Public Defenders
Tulsa's Citizens Are Killing More Bad Guys Than The Cops
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | CASEY HARPER“It’s been an odd year,” Tulsa police homicide Sgt. Dave Walker told Tulsa World. “I’m sure it will even out over the next 12 months, but, yeah… it’s been odd.”
Obama Demands The GOP BOW DOWN In DHS Fight
POLITICS | NEIL MUNROEarnest Gets GRILLED: Does Obama Regret Calling Bush 'Unpatriotic'?
POLITICS | AL WEAVERYou Won't Be Surprised Who The Obama Administration Thinks Is The Real Threat To U.S.
US | DEREK HUNTERWisconsin Lawmakers Are Aiming STRAIGHT At The Heart Of Unions
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | CONNOR D. WOLFBill O'Reilly To Mother Jones Writer: Shut Your Corn Hole
US | AL WEAVERThat Time A Woman Obtained A Protection Order From Ed Schultz
THE MIRROR | BETSY ROTHSTEINArmed Idaho Homeowner Ends Manhunt For Escaped Prisoner
CONCEALED CARRY & HOME DEFENSE | CHUCK ROSSObama: Guess Who's Responsible For Gas Prices Going Down
BUSINESS | MICHAEL BASTASCHThe Obama Administration Is Gripped By Radical Feminists Who Despise Due Process
EDUCATION | ERIC OWENSW In T Actual F?! Obama Admin Going To Fight Terrorists With TWITTER ADVICE
POLITICS | ALEX PAPPASBusiness Coalition Launches Salvo At Labor Board
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | CONNOR D. WOLFLast year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a ruling making franchisors joint-employers with their individual franchisees. The decision has the potential to dramatically overturn decades of established laws and greatly affect the franchise model.
Iran Tries To Erase Ex-President Who LOVED Freedom, Citizens React By Mocking Gov't On Social Media
| IVAN PLISAnother State Set To Ban Non-Existent Abortion Procedure
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | RACHEL STOLTZFOOSNOT A Hate Crime: Colorado Springs Bombing Targeted Tax Preparer, Not NAACP
US | CHUCK ROSSENGLISH PROFESSOR Gives Students Extra Credit For Attending Rally Against Scott Walker's Budget
EDUCATION | ERIC OWENSBeing The 'Least Liked' Is Costing Saudi Arabia's New King BILLIONS
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | ERICA WENIGNevada Bill To Make It Easier For DREAMers To Teach Passes Its First Test
US | CHUCK ROSSUnder current law, school districts may hire non-citizens with work permits only whenever there is a teacher shortage. Otherwise, districts may only hire U.S. citizens or legal residents.
ISIS Threatens Italy, Italians Challenge It To Do A Worse Job Than The Gov't
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | ERICA WENIGItaly is only 200 nautical miles away from the nearest ISIS outpost. Yet when the terrorist organization openly issued a threat against the country, Italy’s online community didn’t respond by descending into partisanship. They mocked ISIS via Twitter .
Was Keynesian Economics The Product Of A Guy Who Was SUPER High?
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | BLAKE NEFFBreaking: Congressmen Introduce FEDERAL Bills To Legalize Marijuana
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | JONAH BENNETTChuck Schumer Vs. The FAA Over Drone Rules
BUSINESS | NICK GIVASRumsfeld On ISIS War: U.S. Troops Needed, 'Better To' Send Them 'Sooner Rather Than Later'
WORLD | AL WEAVERNew Details On The Killing Of Unarmed Virginia Man By Cops
US | ROBERT PURSELLNebraska Mayor Cozies Up To Government-Funded Contractors Ahead Of Re-Election Campaign
US | PG VEERThe investigative report reveals that seven of the top ten donors to Mayor Chris Beutler, who is presently running for re-election, in 2013 were executives directly involved in the construction of the $186-million Pinnacle Bank Arena. They each donated between $500 and $3,000. M.A Mortenson, formally of Mortenson Construction, donated $5,000 more in 2014.
