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Ed Schultz Interviews Melissa Rakestraw, Woman Who Stood Up To Screamin’ Joe Walsh

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Congressman Joe Walsh (R-Ill) recently caused a stir with his unhinged performance at a small gathering of constituents, but the real star of that viral video hit was Melissa Rakestraw, a Walsh constituent who went toe-to-toe with him, and wouldn’t be shouted down. MSNBC’s Ed Schultz interviewed Rakestraw on Thursday night’s The Ed Show,  and the feisty letter carrier shared what Walsh told her when he was done screaming.

High-strung Congressman Joe Walsh has come under fire for his screaming tirade at a small meeting of constituents in an Uno Bar & Grill in Gurnee, Illinois, in which he threatened to eject one constituent if he didn’t listen. The most impressive part of the video, to me, at least, was the way a women identified as “Melissa” pushed back at Walsh, even as he screamed in her face, delivering him a healthy dose of reality. Her tough calm in the face of Walsh’s barrage was a wonder to behold. Ms. Rakestraw pushed back against Walsh’s false claim that the government is “propping up” the USPS, which is entirely self-funded, explained that the government is actually hamstringing the USPS with an unreasonable pre-funding mandate, and gave him a lesson on the public service obligations of the Postal Service. It was a stand up and cheer moment for public workers who are tired of relentless attacks by Republican politicians.

As it turns out, the working-class hero of Walsh’s tantrum is Melissa Rakestraw, a 42 year-old letter carrier for the US Postal Service, and she appeared on The Ed Show Thursday night to expand on her discussion with Walsh, and to share what happened outside the camera’s range.

Schultz asked her if she was intimidated by the congressman, to which she replied, “No. Actually, I wasn’t. You know, the only thing that scares me about Joe Walsh is his anti-worker ideologies, and his total disregard for facts.”

Ms. Rakestraw went on to explain, once again, the reason you can’t simply replace the USPS with private carriers like UPS, zinging Walsh’s constitution-loving bona fides in the process.

“The Post Office, first of all, was established by the Constitution,” she said, adding “I know Joe claims to be a big fan of the Constitution. and because of our charter, we are obligated to serve all the citizens of the United States. and Fedex and UPS don’t do this. 25% of their deliveries are finished by the postal service.”

She concluded by sharing what the camera didn’t pick up: another example of Republican contempt for public servants. “At the end of the discussion, he came up to me, and he was face to face. The camera was either off or it couldn’t pick up the volume because he was speaking very low, just so that I could hear it. And earlier I had told him if he supports Darrell Issa‘s bill to reform the Post Office that 200,000 jobs could be lost. 20% of those employees are veterans. and Mr. Walsh came up to me. He said, ‘I do not care about the loss of public sector jobs.’”

That’s a message that’s not likely to resonate with many Americans, who generally don’t like to see anyone thrown out of work, and appreciate the minor miracle that is the USPS.

Here’s the clip of Schultz’s interview with Melissa Rakestraw, from MSNBC:


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  • Nicholas

    Walsh is a certain one-termer. He is also a tremendous douchebag and deadbeat Dad. Thanks a bunch, Illinois Tea Party!

  • Anonymous

    Bad idea to yell at a postal worker.

    They pack heat.

  • Texan

    This woman should just stick to delivering the mail, on time.

  • Me1Ranger

    The democrats in congress are the ones that force the USPS to over-fund their employee pension accounts. That’s one of the main reasons for their impending doom. The law of unintended consequences jumps up and bites the libs in the balls..again! You were about to write that in this fine piece..right Tommy? What stopped you? I’ll watch for the correction…

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Joe Walsh is an example of the worst Tea Bagger trash that got elected to Congress in 2010.

    The low IQ Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers always vote for the most uneducated, uninformed nincompoop with a big mouth.

     

  • Anonymous

    He should care about the loss of public sector jobs, he’s about to lose his! 

  • Peter

    And using the term tea baggers really shows how educated you are.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    The moniker Tea Baggers is appropriate for a variety of reasons, least of which is this photo…

    http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/pl.taxday.272.cdb.jpg

  • Peter

    Childish crap like this only makes you look a jerk, God I can hate my own party sometimes because its filled with hateful people like yourself.

  • Anonymous

    I am opening an account on Facebook so that everytime a poster on here that post attacks instead of posting intelligent discussion points. With a donation of 50 cents a post.   I will be so rich by Christmas that I will be able to be Santa to the entire world.  Thanks to all of you.

