Tweety: "Democrats don't want to be policy makers. That's grown-up stuff...

[Human Torch]

...they'd rather sit in the back seat and complain."

Matthews' response on "Hardball" to Pat Buchanan when asked why the Democrats don't simply vote to cut off any additional funding in Iraq.

FUCK you, Chris, you fat-assed stuttering spittle-dispensing sack of shit.

[ThomCat]

1. One more blatant statement that makes me wonder

why any Democrat would go on his show and take his shit. x(

[Joe Bacon]

32. The only thing grown up about Tweety is his 100 year old liver.

I can't wait to see a Democrat smack Tweety down as well as K. O. repeatedly smacked him down on election night!

[Supersedeas]

35. Democrats who appear on his show should remind him of this EVERY appearance

[ThomCat]

38. That would be nice.

I can imagine one or two Dems doing that, but most would not. And the Dems who did would be accused of being partisan. x(

[snowbear]

2. I didn't catch that part.. I did hear him giving Pat crap though..

I was on the phone and only caught Matthews screaming at Pat "Why do you keep standing up for these guys!?!" .. He was so loud I had to mute it and didn't catch the rest though..

Didn't hear the comment dissing Democrats, but that sounds like flip-floppin' Tweety..

[Greeby]

3. Tweety, you dipshit! One of ours has had a bill to do just that FOR A YEAR

End the War in Iraq Act of 2005 (Introduced in House)

HR 4232 IH

109th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 4232

To prohibit the use of funds to deploy United States Armed Forces to Iraq.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

November 4, 2005

Mr. MCGOVERN (for himself, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. SERRANO, Ms. VELAZQUEZ, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. STARK, Ms. WATERS, Mr. KUCINICH, Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, and Ms. LEE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To prohibit the use of funds to deploy United States Armed Forces to Iraq.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `End the War in Iraq Act of 2005'.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO DEPLOY ARMED FORCES TO IRAQ.

(a) Prohibition- Except as provided in subsection (b), funds appropriated or otherwise made available under any provision of law may not be obligated or expended to deploy or continue to deploy the Armed Forces to the Republic of Iraq.

(b) Exception- Subsection (a) shall not apply to the use of funds to--

(1) provide for the safe and orderly withdrawal of the Armed Forces from Iraq; or

(2) ensure the security of Iraq and the transition to democratic rule by--

(A) carrying out consultations with the Government of Iraq, other foreign governments, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United Nations, and other international organizations; or

(B) providing financial assistance or equipment to Iraqi security forces and international forces in Iraq.

(c) Rule of Construction- Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit or otherwise restrict the use of funds available to any department or agency of the Government of the United States (other than the Department of Defense) to carry out social and economic reconstruction activities in Iraq.

(d) Definition- In this section, the term `Armed Forces' has the meaning given the term in section 101(a)(4) of title 10, United States Code.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.04232:

[Olney Blue]

16. Oh, facts. How inconveeeeeeenient for Tweety!

x(

[elperromagico]

4. Matthews thinks he's such a damned expert on politics

because he used to be Tip O'Neill's gopher. In truth, he knows exactly dick. He's right only by accident, the same as a stopped clock is right twice a day.

[mitchum]

26. Exactly! He's a fucking errand boy with delusions of grandeur

[AX10]

5. Tweety may not like the war or Bush (anymore at least)....

but he is still a Republican at heart and he will do his best to ensure that the GOP comes "roaring" back in 2008 with one of his boys (Rudy or McCain) at the helm.

[BlueStater]

30. I remember he got to see Monkeyboy last December

He compared it to getting to see Santa Clause. :puke:

[Cocoa]

6. he also said the dems aren't as good at dress-up as Bush

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604270005

<snip>

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, Bob Dornan, you were a congressman all those years. Here's a president who's really nonverbal. He's like Eisenhower. He looks great in a military uniform. He looks great in that cowboy costume he wears when he goes West. I remember him standing at that fence with Colin Powell. Was the best picture in the 2000 campaign?

<snip>

MATTHEWS: We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.

more...

[blm]

7. that was one of his alltime most sickening displays.

.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Poor Tweety. So reality challenged.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. !!!!!!!!! So if the Repubs aren't grown-ups and the Dems aren't, who do you

propose should run the country, Tweety? You?!

[eleny]

10. And the Republicans could try wiping their own poopy asses

[jwirr]

11. He must mean that we do not want to throw out the Constitution and

write one of our own. I will so enjoy bringing these right wing news media down. They have helped to destroy our country.

[Mika]

12. That's the librul media fer ya. n/t

[Bitwit1234]

13. If making decisions is hard stuff

and republicans are sooooo good at those things, how come bush has been so darn poor at it. The only decision he has made with Iraq is 'STAY THE COURSE' AND 'BRING IT ON'...very mature if you ask me.

