Rachel Re: Get out of the way

[travelingtypist]

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This goes with the thread on the greatest page about Rachel's rant, i.e.,
Special Comment.

Kewl.

[proud patriot]

1. Woo Hoo .. That Totally Rocked

:headbang: Rachel kicks ass and I love her ! :woohoo:

[margotb822]

2. Tell it!!

We all need to know this and get it out there!

[rusty quoin]

3. K&R. The Republicans are telling us to slow down,

while Paul Krugman is telling us that deflation is self feeding. I will believe Krugman.

He was on Morning Joe earlier:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=268971&mesg_id=268971

[The Wielding Truth]

31. Remember Republicans don't want a government. So anything

that strengthens our democracy, they will trample.

[toadzilla]

4. move bitch get out the way

[ihavenobias]

5. K & R. Best Maddow Segment I've Ever Seen.

Granted, I'd prefer she say B.S. (the abbreviation, I know she can't say "bullshit") rather than "bull puckey", but that's a minor criticism. :)

She was brilliant. And HOPEFULLY she wakes up some of the Dems that insist on pretending that everything has been handled perfectly with the stimulus plan and that bipartisanship in this current climate is needed, etc.

[Moosepoop]

23. Agreed....

on preferring that she call B.S. just that, rather than "bull puckey" -- but it did serve as a nice set-up for when she observed that with the bill now being comprised of 42% tax cuts in order to appease the Repubs, the country has already been "42% pucked." ;) I loved that!

[PM Martin]

6. I saw the infamous "Senator Pampers" and "Vietcong John" there.

I am pleasantly suprised that the US media has someone who openly liberal with their own tv show.

[oxymoron]

7. K&R This needs to go viral now. Make sure you rate it up at youtube. nt

[fortyfeetunder]

8. Rachel KISS'd this one, with facts and data

Which is the most stimulative way....

K & R

:kick:

[bjobotts]

9. Excellent...the best I've heard in describing the situation. Why is MSM not saying what bull the re

republicans are spouting. Rachel just blew 'em all away with the truth...something MTP and other shows have forgotten how to say.

[bjobotts]

10. The only thing holding the country up is a minority of ignorant Senators

[bjobotts]

11. Time to change the senate rules.Kevin Drum listed a senate rule how to do it...

"...I'm a little fuzzy on my Senate procedures, but Kevin Drum noted the other day that if Senate Republicans balk at a rescue plan and filibuster the proposal, "the Democratic leadership would just turn around and consider the bill under budget reconciliation rules, which require only a majority vote to pass. Sure, they've already said they'd prefer not to do that, but if they have to they will. And since the bill is all about short-term spending, it would obviously qualify under reconciliation rules."

Does anyone know if that's the case? And if so, doesn't that mean the Democratic leadership can just stop trying to make more cuts to a bill that probably isn't big enough anyway?..."

Got this today from Steve Benen's site at the Washington Monthly. Does any one know if this can be done...if so let us and the senate and the press KNOW...PLEASE.

[bjobotts]

12. btw...I have a dream desire. Just once I want to SLAP Lindsay Graham's face.

Everytime he speaks his mouth and his ass give the same information. Always wrong and always bitching with that authoritarian attitude. The whole party acts like they stopped listening to the American public and still insist on doing the same things that brought us this disaster and why we voted them out.

McCain never knew what he was talking about on the economy...ever...but is every lobbyist's pet senator on a leash and so goes out and tries to undermine the democrats economic plan...except he still doesn't know what he's talking about...it's downright embarrassing..."Give ME more money with tax cuts, seven houses isn't enough...oh yeah ...and country first and all that...and if you don't do what I say then you're not bipartisan"....what a fucking idiot.

[bjobotts]

13. Does Thom Hartman know if Kevin Drum is right...surely he would know ...

"...I'm a little fuzzy on my Senate procedures, but Kevin Drum noted the other day that if Senate Republicans balk at a rescue plan and filibuster the proposal, "the Democratic leadership would just turn around and consider the bill under budget reconciliation rules, which require only a majority vote to pass. Sure, they've already said they'd prefer not to do that, but if they have to they will. And since the bill is all about short-term spending, it would obviously qualify under reconciliation rules."

Does anyone know if that's the case? And if so, doesn't that mean the Democratic leadership can just stop trying to make more cuts to a bill that probably isn't big enough anyway?..."

Well Thom???

[Beartracks]

32. Because they're trying too hard to be "fair & balanced"

It's that all-American idea that every issue has two sides. No more, no less: just two.

Thus, Democrat arguments need to be "balanced" with Republican opinions.
Liberal policies need to be "balanced" with conservative spin.
And correct ideas need to be "balanced" with wrong ones.

[Titonwan]

35. LIberal my eye.

How about balanced between mealy mush mouthed centrist's and conservative ones. There is no Liberal to it.

[JDPriestly]

14. Wow! That was great! Thank you Rachel Maddow.

[americanmutt]

15. our man should speak to them...

I don't know that it would do any good, but i think that Obama should go before the senate and call bullshit,(not bullpucky) and have the failed nmbers to show it!!
I would trust him a debate with any of those dumbfucks...

