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Is Chris Matthews trying to save what’s left of his credibility

A comment on Erick Brockaway's RedHot

By: Leopard1996 (Diary)  |  January 23rd, 2010 at 08:28 AM  | 

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I just got done watching the clip on Eric Brockaway’s RedHot where Chris Matthews is interviewing Alan Grayson and is pretty much telling Grayson that he is either living in fantasy land or pandering letfy netroots in stating that they are going to attempt to fight for a health care bill through reconciliation.  I also saw a few days back, I don’t remember exactly when but it did seem that he was taking a more moderate tone since the Scott Brown beatdown in Massachucetts.  Now considering that he was frothing at the mouth douche, since about October 2008.   I wonder what is changing his tone.

Does he possibly see the writing on the wall, that MSNBC is akin to the Titanic, and he is readying his life jacket so that he could possibly get a gig on a station that is not super rabid liberal, (as a personal note if I saw him on Fox news, I would probably cease watching the entire station), and that there is no other outlet that will hire a rabid lib, since Air America went bye bye. 

I know that my next statement is not going to very Christian, but I do wish nothing but utter failure and desolation for this idiot Matthews for the utter damage that he has done, not only to the political discourse in this country, but that he and many others is the symbol of the death what the media should have been doing instead of playing a game of cover-up.

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  • marshmom

    last night (the rerun) and only because my husband accidentally left it there while flipping channels. My husband and I were floored at the way he was behaving. He was actually criticizing the Obama administration for “not listening to the people” and was arguing that Scott Brown’s election WAS a referendum on health care and yes, he was downright arguing with Alan Grayson about the “reconciliation” option and told him he would take a side bet with him that it would NOT pass through reconciliation and then went on to lecture him about the rules of reconciliation. It was like a parallel universe or something.
    I’m not sure what his motivation was last night, but it was a VASTLY different Chris Matthews than I’ve seen in other clips. I don’t believe his ideals have changed, but this was very odd for him.

  • Leopard1996

    I think he see the writing on the wall that him and his ilk are on a long march off of a short cliff.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    He can’t feel the tingle up his leg anymore.

    He got into w/ Howard Dean a couple of nights ago challenging the absurdity of the notion that Massachusettes elected Republican Scott Brown to strike back at the former Republican policies.

    Methinks he’s one of the little boys that looks at The One w/ No Clothes and dares to utter,Ahh, guys, we’re losing. Badly.” I guess will learn each Dem’s capacity for self delusion. It’s not infinite in all of them. Three Kool Aid deaths since November.

  • izoneguy

    Reconciliation Is the Wrong Vehicle for Sweeping Health Care Reform

    http://budget.senate.gov/republican/pressarchive/PressRecon.pdf

    Reconciliation is a Fiscal Policy Tool

    Tool to enhance Congress?s ability to change current law to bring spending and revenues in line with levels assumed in budget resolution.

    Reconciliation instructions are numerical targets and are not program-specific.

    Reconciliation allows Congress as a whole to push committees with jurisdiction over direct spending (and taxes) to legislate changes to programs that would otherwise be on automatic
    pilot to meet the numerical targets included in instructions.

    Reconciliation legislation is considered in the Senate under expedited procedures: debate is limited to 20 hours, non-germane amendments are not in order, a vote is guaranteed and
    requires only a simple majority to pass.

  • Leopard1996

    But to a douchetool like Grayson, and the far left, the rules seem to be what they say they are, despite what is witten into law.

    If a game of football was dictated by the dems, if one team was getting killed, they would change the rules so that for the team that was losing to score a touchdown would be to cross the their own 25 yard line, and they always get the ball on the their own 24 3/4 line.

  • sharonmcp

    He wakes up in the morning, checks out the headlines at Politico to see which party/pol is getting the best coverage and poll stats, then decides his evening tirade.

    He’s an attention hog who will go whichever way the political wind is blowing, always has been, always will be.

  • adamwatkins

    That’s why he is taking Grayson to school. Of course Matthews is going to be preaching gospel truth in contrast to Grayson’s delusional reconciliation fantasies. Matthews is a liberal who says some crazy stuff from time to time, but he believes in the system even when it doesn’t go his way. I would watch him more, but there have been one too many times where he just says something completely off the wall, so I had to stop.

  • izoneguy

    Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi work to save health care reform

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31886.html

    Earlier this week, Pelosi said she did not have the votes to pass the Senate bill through the House unchanged. And Reid, who lost his 60-vote majority on Tuesday, does not have the votes to make wholesale changes to legislation his chamber passed last month.

    So, leaders are considering making limited changes that can be passed using a budget process called reconciliation, which only requires 51 votes in the Senate.

    So, if the Senate really tries to parcel out the healthcare bill using
    reconciliation (if that is even possible) – then the dems have crossed the line and once they lose the 51 vote majority in the Senate what will they do? It may not be until 2014-16 before
    that happens. ObamaCare will never be implemented.
    The dems may be able to rip-off billions in tax dollars to pay
    for ObamaCare but it will never see the light of day.