I was actually encouraged by her performance thus far. Low expectations maybe? Maybe she just looked good by comparison to Reid? But I was encouraged. Don’t like to see and hear this. When is somebody going to kneecap Reid for being an incompetent fool?

Shoutout for FDL and Jane’s reporting!

No the GOP is using him to get their talking points across Rahm is a GOP Mole his leaks always promote the GOP/Blue Dog line at the expense of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
How long before Obama is forced to fire him?

Reid is both an incompetent fool and a not so closeted rethug. Of course, we all know this already.

Like I wrote in the post Shuster cites, this is Repug dysfunction of the play the victim while planting information that divides and destroys.

And Jane…

BIG “crack” there with the MSM.

We can be a part of “that” Obama “swoop in!”

So, Jane, has Schuster invited you to be on Countdown tonight? We are so proud of you!

Very courageous, Jane. Keep us posted if Rahm hits back at you for outing him.

Getting rid of Reid should be the first priority. That’s where the majority vote is the slimmest and the weakest. He’s such an idiot. Pelosi isn’t great, but the majority seems to be carrying the day on her watch, so there’s that.

I mean, …… Pelosi gets blamed? Clearly she’s a scapegoat,as you said in the earlier post. Blamed for what? Not getting any R votes? Obama met with these guys. Obama gave them some stuff they wanted. What the heck more could she have done— should she have done — to get a few votes that they didn’t need anyway? The R’s jumped on her days ago. Right from the beginning. Now our side is in on it too. Jeez. The R’s can trash Pelosi w/o any of Rham’s help. He’s an eejit.

Stopping the Dems from getting a Win is key to the GOP’s plan to win back the Presidency they don’t care about the economy heck they want it to go down in flames because it helps them.
All the GOP has to do is nothing and let us take the blame!
Bipartisanship is dead time to play for keeps.

Great MSM hat tip to Jane, wow! kudos.

You know, what does the GOP do besides spin? Do they govern? Do they legislate? Seems to me they just stand around and whine about how mean Pelosi is.

Wow! Go Jane!!
OK, I forgive Schuster for saying that Obama had “apologized to all 5 networks” for the Daschle thing. Maybe I mis-heard him, but what do the networks have to do with anything. Tellingly Village-centric, I thought!
Hope you’re on Countdown soon, Jane! And as good as Schuster is, I miss KO.

FunnyDiva

Thanks Jane

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Just how is Rahm in anyway different from a NeoCon?

it’s been a few years since I suggested trademark registration, so I say it again.

firedoglake (R)

Jane for MSNBC 10 pm slot!

OK I thought this administration wanted to unite everyone. Instead, the GOP continues to dominate the sales message of any vote on any bill. So, why don’t dems use their divide and conquer strategy and ask why in the hell the R congress is saying “no” to their R governors and mayors?

Are we the ones that are supposed to do the whipping here?

Did MSNBC, or any other network, count the days of the presidency when Shrub took office? The count is at bottom left of the vid.

People want Jobs People want the economy to move heck I think that has more approval in the polls than Obama has!
The GOP are winning the PR war by saying that the Stimulus will not create jobs and not help the economy.
Obama needs to fight back NOW!

He’s not turned on by little boys.

definitely.

MSNBC is reporting that Reid believes he has 60 votes. Potential for vote later today.

Rachel followed by Lady Jane? I can hear reichwingnut heads exploding now.

Lightbrain Harry’s lucky to be able to count his fingers and toes.

or DFH™

Why does the GOP get a free pass from the MSM to say their lies without challenge? A real Fair and Balanced media would. A real Fair and Balanced Media would research stories ahead of time and present the opposing view.
A real Fair and Balanced Media would call the GOP out when they lie!

Nice scoop Jane.

This may cause a few ruffled feathers but I am actually glad to see Pelosi get some attention.

It tends to make one watch their P’s and Q’s a little closer.

Ok one difference

ThingsComeUndone
Obama ratcheted up again today
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…../51/693537

Why does the GOP get a free pass from the MSM to say their lies without challenge?

The corporate media is an arm of the GOP. Sorta like the IRA was an arm of Sein Fein.

you are on. a. roll! :]

In the last few days, we’ve seen proposals arise from some in Congress that you may not have read but you’d be very familiar with because you’ve been hearing them for the last 10 years, maybe longer. They’re rooted in the idea that tax cuts alone can solve all our problems; that government doesn’t have a role to play; that half-measures and tinkering are somehow enough; that we can afford to ignore our most fundamental economic challenges — the crushing cost of health care, the inadequate state of so many of our schools, our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

So let me be clear: Those ideas have been tested, and they have failed. They’ve taken us from surpluses to an annual deficit of over a trillion dollars, and they’ve brought our economy to a halt. And that’s precisely what the election we just had was all about. The American people have rendered their judgment. And now is the time to move forward, not back.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…../51/693537

Good start he needs to keep doing this. Next speech he can call the GOP out by name on their lies.
That and start comparing his plan to FDR ask voters to go to Wikipedia and look at what FDR did during the Great Depression so that voters can judge for themselves.
Educate the voters not indoctrinate them with a MSM media campaign that only presents one side and is Never Contradicted!

