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Fifth Column
Krauthammer (metaphorically) nails Totenberg
2011-10-23
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The number one item in the Bowles-Simpson report was tax reform, where you'd lower the rates to eight percent, fourteen percent, 23 percent. He had that a year ago in December, he did nothing.

GORDON PETERSON, HOST: Why didn't they just put their arms around Bowles- Simpson?

NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: They should have. But they...

KRAUTHAMMER: But why didn't they? He asked a question: why didn't they?

TOTENBERG: Don't make me the spokesman for the White House. Geez, I don't know.

KRAUTHAMMER: What would be new about that?
Posted by:Beavis

#3  Yee-ouch. :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2011-10-23 19:06  

#2  

Krauthammer is smarter than 99 percent of the people on the planet.
I'd just probably kneel before Zod.
But as someone who does stand-up comedy (once a month), I would say that's the best takedown in politics since William F. Buckley said to Gary Hart in a PBS debate - "don't this embarrass you? Does ANYTHING embarrass you?" Hart turned white.
I loves me a good roasting on the open flame.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2011-10-23 17:43  

#1  Well done, Dr. Krauthammer. Oh, and Beavis? Thanks for finding this, but...er...ummm...couldn't you have come up with a somewhat less unfortunate headline? :-D
Posted by: RIcky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2011-10-23 11:44  

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