This jackass from Freedomworks lied through his teeth right off the get-go. At 1:02 he crows about his organization's opposition to Bush and yet Freedomworks didn't even exist until Spring 2008! How can you tell when a Tea Party advocate is lying? Their lips are moving.
FreedomWorks wants buying between state lines. Think that will insure more people and drive costs down? Take a look at when they did something similar to credit card companies (making the state interest cap the limit on credit card interest). Once they did this, wouldn't you know it, almost every credit card company moved to the state with the highest interest cap, interest rose, profits increased, costs went up, and they lobbied to deregulate further. They want this again, just with healhcare.
What is not mentioned in the video description is that the only founder of Citizens for a Sound Economy is David Koch. He is then, by proxy, the instigator of Freedom Works. He is also single handedly responsible for developing Americans For Prosperity. These are all organizations designed to dupe the uninformed and undereducated into volunteering, and contributing money, to the Koch Empire's agenda to deregulate Corporations, and bust unions. They also want to eliminate all workers rights.
Same with Dems though. The two parties have become virtually the same aside from rhetoric. Where is the difference between Obama and Bush?! Guantanamo bay, foreign war and defense spending, tax cuts for big corporations alone, doing whatever the banks tell them, the drug war, the patriot act. I remember dems hating these things when bush was in charge, but when obama supports them it just super? Wake up. Ron Paul 2012 if you want real change.
@crumpetbutterdrips Lets see if this is true. Best interest of a US citizen: Good job, low taxes, low inflation, good schools, safe borders, safe community.
Dems: High taxes which "steal" money from workers, forces business to relocate over-seas causing high unemployment, printing money by the bushel creating high inflation, back teacher's unions who oppose competition and merit pay creating poor schools, oppse the military, and supporting criminals reduced sentences....Hmmmm
To be honest I see no distinction between Dem and Rep and don't understand partisan politics.
Business, politics and the media have coalesced to create a monster that will do great damage to America. Both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement have tried to point this out and I hope they will realize that they're both working towards the same ideal.
@crumpetbutterdrips I used to call myself a strong republican, I now call myself a strong conservative. There is a big difference between liberal and conservative. And the Tea Party is much more honorable than the misguided, uneducated Occupy people. True liberalism (from the USA perspective) is socialist. It believes the common man is not equipped to make his own decisions, that a few liberal elites should control. It is very racist, telling blacks and other minorities...
@crumpetbutterdrips ...that they aren't good enough to succeed unless the deck is rigged for them (gov't programs) creating a disturbingly harmful paternalistic relationship. Liberals have no qualms about taking things (money,property, rights) from others if they think they can use them "better". Conservatives beleieve the gov't should be small, and let people succeed and fail based on their own merit. If someone truly needs help, conservatives care for them through private..
@crumpetbutterdrips ...(voluntary) charities that ACTUALLY do help people. They don't steal from others through force of taxation. Conservatives believe in the dignity of man and the power of the individual.
People don't realize that all this Republican drama is the result of a well elaborated conspiracy from the far right to create the environment for the second civil war. The Republican Party is only an instrument of evil forces, convoluted in their own weakness. The strategy is to do as much damage to the federal government as possible and then bring history from behind to prove government’s conspiracy and re-claim the rights of the states to secede.
This intrinsic propulsion of the psychologically ordained, to conclude the civil war, is what will ultimately bring this great nation to its demise. It is a mental sickness that will flutter in the foul atmosphere of prejudice and hatred superseding common sense and basic Christian, universal moral values. Haughtiness can only get satisfied with destruction.
Chris Matthews is a fraud! He isn't letting the guy speak! There are answers for all of his questions. And about the other man from the AFL, he says that there is no competition and that drives up costs, but he contends that the answer is MORE government regulation? That is absolutely insane.
I have a retarded (republican) uncle that pays 600 dollars a month for his health insurance and he feels that health insurance isn't a necessity. He also feels that the government should just stay out of it and let the market regulate itself. Now you see why he's retarded. If health insurance isn't a necessity then why pay so much for it? Not to mention that because of his health care costs he is now having difficulty paying his mortgage. Does anyone else think my uncle is retarded or is it me?
These guys bitch about "big government", yet they FAIL to see the utter irony of all the BIGGER GOVERNMENT (especially on defense and foreign policy) THEY SUPPORT! They ARE frauds (and morons who know nothing about politics or history). Everything they bitch about or support would mostly help BIG BUSINESS and the rich! It would hardly help them. I mean, honestly. Killing a HC plan that may regulate insurance and help ensure more coverage but reduces their profits helps YOU how?
The "big government" WE support on the Left actually HELPS PEOPLE (social insurance and whathaveyou). The big government THEY support only brings people down, oftentimes involves bigotry and hatred, and many times just ends up killing people and has no real rationale. They are FULL OF SHIT and are just more typical conservatives trying to pass off as "independent thinkers."
I see through the teabag ruse! I mean, if the tea party is so "clever" and "fresh"....
Why is it made up of grumpy, whiny baby boomers? There's hardly anyone under 40 probably in those fucking crowds at all those stupid rallies! It's just a bunch of old white folks who are too traditionalist for their own good who wanna scapegoat for their own failures in life and are too easily brainwashed by David Koch, Mark Phillips, Dick Armey and all the other astroturfers. I mean, how is it acceptable for A for P to have blood-stained hand signs to protest HEALTHCARE REFORM??
David Koch, Mark Phillips, Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe know what they're doing: just sending an army of ignoramuses to help their big business cronies! THAT'S IT! Yet you teabaggers are too STUPID to realize it. You think these douchebags running all those "pro-freedom" orgs. REALLY care about you??
And why is it that so few of the tea party's members are poor and working class? Explain that one to me if "big government" and Obama are SOO bad for average Americans.
You think people who send you to rallies to OPPOSE increased healthcare coverage and affordability ACTUALLY give 2 shits about giving you better healthcare?? Oh, please. They just don't want their cronies in Big Pharma, the hospital corporations, and private insurers and other providers to get further taxed and regulated. Explain to me why BILLIONAIRE David Koch, who is by no means helpless, NEEDS a stake in Americans for Prosperity! Don't believe me? Look it up! The guy practically runs it!
Notice how almost NONE of the people who run these right-wing think-tanks and HUGE teabag orgs. like Freedomworks and A for P are middle and working class. They all come from the top 5% or 10% of the income ladder. WHOSE interests do you think they REALLY care about? It's no coincidence that everything tea partiers are led to "fight for" or protest in these rallies are THE SAME THINGS BUSINESS WANTS! Lower taxes, less regulation, and so on.
Don't count on groups like A for P to ever fight for the average American. They probably were planning on sending some pro-business thugs to try to make the Wisconsin union protestors look bad. Or perhaps they did, and I just didn't hear much about it.
The tea party is a con! Where is the tea party's alternative to "Obamacare"? Even if we DO repeal the HC law, what guarantee is there that the Republicans will give 2 shits enough to actually submit THEIR OWN BILL to 'fix' it??
They didn't do a damn thing to try to fix the healthcare mess ever since Reagan got into office, and they STYMIED any and all attempts before Obama! Why did we have to wait 17 years for Obama to come into office to get any semi-meaningful HC reform?? If you Republicans and teabaggers actually gave 2 shits about your fellow man, you would've gotten this shit done WAY EARLIER. But you don't. You're a bunch of selfish ultraconservative assholes who bitch about some phantom "socialism."
Look, I get it regarding the deficit and spending. That must be tackled eventually. But being batshit insane and going to rallies with the dumbest signs ever is NOT the solution. Be rational about it.
And nonpartisan? HA! If that were the case, why were ALL of your favorite candidates in 2010 Republicans??? Not a single fucking Democrat, even though there were AT LEAST A HANDFUL of self-proclaimed Tea Party Democrats in that election. Why were some of your favorite of THOSE candidates the most ridiculous one could find, like Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell, who were every bit as right-wing and absurd on social issues as on fiscal and foreign policy?
