Karl Rove will be doing some 'splainin' to his big donors today.
Still waiting on Florida...
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) isn't going away quietly.
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Franklin Graham sees ominous portents in Tuesday's elections results.
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GO, young man West!
Rachel, your comment on the right's "bubble" last night was outstanding! One of the best I've ever heard.
Indeed. Last night, we saw the difference between a journalist with a PhD and a squad of college dropout talking heads.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Every public officeholder swears an oath of office. Ask yourself, 'What's the point of ANY additional pledge?' Follow the money.
Any officeholder who genuinely believes in representative government should have already publicly denounced the Teaparty/Taliban's efforts to disenfranchise Americans.
If you stood in line to vote, write your STATE legislators an invitation to the 21st century. Washington state voters had their ballots weeks before election day.
The Teaparty/Taliban are still afraid of women making decisions. (John 8:3-11)
Trickle down not only doesn't spur economic growth, it stifles it. It’s what led to the American and French revolutions.
"Corporations are people" = "He with the most gold rules"
Very cool concept car. But considering how much larger this thing still is than a bicycle--and how many bicycles the Chinese already have--it still makes a bus seem like a better option. (Not to be a scrooge or anything--but the problem is with *everything* having to have an individualized solution.)
Rachel, your comment last night on the right's "bubble" was outstanding! One of the best I've ever heard.
"Hi, guys- (huff, puff) could you make this quick? I have an appointment for a head-fat injection in about an hour...(huff, puff)..."
"Siddown and shut up, Karl."
So, turdblossom is explaining to Big Money that their donations kept the election results from being worse than they are?
Funny - the GOP didn't accept Obama's explanation that the stimulus kept the recession from being worse than it was.
If they accept turdblossom's explanation, they are either 1) hypocrites, 2) gullible and stupid, or 3) all of the above and more.
I watched o'Reilly for as long as I could stand and Rove was saying that the GOP needs to win over latinos, women and gays.O'Reilly agreed. NO mention of African Americans. They are not having any of that. These bastards are so openly racist they should be taken off the air.
I read a great article in the Atlantic on the GOP was 'shocked' to learn they were loosing! It's because they live in a News-shelter, built and controlled by Fox, that only tells them what it wants them to hear. So, they really BELIEVED Americans didn't like Obama and were going to elect Romney. If the true Conservatives hope to have influence in this country, they need to neutralize the strident Right, and return to moderate Republican core values. Perhaps reading the Constitution.
Dear TRMS powers that be:
I don't know who wrote the opening segment last night, but that person(s) is F-ing brilliant. Please, if the boss is reading this, please make sure that this person or persons receives a raise AND a fake silver flask, AND a coffee mug, AND a t-shirt, all with the company logo. Furthermore, I think you can afford to throw in their birthday off with pay--complete with a surprise balloon bouquet with a card signed by the entire crew.
And if Dr. Maddow, herself, wrote the opening segment, my hat is off to you, my dear. You get my vote for Queen of the World.
Respectfully submitted,
MG
Dr. Maddow herself wrote that particular piece of brilliance.
Dear Ms. McKinney,
Well, tell her to give herself a raise, a fake silver flask, coffee mug and t-shirt with the company logo. And she can take her birthday off with pay, provided you rapscallions send her a balloon bouquet with a card signed by the whole crew.
TRMS = awesome X 10^100000000000000000000000000000000000000
Best regards,
MG
P.S. Do you think Dr. Maddow will be open to me calling her my new BFF? Just checking. Not stalking.
She who proclaims herself as someone who HATES writing. The voice of the book "Drift" is the voice of a writer, not someone who hates writing.
I'm just sayin'. The lady can write.
Along those lines (I too thought the opening segment of the show last night was super smart and awesome in general), I read this this morning and it caught my attention. Could this be evidence of the systemic cloture imploding? The pundits who advocate for the Republican "reality" are beginning to come out and say that has been their goal all along. Case in point:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/the-next-four-years/2012/11/07/d5ee9506-28d9-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_blog.html
There was a good analysis of the above article here:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/07/wapos-jennifer-rubin-admits-she-misled-her-read/191214
I highly doubt Fox News will admit that it was purposely misleading their audience, but they might make an attempt to include reality in their viewpoint, seeing as it completely and epic-ly backfired on them this election cycle. We will see. But I thought the admission that these were things that were wrong the entire time, despite what she had been saying the entire election was important, because it shows that Republicans can admit their issues. We see little rays of sunshine if we look at the big picture.
