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Chris Matthews: Politicians Need To Be Tougher Or Smarter Than The Other Side, Obama Was Neither

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Chris Matthews gathered liberal commentators Ron Reagan and Joan Walsh to vent their frustration about President Obama’s‘s hesitancy to proudly champion the progressive agenda. Walsh suggested Obama’s “I’m the best compromiser routine” is wearing thin, while Reagan sadly stated maybe Democrats need to realize they really elected a center-right politician in Obama.

Reagan continued to explain that everyone thought Obama would be a transformative leader, but unfortunately he’s been “unwilling to break the furniture” and really change the system. And both Walsh and Reagan agreed that Obama has tried way too hard to compromise with Republicans when in reality he needs to realize that according to Walsh and Reagan, the main focus of Republicans is simply to destroy Obama.

Matthews didn’t let his guests do all the talking though and he piled on with some of his own criticism, suggesting Obama was no better than a “tackling dummy” in the recent debt ceiling negotiations. Yet the harshest indictment of all may have been Matthews concluding “it seems to me a politician either has to be tougher than the other side or a lot smarter, a lot cleverer, and [Obama] didn’t show either in this last go-around.” Owch, that’s a jab from the Hardball pitcher that is likely to sting the President at least a little.

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  • mediaitestooge

    I vote present on this article…

  • Anonymous

    Watch out , Chris . They’re going to give your shows to Farrakhan and Larry Flynt .

    Ron , Jr. seems to have no trouble switching sides .

  • Anonymous

    Not saying Obama is not smart , but when he got the well deserved and long overdue  Nobel Prize  he asked Michelle to have it bronzed .

  • Texan

    Did Obama take the droller off the morning conference call list or what?

  • Anonymous

    Is it just me, or does Matthews look like he got some kind of “eye” job done?

  • James R

    Tingles, Joan Walsh, Ron Reagan !!!
    All on at one time on MSNBC.
    Now that IS MUST SEE TV…..!!!!!…
    ROTFLMAO

  • Anonymous

    Ron Reagan, Jr.  Look up the term  ”empty suit” in the dictionary  and you will see his face.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Obama would be a good poker player; he doesn’t like to show his hand until he has to.  

  • Anonymous

    Oh woe are we the liberals for having a president that would consider the dreaded dirty word compromise.Far be it from us to have our government function as it was designed.Our dear friends the republicans are our brothers and sisters in gridlock and hard core partisan stagnation.We salute them in their intransigence and unwaivering belief in no revenue increases just as we the liberal democrats grasp our unwaivering belief in incredibly expensive entitlement programs which flood money to our key constituency the poor and minorities.

    Woe are we that there would ever be any possible outcome other than our way or the highway for we like our republican friends believe only in our own partisan path.We cling to these beliefs in the hope that it will get us re-elected for we care for ourselves and our futures more than yours.

  • Guest

    What is the “progressive agenda”?!  Don’t we already have it?…welfare…free cell phone and internet…free school breakfast and lunch…free healthcare…free public housing….etc

  • Anonymous

    These guys want us to continue spending more and more, and then want to blame everybody else when we get downgraded and reprimanded for it.

  • SNAPTIE

    The more i watch the progressives implode,the funnier it gets. MSDNC The Official Barack Talking Points Channel.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    I do not believe that I have ever heard more Bull Shit packed into 5 minutes in my life.  Joan’s memory is very selective and what she may not realize is that more than half of America would not agree with her characterization of the president’s actions after Ryan proposed his budget.. She made him sound so bold and appealing.

    In my mind the president’s reaction to the Ryan budget was emblematic of the problems we have in DC.  As he has done many times in the past the president unstead of having an adult conversation with the American people about the upcoming shortfalls in the Social Security Trust Fund he told senior citizens that Ryan wants to take away their benefits and give the money to the rich, hardly honest and hardly any different than what he did with the latin population in this country when it came to immigration or any other of the problems we face….  The president is the president, his office is above this and we need him to come to the table and get this government working again, I can think of nothing that would benefit his campaign more than this.  He needs to bring the leadership in and get to work and not stop, don’t let anybody walk away from the table until differences are worked out and plans are agreed upon to move us forward. If he can not bring enough leadership to the job to get this done then maybe he is not the man for the job… I do not see him trying..  and I don’t want to hear about the Republican williness to destroy the country just to get him out of office because that is Bull Shit and an excuse to not have expectations for DC to get this fixed…  He has to get in the room and the two sides need to keep working until they see the light, find the answers and move forward together.