I’d rather her take heat over stuff she’s actually done or not done, not to save face for Rahm and the Pres. They’re big boys, full of big noise about not pointing fingers and changing “politics as usual”. Well, fix the #$!%$ stim bill, boys, and get out there in the bully-pulpit and take on the talking-points directly.

FunnyD

MSNBC since 04 has been trying to brand itself as the teevee place for politics; it said it would cover (like a wet suit) Obama’s first xxx days (more or less like a sporting season is covered).

Sein Fein was as bad as the GOP?

crap. headline hitting the news:

“Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Has Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer”

I thought it was the other way around. Or was that just American journalists getting stuff wrong?
FunnyDiva

IRA way too complimentary. I prefer the Pravda analogy.

As in the Onion: Stalin Announces Five-Year ‘Everybody Dies’ Plan

sorry links not available anymore!

Anybody else think Rahm said “Oy, now Shuster’s pimping Jane Hamsher”?

I think I would have said this when the bill was first sent to the House. Now let’s see what the Rethugs have to say in response.

Where are the Dem lamebrains congresscritters? Why aren’t they on teebee and the intertoobz selling this bill? Is the bill so bad that they leave Obama to sell it himself?

Funny you say that, sporting event.

This is exactly what is wrong with MSM. These are not games to be won, there are issues to be discussed.
This kind of attitude red team v blue team is incredibly counterproductive. It also trivializes what’s at stake.

sorry to go all church lady on yer ass. It’s directed at KO.

Organizational comparison only. Actions are another matter, highly dependent on one’s position on Northern Ireland. *g*

The GOP and the Blue Dogs I’m sure will attack the MSM for using Blogger stories. But we do cover stuff first before the MSM does they almost can’t cover politics without covering stuff we already have.
And as Newsrooms cut back because of the economy the MSM has to get their news somewhere.
Us for Real News, GOP talking points to please their Corporate Masters and Advertisers a 10/90 split is my guess.

All you need to know:

In the Senate, Reid requires Democrats to have 60 votes to get anything added to the stimulus. This is regardless of whether or not the GOP can de facto get 41 Rethugs to filibuster. Side note: It is EASY to “filibuster” when it is just a “gentleman’s filibuster”. Let’s see the GOP hold down 41 votes in an ACTUAL filibuster. OK, so Dems, a priori, have to produce 60 votes to get anything added/altered in the stimulus but the Rethugs? A simple majority is all it takes to give in to them.

Now there is this: Just the suggestion of a possible hold has placed Obama’s Labor Secretary confirmation hearing on hold or delay. A DEM puts out a hold (during Bush’s reign of terror) and Reid ignores it/doesn’t honor it. A Rethug HINTS at a hold and Reid fellates it.

Those are the only things one needs to know about Reid.

Gotcha

danger, will robinson, danger! (flailing arms).

That and Reed can get the votes he needs from the GOP by threatening to target them next election with everything he has.

Oh God, I hope Obama doesn’t replace the good justice with a rethug. The way things have been going you never know.

Thanks for that link. I like it all, esp. this part.

So let me be clear: Those ideas have been tested, and they have failed. They’ve taken us from surpluses to an annual deficit of over a trillion dollars, and they’ve brought our economy to a halt. And that’s precisely what the election we just had was all about. The American people have rendered their judgment. And now is the time to move forward, not back.

So dems, please lather, rinse, repeat.

I wanna live a life of danger
I wanna be an Airborne Ranger

Was just home for lunch and the local ABC affiliate ran this very silly report about how much a trillion dollars really is (oooooh gosh, a LOT!), and how the stimulus will put us over the edge of the universe. Don’t remember any similar critical questioning of the trillions we’ll spend on Iraq and Afghanistan, the massive corruption, the pallets of cash. Idjits.

In other words:

“Elections have consequences.”

The GOP lost BIG. Now it is time for them to continue to lose BIG on every bill that comes through Congress.

They do not need to be given a seat at any table on forming bills because their answer is known a priori: tax cut, no on any funding for anything related to reproductive health or women’s health, yes on any and all military spending and wars. No on food, water, environment, alternative energy, making the rich pay their fair share, etc.

The Dems should simply go into conference to write bills, lock out the GOP but mollify them by hanging a sign on the room door saying “We know what you want. Here’s the list (include the list above). No to all of them.”

Beg to disagree … we need Jane in JoeScar’s slot. Sunshine and truth !

Marcy in 10 p.m. slot would be another great idea.

I’m looking forward to the House Dems adopting some of the R’s ideas.

Like only moving bills that have the support of the majority of the majority.

I’m sure the Dick Armey supporters would get behind that!

the dick army … ?? that’s our current majoritiy-minority party ..

we put them in office.. big time .. and they’re STILL letting the rephugs drive the bus ..

whay’s it going to take to actually get a progessive agenda moving .. ?? apparently two overwhelming majorities in both houses of gov’t and democratic prez isn’t enough ..

so what IS it going to take ??