“Two healthy parties challenge each other to come up with better ideas,
she argued, and both parties are hurt by one of them deteriorating.”

Exactly right. That’s why I stayed in the GOP longer than was really wise. My hope was that the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower would eventually correct its far right tilt and return to its roots as a party of solid ideas, fiscal responsibility and viable solutions. Instead, it’s doubled-down on the crazy, and, instead of rejecting its most insane members like Bachmann, Gingrich, Santorum and Perry, it’s actually considered them as serious contenders for the presidency!

You can’t claim to be a serious political operation if you’re dominated by ridiculous, extremist hacks.

She did great for her first show.

The party went so far right Lincoln and Roosevelt would be considered RINO’s

“My hope was that the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower would eventually correct its far right tilt ”

With statements like that you will be an asset to the democrats…and I’m serious.

They should be so lucky. In the pea brains of today’s righties, Roosevelt is practically a commie and Lincoln — in freeing the slaves — bears ultimate responsibility for paving the way to Obama.

I wonder why Fox News is trying to lean more towards the center and some house republicans is asking the tea party “to be less extreme”?

What Miss H-P is overlooking is how far, far left the Dems have become. Obama was the most liberal, partisan Senator, campaigned like he wasn’t, and then proceeded with the lefty agenda when inaugurated.
He is a terrible choice and burden for the moderate Dems to have to vote for and defend.

He is arrogant, argumentative and extremely divisive.
So we’ll get more of the same if he’s reelected.
And God only knows what he’ll do with no worries about ever running for office again.

MSNBC  Must keep Melissa Harris Perry’s show because it will materialize into one of the best formats in the history of television. This will garner rich sponsorship through high ratings, but MSNBC must have the foresight to let it blossom.

Roger    gervaisservice@gmail.com

 Reagan would be considered a RINO by the Tea Party, given his record on raising taxes.

–Cobra

But whoa right there this is Bush’s terrible economy.
Obama inherited it.
But what they won’t tell you is that Senator Obama voted for every big entitlement spending bill Bush put forward.
So not only has Obama made the economy worse under his regime he was an accessory to the downfall under Bush.

Reagan never raised taxes to provide more “free cheese” to buy votes from those who believe in free lunches. He didn’t pander for votes with class warfare. Did he? He didn’t raise taxes to “spread the wealth” because we must be “fair”, did he? He believed in personal responsibility, Barry thinks that raising taxes on the “rich” is “fair”. Yes, Reagan did not believe in the “social justice” that all your fallen Marxists promised the millions slaughtered by that utopian liberal pap. Clown.

—Mongoose

 Yes, tell us the many ways that Teddy and Abe remind you so much of your liberal brethren today. Tell us.

Teddy wanted to carry a big stick. Barry is dismantling ours.

Abe believed in the words written by a white slave owner, and ACTED UPON THEM, was INSPIRED BY THEM, who not only wrote the Declaration of Independence, but believed in the US Constitution that you clowns slander as being written by white, privileged slave owners. You’re too obtuse to have ever been in the party of conservatives. It is good the likes of you are being filtered out. Take Megan McCain with you.

 There were some disgruntled CPAC goers at Fox’s move to the center.  How long before mighty fox is branded a RINO network?

The only thing she overlooked was providing a link to the political scientists that did the research.  
http://voteview.com/blog/

 Actually history tells us that while Theodore Roosevelt was boisterous, had a sterling war record and had a foreign policy record that would make Ron Paul cry (Monroe Act), he strongly believed in government regulation.  Thus the first food and drug agencies were formed to protect the public interests.  He eyed big business with a scornful eye as he sided with unions in workers disputes and was the first (and only) president to take on monopolies and bust them up.  Thus creating a free and open market place.  He was also the toughest man ever to hold that office. (Andrew Jackson coming in second)