    Don’t blame the Tea Party for the dysfunction of this government, the president and his party have distorted and and used vitriolic rhetoric  at every opportunity to energize their base..  Now we are all paying the price!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    I do not believe that I have ever heard more Bull Shit packed into 5 minutes in my life.  Joan’s memory is very selective and what she may not realize is that more than half of America would not agree with her characterization of the president’s actions after Ryan proposed his budget.. She made him sound so bold and appealing.

    In my mind the president’s reaction to the Ryan budget was emblematic of the problems we have in DC.  As he has done many times in the past the president unstead of having an adult conversation with the American people about the upcoming shortfalls in the Social Security Trust Fund he told senior citizens that Ryan wants to take away their benefits and give the money to the rich, hardly honest and hardly any different than what he did with the latin population in this country when it came to immigration or any other of the problems we face….  The president is the president, his office is above this and we need him to come to the table and get this government working again, I can think of nothing that would benefit his campaign more than this.  He needs to bring the leadership in and get to work and not stop, don’t let anybody walk away from the table until differences are worked out and plans are agreed upon to move us forward. If he can not bring enough leadership to the job to get this done then maybe he is not the man for the job… I do not see him trying..  and I don’t want to hear about the Republican williness to destroy the country just to get him out of office because that is Bull Shit and an excuse to not have expectations for DC to get this fixed…  He has to get in the room and the two sides need to keep working until they see the light, find the answers and move forward together.

    Don’t blame the Tea Party for the dysfunction of this government, the president and his party have distorted and and used vitriolic rhetoric  at every opportunity to energize their base..  Now we are all paying the price!

  • Anonymous

    You haven’t posted something inflammatory yet…leading to your comment(s) being removed?

  • Anonymous

    He’s right. Obama should’ve called out the Tea Party for who they are and what just did to the economy. He tries to be too much of a nice guy sometimes.

  • Anonymous

    He’s right. Obama should’ve called out the Tea Party for who they are and what just did to the economy. He tries to be too much of a nice guy sometimes.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    The Tea Party is making the problem worse and as more people realize this the better off we will all be.  

  • Anonymous

    You are saying that with tongue firmly planted in cheek.  Nice Guy he is not – in fact as far from it as humanly possible.  He has said the most derogatory things about the Republicans and their “place” in his plan.  

    p.s. how about the 95 democrats who votes the same as the Tea Party?  Any thoughts?  They don’t count?  You don’t like them anyway?  The were just seat holders?  Exactly what do you attribute that to?

  • Anonymous

    I believe that’s exactly what he would do to ‘fix’ our current system. The fact that he has not raises questions of intent. He is a smart guy, has read history, knows a lot about political systems. Maybe we can take him at his stated goal of fundamentally changing America and leave it that.

  • Arkansas Steve

    Matt, you would think, based on your headline, that Matthews was being critical of Obama.
    NOT SO …
    Matthews acts like a “father” who uncondditionally loves his son.  He will support his son if he lies, cheats, steals, rapes, pillages, or even murders (I’m speaking about killing our economy, of course).

    If Obama stood naked on the capital steps & mooned the country, he’d just say it doesn’t affect his job performance.  When “so called” pundits are that lopsided, they are not worth listening to.

  • Anonymous

    Chris Matthews gathered liberal commentators Ron Reagan and Joan Walsh AKA: Larry, Curly and Moe!

  • Anonymous

    You’re absolutely dead on.  The Pres does not know how to govern.  He only knows how to campaign.  It’s been an absolute fiasco since his arrival and all these democratic talking heads blaming it on anyone else or not acknowledging the truth are in lala land.  

    I honestly can’t see Obama changing, thus I think his days are numbered.  Every speech he gives he says something so banal that one can only shake their head in utter amazement on how he just doesn’t get it.  Indicative of complete lack of experience and no ability to be President for all.  As of right now, he’s not even President for the left.  

