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Juan Williams Showing His Lefty Stripes Blasts Tea Party on Budget Deal
Juan Williams, who wasn’t liberal enough for NPR and was subsequently rewarded with a fat contract by Fox News, departed from his more moderate stances of late on the network today when he blasted the Tea Party over the budget agreement reached on Friday that trimmed government spending.
Williams: I think they (Republicans) got real cuts at the point of threatening everybody and I think they open the door to charges that the Republicans aren’t concerned with the budget, they’re concerned with extremism. And I think if you look at the numbers now people are saying you know what you over read your mandate, you’re threatening the American people.
Williams then went on to say that Speaker of the House John Boehner has the Tea Party wrapped around his neck like an albatross, quoting none other than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said that Boehner is been held hostage by extremists in his party.
Brit Hume answered Williams’ charges by pointing out that the Republicans were able to get nearly $40 billion in cuts and that even Obama is praising the deal.
Williams is off base, as Hume points out, because the budget deal wasn’t the result of Boehner being held hostage by the Tea Party. Rather it was that the Democrats felt they could be the ones held accountable in the 2012 elections since they had failed to pass the budget last year when they controlled both Houses of Congress.
In this case Williams sounded like a mouthpiece for the Democrats and the mainstream media who have been trying to paint the Tea Party as extremists rather than acknowledging the need to trim government spending and put our financial house in order.
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6 Comments for Juan Williams Showing His Lefty Stripes Blasts Tea Party on Budget Deal
You want to blame this on 1 person?? It’s John’wave the white flag’Boehner
He sold out,,it’s that simple. The Right wanted NPR TOTALLY de-funded,& Planned Parenthood, & other groups too. IT DID NOT HAPPEN. only partial de-funding,,a small fraction,,,so these groups WIN & WE lose. One man stood in the way & he surendered,,& now he will be the whipping boy of the Dems,,,everytime their scream intelligent things like “old ladies will die”
& ” babies will starve” LIES,,,ALL LIES. The Dems are the dumbest schmucks on the planet,,,they are just too stupid to realize it. Tax & Spend economics WILL NOT work NOW or in the future. Keynesian methods of spending your way out ALWAYS FAILS,,yet the PRO-Left does NOT get it.
Does anyone think that Williams will change his spots now that he is on Fox News??? (mans gotta eat)
Juan Williams still hasnt removed his foot from his mouth he still a babbling idiot
Let’s face it. The Tea Party … and its chaperones Beck, Palin, Bachmann, et. al. … are clearly “blastable” for their, shall we say, “simplisticness”. Unfunded tax cuts, two unfunded (and now ten years old) invasions, the unfunded TARP “investment”, and the Bush II administration’s addition of some $6 TRILLION to the national debt are what got us into this mess … and a bunch of extremist fringe GOP nutcases are going to get us out of it? Hell! The GOP Congress from 1995 to 2007 and the GOP presidential administration from 2001 to 2007 CAUSED it!
It’s nothing but a plus that Juan Williams has placed blame on “extremism” (and the “neo-conservatives”) … and if the traditional GOP leadership had any backbone … they’d disavow both the Tea Partiers and those GOPs who have brought us to the brink. But … blind partisanship being what it is … accountability and the common good will apparently never make the grade in U.S. politics.
The tea parties havent harmed anyone unlike obamas SS goons from the infamous BLACK PANTHERS so go pound sand teddy peddy
TO Major ( Re: #2 )
Bravo ! I totally agree with you ! Whimpy, scaredy cat Boehner cowarded to the bullies ; and he let us down ! Shameful!!!
The freshman Congressional reps were doing EXACTLY what they were voted in office to do. The fact that more was not trimmed is disappointing. Bing deal, about 40 hours of DEFICIT spend was cut.