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Rachel Maddow’s Anger At U.S. Senate: ‘Game Over’ For Support From Obama Base?
Mediaite ^ | 12/17/10 | Colby Hall

Posted on 12/17/2010 8:57:45 AM PST by Libloather

Rachel Maddow’s Anger At U.S. Senate: ‘Game Over’ For Support From Obama Base?
by Colby Hall | 10:22 am, December 17th, 2010

Last night the U.S. Senate voted on a bill that will extend the current Tax Cuts first put into place by President Bush after Senator Harry Reid appeared to capitulate to the threat of a Republican filibuster. This appeared to frustrate, if not anger MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow last night, and not only because it messed up the rundown of her show. It understandably irked the self-described progressive because it was just another example of, as she put it, “this phenom of passing bills in the house only to see it die in the Senate.”

Maddow ran trough a litany of examples where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was successful in moving legislation consistent with both Obama’s and the progressive agenda forward through the House, only to see it die in the U.S. Senate. Then Maddow made very clear the stakes put forth by Senator Reid’s consistent surrender to the GOP:

With the endless obstructions and delay tactics. The margins that Democrats have over Republicans has been equal. Things have died in the Senate, not because Democrats didn’t have the votes. They had the votes. The senate broke. Without President Obama recognizing that is the U.S. Senate and acknowledging it is a broken institution that may be should be fixed, it’s sort of game over in terms of the rest of his agenda. It’s therefore sort of game over for his support from his base. Especially with a whole slew of Republicans on their way to Washington in January.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: base; maddow; obama; senate
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To: blade_tenner
Rachel who?

The thing on the right, whatever it is, is a Rachel Maddow.


21 posted on 12/17/2010 9:28:20 AM PST by KevinB (We'll stop treating Obama like a dog when he stops treating us like a fire hydrant - Fred Grandy)
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To: Libloather
It’s therefore sort of game over for his support from his base.

BS, Madcow. What are they going to do...vote GOP??? You're on the Dem plantation, and you know it.

22 posted on 12/17/2010 9:28:57 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Libloather

More idle and empty threats -

Until The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) runs more viable candidates, lefties like Rachel Madcow won’t have anyone other than democrats to vote for.


23 posted on 12/17/2010 9:34:47 AM PST by Iron Munro (Those who claim you owe them a living are cannibals seeking to survive by consuming you.)
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To: Libloather


Watch out, this dyke is a Rhodes Scholar in the fine art of throwing feces at a wall and hoping it sticks, or better known as a "Master" in soft sciences.

On a serious note however, she has some excellent studying skills (Being a Rhodes Scholar is nothing to sneeze at) but her world view is sadly skewed (Maybe geared towards how she gets her genitalia "off" and an illogical bleeding heart). Prayers for her and the rest of the blinded "progressives"...
24 posted on 12/17/2010 9:35:07 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: Libloather

It’s a start. Maybe Maddow can convince her viewers to stay at home in ‘12. All six of them.


25 posted on 12/17/2010 9:37:02 AM PST by death2tyrants
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To: Libloather
If Rachel Maddow typifies your base...you might just be a homometrosexual.
26 posted on 12/17/2010 9:40:15 AM PST by McGruff
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To: Lancey Howard

Forgot about those


27 posted on 12/17/2010 9:43:16 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (NO MOS-que AP: It's the "GROUND ZERO MOSQUE")
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To: SC_Pete
"Where can they get someone further to the left than Obama?"

I believe Lenin is available from the Russians.

28 posted on 12/17/2010 9:43:48 AM PST by spokeshave (Islamics and Democrats unite to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand)
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To: Libloather

“Just how long do you want to wait for glorious socialist revolution, comrades??” she asked

(no wait... she only thought that)


29 posted on 12/17/2010 9:45:00 AM PST by Mr. K ('Profiling' you is worse than grabbing your balls)
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To: rollo tomasi

No matter what photo I see of this person he/she certainly is a rather odd-looking, er, fellow????


30 posted on 12/17/2010 9:49:52 AM PST by Mr. C (Take Back America!)
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To: Libloather
Maddow was so upset she went home and beat her wife.
31 posted on 12/17/2010 9:52:26 AM PST by Realman30 ("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
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To: Libloather

Her grammer is terrible.

Subject does not match the verb.

Also, she may be intelligent, but she has no wisdom, only snark.


32 posted on 12/17/2010 10:13:03 AM PST by happygrl
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To: KevinB

That is the most egregious case of P**** Envy I have ever seen. She should be a women’s studies professor.


33 posted on 12/17/2010 10:15:08 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Realman30

“Maddow was so upset she went home and beat her wife.”

Er..Ah..I don’t think “give her a licking” means the same to her as it does you.


34 posted on 12/17/2010 10:16:43 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
She had potential



I guess going dyke turns you into whiny ensign.
35 posted on 12/17/2010 10:23:15 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: rollo tomasi

Gone from homecoming queen to homecoming queer.


36 posted on 12/17/2010 11:19:27 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

ROTF!


37 posted on 12/17/2010 11:23:23 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Libloather
There are exceptions to any rule or generalization, but have you ever noticed the connections between lesbians and the progressives? I would venture to guess that there is an inverse proportionality between lesbianism and theism, too. It seems that you have to be a homosexual in order to full grasp the worldview of a liberal or progressive, which is why heterosexuals and Christians have a difficult time in understanding how someone can be a liberal/socialist/Marxist/progressive.
38 posted on 12/17/2010 11:33:36 AM PST by Nosterrex
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To: Libloather

Something tells me her trademark smug look was not in evidence when she said this.


39 posted on 12/17/2010 9:07:10 PM PST by sinanju
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To: Lancey Howard

And altogether that’s about 35% of the voters (mostly because of the hugely bloated government unions).


40 posted on 12/17/2010 10:40:06 PM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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