that is why we left this state, they elect miserable idiots

Suprise surprise. A rightwinger telling a lie.

This must be the first time.

A rightwing Christian would never lie.

what they forget is –even if dems do get majorities…they are not mindless drones who walk lockset into the fire taking the whole country and the party into hell..

here is some truth..
if the economy says bad or gets worse..the cons will lose the congress and maybe get the presidency..
or if the economy gets better–the cons can keep the house and not get the presidency..

so that is their choice…
keep what they have or lose what they have in order to gain a long shot that will have little power–A PRESIDENT WITH BOTH HOUSES THAT BELONG TO DEMS..

you know-bird in the hand?

i do not mind a conservative congress actually–i like the balance…but what we do not need are children who just say no—to be difficult…right now the gop is in their terrible 2s and if they do not wake up real fast..
they will lose it all again….
WORDS FOR THE WISE~

I’d like to see Tommy put his investigative talents on who got the bailout money.  But that would reveal several loyal Democratic donors getting sizable government handouts.  The analysis of the filibuster proof majority was interesting.  My question:  why not let them filibuster?  I can remember filibusters dating back to the 50′s.  They usually fail when confronted with a resolute majority.  Tommy the True Believer.

Right – Olympia and Susan never break ranks- honestly TC….you shouldn’t criticize others for their lack of honesty when you throw in a statement like the “republcans lock arms” when you know indeed they do not.  Yes, the democrats owned the WH, the Senate and the Congress….a fact you cannot deny.  It is how Obamacare got passede -  all democrats locked arms, accepted bribes and passed that horrendous piece of legislation on a purly partison vote.

Surprise, another example of conservative revisionist history that tries to make them look like victims when they aren’t.  Ugh.

Even during the Christmas season, you continue being a grade A bitch.  What’s up with that?
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of  the reasons I thought Christie was a serious guy is that he hadn’t been someone to float the rhetoric like most do on television.  I see I am wrong.  Too bad, too.  Add him to the heap of nonsensical goofballs.

WHHHAAATTTT???!!!  Republicans lying?  I’m shocked!  

fat idiot.

Give em a break! They had too much moonshine!

Bubbles is out of her element, that’s why she identifies with Barry

Fat nasty and racist Joe.

What a pair.

REMEMBER THIS CONS.

YOUR TALKING POINTS ARE WRONG YOU CONS

Exactly. Although, Tina_Tampon fits the mold of “conservative” scum bag better than that of a  “bitch”. She is actually pretty evenly loony as the rest of the mouth breathers here. Just not so much a bitch is all.

That’s weird…not the first time I see Christie telling lies,but Joe knows better…

I don’t get it.

A most astute observation:

“What non-Democrats often fail to realize is that a Democratic majority
isn’t like other majorities. While Republicans can be relied on to lock
arms and stay put no matter what kind of political pepper spray they get
hit with, there are always about 10% of Democrats willing, nay, eager to undercut their own party.
To the extent that Barack Obama ever had a filibuster-proof majority,
he still had to water everything down just to get past his own party.”

Virtually unheard of, isn’t it?

You have to cut Morning Joe some slack. A recent documentary about the program showed that Joe is up all night drinking, playing cards and shooting craps. Sometimes he’s too tired to put on a tie.
Lighten up, yo.

I wouldn’t call it purely partisan, and certainly not “purly partison”.

Not just let them, make them. If you’re going to block proposed legislation, you need to work for. I’m sick of Reid’s constantly handing out welfare to a McConnell all to willing to accept it. A pox on both of these senators.

By that standard, Texas would be empty. I’m not leaving Texas to the idiots.

Thank you, Tommy.   This is one of your best pieces.   As a liberal, I’m a quasi-fan of Joe Scarborough, because  more times than not, he’s accurate.     But for Joe to  allow Christie to bellow on ad nauseum was inexcusable.  

But again,  they having texting “love”.       :)

Republicans who reach across the aisle are labeled RINO’s (by their own, to be sure.)