Judge 'Outraged' At Man Ordered To Pay $30,000 For A Kid That's Not His
US | CHUCK ROSSAlmost Half Of Democrats Support President Ignoring Court Rulings If It's 'Important'
POLITICS | DEREK HUNTERObama Offers First Speech Of Hillary 2016 Campaign
POLITICS | NEIL MUNROAmericans Hate Common Core, But Know Startlingly Little About It
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | BLAKE NEFFObama Responds To Rudy By Talking About The Country He 'Loves'
POLITICS | HEATHER SMITHYou'll Laugh When You Find Out Which Senator Won 'Porker Of The Year'
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | RACHEL STOLTZFOOSCitizens Against Government Waste awarded Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Porker of the Year,” for her “inane” suggestion that the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service should start acting as a bank.
FDA Begins Approving 'Direct-To-Consumer' Genetic Testing
TECH | ASHLEY RAE GOLDENBERGBloom syndrome is a rare genetic disorder, generally impacting the Ashkenazi Jewish population. Individuals with Bloom syndrome are categorized by their stunted growth, sensitivity to the sun, and telangiectatic erythema.
Has Anybody Seen Politico's Activist Labor Reporter Mike Elk?
THE MIRROR | BETSY ROTHSTEINAttorney SNUBS 'Bully' Wasserman Schultz: 'I Beat Bullies Up For A Living'
US | CHUCK ROSSFormer DEA Chiefs Fly Into Ridiculous Tantrum Over Legal Weed
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | JONAH BENNETTMeet The Only People Who Are Proud Of Marie Harf
THE MIRROR | BETSY ROTHSTEINRepublicans To Investigate Climate Data Tampering By NASA
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | MICHAEL BASTASCHDemocratic Congressman Implies Giuliani Views Obama As A Slave
POLITICS | CHUCK ROSSGiuliani’s assertion at a political dinner earlier this week that “Obama does not love America” did not sit well with Cohen , who represents a majority African-American district in Memphis.
Dems Accused Of Illegally Colluding Via Progressive Data Firm
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | RACHEL STOLTZFOOSIf Don Lemon Says A Bad Word On CNN, Does Anybody Hear It?
DC TRAWLER | JIM TREACHERHouse Oversight Committee Demands FCC Turn Over Unredacted Net Neutrality Emails With White House
TECH | GIUSEPPE MACRIDutch Mayor To Fellow Muslims: Embrace Western Society, Or Get Out!
VIDEO | ALEX GRISWOLDWesleyan Fraternity Fights Back Against Order To Admit Women
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | BLAKE NEFFFeds Can't Even Get Tax Information For Obamacare Enrollees Right
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | RACHEL STOLTZFOOSOne-fifth of the forms the government sent to enrollees through HealthCare.gov for tax purposes were incorrect, so officials urged the 800,000 taxpayers not to file until they get the corrected forms, reported The New York Times.
Cantor Cozies Up To Christie
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | RACHEL STOLTZFOOSCantor lost his seat last year in a huge upset to former economics professor Dave Brat, who successfully marked Cantor as an out-of-touch member of the “GOP establishment.” He’ll host a meet-and-greet for Christie with big Virginia donors next Thursday at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Va., reports the Associated Press .
If MSNBC Cancels Chris Hayes, It Will Be The Biggest Loss For America Since Jon Stewart
DC TRAWLER | JIM TREACHERDAVID LAWRENCE
America's 'Islamic Fabric'?
