Tweety just called this nation "Right of Center"! Gawd, I hate this guy!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

In reference to the swine flu response from American citizens; he said that this country is "Right of Center," but turns "Left of Center" in times of crisis.

He is such full of shit!

[Captain Hilts]

1. He's full of shit and doesn't seem to remember the elections of '06 and '08. Idjit. nt

[spanone]

2. wait til tomorrow....

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. I know, right? Tomorrow he'll lick his finger and hold it up in the air.

Fucking idiot!!

...and he didn't explain the rationale for putting the pandemic funding in the stimulus. All he had to say is that the proposed funding was supposed to be allocated to hire more health care professionals in this field. My mother worked for the CDC for many years and there is always problems with understaffing, lack of professionals who are grossly underpaid due to funding cutbacks. Sure, one could make the case that that funding should have been shifted to the omnibus bill, but at least demonstrate some degree of professional integrity and explain the rationale for why it wasn't. ASSHOLE!!

[Gabi Hayes]

3. he also let Kit Bond off the hook when Bond claimed that 'we don't torture,' failing

to mention admitted waterboarding, and that Japanese soldiers were tried for that very offense after WWII

just to mention one fact he could've used

[doc03]

4. I think if you would compare the USA

to the European countries even the majority of Democrats would be considered pretty far right.

[Political Heretic]

10. exactly, thank you

[AlinPA]

5. Matthews is a slobbering loudmouth fool.

[rucky]

6. If the center is to the left, then he's right. n/t

[valerief]

8. He's projecting. nt

[Political Heretic]

9. Um he's right about that and its consistently histotrically demonstrated.

1920 - right of center
1930 - left of center (depression)

1880 - right of center
1890 - (another depression) left of center

2000 - right of center
2009 - left of center (another recession)

I would say there's a lot of reason to argue that we have had a center-right base as our cultural norm for the most part, which is interrupted by times of crisis when people stop being self-centered (I'm generalizing for brevity's sake) and decide that they need help from others (and are willing to help others)

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

13. I think the country is center-right or center-left depending on the ISSUE

The problem with opinion polls is that they don't capture the nuance of policy issues. When you start to break it down to specific policy provisions and stop using catch phrases like "welfare," which conjures up images of shiftless people not working, etc., you'll see that Americans are more left than we've been led to believe.

For instance,

Are you in favor of welfare? Americans: no

Then ask the question differently...

Are you in favor of the government helping individuals who cannot help themselves? Majority of Americans: yes!

The problem is that we've been bombarded with 30 years or pro-conservative Republican rhetoric that people only think they are center-right, but when you drill down to *specific* policy questions that aren't leading or biased, I think Americans are more progressive than we all think.

One last example:

Are you in favor of 'socialized' medicine? Americans: no!

Then, ask the question differently..

Would you be in favor of increased taxes if you were assured of receiving quality health care? Majority of Americans: yes!! (Most Americans would actually accept paying HIGHER taxes for quality public services!)

[Occam Bandage]

11. Compared to Europe, sure.

[Dappleganger]

12. Someone tell the dolt that the nation voted otherwise. nt

[UTUSN]

14. & last week he gave some kind of fake "Hardball" award to his suck-Mc5PLANES

I haven't watched him in months, but one insomniac morning I clicked him on for about 30 seconds and he was giving some paen to his old flame Mc5PLANES, somebody he said deserved some kind of high praise.

It made me barf to remember his "college tours" non-stop with Mc5PLANES. Just barf, barf, BARF!1

Here's a re-tread of one of my rants about Tweety:

Tricky Dick would break out "The New NIXON." Tweety has a LONG history of twists and turns, generally with the trajectory being AWAY from us.


STAGE 1: He has said his family were "cloth coat (Rethugs)."

STAGE 2: A *degree* of authenticity derived from his possibly participating in the inspiration that Catholics in general and Irish Catholics took from the ascendancy of JFK. O.K., fine.

STAGE 3: He joined the Peace Corps, as he says, NOT from noble motives but just to avoid Vietnam. Some here say that in itself was "noble ENOUGH." Uh, he had other alternatives, like, going to Canada (too out there), going to jail (not an option), filing as a Conscientious Objector (too unreal). So this stage became one of SCRAMBLING FOR JOBS. He tried being a rent-a-cop as a Capitol policeman for three months. Then he hired on as a flunky in politics, and the name of the game in the LBJ era was to be a Dem.

STAGE 4: He was a convincing flunky and operative in Democratic politics for CARTER, Tip O'NEILL and others.

STAGE 5: A flunky only has power and prestige depending upon how successful his bosses are, so when RAYGUN beat the pants off of Tweety's bosses, he began TURNING seriously. Repeating, THE FLUNKY WORSHIPS SUCCESS. So he became a RAYGUN worshipper, this being his FIRST LEG TRICKLING period. Plus, his mentor, G.E.RUSSERT, who had blazed the trail for turncoatism, such as reaching out to LIMBOsevic, showed him the way into the media, meaning STOP being a partisan (which does NOT equate with being "fair") and reaching out to the former enemies. What followed was a decade of Tweety attacking all things Dem (and CLINTON) and Campaign 2000 in which he was a Rethug operative who eviscerated GORE five days per week. And then were the SECOND LEG TRICKLING years of Shrub worship. There wasn't ANYBODY, including Rethugs, more Shrub-licking. When the Iraq Attack came along, he suddenly became the biggest zenophobe and 'Murica booster around, performing the on-air execution of DONAHUE and accusing all Libs of "never seeing anything POSITIVE about America."

STAGE 6: Since around 2006 he started swinging slightly away from Shrub, despite a long flirtation with Mc5PLANEs. So he entered a possible THIRD LEG TRICKLING period, the length of which is in doubt.

Hope this helps. Yes, he IS that bad.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. Two incidences put me off about this guy: (1) his ass-kissing of Trent Lott after his racist

comments praising Strom Thurmond after his death; and (2) his obsession with race and describing whites as "regular people," versus Obama's base of support who he characterized as "elitist," and "argula-eating" liberals. :puke::puke: