Scarborough calls out his own
January 8, 2013 at 5:39 pm in News by Dustin Siggins 13 Comments
For the fourth fiscal year in a row, the mainstream media has let Senate Democrats get away with not passing a single budget through their chamber. Meanwhile, the House’s moderate efforts at curbing spending have been derided as extreme and harmful to society. Well, earlier this week, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough brought down the hammer upon his fellow media personalities and reporters. Via Mediaite’s Andrew Kirell:
After declaring for the rest of his show’s hosts that what Washington has is a “spending problem,” Scarborough took exception to Mika Brzezinski saying “we’ve got to get the two parties to seriously talk about spending,” saying:
You say to get the two parties to talk about it, let’s look at what’s happened. Paul Ryan put a budget out. What did we hear about Paul Ryan’s budget after he put it out in the House of Representatives? How savage it was, how cold it was, how cruel it was. What did Democrats put out in the Senate, which was their constitutional requirement? Nothing. They haven’t put out anything for years. They haven’t proposed cuts. They keep saying generally the president’s proposed cuts. Nobody can tell you what those specific cuts are. I’ve been very critical of Republicans, and we’ve seen quite a few tense showdowns where Republicans came on and said they aren’t going to have to raise taxes. They are. We’re in James Madison’s Washington, and so taxes had to be raised. but Democrats have to come forward with real cuts. And when is Harry Reid going to do that? When are the Democrats in the Senate — how long’s it been? How many thousands of days? 1,000? 1,100 days since the Democrats have produced a budget in the Senate? And why isn’t the media talking about this?
Scarborough is exactly right in his statement. Many Republicans have broken their alleged principles to raise taxes on the American people, yet too many Democrats are unwilling to face the realities of our nation’s financial straits. Rather than cut spending, they want to keep up the lie that tax increases can prevent a fiscal collapse.
Later, again via Mediaite:
When Brzezinski was asked her take, she said, “These Republicans need to look at why they got nothing.”
Scarborough took issue: “Wait. Are you so partisan that you can’t admit the obvious, that Republicans passed a tax increase?”
Scarborough has nailed the problem here: Republicans are willing to compromise their principles. Democrats are not willing to compromise their ideology. However, by accident or design, the media only reports half of the story, and it’s always how obstinate Republicans are. The mainstream media’s failure to report on Democratic binge spending calls into question their competence and ethics.
Fox reports on this
No budget = no plan for government.
No plan for government? Well, it’s obvious since the government doesn’t even have a plan, there can be no possible argument to borrow any more money. If you don’t know what you’re going to spend the money on, what possible argument can you have to borrow money?
NO MORE DEBT. NOT FOR ANY REASON.
Make the government grow up and live within the means the economy can reasonably be expected to afford.
DB,
Ya, shut the whole thing down for a few months. Perhaps we won’t miss it very much, in which case we could just leave it shut down and save a ton of money.
The only way to get the government’s attention is to shut it down.
When any agency or department expends all funds appropriated for it, shut it down until there are more funds to appropriate for it.
it’s that simple.
But agencies could reduce staff by 90%, sell off land or buildings and keep going for years and years. People might contribute to their favorite agency to keep it going. The could have bake sales and fund raisers. Only a full shut down would truly be fair. We should not shut down the Army. I don’t want starving soldiers holding up a 7-11 while I buy coffee.
The type of person who volunteers to accept a low income to die for his country isn’t likely to be the same person who robs a convenience store, regardless of financial situation. They are more likely to get a goddam job and support themselves. It’s those who have been trained to expect everyone else to give them what they want that will steal what they deem desirable.
Good point.
But we should let them keep all the MREs they want during the shutdown just to be safe. Actually lots could get jobs as security guards to keep away the 46,000,000 people on food stamps. Lot’s of those have guns. There would be a need for advanced planning to do this right. Millions of hungry people and old people digging in the gutter for scraps of food would block the streets and snarl traffic. We’d need to move then out of the cities first. Perhaps to camps in the desert where they wouldn’t be underfoot.
Who told you things should be fair? Some progressive teachers?
Everybody taught me that life isn’t fair.
Jeff,
I don’t want my favorite agency shut down while some insiders keep theirs open. The bankers will pay to keep the FDIC open. Life is as fair as you make it. We are not animals
Of course you know, a “government shutdown” doesn’t really shut down the government.
I think I’ll go Google and find out what actually gets shut down…
The Dept. of Education would be a good start. Canada doesn’t have one, and they do a better job educating their children than we do. I bet there’s a connection.
Jeff,
DO NOT say that! Canada is a Socialist country with government run health care. Think more like Belize or Panama.
Jerry, you are a very bad boy.
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