More DWS: Americans Really Don't Care About the Budget "Process"
 Guy Benson
Political Editor, Townhall.com
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Apr 25, 2012 12:05 PM EST
Our buddy Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared on Fox News last night, an occasion that typically guarantees some sort of embarrassing meltdown. True to form, when anchor Bret Baier pressed the DNC chair on why Senate Democrats haven't produced a budget in nearly 1,100 days, Wasserman Schultz informed Baier that Americans aren't "interested in" these types of "process" questions (the key bit starts at the two minute mark):
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Baier does an admirable job of puncturing her dissembling, but I'd like to offer an even more comprehensive rebuttal:
(1) Even if Americans don't care about "process" questions (and their general revulsion at the backroom Obamacare dealings suggest that they sometimes do), the law cares about process. And the law requires both houses of Congress to introduce and pass budgets every year. Senate Democrats have shirked this obligation for three consecutive budget cycles.
(2) DWS says the "Romney-Ryan budget" -- see my post from yesterday -- "ends Medicare as we know it." For the umpteenth time, basic math ends Medicare as we know it. Just this week, the program's trustees put out a report confirming that Medicare's core fund will become insolvent in 2024. That's 12 years from today. If we do nothing. President Obama's non-solution is to set a government cap on Medicare spending, and enforce it through an unelected rationing panel of 15 government bureaucrats. (Although he's cynically backtracking on the first scheduled round of cuts, using a shameless maneuver to push the pain until after the upcoming election). The bipartisan Paul Ryan (R) -Ron Wyden (D) Medicare reform plan enshrined in the House-passed budget takes a patient-centered approach, premised on choice and competition. "Medicare as we know it" is changing. Period. The question is, how do we go about it. Republicans have a plan. Democrats openly admit they have no solutions to the long-term debt bomb they're refusing to defuse, but they're scrambling to assail the GOP alternative. Also, she keeps talking about the "pain" the Republican plan would inflict on Americans. You know what's painful? National insolvency. Just ask the Greeks choking on tear gas at their latest street riot.
(3) Wasserman Schultz holds up the president's budget as a serious alternative to the House-passed blueprint. Is she aware that Obama's last two budgets have been defeated 511-0 in Congress, a number that includes scores of Democrat 'no' votes? So in what possible sense is Obama's surreally awful budget a viable plan?
(4) As Breitbart's Joel Pollak pointed out on Twitter last night, DWS tries to have it both ways. When pressed on Senate Democrats' egregious and unlawful inaction, she says she's a member of the House and therefore doesn't represent Harry Reid. She's a House member, yes, but she's also the Democratic National Committee Chairwoman. She speaks for her entire party; that'sliterally (to borrow one of her favorite words) her job.
(5) Her fanciful "solution" to this budget mess is for both parties to "work together." Baier astutely notes that a conference committee -- in which disparate bills from each chamber are merged into one -- would serve that purpose, but the lack of a Democrat budget makes such a task impossible. DWS blithely ignores this point, and claims that the GOP simply refuses to work with President Obama. Aside from this not being true, Democrats were the ones who excluded Republicans from the Stimulus discussion and from the drafting process of their exceedingly unpopular healthcare monstrosity.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is incapable of telling the truth because the truth reveals that her party to be an irresponsible failure. It's a tough job, I realize-- which renders me forever grateful that President Obama hand-selected such a capable and charming individual to apply lipstick to the Democrat policy pig.
UPDATE - This:
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maverick13 Wrote:16 minutes ago (7:21 PM)
Remember when Obama tried to tell us we don't care about the process. We just want up and down votes. Obama and the Democrats constantly tells us what we care about and what we don't.
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maverick13 Wrote:16 minutes ago (7:21 PM)
Remember when Obama tried to tell us we don't care about the process. We just want up and down votes. Obama and the Democrats constantly tells us what we care about and what we don't.
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Dramamama Wrote:17 minutes ago (7:20 PM)
Keep talking Debbie-dufus! We love it when you and all your idiotic cohorts open your big mouths! You are complete and total idiots and have NO idea that we see through it!! Go ahead and and talk more......it is so working for us! ANYONE BUT OBAMA2012!!!!
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SalaciousCrumb Wrote:20 minutes ago (7:16 PM)
You guys have been saying Medicare is dying for decades now. Just another scare tactic that won't go away.
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Steve1579 Wrote:1 hour ago (6:30 PM)
Is she same America that we live in? Where has she been living as of late?
