The Schmuk Nails It

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More on Republican Sandy Worries
by Mark Halperin | November 1, 2012


7:55 a.m. E.T.

From “Morning Joe”:

"Here are the two reasons Republicans are really worried about this. Number one, politicians don’t like uncertainty. There’s a lot of uncertainty on the Republican side. How big a deal will this be? The coverage of the storm is going to carry all the way through the election in the national press and the President has hit every mark. On substance and on stage craft, he’s hit every mark. So, he’s going to blot out a lot of the effort of Republicans to message. The other thing is, what was Mitt Romney’s closing argument? I can work across the aisle. This President has a four year record of failure, doesn’t know how to work with the other side. The symbolism of, with Chris Christie, working across the aisle, getting things done, it goes right to the heart of how Mitt Romney wanted to close this election."


read/watch: http://thepage.time.com/2012/11/01/more-on-republican-sandy-worries/

[Skidmore]

1. The President extended his hand over the past few years only to have obstructionists slap it away.

Perhaps Christie has realized the folly and the danger of McConnell's dangerous political game. McConnell played chicken with history and lost. His day of reckoning will come.

[trumad]

2. Same guy who called Obama a Dick on national televison

He's still a fucking schumk.

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3. oh yeah, trumad

he is a fucking schumk

(I should have put in a disclaimer or something: 'The Schmuk Nails It')

[winstars]

5. Hey, its one in a row for Halperin...

It is funny that he is famous, at least here on DU, for two things:

Calling our President a dick

and

saying "its a good day for John McCain"

Great body of work

[Segami]

4. Mark fucktard is only thinking about his journalistic a$$. He knows Mitt is toast and is beginning

the process of walking his shilling commentaries back to portray himself as ' objective '...yea, right!

[RC]

6. With Chris Christie out there, working with Obama and getting things done,

hopefully others will see the error in their ways and start helping, instead of hindering the country.
Those that don't will be seen in the unemployment line. They have less than a week to get their act together.

[hootinholler]

7. It doesn't go to the heart of how Rmoney wanted to close

It flies in the face of how Rmoney wanted to close. Also it wasn't that Obama wouldn't work across the aisle, it's that the other side accepted any concession given and then demanded more. Often holding things that the country absolutely needed hostage.

[-LOKI -BAD FOR YA]

8. Mark Halperin is trying to make case of mitt losing because of sandy,

mark is an professional apologizer for the gop,the right uses the uncertainty principle as a lever to get their way,they claim if go into business for yourself,you succeeded inspite of uncertainty ,you can not have it both ways.common gop dissonance distortion .

[Skidmore]

9. And Halperin conveniently ignores the McConnell-Boehner wall of obstruction

that prevented more of such cooperation for the past four years.

[justiceischeap]

10. Why did Christie throw Mittens under the bus?

I'm surprised no one is talking more about this. Before Sandy, I think it was 2 weeks or so ago, Chris Christie was talking about how the President wasn't a leader, he wasn't getting the job done... really talking poorly about the President, following the Teabagger playbook. I think the storm shook Christie but I really think something happened that made him decide to stab Mittens in the back before throwing him under the bus. He could easily tell people that President Obama was doing his job without so much effusive praise.

I want to know what the heck RMoney did to his NJ BFF, for Christie to pretty much abandon his party (as it stands) and risk his chances of reelection, because the 'baggers will remember this.

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11. His constituency was under water, it was an emergency.

Mitt has no authority or power to help the ravaged state. Obama is president.

[justiceischeap]

12. I think there's more to it than that.

He's obviously playing politics with the President and not just to get the help that he would've gotten otherwise. There's, IMO, something more going on here. I think the Romney camp did something to piss him off in regards to the hurricane,

[onethatcares]

13. maybe when the master plan was laid out

as to how the privatization would work no one ever forsaw New York/New Jersey of all places getting hit by a major storm catastrophe.

they might have been thinking about how to carve up the tax dollars among themselves and now Christie sees it just doesn't work that way.