Note to Florida: Never mind. No one cares.
I can understand wanting a smaller government and protecting our freedom but people that believe the following, I hate Muslims, Hindus, Atheist, Environmentalist, Scientist, Drug users, Gays, Lesbians, Blacks, Mexicans, Woman's Libbers, Working poor..ect.. have a place they call home and it's not the Democratic or Liberal party. Diversity is growing in our nation. To show action that supports this would be wise.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL MORNING!! I WAS QUITE CONCERNED, THAT I WAS NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE THIS YEAR, AND I WAS NOT ABLE TO VOTE IN 2008, THOUGH WHY DID MOST EVERYTHING GO MY WAY?? Too many words were said, too much money was spent, too much conflict in the USA and in the World. Though, much work to still be done! Let's get BACK to work and determine what will be best for ALL of US! Financially, Politically, Environmentally, etc. My faith in the system was restored, when I learned that Bob Dole and GEN Colin Powell had expressed their concerns and disappointment to the GOP, yet they did not heed their words. When, WISE MEN give you their free counsel; it is in YOUR BEST INTEREST, to LISTEN to them, you STUPID FOOLS! DID YOU NOT WANT TO WIN??? Perhaps, some did? :p
YES To prop 37
http://world.banoosh.com/2012/11/07/voters-and-fbi-put-on-alert-massive-deceptions-found-in-the-no-on-37-campaign-all-documented/
And grow wholesome food. with seeds.
Wasn't this debunked? Or is that article offering new updates? (It doesn't look like it is.)
On November 2, before the election:
http://www.fbi.gov/sacramento/press-releases/2012/statement-on-proposition-37
Hilarious that West is talking about voting irregularities. Hey, Allen . . . you may want to talk to your governor about that.
Side note: I had very little trouble voting here in Tallahassee on Tuesday -- none at all compared to those of you in South Florida and Ohio who stood in line for hours. You are the true patriots.
One of the pluses that Rachel left out of her wonderful thing last night was that Michigan voted down Gov. Rick Snyder's ludicrously anticonstitutional "emergency manager" law.
does this mean that those folks get their park back?
I'm seeing all these "comments" on facebook accusing President Obama of just watching our marines die from the situation room when he had time to send enforcement? Since I don't watch Fox News, I hadn't heard this accusation before. Is this something which was addressed on your show and I missed? (Was on vacation during that time). I did gather the "source" seems to be some retired general? It doesn't make sense. If that the case, it would have been a great political moment for him if he could have intervened, aside from truly caring?
http://www.alternet.org/world/no-conspiracy-theory-small-group-companies-have-enormous-power-over-world?page=0%2C9 I would like to share last night's opening segment!!!!! Wicked awesome!!!!
This article is a dot connecting, eye opener, that will take me several times to fully remember it all. It all makes sense now. Un nerving though. Peace.
Wondering why Limbaugh has to degrade women the way he does. Does he have abandonment issues ... was he abused .... laughed at by a prostitute .... still in the closet about his own sexuality ??????? It would be well worth the lawsuit for "any" woman to walk straight up to him and b*tch-slap his fat, racist, chauvinistic head off his shoulders !!
oh gary - his name is 'rush' c'mon now..what does that tell you about his relationship with women?
to the "humpty dumpty brothers" ( read Rush and Rove ) from Hawaii I offer you a heart felt "WOP YO JAW!!!!!!!!" now please get off the air so I don't have to see footage of you two ever again.
Rachel, I think that you are the most charismatic and effective figure in broadcast today. Your coverage of every issue on your show, as well as the debates and election, has been wonderful. Your fellow hosts all have their strong points, but your show and yo stand out. You do what Keith did, but better. I would ask you to run from president, but I enjoy you too much in this environment now.
First, Rachel's analysis of the bubble was awesome! Besides Obama and the down ballot successes, math and science won on Tuesday also! Math and science teachers, climate change reality, woman's reproductive biology!
Second, maybe Bill Clinton could have a talk with Karl Rove as Secretary of 'Splaining Stuff!!!
Even the supreme explainer, former Pres. Clinton, could not get through that stone head!
And that piggie face reminds me of Elmer Fudd.
