Chris Matthews Asks McCain Proxy How They Can Run Away From GOP Policies That Caused The Economic Meltdown
By Nicole Belle Monday Sep 15, 2008 11:00am 
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Let's give Chris Matthews credit for this one...he is absolutely gobsmacked that the McCain campaign can try to posture themselves as being for change and reform when it is the Republican policies that have put us in such a tremulous position economically. McCain Sr. Policy Advisor Nancy Pfotenhauer (herself a HUGE proponent of these failed policies and a lobbyist--along with her husband--to push these corporate first, country last policies) tries to put her best face on it, predictably claiming it is Democrats AND Republicans, but Matthews isn't having it.
MATTHEWS: But I don't understand...John McCain is the nominee of the Republican Party.
PFOTENHAUER: Yes.
MATTHEWS: He's going to stand in that debate next Friday night on the 26th, because he is the nominee of the Republican Party. That's why he has a 50/50 chance of winning this election. Because he is the nominee of the Republican Party and the other guy is the nominee-Barack Obama-of the Democratic Party. How can you run away from the party whose platform you're running on? I don't understand how you can deny that you're the in party, you're the incumbent party.
Well, exactly. This is the meme with which the Democratic Party ought to hit back hard. The Republican Party has had the better part of the last 30 years being in charge of Legislative or Executive branches, often both. THEY DO NOT GOVERN WELL. The country is much poorer for Republican policies. Why in the hell would we give another Republican a shot?
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Cindy McCain and Nancy Pfotenhauer both dress like Science Fiction villains. What is up with the strange collars they sport?
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
BT @ 1:
They ARE Science Fiction villains. Easy, that one!
Republican gals sure looooove that Imperial look.
Nice WARdrobes.
As dumb as the average American is, I am really beginning to think that a large portion of the public DO NOT KNOW to which political party Bush and Cheney belong.
I wonder if there are recent polls?
Whataya mean how can they deny their record of the past eight years? Simple, the Neocon Republicans decided a long time ago that if Richard Nixon had just said, Fuck You! to his own party people along with everybody else, the history of the last third of the 20th Century would be entirely different. So today they follow the philosophy of 'never admit nothin'...deny...deny...deny...blame Democrats...blame Democrats...blame Democrats.'
The problem is that Jethro in Alabama and Billy Bob in Tenn. dont give a crapola what the economy does to them or their families. They WILL NOT vote for a black man- period! Until the MSM confronts this national disgrace, we will never be able to move on and have honest elections. Although the nation has more Democrats and Independents by a longshot, many chose to vote fear and stupidity, just take a look at 2000 and 2004. We knew that Bush was a jackass and would cause great damage, but Jethro in the south and Billy Bob in the mid-west driving a beat-up pickup truck didn't care. Just whip out a flag and scream Country first and these morons will vote against their interests. Many have lost their jobs and have no healthcare under Bush, McCain and his idiot sidekick Palin have NO answers, yet they say only McCain, who knows nothing about Economic policy, can help the country get out of this mess?
Are we living in the Twilight Zone?
OMG I just heard on the radio that McCain is calling for a study of the economy to find out what went wrong??!!! Try looking in the mirror you ASS-HAT! You and your fellow Fascists have been destroying the middle class sense Ronnie Raygun claimed that Government was the problem and if you give the rich more money it will trickle down to the great unwashed. You and your heroes have been out to drown the government and by extension the United States in a bathtub and you ask "what happened"??
Since they can't run an effective campaign against Obama, they have run a campaign against themselves.
BT @ 1:
Needed to prop up the empty heads.
Yes, I completely agree. We need to push this hard and make it stick. I saw a short video, I believe it was at Brave New Films, that had Bush saying something and then it cut to McCain saying the exact same thing. It was a very powerful add and the Obama campaign should run it.
I'm also wondering if the if we shouldn't check the voter cards of some of the advisers of the Obama campaign, you know the ones that keep telling him to compliment McCain and talk about what a good guy he is. I'm glad that Obama has started to get a little tougher though.
Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 3:
Also...it's to cover up the borg implants. Duh!