    Peter Principal!  

  • Anonymous

    He is holding aces and eights!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, those 51 Reps control the whole govt!

  • Anonymous

    really?  How’s that?  You’re quickly using up that card also, because there isn’t even a grain of truth to it.  

    Obama makes it worse, and every time he speaks it get worse and more and more people realize that he’s got NOTHING! 

  • Anonymous

    Really? Barry has been in office for 2.5 years, and the TP members for 6 months, and the TP is responsible for the economy?

    LOL

    Hey, see if you can get George Lopez’s time slot- you are truly a funny man!

  • Anonymous

    He does fit the description of a vampire.  Never could understand why he doesn’t get his teeth fixed.  For someone who likes his face on t.v. you’d think he’d know better.

    One ugly, dumb doofus that boy.  

  • Anonymous

    I liked him better when he wore his tutu.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Staci is just trying to say that they should have college credits to be able to find new ways to tax people to help government find more exciting ways to do revenue gathering!

  • Anonymous

    I can’t quite understand why Joan is given any face time.  Dumb as a box of rocks.  Never does she have an original thought – always the blame game.

    Surely they can find someone with just a couple of higher i.q. points.  As for Ron Jr. – stupid is being kind to him.  

  • Anonymous

    “Reagan continued to explain that everyone thought Obama would be a
    transformative leader, but unfortunately he’s been “unwilling to break
    the furniture”.
    Where has Ron Jr. been? Obama and the progressives in Congress have turned this nation upside down with Obamacare and with end runs around Congress and the law with progressive agendas through EPA, FCC.
    It looks to me like the furniture has been busted up pretty badly and left the taxpayer the bill for the repairs.
    Obama’s speech in Holland Michigan must have really set them off with this goofy dialog.
    For the people of Ron Jr.’s mind set, there will never be enough. It is impossible to satisfy their need to control other people and make them knuckle under to their way of thinking. I accept that he wants to live in his little progressive world, that’s fine until it interferes with my grandchildren’s future. Now they’ve gone way too far.
    Progressives only represent a small portion of the population, but apparently these three believe they are just that much smarter than the rest of the nation. That, of course, justifies strong arming their agendas through regardless of the rights of the remainder of the nation. Maybe they should consider martial law until the majority of people are forced into accepting their progressive dream.
    Yeah, I guess Obama has to take the whip to us to make us fall in line.

  • Anonymous

    Did you ever hear the word “compromise” before January?  No – they were too busy telling the republicans to shut up and sit down.  Suddenly you’re all into compromise.  Why?  The tea party members were not sent to Washington to compromise.  They were sent with a specific purpose – to hide the damn check book and adjust our spending habits.  

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Really nice guy that should have pulled his usual
    way to do his billing by just waiting for a holiday and pull his deeds behind
    the guise of tin buck dictatorship.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like Chris Matthews is ready to abandon Obama for another candidate.  Not a good sign for the President, when even Mr. Tingles has lost that lovin’ feeling.  

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Fact: With the name like Ron Reagan you would think that the real gipper was running some more touchdowns with real men or something and not just a closet gay boy.

  • fred

    Chris will get tingly legs soon enough and with spit flowing out of his mouth tell us all why obama is the second coming !

  • Anonymous

    After Clinton’s successful triangulation and throwing the left under the bus, Obama and his advisers have obviously calculated that the only way a Democratic candidate can compete post Buckley/Citizens is to walk that fine line of governing as what in the old days would have been considered center right positions if you were a moderate Republican, because abandoning liberal positions that actually work help you politically with our corporate owners.

    The fact that many attack him as some kind of socialist is a source of never ending amusement, or chagrin if you care for intelligent debate. Now a high level of demagoguery is all that is needed, facts be damned. 

    Let’s hope the next “liberal” administration doesn’t sell out as easily as this one surely has to the military/medical/prison/Wall Street industrial complex.

  • Nietzschean

    Or Malik Zulu Shabazz! P.S. Ron Reagan “author”. LOL.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s just hope we never have another lib administration.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Staci without the Tea Party we would be in worse shape than we are today..  Don’t you understand that these problems that we are experiencing are not new… that they have been forcasted for years and that our politicians have found it easier to pretend that they do not exist rather than to face them?  You should be thankful that a different breed of politican showed up in DC and has forced the discussion.. 