    LOL

  • ROTFLMAO

    Nobody on this Planet would even know who the hell this lardass
    Fat Ed Shultz is were it not for Mediaite!

  • Anonymous

    What’s her problem!?!

  • Anonymous

    Think Sheriff Joe tips his postman at Christmas?

    “Biden to continue collecting rent from Secret Service”

    “When first questioned about collecting rent from the Secret Service this past summer, officials could not provide another example of anyone protected by the Secret Service charging rent. In fact, in a follow-up story about the arrangement, Mr. Biden’s own hometown newspaper, the News Journal, reported that Mr. Biden was the first official guarded by the Secret Service to receive rental income as a landlord for the agents who protect him.”

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/10/biden-will-continue-collect-rent-secret-service/

  • Nicholas

    Yeah, good luck with all that!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, that clown, Walsh, only won by about 235 votes in 2010. He needs to get a better job so that he can start paying his child support.

  • Anonymous

    How appropriate that a bombastic, histrionic, pugilistic POS like Ed Schultz criticize someone for shouting.

  • Anonymous

    That legislation passed in the lame duck session of 2006 by Republicans on their way out of power.
    Obviously you watch Fox “news”.

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    KOMRADE !!

  • Kahlid Shiek Yerbouti

    It was lame duck republicans in 2006 who passed the bill which forced the USPS to over-fund it’s future medical care.  Democrats we’re not in power when the bill was passed.

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

    Tommy, if I am not mistaken these are your words which you have used to taint your article, “another example of Republican contempt for public servants.”.  I would ask you Tommy just how much money can our society borrow, and will the bill never come due?

    There are many ways that we could work to solve the problems of the post office without simply turning to the Federal Tit.  Do we really need mail delivery 6 days a week?  Is that really necessary as other than a few bills for mostly elderly folks, nothing much important comes in the mail on a daily basis other than fill for our recycling bins stowed away in our garages. I am sure that if these bills were to arrive on Monday instead of a Saturday delivery that the country would not come to a halt.  I just wonder how much money that would save, maybe up to 8 to10% of current operating costs by reducing fuel, labor, and vehicle maintenance? Should we not consider raising the rates again, if the income does not cover operating costs why should the rates not be increased? How can this be considered to be unfair other than in the mind of a liberal?  Do you think that Merita Bread thinks about all the retired people that eat their bread before they raise the cost of a loaf? Or course not, they just know that they have to pay for the flour yeast that goes into the bread, why is it that liberals feel that the government owes everything to everybody, when we already can’t afford all that it is that is the Federal government? Is there no end in sight to the liberal lunacy?

    The big union push that the federal government has been so unfair to the post office surrounds the funding of their pension programs..  is it so unfair to expect participation in pension programs?, or do we owe public sector employees something better and stronger than that which we in the private sector have for ourselves and should have to continue to add to our deficits to provide it?

    Tommy, at current spending rates as a percentage of GDP we will in the next 10 years have a national debt that approaches $28 trillion, what if interest rates move to 5%, that would mean that just the interest line on the Federal budget would be in the $ 1.4 trillion range making it by far the largest line on the Federal budget, doubling the spending on defense, or just about any other federally funded program.  How does this serve our children well?

  • CosmosDan

    I think that’s what got Walsh mad. People who actually had some facts didn’t agree with him and could back up their opinions. That is frustrating.

    Once again Tea Party, glad to have some new blood in congress but please spend more time vetting them.

  • Anonymous

    Why does anybody ever say anything to Joe Walsh other than: “Support your kids, deadbeat.  Support your kids, deadbeat.  Support your kids, deadbeat.”

  • Sean

    “Princess Nancy” “Nobama” “Feminazi” “Libtard”

    Pretty sure the GOP has the market cornered on hateful pejorative nicknames.

  • Anonymous

    Bombastic? Histrionic? Pugilistic? 

    These aren’t your usual knuckle-dragging four-letter words. Obviously someone has commandeered your profile and upgraded your vocabulary. 

  • Anonymous

    1. It’s a term that members of the movement first used. (“Teabag them before they teabag you,” as I recall it.)

    2. My opinion is much like Bill Maher’s on this: you stop using “Obamacare” to refer to Health Care Reform and I’ll stop using “teabaggers” to refer to the Tea Party.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure you went running to your crayon written dictionary to find out what those words meant.

