Rachel Maddow Show: GOP in Exile
From The Rachel Maddow Show April 27, 2009.
MADDOW: As the Republican Party searches for meaning in the political minority, Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire has taken the paranoid hyperbole baton and sprinting with it. Sen. Gregg is all hot that President Obama‘s healthcare reform might be brought up under Senate budget reconciliation rules.
What does that mean? It means that it could pass with a majority vote rather than allowing the Republicans to require a 60-vote supermajority. The man who was almost Obama‘s commerce secretary said about that decision, quote, “I can understand shaking Hugo Chavez‘s hand, but I can‘t understand embracing his politics.”
Of course, Sen. Gregg himself embraced majority rule, the same South American dictatorial politics of constitutionally-approved majority rules back in 2005, when it was President Bush wanting to use those rules to open up the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge for drilling. At that point, he was all for it. You know, Judd Gregg was about half a hair from being Obama‘s commerce secretary. That is the definition of a near-miss.
the mainstream of the Republican party spiral down into hyperbolic wackiness. Perhaps it will save us all in the end and put to rest this peculiar need of the Obama administration's for supposed bipartisanship.
Oh baby!! I love Rachel
me too. think she would go out with me?
If you change your sex. (In all due respect!!)
:)
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Why of course it's not acting like a dictatorial Government when (R)epublicans do it, YES?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Gregg would've been a huge pain in the CIC's butt.
How far it continues to go in the current direction depends upon Obama's willingness to make tough but correct decisions.
So far, he's made easy (and in large part incorrect) decisions.
are you referring to? Please make your self clear.
Looks like Olympia Snowe might be the next to defect.
Aaaaall you need to know about Gregg and any other republican butt-munch.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
..after selling its soul to the Rash Limpball's of the world, the Conservative and the Religious Right, they have nowhere else to go but DOWN, DOWN,
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
They'll be back, and in greater numbers.
Yes, be happy the GOP is crumbling, but don't count them out. We thought they were dead or dying back at the end of the 70s, and look what happened.
Be happy, but be vigilant!
Did someone record this by pointing a camera at the TV in their bathroom? If so, be careful the TV doesn't fall in to the tub. Although if it did, that might improve the sound...
"The Good and Great Must Ever Shun, That Reckless and Abandoned One
Who Stoops to Perpetrate a Pun," Lewis Carroll, 'The Three Voices.'
Good thing he's retiring. What are the odds of NH putting in another Republican to replace him?
Gregg's current outbursts and hypocrisies now make me wonder ever more what the FUCK "thePrez" was thinking when he nominated Gregg in the first place....
Hello? Vetting? Is ANYFUCKINGBODY In Charge over there?
The worst rap against Obama was his 'inexperience,' and this is a case in which that was really evidently a weakness...
So, yeah, very lucky.
In an unnecessary lottery...
I'm so glad that you aren't running again---I've seen enough self centered phony hypocrites like you in our government to last a hundred lifetimes. People like you poison and compromise public service---which is supposedly about other centered service for the good of all. Guess you didn't take the same Poly Sci courses I did, huh? What was your major--Sovietology?
Imagine it Judd--majority rule in America. You know---what the Founding Fathers fought for and hundreds of thousands have laid down their lives for---if that scares you---GET OUT!
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
WHAT the HLL was he thinking when he invited this guy into the cabinet. This guy is truly among the CRAZIES; he just does it more calmly and with better speech.
So far, this GREGG nomination has to be the worst decision Obama has made in the first 100 days; thankfully Gregg did us all a favor and went back to his SICK buddies, all 39 of what's left of the REPUGS in the Senate.
I thought a hit was a near miss...
that's the definition of a near-hit.
...was that Obama was stupid enough to ever consider Gregg in the first place. It made absolutely no sense and was just one more sign that Obama's instincts for choosing appointees is one of his greatest weaknesses.
Wasn't it a few years ago that Republicans were screaming for the "Nuclear Option" to eliminate filibusters because Dems objected to a judicial appointee? Whatever happened to that? How many are still in favor?
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