MRC’s Notable Quotables: We Need the ‘Courage’ to Raise Taxes
It’s Memorial Day, but the MRC is out with its latest edition of Notable Quotables , a re-cap of the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes from the liberal media over the past two weeks. This edition: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell insists that Republicans just lack the “guts” to raise taxes; David Gregory suggests it’s “racially-tinged” for Newt Gingrich to try and spotlight President Obama’s poor economic record, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria first admits to advising the President on foreign policy, then hails Obama’s speech on Middle East policy a few days later. Oh, and Ed Schultz. The entire package is posted at www.MRC.org ; here are some of the highlights. What’s Needed Is “Courage” to Raise Taxes “Paul Ryan has shown considerable guts, but you’re [Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen] correct that nobody on the Republican side is showing any courage on the tax front. And unless taxes are part of the mix, every grown-up knows it can’t reach a solution.” — Correspondent Andrea Mitchell on NBC’s Meet the Press, May 22. “What about raising taxes?…At some point, do you have to look at raising taxes, and do people have to pay more for what’s needed in this country?” — Co-host Erica Hill to GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty on CBS’s The Early Show, May 23. “Racially-Tinged” to Point Out Obama’s Horrible Economic Record? Clip of Newt Gingrich: “You want to be a country that creates food stamps, in which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success — the most successful food stamp President in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates paychecks?” Host David Gregory, to Gingrich: “First of all, you gave a speech in Georgia with language a lot of people think could be coded racially-tinged language, calling the President, the first black President, a ‘food stamp President.’…What did you mean? What was the point?” — NBC’s Meet the Press, May 15. “Destroying Medicare” = “New Litmus Test” for GOP “My favorite detail though of the whole Gingrich-Paul Ryan kerfluffle was not even two days had gone by before a White House aide sat up and said, ‘Well this just proves that destroying Medicare is the new litmus test for the Republican Party primary.’ So they see an opportunity here to just drive that whole debate further and further to the right toward the Tea Party, away from the center, and that’s why they were happy about what happened.” — Time Washington Bureau Chief Michael Duffy on PBS’s Washington Week, May 20. Tea Party: Nothing but a Bunch of Obama-Haters “The marriage between the Republicans and the Tea Party is based on hatred, hatred of government, hatred of the Democrats, hatred of Barack Obama. What’s love got to do with it? Zip….Republicans will not say what the Tea Parties live for, the hatred of government, of the Democrats, of President Obama. They have to hear he doesn’t simply disagree with them, but that he’s not one of them. It’s evil, it’s hatred of what works over there. And it’s over there that spells political death for the Republicans.” — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Hardball, May 16.
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