    Funny, the more I think of you, the less I think of you.
    God, if only you had received oxygen at birth.

    If I throw a stick will you leave?

  • Anonymous

    because the people who he was talking to were deadbeat libs. they were thinking, “Joe Christmas is coming, what will the govt. give us this year?”

  • Anonymous

    I thought it was a great interview…till Ed cut her off like that.

  • Anonymous

    Definitely change of command over this sock puppet.

  • Anonymous

    Definitely change of command over this sock puppet.

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    Lol the irony!
    Tommy wrote “unhinged performance” and “screaming tirade” in this article…but he wasn’t talking about Ed Schultz!

  • Anonymous

    Whew, good thing she went on Ed’s show to complain about this.  We all know that Ed never shouts or gets in someone’s face.  Even more remarkable was Shultz calling Cain out for using Princess Nancy.  To Ed, this is sexist.  I guess Cain should have called Pelosi a slut.  Shultz would approve.

  • Anonymous

    A half-wit gave you a piece of his mind, and you held on to it.

  • Anonymous

    But explain why your mouth is shaped like a scrotum first.

  • Michael Trout

    you should stick to eating chips on the couch, pal

  • Anonymous
  • Michael Trout

    I think we all know what a good little republican you are.

  • Michael Trout

    she’s tired our your crap and so are the rest of us!

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd
  • Anonymous

    I dunno… you get the idea that these two people need to switch places? How about a Melissa Rakestraw campaign to replace this dolt!

  • News Of The World

    Walsh is another lying, rude and ignorant teabagger.  The teabagging movement is quickly losing any momentum it may have had and this hotheaded bonehead is just another example of that.

  • Anonymous

    Now that is ED!

  • Anonymous

    Initially Walsh said he was yelling because he was hungry. My dog does that too.

    But she’s not a congress critter like Joe. Maybe he should be checked for heart worm and fleas the next time he gets a physical.

  • Guyoxim

    So basically, the Teapublican response is: 

    Ed’s fat and he yells too. 

    This woman is a postal worker and we all know they’re all crazy and carry guns. And sometimes the mail is late. 

    And the phantom democrats in a republican controlled congress on 2006 forced the USPS to over-fund its flagging pension fund. 

    Oh, and something about a scrotum shaped mouth. 

    Yep, you guys are brilliant. It’s no wonder you’re doing so well. You’re gonna have a great time in November 2012 with all that brain-power!

    OK, queue the Obama worshipper comments…

  • Anonymous

    Apparently he doesn’t care about his own public sector job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Malone/100002475802402 Tim Malone

    Has the lowly rated, irrelevant Ed interviewed any of the many women who have been raped at OWS protests? How about any of the small business owners who have had their windows smashed by them? 

  • Anonymous

    more like rabies

  • Irishsob

    Melissa should run against Screaming Joe.  I’d send her a campaign donation. 

    What a cool headed, informed woman.

    GO MELISSA!

  • Anonymous

    Fedup in Florida is confused about why we need six day deliver service.  Many companies rely on 6 day service too.  The Republicans pushed the postal service into bankruptcy by making them pay 75 years worth of pensions in 10 years. They provide service to a lot of rural areas that the UPS and Fed Ex won’t go because of higher costs.  Plus the Postal Service is required by the constitution.  

  • warrenlee

    Or making her blowhard, factually challenged congressman look like a complete fool. 

  • Anonymous

    This breathtaking blow job to the unions (Ed’s specialty) has been seen by more here (compliments of Liberalite’s resident MSNBC lapboy Christopher) than it was in prime time!

    Look it up!

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Not only did he only win by 235 votes, he was no where near 50% in a 3-way race and had his ass kicked the prior two elections. What’s more disgusting than him is the Tea Party and GOP leadership’s absolutely silence in the wake of revelations of his indebtedness to his wife. Family Values? LMAO.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Your point?  

  • Anonymous

    Yikes,you laid it out for those who refuse to see. You could have been a contender.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    And the Repug leadership is silent.  Still waiting for the ethics investigation. What Anthony Weiner did was stupid. Failure to pay child support is a FELONY!

  • Anonymous

    Joe is also the hero of the family values crowd even though his first family is owed over 100K in child support. That could prove irksome to many here, but facts have a liberal bias.