"Cindy McCain and Nancy Pfotenhauer both dress like Science Fiction villains. What is up with the strange collars they sport?"
They're in the wealthy elite. They live in bubbles where no one will EVER tell them to their face that they look ridiculous.
BT @ 1:
It's the new Diane Keaton line. Check it out at Saks.
BT @ 1:
Did you happen to see Nancy's collar today? She was sporting some black leather thing. I think she works part-time as a dominatrix.
I saw that full interview yesterday and for once I was cheering for Matthews. He actually flustered that stone cold smiling bitch, yes I said bitch. For weeks now I have watched this smug woman on interviews and I have wanted to shout JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION which she never does. She couldn't smile away the lies she was spewing and it was obvious that Matthews was going for the throat with his questions.
Why is it that almost all the Con women look like present or former high-priced hookers?
Abbybwood @ 14:
I hear it comes with gloves (cover up the age spots, ya know).
Freddy Knuckles @ 17:
Well..they are in essence, whoring themselves out.
And McCain might win after all, if the past voting record of the country is any indication. We are afflicted with a lot of truly stupid people in this country- the trouble is, our stupid people like to deify other stupid people politically.
Palin supports $600 million 'other' bridge
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin may eventually have said "no thanks" to a federally funded Bridge to Nowhere.
But a bridge to her hometown of Wasilla, that's a different story.
A $600 million bridge and highway project to link Alaska's largest city to Palin's town of 7,000 residents is moving full speed ahead, despite concerns the bridge could worsen some commuting and threaten a population of beluga whales.
More.....
btw, according to polls, Nader is taking votes away from McCain.
Just saying, C&L might want to rethink its attitude against Nader and his supporters.
Oh THAT'S brilliant... They sent a skinny blonde airhead chica with big lips (and I'm sure she has the prerequisite pouty pout to go with it).. to posture and spit out the talky talk talk points for Matthews to galk at.... That ought to be persuasive... Especially since she's a lobbyist and totally coopted on the subject. They've NEVER done that one before.....huh yuk yuk....... P.S. not convinced Chrisy has suddenly become a populist man of the people just because.... It might be nice to think he's reaquainting himself with honest jounrnalism, but I ain't convinced yet...................JD
She says "name me one economist who thinks it's a good idea to raise taxes in an economic downturn." Um...didn't Greenspan say just a couple days ago that McCain's across-the-board tax cuts were unsustainable? And didn't McCain's own economic advisor say the same thing? Incidentally, what economist thinks that tax cuts for the rich combined with increased spending in a time of war and ballooning national debt is a good idea?
How can they defend it? Simple. Just keep their candidates in an Al Gore LOCK BOX so the reporters can't ask them about it.
Did you see that Palin even had to postpone her interview with Sean "Myna bird" Hannity? I guess it's going to take her another week to memorize her talking points. Fair enough, but you know the Republicans are in real trouble when they're afraid to be interviewed by their own sock puppets.
McHypocrite is speaking right now about the economic meltdown. Here is a link to an article that illustrates just how hypocritical this is. Photenhauer's long goose neck is not the issue here folks.
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2767
It is very simple. 2 reasons. 1The Big lie-which is repeated over and over dispite being disproved. This is all for the "low info voter" the "SHEEPLE". 2-the Authoritarians, esp. the Authoritarian Follower who will blindly follow anything that their selected Authoritarian Leader or Leader/Follower says. For a complete description and access to all the studies-some of them multigenerational-done since the end of WWII. PLEASE!! GOOGLE AUTHORITARIANISM OR AUTHORITARIAN. It will help you understand the real threat to the American Republic as it currently stands.
Cindy and Nancy wear those high collar thingees to hide turkey necks. It a common ruse of older ladies.
celdem @ 25:
Obama is speaking right now about the same thing. Everything he says is bang on the money, and yet it's about as exciting as watching paint dry. Will somebody PLEASE stop force feeding this guy Valium! ENOUGH!
This woman appears to be a bloodsucking tick on the body politic......very disturbing person. Wall Street values all the way...............screw 'em all..........I deserve diamond buttons on my coat.