If you're so nonpartisan, why did it take over 8 years to finally wake up to deficit spending? Where were you during Bush? I hate to beat a dead horse here, but no tea partier can explain to me WHY if they're so goddamn concerned about deficit spending AT ANY TIME they weren't protesting on the streets during Bush. They started protesting when the president just HAPPENED to be a Democrat...
But I digress. I think I've wasted enough time here setting the record straight for teabaggers.
The tea party guy in this video summed it up quite well. YOU'VE GOT NOTHING! You had no alternative to Obama's HC plan, and you've got nothing now. All you can do is say "no", but you've got nothing of your own to say "Yes" to! Either lead, follow or get out of the way.
TEABAGGERS are really just violent NAZIS,hiding behind the AMERICAN FLAG while trying to overthrow our DEMOCRACY and establish a new RACIST TEABAG REICH in AMERICA .TEABAGGERS are a DISGRACE to all REAL AMERICANS
I used to like Chris Matthews, but he's one big "shout-out" these days. I can't listen to an "interview" with him. He talks over everyone he disagrees with. I'd love to listen to both sides of issues but Chris is way too biased in his interviews theses days. Chris, go back to journalism school and take a refresher course.
I used to like Chris Matthews, but he's one big "shout-out" these days. I can't listen to an "interview" with him. He talks over everyone he disagrees with. I'd love to listen to both sides of issues but Chris is way too unbiased in his interviews theses days. Chris, go back to journalism school and take a refresher course.
Chris is a real dumbass. What do you think of being forced to purchase insurance? I notice he avoids that issue! He just dont get it! We are saying no to BIG GOVEREMENT! No to OBAMA! NO To Chris! Chris you should shut up and listen!
@radrena Forced to buy insurance? No, you have the option to pay an assessment to guarantee your treatment at a hospital with no pre-payment and no credit check. Or are you saying you would rather have to take a loan at the door or give your credit card first? Or would you just suggest the whole "doctor's care in an emergency is a right" thing just be mothballed until the economy improves? Or never? Makes you sound like a "freeloader", you want the emergency care but won't guarantee payment.
Chris Matthews is putting the tea party movement in with the republicans because they are against this health care bill. In fact they are bi-partisan and have been preaching the same thing for twenty some years. They have not been on his show before because not enough people supported them until now which implies that now people are finally accepting their message, at least in part.
Freedomworks is a fake tea party group. They are planing to use the stupider tea partiers to their advantage just like the fake tea party candidate Sara palin who is an obvious elitist. DONT BE FOOLED
Conservatives believe that a % of deaths from lack of healthcare insurance is acceptable. Let's call this collateral damage. And this is a group of people who try to convince us that they are "pro-life". That is, until you are born... then you can fuck off and die.
Hey they have every right to protest and make noise, since they never got violent or even wrecked anything. Don't the unions have an organization, paid officials and lobbyists too? Matthews is just as bad as some right wing hack like Levin.
Hardball is nothing more than hard liberal. He keeps interrupting Max Pappas and doesn't let him finish a sentence, yet he lets the afl-cio representative have free reign! I participate with tea party information because the opportunity is there and they believe like I do - not because I get an e-mail from Freedomworks! Freedomworks helps gets the word out, but they aren't why millions of conservative gather together! We are sick of our country being turned into a socialist gov't & country!!
Another feeble attempt by a so called journalist(political hack) to discredit a large and growing group. It's refreshing to see so many of the "open minded", "tolerant" folks all using generalizations and exhibiting some real prejudice right out in the open like people will overlook their bigotry if they are fanning the flames of anti-free speech...
Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann are both tools of the liberal media and therefore the President himself. I wonder if his leg is still tingling over Obama?
Just a word to all you union socialists, some of us defend ourselves. You commit a violent attack toward the wrong guy at a tea party, you may never get out of the hospital.
@BarthBunzel So far the violence by the left has been let slide. It's also been ignored by the media, while they accuse average Americans of being potentially violent. The union idiots think they can attack anyone they choose without any consequences. That isn't the case. I don't respond well to being attacked. I tend to defend myself with a vengeance, especially against enemies of the American people and of the constitution. A habit I don't intend to break.
@nighthawg Yes I have heard right winger endlessly repeat one incident where it was alleged some union guys pushed around someone at a rally. Yet are you so psychotic that you are willing to shoot someone over that? Your point that union people are out there attacking people left and right is a lie that paranoid fools like you absorbed from crackpots like Beck and Savage.
@BarthBunzel Did I say anything about shooting someone you idiot? And there has been only one "alleged" attack? You are an msnbc kinda guy, that's pretty obvious. You just stick with Mathews and Olbernan. They'll make sure you get nothing but the "facts", as they see then anyway. By the way alice, I never watch or listen to Beck and I've never even heard a Savage show. Getting news from TV or radio is probably your problem.
this video is amusing--only for the fact that Matthews doesn't seem capable of realizing that just because this bill was popularized by the media and underhandedly passed and signed into law against the majority of the people's desires doesn't mean that if someone opposes the bill, that person can't still be for health INSURANCE (not health CARE) reform. I get the feeling that Matthews, like many other Limelight Liberals, is Constitutionally and fiscally retarded.
Tell us, Chris Matthews, how many leg breaking AFL-CIO members are going to be sent to these protests? And are you going to actually REPORT on the card carriers violence? Like you DON'T DO when you see violence by your LEFTISTS?
If you have people "discussing issues" from a perspective of lies and deception, then what is that "debate" worth? This is why republicans, tea baggers, freedomworks are so annoying in their disengenuousness. They aren't worth the astroturf they stain their knees on.
I agree that they are douchebags. They are hypocrites. They are frauds. But Chris Matthews is also a douchebag in a large network of douchebags, hypocrites and frauds that we like to call the media.
All of'em. We need to (not being literal) nuke the media and start over.
Crybaby Matthews defends the Demopublican healthcare plan, is he a lobbyist?
Should we have to beg our government for "tax exempt status" in order to speak? I am so mad right now, my blood is boiling. What happened to my First Amendment?
@2:50 Gerald Shea of the AFL-CIO: The situation should be "untenable". Socialism itself is untenable. VOTE LIBERTARIAN! To hell with "Freedom Works".
These people are saying no to Dick Armey's flavor of socialism as well as Obama's flavor of socialism.
Abolish medicare, Abolish the FDA, Abolish the AMA, Abolish the ACS, Abolish government-mandated health insurance, Abolish socialized medicine.
Government involvement in medicine creates mass death. There is no cure for poverty of some people. Fuck Freedom Works, Fuck Chris Matthews, Fuck Reagan and Bush, Fuck all Collectivist Socialized Medicine.
If Chris Matthews had any balls, he'd have capitalist libertarians like Marc Stevens, Elan Journo or Stefan Molyneux on H-ball.
@callouschristian The U.S. school system IS socialized (although wealthier citizens can opt for a private education). If I WERE in the U.S., I'd leave, as you suggest.
I'm a Canadian. The hint is in my username. That's the primary reason I don't perceive "socialist" as a dirty word - we don't have many McCarthy-esque xenophobes in this country.
That's "Freedom Haters Ignorant People", folks. Google now before it's too God-damned late!!!
70 % Canadians have private insurance because the government dont cover prescription drugs , dental care, eye examination , chiropractic, physical therapy
Each Province of Canada run their own healthcare services
Healthcare is funded by taxes paid by the residents and businesses and transfer payments from the federal government
I was working in Toronto Canada and I was paying 30 dollars a month for my private health insurance through my company but now I work in buffalo New York and now I have to pay 180 dollars a month for health insurance with the company I work for now.
In Canada, my income tax rate was 15% and now working in the buffalo new York ; my income tax rate is 22% plus I am spending a lot of money on private insurance
Health insurance companies is a big business in Canada
President's don't have the power of the purse, you do realize this right? Oh and when Republicans took over Congress during Clinton's admin. they created several years of budget surplus.
The senate and congress was control by the Republican party for 6 years and President for 8 years and USA debt double from 5 to 10 trillion dollars plus the government increase by 20% and Bush never veto a spending bill . So, why would you vote for the Republicans again because they had their chance to reform the government and they failed .