As for Lincoln, while he was an abolitionist, that was not his main political goal in office. See there were three political parties back then.  Democrats, who leaned more towards a democratic form of our government.  Thus states were treated as free, yet equal, nations that were subject to their own laws, boundaries and trade.  Much like the landscape of Europe.  The Republicans, who wanted a larger federal government.  They looked as the United States as one country instead of a collection of states.  Thus the federal government should be the supreme law of the land.  Then their was the Whigs who believed that Congress should be the only branch of government and believed in a strong national bank that would be very hands off with business.  While the civil war’s powder keg was slavery, it was more about big federal government vs states rights.  The north won, and Lincoln enacted the largest growth of the federal government in history.  Thus stripping away states rights to only those not already decided by federal law.  In other words, he was for a very large, very powerful federal government.

How are these like the Republicans today???

Do yourself a favor and read a book…

You know nothing of history…

The Tax Act of 1981 lowered middle and lower class tax rates and on capital gains (this is important later) yet raised the upper class and corporate income.  He would go on for the next 5 years shuffling around the tax burden, all the while ballooning the debt to close to four trillion dollars.  He also spent like a drunken sailor on defense.  So much so that the government had to dip into entitlement spending  to lessen the deficit.  Thus started the great social security scam meme that exists to this day.  By lowering the capital gains taxes, more companies invested in the stock market.  Thus there was a more venture capital around.  As a reward, in 1986 he cut the corporate and upper class rates to a lower than 1981 level.  This created the bubble effect in our economic system that crashed in 1987, 1992, 2000, and of course 2008.

what Chris brown and Rihanna do with their lives is their business.  Ms. Perry would do well to focus on her own personal matters.

Chris Brown is an abuser of at least one woman.

Here here, It’s all Obama’s fault!

I mean, he proposed and voted for things like the Iraq war in 2003 and both the Economic Growth and both the Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, the Bush era tax cuts, despite not being in the senate until 2005. It’s all his fault that the Bush presidency saw America waste vast amounts of money and lives in an unjustified war while cutting the amount of revenue it collects. :)

I don’t care for her ubiquitous racial indulgences, but outside of that she sharp and seems well-meaning.

”
Teddy wanted to carry a big stick. Barry is dismantling ours.”

What the heck does this mean???

Do you know what an “entitlement” is? Something I’m sure you actually feel you’re entitled to–your education, roads, highways, fire department, police department, (oil, coal, natural gas, etc) energy, social security, medicare (you will certainly need it since no company will give it to you when you’re old), etc… Really, if you’re from MA please be smarter, you’re embarrassing the rest of us.

Melissa Harris-Perry you rule!

Elizabeth Warren all the way!!

 I am sure you felt that way about OJ. 

Men who beat women deserve a special place in hell.

 Links please!

The only entitlement programs that Bush signed into law were No Child Left Behind and the Medicare Drug Act and those happened before Obama was elected a Senator.

 sorry I read this after my post :) Didn’t mean to sound redundant.

Things are getting pretty rough when the “Fox” are is trying to distance themselves from the monster they created.  We don’t forget.

So let’s get this straight…

Obama has 
-extended the Afghan war
-extended the bush tax cuts
-Adopted Romneycare
-Adopted Bush-era cap and trade
-Allowed firearms into national parks
-Devoted about 50% of the stimulus to tax cuts (not spending).

And you’re saying he has the “most liberal, partisan” lefty agenda??   
All I can say is that if he’s really that far left, why are there so many dissatisfied liberals?

Guess you shouldn’t vote for Romney then either…since Romney once held all of those positions too.

There is?

Because they dropped 15% in the key 25-54 demo last year?

Griffin isn’t stupid.  They’ve added “Now with Alex Wagner”, “Up with Chris Hayes” and now this eponymous (I love Chris Hayes joking how he had to learn how to pronounce it correctly this morning) show.

They are trying to skew younger and mesh with the fact that Comcast is the largest cable provider in the country, but it skews urban and suburban overall, where young professionals happen to cluster.

That’s why Buchanan is gone, but somehow this blacklist meme is more important than the demographics or the economics.

