Maddow ripped the Gregg pick...and she is right.

[KansasVoter]

What a stupid move.

What in the hell are we thinking?

A guy who we would possibly get to vote with us in the senate and we lose him.

Imagine us telling a GOP president that if they picked a dem for a cabinet seat that they had to promise to replace them with a dem. They would laugh in our face.

We are looking weak!

[ProSense]

1. "A guy who we would possibly get to vote with us in the senate and we lose him." Gregg?

Gregg?

[Occam Bandage]

8. Maddow played Gregg's reversal on the stimulus out of context,

making it seem like he was a reliable vote on economic issues (when in fact he was just an opportunist who said he was in favor of it only once he was given an excuse to skip the vote), and then blasted Obama for taking a Republican "who was going to vote with us" out of the Senate.

Shoddy journalism at its most Hannityesque.

[Larkspur]

2. Obama has become addicted to his bipartisanship ideology

and that is trumping the economic recovery package. When Obama is more concerned about a@@-kissing Republicans than getting the job done, you know he's lost the framing debate.

[4lbs]

6. And you've become addicted to your Obama hatred. When was the last time you had anything positive

to say about President Obama?

[Larkspur]

10. I don't hate Obama. I voted for him.

I don't agree with his bipartisan/post-partisan ideology. It's a mirage and one that undermines his dealings with the Republicans. The Republicans have used his ideology against him in this current political battle and they were winning until Obama came out with FDR-like partisan emotion today. His 2 speeches today were excellent. I want more of that from Obama and a more progressive direction from Obama to his corporatist economic team.

[Every Man A King]

3. Vote with us?

WTF are you talking about?

[calimary]

4. I kinda doubt we could get Gregg to vote with us in the Senate.

He's AWFULLY partisan.

The shrewdness of this choice, I think, comes from extracting him from the Senate, where word is he would have sailed to another easy victory in New Hampshire - for some strange reason they love him there. If he's otherwise tied up in the Commerce Department, then that seat can't be as easily defended for the GOP.

Hey, I don't know why the hell Obama is going to such extremes to be nice to these assholes. If it were me, I'd give them all the consideration they gave us when we were trying to stop them from going to war and all they had for us was the flying finger.

[4lbs]

5. Umm... Gregg is hard right. His replacement in NH is the moderate conservative that will

vote with the Democrats on many issues.

[Occam Bandage]

7. Maddow acted a bit like Sean Hannity in that segment, sadly.

She led with a bunch of leading questions, provided no answers, had on a guest that made unrelated complaints about the subject of the segment (what does his voting record on labor issues have to do with his future position? By saying it you suggest it's relevant, but yet there's no link between labor and commerce whatsoever), and then she made a few sarcastic comments before going to commercial. I was hoping there would be actual discussion over the Gregg pick. Instead, she used a few journalistic tricks designed to give the impression that no discussion is even possible. I often like her show, but I hate when she treats us like idiots.

[Sultana]

9. Obama is weak!

This ain''t change...stop playing nice.

Stupid move by Obama, there is nothing gain from this.

*shakes head because of the stupidity*

[rufus dog]

11. How many times did we hear Rachel was right in the fall

Too many, and she was off base numerous times. So they are going to strip the Census from Gregg's responsibilities, they took a Senator that was strong in his home state and created what basically is an open seat, and Greg is going to be a figure head and an example of bipartisanship. Epic Failure Team Obama. :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Thrill]

12. While I don't agree with the Gregg pick. If we listened to Rachel Maddow

Obama wouldn't be President right now. As she insisted everyday that he wasn't going to win.

[sampsonblk]

13. I agree - (nt)