Bush went into 2 wars. I don't know if you're aware of this but you got to spend money for war. Plus when republicans were in control of Congress they did create surpluses. When has a Democratically controlled Congress ever produced budget surpluses? If your point is that both parties suck. Then what 3rd party in modern times is strong enough to compete with these 2 parties? That is why you vote Republican.
When the Republicans get back into the White House and get both chambers of congress hey wont do a damn thing! Not a GODDAMN THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama's government will be a failure because their ideology will prevent them from turning to the methods that successfully lower unemployment. The economy cannot recover with high unemployment because loan defaults will cause another "capitalization" crisis for the banks, who then will keep credit tight and interest rates astronomical on credit cards.
It sounds good until you are down to the lowest common denominator in a state that is owned by the insurance industry. You better not get sick then and if you do die quickly because you will be dropped. Dummy is a great name for you. If you change the name - try MORON
sorry scotydogd, I'm having a little trouble figuring out whether you are attempting to respond to my two questions or if you just replied to my comment by mistake
the 2010 elections will tell the idiot Chris Mathews who is grass roots. 2010 a "tea party" Tsunami will sweep 30-40 seats back into the Conservative column.
The hypocrisy of CM is hilarious! Saying the protesters aren't sophisticated because they're yelling "just say no". He's such an elitist who would never question the slogans or intentions of war protesters. why are these people attacking Americans? It doesn't seem like a very "sophisticated" way to win support.
This organization must be extremely powerful if it can not only inform people of town halls, but can actually shift the poll numbers of the American people ! The left if just looking for an enemy (like a vast right-wing conspiracy) instead of looking at what the American people are saying. We want less government spending, not more!
Cassandra: If you cant handle the truth go back under your rock and listen to your AM radio. The radio entertainers like Hannity the Liar, Rush the Sleaze and Beck the Turd will provide you with the illusions you can handle. Moron says what?
There but for the grace of God go I (all of us). We are all one personal crisis away from bankruptcy...we who have insurance. You don't find out what your policy doesn't cover until you need it in a crisis. Ins Co CEO's pay themselves >$200,000.00/Day. Count the commercials "ask your doctor about our drug"...That is what we are paying for. We are being ripped off by profit hungry vampires.
Hey justin, .... give? give every american healthcare? None of it's free and we're all gonna pay. there's too much involved in this house bill.
Actually, Matthews is more like MSNBC's version of Hannity.
Introducing government run healthcare is like putting cannibals in charge of the daycare... they'll eat everyone else for lunch. The insurance companies will cease to exist... unless they're somehow in bed with the Obama administration. That'll make everyone mad.
Ok, youve had Reagan in charge...youve had the first George Bush in charge...you had two terms of George Bush Jr(20 years). And NO TIME IN THAT, have I had somebody come on this show, or on anywhere else saying, We have to get a republican healthcare plan to help uninsured people get insured. YOU GUYS ARE FRAUDS. YOU DONT DO IT.- Chris Matthews
Ya know, I can understand why you guys dont like big government, but this is the incredible part of your argumentbecause when you are in power..Ronald Reagan, they used to say, 'well he had a different approach to medicare'his approach was the MA approach...no approach. I mean, its fair enough, just say youre conservativeyoure willing to suffer the lose of people who dont have healthcareits better that way than having a big government.- Chris Matthews
matthews is forgetting that america is bankrupt. we don't have the money to reform healthcare, we don't have the money to help the masses. unfortunately. so because people are uninsured and they're going to the ER and making costs rise for all of us, we have to rush to pass a Bill that nobodys read. thats crazy, thats a fraud.
Good God, the nerve of Mr. Tingle to call Americans who don't want socialism/communism a fraud! Well, Matthews and MSNBC are the frauds, masquerading as journalists.
msnbc should just change there name to the obama news network, first matthews say's there is no health care plan then he turns around says to the guy from freedom works that they are killing obama health care plan
fuck the insurance companies. i want to see them all out of business. they're corrupt and they don't give a rats ass about anyone's health care. they spend billion denying claims, over burdening doctors, patients, and the whole health care system itself. their profits are more important than treating the sick.
i am so sick of private industry and their corrupt, selfish unending greed, maybe socialism is the answer, a democratic socialism. these people are the scum of the earth.
The GOP doesn't like these groups, even though they're conservative. Both parties have abandoned their principles, and the only difference between the two is who gets the money. For the same reason, the GOP didn't like Ron Paul - because he was for real.
So maybe they're not truly "grassroots," but Matthews refuses to even listen to a half sentence the guy started. Just because they never supported any health coverage bill that gets massive media coverage doesn't mean they never supported health reform.
Can you even have a true "grassroots" movement anyway? If you need hundreds of people to show up to have any movement at all, generally it has to be organized by somebody.
EP wrt: "So maybe they're not truly "grassroots," There's no maybe about it. Matthews gave Pappas ample time to answer, however, he doesn't allow 'guests' to just spew their talking points and lies.
"Can you even have a true "grassroots" movement anyway?
Yes. Anti-war protesters have been railing against U.S. military action since the 1960's without corporate sponsorship. What is being done now is the same disruptive antics carried out by the Brook Brothers Rioters of the 2000 election.
@dawgnpony The unions sponsor a lot of protests too. As well there is a lot of grassroots opposition to the health care that had nothing to do with . Of course, some corporations egged them on but the people were already mad.
They didn't pay me and a lot more than 400,000 people are opposed to this bill. Medicaid and Medicare are government run and they're bankrupt. Do you really want to put everyones lives into the hands of the same people who can't even manage a few? Maybe, I should stop working, get pregnant out of wedlock and live off the government, it's a pretty carefree life for all of the people that I know who do it. And surprise suprise they're some of the only people I know that are for Obama care.
chanthavongsy, #1. Congress has gov't run healthcare and they claim it is great. #2. Seniors have gov't run healhcare and they are satisfied and think it great. #3. Veterans have gov"t run healthcare and they think it is great. So why is it not so great for the PEOPLE. BTW, The programs are short on money because Bush borrowed from it to go to war with Iraq. Remember? Bush say Iraq did nothing to us?
chanthavongsy88 You must be a Communist if you know a lot of people living carefree lives who stop working, get pregnant out of wedlock, and live off the government.
The person for government run healthcare is calling me a Communist... Can you say ironic. Anyway no I work in the OB department so I see what goes on. The babies father is still around but they don't get married just so they can collect government money. It's interesting that 40% of babies in '07 were born to unwed mothers.
chanthavongsy88 Oh, you mean like Sarah Palin's daughter? And how do you know so much about your clients' personal lives? If you work in OB dept, your only concern should be the health of mothers and their babies. You sound like a nosey busybody poking around in people's personal business & private lives. That is NOT your job and frankly you sound too unethical to work in the OB dept if you violate people's privacy that much.
I cannot help what I see. It is part of our jobs when admitting to ask insurance questions to inform the patient what is covered and what they may have to pay themselves. If you don't know how it works then don't comment. Yes Palin's daughter getting pregnant was an accident and if Medicaid would only pay for the accidents rather than the women having an entire family on Medicaid things would be better. Women are actually choosing to have these children on Medicaid.
chanthavongsy88 Not much double standard on your part, eh? The only reason why we know about Palin's daughter is becuz Palin is the worst stage mother in the world. I will comment on your behavior that you make known to everyone online. You are making assumptions on people's personal lives when you are supposed to be there to HELP mothers and newborns, not deciding which newborn gets healthcare or not!!! Good grief, who are you, Nurse Ratchet!? You should not even be working in an OB dept.
chanthavongsy88 You've already made it clear that you think some of those newborns in your OB dept should NOT even be getting Medicaid healthcare coverage! You are a spiderwoman amongst those innocent lambs. Your sinister posts are making me cringe, I can't stand the thought of you being around babies.
They are absolutely astroturf! I called the GOP and they told me so. You can call them to and ask them yourself. See my profile and see what happened when I called by looking in the comment section.
