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Joe Scarborough states the obvious after seeing President Obama's high Gallup poll ratings.

John Amato:

I have to agree with Morning Joe on this one. Hey Joe, you don't know what you're talking about when it concerns the American people and President Obama.

February 10, 2009 C-SPAN

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From The Colbert Report:

Nation I know there's a lot of unemployment out there, but there is one vacant job that we desperately need to fill....Word Czar.

....I think the perfect man to be the new Word Czar is GOP Chairman Michael Steele. Listen to how Steele navigates the subtleties of our language as he talks about the stimulus bill...

February 08, 2009 C-SPAN

Mr Ghosh's recent Time Magazine article on the challenges that Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, will have to deal with in the coming months. Mr. Ghosh writes that Holbrooke "will have to deal with ugly reality on the ground" when he arrives in the region on Feb. 9. Mr. Ghosh is the former Time Baghdad Bureau Chief, and is now back in the U.S. covering terrorism and national security.

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February 04, 2009 C-SPAN

A panel of authors who have written books about the American Constitution debated U.S. foreign policy and how the government should interpret the laws regarding war. Among the topics they discussed were the congressional power to declare war in article 1, section 8; the use of force abroad; and the limited use of the declaration in the history of the United States. Following their discussion, they responded to questions and comments from members of the audience. Jeffrey S. Brand moderated the panel.

Gordon Silverstein is the author of Imbalance of Powers: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy, published by Oxford University Press. Peter Irons is the author of War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution; published by Metropolitan Books. John Yoo is the author of The Powers of War and Peace: Foreign Affairs and the Constitution After 9/11, published by University Of Chicago Press.

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February 09, 2009 C-SPAN

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Rachel talks to Barbara Boxer about the stimulus bill and the need to get Republicans on board with their votes. Why any of these Democratic Senators all continue to cave any time the Republicans say they want to filibuster and don't actually make them filibuster and break out the cots and diapers is beyond me and her explanation here didn't cut it for me for the most part.

I can understand on this particular bill and them wanting to get it through quickly why they chose not to do it this time, but if the Democrats don't start showing that their spine has not been completely removed and make the GOP have a real filibuster on issues they really care about, they are hopeless and determined to lose at a game the other party cares more about winning than the future of this country and whether we get out of this economic crisis or not without another depression. Harry Reid has made it a way too regular event to give every time the Repulicans sneeze and threaten to filibuster anything and it needs to stop.

Barbara Boxer in her describing to Rachel how the Senate works just confirms my notions that it's an elite club where all of them think a little too highly of themselves and of each other and not enough of the jobs they were sent there to do and the people they're supposed to represent. I like Barbara Boxer and still do for the most part as far as her policy positions go, but when she went all out for Joe Lieberman when he was running against Ned Lamont she lost every ounce of respect I used to have for her.

I'd just say to Sen. Boxer that if Dick Cheney and the Republicans were willing to blow up the Senate rules for what they wanted passed, the Democrats ought to think about threatening it if the screaming banshees on the other side don't want to calm down a bit. They were ready for it with Cheney as their deciding vote. I say turn around is fair play.

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Rachel Maddow talks to Ben Nelson about the cuts he and his "bipartisan group" made to the stimulus bill and Nelson uses No Child Left Behind and special education mandates not being funded as an excuse to not give additional funds to education as was wanted in the House bill. Rachel calls him out for the compromises he's made making the bill less stimulative but Nelson refuses to acknowledge that during the interview.

As Think Progress has noted, Nelson's compromise means 12 to 15 percent fewer jobs than the House bill.

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Sh*t That Doesn't F#@king Work

Obviously not safe for work but funny as hell.

h/t Andy

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Stephanie Miller came on C-SPAN's Q&A and was asked what the term liberalism means to her.

Lamb: Are you worried about whether or not things are going to get tougher for liberal talk show hosts? And by the way would you rather be called a liberal or a progressive?

Miller: I don't care. I'm not afraid of...

Lamb: What's the difference...

Miller: I'm not afraid of that liberal word.

Lamb: What's the difference between them?

Miller: I don't know. I think, I know. I feel like Republicans succeeded in making liberal a dirty word so everyone went oh, we're progressives but I'm like ahh I'm a liberal. So what? I think I briefly stunned Sean Hannity into submission once when he said "Oh you're a liberal" and I'm like "Yes! And I'm proud of it." And then he was sort of shocked for a minute. He wasn't sure ah, you know if you reclaim like you know the, John F. Kennedy wrote a great thing about what it means to be a liberal and you know, there's a lot of great ideas that came from, not all of them, but a lot of great ideas that came from liberal thought.

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