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

    If as you say “many companies rely on 6 day service” if such service is necessary for private companies then they should be more than willing to pay the postage required to maintain that necessary service.  Did you fall asleep and wake up this morning as a crony capitalist?  Stop thinking that there are no limits on what the federal government can do! You will sooner or later have to deal with this fact, better to have a controlled burn than a raging fire…  which is what will happen if the markets force the government to control it’s budgets rather than the government itself taking prudent measures to control itself. 

    And Yoda, where in my post did I advocate for the abolishment of the post office, just wondering because I don’t see that anywhere in what I wrote.

  • Anonymous

    When he’s done in Congress the Jerry Springer show is next for him as a guest.  Sometimes we all want regular Joe’s running for office and winning but this Joe is the worst example of why a lot of people in Illinois will never admit they voted for this loser.

    But really looking forward to his appearance on Jerry Springer show.  He’s a perfect guest. 

  • Anonymous

    They wouldn’t have to pay more if the Republicans didn’t gouge the postal service like they did. The Republicans want to privatize the service so they’re trying to destroy it, which will just increase what people will have to pay for service.  I didn’t say you wanted to abolish the postal service.  

  • Hack it up

    Spoken like a real middle school child. It would be real nice if both sides could grown up a little. But its clear thats going to happen. Because people like yourself hate anyone who dares think different then yourself. So you must call them names to feel better about yourself. Your a joke.

  • Hack it up

    Idiot I’m a Democrat in Maryland born and raised so get a clue before you speak and stop assuming crap you don’t know.

  • Hack it up

    Yes the liberals are completely free of this hate? Do you read this comment section? Both sides act like complete idiots with the over the top name calling. But stay blind.

  • Obama2012

    These teabaggers sure make things easy for us libs.  I wonder if Faux News has shown this?  

  • Anonymous

    >> Fedup in Florida: “Tommy, if I am not mistaken, these are your words which you have used to
    taint your article, “another example of Republican contempt for public
    servants.”

    Tainted words? This is Tommy Christopher who USED to be a fairly good writer because he USED to show some semblance of balance in his articles, but ever since we formally entered the election cycle he’s dropped all pretense about that — choosing instead to be a faithful and dutiful Liberal foot soldier. Which mean bias is the rule of the day.

    Prime example: note how he OPENS the article by stating Walsh gave an “unhinged perfomance” (clearly a negative word choice connotation) and he backs that up…by linking to a favorable Debbie Wasserman Schultz article. In short, I guess Christopher’s reporting now depends on whatever marching orders he got straight from DNC command!

    Now, in the Wasserman Schultz article it DOES state (quote): “DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz slammed Congressman Joe Walsh’s tirade against a constituent on Friday’s Morning Joe. “That’s the tea party unhinged!” Wasserman-Shultz exclaimed.”

    So to be fair, the word “unhinged” does come directly from that. However, if THAT is what prompted Christopher to use the word as well, a PROPER reporter would have placed the phrase in quotes (as well as supplying a hyperlink) to show that the words were actually reflective of someone ELSE. However, by NOT placing the word in quotes, Christopher is essentially signalling that it’s a statement of fact and that he fully agrees — which bring us full circle and right back to biased eporting.

    >> ROTFLMAO: “Nobody on this Planet would even know who the hell this lardass Fat Ed Shultz is were it not for Mediaite.”

    If you haven’t realized that Mediate is in the back pocket of MSNBC by now, you haven’t been paying attention!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Well, he’s been re-districted, so he has to run elsewhere, probably in some district where he has next to no chance against a D incumbent, because the R party simply is not going to lay down for this maniac and grant him a safe district.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Forget the heat. This woman has her shit together. She would have torn him apart.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Couldn’t one say your criticism of Tommy is biased??

    Do you also nit-pick the articles the other writers have written with a fine-toothed comb??

  • occupy the GOP

    his days are numbered. 

  • occupy the GOP

    i agree with your overall sentiments, but sometimes self-righteousness gets us nowhere. sometimes mud-slinging only deserves more mud-slinging. it’s been happening in politics for hundreds of years, where have you been?

  • Me1Ranger

    Bullshit..just ’cause you say it doesn’t make it true. It was the dims that pushed it through. Try again.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Walsh’s comment “I do not care about the loss of public sector jobs.”… but then will go out and complain that the unemployment rate is too high and something needs to be done!!