McCain is on automatic pilot........so who's really running the show? Prop him up, pull the strings, and fight to the death to CONTINUE ROBBING THIS COUNTRY BLIND.
This is obvious to even a simpleton.........Republicons are toast this November.
Not once does she say what McCain will do to reform or change the Bush policies that got us here. I pity these Neocon women who shill for the old men who can't govern.
They look like fools--smiling, lying fools.
Ask her if McCain agrees with his economic advisor, Phil Gramm, who is still calling America "a nation of whiners"--most recently, at the GOP Convention. If McCain does agree, ask him why Republicans speak about Americans one way behind closed doors and another way when they are pretending to care about the "real" Americans?
To those who note that racist Americans will not vote for a black man--that is true, and the Republican party is counting on this. I can tell you, though, that I know many older white Americans who are voting for Obama--things are changing. And this financial disaster brought to us courtesy of Bush and Republican-led Congress and Senate will change more minds.
See the AARP web site for Obama's (sound) and McCain's (lame) speeches about what matters to every older American. This sort of thing speaks to moderates from both parties, including people who thought they would never vote for a black man.
$$$$$$$$$ Millions of first-time donors of small amounts to Obama? That talks.
Don't be fooled by tweety. He would jump to the neocons in a nano-second if he thought it would be to his advantage. Now we have to watch the vote counters,they'll be working overtime to change the vote to republican. They have the voting machine hacking down real good.
not a collar, she's molting.
blah, blah, blah. I'm voting for that pretty woman.
how can any halfway intelligent patriotic american vote republican?
gwen @ 23:
He said tax cuts without cuts in spending. He's not opposed to tax cuts for his rich friends. He's opposed to tax cuts for his rich friends without fucking over the rest of the country.
Make no mistake, Greenback is not a hero by any stretch of the imagination. He's part of the problem. Either he saw this coming and didn't say anything about it or he didn't see it, which means he's not an economic genius. Pick your poison old man!!
Its funny that maccain and goons are trying to distant themselves from the very own party they represent!!! They are blaming and they are blaming republics, if everyone is corrupt then who are they themselves!!! They are floundering like a fish out of the water now.
Unemployment rate for women went from 4.6% in July to
5.3% in August the largest one-month spike in the
jobless rate for women in more than 33 yrs.
Just once I'd like to see a journalist say, "That was a wonderful answer, but it had nothing to do with my question. Try again."
gawd @ 33:
I didn't know Julia Roberts was running?
I know I get smacked down here at C&L for repeating Matthews has been slapping down for five long years. Smacking down Kristol, Frum and others who lied us into Iraq (I believe they will not even come on his program).
Dems and media needs to ask what would have happened with all those pensions had it been turned over to wall street.
reminds me of this song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOQ4f7YItX8
I hope Matthews ask someone about this Palin Troopergate issue. Will he ask some tough questions about this issue?
Will he focus on the lobbyist in the McCain campaign? Will he ask McCain about his plans to privatize social security? Will he invite Scott Ritter, Flynt Leverett and Juan Cole on to discuss Iran....
Saying that the Republican Party "does not govern well" is just like saying "bank robbers should not be trusted with your life savings."
Just EXACTLY like that.
Or that "you shouldn't give your guns to people who have just invaded your house intent on robbing you."
They are THIEVES pure and simple.
STOP CALLING THEM INCOMPETENT WHEN THEIR ONLY INTENT IS TO ROB US.
Stop giving them a free ride when the future of our nation and the world are at stake.
The Mountain Man has spoken !!
The current Rove-Cheney-Bush-Dobson GOP has managed to convince many silly American voters that hypocrisy is a VIRTUE rather than a VICE. Outright lies, distortions and smearings of liberals, Democrats or even moderate Republicans (a handful) all backed and funded by self-interested big lobbies and corporations have become the current GOP's mantras. Pretending to represent "real Americans" the GOP has its chief cheerleaders like Cindy McCain and Nancy Pfoterhauer dress in finery that runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars as they parade on stage trying to convince the "little people" that "we're just like you, K-Mart shoppers" (that is until we get your votes, stupid, and then continue to fleece you). The sad commentary on this slime is that so many Americans fall for it.