When Liberals shout and scream, they're "standing up for their rights". When any group that opposes them does, it's "hooliganism" and "anti-democratic". Folks are angry, and the media is just shooting themselves in the foot when they give these events national coverage, in a attempt to put out hte fire. Rather than being cowed by mockery, the public is stepping up the heat by showing up in larger numbers.
It's okay we're apparently apart of a "mob" now. Maybe we should make a black market health care system so when Obama care fails them and tells them that they are too old to treat or are to much of a drain on the system, they'll have somewhere to go.
chanthavongsy88 Funny you should say that, Obama is for Hospice, hardly an attitude against end of life treatment, its quite the opposite. My Mom was on Hospice through Medicare and was treated like a queen in her home until the day she died in her bed. The drain on the system is Republican and Blue Dog candidates that take campaign contributions from the "wealthfare" insurance industry. Stop lies & vote out for-profit insurance scams, and our health , our economy and our people will flourish!
Freedom Works clearly attracts some of the most ignorant elements of American society (Republican voters). Some of those Just Saying No look like they are old enuf to be on Medicare!
This is the exact reason why I love Chris Matthews to death! He won't let these anti-democratic, anti-American clowns who are hired by right-wing lobbyists get away with anything, and that's awesome....GO CHRIS MATTHEWS!!
lmao. he is a zionist traitor. Turn off that dumb ass TV. I dont give a shit if you support Tea Party etc, but for fucks sake, dont display your ignorance by "loving a TV-personality". Do your homework. Google: "Who owns the media?"
@WearechangeN The mere mention of the word "zionist" lets me know that you're one of those clowns who are just a couple of peanuts short of a snack, buddy. Don't forget to take off the pointy saran-wrap hat before you come out of your Mom's attic, OK?
Was that your rebuttal? Ad hominem attacks and a great display of ignorance. Looks like this Chris Matthews guy really has trained you well. What about Zionism do you not understand?
Since Harry Truman, President Obama is the only one in 4 decades that is serious about reforming Health Care.
During each past presidential campaigns, every candidates have promised to reform HC but once elected nothing has ever been done---except when Ronald Regan deregulated the Insurance Industry & made things worst for the consumers---while the Insurers raked in Billions of profit each year from premiums paid by insured.
Republicans always side with Big Corps while screwing us all.
I love it when Chris rips apart a repug.
RightWingHunter666 3 weeks ago
This jackass from Freedomworks lied through his teeth right off the get-go. At 1:02 he crows about his organization's opposition to Bush and yet Freedomworks didn't even exist until Spring 2008! How can you tell when a Tea Party advocate is lying? Their lips are moving.
Activeassholeonpills 3 months ago
Fuck Freedom Works
TheRevolutionCanada 5 months ago in playlist political talk 2
FreedomWorks wants buying between state lines. Think that will insure more people and drive costs down? Take a look at when they did something similar to credit card companies (making the state interest cap the limit on credit card interest). Once they did this, wouldn't you know it, almost every credit card company moved to the state with the highest interest cap, interest rose, profits increased, costs went up, and they lobbied to deregulate further. They want this again, just with healhcare.
MagnesDrachen13 5 months ago
FreedomWorks is as non-partisan as the RNC.
MagnesDrachen13 5 months ago
What is not mentioned in the video description is that the only founder of Citizens for a Sound Economy is David Koch. He is then, by proxy, the instigator of Freedom Works. He is also single handedly responsible for developing Americans For Prosperity. These are all organizations designed to dupe the uninformed and undereducated into volunteering, and contributing money, to the Koch Empire's agenda to deregulate Corporations, and bust unions. They also want to eliminate all workers rights.
arklat 5 months ago
...all three of these guys are idiots....
BARCACROSSESTHEALPS 6 months ago
across state lines, Mr. Matthews.
paulrprichard 6 months ago
The greatest success of the GOP is persuading the ordinary voter to vote AGAINST their own best interest.
It's masterful.
crumpetbutterdrips 6 months ago 5
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@crumpetbutterdrips
The greatest success of the DNC is persuading stupid people like you, to give up their personal freedoms in exchange for the masters table scraps.
captianusa 6 months ago
@crumpetbutterdrips
Same with Dems though. The two parties have become virtually the same aside from rhetoric. Where is the difference between Obama and Bush?! Guantanamo bay, foreign war and defense spending, tax cuts for big corporations alone, doing whatever the banks tell them, the drug war, the patriot act. I remember dems hating these things when bush was in charge, but when obama supports them it just super? Wake up. Ron Paul 2012 if you want real change.
bosshog7169 6 months ago
@crumpetbutterdrips If you honestly think you somehow know what's in the best of interest of another grown man, then you are a FASCIST
Ironhawk86 6 months ago
@crumpetbutterdrips Lets see if this is true. Best interest of a US citizen: Good job, low taxes, low inflation, good schools, safe borders, safe community.
Dems: High taxes which "steal" money from workers, forces business to relocate over-seas causing high unemployment, printing money by the bushel creating high inflation, back teacher's unions who oppose competition and merit pay creating poor schools, oppse the military, and supporting criminals reduced sentences....Hmmmm
svvmichael1 1 month ago
To be honest I see no distinction between Dem and Rep and don't understand partisan politics.
Business, politics and the media have coalesced to create a monster that will do great damage to America. Both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement have tried to point this out and I hope they will realize that they're both working towards the same ideal.
crumpetbutterdrips 1 month ago
@crumpetbutterdrips I used to call myself a strong republican, I now call myself a strong conservative. There is a big difference between liberal and conservative. And the Tea Party is much more honorable than the misguided, uneducated Occupy people. True liberalism (from the USA perspective) is socialist. It believes the common man is not equipped to make his own decisions, that a few liberal elites should control. It is very racist, telling blacks and other minorities...
svvmichael1 1 month ago
@crumpetbutterdrips ...that they aren't good enough to succeed unless the deck is rigged for them (gov't programs) creating a disturbingly harmful paternalistic relationship. Liberals have no qualms about taking things (money,property, rights) from others if they think they can use them "better". Conservatives beleieve the gov't should be small, and let people succeed and fail based on their own merit. If someone truly needs help, conservatives care for them through private..
svvmichael1 1 month ago
@crumpetbutterdrips ...(voluntary) charities that ACTUALLY do help people. They don't steal from others through force of taxation. Conservatives believe in the dignity of man and the power of the individual.
svvmichael1 1 month ago
People don't realize that all this Republican drama is the result of a well elaborated conspiracy from the far right to create the environment for the second civil war. The Republican Party is only an instrument of evil forces, convoluted in their own weakness. The strategy is to do as much damage to the federal government as possible and then bring history from behind to prove government’s conspiracy and re-claim the rights of the states to secede.
kingachybraky 6 months ago
This intrinsic propulsion of the psychologically ordained, to conclude the civil war, is what will ultimately bring this great nation to its demise. It is a mental sickness that will flutter in the foul atmosphere of prejudice and hatred superseding common sense and basic Christian, universal moral values. Haughtiness can only get satisfied with destruction.
kingachybraky 6 months ago
Chris Matthews is a fraud! He isn't letting the guy speak! There are answers for all of his questions. And about the other man from the AFL, he says that there is no competition and that drives up costs, but he contends that the answer is MORE government regulation? That is absolutely insane.
ajdavidson11292 8 months ago
We get to know the views of Chris Matthews are but not of the guy supposedly being interviewed.
paulrprichard 8 months ago
Chris Matthews is a fraud.
paulrprichard 8 months ago
@paulrprichard Republicans are frauds. Republicans are afraid of democracy. Epic conserviturd fail.
soda1yes 7 months ago
ripped him a new asshole
darkknight302 9 months ago
I have a retarded (republican) uncle that pays 600 dollars a month for his health insurance and he feels that health insurance isn't a necessity. He also feels that the government should just stay out of it and let the market regulate itself. Now you see why he's retarded. If health insurance isn't a necessity then why pay so much for it? Not to mention that because of his health care costs he is now having difficulty paying his mortgage. Does anyone else think my uncle is retarded or is it me?
