ABC’s Cokie Roberts said something on national television Sunday that made her colleague George Will shake his head on camera.
During a “This Week” discussion about the recent credit rating downgrade by Standard and Poor’s Roberts said, ‘The problem that we have here is the Constitution of the United States of America which actually does require people to come together from different perspectives” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
COKIE ROBERTS: This group of people in New York [Standard and Poor’s] is actually talking about more government rather than less government, Congressman. In fact, the reason they like France and Great Britain is because they’re parliamentary systems where the majority gets what it wants no matter what.
And the problem that we have here is the Constitution of the United States of America which actually does require people to come together from different perspectives whether it’s divided government or not. We have divided branches of government under any circumstance.
Wow!
In June, Time magazine’s managing editor Richard Stengel wrote a cover story asking, “Does the Constitution Still Matter,” and now Roberts goes on national television blaming our credit rating downgrade on America’s most sacred document.
Somehow I doubt Roberts would be bemoaning the majority’s inability to ram through any legislation it wanted if the Republicans controlled the White House as well as both chambers of Congress. Liberals like her only decry divided government when they’re in control.
Cokie is welcome to go live in one of those “superior” countries any time she likes.