AUTHOR, 'THE KING OF WHITE-COLLAR BOXING'PETER ROFF
Re-Building A House Of Cards: FHA Is Not The Answer
FORMER SENIOR POLITICAL WRITER, UPIRICK SANTORUM
Patent Reform Comes At The Expense Of Entrepreneurship And The American Worker
FORMER U.S. SENATORTONY KATZ
Moms Demand Action's Shannon Watts Is A Propagandist, Not An Activist
HOST, TONY KATZ AND THE MORNING NEWSRACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY
Executive Order Loopholes Fuel Stereotypes, Hurt Latinos
NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON, LIBRE INITIATIVERachel is a parenting expert, author, blogger, political pundit and television personality. She got her television start on the granddaddy of reality show’s, MTV’s The Real World. Her television credits are large and diverse. Currently, she is a recurring guest on NBC’s Today Show where she does parenting and relationship segments. For the past 14 years she has been a recurring guest host on ABC’s The View, appearing more than 25 times. She has also been a guest on Dr. Phil, FOX and Friends, The Hannity Show, The Mike Huckabee Show, Politically Incorrect, Huffington Post Live, EWTN’s The World Over Live and CNN, where she is a frequent on-camera commentator on parenting, politics and culture. Rachel writes for The Today Show blog, TodayMoms.com. She also writes for National Review Online, The Huffington Post, The American Spectator, Catholicvote.org, and NBCLatino.com among others. Currently, Rachel is the national spokesperson for The Libre Initiative, an organization that educates and advocates for the economic empowerment of Hispanics through limited government, entrepreneurship and self-reliance. Her book, published in 2009 by Penguin, is called “Stay Home, Stay Happy:10 Secrets to Loving At-home Motherhood”. In 2008 Rachel co-hosted the series “Speaking of Women’s Health” on the Lifetime Network with the Legendary Florence Henderson. Rachel has a degree in Economics from Arizona State University and a Masters degree in International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, Congressman Sean Duffy and her six awesome kids.
KEN BLACKWELL & ROBERT MORRISON
Shovel-Ready Jobs For Beheaders?
SENIOR FELLOWS, FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCILWILLIAM A. JACOBSON
Will CPAC Thin Or Expand The Republican Presidential Herd?
PUBLISHER, LEGAL INSURRECTIONTOM KAROL
A Religiously Ambiguous Terrorist Calls In A Bomb Threat To The White House
OCCASIONAL POLITICAL COMMENTATORALAN KEYES
Rejecting The Declaration, Chris Cuomo Rejects America’s Just Consensus
FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATEJOHN R. GRAHAM
Do Not Go Gentle Into Obamacare; Good Health Should Burn And Rave At Close of Day
INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE, NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSISPOLITICS
Obama Demands The GOP BOW DOWN In DHS Fight
Obama Offers First Speech Of Hillary 2016 Campaign
President Barack Obama delivered what may be the first Democratic stump speech for the 2016 election Feb. 20, complete with boasts about recent job gains and taunts of the GOP for aiding “millionaires and billionaires.”
Executive Order Loopholes Fuel Stereotypes, Hurt Latinos
Rachel is a parenting expert, author, blogger, political pundit and television personality. She got her television start on the granddaddy of reality show’s, MTV’s The Real World. Her television credits are large and diverse. Currently, she is a recurring guest on NBC’s Today Show where she does parenting and relationship segments. For the past 14 years she has been a recurring guest host on ABC’s The View, appearing more than 25 times. She has also been a guest on Dr. Phil, FOX and Friends, The Hannity Show, The Mike Huckabee Show, Politically Incorrect, Huffington Post Live, EWTN’s The World Over Live and CNN, where she is a frequent on-camera commentator on parenting, politics and culture. Rachel writes for The Today Show blog, TodayMoms.com. She also writes for National Review Online, The Huffington Post, The American Spectator, Catholicvote.org, and NBCLatino.com among others. Currently, Rachel is the national spokesperson for The Libre Initiative, an organization that educates and advocates for the economic empowerment of Hispanics through limited government, entrepreneurship and self-reliance. Her book, published in 2009 by Penguin, is called “Stay Home, Stay Happy:10 Secrets to Loving At-home Motherhood”. In 2008 Rachel co-hosted the series “Speaking of Women’s Health” on the Lifetime Network with the Legendary Florence Henderson. Rachel has a degree in Economics from Arizona State University and a Masters degree in International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, Congressman Sean Duffy and her six awesome kids.
Hill Republicans React To Judge Halting Obama Executive Order
Alex Pappas is a Washington D.C.-based political reporter for The Daily Caller. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and the Mobile Press-Register. Pappas is a graduate of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., where he was editor-in-chief of The Sewanee Purple. While in college, he did internships at NBC's Meet the Press and the White House. He grew up in Mobile, Ala., where he graduated from St. Paul's Episcopal School. He and his wife live on Capitol Hill.