[OzarkDem]

14. Just the latest GOP/news media talking point

We've even heard echoes of the same talking point here at DU in the last week or so.

Interesting, we're hearing some of it from those who consider themselves DLC Dems, too. How long have they been using GOP talking points, anyway?

[Ninja Jordan]

15. That would be a suicidal position to take. Matthews is an idiiot (nm)

[DURHAM D]

17. Ok - I am Democrat and an adult. Can a bunch of us get together

and sue the bastard for defamation?

[niceypoo]

18. So Bush-Cheney-Neocons are the "Grownups?"

*LOL*

[Crunchy Frog]

19. Why is Pat Buchanan's mug on the TV so much?

He's gabbing on on Scabrous now.

[Debs]

20. The guy

Sitting in the backseat (because elections put him there not because he didnt want to drive) saying stop the car before we go off that cliff IS a grownup.

[wisteria]

21. I don't entirely disagree. We have people in our party that do speak-out

and they get smeared and ostracized when they do. There are some elements in our party that don't want to be responsible for making tough decisions, they are more concerned about 08 positioning.

[Blix Krieg]

22. Meely Mouthed Matthews

Matthews is a Reichwing enabler from word one.
Like so many of the rabble that troll the MSM.
If enough citizens turn his program off, and his
ratings go a little lower, he can become history
with the rest of the Rubber Stamp Talking Heads,

None of the trash on cable news are the least bit friendly
to the wishes of the majority of the American people. They
are high paid whores for the Radical Right. Nothing less.

Vote with your remote:kick:

[Iris]

23. uh. . .sounds like he's getting his parties mixed up again.

When have Republicans ever been interested in making policy - unless it has something to do with big business?

[Strelnikov_]

24. Wow, The Democrats Are In Charge Already? I Thought That Was In January n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

25. "spittle-dispensing sack of shit"

Good one! :thumbsup:

[mitchum]

27. Bitter about his brother's loss. Now that there are two losers in...

the Matthews family, Tweety has lost his "specialness"
That sack of shit can go fuck himself

[Vinca]

28. The biggest problem with Matthews is his mouth. He won't shut it.

He'll throw out an inflammatory remark like that and not allow a response. He barely shuts up long enough for guests to make any sort of comment. The guy is rude as well as ill informed.

[Human Torch]

31. Or he'll throw out a remark like that to someone like Pat Buchanan...

...who's only going to sit there and giggle (like he did).

During MSNBC's live 2004 election coverage, Matthews interviewed Don Imus. After a few minutes Imus tore into him for interrupting, not listening to his guests, being rude, being an idiot, etc.

Tweety sat there with that trademark stupid grin and said something feeble like "I can't help it" and went right back to interrupting.

One of the few times I didn't see him interrupt was during his interview with Tom DeLay (the famous segment that ended with Tweety saying in a grave, reverent tone "I OWE you one...")

The video clip is available at the URL below.

MATTHEWS: Shannon (DeLay aide) told me, she called me, she said 'don't worry -- he's not calling in to complain'...

MATTHEWS: Have you seen this new focus group stuff on the candidates?

DELAY: No I haven't

MATTHEWS: It's great stuff. I'll send it to you -- it's great -- yeah it's great stuff. Hillary, John Kerry. All these guys, all these democrats, and how they do. And, uh, Frank Luntz did it...

DELAY: who I like

CM: ...and Hillary did not do well. Kerry did well.

DELAY: You're kidding.

MATTHEWS: I am NOT kidding. They didn't like Edwards -- they thought he was a rich lawyer, pretending to care about poor people...

DELAY: Too slick. Too slick.

MATTHEWS: ...and Hillary was a know-it-all.

DELAY: Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all

...

MATTHEWS: Thanks. I owe you one. I owe you two -- today and last night.

DELAY: No you don't.

MATTHEWS: No, I do.

DELAY: I appreciate it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/found-object-delay-on-ha_b_18506.html

[City Lights]

29. I second that.

Fuck you, tweety, you pathetic little weenie.

[yellowcanine]

33. The Bush administration has thoroughly discredited that kind of talk with their

"grown up" behavior of starting wars and not taking responsibility for them. Grow up yourself, Tweety.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

34. These Republicans are like grown-ups who

live beyond their means, have affairs but go to Church on Sunday, drink too much and puke all over themselves at the office party, take out credit cards in their kids names, stiff the help at Christmas, and kick the dog when their boss yells at them.

Then there are the type of grown-ups who refuse to listen to a know-nothing, pontificating, self-important blow hard like Matthews when they have better things to do. Matthews is a toll booth to get onto KO's highway.

[fuzzyball]

36. Tweety needs to be a grown up...eom

[izzybeans]

37. that's your (tweety) job jackass. Grown up stuff is taking serious journalistic ethics.

But why bother? You can sit back in your armchair on Sunday morning and blather away to no consequence, with the rest of the bobble-head pundits.