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itsnotaboutyou Wrote:1 hour ago (6:28 PM)
This woman has such a cold, empty look in her eyes. How does she know the American people don't care about the budget process??!! When it is our taxpayer dollars they are talking about, we had better care about what is being done with them. And government better be making wise decisions about the spending of the people's money.
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T172 Wrote:1 hour ago (6:31 PM)
Nobody cares man. No one cares at all. Half of americans don't even vote. Look at this year, this presidential race will have on of the lowest turnouts in history, because everyones slowly realizing the democrats and republicans are the same.
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itsnotaboutyou Wrote:56 minutes ago (6:41 PM)
Sorry T, but I'd still like to think that there are a few good people out there with a brain that care about the direction this country is going.
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Longplay Wrote:1 hour ago (6:22 PM)
And yet a sizable section of the electorate will vote for idiots like DSW and BHO. Pathetic.
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T172 Wrote:1 hour ago (6:26 PM)
Thats democracy for you.
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Horribilus Wrote:1 hour ago (5:38 PM)
It's not fair that anyone the beautiful can be that intelligent also.
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John in OK Wrote:1 hour ago (6:01 PM)
Dear Lord, man, not this again! Hie thee to a psychiatrist as soon as possible!
You need professional help.
Or stronger glasses.
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Horribilus Wrote:1 hour ago (6:15 PM)
Don't let your rage blind you.
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Victor64 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:28 PM)
And remember this is a Jew speaking and obviously a follower of Karl Marx and NOT our founding fathers! SURPRISE! Just saying...
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overyonder Wrote:1 hour ago (6:16 PM)
Lots of Communists were/are Jews. Lenin had Jewish roots and was supported by Jewish intellectuals, so what else is new?
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Fights4Freedom Wrote:2 hours ago (5:28 PM)
This woman has no concept of shame at all, does she?
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D G Wrote:1 hour ago (5:53 PM)
Yeah .... She probably is another who sleeps with Bill Clinton........
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Whit Chambers Wrote:2 hours ago (5:26 PM)
WasserPig is a liar and devoid of honor or integrity. This is true of all liberals and most all Dumbocrats.
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Ress Wrote:2 hours ago (5:23 PM)
As someone noted on another blog -- the difference between liberals and conservatives:
Liberals want to silence conservatives from stating the truth.
Conservatives want liberals to keep talking, so everyone can see how insane they are.
Keep it up, Deb!
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Tommy R. Wrote:2 hours ago (5:20 PM)
Poor little girl - brain utterly rotted by years of MSG from all the Chinese take-out.
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Frank1802 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:15 PM)
Further proof that this woman, Obama and the Democrats are totally out of touch with the average American. All of America with the exception of those named above and a minority of ideologues recognise that no individual, business or country can live beyond their means. America is only too concerned about the budget process.
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LoneGunman2 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:14 PM)
MAN, I've had Townhall.com as my home page for a while now but here lately all I see when I open my browser is this lying twit's ugly mug and I'm tired of it. HEY, QUIT GIVING THIS WASTE OF BREATHING AIR FACE TIME.................PLLLLELELEAAAASSSSEEEEE!!! IF I WANTED TO SEE THIS MUCH OF HER, I'D HAVE MARRIED HER!
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Foxfire22 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:13 PM)
Stop and think folks what makes a liberal Democrat.
First, you spend 12 years in an educational institution that is run by socialists, then you spend 4 or more years in an institution of higher learning run by anti God, anti Constitution, anti American educators that teach you that life owes you.
When you graduate, you have been brain washed to believe that trees have souls, animals are equal to people, there's no God, the government is your nanny.
Democrats believe in the free lunch at someone else expense, their women don't believe in equality, they believe in superiority, they believe that mankind is advancing in the social order despite the evidence to the contrary.
Is there hope for a liberal, not without at least an ounce of...
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Foxfire22 Wrote:2 hours ago (5:15 PM)
humility.
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Illbay Wrote:2 hours ago (5:00 PM)
The hallmark of Leftards is that everything is subject to "emotional validation." For instance, when the Democrats came up with the tin-foil-hat theory of the "October Surprise" at the beginning of the first Reagan term, where somehow (even though a Democrat was President) George H. W. Bush hopped an SR-71 and flew secretly to Iran to arrange for them to release the American hostages being held there, only AFTER Reagan's election, had to be investigated because "people are horrified that it might be true." Not "it might be true" but "people are AFRAID it might be true."
