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That about describes Chris (wannabe) Matthews show specifically and MSNBC generally.

Governor Good Hair forgets his history. Texas entered the union because it was so deep in debt it couldn’t pay it off. Will Texas have to repay the union? It strikes me that is a good argument. With accrued interest, I should think the bill would be huge.

Texas still feeds on federal pork. In a huge way.

Secession itself, for generations, tore Texas apart. My part of the state was vehemently against it, while the eastern sections nearer Louisiana and Arkansas, was greatly in support of it. The residue still defines Texas politics to some extent. The old secessionist sections are strongly Republican, the loyalist sections are Democratic. The problem for Republicans is that growth in the old loyalist sections, in league with Baja Tejas, is outpacing the secessionist sections, and the great urban centers in the secessionist region, Houston and Dallas, have undergone such demographic changes in the last couple of decades that they are voting like loyalists.

In essence, Governor Good Hair is forced to try to radicalize and already radical base. The demographics are not going to be kind to him, nor to future office seekers.

sp. Rick Perry

Colby,

I prefer the clip where Chris Mathews talks about the “empty vessel” Sarah Palin.

Ah Chris Matthews… once again showing that crazy is contagious.

Indeed, if I were to try to crack a bottle of champagne on the SS Sarah Palin, it is the vessel which would crack, not the bottle.

I have to say INB, you don’t seem a bad sort even if you are, in my opinion, consistently wrong in matters politic.

The Real Royal King says:
February 10, 2010 at 1:35 pm

I have to say INB, you don’t seem a bad sort even if you are, in my opinion, consistently wrong in matters politic.

Handsome too.

Does this moron just say anything that pops into his oversized head?

“Soft Balls” hasn’t been on target since he was on with McLaughlin. Since then everything has been going up and down his leg. It’s a shame but if you put glasses on “Softballs” he looks just like Al Hunt. Hunt also gets warm feelings up and down his legs.

Chris was great last night! Someone needs to be!

Zakk says,

Pretty much… :P

I had to leave my desk. What I was going to say was Chris was on fire last night, hitting the secessionist craziness and the dangerous empty vessel of Palin repeating neocon war fantasies without a second thought – or a first one.

I don’t know why the rest of the media perceives these logical observations as partisan instead of real news that the American public is entitled to know about

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Chris can really irritate me at times, but he has very good guests, across a broad spectrum, and he doesn’t run from opposing ideas. Chris has a pretty finger on the political pulse himself.

I am continually dumbfounded by the elite media. They never focus on the real issues at the core of the tea party — bloated government out-of-control spending. Instead, we are force-fed a series of stories that depict the tea parties as organized to discuss the President’s birth certificate, or the color of people’s skin and now on….states seceding from the union. This type of coverage is dishonest, and is a major reason why these journalists have such little credibility with the public.

Why does the media do this? The answer is simple. The people who run these networks don’t want to debate or dialogue with the people attending the tea parties, they want to DE-LEGITIMIZE and DISCREDIT them. The first steps in doing that are misrepresentation and ridicule. With one notable exception, that is the news networks’ “angle” on the tea parties, and why you can’t take this coverage seriously.

Geez, another conspiracy theory! I think the rightists need a 12 Step Program to recover from conspiracy theories.

The Real Royal King says:
February 10, 2010 at 4:28 pm

Tell me how the program works. Then apply it to the “they stole the election” crews on the left.

Conspiracy theories… yeah, methinks you’ve got your hands full.