Charles Krauthammer: "Obama's shallow, hyper-partisan, dishonest speech was an attack on Ryan plan"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

April 14, 2011 12:00 PM
Charles Krauthammer freaks out over Obama's speech; calls it a 'disgrace' for dissing Ryan
34 comments
By John Amato



http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/charles-krauthammer-freaks-out-over-oba

I was like many of us who were worried that President Obama wouldn't draw a big enough contrast between the two parties and their ideals when he was getting ready to give his budget-deficit speech yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised that he did articulate some key differences for a change, including singling out Paul Ryan's junk-science pathway to the destruction of Medicare budget.

Paul Krugman has a good write-up, with many follow-ups to it. It was more of a political speech to me than anything else in my eyes. We do need to really get on our game more than everwhen we see things like this report coming from Democrats.

But the real treat for me was watching Krauthammer cry like a petulant child on Fox News.

His newly anointed conservative star, Paul Ryan, (Wall Street's BFF) was exposed as a fraud for putting out a plan that, first of all, wouldn't do anything to significantly reduce the deficit, but would make it a huge risk if you were lucky enough to live until your 60s. Growing old has gotten more dangerous with plans like his and Obama didn't hesitate to make that point clear.

Here's Charles totally losing his cool on Brett Baier's FOX Show:

Krauthammer: I thought it was a disgrace. I rarely heard a speech by a president so shallow, so hyper-partisan and so intellectually dishonest, outside the last couple of weeks of a presidential election where you are allowed to call your opponent anything short of a traitor. But, we’re a year-and-a-half away from Election Day and it was supposed to be a speech about policy. He didn’t even get to his own alternative until more than halfway through the speech. And when he did, he threw out numbers suspended in mid-air with nothing under them with all kinds of goals and guidelines and triggers that mean nothing. The speech was really about and entirely an attack on the Ryan plan.”

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Kraphammer?

Who pays a never-mind to him?

[Richardo]

2. Call the waaaaaaaaaaaaambulance

Stat :cry:

[atreides1]

3. I hate this evil slug

He just oozes nastiness...he even looks evil.

JMOHO folks

[roguevalley]

36. his face looks like a puckered anus. I'm sorry. It just does.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Yeah whatever Dr. Strangelove. nt

[flamingdem]

5. Obama hammered his Kraut nt

[PA Democrat]

6. Did Krauthammer ever stop to consider that if he weren't rich

he'd be pretty much screwed by Boy Blunder's voucher plan for Medicare? The right loves to foment about morality but then they turn a blind eye on the despicable immorality of a plan that will force the poor, the elderly, the disabled to choose between bankruptcy and death.

[anneboleyn]

18. Yes, He doesn't care because he's a rich, heartless, artificial shell of a "man."

He and his kind clearly could care less about the elderly, disabled, and poor in our country. As long as he can clutch his millions to his chest with his bony fingers, then bring on the cuts to medicare and medicaid! (But remember not to raise taxes on the rich, he reminds us).

[Bucky]

7. How do you fix an empty argument?

By stuffing it full with a bunch of meaningless adjectives.

[louis-t]

8. What a stiff. His face is all contorted.

Probably from having it buried in Ryan's ass.

[arcane1]

9. Oh no, he attacked Ryan's plan!! RUN!!!!

:scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

[walldude]

10. Loser.

[opihimoimoi]

11. The man is devoid of REASON and COMMON SENSE...pity him

[emulatorloo]

26. I doubt he actually believes 95% of what he is saying.

His job is to pretend to be an "Intelligent Conservative" for the Wingnut Wing of the GOP

[opihimoimoi]

35. A GOPer Puppet Posing as "Intelligent?" OMG, another one?

[hifiguy]

12. The next intelligent thing that Krauthammer says

will be his first. This creep is beneath contempt.

[tularetom]

13. The fact that this POS is so upset

Means Obama's speech hit pretty close to home.

