Sour Krauthammer

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Charles Krauthammer's Wacky Small Government Delusions


The Hammer sums up the prevailing-but-utterly-false conventional wisdom of the Right:

The November election sent a clear message to Washington: less government, less debt, less spending.

A tip of the hat to Steve Benen, who provided this reality-check with a bit of help from the folks at Gallup:

Last week, Gallup asked respondents to say whether they "favor or oppose cutting government spending" in a variety of areas. A majority opposed cuts to everything -- literally, everything -- except foreign aid. A 52% majority even opposed cuts to funding for the arts. A whopping 67% opposes cuts to education -- which happens to be one of the main targets for congressional Republicans.

As I wrote a few weeks ago, 58 percent of eligible voters simply sat out the mid-terms entirely. So "the message" most voters sent is that they didn't trust the two major parties to solve any of the problems facing the nation, which is quite perceptive of them.

And that "mandate" that Krauthammer and his brethren take as a given is based on the votes of 21.6 percent of the eligible population who went for the GOP in 2010. Contrast that with 18.6 percent of those eligible to vote who "sent a message to Washington" favoring the Dems.

So, among the 41.6 percent who got off their butts and went to the polls, the GOP's spread was 3 percentage points: 21.6 to 18.6 percent.


By Joshua Holland | Sourced from AlterNet
Posted at January 28, 2011, 12:26 pm


http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/453674/charles_krauthammer%27s_wacky_small_government_delusions/

[hedgehog]

1. Is the GOP going after education spending to force the

students and their families back in to the hands of the banks?

[Stargazer99]

2. The GOP just wants uneducated slaves to make those

"who own the means of production" even more wealthier.

[Stargazer99]

3. Have you seen a picture of this guyKrathammer

Ugly duck

[Hardrada]

5. Just like Joseph Goebbels he is a "poisonous little dwarf."

And should be deported (along with David Frum) back to Canada.

[DCKit]

4. Charles Krauthammer never lets a little truth get in the way of Republic spin.

He does what he's paid to do.

[Octafish]

6. Doctor Sour Krauthammer, MD

Harvard, of all places, saw something approaching compassion in the guy. Either that, or his parent's cash was good.

[Rex]

7. Krauthammer has zero credibility as an 'expert' on anything.

The man is living proof that you can be a know-nothing mouthpiece, making millions of dollars to lie daily for an extremist organization and still have the emotions of a robot.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I tried to read Krauthammer's column this morning and couldn't get through it.

[DCKit]

9. Next time, stick a fork in one eye. You'll breeze right on through. nt

[Better Believe It]

10. Bottom line: Only : 21.6% of eliglble people voted for Republicans and only 18.6 % for Democrats

58% of the people didn't vote at all.

It seems that this new "silent majority" doesn't trust either major party to represent their interests.