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Charles Krauthammer: Paul Ryan’s ‘suicide note’
OC Register ^ | April 07, 2011 | CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Posted on 04/10/2011 1:47:05 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

In 1983, the British Labor Party under the hard-left Michael Foot issued a 700-page manifesto so radical that one colleague called it "the longest suicide note in history." House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has just released a recklessly bold, 73-page, 10-year budget plan. At 37 footnotes, it might be the most annotated suicide note in history.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; krauthammer; ryan; spending
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To: ballplayer

Another reply that has nothing to do with the article.


61 posted on 04/10/2011 5:16:43 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: Windflier
In the case of this article, it appears that the headline writer did Kraut an extreme dis-service. I'd strangle the guy, if I were him.

Misleading headlines are a common problem in most newspapers -- especially on conservative commentary and news stories that involve Republicans.

Since a lot of these headlines end up being posted on Free Republic, we're advised not to react to the headline until we read the content.

62 posted on 04/10/2011 5:19:13 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Isn’t Krauthammer a Democrat? He is classified as a conservative because he is for a strong defense and supports the war against Islamic terrorism, but he doesn’t necessarily wish the Republican Party well.

And, he's a hoplophobe. Years ago, he wrote the the federal government would "eventually" have to confiscate all firearms. Molon labe, Doctor.

63 posted on 04/10/2011 5:27:21 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
I haven't trusted a thing Krauthammer has said since he went ga-ga over Obama's acceptance speech at the Dem National Covention in 2008. He lives in the D.C. bubble, where they see things through D.C. glasses, and simply isn't trustworthy anymore.


64 posted on 04/10/2011 5:31:48 PM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: Jeff Chandler

Seriously. Sometimes reading Free Republics is like reading DU, only from the other side. Emotional rant, one side argument without any data.


65 posted on 04/10/2011 5:48:29 PM PDT by paudio (The differences between Clinton and 0bama? About a dozen of former Democratic Congressmen.)
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To: Cinnamontea; indylindy; screaminsunshine; gusty; Mygirlsmom
I haven't trusted a thing Krauthammer has said since he went ga-ga over Obama's acceptance speech at the Dem National Covention in 2008. He lives in the D.C. bubble, where they see things through D.C. glasses, and simply isn't trustworthy anymore.

I don't trust him 100% either, but on most issues he is on our side, and I think this article outlines the main arguments.

He might have thought it was a good speech (if so I disagree) but since then he has been attacking Obama's policies mercilessly.

Read what K. has to say in this article about Obama's arguments against Ryan:

"major demagoguery"

"Critics are describing Ryan's Medicare reform as privatization, a deliberately loaded term designed to instantly discredit the idea."

"The final charge – cutting taxes for the rich – is the most scurrilous. That would be the same as calling the Ronald Reagan-Bill Bradley 1986 tax reform "cutting taxes for the rich." In fact, it was designed for revenue neutrality. It cut rates – and for everyone – by eliminating loopholes"

But he also argues that even though the GOP is right on the issues, Obama is a coward who waited until Ryan proposed a plan to reform and then uses that plan as ammuntion for demagoguery. And we need the US voters to see through the leftist sophistry they have fallen for many times in the past.

66 posted on 04/10/2011 5:55:55 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: paudio; Jeff Chandler
Seriously. Sometimes reading Free Republics is like reading DU, only from the other side. Emotional rant, one side argument without any data.

Thanks.

67 posted on 04/10/2011 6:02:46 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: paudio
Sometimes reading Free Republics is like reading DU, only from the other side. Emotional rant, one side argument without any data.

Either it is my imagination, or my tolerance for emotionalism is falling, but it sure seems more so now than in the past.

68 posted on 04/10/2011 6:54:20 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Shemp was the Fourth Stooge of the Apocalypse.)
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To: paudio; Jeff Chandler; Cinnamontea; indylindy; screaminsunshine; gusty; Mygirlsmom

One thing Krauthammer did not mention is that Ryan’s budget proposal to eliminate tax loopholes (if it gets that far) will start a war with the lobbyists. As if it wasn’t hard enough.


69 posted on 04/10/2011 7:51:35 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Did he mention the debt went up 60 billion while they argued over cutting 38. That is a net loss of 24 Billion. Ludiculous.


70 posted on 04/10/2011 8:32:09 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks and so do the RINOS.)
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To: screaminsunshine
Did he mention the debt went up 60 billion while they argued over cutting 38. That is a net loss of 24 Billion. Ludiculous.

The article was about Ryan's budget, not the Bohner/Reid/Obama deal on Friday.

71 posted on 04/10/2011 8:48:51 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: okie01
Since a lot of these headlines end up being posted on Free Republic, we're advised not to react to the headline until we read the content.

Some authors are so predictable, that it's not necessary to read the content of their articles, in order to predict whether you're likely to agree with them, or not.

Krauthammer has become someone who I'm increasingly in disagreement with, though he still occasionally makes a point that comports with my way of thinking.

72 posted on 04/10/2011 9:45:56 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Sometimes Krauthammer’s predictions are wrong. But he also usually lays out the possibilities and writes well.


73 posted on 04/11/2011 12:45:16 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Note: this topic is from April 10, 2011. Thanks ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas.

74 posted on 07/17/2011 6:11:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Politics4US

Don’t forget her eyes are to far apart!


75 posted on 07/17/2011 6:13:11 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (If you voted for Obama to prove you are not racist, vote against him to prove you are not an idiot.)
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