On Tweety now, Jim Cramer is even going "HUH?" about Cantor

[Lifelong Protester]

and his comments about not extending unemployment.

Cramer says, time for the government to spend money!

[banned from Kos]

1. Cramer is a Democrat who voted for Obama

I know - that goes against conventional wisdom.

[FarLeftFist]

12. Ironically, Matthews voted for Bush in 2000 n/t

[flamingdem]

2. Standard and Poors will downgrade to AA rating BECAUSE repukes won't raise taxes

Wall Street is not stupid.

[Warpy]

3. And the only reason they're not downgrading even more

is that the Clown Congress only has a year and a half left.

We can all be grateful for those every two year elections. We just have to convince everybody around us to get out and vote in them because they're important, too.

I think a lot of the people who were too lazy to vote in 2010 are figuring that out now.

[BlueIdaho]

4. Tweety's show was brilliant today.

Tough, insightful, and plenty of good ideas for moving the Democratic party and America forward.

[jwhitesj]

5. I'm a noob, sorry for the dumb question

but what is tweety?

[eShirl]

Chris Matthews

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Chris Mathews

[quaker bill]

7. Chris Matthews, MSNBC - n/t

[jwhitesj]

9. That's what I thought

I'm watching the show now and saw Cramer said that. Why is he called Tweety?

[FarLeftFist]

11. Shade of hair color he uses

Repost from DU:

During Campaign 2000 the media whores were swooning over the nicknames Shrub was giving some of them. Media Whores Online ran a contest to nickname Chris-the-Whore. In the first 3 or so weeks, there was no clear, catchy front runner, with "The Screamer" sort of leading. Then one of The Whore's own Hardball staff LEAKED to MWO that his own staff called him Tweety because of the Clairol shade he favored. This was immediately declared the winner. But in some quarters, it wasn't entirely satisfactory. For one thing, by the time it was declared, the shade had changed to platinum, leading to a suggestion he be called Carole LOMBARD. Plus, "Tweety" sounds too affectionate towards this JERK WHORE. Then M-TV held it's 20th or 25th or whatever anniversary, and all the cable whores were doing segments of Brittany shedding her duds down to almost nothing. Not to be left behind in any whore game, Tweety followed suit, with a guest from Time Mag, the young humor columnist, whassisname Joel STEIN. The staff kept re-running the Britany clip, and Tweety was clearly DROOLING disgustingly. The Time dude said, "You're beginning to creep me out." Tweety responded, "Yeah, well, wait till YOU're 50." This led to the suggestion that "Tweety" be modified to "Tweezer" to retain the hair reference while canceling out the affection factor and also adding the (dirty old) "geezer" angle.

Just to round out the Tweety portrait: 1- He is our enemy. 2- The last time he was identifiably a Democrat was circa 1988 when his book, Hardball, was first published. 3- He's a political flunky who worships SUCCESS, and started "turning" through admiration for RAYGUN's kicking his Dem bosses' rears. 4- He was ABSOLUTELY VICIOUS to President GORE all through Campaign 2000. 5- He triggered a gun incident by naming, ERRONEOUSLY, Kathleen WILLEY's supposed "jogger" (Pat BUCHANAN's mentally ill brother took the gun to the house). 6- He is a de facto wingnut operative. 7- He voted for Shrub.

[blogslut]

13. Because sometimes when he bobs his head

A wee tuft of his yellow hair falls over his forehead like Tweety. Also, he sprays spit a lot and, while that's more of a Sylvester thing, it furthers the image.

[pamela]

8. Chris Matthews of Hardball

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Lifelong Protester]

14. Agreed, as yesterday was just a screaming bash-fest.

That isn't the way to get stuff done (bitchin' and moanin', make you feel good for a while, but then you got to GET GOING!).

[GentryDixon]

10. I was wondering who

took over his body. Not the Jim Carter I am familiar with.