DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz Demolished by… CNN’s Wolf Blitzer?

August 15, 2012 | Filed under 2012 Presidential Race,Asshats,Big government,corruption,Culture Of Corruption,Democrats,Dumbasses,Economics,Health Care,Liberals,Media,Media Whores | Posted by

The most unkind cut of all is when your paper thin understanding of the facts is shredded by someone you think is on your side. This is what happened to Democrat National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz when she kept trying to tell CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Ryan’s Medicare reform plan took Medicare away from everyone even though, as Blitzer repeatedly pointed out, the truth is that Ryan’s reforms only altered the entitlement for those 55 and younger.

It was painful to watch Schultz being eviscerated by her own CNN mouthpiece.

Of course Blitzer was correct. When Paul Ryan introduced his budget reform plan, the Roadmap For America’s Future, he did suggest that reforms for Medicare would kick in for those 55 and under. But thefact is, and it is a fact that Blitzer kept trying to pound into Wasserman Schultz’ head, that Every American over 55 would not see any changes at all in the entitlements that they always thought they’d get.

Americans understand that our entitlement regimen is far too generous, far too expensive, and on the road to completely bankrupting the nation. Americans 55 or younger fully understand that changes have to come and they have to start somewhere.

At the same time Americans also have compassion for those older Americans who spent their entire adult lives planning for a future that included receiving these benefits. Compassionate Americans realize that it wouldn’t be fair to just strand so many elderly people in a future where they will be left wanting. America understands that it just isn’t fair to yank the rug out from under them. Americans “get” why Paul Ryan and the Republicans wrote their reform plan they way they did.

It was sweet, though, to see Wasserman Schultz yammer, stammer, um and ahh, as Blitzer blitzed her like a sledgehammer with the facts.

It just shows how unprepared this woman is for prime time and how unserious her Party is to address the deepening fiscal crisis their policies have created.

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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago-based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, RightPundits.com, StoptheACLU.com, Human Events Magazine, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events.He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions, EMAIL Warner Todd Huston: igcolonel .at. hotmail.com"The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." --Samuel Johnson

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  • MichaelLaprarie

    A beautiful illustration of why the Ryan VP pick was the right one. The media is going to zero in on Ryan’s “controversial” budget and spending reform proposals, which in turn will force the media to take a closer look at Democratic spending and the financial mechanisms of Obamacare.

    The Democrats have been spinning Obamacare as a panacea of free coverages and benefits, and have been desperately trying to avoid any discussion of its financial and regulatory underpinnings, which frankly would shock a lot of people.

    I wonder if this is all part of the plan to introduce the repeal of Obamacare. It makes sense – talk about the Medicare cuts, the $1.6 trillion in new spending, the 15 million who will still be without insurance, etc. Allow the American people to feel like they’ve been baited-and-switched (which they have). Then introduce ideas for repealing the bill while preserving the needed benefits (like pre-existing conditions coverage).

  • 914

    Debbie’s ignorance is painful to watch..

    • http://wizbangblog.com Kevin

      That comment has been removed…

  • Brucehenry

    Wasserman-Schultz DOES NOT DISPUTE Blitzer when he says it will only affect those now under 55. What she keeps saying, and what Blitzer, and you apparently, keep not hearing, is that those people will turn 65 eventually, and that it’s not OK to say “let’s end Medicare as we know it because nobody gets screwed for 10 years anyway.” She also implies that maybe they’ve got more drastic plans in mind if they get into power.

    Now, she does want to repeat the things she came on TV to say, but for you to represent her as not getting what Blitzer is saying is incorrect.

    I’m over 55, but my wife is 51. I don’t want to see her get screwed by Ryan-Romney’s plan. I think most voters my age and over care about other people as well as themselves.
    You think seniors, who vote in great numbers, are of the “screw-him-I-got-mine” school. I disagree.

    • jim_m

      No. We think that you have to start somewhere. Yours is the typical left wing argument that if you can’t rescue it for everyone we shouldn’t rescue it for anyone. SOMETHING must be done. SOMEONE must accept a reduction n benefits.

      While you can go on believing that obama’s unicorn will fart out more money so everyone can have medicare and social security for another 5000 years the rest of us choose to live in the real world where we understand that something must change.

      Pandering to everyone by promising free stuff forever, when you know that we can’t afford it is just lying to the American people. That is what you advocate. That is what obama does.

      • Brucehenry

        Dude, I understand something must be done, sooner rather than later. I was just pointing out, once again, how Warner misrepresents the views of those with whom he disagrees.

        There are other fixes for SS and Medicare besides Romney-Ryan’s. How about, for example, removing the $106,000 cap on contributions? Why should a guy making $106K pay tax on 100% of his salary, while those making $212K pay tax on only 50%?

        • jim_m

          Sure there are other fixes. What has obama offered? ZIP He can’t even offer up a budget that his own party will vote for.

          • Brucehenry

            Hey, what can I say? Obama’s been a disappointment. But as I’ve said a million times here on Wizbang, every election is a choice between two alternatives. Romney, in my opinion, sucks WORSE.

          • jim_m

            Hey, you voted for obama last time. What makes you think that your judgement has improved in 4 years?

          • Brucehenry

            Mc Cain? Really?

            My judgement was fine. It was the GOP primary voters of 2008 who were stupid, lol.

          • jim_m

            You honestly believe that McCain would have been the worst president in the history of he US? Because obama surely is. He makes Carter, Harding and Hoover all look like pikers.

          • Brucehenry

            You know what opinions are like, Jim, and who owns them.

          • jim_m

            Yeah, but I’m right on this one.

          • retired.military

            We umm got stuck by the voters who crossed over and gave McCain the nomination. You know we werent thirled about McCain either.

          • herddog505

            So, you’ll take a man who you KNOW raided Medicare over one that you THINK will do so????

          • jim_m

            Bruce is a lefty. Don’t expect his views to make sense.

          • Brucehenry

            Says the guy who thinks Allen West DOES make sense, lol.

          • jim_m

            As I haven’t said thing one about Allen West I wonder where you get your information.

          • Brucehenry

            See below.

          • retired.military

            We feel that Obama is worse than anyone. That is why we are not voting for Romney, we are voting for ABO.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003225995341 Sam Johnson

          Because Ryan has the only published plan; the Democrats have never and will never publish a plan because their lies will be exposed

          • 914

            For sure.. Just as Bruce dodges Obama’s stealing/appropriating from medicare the dems avoid basic math 101 like the plague.

            You can be sure if a Republican President stole/borrowed/misappropriated a trillion from S.S. and started Ryan retirement for instance the sky would be falling and the pissing and moaning would be legendary.

            Barry actually does it arbitrarily without consent of the public and … crickets from the left. Just like with Eric ‘gun runner’ Holder come to think of it..

        • retired.military

          Bruce the fact is that medicare is a $38 trillion unfunded liablity.

          Lets look at the BUDGET deficit for this year. over $1 trillion right. If you DOUBLED the total amount of tax revenue paid by those making 250k or more you would not even cover the deficit for this year.

          It is simple math. You cant tax your way out of it.

    • 914

      Hmmm? Wonder where Barry put that trillion dollars he stole out of MediCare??

      • jim_m

        What Bruce doesn’t realize is that he is in the front line for cost savings under obama care. obama is counting on Bruce’s early death to save the country money.

    • jim_m

      And BTW Bruce, you neglect the fact that obama has cut $714B from medicare. So you aren’t getting squat from obama in his medicare plan. Under obama Medicare won’t exist by the time you hit 65.

      • Brucehenry

        Obama has not “cut” or “raided” any money, much less $716B, from Medicare. It’s a lie. A lie swallowed by the easily duped. Like you geniuses.

        The Medicare trust fund holds US Government bonds that correspond to the surplus it has accumulated over the years. Obama did not default on these bonds, which means he has not pulled any money out of the Medicare system.
        The claim that the President “raided” the trust fund because he has proposed additional health care spending in other areas (including the elimination of the doughnut hole in the prescription drug benefit) is like claiming that a person’s checking account has been raided because the bank lent money to a small business. This is the way a modern economy works.

        • jim_m

          obama claimed the money taken from Medicare as a savings to justify the spending for obamacare. You don’t “borrow” money and claim that it is a savings if you intend to pay it back.

          • Brucehenry

            Those same “savings” are in Ryan’s plan, too. Is it only “raiding” when a Democrat does it? When a Republican does it, it’s fiscal courage, right?

    • Walter_Cronanty

      Whether you choose to believe it or not, the people you don’t care about and are going to screw are your children and grand children, who will have to pay the bill and get nothing from SS. Every time, from Ronald Reagan forward, an R has tried to reform SS so that it doesn’t go bankrupt and/or bankrupt the country, the Ds demagogue the issue, as in Ryan shoving Granny over the cliff in her wheelchair. There has never been a serious effort to reform SS that the Ds have supported. To quote Iowahawk: “Paul Ryan represents Obama’s most horrifying nightmare: Math.”

      • Brucehenry

        Gee, and I thought Reagan and Tip O’Neill came to a grand compromise back in the 80s that kept SS going all this time, because Republicans said the sky was falling back then, too.

        • Walter_Cronanty

          Wrong again.
          ” At a meeting with the president in May 1981, they and other
          presidential advisors outlined a plan that would save $80 billion by reducing aid to students who were children of retired workers, cutting disability payments by tightening eligibility requirements, and reducingearly retirement benefits that would cut the monthly check for low-income retirees by a third.
          Reagan’s advisors assured him that Congress would pass the measure with few objections. They were wrong.
          Some members of Congress saw the call for immediate cuts in benefits as America reneging on its promises, and O’Neill fanned those sparks into flame in an effort to claim a Democratic win for the American people….
          The measure was quickly voted down, but a few months later Reagan agreed to the formation of a bipartisan commission to examine Social Security and appointed economist Alan Greenspan as chairman. The commission proposed a mix of benefit reductions and tax increases that become law in 1983. Those changes included extending the retirement age
          to 67 and requiring people who were self-employed to pay the full Social Security tax instead of the 75 percent they had paid previously.
          These changes provided some relief for the troubled system, but only temporarily. Two years later, rising budget deficits sent elected officials back to the table for another attempt to lower the cost of Social Security. In 1985, a proposal to freeze the annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security beneficiaries narrowly passed the GOP-controlled Senate and failed in the House. In the next election, the American voters ousted the Republicans and gave Democrats control of the Senate. Many political observers tied that shift in power to voter anger over the Republican attempt to reduce Social Security payments.”
          http://seniorliving.about.com/od/socialsecurity101/a/socialsecurity.htm

          Come back when you’re serious about risking going out of power in order to save the country. I’m not worried about your party ever coming back.

          • Brucehenry

            LOL, “only temporarily.” Like, 30 years?

            I read your About.com article. I also remember the debate, at least in broad terms. There was a compromise, and it kept the system working until now — “temporarily.”

          • Walter_Cronanty

            Wow, you’ve really got a long-term vision, Bruce. Your grand-children will be very impressed in 2037 when SS goes completely belly up – oops, that prognostication was done 3 years ago, before the recession, or should I say the New Normal under Obama – the latest I could find is now saying 2033.
            You’ll be remembered by your grand kids for your sterling financial advice: “Stock up on cat food, kiddies.”
            “If you retired in 1960, you could expect to get back seven times more in benefits than you paid in Social Security taxes, and more if you were a low-income worker, as long you made it to age 78 for men and 81 for women.
            As recently as 1985, workers at every income level could retire and expect to get more in benefits than they paid in Social Security taxes, though they didn’t do quite as well as their parents and grandparents.
            Not anymore.
            A married couple retiring last year, after both spouses earned
            average lifetime wages, paid about $598,000 in Social Security taxes during their careers. They can expect to collect about $556,000 in benefits if the man lives to 82 and the woman lives to 85, according to a 2011 study by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank….
            The trustees who oversee Social Security say its funds, which have been built up over the past 30 years with surplus payroll taxes, will run dry in 2033 unless Congress acts. At that point, payroll taxes would provide enough revenue each year to pay about 75 percent of benefits.

            http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/07/new-retirees-receiving-less-in-social-security-than-paid-in-marking-historic/#ixzz23fCyQRU0

          • Brucehenry

            Doesn’t sound insurmountable, even if absolutely everything that the “Urban Institute, a Washington think tank” SAYS is true, actually IS true.

            But again, I’m not arguing that nothing need be done. I’m just saying that, one, Warner has misrepresented what others are saying AGAIN, and two, Ryan’s plan sucks. There are other plans, let’s consider them. Ryan’s is a non-starter foe me, and I think it will be for most folks once they learn of its details.

          • Walter_Cronanty

            Typical – “Your plan sucks. Where’s my plan?……. Well,…. your plan sucks.” As I said above, come back when you and your party gets serious.
            Oh, and I listened to the clip until the end. I counted one time Debbie finally, and begrudgingly, agreed that those 55 and older weren’t going to have anything changed. Other than that, she refused to admit it, and started off her response with a flat lie, which Wolf called her on, again and again. She’s the perfect spokesperson for the vacuous policy of the Ds when it comes to SS.

          • jim_m

            Social issues are only a crisis when the GOP is in power. When a dem reaches the WH all of a sudden there is no homelessness, SS is fully funded until the sun explodes, and Medicare will never run out of money. When the GOP is in power all these things are in crisis and the GOP is trying to kill off the elderly, children, women, minorities or all of the above. It’s a crisis but the dems won’t be serious about fixing it.

          • Walter_Cronanty

            Well, we don’t have to worry about CAGW since Obama got elected because Obama made the oceans recede, remember? Now, if he can just stop Romney from causing cancer,…….

          • jim_m

            Well, from the looks of Biden, obama causes brain damage.

        • LiberalNightmare

          Tip and Reagen are both dead – just like Obama care.

          • Brucehenry

            gud wun heh.

    • retired.military

      Bruce
      True. But people under 55 are pretty feeling that we wont get much of anything at all. Something is better than nothing for what we have paid in. Also peoople under 55 have 3 choices, one of which is to reamin in the program as is. That is if it stays financially sound. Which brings us to this inconvenient fact for Obama. Even before he took $700 billion out of the program to pay for Obamacare the program would have been dead broken in 12 years (at best).

      That also doesnt take into account the doctor shortage and the time restrictions that will be placed on doctors.

      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443404004577578980699719356.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

      Here is the problem: The health-care system can’t possibly deliver on the huge increase in demand for primary-care services. The original ObamaCare bill actually had a line item for increased doctor training. But this provision was zeroed out before passage, probably to keep down the cost of health reform. The result will be gridlock.
      Take preventive care. ObamaCare says that health insurance must cover the tests and procedures recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. What would that involve? In the American Journal of Public Health (2003), scholars at Duke University calculated that arranging for and counseling patients about all those screenings would require 1,773 hours of the average primary-care physician’s time each year, or 7.4 hours per working day.
      .

  • herddog505

    I’d hate to be Wolfy in the wake of that interview. “Listen up, Blitzer! I don’t know who the hell you think you are, but you should damned well know better than to ask questions like that. What the hell? Did you think she was a Republican, for Gaia’s sake???”

  • GarandFan

    Poor Debbie. She was selected because her empty skull is a perfect echo chamber. No thought required. Just pull her string and she’ll regurgitate on cue.

    • http://www.facebook.com/Michael.John.Naretto Michael John Naretto

      I don’t see how a supposedly intelligent woman can be so clueless.

  • ackwired

    Both sides trying to keep the campaign lies going. Good job, Wolf!

    • 914

      I have seen plenty of lies on the dem side but have yet to see any on the Romney side. Perhaps you could enlighten me.

      • ackwired

        Obama is a communist. Obama is a socialist. Obama hates America. Obama was born in Kenya. Obama was raised by a communist in Chicago. Obama is a Muslim. Obama hates business.
        That’s a sampling.

        • 914

          Lets just say Obama doesn’t like “The American Dream” Because his policies are destroying it continually.

          As for the rest of your sampling – What is 1 good reason to vote for 4 more years of this ? Besides selling short that is..

          • ackwired

            I wouldn;t vote for Obama. But I wouldn’t lie about him either. The extremists on both sides get wrapped up in believing that a political campaign is a fight of good vs. evil, and they latch on to anything that says the opponent is evil.

          • jim_m

            Ackwired seems to be complaining that individuals on the right are saying things he believes incorrect about obama ( although I don’t think that I have ever heard anyone say that ” Obama was raised by a communist in Chicago” as he claims).

            Everyone else is talking about the obama campaign and it’s accessory organizations and spokespeople spewing out lie after lie, getting caught in those lies and then lying about saying them. I don’t think we have heard anything like the Romney didn’t pay taxes for 10 years, Romney is a felon, Romney wants to put you in chains/bring back slavery etc that the obama camp has put out.