Here's my Florida joke:
FL SOS employee #1: 2,923,544 ... 2,923,545 ... 2,923,546 ...
Employee #2: How's the count going?
#1: Darn! Now I've lost my place. 1 ... 2 ...
Allen West's tears and rants reinforce his entitled and whack-a-doodle opinions. He invited all of us who do not believe as he believes to leave the country. Perhaps this budding media clown should excuse himself and leave quietly. It would display more class than he has shown since he was elected.
And if Ted Nugent isn't "dead or in jail" yet, he can take him with him. As much as Nugent loves blacks that should be fun.
Ezra Klein confronts the technical aspects of Senate reform. Arguably, those who vote for these rules understand the technical aspects far better than Klein. So what is the point of explaining these details? Because the public needs to be aware? So they can extrapolate the legislative consequences, and then get motivated to fight the real world evils that legislative inaction will enable?
*Ahem* Which universe are we living in?
I think its the one where you have to spell out the evils first, then walk it back upstream. Even conservatives like Bloomberg believe there must be action against climate change. We are stunned by the consequences of Hurricane Sandy. Ok fine. Technically a 5 minute segment probably can't go into the details because you lose the audience but there is a large body of climatologists who will tell you that a high latitude block was the crucial factor causing the normally rare extreme weather events that came together as Hurricane Sandy. These "blocks" normally do not occur this time of year because air moves much faster at the high latitudes but don't now due to the decrease in arctic ice- thereby causing smaller temperature differentials, and the consequent decrease in wind velocities. More dead air. So it goes back to the impact of CO2.
And so we walk this back upstream to what happened in the Senate in July 2010 to the Waxman-Markey Climate bill that would set cap and trade carbon limits. So why did the Senate fail to protect the US from extreme weather like Sandy?
Senate rules stymied passage. (NTTimes story). Big Oil, Coal and the utilities hated this idea and Reid did not have a super-majority to push it through.
So walking this back from a mother mourning her dead children in New Jersey, you get at the science about why this is happening. You walk it back to a policy response and then you walk it to the political machinations about why the policy responsefailed to get expressed in law. You walk the causality right back to an obscure Senate vote in 2008 on rules that don't seem to matter to the real world.
Cut to the mourning mother. Cut to the scenes of destruction in New Jersey. Cut to the 50 billion dollar bill and the graph of the escalating charges for these extreme weather events.
The rules do matter, and it needs to be explained very visceral terms, connecting the dots in a way that people can follow.
Then they need to write their Senators. Not about the XL pipeline or why a Carbon Tax is better than Cap and trade.
They need to write about why they have to restore credibility to the Senate eliminate the fillibuster and associated rules being used to convert the Senate into a dysfunctional body.
I have to agree with Ms. Maddow about Carl Rove. He was a has been 8 years ago, and will be always be a has been, just like slick willie is a has been. Now Ms. Maddow needs to put the pressure on Harry Reid and make him accountable to actually work with the GOP, not just squimish words. If the govt wants to keep spending then the govt needs a way to pay for it and not by printing more dollars.
@JohnMesserly, John you are forgeting about the most polluting vehicle on earth today - the cargo ships which use high sulphur content "bunker fuel oil". Just one voyage of one ship pollutes more than 50,000 cars in a year. Even the europeans have started to crack down and not allow these types of cargo ships in the channel, north sea, baltic sea, etc. Also look back to the Kyoto treaty where it allowed China to build over 1500 coal fired electrical power plants and we all know that China does not have the technology or the will to scrub those plant emissions.
The last 2 minutes of that segment were brilliant. Loved the preamble, but the close really was Rachel at her finest.
Though I have been a loyal listener / viewer since your Air America days, this is my first comment post . . . Your comments on the need for both parties to routinely bring their best ideas / thinking to the table to address the country's problems is so on target . . . and will be so desperately needed in the coming years. In that spirit, consider extending an open invitation to / pursuing senator-elect Jeff Flake of Arizona to be a "regular" on your show. I remember seeing that 60 Minutes piece on him a couple of years ago and being impressed by his seemingly principled stance against earmarks and the thoughtfulness of his stances in general (doesn't mean that I agree with these stances - just that he had put thought behind them). Seemed like a reasonable conservative who would bring his best thinking to the dialogue. Just an idea for your consideration.