Obama Responds To Rudy By Talking About The Country He 'Loves'
POLITICS | HEATHER SMITHW In T Actual F?! Obama Admin Going To Fight Terrorists With TWITTER ADVICE
POLITICS | ALEX PAPPASBreaking: Congressmen Introduce FEDERAL Bills To Legalize Marijuana
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | JONAH BENNETTWisconsin Lawmakers Are Aiming STRAIGHT At The Heart Of Unions
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | CONNOR D. WOLFAlmost Half Of Democrats Support President Ignoring Court Rulings If It's 'Important'
POLITICS | DEREK HUNTERObama Offers First Speech Of Hillary 2016 Campaign
POLITICS | NEIL MUNRORepublicans To Investigate Climate Data Tampering By NASA
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | MICHAEL BASTASCHEarnest Gets GRILLED: Does Obama Regret Calling Bush 'Unpatriotic'?
Cantor Cozies Up To Christie
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | RACHEL STOLTZFOOSDems Accused Of Illegally Colluding Via Progressive Data Firm
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | RACHEL STOLTZFOOSDemocratic Congressman Implies Giuliani Views Obama As A Slave
POLITICS | CHUCK ROSSIf MSNBC Cancels Chris Hayes, It Will Be The Biggest Loss For America Since Jon Stewart
DC TRAWLER | JIM TREACHERDem Officials Admit: Obsession With Koch Brothers Lost Us The Midterms
POLITICS | ALEX GRISWOLDAccording to reporting by the Washington Times , Democratic officials at this year’s annual DNC meeting are criticizing their party’s outsized attention to the Koch brothers during the 2014 midterms, saying it helped explain the Republican wave.
That Time A Woman Obtained A Protection Order From Ed Schultz
THE MIRROR | BETSY ROTHSTEINBut even if you believe that asking women to pay an entire $23 per month for birth control pills constitutes a declaration of war against the fairer sex, maybe Schultz is not your ideal mouthpiece.
Meet Jeb Bush's New Communications Director
POLITICS | ALEX PAPPASYou'll Laugh When You Find Out Which Senator Won 'Porker Of The Year'
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | RACHEL STOLTZFOOSGiuliani Doubles-Down: 'I Want To Repeat' Comments Questioning Obama's Love Of US
POLITICS | AL WEAVERAttorney SNUBS 'Bully' Wasserman Schultz: 'I Beat Bullies Up For A Living'
US | CHUCK ROSSKrauthammer: Hillary's Stumbles 'An Invitation' To Democrats For 2016 Challenge
Obama: Americans Are Causing Jihad By Criticizing Islam
POLITICS | NEIL MUNROReport: Official Says Harf Won't Get Top State Job Because She 'Failed Spectacularly' In Test Run
POLITICS | AL WEAVERGuess What Marie Harf Said About 'Conservative Evangelicals'
POLITICS | PATRICK HOWLEYBen Carson Taps CEO To Oversee Fundraising Efforts
POLITICS | ALEX PAPPASBiden: 'The Middle Class Is Being Killed'
DC TRAWLER | JIM TREACHERDid you know that the Democrats controlled America for most of the past 6 years? Biden does. And he’s not afraid to tell us the inevitable results:
Hillary Press Strategy -- Of Not Talking -- Is Spreading To Other Lawmakers
POLITICS | KERRY PICKETThe Republican National Committee recently pointed out how “easy” the life of a ”Clinton communicator” must be and listed 38 “no comments” from a Clinton spokesperson responding to 38 different stories between May 21 and Feb. 15.