            Ackwired might be upset that people like myself consider obama a communist and present arguments as to why (apart from the fact that the CPUSA endorses obama and trumpets that under obama it is the greatest time ever to be a communist in the USA). But I am not the Romney campaign. obama’s campaign and the dem apparatus are foul, lying scumbags and will do anything to hold on to power. They are willing to present any lie that they think will enable them to win the election. THey know that they cannot win on his record so they will lie about everything else.

          • ackwired

            This would be an illustration of “extremists on both sides get wrapped up in believing that a political campaign is a fight of good vs. evil, and they latch on to anything that says the opponent is evil.”

          • jim_m

            You missed my main point which was that you are complaining about people like me. We are complaining about Biden, obama, Reid, DWS and obama’s SuperPACS.

            Thanks for implying that I am just as big a shaper of world events and public opinion as those I list. I happen to be a little more realistic in my view of myself.

          • ackwired

            No, I just didn’t consider it worthy of a reply. There is no way that you would ever consider that the right wing plots and conspires just like the left.

          • jim_m

            No. The right is capable of conspiring. But the right has ethical boundaries for the most part, boundaries whose existence the left has disavowed for many years now. And again, you compare the inconsequential statements of someone like myself to the nationally broadcast lies of the dem power structure. It’s simply not the same

          • ackwired

            I know Jim. Your team is noble and theirs is evil.

          • jim_m

            You said it, not me. But I agree with you.

          • ackwired

            Yea, team!!!

        • SCSIwuzzy

          Uh, where did Romney or his campaign say any of that?
          He’s said Obama doesn’t get capitalism or how small business works, but that isn’t the same as hate. The rest is frankly bullshit.

          • ackwired

            They are campaign lies and there is an effort by the “right” to keep them going.

          • SCSIwuzzy

            Link to where the Romney campaign had told these lies. Otherwise, you’re fool of shit. PUOSU.

          • ackwired

            Your discussion is so civilized. Campaign lies don’t all come from the official campaign, and may not all be directed by the official campaign, especially in these days of “citizens united”. Those lies and more are out there and are being repeated and kept alive. This is happening on both sides, and I suppose that the radicals on both sides will deny it.

          • SCSIwuzzy

            You provide no evidence, no citations, to backup your assertions. Show any kind of link to Romney or people close to him (current or former advisers, members of his admin in MA etc). Anything.
            Again, Put UP, Or Shut Up.

          • ackwired

            Campaign lies don’t all come from the official campaign, and may not all be directed by the official campaign, especially in these days of “citizens united”. Those lies and more are out there and are being repeated and kept alive. This is happening on both sides, and I suppose that the radicals on both sides will deny it.

          • SCSIwuzzy

            You paste the exact response. Talk about doubling down.
            You have nothing, and are showing you are on the same level of honesty and critical thinking as Wasserman-Schultz…. just regurgitating talking points.

          • ackwired

            I was hoping that you would read it and understand it this time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Michael.John.Naretto Michael John Naretto

    Good hell she is brainwashed. No independent thought whatsoever. Just read the party line talking points. It must have really threw her back on her heels to have another Lib challenger her on her stupidity.

    • Walter_Cronanty

      I think she’s the “washer,” not the “washee,” which would explain a lot about the current state of the Democrat party. But, I could be wrong.

  • retired.military

    Whenever I see obvious prObama bias on sites like yahoo, NY TIMES, ABC, CBS I tend to take a quick gander at the comments section. If they are any indication of the way the vote will turn out this election Obama better start packing his bags now.

  • http://twitter.com/jimiduzit Jim

    I’m so glad I don’t live in her district anymore; CUNT!

  • James Cave

    She’s so f-ing clueless…will bet you anything she hasn’t even read the plan. It doesn’t affect ANYONE 55 and over. My lord she’s SOOO F’ING CLUELESS.

    And they continue to keep ignoring the 55 and over part nor accept that the new system has NOT ONLY the voucher system BUT also the older system…it’s up to YOU to which you prefer…if you can find better rates with the voucher, you get to POCKET THE MONEY. That’s called spending WISELY.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001388070596 Jeffrey Ostermiller

    This is really an insult to blondes!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1216788277 Dean Chigounis

    She spun herself dizzy. She is as dishonest as they come.

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