BramSLI1 10 months ago 14
@BramSLI1 you are right... snd it's the same way with these stupid tea baggers...
mervviscious 2 weeks ago
A lot of ER's are also packed with illegal aliens who get free care...or rather, they steal care from citizens who deserve it.
gombis666 10 months ago
@gombis666 exactly. Thats why they should be forced to buy their own insurance so we dont have to pay for it. Good thing obama got that passed
OBAMA2012USA 9 months ago
These guys bitch about "big government", yet they FAIL to see the utter irony of all the BIGGER GOVERNMENT (especially on defense and foreign policy) THEY SUPPORT! They ARE frauds (and morons who know nothing about politics or history). Everything they bitch about or support would mostly help BIG BUSINESS and the rich! It would hardly help them. I mean, honestly. Killing a HC plan that may regulate insurance and help ensure more coverage but reduces their profits helps YOU how?
whoo689 11 months ago
The "big government" WE support on the Left actually HELPS PEOPLE (social insurance and whathaveyou). The big government THEY support only brings people down, oftentimes involves bigotry and hatred, and many times just ends up killing people and has no real rationale. They are FULL OF SHIT and are just more typical conservatives trying to pass off as "independent thinkers."
I see through the teabag ruse! I mean, if the tea party is so "clever" and "fresh"....
whoo689 11 months ago
Why is it made up of grumpy, whiny baby boomers? There's hardly anyone under 40 probably in those fucking crowds at all those stupid rallies! It's just a bunch of old white folks who are too traditionalist for their own good who wanna scapegoat for their own failures in life and are too easily brainwashed by David Koch, Mark Phillips, Dick Armey and all the other astroturfers. I mean, how is it acceptable for A for P to have blood-stained hand signs to protest HEALTHCARE REFORM??
whoo689 11 months ago
David Koch, Mark Phillips, Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe know what they're doing: just sending an army of ignoramuses to help their big business cronies! THAT'S IT! Yet you teabaggers are too STUPID to realize it. You think these douchebags running all those "pro-freedom" orgs. REALLY care about you??
And why is it that so few of the tea party's members are poor and working class? Explain that one to me if "big government" and Obama are SOO bad for average Americans.
whoo689 11 months ago
You think people who send you to rallies to OPPOSE increased healthcare coverage and affordability ACTUALLY give 2 shits about giving you better healthcare?? Oh, please. They just don't want their cronies in Big Pharma, the hospital corporations, and private insurers and other providers to get further taxed and regulated. Explain to me why BILLIONAIRE David Koch, who is by no means helpless, NEEDS a stake in Americans for Prosperity! Don't believe me? Look it up! The guy practically runs it!
whoo689 11 months ago
Notice how almost NONE of the people who run these right-wing think-tanks and HUGE teabag orgs. like Freedomworks and A for P are middle and working class. They all come from the top 5% or 10% of the income ladder. WHOSE interests do you think they REALLY care about? It's no coincidence that everything tea partiers are led to "fight for" or protest in these rallies are THE SAME THINGS BUSINESS WANTS! Lower taxes, less regulation, and so on.
whoo689 11 months ago
Don't count on groups like A for P to ever fight for the average American. They probably were planning on sending some pro-business thugs to try to make the Wisconsin union protestors look bad. Or perhaps they did, and I just didn't hear much about it.
The tea party is a con! Where is the tea party's alternative to "Obamacare"? Even if we DO repeal the HC law, what guarantee is there that the Republicans will give 2 shits enough to actually submit THEIR OWN BILL to 'fix' it??
whoo689 11 months ago
They didn't do a damn thing to try to fix the healthcare mess ever since Reagan got into office, and they STYMIED any and all attempts before Obama! Why did we have to wait 17 years for Obama to come into office to get any semi-meaningful HC reform?? If you Republicans and teabaggers actually gave 2 shits about your fellow man, you would've gotten this shit done WAY EARLIER. But you don't. You're a bunch of selfish ultraconservative assholes who bitch about some phantom "socialism."
whoo689 11 months ago
Look, I get it regarding the deficit and spending. That must be tackled eventually. But being batshit insane and going to rallies with the dumbest signs ever is NOT the solution. Be rational about it.
whoo689 11 months ago
And nonpartisan? HA! If that were the case, why were ALL of your favorite candidates in 2010 Republicans??? Not a single fucking Democrat, even though there were AT LEAST A HANDFUL of self-proclaimed Tea Party Democrats in that election. Why were some of your favorite of THOSE candidates the most ridiculous one could find, like Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell, who were every bit as right-wing and absurd on social issues as on fiscal and foreign policy?
whoo689 11 months ago
If you're so nonpartisan, why did it take over 8 years to finally wake up to deficit spending? Where were you during Bush? I hate to beat a dead horse here, but no tea partier can explain to me WHY if they're so goddamn concerned about deficit spending AT ANY TIME they weren't protesting on the streets during Bush. They started protesting when the president just HAPPENED to be a Democrat...
But I digress. I think I've wasted enough time here setting the record straight for teabaggers.
whoo689 11 months ago
The tea party guy in this video summed it up quite well. YOU'VE GOT NOTHING! You had no alternative to Obama's HC plan, and you've got nothing now. All you can do is say "no", but you've got nothing of your own to say "Yes" to! Either lead, follow or get out of the way.
whoo689 11 months ago
More like FascismWorks
whoo689 11 months ago
chrissy mathews of ms-DNC calling them frauds? hahahaha
he's obama's puppet love interest.
TheNewMusicNetwork 1 year ago
Wow, It's funny how the Leftists are really stupid. In Chris Mathews' world Racism & AstroTurf is a one way street.
goodatbasebal 1 year ago
TEABAGGERS are really just violent NAZIS,hiding behind the AMERICAN FLAG while trying to overthrow our DEMOCRACY and establish a new RACIST TEABAG REICH in AMERICA .TEABAGGERS are a DISGRACE to all REAL AMERICANS
BRILTUCK 1 year ago
I used to like Chris Matthews, but he's one big "shout-out" these days. I can't listen to an "interview" with him. He talks over everyone he disagrees with. I'd love to listen to both sides of issues but Chris is way too biased in his interviews theses days. Chris, go back to journalism school and take a refresher course.
1papester 1 year ago
I used to like Chris Matthews, but he's one big "shout-out" these days. I can't listen to an "interview" with him. He talks over everyone he disagrees with. I'd love to listen to both sides of issues but Chris is way too unbiased in his interviews theses days. Chris, go back to journalism school and take a refresher course.
1papester 1 year ago
I wish we had a Chris Matthews here in Canada.
johneamer 1 year ago
@johneamer I wish you had him too
kennethrobinson11231 1 year ago
Chris is a real dumbass. What do you think of being forced to purchase insurance? I notice he avoids that issue! He just dont get it! We are saying no to BIG GOVEREMENT! No to OBAMA! NO To Chris! Chris you should shut up and listen!
radrena 1 year ago
@radrena Forced to buy insurance? No, you have the option to pay an assessment to guarantee your treatment at a hospital with no pre-payment and no credit check. Or are you saying you would rather have to take a loan at the door or give your credit card first? Or would you just suggest the whole "doctor's care in an emergency is a right" thing just be mothballed until the economy improves? Or never? Makes you sound like a "freeloader", you want the emergency care but won't guarantee payment.
TheInnerMission 1 year ago
Chris Matthews is putting the tea party movement in with the republicans because they are against this health care bill. In fact they are bi-partisan and have been preaching the same thing for twenty some years. They have not been on his show before because not enough people supported them until now which implies that now people are finally accepting their message, at least in part.
Biggnuncio 1 year ago
Freedomworks is a fake tea party group. They are planing to use the stupider tea partiers to their advantage just like the fake tea party candidate Sara palin who is an obvious elitist. DONT BE FOOLED
didyouseethatshit777 1 year ago
Chris Mathews = another lying Obooboo poodle.
greengringo2003 1 year ago
The only fraud here is MSLSD and there 2 viewers.
