More Obama Excuses From Mr Tingles

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Once again, this objective "journalist" blamed others for Obama's economic failure. BTW, he also sneered about people owning - gasp - guns at the same time

Yet we are told there is NO liberal bias in the media



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and this from the Washington Compost's EJ Dionne

Yes, during Obama's first term everything was Bush's fault

During the second term - everything will be the R's fault





The coming battles over budgets, the debt ceiling, a government shutdown and Obamacare are not elements of a large political game. They involve a fundamental showdown over the role of government in stemming rising inequality and making our country a fairer and more decent place.

Anyone who doesn't see this should be forgiven. The stakes in this battle are almost always buried in news accounts about tactics and obscured by an unquenchable desire across the media to provide the latest take on whether President Obama is growing "weak" and has already become the lamest of lame ducks.

Yes, Obama has work to do in quelling doubts about his leadership. But little of what we're hearing offers enlightenment as to why this big argument is happening in the first place, and why it matters.

To begin with, this is not just a fight between Republicans and Democrats. The GOP is clearly divided between those who take governing seriously -- they still believe in government enough to accept responsibility for keeping it open -- and those who see in every issue the "final conflict" that Marxists kept predicting. Stopping Obamacare, in their view, is necessary to prevent the country from reaching the end of the road to serfdom.

Compared with this hellish prospect, who cares about shutdowns?

What's fascinating, and this speaks to the perceived power of the tea party in primaries, is that it's taking only a small minority of House Republicans to push toward Armageddon. The Washington Post's Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane estimated that roughly 40 conservatives revolted against their leadership's efforts to keep the government open past Sept. 30. That's 40 in a 435-member House of Representatives. What's become of us when less than 10 percent of one chamber of Congress can unleash chaos? What does this say about the House Republican leadership gap?

But it's also important to understand why the Republican right is so fixated on killing or delaying Obamacare before it goes into effect. Their central worry is not that it will fail but that it will succeed.

In an interview on Fox News this summer, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a leader of the stop Obamacare forces, gave the game away. After ritualistically declaring that "Obamacare isn't working," he said this: "If we're going to repeal it, we've got to do so now or it will remain with us forever." Why? Because once the administration gets "the [health insurance] exchanges in place ... the subsidies in place," people will get "hooked on Obamacare so that it can never be unwound."

In other words, Obamacare, like Medicare and Social Security, could work well enough and improve the lives of enough people that voters will get "hooked" on it. And for fear of this, the tea party's champions would shut down the government and risk financial calamity over the debt ceiling? Even The Wall Street Journal's reliably anti-Obama editorial page on Tuesday upbraided the "kamikazes" of the right.

There is a thread running through the antics of kamikaze caucus. Almost everything they are doing is designed to keep government from acting against inequality and addressing the stagnation or decline of incomes among both poor and middle-class Americans. Foiling Obamacare, which would relieve economic pressure by getting health insurance to 25 million Americans who wouldn't have it otherwise, is part of this larger story.


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Chris Matthews is a douche bag.Even liberal media knows it.

HuffPo's Mark Leibovich described "
Matthews as annoyingly antiquated, like the ranting uncle at the Thanksgiving table whom the kids have learned to tune out"

and

Here's the daily show's Jon Stewart ripping into him; "I'm not trashing your book-- I'm trashing your philosophy of life."

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-2-2007/chris-matthews

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Chris Matthews is a douche bag.Even liberal media knows it.

HuffPo's Mark Leibovich described "
Matthews as annoyingly antiquated, like the ranting uncle at the Thanksgiving table whom the kids have learned to tune out"

and

Here's the daily show's Jon Stewart ripping into him; "I'm not trashing your book-- I'm trashing your philosophy of life."

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-2-2007/chris-matthews


and yet he is held in high esteem in the liberal media. I see him on other networks, and he has his own weekly show

He is one of main anchors on election night and he claims to be an independent

This is just another example of the liberal media no longer even trying to hide their bias and sheer hate for anyone who does not share their big government agenda