Fox News host says Obama now can cram his agenda down our throats!
Trace Gallagher, the co-host of FNC's The Live Desk on Fox News got a little excited at the prospect that Arlen Specter's defection might give President Obama that 60th vote -- which could mean that he can pass his key policies! Like he won the election or something!
Gallagher completely lost his objectivity as a news host and told us how he really felt:
Gallagher: Brit, over the past 24 hours I have read countless articles about the doom of the GOP, but might it be the reverse? I mean if you think about this, if you have 60 votes, right? You can't really blame the other guy, if you don't have 60 votes you can always say it's their fault, but if you have 60 it's kind of your game.
Hume: Well, that's true Chase, but in the near term it certainly doesn't help the Republicans as they try to resist the enactment of much of the Obama agenda, which they consider something of a radical agenda, and Specter's presence as a Democrat now will change all that. Remember this, Trace, Specter has been welcomed into the Democratic Party by its leaders in Washington. It is not entirely clear, however, that the Democratic voters of Pennsylvania, who remember Specter as a Republican who did many things that they did not like, will be so welcoming.
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So, look for Specter to very much be, most of the time, the 60th vote. And while the results in the end of the policies enacted will tell the tale of which party benefits from all this, in the near term at least it certainly does help the Democrats.
Gallagher: So what you're saying in essence -- the president has wide popularity now and the American people are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, so if Specter really does as you say serve as the 60th vote, are we about to see the Obama agenda, for lack of a better phrase, crammed down out throat?
Hume:Well, crammed down out throats would be the way opponents of it would look at it. It passed with flying colors would be the way that people, Democrats and liberals who like this sort of program, will feel about it.
That was a bit over the top, don't you think? Fox was on a destroy Benedict Specter jag yesterday and today. The harshest word Fox ever uttered about Bush was that he was being too nice to the media. Brit Hume had to try and guide Gallagher back to Earth there for a while. He did that pretty smoothly too, even if he feels the same way about the president and his policies. He was protecting good old Trace. Nice try.
Great screen grab: "Grr. Frankenstein's monster ANGRY!"
..........are acting like a rejected lover, but never produced anything of substance, unless you count TORTURE, lies, corruption, nepotism, gangsterbanksters, thugs, Oh .............poor widdle rejected suitors......go cry on someone else's shoulders, we're too broke to care.
Color coordinated creepy mentor/mentee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JJ4vyIOJI
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
take that you damn corrupt bastard eat it!!! NOW!
Didn't they cram their agenda, including the Iraq War, down our throats with their GOP Congressional majority? Glad we now have that expression to use when citing GOP history.
... how their 'entitlement' to wield 'political capital' gained in elections worked out for the country.
no sir.
"It's always a simple matter to drag the people along after all . . ."
No, they shoved it up our asses....
That the congress is theoretically capable of approving anything the president wants, it has always been capable of that. reps and sens of any political party are free to vote any way they please.
Also majorities of dems represent the majority of the people. The upshot is republican ideology has been rejected by the american people.
The implication that some kind of subversion of the govt to 'force' anything on anyone is in reality how our govt works.
i cannot wait until the repubs dig ronnie up and prop him up onstage and KKKarl shoves his hand up there and makes his mouth move.
brit hume might as well get a bucket of lemons ready to keep that sour expression on his face.
Best Week Ever!
Ronny Ray Gun, Ronny Rag Gun. Say it fast 3 times and it still smells like shit.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Ronnie's on the rag?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JJ4vyIOJI
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that was great.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
OK Fox News, the Republican party losing a veteran Senator to their opponent is actually a loss for the Democrats.
I'm thinking that Spector is going to have a difficult time in the Democratic primary in Penn. I think he should maybe retire... after he votes a few times with the Democrats of course.
...Specter jack-shit. If this traitor doesn't go above and beyond the call in these next 19 months, we should throw him away like a used rubber.
Yeah, use him as much a possible until the election and let him go retire and take it easy for the rest of his life.
