then the true character is known…
In this special report, Charles says,
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Chuck Schumer wants a shutdown. He’s lusting after a shutdown. He has been talking about it for weeks and weeks.
WALLACE: We should explain that he is in the Senate Democratic leadership.
KRAUTHAMMER: Because he thinks it will redound against the Republicans, and I think he’s absolutely right. And you can see it in the speaker of the House, Boehner. He does not want it. He’s trying to do everything he can to actually avert it. He’s speaking with moderate Democrats hoping he will have enough to pass a compromise.
And the reason I think is, even if it is a pox on both Houses, it’s the Republicans who won the last election, who have the mandate or the ones who have said we’ve been empowered by an overwhelming majority of Americans in the vote in November to do something. And that’s why the budget, I think, as Bill indicates, the Ryan budget for next year and the future is what is important.
Krauthammer is wrong…even Ryan is wrongly trying to reform social security so that it will be there when I retire. I don’t want it to be there – I want it to be phased out – ended. It was a bad idea and it is time we bring it to a sane end – or it will end insanely.