Obama Spokeslady Kicked Back To White House After Stint At State Department
THE MIRROR | BETSY ROTHSTEINOCCUPY NEWARK: Students Take Over School Offices, Demand Firings
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | BLAKE NEFFGay Senator's Straight Aide Threatens Discrimination Suit
THE MIRROR | BETSY ROTHSTEINFact Checker: Joe Biden Likely Has No Somali Friends
US | CHUCK ROSSOops? Regulators Left Out $2 BILLION In Dodd Frank Costs
Why Rudy And Dinesh (And Other Smart Men) Say Stupid Things
POLITICS | MATT K. LEWISGiuliani Is Wrong: Obama Loves America So Much, He Wants To Change Everything About It
DC TRAWLER | JIM TREACHERJeb Bush Is 'Unelectable,' Conservative Group Argues
POLITICS | ALEX PAPPASObama: Americans Will Defeat Jihadis With Diversity, Tolerance
POLITICS | NEIL MUNRORudy Giuliani's 'Horrible' Remark About President Obama
US | CHUCK ROSS“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani told the audience. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”
Star Parker Compares Black Leadership To 'Plantation Overseers'
POLITICS | NICK GIVASIn a phone interview with The Daily Caller, Parker compared black leadership to “plantation overseers,” and said its job is to keep thriving African-Americans down and make them complacent in a welfare culture.
Andrea Mitchell: Obama's Terror Summit 'A Dog And Pony Show'
POLITICS | AL WEAVERRubio Amnesty Cave? Says 'We Can't Let Homeland Security Shut Down'
POLITICS | DEREK HUNTERKrauthammer: Obama's ISIS Rhetoric 'Sounds Like A Community Organizer Talking About Outreach'
POLITICS | ALEX GRISWOLDToo Busy For Bibi: Kerry 'Probably Going To Be Out Of Town,' Unable To Speak To Jewish Group
POLITICS | DEREK HUNTER'My Own Man' Jeb Brings The Usual Foreign Policy Suspects
US
Obama’s DHS Report Warns Of The Real Threat To America: Right-Wingers
ISIS is marching across huge swaths of land in the Middle East, crucifying, beheading and burning alive untold numbers of human beings, and making direct threats against the United States.
But the Department of Homeland Security is making sure the government doesn’t take its eye off the real enemy – right-wingers.
CNN reports:
A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists.
The report cites “24 violent sovereign citizen-related attacks across the U.S. since 2010,” or as ISIS calls it, “a slow Tuesday morning.”
Without naming names, or citing any sources, CNN declares:
Some federal and local law enforcement groups view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to — and in some cases greater than — the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS, that garner more public attention.
While anyone committing crimes is an issue law enforcement should be concerned with, the threat from lunatic fringe “sovereign citizens” — people who reject government — pales in comparison to an organized and well-financed group of jihadi terrorists excited at the prospect of their own death in the course of killing “infidels.”
A White House official said President Obama is concerned with all “violent ideologies.” How this is squared with the president personally meeting with leaders of anti-police groups in the wake of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, was not addressed. Nor were violent attacks on police in the name of “social justice,” like the execution of two New York City police officers by a member of the anti-police groups.
For clarity and comment on the report, CNN turned to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said that by some estimates, there are as many as 300,000 people involved in some way with sovereign citizen extremism. Perhaps 100,000 people form a core of the movement, he said.
The federal government’s focus on the domestic groups waxes and wanes, Potok said, in part because the threat from foreign groups like al Qaeda and its affiliates.
The SPLC has made news in recent years when a supporter of theirs shot a security guard at the Family Research Council while attempting to execute staffers at the group because the SPLC labeled them “anti-gay.” And recently, a fan of the SPLC shot and killed three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and labeled (then retracted) Dr. Ben Carson an “extremist.”
The report emerged after the three day White House summit on “combatting violent extremism,” which took great pains to avoid mentioning the words “Islamic terrorism” with regards to the threat the country and the world faces.
Wisconsin Lawmakers Are Aiming STRAIGHT At The Heart Of Unions
Wisconsin Lawmakers Strike At The Heart Of Unions
Wisconsin lawmakers on Friday detailed a plan to call an Extraordinary Legislative Session next week to pass a right-to-work bill.
The policy, which has passed in 24 states, outlaws forced unionization as a condition of employment. Specifically, it means workers cannot be required to pay union dues or become a member in order to have a job. Advocates argue it should be the worker’s choice to join a union, while opponents claim right-to-work hurts workers because it allows employers to take too much advantage.
“We’re putting the finishing touches on the bill,” Republican Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald declared to reporters during a press conference.
“It’s a fairly simple bill,” Fitzgerald went onto say. “We have an agreement between the Senate and Assembly of what it should look like.”
