For lolligagging around in making a decision when we are in a war situation in Afganistan he deserves nothing more than an F. I just hope he has not casued us to loose that war and it does not cause us a eat number of losses.

The health care stance is another F he is not listening to we the people and id soing as he D well peases and were the ones that will pay of it. It is time for our elected leaders to listen to their constuents and pass only what we agree for them to pass, PERIOD.

Now, further proof of Republican incompetency. From Think Progress: And by the way, this is why Liberals think the right is chock full of idiots.

Today, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) appeared on Fox Business and unleashed an angry tirade against the Democratic majority in Congress. As Fox host Alexis Glick fawned over the senior Republican senator — praising his characterization of Democrats’ policy ideas as “doggone stupid” — Hatch agreed that Democrats are trying to “socialize the country.”

But, here’s what Think Progress found:

While the country continues to face enormous economic problems — like a double-digit unemployment rate and the number of Americans on food stamps hitting an all-time high — there is little evidence that a return to the policies pursued by conservatives that Hatch favors would do anything to improve the situation.

During the last year of President Bush’s term, the median household income in the United States dropped 3.6 percent to $50,303, the sharpest drop since the government began keeping records in 1947. During Bush’s tenure, the number of Americans in poverty increased 26.1 percent, while child poverty jumped 21.4 percent. In total, the Bush years saw 8.3 million people fall into poverty.

There was one group, however, that did well under the Bush years Hatch seems to yearn for. The Congressional Budget Office found in 2007 that families “earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush’s tax cuts,” prompting the New York Times to conclude that “rich families were the undisputed winners from President Bush’s tax cuts.”

Now, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that many of the same people who showed up at tea parties, and acted out in those embarrassing town halls back in August don’t make more than $250,000 dollars a year so, my question is, why are they whinning about taxes when they’ve received a tax cut? Whether you have a job or are on unemployment you’re able to keep more of your money. That is stupidity.

Here’s one on the market growth under the vaunted Republican “pro-business” agenda:

In the approximately eighty years since The Great Depression, almost evenly split between D’s & R’s, the D’s averaged 8.9% growth and R’s .4%.

No wonder they have to be so much better at disseminating false propaganda (Fox) to burnish (obscure) their image.

By the way, Bill-O and many other of the top .1% have good reason to give more than passing grades to another Republican-lite corporate, “center-right” Democrat – making the Obama Marxist/Fascist/Communist slanders even more stupid than we all knew they were to start with.

Cable News Ratings for Friday, December 4, 2009
Prime Time
FNC – 2,265,000 viewers
CNN – 832,000 viewers
MSNBC –596,000 viewers
CNBC – 210,000 viewers
HLN –591,000 viewers

Now, below are broadcast news ratings. I chose the week of Thanksgiving where viewership is usually lower. They still crush the cable channels in total viewers. As you can see cable ratings are still very low by comparison.

Total Viewers: NBC: 9,680,000 / ABC: 8,190,000 / CBS: 6,220,000

It’s telling that the blogs and other news sites are where you get journalism and the news shows are where you get Baloon Boy, Octo mom, and social secretaries.

Unless you work or has family/friends that work for a particlar news organization that their paychecks and way of life depends on it, WHO cares? Better question maybe is, WHY care?

Watch what you’re going to watch. Don’t watch what you’re not going to watch. Spending time convincing the legitimacy of Cable/MSM news is fruitless.

There is no Cable/MSM news BCS bowl systemgames, sorry. News organization will draw readers/viewers based on their news, entertaininment, jounalistic standards, ethics etc. OR Not.

If you don’t like the bias or political leanings of news organization (they ALL have them), don’t read or watch them.

Right, me, and anyone who works in cable news. It’s only the pulse of the industry. Why would Mediaite run the ratings every day if they didn’t matter?

If you think Campbell Brown doesn’t care that she finishes fourth every night, then you don’t understand the business, and Brown doesn’t understand she’ll be out of a job by 2011.

HOWEVER…

I would be interested to see in Facebook User will agree that I am right when I say that CNN is trying to claim it is No. 1 using the a yardstick while everyone else is on the metric system. When you use the same measuring stick everyone else in television uses, CNN is no longer No. 1.

Considering CNN primetime only makes up 10% of CNN Worldwide’s total revenues, the losses in their viewership there are widely exaggerated. CNN just doesn’t live and breathe on the successes (or failure) of Campbell Brown or Anderson Cooper.

Uhhh, yeah, it really is.

1. If CNN were No. 1 in prime time cable news viewership, you can bet they would treat it like the Holy Grail. In fact, they have fallen to No. 3 or No. 4.

2. If CNN were No. 1 in viewers throughout the day, I would give them a pass. No one, and I mean NO ONE disputes that CNN runs a distant second to Fox in total viewers and demo viewers when you calculate the full 24-hour programming day.

3. CNN is in fact one of the biggest organizations, you are right. And yet, when something major happens, they are no longer the cable news network that most people turn to. If their argument is that real journalism matters, why do most people turn to Fox to see what’s going on when journalism counts most, i.e. when news is breaking?

They can run all the serious-looking black and white ads they want, but CNN looks like an emperor with no clothes when it claims to be No. 1.

So, how much are your rates? I would like to buy a home page ad on Mediaite claiming I am the handsomest man alive. Of course, that’s a total crock, but as long as my check clears, you won’t stop me, right?

Time for the people running this web site to prove to prove they have professional standards.