Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) to Maddow: Rachel Will You Give Back the Bush Tax Cuts You Continue to Rail Against? (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, February 15, 2010, 5:40 AM
You just gotta love this 28 year-old Republican Representative…
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) took liberal MSNBC host and the rest of the liberal Meet the Press panelists including David Brooks to the woodshed. Maddow tried to stick Schock with some Democratic Stimulus pork. Schock tossed it right back.
From the transcript:
MR. GREGORY: Congressman Schock, where are the Republicans going to be on this?
REP. SCHOCK: Well, look, I think, unfortunately, it’s more of the same. I mean, all of this talk about bipartisanship, and yet the rhetoric doesn’t match the reality. As David Brooks mentioned, there was some, some Republicans who worked with Democrats in the Senate to come up with a jobs bill only to have their leadership put the kibosh on it. We, we are for creating long-term economic growth. You do that by incentivizing entrepreneurialism, risk taking, and investment. You do that through creating certainty in the markets through certain tax incentives. And that’s where we’ll be on a jobs bill.
MR. GREGORY: So it sounds like you’re–you like what the Democrats are doing here?
REP. SCHOCK: Well, I don’t like all the pork that was in the bill. Seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollar stimulus bill, the largest spending bill in, in history, one of the reasons why it didn’t create long-term growth is it didn’t have stimulative tax cuts in it, but rather a lot of pork and spending.
MS. MADDOW: Which are the least stimulative things in the stimulus. I mean, when you assess what creates jobs, in the stimulus band it’s the tax cuts that were put in in order to try to win Republican votes that didn’t come anyway that are the least effective thing in the stimulus bill. So the theory doesn’t match the practice here.
But, I mean, you, in your district…
REP. SCHOCK: Well, I, I can assure you…
MS. MADDOW: …just this week you were at a community college touting a $350,000 green technology education program, talking about how great that was going to be for your district. You voted against the bill that created that grant. And so that’s happening a lot with Republicans sort of taking credit for things that Democratic bills do, and then Republicans simultaneously touting their votes against them and trashing them. That’s, I think, a, a, a problem that needs to be resolved within, within your caucus, because, I mean, you seem like a very nice person, but that’s very hypocritical stance to take.
REP. SCHOCK: Well, Rachel, with all due respect, I can assure you Republicans were not consulted on the stimulus bill. That bill was filed at 11 PM the night before the 10:30 AM we began debating it. None of our amendments were considered. There was no debate and no bipartisanship on that bill.
MS. MADDOW: How about the…(unintelligible)?
MR. GREGORY: But, but answer–all right, let me, let me…(unintelligible)…Rachel, which is that the, the question about you–you’ve called for spending caps out of Washington.
REP. SCHOCK: Sure.
MR. GREGORY: But to Rachel’s point, does that mean that you will not accept any federal money that comes the way of your district?
REP. SCHOCK: No. I think that argument that liberals are making is absolutely ridiculous. With all due respect, Rachel, does that mean you’re going to give back your Bush tax cuts that you continue to rail against? The fact of the matter is our country operates and govern by a majority. And I, along with almost all of my Republican colleagues and a good number of Democrats, have voted against the stimulus, the omnibus, all of this runaway spending. But we’ve lost those battles in the House. And at the end of the day, my constituents…
Ping!
Earlier in the program Schock hit a home run on national security:
REP. SCHOCK: But at the end of the day, we’re representing mainstream America and the majority of views. And, and whether it’s closing Guantanamo Bay and moving it to the heartland of America, whether it’s the, the–trying these folks in downtown New York, whether it’s Mirandizing terrorists who come to this country to attack us, the majority of Americans have not bought, do not believe that Obama and his administration is right on these policies.
MR. GREGORY: So you don’t support the way the president is prosecuting the war on terror?
REP. SCHOCK: No.
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Published May 23, 2012 at 11:51 pm - 69 Comments
seven commented:
Will Madcow maddow give back the Bush tax cuts? Or will she keep the money?
Perfect line.
JH3 commented:
This is what passes for an honest debate in modern journalism. You had on that panel Rachel Maddow, David Gregory, and Harold Ford Jr. All these people represent either mainstream or far left Democrat ideas. Then you had David Brooks, so willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a Dem, so willing to bend of backwards to seem “Centrist”, contributing to the discussion. All alone in this left wing hack panel was a Republican Congressman. That’s 3 1/2 to 1 and the Congressman did pretty well against those odds.
Is there any wonder why most people are just not watching this crap anymore?
Spider commented:
“Rachel will you give back your share of the Bush tax cuts?”
That is priceless.
Typical leftards ganging up on the only sane person on the panel, and failing.
This guy is good!
Militant Conservative commented:
GEE, if your policies are soooooo good why is it that alot of Dem’s are retiring and not running.