    Someone needs to tell Walsh that he can’t have both ways!!

  • Texan

    video or it didn’t happen

  • Anonymous

    No, my criticism of Tommy was completely fair because I properly explained WHY the article is written with a BIASED slant, versus the easy-to-do grammatical corrections that SHOULD have been made.

    Simply put, as a professional writer, Christopher should’ve been smarter and more polished in executing the article. Furthermore, I doubt that Christopher’s actually that dumb or careless — which means he chose to slant the article by PURPOSEFULLY cherry-picking and utilizing negative words, to reinforce the slant that HE personally wanted to present.

    And finally — yes, if you generally read my posts, you’ll find that I DO often go over the other writers/articles here with a “fine-toothed comb”, and I DO routinely note when they take eye-rolling creative liberties, in order to slant things.

  • Anonymous

    Walsh was the real hero of the video – yelling at people without being assaulted. All the postal worker did was meekly tell him, “You don’t have to scream” and suggesting he get decaf coffee. If he had yelled at her some more, she would have poured the coffee and asked if he wanted cream and sugar. 

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Fair enough, but if the writers here wrote like an unfeeling robot, without some personal opinions/slants, wouldn’t the articles be boring??

    Plus, shouldn’t your actual complaint be there aren’t enough writers here at Mediaite with a more Conservative slant?? Are you looking for a 50/50 split??

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Dead Beat Dad Teabagger got pissed because she schooled the congressman up on what the postal service does.  

  • Anonymous

    Oh so sorry…maybe you’d like to leave then, huh? Well there’s the door…LOL

  • Anonymous

    I just love all the finger pointing and outrage over the dastardly Repubs ramming thru the lame duck Congress the Postal Accountability Act of 2006.  Those wiley wascals.

    But amazingly enough they are all wrong.  One would think that they were regurgitating talking points with nary a clue about what the actual history of this vile act’s passage:

    H.R. 6407:
    Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act
    109th Congress: 2005-2006
    To reform the postal laws of the United States.
    Sponsor: Rep. Thomas Davis [R-VA11]
    This bill became law.

    It was signed by George Bush.

    Co-sponsors:

    Cosponsors:
    Danny Davis [D-IL7]
    John McHugh [R-NY23]
    Henry Waxman [D-CA30]
     

    Votes:
    Dec 8, 2006:

    This bill passed in the House of Representatives by voice vote.

    A record of each
    representative’s position was not kept.
    Dec 9, 2006:

    This bill passed in the Senate by Unanimous Consent.

    A record of each
    senator’s position was not kept.

    Wow, Dem lion Waxman a co-sponsor.Voice vote in the House and passage by Unanimous Consent.I know I’m just a poor ignorant Repub but if that wasn’t a very popular bi-partisan bill than the term bi-partisan bill doesn’t exist.

  • Tired of Ignorance

    You need to do some research and get your facts together.  It’s not just ’cause you say so’ – look it up.  I would venture to say you don’t know how and just espouse the Fox Unnews.

  • Anonymous

    Does that pertain to the magical events as told in the Bible? No video, didn’t happen.

  • Anonymous

    Raped at OWS. Ya. Uh huh. There was a saskwatch sighting too.

  • Anonymous

    And to think, the approval rating of Congress is at an all-time low. Imagine.

  • Anonymous

    Because he’s a deadbeat dad. Get it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=536928526 Vicki Perlman

    He says not to blame other things, but he blamed being hungry and too much caffiene. What a dolt

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    1) If the point is to make the articles less “boring”, than Mediaite should just come out and ADMIT that it’s no longer interested in REPORTING news about the news industry, and is INSTEAD interested in advocacy and slanted journalism. At which point they could likewise openly admit they tilt to the left.

    2)  And sure, I’d love to see an even 50/50 split. That would be a refreshing and welcome change. But as I noted before, we’ve entered the election cycle and most of the writers here feel they now have a “higher calling” to ensure that predominantly left-leaning articles are tossed out, in the hope that their left-leaning thinking will stick.

    Of course…were it up to me…I’d like to see more balance in the news world overall. Speaking as a middle of the road Independent — and as a professional writer — my personal bitch is that concise, factual, even-handed reporting is quickly becoming a thing of the past, if not a lost art.