Polisheagle1980 1 year ago
Obama gives Chrissy boy a thrill up his leg and else where! He is Obamas Monica L.
artsydee47 1 year ago
Chrissy's looking weary from his incessant lying and propagandizing. He should just come out of the closet, already.
DigiLusionist 1 year ago
Chris Mathews wouldnt even let the guy reply! he just argued and tried to ram accusations across the table. He's not a hardball, he's a Screwball!
erakus 1 year ago
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alexandreleverrier 1 year ago
Conservatives believe that a % of deaths from lack of healthcare insurance is acceptable. Let's call this collateral damage. And this is a group of people who try to convince us that they are "pro-life". That is, until you are born... then you can fuck off and die.
papersplease 1 year ago
I love how Chris refuses to let Max from FreedomWorks state his argument. These Libs are maddening.
cpm199 1 year ago
"real competition" HAHA what a joke. This is why MSNBC gets such low ratings. What a bunch hacks.
cpm199 1 year ago
Go Chris!
tecamachalco100 1 year ago
Chris Matthews is a wind bag.
imrnlil 1 year ago
damn! chris mathews owned that guy! whoa!
MOBROOKS 1 year ago
Freedom Works is definately a astro turf organization funded by corporations.
barbtube01 1 year ago
Hey they have every right to protest and make noise, since they never got violent or even wrecked anything. Don't the unions have an organization, paid officials and lobbyists too? Matthews is just as bad as some right wing hack like Levin.
BarthBunzel 1 year ago
Hardball is nothing more than hard liberal. He keeps interrupting Max Pappas and doesn't let him finish a sentence, yet he lets the afl-cio representative have free reign! I participate with tea party information because the opportunity is there and they believe like I do - not because I get an e-mail from Freedomworks! Freedomworks helps gets the word out, but they aren't why millions of conservative gather together! We are sick of our country being turned into a socialist gov't & country!!
LadybugJewel 1 year ago
Max your a dick
rickbar123 1 year ago
Another feeble attempt by a so called journalist(political hack) to discredit a large and growing group. It's refreshing to see so many of the "open minded", "tolerant" folks all using generalizations and exhibiting some real prejudice right out in the open like people will overlook their bigotry if they are fanning the flames of anti-free speech...
alfimon 1 year ago
Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann are both tools of the liberal media and therefore the President himself. I wonder if his leg is still tingling over Obama?
BaldViking 1 year ago
@BaldViking Didn't Rich Lowry get all tingly and see stars over Palin. THey are hardly tools, t
BarthBunzel 1 year ago
@BarthBunzel Honestly, I couldn't even tell you who Rich Lowry is.
BaldViking 1 year ago
@BaldViking He's one of the editors of National Review, a real right wing Papist hack.
BarthBunzel 1 year ago
Just a word to all you union socialists, some of us defend ourselves. You commit a violent attack toward the wrong guy at a tea party, you may never get out of the hospital.
nighthawg 1 year ago
@nighthawg Sounds like you are spoiling for a chance to hurt someone.
BarthBunzel 1 year ago
@BarthBunzel So far the violence by the left has been let slide. It's also been ignored by the media, while they accuse average Americans of being potentially violent. The union idiots think they can attack anyone they choose without any consequences. That isn't the case. I don't respond well to being attacked. I tend to defend myself with a vengeance, especially against enemies of the American people and of the constitution. A habit I don't intend to break.
nighthawg 1 year ago
@nighthawg Yes I have heard right winger endlessly repeat one incident where it was alleged some union guys pushed around someone at a rally. Yet are you so psychotic that you are willing to shoot someone over that? Your point that union people are out there attacking people left and right is a lie that paranoid fools like you absorbed from crackpots like Beck and Savage.
BarthBunzel 1 year ago
@BarthBunzel Did I say anything about shooting someone you idiot? And there has been only one "alleged" attack? You are an msnbc kinda guy, that's pretty obvious. You just stick with Mathews and Olbernan. They'll make sure you get nothing but the "facts", as they see then anyway. By the way alice, I never watch or listen to Beck and I've never even heard a Savage show. Getting news from TV or radio is probably your problem.
nighthawg 1 year ago
this video is amusing--only for the fact that Matthews doesn't seem capable of realizing that just because this bill was popularized by the media and underhandedly passed and signed into law against the majority of the people's desires doesn't mean that if someone opposes the bill, that person can't still be for health INSURANCE (not health CARE) reform. I get the feeling that Matthews, like many other Limelight Liberals, is Constitutionally and fiscally retarded.
sirstanlee 1 year ago
We're all waiting in emergency rooms because of all of the ILLEGAL ALIENS with STAB WOUNDS getting FREE GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE ALREADY!!
Holymoley2010 1 year ago
They're all saying no to your leg tingles, you liberal pinhead!! (pinhead-- chuckle)
Holymoley2010 1 year ago
Tell us, Chris Matthews, how many leg breaking AFL-CIO members are going to be sent to these protests? And are you going to actually REPORT on the card carriers violence? Like you DON'T DO when you see violence by your LEFTISTS?
Holymoley2010 1 year ago 2
If you have people "discussing issues" from a perspective of lies and deception, then what is that "debate" worth? This is why republicans, tea baggers, freedomworks are so annoying in their disengenuousness. They aren't worth the astroturf they stain their knees on.
callouschristian 1 year ago
I agree that they are douchebags. They are hypocrites. They are frauds. But Chris Matthews is also a douchebag in a large network of douchebags, hypocrites and frauds that we like to call the media.
All of'em. We need to (not being literal) nuke the media and start over.
seestickglue232 1 year ago
Crybaby Matthews defends the Demopublican healthcare plan, is he a lobbyist?
Should we have to beg our government for "tax exempt status" in order to speak? I am so mad right now, my blood is boiling. What happened to my First Amendment?
@2:50 Gerald Shea of the AFL-CIO: The situation should be "untenable". Socialism itself is untenable. VOTE LIBERTARIAN! To hell with "Freedom Works".
These people are saying no to Dick Armey's flavor of socialism as well as Obama's flavor of socialism.
libertarianjury 1 year ago
Abolish medicare, Abolish the FDA, Abolish the AMA, Abolish the ACS, Abolish government-mandated health insurance, Abolish socialized medicine.
Government involvement in medicine creates mass death. There is no cure for poverty of some people. Fuck Freedom Works, Fuck Chris Matthews, Fuck Reagan and Bush, Fuck all Collectivist Socialized Medicine.
If Chris Matthews had any balls, he'd have capitalist libertarians like Marc Stevens, Elan Journo or Stefan Molyneux on H-ball.
End of argument.
libertarianjury 1 year ago
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libertarianjury 1 year ago
Put an end to the socialist school system!
Obamaducation and the Math Panels are EVIL!
Google "Freedom Haters Ignorant People" to learn what YOU can do!
Canaderek 1 year ago
@Canaderek The school system is not "socialist". Tell me something. If you hate America so much, why don't you leave?
callouschristian 1 year ago
@callouschristian The U.S. school system IS socialized (although wealthier citizens can opt for a private education). If I WERE in the U.S., I'd leave, as you suggest.
I'm a Canadian. The hint is in my username. That's the primary reason I don't perceive "socialist" as a dirty word - we don't have many McCarthy-esque xenophobes in this country.
That's "Freedom Haters Ignorant People", folks. Google now before it's too God-damned late!!!
(you might like it, CC - it's satirical)
Canaderek 1 year ago
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So let's put an end to the socialist school system!
Obamaducation and the Math Panels are EVIL!
Google "Freedom Haters Ignorant People" to learn what YOU can do!
Canaderek 1 year ago
"You guys are FRAUDS!!!!!!" Slam-dunk!!!!!
marcostar57 1 year ago 6
70 % Canadians have private insurance because the government dont cover prescription drugs , dental care, eye examination , chiropractic, physical therapy
Each Province of Canada run their own healthcare services
Healthcare is funded by taxes paid by the residents and businesses and transfer payments from the federal government
steve75ca 1 year ago
USA Health insurance companies are in canada and compete with other companies
Canada government healthcare did not kill private health insurances
steve75ca 1 year ago
yup...that's why Fedex has gone out of business, oh wait, they are doing great i forgot.
