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A Second Look: Rachel Maddow On “Daily Show”: “Insulted,” “Embarrassed” By Bush, MSNBC Compared To Munsters

Jan 11th, 2009
by Tom.
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via Rachel Maddow On “Daily Show”: “Insulted,” “Embarrassed” By Bush, MSNBC Compared To Munsters.

Rachel Maddow appeared on “The Daily Show” Wednesday night, where she and Jon Stewart discussed the MSNBC family, President-Elect Obama’s policy knowledge, and George Bush’s Blair House snub of the incoming First Family.

You gotta love her. She is soooooo Americana with her whip-crack intelligence, geeky glasses, sweet personality, yet underneath the surface she is someone with gravitas, someone to debate with much caution. Watch out for that steel-trap brain of hers.

The two then discussed Maddow’s debates with Pat Buchanan (Grandpa Munster in Stewart’s analogy) and her interviews with Barack Obama, who she described as “a policy dork.”

“I don’t necessarily agree with him on everything on policy, but I want him to care,” she said of the President-Elect, adding that Bill Clinton’s policy-obsession was one of his most endearing traits as President.

“I know this is a small thing,” Maddow then said, “but I’m insulted as an American, and a little bit embarrassed as an American, that a guy whose salary I pay, President Bush, has decided that the First Family can’t stay in the Presidential guest house.”

It is time that we all complained about the current president being sophomoric, petty, and a snot.

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A Second Look at "Putting The Law Back Into Intelligence"

Jan 6th, 2009
by Tom.
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The Progress Report wrote:

Putting The Law Back Into Intelligence


From: The Progress Report [progress@americanprogressaction.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:13 AM
Subject: Putting The Law Back Into Intelligence
ADMINISTRATION — BUSH CITES FAILED SOCIAL SECURITY PRIVATIZATION PUSH AS HIS BIGGEST DOMESTIC POLICY ACHIEVEMENT: Yesterday, the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes reportedthat he and fellow conservative Bill Kristol met with President Bush last Friday for a lunch in the president’s “private dining room adjacent to the Oval Office.”Barnes reported that the President cited his push to privatize Social Security as his biggest domestic policy accomplishment. “Bush said his effort showed it’s politically safe to campaign on changing Social Security and then actually seek to change it,” wrote Barnes. Though it seems odd that Bush cited an unsuccessful effort as his biggest domestic policy achievement, it is understandable given that he doesn’t have much else to include on a list of successes. But not only was Bush’s drive to privatize Social Security an utter failure, the concept is also widely unpopular with the American public, and if enacted, would have had disastrous consequences for Americans’ retirement funds.A recent Center for American Progress Action Fund report found that if a worker had retired on Oct. 1, 2008, after 35 years of contributions to private retirement accounts, that retiree would have lost nearly $30,000 in retirement funds because of the downturn in the stock market over the last two years.

This is exactly where we are at. The biggest flop of the twentieth century is Bush’s biggest achievement. This is what we lived through these past eight years. And now? We are a nation in crises. We are a WORLD in crises.

The spin goes round and round.

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