That's a perfect name for a looser who is just pulling a LIEberman. He voted against the budget, and the rest of the dims who were not consulted on this back room deal, are furious!! Go John Amato, go, go, go,.........but don't think Rahm will be in your cornor. DLC GAG!!! Just as bad as Specter.
then why should we needlessly antagonize him now. Regardless of what you think of him, if he starts consistently voting with the majority of Democrats, then the DLC and White House should support him. If he doesn't, then they can support a more liberal challenger in the primary.
If you tell him you're going to try to cut him off at the knees, why should he vote for the President's agenda?
...to Conservative bullshit are over. We would have to be complete idiots to trust this dude, who has went back on his word too many times. Specter can't just be a Democrat because he says so.
Precisely. Time for a carrot and stick approach. Vote the Democrat party line at least most of the time and the party will support you in the next primary. Vote mostly the GOP party line and the DLC et al will support a more liberal candidate in the next primary.
Specter's a mercenary. He can have one more term if he delivers the goods. If not, not.
I believe he was a Democrat when he started out on a political career - but he changed to Republican for the same reason he changed back now - to help him get elected.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I'm just going to enjoy moment and how absolutely crappy it must be to be a rethug right now. Even their own kind can't stand to be around them. as Martin says "haaahaaaa"
I believe one of the Republican mantras from 2001-2009 was "Elections have consequences." Now they are going to learn that to be true..... hopefully.
... after the 2006 elections, it was Senator Barbara Boxer who shot back at Sen. James Inhofe during a committee hearing (she had the gavel), "You're no longer in charge here ... and elections have consequences."
Oh, they are learning it all right. They are just scared to admit it. And remember that there are only 21% who admit to themselves that they are Republicans anymore and many many more think that President Obama is doing a great job. I am thinking that they are happy that "elections have consequences."
Did Britney Hume just say that Republicans are not liked in Pennsylvania? Did he admit it? Maybe Britney is starting to get it. Take it to the next level Hume and admit that Republicans are not like anywhere at this time. Even Texans are angry at them
Britney Hume also said that Reagan limited spending. If he means that Reagan limited spending "OMG He's Looting The Treasury" levels then I guess that's accurate.
Reagan ran up the debt to more than all the other Presidents combined as did Bush I as did Bush II. It is amazing how they just ignore that isn't it?
I will now donate my services free of charge to be one of the crammers cramming crud down their rethug throats.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
In the words of Jon Stewart, what we'll be cramming will have the distinct taste of a "shit taco".
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
just have to get over their oral fixation
According to Freud that's the infantile stage (tantrums etc).
Then follows anal fixation (toilet training, general cleanliness and order).
Then genital (when all hell breaks loose.)
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Toe Tappin in St. Paul?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Fox News host says Obama now can cram his agenda down our throats!
Good. Now STFU and get off the air.
far left loon >.<
Well to me it feels better than having george bush's agenda shoved up my ass.
Good one.. perfect.
" I love the smell of pissy whiners in the morning..that smell.. that smell.. smells like loser Rescumlicans"
Well they can always argue there's no where to go but up
And immediately all go out and up their Viagra prescriptions.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
time to man-up and give us a rise.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
and the party has shrunken to the point that the only thing left above water is a medically dangerous protuberance. I think it is the mast of the SS Grover Norquist. Time to drown the thing in its twin footed bathtubs.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Uh, Trace, how can you read countless articles?
Can you be more specific, was it one, three, 3,655?
There they go with the teabag reference again...."cramming it down our throats".
Dang, it must be a free-for-all in the Faux Noise talking head lounge.
'Talk to the hand'
Damn! You beat me to it.
http://the-billablog.blogspot.com/
They never refer to the way that the Republicans crammed their agenda down our throats for the first 6 years of Bush. Remember Tom Delay? I hope that the Democrats cram Obama's agenda down the Republican's throats for 8 more years and then cram the Feingold agenda down their throat for eight years after that.
I wonder if these hypocritical nitwits have ever heard the saying : What goes around comes around . The Repugs will probably throw a Palin / Bachman ticket at us the next go round , a sure fire winner .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Palin/Bachmann - a sure-fire win in 2012 - for the dems...
The sky is falling the sky is falling. Liberals are in control now. GUESS WHAT BONE HEADS, Reagan's policies didn't work.
... build me a bridge. GET OVER IT.