    Have you heard Reid, Pelosi, Schumer or the president speaking of these things until they were forced to by this new breed of politician..  To the president’s credit he has been honest in admitting that these problems exist, but Pelosi and Reid are still in denial, it shows that they really have no understanding or grasp of the situation.  These are facts Staci not talking points. 

    There are 75 million baby boomers that will retire over the next 10 years..  judging by your avatar you are probably not one of them, which only means that you will see the withholding in your paycheck increase dramaticly, as the so called trust fund was drained of it’s reserve funds some years past.  1/4 of the population retires in this decade, last year social security had to be subsidized from the general fund so no the problem not only gets worse, but much worse, and medicaid is an even larger problem..

    The Tea Party will agree to Tax Reform that will bring added revenue into the Treasury, but they will not agree to a simple tax increase which is really and easy way out that does not fix a broken system..  My father when he sold his business purchased a large cattle ranch and the government paid him to not grow tobacco that he had no intention of growing anyway… is just one example of 10′s of thousands of how broken our system of taxes and subsidies is..  it is time to fix it..  the Tea Party will listen.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, JFK got a Pulitzer prize for a book he didn’t even read, less write!

  • Michelle

    Liberals must feel like such failures.  They had the WH, Senate and House and still failed to shove their progressive agenda through.  It’s no wonder they are all foaming at the mouth lately. 

  • Anonymous

    I love watching three left wing bomb throwers attempting to engag in whatever it is that the soul less ( libs ) do in lieu of the ” real ” thing. It’s both hilarious and sad at the very same time.

  • Michelle

    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% of all
    Likely U.S. Voters believe the average member of the Tea Party has a
    better understanding of the problems America faces today, while 34%
    think the average member of Congress is more clued in. Twenty-four
    percent (24%) are undecided.

    Hang in there, Staci!

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    It’s more like 80 or so but when you have a portion in the house that tries to destroy the country it ends up being extremely harmful to most Americans.  

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    He has created jobs and passed programs to help job growth, but it most be hard to look past your own hate.  

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Where was the Tea Party when Bush was plunging this country over the cliff?  Why didn’t they fight against all the loopholes in the tax system for the wealthy maybe because they are bought and paid for by big corporations.  They are being used against their better interest to destroy the country.    

  • Moosebooger

    Have you slit your wrists to defeat Health Care Reform already?

    This would be a good time.

  • Darladoon

    every single day it’s the same 12-15 brain dead teabaggers on this site, ranting and raving, frothing
    and slobbering. 

     

  • Anonymous

    Matthews looks like a poor, tortured soul. That butter-drenched-lobster orgy he and all the other Leftist Media Hacks had upon ‘Their Boy’s’ election win in late 2008? A distant, ‘did-that-really-happen?’ memory.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I’m not going to believe a Fox poll. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/poll-shows-more-americans-have-unfavorable-views-tea-party/?src=twr

  • Anonymous

    Fact:Teabaggers means the insertion of one
    man’s sack into another person’s mouth. Used a practical joke or prank, when
    performed on someone who is asleep, or as a sexual act this is an act of a
    democrat like you drool pool.

  • Anonymous

    Joan Walsh is a Leftist inbred with no intelligence. She wants a ‘Leftist vision for how to get the country moving again,’ which are mutually exclusive things. The Leftist agenda that she wants means taking money from productive people and giving it to unproductive people. That’s Leftism 101…we all know this. The country cannot and will not ‘move again’ as long as THAT is the goal. So, if she wants redistribution of wealth and massive taxation, then she’ll have to put up with a country as it is now. She cannot demand Socialism while ‘hoping’ that Capitalism returns to form. They are mutually exclusive objectives.

    She’s a wee-todd.

  • Anonymous

    the democrats were the majority.  Bush went along with them because he had little choice.  The republicans were not happy – the democrats now blame Bush when in reality he was a lame duck pres and couldn’t do diddly squat.

    So, time to put the Bush doll away and start sticking pins in the Obama doll.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: No money means no Obamacare! Thanks to the downgrader himself Baroke Obama!

