Krauthammer on Clinton Quoting Him: 'My Career is Done - Maybe NPR Will Take Me'

Charles Krauthammer: Bill Clinton called me 'brilliant' now 'I'm toast' Video
"You know, when you get praise from President Clinton and you are from my side of the aisle, " quipped Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist, "that means my career is done. I'm toast . Maybe NPR will take me, they've got a spot where Juan Williams used to be, but otherwise, I'm done ." After shrugging away his lost career, Krauthammer explained that Clinton was arguing points that Charles had argued in his column about the Obama Tax Cut deal with the Republicans. Those points were Following ...

Krauthammer Responds to Praise from Bill Clinton: My Career is Done Im Toast Video
Here is video of Charles Krauthammer talking to Sean Hannity about the “shout-out” he received from former President Bill Clinton on Friday for having written a column that said the Republicans gave away too much to Democrats in the Tax Cut Deal reached between Obama and GOP Leaders. Krauthammer joked that his career is “done - I’m toast,” since Clinton praised the conservative columnist! The video also shows the bizarre and awkward moment when President Oba...

Bill Clinton Backs Tax Deal: 'I Hope That My Fellow Democrats Will Support It' (VIDEO)
It seems like old times. Former President Bill Clinton took to the White House press room this afternoon, to voice his support for a Compromise policy with Republicans, and to urge dissatisfied Liberal Democrats to come over and vote for it. This time, though, he was offering his assistance to the current President Barack Obama, and for the Tax Cut and Unemployment benefit deal that Obama and Republican leaders rolled out this week. "So in my opinion, this is a good bill, and I hope that my fe...

Charles Krauthammer Responds To Clintons Brilliant Praise: Im Toast
Possibly lost to many during yesterday’s White House time warp was a somewhat surprising, hearty compliment from the former president to Washington Post columnist and beloved conservative Charles Krauthammer : “he’s a brilliant man.” Given a chance to respond on Hannity. Krauthammer seems a bit apprehensive about expressing gratitude, instead assuring Sean Hannity , “my career is done.” Krauthammer got a chance to explain his mostly tongue-in-cheek fears: R...

Will GOP take the P out of NPR?
NPR is facing the most serious threat to the “public” part of its identity since Newt Gingrich’s days as speaker, thanks to a resurgent, Tea Party-inspired Republican House with Budget cuts on its mind and recent stumbles that have left the broadcaster vulnerable to its ideological critics on the right. By far the greatest and most galvanizing of these issues was the firing of Juan Williams. But some Republicans also are seething over NPR’s decision to announce a $1.8 ...

US House to approve tax deal despite doubts: lawmaker (AFP)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US House will approve a deal reached by President Barack Obama and Republicans that would avoid a major New Year's tax hike but was rejected by majority Democrats last week, a senior Democratic lawmaker said Sunday. "In some form it will come to the floor of the House for a vote," assistant Speaker of the House of Representatives Chris Van Hollen told Fox News Sunday. "There are some House Democrats who will refuse to go along with any deal (but)...

The real reason Obama switched gears [Reader Post]
Posted by: DrJohn @ 6:00 am in Barack Obama, Baracks Broken Promises, Michelle Obama, Obama Euphoric-Rapture Syndrome, Obamanomics, Politics, WtF? In what has to be one of the most stunning turnarounds of all political time, Barack Obama struck a deal with Republicans to extend the Bush era Tax Cuts (until the next election). In so doing, he has alienated much of his base: For the first time since his party’s drubbing in last month’s election, and arguably for the first time on a ma...

Tax plan to hit Mass. wallets
The political battle still raging in Washington over Tax Cuts could have a dramatic effect on Bay State billfolds no matter how it is resolved, local experts said. Beacon Hill Institute boss David Tuerck noted that the Bay State economy relies heavily on high-tech investment, which theoretically will be fueled by maintaining the tax cuts. “It’s important for taxes to be kept low and to be kept low with predictability going into the future,” Tuerck said. But it isn’t as m...

WH: Obama won't leave DC until nuke deal is done (AP)
WASHINGTON – White House officials expressed confidence Friday a Nuclear Treaty with Russia will be approved by the Senate before the holidays. President Barack Obama is expected to stay in town to ensure it happens. Momentum for ratification of the New START Treaty grew as Maine Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe announced their support. "I am confident that New START will provide predictability in our relationship with Russia and thus enhance global stability, and most im...

Obama Finds His Mojo
While Conservatives and Liberals criticized the president for his Tax Cut deal, John Avlon says his defensive Press Conference was his most presidential moment since the campaign—and he finally laid out clear principles to fight for....

Are Republicans Backing Another Stimulus?
t is the irony of ironies if you believe one leading Economist's characterization of President Obama's Tax Cut deal. As Republicans prepare to take over the House next month -- having swept to power by railing against reckless spending in Congress -- they are now backing what Mark Zandi calls a second "stimulus." Zandi, Moody's chief economist, told Fox News's Chris Wallace that even if others aren't using the word to refer to the Tax Cut agreement between Republicans and President Obama, he is ...

Tax cut strategies: the untold story
My theory (closed course, professional driver) is that the Democrats who are howling at President Obama for his alleged capitulation to the GOP on taxes are actually participants in a secret master plan hatched in the White House to boost Obama's 2012 chances. This is actually more of a hypothesis than a theory. Or maybe just a conjecture. Or whatever's one step downward in credibility from a conjecture. Something I thought of in the shower. Let's review what happened. The House passed a tax cu...

Are Republicans Backing Another Stimulus?
It is the irony of ironies if you believe one leading Economist's characterization of President Obama's Tax Cut deal. As Republicans prepare to take over the House next month -- having swept to power by railing against reckless spending in Congress -- they are now backing what Mark Zandi calls a second "stimulus." Zandi, Moody's chief economist, told Fox News's Chris Wallace that even if others aren't using the word to refer to the Tax Cut agreement between Republicans and President Obama, he is...