You. Lost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdp0cV8zyLM
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I would switch to the Democratic Party faster than oil on velvet to get away from these idiots!
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
... when 'moderates' like Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter think the 'far right' end of the party is running amok.
After the 2010 elections, the Democrats probably won't need their votes.
Did anyone see what Keith Olbermann was wearing last night?
Was that a velvet sports jacket?
It looked like something he grabbed from the rack at the Playboy mansion.
Keith, was that an inside joke or have you gone native?
'Talk to the hand'
blouse with tattoos on her upper arms we will know it it all over.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Fox seems to have a difficult time drawing the line between news and editorial opinions. Actually they should call it the Fox Editorial Channel.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
... an elder statesman kind of thing, something to put stories in perspective.
What FNC offers is certainly opinion, but with none of the grace of an editor's perspective.
Not only opinion but actual advocacy for the Republican Party.
Their coverage, sponsorship, and participation, of the tea-bagging incident was outright advocacy.
'Talk to the hand'
They're claiming Obama's teabagging the Nation?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
If John Amato runs for office, does that mean we have to clean up our language in comments?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
regular commenters under the bus to get my financial support.
Of course it is his choice and the tread marks may be on my crumpled carcass.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The American people voted for the Obama agenda in an electoral landslide. Bush lost his election but it didn't stop him from cramming the right wing agenda down our throats for 8 years. Time for the pendulum to swing back! Elections (fair ones especially) have consequences!
Gobama! You've got the mandate now move forward with Rush Limbaugh's idea of bipartisanship, the country is behind you!
When Dr. Bush came into the exam room and said "Open Wide" the Deomocrats in Congress said "Ahhhh!" Whe Dr. Obama comes in he will need forceps to get the tongue depressors out that are still stuck in some Democrats and a crow bar for all the Republicans.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Crow bar? More like the jaws of life.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
if he lobbys the GOP from a men's room stall, he may find it more effective.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Smuggled inside the book given to him by Hugo Chavez through donations arranged by his pals in Theran?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Shit happens when the head of your party (Rush) says he wants the President of the US to fail. Probably not the best way to win over the American people.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
... is all about fail.
- In order to prove that they kept us safe, Obama's policies must FAIL.
- In order to prove that their beliefs in the free market are valid, Obama's policies must FAIL.
- In order to prove their faith, Christianity must be under attack (failing).
- In order to prove their patriotism, they constantly talk about how terrorists are going to come here and take over (failing).
You have hit on something that should be shouted from the rooftops.
The Repugs are the party of last retort.......the sky is falling....vote for us....what do you have to lose?
'Talk to the hand'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyktCZB-ms0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Shit Fumes says Obama's agenda itsn't his. I guess because he's a big fan of failed wars, wiretaps, tax cuts for the rich, recessions, failing American infrastructure, the Katrina like responses to natural disastors, having our allies alienated our enemies emboldened, torture lies, coverups, a politicized justice department, CIA agents being outed for political gain, wedge driven politics and a trampled constitution.
Fortunately a majority of Americans voted against Shit Fume's and Foxaganda's agenda for America.
One hundred proof? I suppose he knows that means fifty percent.
Hume's face reminds me of a cartoon dog, I just can't remember the name of the cartoon character. It had that same sort of baggy face and spoke slowly.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Droopy Dog
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Deputy Droopy
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Droopy and Deputy Dawg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4x0WkfC82c
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Underdog and Shoeshine Boy.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
That's it! Thank you it was driving me crazy. I just checked out a youtube and that's the one.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http:/...
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Perfect!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
piece of animation to Joe Liebermann. I'll look for the link.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml...
Card video from the same day's broadcast, September 3,2008.
It is on this page somewhere:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Bookmarked, Jon was on a roll that day. I never laughed so hard
http://images.bleedcubbieblue.com/images/admi...
Damn! Seperated at birth?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
more like Normie Coleman....
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
My husband says Hume looks like he's never had a happy day in his life and is probably, "one miserable son of a bitch".
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
how'd you like to wake up to that mug every morning.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
I would never go to sleep with it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
How would you know if he is awake or asleep?
'Talk to the hand'
Silly me, that is what the Viagra is for........