Democrats who reach across the aisle are labeled moderates. 

But again,  they having texting “love”.       :)

Mika and Valerie Jarrett ?

It was a factual error, yes

But good god the elephant in the room is the elephant in the room which is the main topic of discussion where both Joe and Christie are dead on. And it is the essence of the failure of this administration

Granted this special-needs group that took control of congress has been an especially contemptible group of characters but presidents can’t just pull out all diplomatic representation and close down the embassy in congress if it’s taken over opposition who every now and get to hurt your precious feelings

Obese wind bag.

He is not in the race.

This is coming from someone, with a clown avatar…… Priceless!!!!!

I’m not leaving Texas to the idiots.”

Son, as long as you are still there, Texas will always have idiots.

Go back to blowing Barney Frank- no wonder he calls your ass his personal Holiday Inn

suck Barney Frank’s wiener, you turd eating fool.

But you still eat his dung

why is your mouth in the shape of Barney Frank’s scrotum and why does be ram it home into your asshole

Nice try Tommy, but Christie remains the beacon of sanity in the Republican party. Save the jabs for 2016 when it’s Christie v. Elizabeth Warren.

Next up – Tommy will claim Holder didn’t really play the race card.

wow how beautiful is your writing, thank God is documented, why is it that my fellow conservatives are so angry and violent 

I am getting sick and tired of your writing, shut the hell up, your writing make me sick 

Suck me off  you liberal POS

Then don’t read, just blow me you liberal

Hard to believe Tommy wrote this article without once mentioning to the two Republican senators from Maine or the ones that intentionally undercut the Republican leadership to gain power (McCain, Graham … or in the past DeWine, Chafee, Warner).  And by “hard to believe” I mean “Very easy to believe and not surprising at all.”

You seem to be terribly, terribly confused. And deeply disturbed. And vulgar.

Tommy, isn’t carrying Obama’s water getting tireing? You are like the spelling police on this thread, nitpicky. It’s beneath you. And boring.

This is exactly the kind of right wing tripe I’ve come to expect from both of these guys, including the widely debunked notion iterated by Joe earlier in the program “everyone knows the surge worked” when middle eastern experts put it around fifth in effect.

The obstruction by a few conservadems like the Nelson twins and Joe Liarman gave us all the cave-ins to right wing orthodoxy in the first two years, and since we have Republicans sabotaging the economy and anything else they can to defeat Obama.

Great article, Tommy, nice to know someone out there is paying attention!
  

Repuiblicans are such liars.

Yes, lets not let the facts get in the way of a good story.  Facts are known to have a liberal agenda.

Please don’t stop!

Tommy, stop covering for the President. When you do this, YOU look stupid not the President.

You reinvented yourself flush so you could say something “cute”?  

You’re so predictable and transparent.  Too bad your hero isn’t.

F#cK off Stonepark!

well of course not – you feel right at home with them. 

I don’t know who you are Hertz – but quit.
You’ve been reported.  

I have a strange feeling that you are a liberal – reinvented yourself to stir the old pot.

REMEMBER THIS MOOSENUTTY.

YOUR BRAIN IS EMPTY MOOSENUTTY

Way to argue the story. LOL!!!

OMG the excuses the lame attempts to justify Tommy’s time table.  
Obama got elected – Nov/08
Democrats lost Congress – Nov/10

Oh, yah – have to give them time off for holidays and stuff, so that doesn’t count – bathroom breaks – lunch, dinner, etc.  All take time!

Idiot, he was 100 percent accurate, but you wouldn’t know that since you watch your stupid fox propaganda.

Oh look, another “conservative” scum bag inviting herself to be ridiculed. I suppose Shit-Park5 was taken. So you’ve taken up the bitch title and are ready to roll! Good on ya, girl!

Yoh Tommy – when are you doing the story about Shultz lying about telling democrats not to vote and denying he ever told them not to vote in the midterms?  Proof and no fancy math involved.  

