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Krauthammer on Obama and the Cuts
Whoops! the Republicans didn’t fall for the maneuvering this time! ~Carrie
Reid & The Obligation: The Insanity Continues
It’s Friday, March 1, 2013, and the insanity is still evolving.
From “Sen. Reid to Press: ‘You Guys Have an Obligation to Report’ the Democrats Are Right” by Elizabeth Harrington (CNSNews – Feb. 28, 2013):
During a news conference on Capitol Hill held on the eve of implementation of the cuts, known on Capitol Hill as “The Sequester,” a reporter asked Reid: “Can you understand the frustration of the American people that you’re blaming the Republicans, the Republicans are blaming you and nobody is talking until the day that these cuts kick in?”
Reid replied: “You know I read an editorial today, and I don’t know whether it was the Times or the Post, where the op-ed writer said, ‘You know, let’s call it the way it is. The Republicans aren’t willing to deal with the Democrats.
“So all this stuff–Democrats aren’t doing anything, Republicans aren’t doing anything–I believe that you guys have an obligation to report it the way it is,” he said.
“This isn’t something that happened yesterday, we’ve been fighting this for a couple years,” Reid added. “They’re unwilling to do what the American people want done. And it’s as simple as that.”
Yes, Senator Reid, it would be nice if the entire media reported things the way they are. You and Pelosi might just be out of a job and wondering what went wrong, if they did.
The Democrats readily dismiss budgets and plans proposed by Republicans and don’t pass a budget for how many years now, Mr. Reid? But it is the Republicans fault because they won’t do what the American people want? Really, we are to take your word? How about when you got up there and said that Romney needed to prove he paid taxes because he didn’t — yet he had? Maybe that little invisible friend of yours has told you wrong again.
The sequester idea came from Obama and his team, but to hear the campaign rhetoric, it would seem we are to forget that little bit of information and just blame the Republicans because they won’t do what Obama and followers want.
With regard to Bob Woodward’s disagreement with the White House, there is a statement that stands out:
“What does that matter now?” It matters a great deal when elected officials and their teams are trying to rewrite history and cast blame on others. Yes, that’s something that matters a great deal. So, just like with the fact that the White House should take responsibility for the sequester proposal — other Democrats like yourself, Mr. Reid, should take responsibility for your irresponsibility and lack of action in the past four or five years.
Where, Mr. Reid, is the passed budget that the law required and you ignored?
It is time that the lost media get back to journalism where one reports the facts, rather than blindly accepting the talking points of those who are trying to redefine our nation, rewrite history, cast blame on others, play down the inconvenient facts, insult and insinuate in the face of opposition, and rely upon selective polls that represent what they want them to represent.
Yes, Mr. Reid, you got one thing right. The media has an obligation to report on the facts and the tactics being utilized in Washington, D.C. Are you sure you are ready for that?
Reid & The Obligation: The Insanity Continues
It’s Friday, March 1, 2013, and the insanity is still evolving.
From “Sen. Reid to Press: ‘You Guys Have an Obligation to Report’ the Democrats Are Right” by Elizabeth Harrington (CNSNews – Feb. 28, 2013):
During a news conference on Capitol Hill held on the eve of implementation of the cuts, known on Capitol Hill as “The Sequester,” a reporter asked Reid: “Can you understand the frustration of the American people that you’re blaming the Republicans, the Republicans are blaming you and nobody is talking until the day that these cuts kick in?”
Reid replied: “You know I read an editorial today, and I don’t know whether it was the Times or the Post, where the op-ed writer said, ‘You know, let’s call it the way it is. The Republicans aren’t willing to deal with the Democrats.
“So all this stuff–Democrats aren’t doing anything, Republicans aren’t doing anything–I believe that you guys have an obligation to report it the way it is,” he said.
“This isn’t something that happened yesterday, we’ve been fighting this for a couple years,” Reid added. “They’re unwilling to do what the American people want done. And it’s as simple as that.”
Yes, Senator Reid, it would be nice if the entire media reported things the way they are. You and Pelosi might just be out of a job and wondering what went wrong, if they did.
The Democrats readily dismiss budgets and plans proposed by Republicans and don’t pass a budget for how many years now, Mr. Reid? But it is the Republicans fault because they won’t do what the American people want? Really, we are to take your word? How about when you got up there and said that Romney needed to prove he paid taxes because he didn’t — yet he had? Maybe that little invisible friend of yours has told you wrong again.
The sequester idea came from Obama and his team, but to hear the campaign rhetoric, it would seem we are to forget that little bit of information and just blame the Republicans because they won’t do what Obama and followers want.
With regard to Bob Woodward’s disagreement with the White House, there is a statement that stands out:
“What does that matter now?” It matters a great deal when elected officials and their teams are trying to rewrite history and cast blame on others. Yes, that’s something that matters a great deal. So, just like with the fact that the White House should take responsibility for the sequester proposal — other Democrats like yourself, Mr. Reid, should take responsibility for your irresponsibility and lack of action in the past four or five years.
Where, Mr. Reid, is the passed budget that the law required and you ignored?
It is time that the lost media get back to journalism where one reports the facts, rather than blindly accepting the talking points of those who are trying to redefine our nation, rewrite history, cast blame on others, play down the inconvenient facts, insult and insinuate in the face of opposition, and rely upon selective polls that represent what they want them to represent.
Yes, Mr. Reid, you got one thing right. The media has an obligation to report on the facts and the tactics being utilized in Washington, D.C. Are you sure you are ready for that?
It Must Be Bob Woodward’s Fault
I have just finished reading, “Journalist Bob Woodward Clashes With White House Over Sequester Report” by Devin Dwyer, and find it both disturbing and expected. It must be Bob Woodward’s fault because Obama & his administration never are at fault.
One portion of the article that caught my attention was:
White House officials have downplayed Woodward’s account, saying that no threats were intended and that the original impetus for the email to Woodward was to apologize for an earlier heated phone conversation. And while the administration does not directly dispute Woodward’s reporting, officials believe he is focusing on a moot point.
“What does that matter now? Not much,” senior Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer told reporters Sunday of the debate over who concocted the sequester.
“What does that matter now?” Didn’t Hillary Clinton say, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” when asked about the people being lied to about Benghazi? When caught, “ask what it matters”and try to make the questioner look to be making something out of nothing, seems to be part of the game plan.
What matters is that the sequester was Obama’s baby, but when it didn’t go as planned, the campaign was to blame the Republicans. It was, after all, their fault for not allowing Obama to have his way, was it not?
People have a right to the truth — not the events rewritten and presented as what it is not — truth and honesty.
Here’s a beauty of a comment:
Former Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith also opined: “Woodward deserves a lot of credit for taking a macro story about DC dysfunction, competing econ theories & making it all about him,” she said.
Do these people go to school to earn degrees in demand for absolute submission, shifting blame, disrespect and insults?
Bob Woodward isn’t a nobody blogger. He is a highly respected investigative journalist. A journalist that apparently didn’t go along with the propaganda. And when he didn’t go along with the made-up version of the sequester talking points, the Obama team apparently thought threats and bullying were in order? Adding to the pot of seemingly inappropriate behavior –when caught — the White House & campaign team starts throwing out insults and trying to make it look like Bob Woodward got it all wrong or is trying to make it about himself? What a sham and a shame.
The bullying and dishonesty coming from the White House is apparent and needs to be stopped. Perhaps the inexcusable treatment of a respected journalist like Bob Woodward will open eyes and set the journalists on fire. Perhaps the Woodward incident will be the beginning of the end for the once eager propaganda machine we have been witnessing the past few years. Yes, perhaps the journalists will now get back to journalism and the search for “actual” truth and the integrity some media personnel lost along the way.
The chatter is Bob Woodward’s fault. He stood up and presented the facts… the truth. How many others will follow his example? How many others will have his courage? Time will tell.