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    The Tea Party’s actions caused the latest economic problem no matter how much you try to twist the numbers.  

  • Anonymous

    Who has created jobs?  He passed programs we can’t afford and job growth is a figment of your imagination.  Remember shovel ready? (chuckle chortle stupid people bought it)

    I don’t hate the President, not in the least.  I just don’t feel he’s a good or even adequate President.  
    I’m quite certain he’d be an entertaining dinner partner.  Pardon me if I have higher expectations for the position.  

    p.s. you didn’t address my questions.  

  • Anonymous

    you should give thanks instead of accusing the tea party of destroying the Country.  Hopefully they can save our Country, which is their sole purpose.  To leave this Country as vibrant and awesome as it was when we took it over for the next generation.  

  • Anonymous

    It’s sad to see what you’ve fallen to darla.  Now you’ve got nothing but slander and name calling.  

    The raving and ranting and frothing, oh and slobbering is from the left as per usual.   You see, we have valid points – you don’t and now you’ve been left with nothing but….

    Rather sad.  At least you used to make stupid points but now all you’ve got left is the bucket of hate and you’re swinging it.  lol

  • Texan

    Would you rather we tell you to slit your wrists like your co-hort aka skippy is doing above?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    I don’t see what the Governor of Florida has to do with this argument, he was elected as the lessor of 2 evils as his election was very close.  Although he is as you say very unpopular time will tell if his policies serve the state, Mitch Daniels had similar popularity numbers in his first term and was re-elected with overwhelming numbers..

    The Tea Party people were not so excited about Bush either, and at that point they were not well organized.  The Pelosi/Reid Congress as well as the presidents arrogance starting with his healthcare against the popular will of the people and his apology tour gave the Tea Party folks to get up and become what they have become today..  It is funny to watch liberals go so nuts over the Tea Party and act as if they will not evolve on the issues..  As I said earlier your side wanted to act as if this country has no fiscal issues, our politicians lie and often do their best to hide the facts from the American people.   When politicians become more forthcoming and honest with the American people the Tea Party will weigh issues and moderate it’s stance.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    The sooner their gone the better!  Their a product made from corporate power that wants to control this country.  They don’t care about the next generation and that’s why they are trying to make the country worse.  

  • Nietzschean

    Let’s see his grades and test scores. So far, they;ve kept them more secure than the nuclear codes.

  • Texan

    No johns tonight, ellen? Bummer.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    There are shovel ready projects being built right now.  Republicans may concern is that Obama is a one term president and their trying to stop all his programs. They don’t care about jobs.   You probably believe Bush was a better president who couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time, 

    p.s. I don’t give a shit.  

  • Moosebooger

    Let me see here…

    The gNOpigs have just agreed to raise the debt ceiling.

    And they can’t repeal Health Care Reform.

    Score, please?

  • Moosebooger

    Jeffy,

    Those are the words of bat sht crazy Bachmann.

    NOT MINE.

    But with you wanking off horses for a living and slitting my wrists?

    Put an end to your misery, Jeffy. Go find a job as a Wally Word greeter.

    Then you can tell your stories about your horse.

  • Texan

    Skippy, wake up phony queen so she can spell check your puke I mean posts. It’s not pretty.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not “suddenly” anything.Every politician this country has ever produced were put in office to compromise.Why?Because our entire political system was designed around that exact concept.So Tea partiers were sent to stop the spending,great,but were they sent there to cause total gridlock?Were they sent there cling to one soundbite ready point so hard it damages the entire economy of the country?I don’t think so.Democrats weren’t sent to DC to cling to entitlements like they are untouchable and can’t be changed either.People need to face the fact that without compromise we are going to crash and burn and those who don’t compromise will find themselves out of office.Compromise isn’t something you should hear,it should be something implied within the entire political system,it should be as automatic as breathing.I personally am an independent and as such I will not vote for amy member of any party who is not willing to compromise so that something gets done and this country begins to heal.

  • Anonymous

    You got banned and I see you’ve reinvented yourself.  Either quit with the wishing people dead bullshit or you will be gone again.  

    You obviously have nothing of value to add so go play somewhere else.

  • Texan

    Moosenuts99, where did you go?

  • Moosebooger

    Spell check?