Matthews is clearly going to vote for Obama. Clearly. He is sick of the destructive Republicans
Neural paths form in response to action and reward. Repeated actions and repeated rewards form stronger paths - hence, the basis of addiction: nothing says the action needs to be correct or otherwise beneficial.
The Rovians have manipulated the system, and when they say 'principles are more important than facts,' they're not lying. This is how they keep the sheep in line, and why conservative voters will buy into 'reform and change' from 'same old, same old' rather than from an uppity black man. It's why fear and 'oh, the terrorists are going to take over America! wail!' works so well.
nice to see the media finally going after McSame's campaign strategery of reform and honor. and from the reaction of their candidate and talking heads, they are not a happy camp to have this focus on their deceptions. i look for McCain to loose his temper big time during the debate. you can see it building in him and all Obama has to do is question his honor and integrity one time when they are side by side on stage. McCain will be facing this sort of continued press pressure for the next few days and couple of weeks leading into that first debate. the timing is near perfect for johnie's meltdown.
and also, now that matthews will not be leading the election coverage, he appears to have been somewhat liberated and able to challenge and question in a totally different way than we have seen in the last couple of election periods. i am sure the right winger whiners didnt see that coming when the complained and wanted him removed.
Smile. Laugh. Shake Your Head. Lie.
She's purdy.
Mike @ 21:
Ralph Nader hmmmm...isn't Ralph the ONE that helped put Bushy in the WH? Ralph's ego is larger than our deficits.
I find it beyond all imagining that PFOTENHAUER can say that the small business person's economic health is strong in this modern day American Hell called Bush/McCain economy? What planet does she live on? What is her idea of a small business person?
Small business is getting their respective clocks cleaned by these jack-booted Republican bastards who are march all over us on tv screens from coast to coast 24 hours a day to a slobbering press while McCain and his ilk sit at one of their many multi-million dollar kitchen tables rolling their fat greasy white bodies in piles of dirty cash and screaming at the top of their lungs to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner...
"Oh say can you see?"
How we screwed them and We...
Are so proud of our graft
At their suffering we just laughed"
Here is an economist that doesn't back McCain's economic plan - http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/mccain-endorser.html
From Mother Jones:
McCain Blasts Wall Street Failure, Neglects To Mention His Adviser Helped Cause It
Democratsrule @ 7:
'fraid so....
I will say one thing. She is HOT! :-)
I just watched a little of a speech that Sen. Obama is giving in Golden Col. Man, he was talking about the economy and wall street. He ripped into McCain and he ripped into Phil Gramm. It was excellent. If we don't elect his man to be preseident, we are a nation of simple shallow people. We have to grasp onto an intellectual this time around if we want to dig ourselves out this sewer hole we have been placed in for the past eight years. Forget having a beer with the candidate, let's have success with one we can be fu*king proud of!
Flash Gordon, The Musical -- Starring Chuck Norris and Nancy Footenhuffer.
uncle wally @ 42:
Watching this woman believe she is not lying reassures me that there is no future.
Kathleen @ 43:
We'll see...I hope he does.
Here we go again, trot out beautiful blonde to spew some bullshit talking points and watch the dumb-asses drool. What is it with McCain and the old white farts? Do they honestly think women fall for this crap?
This woman is creepy beyond belief. She is the GOP Stepford wife par excellence- always smiling while smoothly putting out her lies. She's simply not human. If you look for it, you'll probably find a cord plugged into a socket somewhere in her back. There must a factory somewhere where they're made.
pissed off patricia @ 56:
Yeah! THEN we can have a beer with him...one o' them fancy schmancy, ELITIST beers!
P.D. @ 59:
No, they think men do.
That was cring-worthy.
Apparently McCain has to be caught sodomising a Bible whle burning an American flag for some of the 48% of voters to dislike him...