Third of Americans will be diabetic: Bill Clinton
Diabetes is costing the United States up to 160 billion dollars per year and might affect one-third of Americans by the middle of the century, former US President Bill Clinton said Sunday in Dubai. "By the middle of this century, the Diabetes rate in the United States could be as high as one-third of our whole population," Clinton said on the sidelines of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Diabetes Leadership Forum held in Dubai. "If that happens it will dramatically erode the productivit...

About that Obama/Bubba Tag-Team Press Conference
A lot of people have commented on St. Barry’s intensely weird Press Conference the other day. In case you haven’t seen it, check out the video, courtesy of the awesome Pundit & Pundette. RS McCain was overheard snarking, “Bill Clinton never had a problem with ‘keeping the First Lady waiting for about half an hour.’ IYKWIMAITYD.” Maybe we’re being a little hard on President Sexxxy Pantscrease.  I mean, we should’ve seen Obama’s early-o...

Democrat: Republicans Are A Bunch Of Gangsters For Wanting Tax Cuts
I guess I’ve always thought of gangsters as being people who took from other people. Tax Cuts, by their definition, are the exact opposite of taking from people. Cutting taxes means letting people keep what they’ve earned and not taking it away from them. The only gangsters in this equation are the politicians who want to spend indiscriminately and then pretend like the only way to fix Budget Deficits is tax hikes. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) called Republicans “a bunch of gan...

Socialist Dem Nadler Calls Republicans A Bunch of Gangsters
Democrats are still having a hissy fit that the hostage takers won’t let them raise taxes. Far Left democrat Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) called Republicans a “bunch of gangsters” who “blackmailed” President Obama into extending the current Tax Rates. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) called Republicans “a bunch of gangsters” who blackmailed Democrats to ensure that the nation’s wealthiest retain their Tax Cuts. Nadler, appearing Sunday morning on CBS’ ...

The Democrats And Their Second Stimulus
In what appears to be an almost epic attempt at political Suicide, some Democrats appear so exercized by the very idea that the very rich should continue to enjoy the Tax Rates of the Bush era that they are willing to push their president, and their own political prospects, over the cliff. I made my case pretty clear soon after the deal was struck. It was staggering to me how many tangible concessions Obama was able to get for one symbolic give. The GOP got to protect the very rich to the tune...

Commentary: Like Obama, will Ohios Brown move to middle in tax vote?
During the past few weeks as President Barack Obama has been tip-toeing to the political center on taxes and international trade, Sen. Sherrod Brown has suddenly found himself in a lonely outpost on the left. The question will be: Does he stay there or make his own shuffle toward the center? You should get part of the answer this week when the Senate votes on extending the 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts for all Americans, no matter how much money they earn. If Brown, D-Ohio, votes for the bill, it will ...

Justice Breyer on 2nd Amendment: If You Live in D.C. and Like Shooting Guns Go to Maryland (Video)
Justice Breyer on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace presses him here on exactly what the 2nd amendment says: 'It certainly didn't provide for a ban on all Handguns as they have here in Washington D.C."... via gatewaypundit Stephen Breyer was appointed by Bill Clinton in the 1990s, he is the most liberal on the Supreme Court next to Clinton's other Supreme Court nominee- Darth Vader Ginsburg. Thanks a lot Bill... ...

Hannity whines about Obama's 'incendiary rhetoric' -- then calls him a 'failed president'
-- by Dave Frank Luntz and Sean Hannity were all appalled last night at the vicious and harsh language being used by those eeeeevil Liberals this week in describing poor, put-upon Conservatives as "hostage-takers" for merely holding up Unemployment Insurance payouts for poor people in order to force Tax Cuts for the wealthy down everyone's throat. It was heart-wrenching. Of course, when your scenario is a heavy-duty fantasy like this one, it means that you're going to be doing a lot of projecti...

McCain: Third Party May Rise
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says he will support President Obama's Tax Cut Compromise, even though he's not happy about all the pork and Earmarks being loaded into it. In fact, McCain predicts that if Congress keeps it up, Americans will be so upset by the fiscal irresponsibility, they will elect Third Party. "Unless we satisfy the message of this last election, you will see the rise of a third party," McCain told Fox News on Saturday. He went on to say most Americans think Congress has not respo...

American Republicans and Saudi Muslims: Common Ground
by Noah A few days ago Ken ran a post about a humorous piece by comedian Andy Borowitz in “The Borowitz Report” in which Borowitz spoofed the Obama-Republican “Compromise” on the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy, or redistribution of wealth upward, as it's known in the real world. Said Borowitz in his made-up scoop: In his latest effort to find common ground with Republicans in Congress, President Barack Obama said today that he was willing to agree that he is a Musli

President Cipher
During the day yesterday, I’d read online of the bizarre impromptu joint Press Conference held by President Obama and former President Clinton after a meeting they’d had about how to save Obama’s bacon best sell the tax Compromise. Apparently, a few minutes into the event, the President of the United States walked out to go to a party, leaving his Democratic predecessor in charge. Commenters online were generally aghast, but I figured it couldn’t be as bad as i...

The Dis Heard 'Round The World
By RightKlik Should each conservative blog have at least three posts covering the now-infamous Clinton/Obama Press Conference? Why not! Paraphrased from the NY Times: “Please go,” President Clinton said. And with that, Mr. Obama departed, leaving President Clinton to continue his extended conversation with the media. President Clinton went on for at least 20 minutes, moving at one point beyond the tax debate and offering his opinion on the administration’s new Arms Control tr...