthews, who tried to declare that things got done under Reagan and then-Speaker Tip O’Neill, somehow forgot that twelve shutdowns took place during that era in American history.
Labrador also pointed out that Matthews didn’t call O’Neill “a terrorist,” which Matthews did to Tea Partiers and specifically Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) earlier this year. When Matthews tried to claim the shutdowns were “over numbers” between Reagan and O’Neill, Labrador reminded him that one shutdown was over the Fairness Doctrine – a backdoor attempt by big government liberals to muzzle conservative speech.
As Matthews was being pummeled, host David Gregory tried to save him, asking “When is a law legitimate” related to Obamacare. Labrador didn’t blink, noting that Democrats spent a full decade trying to overturn the Bush tax cuts.
Furthermore, Gregory seems to forget that President Obama has spent over a year trying to overturn sequestration, and several years attacking the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. Obama also delegitimized his own law when he selectively chose which parts he would enforce and delay.
Chris Matthews and his other allies in the media like to pretend the Tea Party is a new and dangerous thing to America. All this movement did was take the silent majority of Americans who want constitutional government and lower spending – plus a chance to succeed in America via the free market – and make that voice heard.
It’s not likely peusdo-journalists like Chris Matthews will begin factual reporting anytime soon. But with Representatives like Labrador destroying his arguments, maybe the viewers of MSNBC will get some truthful information, even if by accident.
There is another distinction - Obama doesn’t just fight against laws he doesn’t like — he simply overturns them with Executive Orders.
Obama doesn’t just fight against laws he doesn’t like — he simply overturns them with Executive Orders.
Well he did say that would be what he would do....and frankly nobody stops him .
<...”It’s amazing how things change. Now, liberals occasionally praise Bush for his willingness to work across the aisle, and Reagan is viewed as having been too moderate for today’s GOP”...>
Just as Lew quoted Reagan to day with Wallace. They resort to using our guys because they have nothing to stand on themselves, as everything they touch gets destroyed.
I laugh even about their smoke stopping agenda....now cars have no ashtrays and you have to smoke outside...so the streets are full of cigarette butts everywhere! They always leave a trail of their failures.....and it
‘s always a worse situation then if they had left things alone!
Keep it up, Labrador.
Labrador lookin more like a pit bull. Mathews and Doofus got their arses chewed off.
“When is a law legitimate?”
This is such a stupid question. A law is legitimate when it is duly enacted. But any law, any statute can be amended or repealed by the people through their representatives at any time. And the lower house of the legislature is fully empowered to deny funding to any item it wishes.
And if the people don’t like the actions of the members of the lower house, they can replace every single one of them every two years. This is how it has always been.
When is a law legitimate? I wonder why these partisan, so-called journalists don’t wonder the same thing when theOne decides he will unilaterally reverse the dictates of law regarding immigration and the treatment of those who have stolen into the country.
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