ooooh, tele fucking genic!

Much more impressive than Intern Kenneth speaking from the Tara staircase, though.

He sounds very vanilla.

One thing you can say for Bobby Jindal, he makes other people look good.

Yeah, it was curtains for Bobby.

This guy is a douche bag.

has this joker commandeered a room belonging to VA’s legislature?

And where did he get his audience?

McDonnell for President of the Republic of Gilead.

Oh, I think common-sense might be this speech’s drinking cue.

Lady Moose must be really pissed to hear her tagline picked up on both sides.

(everyone giggled when he said Twitter)

How in the hell did he get elected?

Fuck the EPA!

Eli, tch tch, you forgot that unemployment is also caused by godless atheists and gay marriage.

Also. A public option proposal for healthcare.

Didn’t he say he had to hurry because he has 18-year-old twin boys waiting for him? They charge by the hour, you know.

Trick of the height-challenged politician: use a tiny podium.

I miss Bobby Jindal. Instead, they place a black woman and an Asian man in the backdrop.

Those applause bursts are suspiciously crisp. I smell the work of an audio sweetener.

hee hee

what’s he bitching about? Didn’t he get the memo that Obama’s right on board with off-shore drilling, nuclear, and “clean” coal?

Both sides seem to be wearing the same uniform tonight.

I bet Jane’s ‘friend’ Barbara Comstock is there tonight. Look for a lady with some seriously bad root touchup.

His daughters fight wars.

Not like those slacker Obama girls!

His daughter was an army platoon leader in Iraq! It’s almost like he was there.

Scott Brown! Who knew a month ago HE would be the drinking game cue?

Good call.

OK, is this guy actually an animatronic bot? With the Creepy 3000 upgrade.

ha!

Instead, they place a black woman and an Asian man in the backdrop.

In Virginia? Do ya suppose that they answered an ad or something?

If Romney or T-Paw stumbles, he could be the 2012 nominee.

Check the rest of the audience; those behind him are the only ones like themselves in the room.

For those of you not on Twitter, the twitterverse is exploding over Chris Matthews saying that “we forgot he was black” about Obama tonight. This could be a tough one for him to survive. That will make me sad. Not.

He really has a very stilted delivery.

There is no such thing as equality of opportunity, particularly when many lack the requisite modal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (health care, education, healthy food, clothing, shelter, job with a remunerative wage). Whenever a person lauds the concept of “equality of opportunity” I know he/she is a shallow jack****.

Mod note: **** edited and released by mod.

OK….

You have GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!

This is “The Muppets do a Free, Limited Seating Teach Me To Trade Free Seminar at The Orleans Ballroom.”

ROTFL!

Then he’d lose. What a canned piece of crap speech.

Pretty conspicuous staging but I think he got away with it… not.

“Thank you for your ongoing compassion” was about the creepiest line delivery I have ever heard.

“Some people say” America’s best days are over.

“Liberty AND property are always respected…”??

Ahh, the Old Dominion.

Wow, he said that?

This speech has so far consisted almost entirely of generic codewords. Go figure.

“We are blessed with vast natural resources here in America and we must use them all.”

…just about sums this chump up right there.

By all rights this should be the long-overdue end of Tweety-on-the-TV.

But the Village Abides, so…

Matthews gets away with unbelievable comments. I don’t get it.

Poor Tweety, leg-shivers got the best of him…

What a… piece of crap speech.

guess that makes two for this evening, huh?

Yeah, he’ll apologize, Obama will say the matter has been put to rest, smooch smooch fluff fluff.

Matthews is only coherent about 30% of the time. This is his secret bobblehead superpower.

You guys know this fellow wwent to Liberty University, Pat Robertson’s joint, right?

Robertson was an honored guest at McDonnell’s inauguration last week.

At least this one was shorter, won’t require as many flushes.

Yep. Search “Chris Matthews” on twitter and see the rage.

I actually think Obama did a pretty good job.

Edit…except the spending freeze.

HI. LARRY. US>

Funny how quickly a minor mask-slip by a TV bobblehead can eclipse a nothingburger chum speech by a waxwork.

Oy vey!

At least the DK trolls will be kept occupied at the MSNBC site for awhile.

Bob McDonnell has a promising future as a Carlton Sheets infomercial pitchman.

Kyl whining on NPR….mostly about health care and Obama blaming the Repubs……

Why does this Administration put David Axelrod on television?

CSPAN staff, with their bland, seemingly naive delivery are nevertheless far superior to the cable cabal.
On the other hand I’m SO glad to hear what Pat Buchanan and Pres. McCain have to say.