Hello……..cuz your going to get your ass kicked out of both house by very decisive numbers. America does not want the level of spending, nor healthcare bill. the only way to stop the zero is by politically breaking his legs. This is gonna be a very good year. Thanks TPM.
daveinboca commented:
What JH3 said. And the nets and the cable news including Maddow are plummeting in the eyeball department except for Fox, whose Hannity logs three times the viewers Rachel the Sport of Nature does. She’s Andy Sullivan without the emo lunacy and Olbermann with a few facts at her disposal, but she’s still WRONG, Oxycontin education & all!!!
Robert commented:
“…At the end of the day, my constituents and their children and granchildren will be on the hook for the debt that’s being created by this majority and they deserve to have their fair share of federal spending.”
Great answer Congressman. The Libs tried to shout down their guest and present a simplistic and false choice of refusing money that was taken from your constituents by force.
The greater problem is that the federal government should not be allowed to take money which is not for legitimate federal purposes, but instead is extra money which they then dole back to the states based on political considerations and the accumulation of power.
In short, they tax beyond what they require, then give back as they see fit.
Federale commented:
Bit of a RINO for accepting “green” money. There is no global warming for him to be concerned about and to accept pork for. And he appears to be saying that the Demoncrat program, minus pork, will work.
I think Republicans need to do better than that.
How about fight for across the board tax cuts like Reagan did?
Living in The Twilight Zone commented:
I have to thoroughly disagree with him……
Rachel Madcow is NOT due any respect.
Jane commented:
Schock’s “foreign policy” platform:
“Our foreign policy failures have occurred largely as a result of failure to communicate with the peoples of nations, and of a failure by our leaders to identify potential crises of the future and then develop a strategy to avert them. We need to be proactive to position our country and the world in a peaceful and economically prosperous situation. Many nations who are much older than we are take a very long view of world conditions and have very long term strategies to deal with them. America must unite on a similar long term vision. ”
American is stupid. Listen to Europe.
No, I don’t love him.
Terry Gain commented:
I think it’s disappointing but hardly surprising that Schock, obviously a Republican squish, didn’t even challenge Maddow’s ridiculous assertion that tax cuts don’t stimulate employment:
MS. MADDOW: Which are the least stimulative things in the stimulus. I mean, when you assess what creates jobs, in the stimulus band it’s the tax cuts that were put in in order to try to win Republican votes that didn’t come anyway that are the least effective thing in the stimulus bill. So the theory doesn’t match the practice here.
Deana commented:
Schock is my representative and in general, I’m pretty impressed with him.
But I have to say, Maddow (whom I despise) has a point. It IS hypocritical for Schock to be against this type of federal spending and then actually go to the facility receiving the money and tout it as a great thing for the community.
It would have been better if he had simply put out a statement that reminded constituents, the press, and the rest of the American people that we are now all on the hook for this horrid, horrid borrowing that is going on.
That being said, I was THRILLED at his response (and noticed that no one on the panel demanded that Maddow respond to Shock’s question). Of COURSE she won’t return the money she got from Bush’s tax cuts.
It’s much more profitable for her to simply bash Bush.
Spider commented:
Robert, that was well said, thanks.
The dems are starting their game of chicken for the 2010 mid-terms. With the help of clowns like Gregory and Maddow they want to play gotcha with the ‘pubs and try and portray them as hipocrites.
We will review the voting record; and vote accordingly.
WestWright commented:
Typical of these friggin Lefty’s to gang up on the opponent, 4 to 1, Brooks will never defend anyone on the Right. Also I think Rachel Maddow, David Gregory, and Harold Ford Jr all had the typical prepping and talking points provided by the network and still their malicious trap failed…good job by the R.
j commented:
Yes, keep showing these clips!
jjw commented:
Let me get this straight.
Schock says his principles are offended by the pork in the bill.
To which Maddow points out that he had no problem being associated with pork for his constituency.
And Schock responds that it was because the Republicans were not consulted on the bill, and that the bill was not bipartisan.
So, in other words, Schock has no problems with the pork, just so long as he gets consulted on it, otherwise he’s against it, except when he’s not? That’s his answer? And this is a good answer?
Ozark Lee commented:
I’m kinda with JJW here, if you are going to talk the talk then you need to walk the walk. The bill was a piece of crap but for God’s sake don’t load it up with your own lard.
While the Republican party seems to, in theory, be more aligned with my political beliefs I am in no way giving any Republican candidate a “get out of jail free card ” if they do the wrong thing.
I know nothing about Aaron Schock but I would have a hard time voting for him with real conviction if he brought home a lot of pork to his district. Sadly my vote often comes down the either the lesser of two evils or the least evil of two lessors.
…Lee
dallasdan commented:
Gregory and RM are buffoons. Breed them and you would get a cretin with marxist ambitions.