DanHagen20 2 years ago
I was working in Toronto Canada and I was paying 30 dollars a month for my private health insurance through my company but now I work in buffalo New York and now I have to pay 180 dollars a month for health insurance with the company I work for now.
In Canada, my income tax rate was 15% and now working in the buffalo new York ; my income tax rate is 22% plus I am spending a lot of money on private insurance
Health insurance companies is a big business in Canada
steve75ca 1 year ago
Should senators and congressmen have lifetime government Heathcare ?
Should military people have lifetime government Heathcare?
Should people over 65 have lifetime government Healthcare ?
Should the poor people get government Healthcare ?
If someone goes to the hospital because he or she is sick or hurt but they dont have any money , should the hospital officials turn them away
steveav 2 years ago
Liberals failed, Scott Brown won!!!!!
srp3 2 years ago
Are the Republicans going to abolish Medicare?
Are the Republicans going to abolish military government healthcare ?
Are the Republicans going to abolish social security ?
Why would you vote for the republicans again ?
When was the last Republican President that balance the federal budget ?
steveav 2 years ago
President's don't have the power of the purse, you do realize this right? Oh and when Republicans took over Congress during Clinton's admin. they created several years of budget surplus.
srp3 2 years ago
The senate and congress was control by the Republican party for 6 years and President for 8 years and USA debt double from 5 to 10 trillion dollars plus the government increase by 20% and Bush never veto a spending bill . So, why would you vote for the Republicans again because they had their chance to reform the government and they failed .
steveav 2 years ago
Bush went into 2 wars. I don't know if you're aware of this but you got to spend money for war. Plus when republicans were in control of Congress they did create surpluses. When has a Democratically controlled Congress ever produced budget surpluses? If your point is that both parties suck. Then what 3rd party in modern times is strong enough to compete with these 2 parties? That is why you vote Republican.
srp3 2 years ago
Answer my 5 question ?
steveav 2 years ago
Presidents don't have the power of the purse so your question is null because they don't have that power to begin with.
srp3 2 years ago
When the Republicans get back into the White House and get both chambers of congress hey wont do a damn thing! Not a GODDAMN THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George91280 2 years ago
Pussy, Money, Weed, the most important things in America :) YAY :)
gyptian 2 years ago
Now, if you can merge those things, you will be a God
nrunde 2 years ago
Obama's government will be a failure because their ideology will prevent them from turning to the methods that successfully lower unemployment. The economy cannot recover with high unemployment because loan defaults will cause another "capitalization" crisis for the banks, who then will keep credit tight and interest rates astronomical on credit cards.
rhinohippo 2 years ago
Matthews does'nt want to here any ideas except Obamas !
maybe he's getting that tingly feeling again. LOL
Buying insurance across state lines sounds good to me !
53dumey 2 years ago
It sounds good until you are down to the lowest common denominator in a state that is owned by the insurance industry. You better not get sick then and if you do die quickly because you will be dropped. Dummy is a great name for you. If you change the name - try MORON
hdhighway 2 years ago 2
sorry scotydogd, I'm having a little trouble figuring out whether you are attempting to respond to my two questions or if you just replied to my comment by mistake
BenjaminBixby 2 years ago
the 2010 elections will tell the idiot Chris Mathews who is grass roots. 2010 a "tea party" Tsunami will sweep 30-40 seats back into the Conservative column.
Can you feel us yet buttholes?
rhinohippo 2 years ago
WTF is that? "can you feel us buttholes" Are you one of the teabaggers that got cought at the hotel pool blowing each other? You sound gay
cultfighter 2 years ago
Is there something implausible about having both interstate insurance and a public option? Isn't this optimal for the American people?
BenjaminBixby 2 years ago
The hypocrisy of CM is hilarious! Saying the protesters aren't sophisticated because they're yelling "just say no". He's such an elitist who would never question the slogans or intentions of war protesters. why are these people attacking Americans? It doesn't seem like a very "sophisticated" way to win support.
ShaunaDDye 2 years ago
This organization must be extremely powerful if it can not only inform people of town halls, but can actually shift the poll numbers of the American people ! The left if just looking for an enemy (like a vast right-wing conspiracy) instead of looking at what the American people are saying. We want less government spending, not more!
ShaunaDDye 2 years ago
CM is a tool.
Nicksuno 2 years ago
I love Chris Matthews. It's long been time to sound the bullshit alarm and he's finally drilling these people.
SunSunSuperFun 2 years ago 2
OMG does Chris Matthews get his dick sucked by Obama every night or something??????
Cassandra2946 2 years ago
Cassandra: If you cant handle the truth go back under your rock and listen to your AM radio. The radio entertainers like Hannity the Liar, Rush the Sleaze and Beck the Turd will provide you with the illusions you can handle. Moron says what?
judedelux 2 years ago 2
Yeah - Chris Matthews is partisan.
No wonder he was throwing Democrats softballs in last year debates.
Expat1London 2 years ago
And he said to his interviewee that HE is a fraud!
Forsure3333 2 years ago
There but for the grace of God go I (all of us). We are all one personal crisis away from bankruptcy...we who have insurance. You don't find out what your policy doesn't cover until you need it in a crisis. Ins Co CEO's pay themselves >$200,000.00/Day. Count the commercials "ask your doctor about our drug"...That is what we are paying for. We are being ripped off by profit hungry vampires.
rhomi12 2 years ago
Hey justin, .... give? give every american healthcare? None of it's free and we're all gonna pay. there's too much involved in this house bill.
Actually, Matthews is more like MSNBC's version of Hannity.
Introducing government run healthcare is like putting cannibals in charge of the daycare... they'll eat everyone else for lunch. The insurance companies will cease to exist... unless they're somehow in bed with the Obama administration. That'll make everyone mad.
menge123 2 years ago
Thanks for posting...good information Chris Matthew is MSNBC's version of Bill O'Reilly...
where were these people when real crimes and constituition trampling were happening under bush like oh i dunno:
-the fake lies about WMD's and the lies 2 invade iraq
-warrantless wiretapping violating FISA laws
-illegal attorney firings which we just learned karl rove had a huge part in
but trying to give every american health care access brings them out
ThisJustin123 2 years ago
Ok, youve had Reagan in charge...youve had the first George Bush in charge...you had two terms of George Bush Jr(20 years). And NO TIME IN THAT, have I had somebody come on this show, or on anywhere else saying, We have to get a republican healthcare plan to help uninsured people get insured. YOU GUYS ARE FRAUDS. YOU DONT DO IT.- Chris Matthews
MrOhgood 2 years ago
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MrOhgood 2 years ago
Ya know, I can understand why you guys dont like big government, but this is the incredible part of your argumentbecause when you are in power..Ronald Reagan, they used to say, 'well he had a different approach to medicare'his approach was the MA approach...no approach. I mean, its fair enough, just say youre conservativeyoure willing to suffer the lose of people who dont have healthcareits better that way than having a big government.- Chris Matthews
MrOhgood 2 years ago
Chris is a fucktard!
keepitwildtv 2 years ago
TRUE TRUE TRUE!
FkyGGGG 2 years ago
a FROWN FACED FUCKTARD THAT WANTS TO SUCK OBAMAS KNOB....HE IS A DISGRACE
reprahdm 2 years ago
Matthews and MSNBC are the REAL frauds.
jbm0745 2 years ago
matthews is forgetting that america is bankrupt. we don't have the money to reform healthcare, we don't have the money to help the masses. unfortunately. so because people are uninsured and they're going to the ER and making costs rise for all of us, we have to rush to pass a Bill that nobodys read. thats crazy, thats a fraud.