    From you moron who wrote:

    “How can you defend the defenseless”

    OK

  • Anonymous

    where are these “projects” staci?  

    Of course we are trying to stop his programs!  That’s the problem we are facing – we are having difficulty in funding the programs in place, we sure the hell don’t want more that nobody can afford.  

    Bush was a good President.  He kept us safe.  He treated the democrats with respect and he quit campaigning when he got into office.  The man was a businessman – he knew what the hell he was doing.  

    Obama had no experience, no vision and certainly no interest in bringing the Country together.  I blame the Chicago thugs he surrounded himself with, because I honestly don’t think he’s capable on his own.  Thus the field of “czars” to try to cover for his weakness.  Too bad most of the “czars” should have been behind bars instead of beside the President – even there he chose poorly.  

  • Anonymous

    where are these “projects” staci?  

    Of course we are trying to stop his programs!  That’s the problem we are facing – we are having difficulty in funding the programs in place, we sure the hell don’t want more that nobody can afford.  

    Bush was a good President.  He kept us safe.  He treated the democrats with respect and he quit campaigning when he got into office.  The man was a businessman – he knew what the hell he was doing.  

    Obama had no experience, no vision and certainly no interest in bringing the Country together.  I blame the Chicago thugs he surrounded himself with, because I honestly don’t think he’s capable on his own.  Thus the field of “czars” to try to cover for his weakness.  Too bad most of the “czars” should have been behind bars instead of beside the President – even there he chose poorly.  

  • Moosebooger

    Moron.

    I am paraphrasing bat sht crazy Bachmann.

    Those are HER words.

    Go ahead and try to BAN her.

    Oh, wait… she is a gNOpig….

  • Moosebooger

    Moron.

    I am paraphrasing bat sht crazy Bachmann.

    Those are HER words.

    Go ahead and try to BAN her.

    Oh, wait… she is a gNOpig….

  • Anonymous

    darn I’m sure I heard you bleating about Obama’s nasty statements regarding the Republicans.  I’m sure I heard you tell him that he cannot treat 1/2 the Country like they are lepers.  

    Damn I must have turned my hearing aid right off because I didn’t hear anything from any of you.  Suddenly you can’t fathom how the government can work without compromise.  There were a large # of democrats who sided with the Tea Party, in fact 1/3 more than the Tea Party.  They realized that there are certain things we cannot compromise on – spending more money!  

  • Moosebooger

    I just took a steaming gNOpig.

    It took 3 flushes to make him go away.

  • Texan

    I hear effexor has that effect on its patients. Bummer for you.

  • Anonymous

    Not sure who you think you are writing too but you have the wrong poster.Since you can’t tell people apart here I don’ think your comments make much difference.Good bye.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QPME5VYZ6LWPCMFHEXV2775ZXQ Alpha Tango

    Obama is a genius compared to Ron Reagan and Chris Matthews and Obama is an idiot compared to any conservative.

  • Yy

    You wouldn’t ask such dumb questions if you knew what it took to first graduate from law school and then pass the bar exam.

  • Yy

    I just don’t get why liberals can’t shut up and let the man do what he does.

    What do they expect to get done if one side has consistently said NO to everything?  These aren’t reasonable pepole and they are blaming Obama as if he would have some control over it.

  • Anonymous

    I think there is a kernel of truth, we needed someone to be as big of a dick as Dick Cheney when it comes to getting stuff done… Obama is nothing like that and seems to slowly retreat from every stand he takes.

    Still would rather him in office than anyone on the Republican side though.. I sort of liked Mitt Romney until I he said “corporations are people, my friend”… then I remembered  how ridiculous the Republicans are that aren’t even crazy.. and I was sad.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    He treated dems like crap!  Obama is actually trying work across party lines.  He might of kept America safe if he’d actually read the 9/11 memo.  Those shovel ready jobs are the roads that are getting repaired in N.J. and other places in America with federal money.  Plus Bush failed at business.  

  • Anonymous

    Cheney was not a political animal – he operated under what he thought was best for the Country, politics be damned.  

  • Yy

    Now you know these idiots can’t count.

  • Anonymous

    Boy that was a windy post. Here’s my advice, just call her the C-WORD. It will work for any post with Joan Walsh, Mika Brezenski, Matthews, on and on. We will all understand what you are trying to convey.

