It's a sad day indeed when the line of the night belongs to Tweety Matthews

[KamaAina]

during a shouting match with Marsha Blackburn (R-Proto-Teabagger), who was braying about how the repukes were going to slash Federal spending, he asked her "What will you cut? Defense spending? Social Security? Medicare? Medicaid?" Blackburn: No, no, no and no.

"Do you realize that leaves about nine percent of the Federal budget?"

There it is. All that stuff about "reining in government" is a charade. Discretionary programs -- everything not mentioned above -- are back on the chopping block. :scared:

[eleny]

1. As soon as they destroy The New Deal they'll go back to "deficits don't matter"

And the sheeple will nod in agreement - even if they're living in cardboard boxes.

[FormerDittoHead]

2. I thought his interview with Michelle Bachman was pretty good too.

Although I forgot the line, but it was something along the lines of her being crazy.

[AngryOldDem]

3. If I remember, he said he thought she was hypnotized. n/t

[Earth Bound Misfit]

6. Here you go...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/msnbc-host-asks-bachmann-hypnotized/

...Bachmann repeated the same talking points when Matthews asked again if she would use subpoena power to investigate fellow legislators.

"Are you hypnotized tonight?" Matthews pressed.

"I think the American people are the ones that finally are speaking tonight," she said as Matthews' co-hosts Keith Olbermann and Eugene Robinson chuckled.

Following the interview, Matthews explained his line of questioning. "The important question is that Michele Bachmann has become a very successful sort of troubadour for the tea party by going around and making these extreme statements. On our program she said she thought her colleagues right across the aisles should be investigated McCarthy-style for anti-American attitudes. That was a strong statement. She either means it or she doesn't. Or she's irresponsible," Matthews said.

"I tried to hold her account to that," he continued. "And she didn't answer the question and she did seem trance-like. Every question I put to her was almost irrelevant to this sort of thing she was talking, moronically looking directly into the camera and repeating over and over again the same words."

"I think you gave her the benefit of the doubt with the word 'hypnotized,'" added Olbermann.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. She looked drunk last night.

Does she have a problem with that?

[SomeGuyInEagan]

4. One of the very first votes needed in the new session will be to raise the Debt Limit.

The Republicans are going to have a hell of a time getting this new group to agree to do that, but it has to be done before anything else can be done.

Boehner's going have have to give some serious committee assignments to these idiots to get them to sign on to voting to raise the debt limit and in doing so, will hurt his power, give the insane some power and create the first political commercials for the 2012 election ("TeaBagger XXX said he'd/she'd cut the spending, but on day one voted to increase the debt ... what a lying sack of shit XXX is.").

With a fractured Republican majority in the house, about all they will accomplish is a whole lot of subpoenas for the White House (except for where Dems join them on votes).

[grasswire]

5. Howard Fineman said that the new Repubs will agree to the debt limit..

...just this one more time because they can blame the need for it on Obama. After that, no more.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

9. But Boehners still needs to give the teenagers the keys to the Cadillac ...

... to get them to vote to raise the debt limit.

Boehner's gonna have serious trouble getting them to do as he wants, even more so if he has to bribe them by giving them key committee assignments on day one.

[Egnever]

7. Interesting

[Gregorian]

8. Absolutely the truth. I was in shock when I heard that. I cheered, even.

It was like someone pointed out the elephant. It isn't sad whomever may have pointed it out. And hopefully it will be pointed out more frequently.

If we think the corporations are bad, the military industrial complex is yet a tier above and beyond their control over what should be OUR democracy.

[HughMoran]

10. K&R for remembering this critical exchange showing how fucking hypocritical Republican ass holes are

R's = full of shit and nothing will change.

We need to remind voters of this every single day.

[PA Democrat]

11. I missed that, but you are right. That was an excellent question,

and one that should be asked repeatedly of every Republican. Simple math proves that they have no plan to reduce the deficit. Introductory-level economics proves they have no plan to create jobs.

A responsible media would point this out repeatedly instead of presenting both sides as equally relevant.