PoliticsAddict 2 years ago
So a union hack is talking about controling costs? A ha ha ha.
razerfish 2 years ago
chris got all those KEY words in.
good job capt'n, heres your paycheck
webovisionca 2 years ago
Good God, the nerve of Mr. Tingle to call Americans who don't want socialism/communism a fraud! Well, Matthews and MSNBC are the frauds, masquerading as journalists.
joesphx19 2 years ago
They are saying no to the tax burden that this is going to create. We already are borrowing 2t a year, where is the money going to come from?
christo930 2 years ago
msnbc should just change there name to the obama news network, first matthews say's there is no health care plan then he turns around says to the guy from freedom works that they are killing obama health care plan
cocobear33 2 years ago
Here, here, people are pissed about the failure of their government, we trusted them and they destroyed us, no wonder people are pissed!
anamericanstory 2 years ago
chris matthews yet another fucking idiot
cocobear33 2 years ago
fuck the insurance companies. i want to see them all out of business. they're corrupt and they don't give a rats ass about anyone's health care. they spend billion denying claims, over burdening doctors, patients, and the whole health care system itself. their profits are more important than treating the sick.
i am so sick of private industry and their corrupt, selfish unending greed, maybe socialism is the answer, a democratic socialism. these people are the scum of the earth.
tomitstube 2 years ago 2
The GOP doesn't like these groups, even though they're conservative. Both parties have abandoned their principles, and the only difference between the two is who gets the money. For the same reason, the GOP didn't like Ron Paul - because he was for real.
bammbamm12 2 years ago
So maybe they're not truly "grassroots," but Matthews refuses to even listen to a half sentence the guy started. Just because they never supported any health coverage bill that gets massive media coverage doesn't mean they never supported health reform.
Can you even have a true "grassroots" movement anyway? If you need hundreds of people to show up to have any movement at all, generally it has to be organized by somebody.
ElPupitre 2 years ago 2
EP wrt: "So maybe they're not truly "grassroots," There's no maybe about it. Matthews gave Pappas ample time to answer, however, he doesn't allow 'guests' to just spew their talking points and lies.
"Can you even have a true "grassroots" movement anyway?
Yes. Anti-war protesters have been railing against U.S. military action since the 1960's without corporate sponsorship. What is being done now is the same disruptive antics carried out by the Brook Brothers Rioters of the 2000 election.
dawgnpony 2 years ago
@dawgnpony The unions sponsor a lot of protests too. As well there is a lot of grassroots opposition to the health care that had nothing to do with . Of course, some corporations egged them on but the people were already mad.
BarthBunzel 1 year ago
AWESOME KILL!
aspenmogul 2 years ago
They didn't pay me and a lot more than 400,000 people are opposed to this bill. Medicaid and Medicare are government run and they're bankrupt. Do you really want to put everyones lives into the hands of the same people who can't even manage a few? Maybe, I should stop working, get pregnant out of wedlock and live off the government, it's a pretty carefree life for all of the people that I know who do it. And surprise suprise they're some of the only people I know that are for Obama care.
chanthavongsy88 2 years ago
chanthavongsy, #1. Congress has gov't run healthcare and they claim it is great. #2. Seniors have gov't run healhcare and they are satisfied and think it great. #3. Veterans have gov"t run healthcare and they think it is great. So why is it not so great for the PEOPLE. BTW, The programs are short on money because Bush borrowed from it to go to war with Iraq. Remember? Bush say Iraq did nothing to us?
3slimdog 2 years ago
chanthavongsy88 You must be a Communist if you know a lot of people living carefree lives who stop working, get pregnant out of wedlock, and live off the government.
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
The person for government run healthcare is calling me a Communist... Can you say ironic. Anyway no I work in the OB department so I see what goes on. The babies father is still around but they don't get married just so they can collect government money. It's interesting that 40% of babies in '07 were born to unwed mothers.
chanthavongsy88 2 years ago
chanthavongsy88 Oh, you mean like Sarah Palin's daughter? And how do you know so much about your clients' personal lives? If you work in OB dept, your only concern should be the health of mothers and their babies. You sound like a nosey busybody poking around in people's personal business & private lives. That is NOT your job and frankly you sound too unethical to work in the OB dept if you violate people's privacy that much.
Yankhadenough 2 years ago 2
I cannot help what I see. It is part of our jobs when admitting to ask insurance questions to inform the patient what is covered and what they may have to pay themselves. If you don't know how it works then don't comment. Yes Palin's daughter getting pregnant was an accident and if Medicaid would only pay for the accidents rather than the women having an entire family on Medicaid things would be better. Women are actually choosing to have these children on Medicaid.
chanthavongsy88 2 years ago
chanthavongsy88 Not much double standard on your part, eh? The only reason why we know about Palin's daughter is becuz Palin is the worst stage mother in the world. I will comment on your behavior that you make known to everyone online. You are making assumptions on people's personal lives when you are supposed to be there to HELP mothers and newborns, not deciding which newborn gets healthcare or not!!! Good grief, who are you, Nurse Ratchet!? You should not even be working in an OB dept.
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
I do help mothers and newborns and when I'm working I do not let my politics interfere in any way. Also I'm not assuming I see these things everyday.
chanthavongsy88 2 years ago
chanthavongsy88 You've already made it clear that you think some of those newborns in your OB dept should NOT even be getting Medicaid healthcare coverage! You are a spiderwoman amongst those innocent lambs. Your sinister posts are making me cringe, I can't stand the thought of you being around babies.
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
They are absolutely astroturf! I called the GOP and they told me so. You can call them to and ask them yourself. See my profile and see what happened when I called by looking in the comment section.
Smartassawhip 2 years ago
When Liberals shout and scream, they're "standing up for their rights". When any group that opposes them does, it's "hooliganism" and "anti-democratic". Folks are angry, and the media is just shooting themselves in the foot when they give these events national coverage, in a attempt to put out hte fire. Rather than being cowed by mockery, the public is stepping up the heat by showing up in larger numbers.
bammbamm12 2 years ago
It's okay we're apparently apart of a "mob" now. Maybe we should make a black market health care system so when Obama care fails them and tells them that they are too old to treat or are to much of a drain on the system, they'll have somewhere to go.
chanthavongsy88 2 years ago
chanthavongsy88 Funny you should say that, Obama is for Hospice, hardly an attitude against end of life treatment, its quite the opposite. My Mom was on Hospice through Medicare and was treated like a queen in her home until the day she died in her bed. The drain on the system is Republican and Blue Dog candidates that take campaign contributions from the "wealthfare" insurance industry. Stop lies & vote out for-profit insurance scams, and our health , our economy and our people will flourish!
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
Freedom Works clearly attracts some of the most ignorant elements of American society (Republican voters). Some of those Just Saying No look like they are old enuf to be on Medicare!
Yankhadenough 2 years ago
They are using old people on purpose. What the GOP is doing is disgusting.
Smartassawhip 2 years ago
This is the exact reason why I love Chris Matthews to death! He won't let these anti-democratic, anti-American clowns who are hired by right-wing lobbyists get away with anything, and that's awesome....GO CHRIS MATTHEWS!!
armyveteran101st 2 years ago 4
@armyveteran101st
lmao. he is a zionist traitor. Turn off that dumb ass TV. I dont give a shit if you support Tea Party etc, but for fucks sake, dont display your ignorance by "loving a TV-personality". Do your homework. Google: "Who owns the media?"
WearechangeN 1 year ago
@WearechangeN The mere mention of the word "zionist" lets me know that you're one of those clowns who are just a couple of peanuts short of a snack, buddy. Don't forget to take off the pointy saran-wrap hat before you come out of your Mom's attic, OK?
armyveteran101st 1 year ago
@armyveteran101st
Was that your rebuttal? Ad hominem attacks and a great display of ignorance. Looks like this Chris Matthews guy really has trained you well. What about Zionism do you not understand?
Google: Theordore Hertzl Basel 1897
WearechangeN 1 year ago
Since Harry Truman, President Obama is the only one in 4 decades that is serious about reforming Health Care.
During each past presidential campaigns, every candidates have promised to reform HC but once elected nothing has ever been done---except when Ronald Regan deregulated the Insurance Industry & made things worst for the consumers---while the Insurers raked in Billions of profit each year from premiums paid by insured.
Republicans always side with Big Corps while screwing us all.
librophile 2 years ago 4