  • Anonymous

    Stopped reading at “inbred”.

  • Anonymous

    to you – the point went right over your head. lol

  • NeverWrong

    Chrissy ‘Tingles & Thrills’ Matthews, Joan Walsh and Ron Reagan…..ROTFFLMFAO…! No wonder PMSnbc finishes last in the ratings each month. They expect us to take those 3 seriously??? Get Real…! But, thanks for the laughs!

  • TruDat

    Are you sure that’s Ron Reagan?  Looks like Rachel Maddow to me.

  • TruDat

    I’ll bet you think “unions” are people though.  That’s the absurdity of the Democrat position.  They only want Democrat friendly unions to be able to contribute unlimited money to campaigns.

  • TruDat

    Don’t forget the small-minded liberal loon who goes as “Darladoon”.

  • Anonymous

    Yea matthews, and you were SMART enough to say on worldwide TV that  That the POTUS had your leg tingling, and not realize you had made a fool out of you, and would be mocked for life by it.

  • Paul

    MONEY
    that’s what it takes
    the jokes,
    you guys

  • caconservative

    It took awhile longer than I expected but, even a lap-dog as big as Matthews, can no longer defend the indefensible lack of depth in Obimbo. This president is in completely over his head and is now relying on overused phrases and sound-bites to cover up his lack of leadership.  

  • caconservative

    It took awhile longer than I expected but, even a lap-dog as big as Matthews, can no longer defend the indefensible lack of depth in Obimbo. This president is in completely over his head and is now relying on overused phrases and sound-bites to cover up his lack of leadership.  

  • Anonymous

    The thrill is gone, the thrill is gone away.

  • Anonymous

    Only in the alternate reality where Progressives reside could Obama be called a “center-right” President.  Are they all smoking crack, or what?

  • http://www.facebook.com/renifer Christian Rudolph

    No one has argued that unions are people.  There has never been a court case that argues that.  The absudity of the radical conservatives is that corporations should be able to subvert and corrupt our democracy with money and influence.  I for one do not want corporations or unions to be able to contribute to campaigns.  I am in favor of public funding of elections so that private money is out of the picture.  Your argument seems to be that if union members individually give money to campaigns, it’s the same as huge multinational corporations with deep pockets.  Union membership in the US accounts for less than 8% of the workforce.  Not enough to compete with the now conservative approved corruption via Citizens Divided.  Why are you in favor of unlimited corporate spending and secrecy about who gives what and how much?  Why are you in favor of corruption?  Why are you so afraid of unions, when they are in the minority?  I hear no one arguing for unlimited union money, unless it’s to counteract the corruption that the radical right has put in place.

  • http://www.facebook.com/renifer Christian Rudolph

    “Cheney was not a political animal – he operated under what he thought was best for the Country, politics be damned.”

    Bullocks.  Cheney has been itching to get back in power since the time of Nixon’s huge disgrace to this great nation.  He and his family and friends have profited mightily from their evil.  The vile crap that his daughter spews is proof of just how rotten he really is, and how he even played political games with war.  He deserves to be locked in a windowless cell the Hague.

  • http://www.facebook.com/renifer Christian Rudolph

    Why do you worship the rich so much?  You’re obviously not one of them.  The idea that the rich are “productive” is not only false, it’s laughable.  People don’t attain to be rich so that they can work their asses off, they do it so that they can sit by the pool while a servant brings another martini and their dividend check, for which they pay less in taxes than the poor.
    The super rich have corrupted Congress, especially Republicans, and have created a situation where the rich have redistributed wealth from the middle and the poor for the last 30 years.  What this country needs to counteract the extreme capitalists is to stop the redistribution by making taxes fair and redistribute the wealth (and theft) back to the middle class where it was stolen, so that the economic engine which depends on the middle class spending money can restart again after having been destroyed by the extremism of 30 years of failed economic policy by the same people who destroyed Chile and Argentina.

  • Anonymous

    what exactly has Liz been “spewing”?  

    What exactly has Cheney done to deserve being locked up?

    You’re nuts.  

  • Anonymous

    Chris Matthews is simply a thrill looking for a leg to run up.

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