Fresh and bright–a perfect weekend addition to Chris Hayes’ “Up” which is the best new show on cable news.

Best New Thing In The World Today: Melissa Harris-Perry!

Nothing on Fox can touch the smarts of Hayes and Harris-Perry. Bravo

What Chris Brown does with his life includes beating up women. That’s not a private matter.

Meanwhile, in the real world the Democrats have become center-right and the Republicans have become far-right.

It’s no longer a terrible economy. And “big entitlement spending” never had any role in hurting the economy.

The Tea Party solves that by pretending that Reagan didn’t do what he actually did.

Is Harris-Perry related to Simple Jack of Tropic Thunder fame?
She just has that…..look……

Anyone who’s ever read Perry knows her real solution for the GOP and white folks in general is to stop being racists. Then everything will be fine. Thanks for once again promoting this woman whose philosophy emanates from the same intellectual space as Joseph Goebbels. If the poor white people tip off isn’t a clue to her take on life, wait till next week when she devotes a segment by a 6 yr. old black math whiz that shows more white folks are on welfare than black and that the concept of percentages is an Aryan myth from the dark ages.

MSNBC is the Chris Brown of cable networks. The audience is Rhianna. Huh! Huh!

P.S. Black guys don’t just beat up sistassss.

This puts her at direct odds with Tawana Sharpton, who just biatcha-slapped Don Lemon for criticizing Brown!
Trouble in Race-Baiting camp?

YIKES!!! 
Where in the hell does MSNBC find these people??   
Hint, Melissa …….. 
 Put a hypen between EACH letter in the name and it will look SO much
more IMPRESSIVE!
No ratings magnet here..
 Stick with the Inside Prison Shows on weekends

The end segment–analysis of Whitney Houston’s “meaning” in the Rise of the Buppie ’80s on the one hand and gangsta hip-hop on the other, when she was seen in some quarters as insufficiently black–was worth the price of admission.

I hope Melissa can overcome her tendency to sound like a desperately seeking tenure assistant professor.

If she does, she’s going to mount a strong show, one that, like Chris Hayes’s show, strikes the right balance between thoughtful lefty seminar and Rachel Maddow glibness/Ed Schultz table-thumping dogmatism.    

what an affirmative action clown!

Also liked Melissa and her panel’s discussion of the Freudian dimensions of Mitt’s awkward disconnect from normal political discourse. Here’s my take:

 
Instead of warbling “America, The Beautiful,” Romney should be crooning Jim Morrison’s “The End.”

Mitt’s Oedipal agony
is as much a reason for his Conehead disconnect from Life In This
Galaxy As We Know It as his religious bad faith (i.e., his renunciation
of the wellsprings of his spiritual being, his Mormon faith, as Frank
Rich has wisely speculated).

I was struck by this while watching
Melissa Harris-Perry’s new weekend morning teevee show on MSNBC.
Especially the clips of Mitt’s daddy and his supporters, including
Gerald Ford, denouncing extremism in the Republican Party in 1964, the
year of Goldwater.

Those clips plus those of George Romney ca.
1967 issuing full-throated statements in support of the Civil Rights
movement, and, in doing so, taking on the leadership of his own Mormon
Church.

Mitt’s father was the part of Mitt’s narrative that made
his pro-choice, pro-gay rights, Massachusetts moderate cred seem real
when he ran against Teddy Kennedy — from the social issues left! — in
1994 and again when he was governor early in the 21st century.

Mitt’s
weirdness vis a vis his daddy also has profound
history-of-political-economy resonance. His father presided over
Michigan and Chrysler during the muscular phase of postwar American
manufacturing hegemony. Mitt the Awkwardly Conflicted Son presided
over Bain Capital during the ascendancy of the financialization of the
American economy.

So, sing it, Mitt:
“This is the end…My only friend, the end…”

MHP is here to save MSNBC from itself. LOL!

 L-O-L

M.S.N.B.C.spent the last 3 months indoctrinating her to hate all Republicans and Conservatives.