Wait, I don’t get it. Why did McConnell propose a bill in the first place to let Obama have control of the debt ceiling if he didn’t want it in the first place? Couldn’t he have proven his point with a bill he supports?
Help me out here. What night are we talking about?
He was grandstanding, trying to show that even the Dems wouldn’t support handing that authority over to the President. He didn’t expect them to try to put it to a vote. Which, of course, is further evidence (if anyone needed it) that the man is a fool and a living caricature of a partisan hack.
Don’t you remember? I mean, I thought you were there.
Get the transcript, Candy.
Per the transcript, I was not there.
It really was a gift to Harry Ried. When the Dems change the filibuster rules for the next congress, McConnell filibustering his own bill will be exhibit A as to why this is long overdue.
When the republicans whine and moan over it, the response will be “Well maybe if you hadn’t been such jerks about it, it wouldn’t have come to this. Which of his own bills is this reform going to prevent the minority leader from filibustering, anyway?”
His idea was that they would not get the 60 votes needed to over come a filibuster vote, forgetting that it only needed a 51-vote majority to pass. Harry Reid moved to put it to an immediate up-or-down vote and McConnell shat himself on the Senate floor (that may not even be metaphorically).
End result: McConnell ends up fillibustering his own bill and gives Dems an X-mas present that will keep on giving. 
Remember when the NRSC was done with Akin
**Highlights:dubious: **
Sen John Cornyn, the National Repub Senate Committee Chair said they were done with Akin after the legitimate rape comments. Turns out the NRSC sent $750,000.00 at the last minute in November to help him out.
Lied about abandoning support.:eek:
Dumped money into a campaign they lost by FIFTEEN points.:rolleyes:
The NRSC refused to say if it was involved at the time the cash was infused.
Cornyn and others refused to say whether the NRSC was involved at all with the funds post election.
Finally comes to light after campaign filings.
Then Cornyn still gets elected to Republican Senate post #2, minority whip, after losing seats in the Senate when they expected to pick up same.
Expecting change in the Republicans? Women? Honesty? What?
Seems he could have saved himself a little embarrassment by having a different Pubbie Senator say the magic words…
“Please” and “Fuck you!”?
I don’t know if it is such a good for a fellow who can not count to make a major money bill.
Do you (or anyone lses) by any chance have a cite for this? I’ve heard it a lot but since I watched PBS on election night I missed it, and would like to see it first hand.
Not the best example but:
I will try to find the specific video I saw when I’m at home, but one of the women on Fox specifically referred to “we” or “us” when talking about the Republicans’ loss. I saw it myself and thought it was shameful, but at least honest for once.
Taps talk converts all linking text to images. Would anyone care to summarize what that series of links is about?
Just evidence that Fox really really really wanted Romney and the Republicans to win.
The second one is the best - where the Fox News person refers to the Republicans as “we”.
Others show a varying degree of connection of Faux News to the GOP. I thought I had responded with a quote to the person, but I see I did not - sorry.
Tiny little bit of time for editing long past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pvqYiXoIE8 Robert G Kaufman in 2009 saying on C-Span that the best thing the Republican party could do would be to “acquire” ANOTHER television network so it’s not just FOX, but multiple sources of information that will do a much better job than in 2008.
http://youtu.be/uL86LRA0-8Q?t=20s Media Matters audio only file of Todd Sterns (FOX News reporter) Saying “If you listen to the mainstream media, the Republican Party is divided. WE’RE not divided…” Later he says, “I think WE’RE going to come out of this stronger…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVFHOusYp0A Ten minute compilation of election night reactions from Bill O’Reilly (“no longer living in Traditional America ['cos people want STUFF]”); Karl Rove (arguing that the outstanding Republican precincts in Hamilton County will surely throw Ohio to Mitt) Megan something-or-other walking down to the decision room to get the analyst’s to explain why they think Rove is full of shit; some anchor coming up with an ELECTION ALERT!!! FOX News is now projecting that Obama takes Ohio They dither among each other for a while about what this portends, and finally admit that it means Obama’s been reelected (but insisting that there were a buttload of reasons why he shouldn’t have).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MgQ2pKDwkI Another audio-only clip from Media Matters: tracing the several days that FOX News devoted to distorting President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” quote into a sound-byte attacking businessmen in general, and linking it to the RNC thems turning out to be “We Built This.”
http://youtu.be/qkAn_qJdgBs A 2010 video compilation about Roger Ailes justifying cutting the FOX News feed during a Q&A President Obama was having with GOP leaders.
Here’s Roger `Fox is the most trusted news source’ Ailes claiming in 2010 that Glen Beck’s mention of slaughter referred to Hitler and Stalin, though Beck was clear that he referred to Obama Administration:
I just posted a 3-year old stupidity from Roger Ailes, despite that this thread is “Stupid Republican idea of the day.” Am I hijacking? If not, here’s a 5-year old stupidity that continues to astound me. I posted it a few days ago in the “GOP … insanity” thread but “stupidity” fits it better.
Sam Brownback, once a prestigious GOP candidate for President, denied believing in evolution (though he tried to appeal to rationalists with a letter to the N.Y. Times in which he admitted that he believed in “microevolution, small changes over time within a species”).
I don’t think Brownback was hoping for voters among N.Y. Times readers; he was presumably trying to appeal to main-stream commentators who might read his letter and decide Brownback wasn’t as stupid as the rest. But wasn’t it bizarrely stupid for him to bother with such a letter if his concession to science was only to accept changes “within a species”? 
Was Darwin’s book named Origin of (Microbreeds Within a) Species ?
Actually, that puts him to the right of many Bible literalists.
Young-earth creationists usually interpret “kind” as much broader than species — probably more like family. So they accept evolution from dingo to jackal to fox to wolf to poodle, or sabertooth cat to pussycat — which appears to go beyond Brownback’s view.