.........Hume: I'm gonna take a nap, when you finish just clean me up and close the door behind you............
'Talk to the hand'
Hume, Buchannan, Cheney, Dobbs.....they all look like every woman's ex-husband.
Now that someone mentioned this-my ex-husband does look like him.
Fair and Balanced channel is quickly becoming as irrelevant as the Party they represent.
the repigs need another "bag over the head punch in the face" before they wake-the-hell-up. they just don't get it, America is sick of the same old shit. time to put FOX News on suicide watch....again.
democracy only works if everyone is republican.
Vice president Joe Biden said today he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered as the swine flu outbreak spread to 11 states and forced school closures amid confirmation of the first U.S. death.
"I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now," Biden said when asked whether he would advise family members to use public transportation.
Biden made his comments during a brief interview on NBC's "Today" show during an interview with Matt Lauer.
if he were to get seriously sick, Biden the Dumb One will take over. God Help us!
Would you shut your (expletive) mouth? God's not going to help you; you need to do something for yourself, you sniveling ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf6wZFMWJeU
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Who represents a more "radical" ideology.
A) The President, who has about a 62% approval rating.
B) The GOPers in Congress, who have about an 30% approval rating
D)Arny Schwortzeenager
Two recent polls by both Wall Street journal and Massachusetts have recently found Mr. Obama to have a (around)67% approval for the president, but only 58% being in favor of some of his policies. That shows mainstream Americans just cherish their new celebrity, but care less about what his administration is doing. Furthermore... that was not a press conference last night. It was a strategic dictated speech. No one challenged him with any difficult questions. And that man from the NYtimes should be fired. "Your most enchanting moment since being sworn in?" Has the US turned into a fairytale? He called on people that were pre-selected and used the clock to manage the entire hour. 15 questions in 1 hour? a joke. What happened to free speech and freedom of the press? Sure, the man has great charisma and is a great speaker, but take away that teleprompter of his (like his stumbling earlier in the week during a malfunction) and we have problems. His administration must run his press conferences this way to protect Obama..... America has become obsessed with someone who seems like he works in Hollywood rather than in D.C. The mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC) has made America infatuated with a president who faces softer questions at a press conference than woman in the miss USA pageant. Next they will find a way to blame the swine flu on W. Bush. Change? Is it for the best Obama? Change such as apologizing for the US all over the world? Be a patriot Mr. Obama.
With friends like specter we don't need enemies!
I'm glad I don't watch fox!
I can program in my favorite stations...and don't even have to surf through FOX.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
needs divine intervention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX68c5dDadE&fe...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Well that's certainly fair and balanced.
Where was Fox News when King George and the neocons were craming their agenda down the country's throat? Oh, that's right, they were helping to do so by giving the GOP free advertising.
ram my fist down their throats. If it knocksa a few teeth out along the way, all the better.
If I ever go nuts and create a "list," I'm pretty sure Hume will be on it.
do anything more now other than whine and fill their collective diapers?
Classic. Republicans, irrelevant in the minority, are pleased they can blame. Even in the majority, it seems to me that all Republicans did was blame.
It is just me our did Brit Hume look and sound drunk. I guess more people at FOX and the rest of the GOP will start hitting the bottle before they got on live TV.
Up until recently 2006, Trace had claimed to be a college graduate from San Siego State Univ. In a letter (Dec,'06)I received from the Office of the Register at the Univ. they stated that he dropped out before he had half-way completed the requirements for a BS degree!
His main talking points about himself prior to being exposed as only a high school graduate, was that he was a water-skier at Marine World Africa in San Diego, and Six Flags Best Adventures in NJ, albiet a poor one at that. He kept getting hurt and had to quit!
Trace Gallagher = A washed up water-skier, armed only with a high school degree, a real Hannity American, that's phoney from the git-go!!
Cutely named and color coordinated, this newsy duo spreads harumph
Thanks!
This is why Reslugs are known as braindead idiots.
