National Debt

George Will: Sequester Needed to Curb Washington's Contemptuous Treatm
February 17th, 2013 5:28 PM
Syndicated columnist George Will appears all for Congress allowing sequestration to reduce spending on March 1.
Appearing on ABC's This Week Sunday, Will said it would be appropriate given the "utter contempt with which Washington treats taxpayers' money."
NY Times ‘News Analysis’ Promotes Myth Obama Is Cutting Spending
February 15th, 2013 10:32 AM
On Wednesday, the New York Times published a News Analysis of the President’s State of the Union address entitled “In Age of Spending Cuts, Making a Case for Government.” While the author, Richard Stevenson, makes a correct argument for how the President is pushing for larger government despite a shrinking federal budget, he ignores how there is no actual reduction in federal spending.
In…

Kirsten Powers Rips Obama's State of the Union Speech, Fawning Press i
February 13th, 2013 8:49 PM
Kirsten Powers is definitely liberal, but not blind.
Here's her take on President Obama's State of the Union speech last night as expressed in her Wednesday USA Today column, with an added bonus of a delicious potshot at the sycophantic press: "It was so hackish, so devoid of any theme or purpose, that it makes one wonder whether part of Obama just wants to see how bad he can be before his…

Maher: Rubio's a 'Shameless Liar' for Saying Obama Created More Debt T
February 13th, 2013 10:56 AM
NewsBusters readers know that one of my guilty pleasures is exposing Bill Maher's lack of knowledge on subjects he pompously pounds the table about.
On Tuesday evening, Maher gave me a doozy when he wrote on Facebook, "Wow, what a shameless liar this Marco Rubio guy is - Obama created more debt than Bush? Well, if you don't believe in science, why not math too?"

Krauthammer on State of the Union: 'This Speech Is About Spending Your
February 12th, 2013 10:43 PM
Charles Krauthammer had some harsh words for President Obama's message during Tuesday's State of the Union address.
Moments after its completion, Krauthammer said on Fox News, "He says you can’t cut your way to prosperity. This speech is about spending your way to prosperity" (photo courtesy AP).
Standard AP Boilerplate (e.g., 'Bush Also Ran Annual Deficits') Reappe
February 12th, 2013 5:35 PM
In all too predictable fashion, the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger, in his first and perhaps only report (saved here for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes) on January's Monthly Treausry Statment which showed a small surplus, pulled out the old "Bush ran deficits too" bromide to minimize the historically outsized deficits the Obama has overseen.
Crutsinger also…
NBC Implores Congress to Oppose Upcoming Sequestration Cuts
February 12th, 2013 2:05 PM
As the nation moves closer to the sequester, set to take effect on March 1, NBC is digging in its heels in opposition. On Saturday’s Today, the network ran a story that leaned heavily against the looming automatic spending cuts (surprise, surprise). NBC aimed right for the heart strings by featuring a Colorado high school counselor who had the following “message for Congress”: “At the time when…

Evan Thomas Slams Paul Krugman on PBS's 'Inside Washington
February 9th, 2013 12:44 PM
Despite his awful track record and penchant for making stuff up when it fits his agenda, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is one of the liberal media's most beloved economic darlings.
That's why it was quite a shock to see former Newsweek editor Evan Thomas slam him on PBS's Inside Washington Friday (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Rick Santelli Responds to Negative GDP Report: 'We Are Now Europe
January 30th, 2013 9:59 AM
Rick Santelli made a stunning observation Wednesday about the shocking report that the economy actually shrunk in the fourth quarter last year.
"We are now Europe," he declared on CNBC's Squawk Box.

To AP's Taylor, Congress's Ratings Are 'in the Gutter,' and Harry Reid
January 29th, 2013 11:53 PM
An emailer who is a retired journalist wrote to me today about a January 27 Associated Press item by Andrew Taylor presented as an objective news report, calling it "Appalling ... the worst ever." If it's not, it's pretty close, though I'm not sure how any report on a single congressional action can top the comprehensive slop seen in the June 2008 classic titled, "Everything Seemingly Is…

Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon 'Slow Jam' Sexually-Charged Attacks on
January 29th, 2013 11:22 AM
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams joined Jimmy Fallon Monday in another "Slow Jam the News" segment on NBC's Late Night.
This time the subject was the fight over the debt ceiling with the target of course being Republicans who were repeatedly hit with sexually-charged attacks (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Politico's 'Quiet Liberal Plans for Entitlements' Are Predominantly Ta
January 29th, 2013 12:23 AM
The front-page title at the Politico for David Nather's lengthy write-up on Democrats' alleged ideas for doing something about runaway entitlement programs is "The quiet liberal plan for entitlements; There are some ideas for reining in spending that have been blessed by the left." That gives readers the impression that the left might actually have something specific and potentially palatable…

Paul Ryan: 'If We Had a Clinton Presidency, We Would Have Fixed This F
January 27th, 2013 4:17 PM
Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) made a comment on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday that is guaranteed to raise eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.
"If we had a Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles chief-of-staff at the White House, or President of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That's not the kind of presidency we're dealing with right now."

George Will Schools Donna Brazile: America's 'Going To Be an Assisted
January 27th, 2013 12:29 PM
ABC and CNN contributor Donna Brazile - posing as one of Barack Obama's trusted defenders in the media like she always does! - got a much-needed education Sunday about the President's profligate spending.
Countering Brazile's propaganda on ABC's This Week, George Will said, "A dollar spent on A cannot be spent on B...This is our future. We're going to be an assisted living home with an Army.…