With the not-entirely-unexpected demise of this other creature early this morning, the mantle now passes to Tommy Christopher as the most objective & nuanced small media critique, especially difficult giving he swims in waters that once bore a boar like Tucker Carlson & are maintained to this day by the still deeply conflicted Dan Abrams.

“Lie Rating Service, one-time Moodys for the politically moody, dead at 52.

December 20, 2011

St. Petersburg, Fla. 

Long-time local resident and editor of a leading on-line political statements ratings service, Bill Adair, confirmed late this a.m. that earlier today, his baby, Politifact, died of complications from severely ruptured standards received in an earlier collision with a large heavily funded vehicle with an out-of-state license plate with a number starting with the letter “R”, apparently driven by a pale middle-aged male sporting the sort of self-mocking D.A. haircut that went out of style everywhere in America since 1968 except Wisconsin.

“I don’t know what happened”, said the long-time senior editor at the St. Peterberg Times. “Ever since that torrid night in the Congressional Coffee Shop with the Quarterly, we’ve always wanted our baby to be extra careful to avoid exactly this sort of obvious sell-out to a sleazy agenda. But I guess when the bucks are that big, anyone, no matter how pure their intentions may have been to start with, is just bound to get f****d.”

That would be 54 MONTHS, not years.

To paraphrase from when President Lincoln passed – Now, Politifact belongs to the lobbyists.

Whoops.

Someone didn’t watch the clip.

Revise your headline.

Christie never said “fillibuster-proof.” He said “Democratic Congress,” as in, Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate. 

Factually true. 

Watch the clip.

Scarborough said “fillibuster-proof” in his rant.

Christie nodded and said “I agree” following the entire rant, which included several points.

That Christie said “I agree” while not line-item correcting Joe’s error on the two-year timeline, fine. Enjoy your red meat. 

Just swap out Christie’s name for Scarborough’s in the headline and you can keep it.

Otherwise, a BS, erroneous, link-baiting headline — aka, token Tommy Christopher!

I noticed the same thing. You are correct. 

Christie does say, at the end, “if i ever had a filibuster proof majority in my first two years, imagine what could have happened…” which is still accurate. He doesn’t say Obama did, for the entire two years.

Oh, Tommy, don’t be a dope.  Obama had a massive majority in the House, and was at most one vote short (after Scott brown was elected) in the Senate.  What happened then?  Why, Obamacare passed by the majority using parliamentary tricks to avoid the 60 vote margin.. So perhaps it wasn’t  ”veto proof” — it was merely so large, and so unprincipled, as to permit the O Administration to pass whatever they wanted.

Does your mommy know you are playing on the computer little boy?

Keep shilling for Obama Tommy, maybe he will invite you over to the White House for coffee and give you your campaign marching orders, as he has done with the entire MSNBC line-up, the NYT, WaPo, Huffpo, TPM, ThinkProgress and just about every other bat-sh*t crazy leftwing blog.

Who wouldn’t want to see Chris Christie giving little Tommy Christopher his comeuppance?
Man I’d order the pay per view of that!
Tommy wouldn’t last a minute in a face to face confrontation with Christie.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that not only does he resemble Limbaugh, he lies like him too!

Brilliant Prose, loser.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Hey Joel!

When is that Roger Ailes indictment going to come down that you promised would be any day, like a year and a half ago?

Hey Tommy!

Why weren’t you invited to the Presstitute meeting today?

They don’t appreciate you Tommy. Admit it.

You’re at least a $20.00 one, and his awesomeness treats you like a $5.00 one.

Hey Dick, blow me

We just requested for your insulting bs to be flagged

Typical.

He didn’t REALLY say it.

Hello Claude Rains.

More believable if you leave off the last sentence, but bravo for you.

shut your mouth when you blow me that’s what you do to Barney

I guess he has something in common with the GOP candidates then.

Tote that water, Tommy.  Tote that water.

But first Tina Tampa can’t debunk Tommy’s arguments but posts a comment anyway.

Sheesh- this is really bad headline writing by Mediaite. 

Why not just say Christie is using KKK slogans and go all the way down the MSNBC path?

