A Quick Point About Chris Matthews' One Sided Concern Trolling

Yesterday Chris Matthews had two Congressional Democrats on his show, one a Blue Dog and one a member of the Progressive caucus, to talk about health care reform. Well really more than health care reform he just wanted to focus on the public option. Surprisingly Blue Dog Democrat, Michael Arcuri, agreed with Progressive Democrat Chaka Fattah that health care reform needs a public option. This gave Tweety absolutely no pause and instead he just pressed forward with his predetermined line of attack and kept chipping away at them and their support of the public option. He even invoked former President Bill Clinton to try to make the case that Demcrats need to pass a health care bill or else suffer a humiliating defeat. And by pass a health care bill he of course meant one without a public option. Just check it out and see how aggressively he pushes the two Congressmen about how far they are willing to take it to get a public option in the bill.

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Now we all know that Tweety is a notortious concern troll but this segment took it to a whole other level. His whole premise is that if health care reform dies it will end up being the fault of liberals and progressives who want a public option. But lets look at the facts for a moment. A great majority of Democrats in the House want a public option. Similarly a great majority of Democrats in the Senate want a public option. So how is it that if a minority of Democratic Senators in the Senate are able to kill the public option that anybody can reasonably say its the fault of liberals and progressives if the bill fails?

I have a question for you, why the hell aren't people like Chris Matthews bringing on ConservaDems from the Senate like Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson and asking THEM if THEY are willing to kill the bill just because they don't like a public option? Why the hell aren't THEY being taken to task for being insufferable assholes who are going against not only the majority of Democrats in Congress but also the people of this country who support a public option in health care reform? If Tweety is really concerned and thinks Bill Clinton is right about Democrats needing to pass a bill today then maybe, just maybe he ought to take on the people who really might kill the bill and thats the Blue Dogs and the ConservaDems, not the liberal and progressive caucuses.

Its probably because its just so much easier to dumb on those "wacky far left libruls" than it is to hold bought and paid for "centrists" accountable for their actions and their votes. It is what it is.