What I want Obama and the Democratic majority to do is cram the laws of the land down their throat and up their arse. The Republicans only seem to think that the majority rules when they are in the majority. Now that they are in the minority, they are confusing defeat with disenfranchisement. The majority of Americans voted them out of office. The majority of Americans rejected their leadership. The majority of Americans scorned their values. And since the Republicans seem to have no humility, they need to learn that Karma is a pissed off Democrat who believes that payback is appropriate when it is well-deserved. Unlike Obama, I BELIEVE IN REVENGE!
Does Brit know a different Ronald Reagan than i know? Because the Ronald Reagan i remember was hardly a "pure Conservative" anymore than Obama is a pure Liberal. The Reagan i remember increased spending a great deal and the Obama i see now just cut taxes on 95% of the Americans. Sorry if this gets in the way of your Reagan mythology, Brit.
Two recent polls by both Wall Street journal and Massachusetts have recently found Mr. Obama to have a (around)67% approval for the president, but only 58% being in favor of some of his policies. That shows mainstream Americans just cherish their new celebrity, but care less about what his administration is doing. Furthermore... that was not a press conference last night. It was a strategic dictated speech. No one challenged him with any difficult questions. And that man from the NYtimes should be fired. "Your most enchanting moment since being sworn in?" Has the US turned into a fairytale? He called on people that were pre-selected and used the clock to manage the entire hour. 15 questions in 1 hour? a joke. What happened to free speech and freedom of the press? Sure, the man has great charisma and is a great speaker, but take away that teleprompter of his (like his stumbling earlier in the week during a malfunction) and we have problems. His administration must run his press conferences this way to protect Obama..... America has become obsessed with someone who seems like he works in Hollywood rather than in D.C. The mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC) has made America infatuated with a president who faces softer questions at a press conference than woman in the miss USA pageant. Next they will find a way to blame the swine flu on W. Bush. Change? Is it for the best Obama? Change such as apologizing for the US all over the world? Be a patriot Mr. Obama.
But those same polls show a significant shift of people who now think the country is going in the right direction, and people who understand that some of these problems will take time to repair.
Additionally, the teleprompter bit has been disproven, and shown to be a FAUX news bit, to try to mitigate how much more well spoken Obama was than boosh, who had not only a teleprompter, but hidden devices hidden under the back of his jacket, and he would still flub it.
As for hemming and hawing, that's to be expected when you're taking questions, and not controlling what will be asked. Once he settles on his answer the flow smoothens out.
For some odd reason politicians rarely say nothing while they're engaged in ratiocenations.
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And in the bold phrases, too. =(
he just wishes for those days when he could teabag Reagan while Nancy was out grocery shopping.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Let the CRAMMING begin.
...Obama did not win the election; McCain forfeited. That's why these people say what they say. It's as though Obama's election never happened.
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"Government is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex." - Frank Vincent Zappa
Eight years of Christanic terrorism and mass treason, and along comes Obama who is working on setting the country back on the legal and moral grounds upon which it stood prior to these Christofascist traitors hijacking the 2000 election.
The whole country is hoping that Obama "crams" the rule of law back "down our throats." Only these rightarded Christian terrorist simpathizing traitors want a return to Christian terrorism and treason.
if these guys really believe it and wanna scream 60 all day, doesn't it belie the disingenuous nature of the continued Coleman fight in MN? Cornyn and these other SOBs merely want to forestall policy by not seating Franken and the inepititude of the Democrats to deliver this certification is absurd. MN Supreme Court says June trial for the remaining issues? then what? SCOTUS? Are we friggin' kidding? Why are the people of MN not inundating their legislators with demands to fully represent their state? Why are the resources of the Democratic Party, hell, the Administration itself, not demanding Franken be seated and voting during these challenges? Who the fuck is running this country? Where the fuck is Harry Reid?
pathetic.
your name's Lebowski, Lebowski... and your wife is Bunny
Reslugs hate when the tables are turned. This from the hypocritical rubber stamp party of bedwetting losers.
but that 60 includes Leiberman caucasing with the Dems and Spectre. Neither can be counted on to vote for cloture or anything on strict party lines.
Fuck Ronald Reagan. He was a total joke and a very bad Prez.
I have something I'D like to cram down your throat and it's not an agenda
I agree. I can think of a few more appropriate items I like to see crammed down their throats.
Not possible. We can't get your feet out of the way...
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