    Bottom line: I’d be among the first to say Fox tilts a bit too much to the Right. So I’d like to see a few more Left commentators given time to present their side. But once I say that, I have to look at MSNBC and its daily line-up which is ALL left leaning, where they don’t even TRY to hide their bias anymore. Hell, over there, you have someone like Phil Griffin who, as President of MSNBC, has publicly stated that he wants them to SPECIFICALLY cater to left-leaning ideology, so Progressives can make it their “home.”

    Of course that leaves CNN to fill the gap, but let’s face it — they lost their identity long ago and are perpetually stuck in the mud, almost lost in a wasteland, unable to get any momentum going. In simple terms, they just flat-out suck.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=536928526 Vicki Perlman

    absolutely correct. The TB’ers have collective amnesia. They did use that term first until someone told them what it meant. LOL

  • Anonymous

    I’ll sell you some hold coins with all of that $ you’ll make.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=536928526 Vicki Perlman

    absolutely correct. another stink bomb present from the gop to the country

  • Anonymous

    She handled herself really well. He looked like a total tool. Not hard for Joey I know, but still.

  • Anonymous

    To the contrary, I’m quite happy to have a civil discourse, but I’m also happy to attack a hypocritical talking point when it presents itself, which, on this board, happens with alarming frequency.

    But if you want to keep it civil, I’ll respect that and in the future will approach you accordingly. 

  • Queenbee

    Another postal worker on suicide watch on a television show with a wife beater who shot his own hunting dog.

    Can it get any worse? 

  • Aqoeeoi

    Melissa’s lesbian partner speaks up!

  • Eeoeou

    Ed Schultz?

    That means 5 people saw it.

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    If you gonna report facts.

    http://publicsearch.ndcourts.gov/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=203281    11/02/1995

    Will the real Eddie please stand up.

  • Eeoeou

    Every time I go to the PO they are crabby, rude, and treat their fellow human beings with disdain.  Is that what you are talking about?

  • Eeoeou

    Google OWS and rape.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, she handled herself well, but no differently than most other people would. I would hardly call her the “star” of the video, but we all know that MSBC will suspend its credibility to beat up on a teabagger, just as Fox will to beat up on a liberal.

  • Dicholas

    She is of zero use “standing up”, she should be kneeling down. Your welcome, Dicholas! Now, had your mother aborted you in her “first term” we wouldn’t be pestered with your silly little girl deranged liberal bull sh it opinion. STFU and go start a liberal dumpster fire in protest of Joe! CAPICHE?

  • Transsexual002

    You are confused, Joe is heterosexual. Teabaggin is what YOU do when giant man balls will fit in your tiny liberal mouth. And you being a homosexual pedophile and all, we don’t have to worry about you ever becoming a “deadbeat dad”. Luckily, it is illegal for known pedophiles to adopt children.

  • Anonymous

    Well… i can name a few intellectuals who have used that term.

  • Anonymous

    from spending too much time between your wife’s(or gf’s) thighs maybe? 

  • Anonymous

    Not surprising you’re the expert at matching your mouth to a male scrotum.  Drag Queen.

  • Anonymous

    100% correct about the origin of the name.  The teabaggers aren’t suffering from amnesia they’re lying, hoping people don’t remember they called themselves teabaggers in the beginning but were too stupid to know what it actually meant.

  • Anonymous

    Who was the star of the video,…. Walsh? Suspend their credibility!? Walsh hung himself, with no room for spin!

  • Anonymous

    Check the votes on trying to correct that mistake, so far only republicans against it! CSPAN has been covering the same!

  • Anonymous

    Your “own” party!?

  • George_goebel

    Look everybody!  I guess OJ really was innocent after all..no video!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VSZBGXS4SLZ6BJBTWPMTPBKZZI BanjoGOD

    Tea Party Rocker CHRIS HOLLY upsets Dylan fans w/ new song performed for PERRY,CAIN,HUNTSMAN and BACHMANN. video here on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AokBQwrn6u0

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    The clerks work very hard.  Starting times at your local office might be 2 AM one day and 3 or 4 or 5 AM the next day.  You’d be crabby to if your work schedule was so screwed up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Anyone with a brain should know that woman was there just to shout down the Congressman with a camera crew.. Go to any Occupy stink tank and you’ll hear the same screaming rants from that woman.
    I actually sisn’t surf away from Ed today and agreed with Big Ed  as he ranted about the Penn State students sticking up for their criminal  coach and campus of sex.
    To bad Ed is so shallow he doesn’t see these kids were Obama voters. They learned  car tippin/firesf/riot rules from the public schools and Universities. Now Ed is whining like a republican with morals and values.

  • Anonymous

     republicans want to kick veterans off their jobs?

    not surprising.  conservatives hate the troops.

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    Joe Walsh is making the Tea Party look bad.  This guy needs to settled down and behave himself and show some decency.   

  • Anonymous

    Sergeant Schultz is such a pioneer. He goes and finds the stories no one else dares tell! “I see nothing!!”

  • Anonymous

    Look who sponsored it! It was in a Republican lead House and Senate during the lame duck session.  

  • proud2teabagu

    This is what liberals call standing up. Such bravery should be awarded!

  • Kandinsky

    Only douchebags are much molre appealing.

  • Kandinsky

    I guess you oughta know about kneeling down, you right wing scum.

  • Kandinsky

    If you explain why your face is shaped like a hairy butt.

  • Kandinsky

    Stonepark, go hide under a rock with all the other snakes and toads

  • clever

    What ever floats a libtards boat I myself do not find Douchebags more appealing must be a progressive libtard thing.

  • clever

    Okay what ever you say,Apparently you watched a different clip than the one everyone else saw or have selective listening abilities.

  • clever

    If he stuck to eating his chips on the couch then there would be no stale chips for you garbage men to eat on garbage day.

  • Me1Ranger

    Then I was right..thanks Grammie. Pound sand libs!

  • Anonymous

    I very seldom say something like this:  I can’t decide, or, much care wether your comment was based on ignorance or stupidity?

    I will allow for the possibility you are suffering from the mass mesmerization that Socialist-Liberals have succumbed too. (which is a nominal mitigating factor)

    There is, also, a pathological condition called “cognitive distortion,” however, I prefer a face to face meeting before making such a diagnoses.

    Purveyor

  • clever

    Link to it libtard cant seem to find these facts you dreamed up.The only thing I come up with is Libtard dems supporting the Post Office and the Union.

  • clever

    I will never stop refering to a libtard as a libtard until they figure a cure for the cancer.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    This idiot (FistOfDissent) has been watching too much MSNBC or is reading too much of the garbage at Media Matters. If he really believes this crap then he’s too far removed from reality. He must be a OWS Communist or Marxist.

    Yes he is “pathological” and well indoctrinated by those who want to see this Nation transformed into some sort of former USSR like old Rev. Wright and Barack Obama.

    Strtlk/mtclayboy missed his “Face to Face” yesterday in DC, what a shame.

    “TMP”

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    This idiot (FistOfDissent) has been watching too much MSNBC or is reading too much of the garbage at Media Matters. If he really believes this crap then he’s too far removed from reality. He must be a OWS Communist or Marxist.

    Yes he is “pathological” and well indoctrinated by those who want to see this Nation transformed into some sort of former USSR like old Rev. Wright and Barack Obama.

    Strtlk/mtclayboy missed his “Face to Face” yesterday in DC, what a shame.

    “TMP”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2OO7LG7JO6ZIFF54KKNXMMLMPA Munster

    Ed Schultz?  You mean the guy who beat his first wife until she got a restraining order against him and then shot his own hunting dog?  THAT Ed Schultz?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    Nice, make fun of hard working Americans. Live with your garbage for a couple of weeks and you will find out how important these people are.

  • Valkyrie101

    If you are saying that TV news commentators have personal baggage, ok, we know that. But as for the bartender lady, she showed a lot of spunk.

  • Valkyrie101

    Perhaps she needs a cool liberal name like, “Mel the Bartender”?

  • Valkyrie101

    Bachman, Perry, Cain, Walsh… Do you see a pattern there?

  • Anonymous

    Idiot is right! I just read his profiled posts, and he really is way, way out there. His remarks about veterans jobs and the Republicans are completely baseless.

    Too bad about the Face to Face, I guess he really is a coward who knows no shame.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    He was going to send his pal AjayHess down there to kick my A$$ but he never showed either. Something these idiots should know, I never back down from a threat.

    LMFAO

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    All blow and no go. Figures.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2OO7LG7JO6ZIFF54KKNXMMLMPA Munster

    40 years ago the Government spun the UPS off but in doing so GAVE the UPS over $450,000,000 in debt free real estate.  

