Ashleigh Banfield: Clueless Like CNN

CNN's morning host Ashleigh Banfield when interviewing Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary during the Clinton Administration on October 1 concerning the government shutdown showed her lack of knowledge concerning the subject matter.  She asked Reich if the democrats would act the same way against the republicans in the future as the republicans were doing now with the shutdown over the Affordable Care Act .  Reich replied that the republican's demands were so unprecedented he did not know.  (A very good answer to a silly question)

Ashleigh was around during the George W. Bush administration and should have remembered the republicans controlled both houses of congress during most of Bush's eight years in office.  She remembers also that the Bush administration turned Clinton's balanced budgets and surplusses into deficit spending in Bush's very first fiscal year and every year he served.  That Bush asked congress to raise the debt ceiling on many occasions and congress did so without any restrictions like the republicans are demanding now on President Obama.  The republican controlled congress did not get any demands from the democrats nor did the democratic party try to blackmail Bush with a government shutdown.  So Ashleigh knew very well democrats have a record of keeping the government open no matter who is President. 

The question was Ashleigh's way of interjecting a non issue to the subject matter and trying to plant the seed in her viewers mind that both parties act the same.  The democratic view of the need to keep the federal government open and running with out any strings attached is well documented by their actions and has worked better for the country and its people.  The sad record of the republican party is clear since this is the third time they have shut the government down.  I guess that slipped Ashleigh mind.

They plan to obstruct as long as there is a democratic President in the White House becuse they themselves have no record of accomplishments for the country or its people. 


This commentary written by John Lucia.