George Zimmerman is in jail, primarily because people were "angry" that he was "getting away with murder," so a Democrat prosecutor figured out a way around that "equality
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Illbay Wrote:2 hours ago (5:02 PM)
under the law" B.S. And Obama says we don't DARE repeal Obamacare because "the American people will be so angry"...even if it is bad law, and unconstitutional to boot.
So, that's what DWS is pulling here: "People don't care. People get bored. People roll their eyes. People get impatient. People get exasperated," so the Constitutional requirement that Congress submit a budget - which takes each house doing so, then reconciliation - can be overlooked because of the emotions of the people.
Oh, and BTW: It doesn't work the other way. For instance, the TEA Party folks sure are fed up with the **** that's going on with this regime...but that doesn't count, because they're, you know, racist or something.
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9MM Wrote:2 hours ago (4:53 PM)
CrazyJoeA wrote
"And you know that because you know so many food stamp recipients as a result of all the volunteer work you do."
According to Politifactcheck.com
"The number of SNAP beneficiaries is at a record level, and it has risen in most months of the Obama presidency."
Sorry JoeA(hole)
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rauljg6 Wrote:2 hours ago (4:51 PM)
Conservatives only care about the budget when democrats are in power... deficits and debt apparently were no big deal when Reagan and Bush both broke records during their respective administrations.
Here I ill help you with the preemptive answers you knuckleheads will come up with. Yeah but Obama's record and numbers are way more now (plug in numbers), or here we go blaming Bush again. Doesn't take away from the fact that you did not give a rats a ss about it when the numbers for their time were astronomical. So feign your outrage now.
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Marc_H Wrote:2 hours ago (4:59 PM)
hey LAIR
maybe if you said republicans, like McCain, Snow and other RINOs, maybe
but you see skippy
unlike people like YOU
we Love America
we Love the US Constitution, out Third Gift from God
Life
Jesus
being the other 2.
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JustWondering Wrote:1 hour ago (5:43 PM)
Hey, I thought I was skippy! You also need to know that Jesus loves all the skippys just as much as He loves you.
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rauljg6 Wrote:2 hours ago (4:46 PM)
Guy's obsession with DWS continues! Not to mention all the misinformation.
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D G Wrote:2 hours ago (4:50 PM)
What misinformation in the video?
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Marc_H Wrote:2 hours ago (4:59 PM)
didn't you know
TH hires a DWS look-a-like
OOHHHH...... yuck!!!
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M.K. Wrote:2 hours ago (4:46 PM)
Well, Debs, the unwashed masses have to pinch their pennies. Why not the government?
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Illbay Wrote:2 hours ago (5:10 PM)
Channeling Rush Limbaugh: "EVERYONE has to cut back, do without, tighten the belt, but NOT GOVERNMENT! No, no, no, the GOVERNMENT can NEVER be made to make do with less! Unthinkable! Impossible!"
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Redneck48 Wrote:2 hours ago (4:39 PM)
Debbie's goal here as with the Dems in the Senate is to get the American people to ignore the fact that there is not budget, has been no budget, won't be a budget and all they care about is unchecked spending.
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NW-Res Wrote:2 hours ago (4:42 PM)
Yup. To a Democrat, no budget = unlimited spending. So, not passing a budget is preferable.
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tc5bwe Wrote:2 hours ago (4:38 PM)
Just hearing her voice makes me want to hold my ears and scream. Then she spouts her sickening lies and want someone to stick a sock in her mouth.
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Michael in the P/R of ATL Wrote:2 hours ago (5:09 PM)
And seeing her appearance makes me want to stab out my eyes with ice-picks. She is truly hideous in every sense of the word.
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Illbay Wrote:2 hours ago (5:11 PM)
Seems like she used to be at least attractive - so sticking a sock in her mouth would work from a weird, twisted BDSM point of view, I guess.
But her looks have gone downhill FAST!!!! I swear, just one year ago she looked a h*ll of a lot better than this!
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Bob3705 Wrote:3 hours ago (4:34 PM)
This freak wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and bit her in the behind. She's a pathological liar and can no longer separate fact from fiction.
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Bitter Clinger in PA Wrote:3 hours ago (4:30 PM)
I can't figure out who's hotter: DWS or Rachel Maddow........
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Buck O'f Wrote:3 hours ago (4:33 PM)
*gag*
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NW-Res Wrote:2 hours ago (4:38 PM)
LOL. But I believe Rachel wears "comfortable" shoes and I see a ring on DWS's finger (scary). You need to move on, dude.
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