One thing is for sure, Christie can certainly “filibuster” a buffet…zinngg.  When I read this article I can hear him wheezing.

It’s really hard to remember that the Dims didn’t have a filibuster proof majority by 1 vote when they rammed through ObamaCare anyway.

An easy mistake to make, since the Dims behaved like they had one, and succeeded.

Got any gum on you Dick?

Oh you got him good Tommy. Definitely worth writing a whole article about. Never miss an opportunity to cheerleader for Obama. HACK

Way to sound like an insane person. LOL!!!

with your vulgarity not helping the conservative cause, white trash is white trash, we are proud red necks

Fact checking and refuting mis-information and lies from elected officials are not examples of cheerleading. A responsible press and media have as their primary duty to establish fact from lie. Perhaps if the national media were so inclined to seek the truth post 9/11, 4500 of our men would still be alive.

Cheerleading was what our 43rd President did while attending his private ALL MALE high school. Looking up skirts at cheerleader snatch wasn’t an option! So, he didn’t do it to get laid…or did he?

funny how mediate never does this when lefties screw up about the anointed one…..

Tommy, you’re technically correct, but you failed because of your liberal bias to expose an important point here.

The Dem’s are claiming that the Republicans won’t work with them.  Well, during this time that the Dem’s had, oh, about 58 or 59 Senate seats and only needed 2 or 3 Republicans to join them to pass filibuster-proof legislation, they couldn’t put together bills MODERATE enough to convince TWO OR THREE moderate Republicans, such as Snowe and Collins, to join them.

This little nugget of info kinda puts the lie to the Democrats’ claim that they try to work with Republicans on bills.  If ya can’t put something together “bipartisan” enough for the Maine Senators to go along with, you’re really tacking pretty far to the left, buddy.

I look forward to your continued twisty road of logic.

not anymore sweetcheeks.  Now there IS no bias…only big fat lies that you suck up like candy and spew.

At least you agree that Obama Cares.

When he uses them, we will.

At least you agree that Obama Cares.

 Guess we see why dick hurts. He gets none/wants some.

Always a pleasure to hear from the “religious right.”

Fox won the right to lie, what’s to indict?

On other news Christie hasn’t been able to see his johnson without a mirror for the past 20 years.

Too many gay references here DH, you should just come out of the closet my friend, plus your family probably already knows.  It really is okay to be gay, and just think of not having to pick up strangers at the airport and having a normal healthy relationship.

He is in the middle of a deep awakening. 

I don’t get it. I’m not gay. How did Barney Frank get involved. If I were gay, I think I could do a little better than Frank. Thank you very much.

Wow, does that pass as a clever slam in rightwing world?

It’s not the things you say that are off-putting. It’s not even your palpable hatred or bigotry.

It’s that everything you say is so lame, tired and without substance. And yet behave as if you are some sort of rhetorical genius.

Try to say something worth saying. you might like it

i love the liberal spin here.  Mr O had a filibuster Democrats majority for the first year they had congress.  Also if they didn’t play all the games with the senate seat it would have been 2 years.  Also every congress has there RECESS!!!!  If ya dems are whining about the recess then the prez has the ability to call back congress.  Mr Obama for 3 years has been a bystander in chief.  Nothing is ever his fault.

Best. Governor. Ever. 

Maybe my ears deceive me but it sounded like Joe is the one that mentioned the filibuster-proof Senate. 

Tommy. You have to listen to the actual tape, and think critically! Not just post stuff from democrat headquarters! You are just being a propagandist.

Christie and the author are both wrong.  A filibuster requires 41 votes, irregardless of empty seats.  The Republicans lost the ability to get to 41 in January when the new Senate was seated, without Norm Coleman.  Franken’s confirmation was icing on the cake.  The filibuster proof majority lasted from January 2009 – February 2010.

I love the liberal spin too.. the truth for a refreshing change.  But hey, you can always turn on the boob tube and get a refill of your nonsense.

Send Christie a gift certificate to Dominos.  He needs to explode.