He's just a miserable unhappy excuse for a human being.

I'm sorry the guy's a paraplegic but he doesn't need to take out his bitterness on the rest of us.

[craigmatic]

14. Yes it was an attck on the ryan plan. That was the whole damn point. Duh...winning

[xxqqqzme]

15. Hey Chuck - you might want to make a note

Ryan doesn't have a 'plan' that belongs to him. He is only a lowly congress critter trying to make a splash so he can challenge can'tor .

Obama is your President. HE can have a plan. See how that works chuckie.

[City Lights]

16. Chuckles doth protest too much!

Get over it. :nopity:

[JuniperLea]

17. Yay! If this asshat is pissed off...

I'm even more convinced that Obama's speech was exactly what the doctor ordered!

[yurbud]

19. is it just me or does he look like an old lady who has had too much plastic surgery?

[gratuitous]

20. Charles: Let Paul fight his own battles

Oh that's right; Ryan went on Fox after Obama handed him his ass on a platter and didn't do so well.

[Blue Owl]

21. Shut your Krauthole, Dickbag

Eddie Munster can fester in his soiled diaper.

[jmowreader]

22. And...that would be good, right?

The next person who writes a "deficit reduction plan" that has any tax cuts in it--Ryan's plan cuts the top tax rate to 25 percent--should be forced to commit seppuku on national television as a warning to the others.

There is only one way to respond to this plan: throw the fucker in a burn barrel and dump ten gallons of diesel on it then throw in a thermite grenade, just to be sure no one ever finds it again.

[Keith Bee]

23. I wish I could rofl in this space

Hey, you can't always get what you want, right?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Wednesdays]

24. Aww...

[emulatorloo]

25. LOL what a transparent DIPSHIT Krauthammer is. Perfect Tool for the Right Wing Noise Machine.

Thanks for posting, pooooooooooor little Paul Ryan, he got his ass spanked by mean 'ole Obama.

[moondust]

27. What a shallow, hyper-partisan, dishonest whine.

Project much, Kraut?

[marmar]

28. Sour Krauthammer

nt

[spanone]

29. what, no tax cuts chucky? that's all republicans know

[highplainsdem]

30. Aww, the sweet sound of conservatives whining. Just confirms how effective the speech was.

[Marr]

31. I'll never understand how these guys have been able to portray themselves as the tough ones.

I mean, that is some seriously thin skin. For someone who delights in dishing it out, he certainly does cry easily.

[Fuzz]

32. /cry omg, he attacked our plan! /weep

[sendero]

33. What a pantload of bollocks..

... first of all, the Ryan plan deserves the drubbing it got AND MORE. It is nothing but a cynical bid to shift the 90% of the burden of fixing the budget on seniors.

Second of all, if I hear ONE MORE REPUBLICAN DOUCHEBAG CLAIM THAT THE TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH CREATE JOBS, I'm going to rip my radio out of the dashboard.

If tax cuts for the rich creates jobs, since rates are now at the lowest point in the
country's history - WHERE THE HELL ARE THE JOBS?

The idea that tax cuts for the rich help the economy in any way is an UTTER LIE and those LIARS know it.

[Bake]

34. So let me get this straight ... it was "an attack on Ryan's plan."

Well hell YES it was an attack on Ryan's "plan." As it SHOULD be!! He didn't attack Ryan personally. He attacked the PLAN. He didn't say ONE THING about the plan that wasn't accurate--unlike the Pukes, who say whatever the hell they want and then claim it wasn't intended to be a "factual statement." What a pantload of horseshit!!

Geez, these fuckers have had it too damn easy. They can't take ANY disagreement. Screw you, Kraut.

Bake

[deaniac21]

37. If that was freaking out, he must actually show some emotion

when he goes crazy.

[and-justice-for-all]

38. Well yeah, it should have been...

The Ryan plan is only good to show what NOT to cut.