“Do you all feel that your party is somehow being held hostage?” Bob Schieffer asked Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham,presumably referring to those opposed to raising taxes. Touting President Obama as the reasonable one who “has talked about kind of a ‘common sense caucus,’” within the same long-winded question on Face the Nation,Schieffer repeated his accusation:“Are people on the extreme ends of your party holding the rest of you hostage here?”
Not ten minutes later,however,with Democratic Senator Dick Durbin,Schieffer not only failed to characterize Obama as an obstinate extremist for demanding another tax hike two months after Republicans acceded to one,but he suddenly decided:“I think we are beyond arguing about who’s fault it is on how we got here.”
What chutzpah!
Read More at The Media Research Center . By Brent Baker.