    Now 40 years later that property is worth BILLIONS and the UPS has mortgaged it all up and is near bankruptcy, yet STILL the left claims the UPS has been self sufficient all along!  Give it a rest.

  • Robert Bayden

    I probably would not have been as composed as this lady

  • Robert Bayden

    It’s “you’re” as in “you are” not “your” possessive. You are welcome

  • Robert Bayden

    Obviously, jackass yelling was the one with the problem.

  • Robert Bayden

    Joe Walsh should stick to endorsing Summer’s Eve

  • Anonymous

    I suspected that you were just a walking Dem talking point but with that bit of inanity you dispelled all doubt.

    Voice vote in the House and Unanimous Consent in the Senate combimed with two Repubs and two Dems  authoring and sponsoring the bill means it belongs lock, stock and barrel to BOTH parties.  The Dems could have used a filibuster in the Senate but instead passed it with nary a dissent.

    Exactly what type of mind goes from those FACTS to your conclusion is perhaps not so much a mind as a seething mass of contradictions and the ability to swallow whole and regurgitate on cue anything.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Edwards/588445226 David Edwards

    It would have been nice if Ed let her finish her thought before cutting her off

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t this Walsh cretin some Christer organization’s best boy, because, like all good far-right Christians with government jobs, he hates working class people while proclaiming love for his non-existent sky-being?

  • Brincar

    “hey joe..where you going with that child support check in your hand”-Jimi Hendrix

  • Anonymous

    I will say again who sponsored it??  I don’t think you know what Unanimous consent is?  It just goes through without formal voting to speed up the process and to slide it though without much knowledge what’s in the bill.  The Democrats should’ve filibustered the bill, but Democrats weren’t having filibustering orgies like the Republicans are having.   

    I will say again who sponsored it??  

    The Republicans wanted to bring down the postal service and to slip it through without debate during the lame duck session.  It was very sneaky of them.  

    Come on Grammie you can do better than that, come on now.   

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    Yes, he acted like the total deadbeat dad douchebag he is. Pop quiz: what did Joe Walsh do on November 10th? Introduced a “save Christmas act” to permanently block the 15 cent tax proposed on Christmas trees. Never mind that the fresh tree industry promoted this tax in 2009 because they will receive the proceeds from it to promote their product over artificial trees. Great way to clog the legislative process Joe!

    What an opportunistic moron! Soon, he will be asking you Fox Lake readers if you would like to super size that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    The bill in question is HR 6407 “The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act” of 2006. George W. Bush signed it into law in 2006. The relevant section of the bill that requires the postal service to pay in excess of 5B per year beginning Sept. 30, 2007 is Sec. 8909a (3) (A). It was sponsored by Rep. Thomas Davis (R-VA). Rep. Thomas introduced it on Dec. 7, 2006. It passed in the House by voice vote on Dec.8, 2006 and in the Senate by voice vote in Dec.9, 2006 so no record of individual legislators votes were tabulated. Full 167 page text is at:

    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:h6407:

    As an editorial aside, I really doubt anyone in Congress read the bill since it was passed by both houses only 1 day after introduction and by voice vote.

    Ranger, try researching your statements before you stick your foot in your mouth again or do those Thom McCan’s taste good?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    I prefer the term trailer trash when talking about Rep. Joe Walsh.

  • Anonymous

    Joe Walsh, the rock musician, has filed suit to keep the congressman from using his name.

  • PALEALE

    You are totally wrong ME1Ranger… George W Bush and the lame Duck Congress were the ones that set that in place in 2006 and before Nancy Pelosi took the Gavel — Postmaster Potter was FORCED to sign this as part of the Postal Reform Act then. So get to the point… You really should review your facts before you post or you become as bad as a screaming douche

  • Douchme1Ranger

    Dahhhhh douche me1Ranger CHECK IT OUT … YOU ARE WRONG…. GOOGLE YOU BUGLE… YOU WILL SEE IT OR SHOULD I POST the factual information to make you look even more stupid?

  • Yolove71

    are you serious? the average person probably would have smacked him..he needs to learn to listen.

  • Anonymous

    Walsh should have his brain removed immediately so scientists can study it and see if they can prevent other assholes like him from growing up. The Postal Service is mentioned in the Constitution- unlike any other jobs 
    or services in this country.  Tea baggers who claim they are all about the Constitution show their hypocrisy when they talk about the Postal Service.

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