Somewhere, some place there is a body in a tube chamber that is Nancy Pfotenhauer and Tucker Bounds. They are robot/zombies. They will keep on lying and saying whatever shit is on their talking points all the while never answering a question and deflecting it all back to Obama. They are programmed amazingly well.
bobhussein @ 34:
Diebold has that answer, but they're not telling...
McSame doesn't know himself. He must not know himself because he's running against a POW that agrees with W on all matters economic. The only thing he can change are his '@ Depends'. What is it called when you can't remember your ownself? Oldtimers disease?
bobhussein @ 34:
Because they vote with the half that isn't intelligent! Easy, that one!
Situation when Republicans came into power
Unemployment in 2000 4.2% 2008 6.1%
Budget 2000 281 Billion surplus 2008 357 billion deficit
A little off topic, but:
According to a new book on Cheney called "Angler," by Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, Armey, a Texas Republican, had spoken out against the war. Cheney was trying to change his mind. So the vice president told him the threat from Iraq was actually "more imminent than we want to portray to the public at large." In Armey's account, Cheney told him:
Iraq's "ability to miniaturize weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear," had been "substantially refined since the first Gulf War," and would soon result in "packages that could be moved even by ground personnel....We now know they have the ability to develop these weapons in a very portable fashion, and they have a delivery system in their relationship with organizations such as Al Qaeda."
"Did Dick Cheney ... purposely tell me things he knew to be untrue?" Armey said. "I seriously feel that may be the case...Had I known or believed then what I believe now, I would have publicly opposed [the war] resolution right to the bitter end, and I believe I might have stopped it from happening."
Pfotenhauer would make a great spokeswoman for KY Jelly.
PEACE
Jay Crew @ 60:
A distinctly American design, stamped out in loving indifference, in China.
What is it going to take, another Civil War? Are we forever going to have these Jethro types and Billy Bob types, who care nothing for our country decide that having the ten commandments in courthouses and flying the racist rebel flag and denying women equality are more important issues than the very real issue that we, as a nation, are all going down the economic crapper? That our ability to defend our country has been compromised by 2 unjust and illegal wars?
Is that the only way we can take our country back?
'Cause if it is, count me in.
liberalNmoderation @ 61:
Hell, Sapphire martinis for everyone if he gets elected. Put them all on my tab.
liberalNmoderation @ 58:
Let's keep pushing. Much being said about the progressive blogopsphere driving the line of questioning. I talked with Matthews at the Dem convention he is listening not only to the endless lies that have come out of the Bush administration (and he admits he was duped to a great degree) but to the peasants being pissed off with the lack of substantive questions being asked by the MSM
Freddy Knuckles @ 35:
He did say 'cuts in spending'....the question is will mccain really cut spending or is that what want to hear.
i beleive mccain said there will be more war(s) in addition to IRAQ which costs about 10-12 billion a month. the republicans and Darwinian Capitalist were
given their 'free markets'...deregulation..look where
were at....privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
RayC @ 8:
+100
Fanon@62, Touche! That's why all the Faux News broads have implants and capped teeth. It's like Barbie's Dream House over there!
Apropos of absolutely nothing, did you know that Pfotenhauer translates as "paw cutter"?
Meanwhile, this sounds really, really bad:
http://www.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=bc8628c780c2a319
Someone needs to start making noise about this - there is a human crisis going on here and it sounds like the city is taking advantage of the media's current obsession with Wall Street to hide something.
Kathleen @ 40:
You probably won't be seeing this Pfotenhauer person again. She and that Tucker jerk are getting the smackdown every time they appear anywhere.
What a corporatist blowhard. I really despise this woman with all my being. Also why didn't Matthews point out that the "massive tax raise" will only occur for the wealthy? Probably has something to do with all mainstream news interviews like this now being shouting matches to see who can say the most words before the next commercial break. Hardly any intelligent conversations anymore like those that happen on Bill Moyers Journal.
Ed Shultz has a great idea. Nothing is more important than this election.
Ed says to "Put in a vacation request and take the day off so that you can vote. It's going to be an all day event." The lines are going to be huge.
He's right. Plan now. VOTE!
Never mind that Matthews was singing their praises for 7 years.
i'm with you pop