Good hair?

Would you rather have him talking to Obama?

(Well, okay, considering the alternative…)

Isn’t that now a litmus test for Republicans?

It was a prearranged tie.

heh – I’ve got a great word for Kyl – but I’ll defer, given your Rev-ness. *g*

Yeah, an education would only be a distraction.

Yeah, he did on MSNBC.

Well, they could go to Liberty U… Or be home schooled, I guess…

You mean a clip-on?

I didn’t feel Obama outlined a coherent course of action of any kind re: jobs. I think we are on our own, folks. There will be no help on the way.

I tell you, the deeply sociopathic “socialized medicine” and “welfare queen” memes are Ronnie Raygun’s TRUE legacy. They will be with us for at least two more generations.

Yeah, Teddy. Who knew that Liberty U offered a world-class education?

Good job of holding your tongue!

You mean a clip-on?

Hey – leave Eric Cantor alone!

Which waxwork are you talking about? Obama or McDonnell?

I think Obama wanted to try and recapture a sense of his “genuineness” and the enthusiam of his campaign in tonights SOTU but I think it fell flat. He’s lost trust of far too many people. I think he’s in trouble as we all are.

You get a bowl of soup with that tie, looks good on him, though.

What’s the difference?

Yeah, Teddy. Who knew that Liberty U offered a world-class education?

Bizarro-world-class, that is.

Bob McDonnell: He wants to share his Secret “E-Z Path to Internet Riches” with everyone.

(Paid Programming)

Those memes may be around but not the U.S..

Thanks…I’ll try to guess..

Actually, it was a decent speech. The polling reflects he made progress.

Now that makes sense.

Obama’s speech wasn’t directed at me — I wanted a whole lot more. But Mrs. BC thought he knocked it out of the park, so maybe it will play in Peoria.

Clip-ons were the rage at Liberty U., with the rushing between bible studies classes and all.

Did he really make progress or just by some more time? And what is the metric for “progress?”

…I’ll try to guess.

ahh, it’s penance for you then….

He did a decent job of calling out the Rethugs in the Senate. I hope that in private he’s telling Reid and Co to grow a pair of balls/ovaries as appropriate and do something.

Oooh you dirty dog ;-) McDonnell-bot 3000 had the chumline there.

Wrong. We have been in trouble, and are just starting to realize how bad it is.

If I’d had to wear a tie to class, I think I’d've dropped out.

Ha! That’s actually pretty funny, I missed it, lol!

Just wanted some clarification, Marc.

As I said above, Obama’s speech wasn’t nearly bloody enough for me.

And speaking of ties, did Nancy and Joe call to get that color-coordination thing going?

He made progress and he bought time.

Progress is keepimg a working majority behind his left center policies.

I don’t know who was worse tonight, Tweety or the Gov. of VA. O was a distant third.

Oh, McDonnell was the worst. By a long shot, if only because Tweety was limited to MSNBC.

Hardly left of center. Obama is governing right of Dwight Eisenhower.

Caddyshack, the Odyssey of our times.

You wouldn’t have made the cut at Liberty U anyway, so don’t sweat it.

Reid’s leadership experience of leading the senate minority for the past three years will prove invaluable next January, unless he himself gets Daschle’d in November.

I have to admit I didn’t watch much of McDonnell.
Ok, I left the room as he was making that dumb joke about his kids.

Boner was the worst. TPM will have a photo gallery soon.

One can hope if it’s not too audacious.

Are we talking hair attitude here?

I think he closed strong and there are some good soundbites but I don’t think it was even close to what he’s capable of. And the humor was inappropriate. This is a pissed-off nation, jokes not appreciated.

Yeah, I think I’ve vented out enough on the SOTU in the other thread :-/

The sick thing is that Obama could very easily be a massively productive and popular Leader, if only he’d jump in the Progressive Pool.

Oh, I think I could keep up with Liberty’s best. The question is would I have wanted to keep up with them. My impression is that the place is not one that values individuals who think critically.

or simply use his common sense.

The “humor” did seem off but then they say laughter is the best medicine.

Ask someone from south of the Mason-Dixon Line about that?

The peoples of Virginia actually elected this no-op?? Hummm… what an empty suit.

I hope she’s right; I heard some commenter talking about its long laundry list that is instantly forgotten….Maybe the issues, like banks and deficits, have gotten so cerebral that there really is no passion. There was not a word about civil rights, except DADT, a passing immigration note with no moral imperative. I guess he is afraid to go there; even the financial stuff should be a call to conscience and fair play and transparency that has been lost.

Think the Borg Collective.

