Top conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer says Michele Bachmann is being “unbelievably irresponsible” in her decision to not vote to raise the debt ceiling.
Krauthammer, with whom I disagree on many things, is right on this one.
Krauthammer, for those readers not familiar with him, “is an American Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician. His weekly column appears in The Washington Post and is syndicated to more than 200 newspapers and media outlets. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and The New Republic. He is also a weekly panelist on the PBS news program Inside Washington and a regular panelist on Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier,” writes Wikipedia, adding,
In 2009, Politico columnist Ben Smith wrote that Krauthammer had “emerged in the Age of Obama as a central conservative voice, the kind of leader of the opposition that economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman represented for the left during the Bush years: a coherent, sophisticated and implacable critic of the new president.” The New York Times columnist David Brooks says that today “he’s the most important conservative columnist.”