[Seldona]

16. Brilliant!

Get out of the way. I love it!

[Larkspur]

17. This was Rachel's best segment to date

This segment should be seen by all Democratic senators.

[Randypiper]

18. Oh this line is so right after the last eight years ...

"It's time to take the radical step of privileging correct information over incorrect information"

[Lorien]

19. K & R

We need to write to our local papers to call out these obstructionist anti-American bullshitters. THIS unemployed American HAS NO USE FOR TAX CUTS, and neither do millions of others who are struggling. WE NEED JOBS!

[Number23]

20. I hate her editorializing. But her data is irrefutable and most welcome

Happy to rec

Thanks for posting

[Captain Hilts]

37. Folks love Olbermann's editorializing. nt

[Number23]

39. And? I'm no fan of Olbermann's editorializing either.

[Kaleko]

21. Love it.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

22. David Vitter - GOP - Louisiana

Wow - David Vitter my beloved senator :puke:

Actually said "laundry list" - does this include diapers??

[Suji to Seoul]

25. And hookers. . .don't forget his hookers.

[earcandle]

24. Yeah, Rachel! Now thats what I am talking about, a real critical investigative PROGRESSIVE voice.

And I thank MSNBC for allowing it.

I hope they find a way to put 1 trillion into the economy and
use federal nationals banks to serve our debts, our payroll,
our social security and our savings, if we ever get to save
again.  

I am so pissed at the rude way these banks are handling debt
gone wrong (doubling interest rates has to be criminal) that I
just don't want to pay them anymore.  And I have paid on time,
and in full for over twenty years to these greedy bastards,
propped up by our Congress.  Let them die.  They are
dinosaurs, let them die.   It would take five minutes for the
government to set up 50 banks in every state, or take over the
failing banks and nationalize them, and put us to work
managing the federal money.  And then small businesses could
step right up, get their funds and start getting peeps back to
work.  

Please, oh, please oh please, Obama and Democrats across this
nation.  This is crucial.  The repugs are still wet dreaming
about their prisons for profits, and their starvations, and
their stress trigger to downsize our population in the ugliest
ways.  We got to override those fuckers.  NOW! 

[truedelphi]

36. You say:

"It would take five minutes for the government to set up 50 banks in every state, or take over
the failing banks and nationalize them, and put us to work managing the federal money. And then small businesses could step right up, get their funds and start getting peeps back
to work."


The whole protocol that you are mentioning was already used once back in the 1980's when the S & L debacle occurred. It worked a bit different: governors appointed commissions to choose community banks in each area of the state. And those community banks were then offered the chance to have the state charter apply. The Feds gave the states the monies, the state gave these regional state chartered banks the dough, the dough was dispensed (nor hoarded like the large banks are doing with the bailout funds right now) and the economy went back to normal.

Issa, who with Kucinich has given Kashkari and Paulson hell, has suggested this be re-implemented and right away. I don't like Issa on social issues, but in terms of the economy he is spot on.

[Quixote1818]

26. Here is the direct link to the data she mentions

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/02/06/how-bad-is-it/

[knixphan]

27. BEST. SEGMENT. EVER.

[Beartracks]

33. K&R n/t

[jeff30997]

28. K&R.

Great comments from a great person!

And yes the Repigs are full of bull puckey. :)

[WyoHiker]

29. I'm shipping it off to my Senators (for all the good it'll do)

[benld74]

30. BULLPUCKEY INDEED!!!!

SLOW down my ass! You couldn't give away our money fast enough to the wall street gurus! NTHING for the comon folk then. AND guess what NOW you want to slow down and get it right?! RIGHT! And a bear dont shit in the woods, the pope aint catholic, and my check is in the mail. You no good dirty, self posturing, do nothings, knuckle dragging, lemming ass sniffing, SOBS!

[AlbertCat]

34. Hell yeah...slow down!

Like we did for the Patriot Act the War Powers Resolution.

[DrZeeLit]

38. I just watched the whole thing on iTunes podcast (free! the whole show!)... WOWOWOWOW!

I love Rachel!

We should all write our Senators and Congresspersons.... and say... BULLSHIT!

(Remember that World War II story of the guy who said, "Nuts!" to the Germans? I think one word answers in these situations are great!)

Soooo.... BULLSHIT!
And then... t-shirts, banners, and a big ol' March on DC... the BULLSHIT MARCH...

Because

Somebody Has To Do It!

[mt13]

40. get out of the way!

economics 101: you gotta spend money to make money.
:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[edc]

41. Democracy?

:wtf: When the Republicans had much smaller majorities in congress than the Democrats now possess, they just whistled and the Democrats came running to kiss their asses. Now that the Democrats have the White House and the largest congressional majorities in a generation, they remain exactly the same tail wagging ass kissers. On their first major piece of legislation they permit Blue Dogs to steal their majority by crossing over to Confederate Republicans who blackmail them with threats of filibusters unless billions more in tax dollars are diverted into the coffers of great wealth. They have already conceded control of Congress to this alliance of reactionary conservatives. It's heartbreaking.

[BlooInBloo]

42. Barack "That's The Point!" Obama - LOVE IT!!!

[knixphan]

43. yes - perfect line.