Gregg @Thers: Those seem to be the only two “sprinkles” in the whole five gallon carton.

Back in the day, we used to say “a fly in a pot of buttermilk.”

Sorry so late, I was alone with all those. Drill, baby, drill. Also.

Obama isn’t, never was and never will be a progressive. He shares some progressive goals, but he isn’t a progressive. His primary value is reconciliation, and this isn’t the time or place for that horse dung.

Many would be intellectually challenged just answering the question of how old planet Earth is.

Must make papers easy to grade. Maybe I should look for a faculty gig there…

Well, if it were budget reconciliation, that might not be so bad…

Touche.

Some people make history and others let it pass them by.

Sooory guys … played huffpoststt drinkign ghame. Then read t;his post. Peed my pants. have to go to bed now. gooodnight .

The problem is, a lot wouldn’t let themselves be challenged.

I was discussing juvenile behavior. Boner was the worst.

I wish that wasn’t true. But if wishes were horses we’d all be riding.

Whaddaya think EDP. Could we get gigs at Liberty U, maybe as visitings?

I don’t think I could make it through the interview without giggling.

Indeed. But that sort of water-conversion would be a change I could believe in.

Gotta run. Night all!

Aloha Ya’ll from the Mtn. top…! ;-)

You would both lose your minds pronto.

Beautiful Snark people.
SNL should fire everyone they have and comb these threads for replacements.

Joe Lie looks exactly like the grinch who stole xmas. Was that mentioned?

I suspect that prefrontal lobotomy is probably in the faculty conduct guidelines.

I loved his tactic of enumerating the things that have gone wrong and then offering a platitude as a solution. ie. listing all the things that went wrong with healthcare and then saying ” I won’t walk away from the American people.”

What? How does that help solve the problem? What does that even mean? I think some of us would appreciate it if you would walk away. You don’t seem to be helping whenever you get involved.

Hallooo!

You guys are funny *G*

Lieberman IS the Grinch. His heart later shrank five sizes and imploded to become a black hole.

As long as they didn’t ask me about evilution [sic] I think I’d be okay.

If they didn’t ask me if I was going to use Matthew as a statistics text… if they didn’t ask me if the Bible is the inerrant, divinely dictated word of doG.

woof
woof
grrrrrrr

GOP == Wunderbar!

That’s because they are all zombies. Prefrontal lobotomys are required because a supply of brains are in their contracts.

ooohhhh but the Nice Polite Republicans told me today that Moses could twitter in todays media.

No, the problem is precisely that he didn’t get involved. He told Congress, “I want a health-care program. Go do it.” He didn’t really lay down any parameters for the bill until far too late in process, and when he finally did get involved it was only weakly.

I know what he’s trying to do: he’s trying to get Congress to take its Constitutional duties seriously. But they’ve spent 8 years saying, “Yassa, massas Cheney an’ Bush,” and they have forgotten how to make the sausage machine work.

In fairness, it dates back way beyond that, perhaps to Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Congress has steadily ceded power to the Executive. Watergate led to a temporary halt, but it was only temporary.

What’s that Lassie?

Timmy’s in the well?

/me channels “What does that even mean?”

How can you say he is trying to get congress to take their constitutional duties seriously when he has proposed holding at least 50 people without charging them or giving them their habeas corpus rights to a speedy and fair trial? This guy is a constitutional lawyer. He knows better.

But I agree that he didn’t get involved. I think that was a huge mistake and I wonder if that was intentional. He seems more interested in keeping the Democrats in power than in doing what is necessary for the people of this country.

lets not forget that that 41 (*cough cough* lawmakers) is the law now.

meh, he looks like a pussy on the calendar of presidents.

Actually, holding people without habeas corpus rights isn’t Congress’s problem. That’s the Judiciary’s problem.

That’s OUR problem.

Yay for Congress’s choices in the Judiciary. :/

It was so fitting to see Lieberman sitting next to Ben Nelson. Two, that surely deserve one another.

Another massive failure in our system of government.

I liked when He said the Republicans had the answer to healthcare.

The bastards have been fighting it for over sixty years, and now people are to believe they actually want to do something about it.

I can’t believe there are still people who think they have the right ideas.

I immediately cracked up when I saw his backdrop. I knew the GOP was very sensitive about this issue, esp. after Jindal’s disaster last time. But it was better than even I expected. All the proper minorities in back of him! A black! An Asian! A woman! And then when the camera panned out, he was in some sort of political area — the local Senate?

So the GOP tried to improve on last year’s debacle — and it not only got worse — it was even funnier than Jindal.

Thanks, GOP! I needed that laugh!