The bill will also have no impact on current labor contracts, according to Fitzgerald.
“On Monday morning at 9:00am, a ballot will be introduced for an Extraordinary Session to introduce right-to-work legislation,” Fitzgerald noted.
Fitzgerald and assembly leaders agreed that an Extraordinary Legislative Session was the best way to bring the bill forward. Under such a session, the governor is not required to be present.
The bill will hit the senate floor Wednesday for debate. After the debate, if it’s approved by the Senate, the bill will go to the State Assembly. If both the Assembly and Senate approve, it will move to Gov. Scott Walker’s desk to be signed. Fitzgerald is confident they have enough votes in both chambers to pass the bill.
“My experience as leader is if you have the votes, you go to the floor,” Fitzgerald noted. “You don’t wait around.”
Republican State Rep. Chris Kapenga is also optimistic that the bill will end up with Walker’s signature.
“It’s about worker freedom,” Kapenga tells The Daily Caller News Foundation. “We know that individual liberty is the foundation of our country.”
Kapenga also refuted claims that right-to-work legislation is nothing more than an attempt to bust unions. Kapenga argues, “The legislation does not say you can’t be in a union.”
Kapenga recalls his first experience with forced unionization. When he was 19, working as an electric contractor, he noticed some unknown deduction from his paycheck. When he asked about it he was told if he wanted a job, he had to give part of his paycheck to his union. Kapenga notes that the experience never sat well with him.
There are also the economic benefits. Kapenga argues that right-to-work states often times have more job opportunities and income mobility which helps lower income workers earn more.
Though he is currently taking a hands-off approach to focus on other policies like education, Walker became a target for many national unions in his first term when he worked with the state’s Republican legislature to pass a labor reform initiative, known as Act 10. The act significantly changed the collective bargaining process for most public employees within the state. Since Act 10, union reform and the possibility of a full blown right-to-work law has captured much of the political dialogue in the state.
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Bill O'Reilly To Mother Jones Writer: Shut Your Corn Hole
Ed Henry Grills Earnest: Does Obama ‘Have Regrets’ For Calling Bush 43 ‘Unpatriotic’? [VIDEO]
In the wake of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s comments that President Barack Obama does not love America, White House press secretary Josh Earnest was pressed if Obama “regrets” making comments in the same vein about former President George W. Bush.
During the Friday W.H. briefing, Fox News’ Ed Henry asked Earnest if Obama harbors regrets for calling Bush “unpatriotic” for adding over $4 trillion to the debt during his presidency during the 2008 presidential campaign.
“Do you think the president has any regrets about saying President Bush was unpatriotic for adding $4 trillion to the debt?” Henry pressed Earnest.
“I don’t know sorrow is the word that I would use,” Earnest said.
“You said you feel sorry for Rudy Giuliani,” Henry responded, to which Earnest affirmed. ”But as a candidate, Sen. Obama said that President Bush was unpatriotic.”
“I have not seen the actual comments,” Earnest said, asking if Henry had them at his fingertips.
“He said that the president, and I’m paraphrasing this part, added about $4 trillion to the debt, and then he said ‘that’s irresponsible, that’s unpatriotic,” Henry told Earnest. “So I see a difference from Giuliani because he’s talking about an issue, but nonetheless, questioning the patriotism of the President of the United States.”
“I think what the president was doing was he was questioning the specific wisdom wisdom of that decision, and questioning whether or not that was in the best interest of the country,” Earnest said.
“He said it was unwise, he said that’s unpatriotic,” Henry shot back.
“But again, he’s talking about that, he was not talking about a person,” Earnest said.
“Again, there is a lot that the president had to say in the State of the Union about the level of our discourse,” Earnest said. “There is no doubt that we will have significant disagreements across the aisle. That is ultimately why democracy is all about, where we go in and debate issues.”
“But the president, as you recall, in the State of the Union said that we should have a debate that’s worthy of the United States Congress and worthy of the country,” Earnest continued. “That there are significant challenges facing this country, resorting to a politics in which we question each other’s basic decency is not consistent with the reason that a lot of people got into public service.”
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