Did anyone see the smug and arrogant look Scarborough gave Chris Mathews...?

[kentuck]

this morning? They were discussing universal healthcare and Scarborough was asking "but how are we going to pay for it"? He leaned back in his chair with his nose stuck in the air, looking smug and arrogant, as if he had all the answers to all the questions in the world. He said he knew Mathews was going to bring up the 72% approval in the NY Times for a government plan to compete with the private plans. But he warned Mathews that there were "internals" in those polls that did not tell the whole story. For a moment, he looked a lot like George W Bush, with that little smirk on his face. Mathews was biting his tongue, because it was Joe's show. It was a very telling moment.

[havocmom]

1. Joe 'Dead Woman in Office' always reminds me of bush. It is the air of drunk about him I think

He reminds me of every alcoholic misogynist I ever met, and I have met too many.

[annabanana]

4. He spent a long time studying that attitude

[nomaco-10]

2. You might enjoy this thread from earlier this morning...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5897205

[sufrommich]

3. When doesn't Scarborough look smug and arrogant? nt

[UTUSN]

5. Tweety either recruited SCABBROUGH or mentored him into MSGENBC

Serves him right. I distinctly remember Tweety hosting SCABBROUGH multiple times on Puffball-for-Rethugs and gushing over him, "You're GOOD!1 You'd be good having a show of your own!1"

Plus, this A.M., after the CRUMB he threw us, criticizing his beloved Mc5PLANEs (below), there he was back to his old tricks, saying how he REALLY REALLY luerves Mc5PLANEs.


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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31407887/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews

MATTHEWS: That's Senator John McCain criticizing President Obama for not speaking out stronger against the crisis in Iran. .... You know, McCain just gets further and further into Lieberman country, further and further into that far-right mentality about everything is simple and manechian. All you have to do is push that idiot button now. I don't know why he's doing it. Ryan, why is he talking like that, when he knows it's complicated. The worst thing we could do is get involved over there. .... That is the point of view that would have bombed Cuba in 1962. I'm talking about McCain. ....

O'DONNELL: And John McCain does actually know that. What you're seeing here is the difference between a senator's position and a president's position. If McCain was president, I am absolutely convinced he would take the presidential position on this kind of thing. .... Which has always been consistent, always. You know, we don't go into this kind of condemnation, from the presidential perspective, ever in these situations. The president always keeps his head, whether it's Democrat or Republican, in these situations. Senators always shoot off their mouths in these situations. It's classic. ....

LIZZA: I disagree.

MATTHEWS: I think McCain's ticked off.

LIZZA: I think McCain is representing a certain view on the right-- I know this is a loaded term now, but the neo-conservative right used to mean something. And Lawrence, if that was the view, we would have thought that George Bush never would have listened to the folks in his administration who say, you go in and take out Saddam Hussein.

O'DONNELL: No, but the comparable event was what you do when China takes down one of your planes. What did George Bush do? He didn't do any saber rattling. He just did a very careful, slow, presidential-exactly what a Democratic president would have done. A presidential treatment of the situation. You see Democrats do it with trade. They always say, we're going to reopen NAFTA. No, they're not. Not when they become president, they're not. They shut up about it.

MATTHEWS: .... I think there's become this new idiot button on the right, where you have to punch this button in order to be considered a real conservative now. Obama's a socialist on health care. He's a socialist. All his fiscal programs are insanely socialistic. You have to punch that button. Then you got to say this election was bogus. You got to punch that button. If you don't talk in that right wing idiot talk, you're not considered a conservative anymore. The idea of being a thoughtful person is wrong now politically on that side of the aisle. That's where I think it's going.

O'DONNELL: I completely agree with you. What I'm saying is John McCain is actually more thoughtful than his public statements.

MATTHEWS: Ha! Ha ha! Boy, there's a presumption of innocence that I haven't heard in a while.

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[lame54]

6. What does Starbucks think of a public plan?

[polmaven]

7. How are we going to pay for it, Joe?

By taxing you what you were taxed during the St. Ronald of Reagan reign.....that's how.

[gratuitous]

8. Pay for it? Let's see

Maybe we could move the marginal tax rate on people in Joe S.'s bracket up to about 45%. That would cover a lot of the cost. We could quit launching elective invasions of other countries. Damn, there's twelve figures every year, right there. Maybe we could terminate lifetime health benefits for former members of Congress. It's probably not a lot of money, but every little bit helps.

Whaddya think, Joe? Ready to sign on to any of those ideas?