His Democrat roots are showing I'd hate to have Krauthammer on my team, he'd throw in the towel before the game even began. He'd wave the white flag before the war even started. He'd give up his wallet before anybody tried to mug him.
In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, shortly after the government officially had shut down, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said it was time for Republicans to “throw in the towel.”
During a special broadcast of “Special Report,” Krauthammer explained that Republicans had missed an opportunity to attack President Barack Obama and his unpopular health care law. Instead, Krauthammer said, the GOP will be forced to defend a government shutdown.
“If they had started to make the argument a month ago about delay, to make people understand the unfairness, which is the heart of the issue, to talk about the exemption for Congress — they would have had the upper hand,” Krauthammer said. “But because it was all monopolized by some people in Congress who wanted only to speak about essentially destroying Obamacare, it became an issue of president’s signature. It passed the House, it passed the Senate — all of this that we had been hearing over and over again and then it became — people said ‘are going to say are you really going to do this over a continuing resolution?’ So that was a loser from the beginning.”
“The problem here is that Republicans in the House are now in retreat as it goes from overturning it to delaying it to delaying a provision and now to having a conference,” he continued. “Look, it is over. The ballgame is over. Throw in the towel. The place to fight — this has always been true … you fight on the debt ceiling. We know from the polls that people want to see a fight on the debt ceiling. They’re not even in favor of raising it even in the absence of demands. It’s the one place where the polls have shown 60 percent of Americans want to see it coupled with a decrease in spending and are prepared to see a fight and the threat over it.”
Krauthammer insisted the opportunity to wage a public-relations attack on Obamacare, and that the nation will focus on the government shutdown.
“The other part of it, if I could just add one point — we ought to be showing today the complete dysfunction of the kickoff of health care of these exchanges,” he added. “All of the loopholes, all of the mistakes, all of the stuff that we know is there. Instead of the focus being on that as it would be, we’ve monopolized the headlines. What’s it going to be on? The panda cam is now shutdown in the zoo.”
Zitat“If they had started to make the argument a month ago about delay, to make people understand the unfairness, which is the heart of the issue....
No Chuck, you Mondale voting stooge. The issue isn't unfairness. It is that this thing is destroying everything it comes in contact with including jobs and incomes. I also think this armchair quarterbacking that the GOP should have lead off with delay instead of defund is patently absurd. The Defund move pushed Zerocare as a major issue again. Also as we have just found out it didn't matter what the GOP sent to the Senate. Reid and Zero are having none of it. What part of Reids statement that he will only pass a clean CR don't they get? He isn't even for an extension for crying out loud. They WANT a shut down. They are gambling it will help them.
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Zitat“If they had started to make the argument a month ago about delay, to make people understand the unfairness, which is the heart of the issue, to talk about the exemption for Congress — they would have had the upper hand,”
They were. I don't know where CK has been but he's way off on this one. We do have the upper hand.
They were. I don't know where CK has been but he's way off on this one. We do have the upper hand.
Maybe he should throw in the towel and just hush.
Let's remember that Chuck was one of the Conservatives along with Larry Kudlow, David Brooks, Bill Kristol and George Will that had that dinner party with Zero right after his election in '08 so they could kiss his ass. These are the same people today who are all wringing their hands now about making any waves. DC insiders will always be DC insiders.
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They were. I don't know where CK has been but he's way off on this one. We do have the upper hand.
Maybe he should throw in the towel and just hush.
Let's remember that Chuck was one of the Conservatives along with Larry Kudlow, David Brooks, Bill Kristol and George Will that had that dinner party with Zero right after his election in '08 so they could kiss his ass. These are the same people today who are all wringing their hands now about making any waves. DC insiders will always be DC insiders.
I remember Kudlow gushing like a school girl after that dinner, haven't listened to him since.
Quote: Justme wrote in post #7 I remember Kudlow gushing like a school girl after that dinner, haven't listened to him since.
Tune into CNBC tonight at 7 PM to hear the daily whine about how the GOP should just sit on their hands so that the market doesn't get rattled. I wish someone could tell me what a nonessential govt' shutdown has to do with the stock price of Alcoa or McDonalds.
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Larry just spent the first 3 minutes of his show pleading for the GOP to cave and do a clean CR. To back him up he has Kay Baily Hutchinson to back him up.
maybe he is back on the cocaine again.
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