VIDEO- Lawrence O'Donnell: "The Republicans... really like scaring you."

By GottaLaff

Lawrence O'Donnell takes Jim DeMint down... and out... with facts:

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"The penalty for not paying the tax penalty... is nothing... There isn't a real individual mandate in this bill, because there isn't a real penalty for violating an individual mandate.

The Republicans.... reeeaallly like scaring you."

Wham.

H/t: Susie May

Video- Joe Scarborough: Poster Boy for Passive/Agressive Behavior

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Man, I feel bad for his wife. Today was extra frothy.

Quote-O'-The-Day- Lawrence O'Donnell: "Dems are comfortably beyond 216 votes."

By GottaLaff

Via Cody, who saw it live on MSNBC:

Lawrence O'Donnell: "Dems are comfortably beyond 216 votes."

And he's not exactly Mr. Optimist.

Let's hope he's right. It sure feels like he is.

VIDEO- Countdown: Liz Cheney upsets even conservatives

By GottaLaff

Dickette has no common decency. Need proof?

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My Shallow Thoughts on Dickette Cheney here. Brilliant Instant Maddow Classic video accompanied by the dramatic, snarky strains of O Fortuna mocking Dickette here.

CIA historian: “The debate’s over, Torture stained the honor of the United States.”

By GottaLaff

Former BushCo employee Marc Thiessen has been publicly ripping President Obama's national security/terrorism policies, and builds a verbal shrine to those of the Bush crime family.

Watch the video of Thiessen get a royal smackdown by Lawrence O'Donnell here. Then watch it again, because it's that good.

Now read about another evisceration of Thiessen, this time by a Pulitzer Prize-winning CIA historian:

“It was not the most successful intelligence program in the history of the CIA by a long shot,” he emails. Weiner added that by the long view of the CIA’s history, there is no more debate.

“The debate’s over,” he said. “Torture stained the honor of the United States.”

Weiner also strongly contested the notion that Obama’s approach represents a dialing back to a pre-9/11 mentality. “The Obama administration has some pretty robust programs going on, killing suspects all over Afghanistan and Pakistan with armed drones,” he said.

Weiner also contested another Thiessen chesnut: That the Obama administration is killing too many terrorists, rather than subjecting more of them to enhanced interrogation. Weiner dismissed Thiessen’s case as tantamount to arguing that targeting terrorists abroad “more closely resembles treason than counterterrorism.”

Treason indeed.

Of course, Dickless McHeartStent needs to sell his future book, so he'll join Thiessen's irrational, drool-stained love affair with torture, and continue to sputter and stammer about his man crush on waterboarders and how he and his band of thugs saved America. ... after they allowed 9/11 to happen.

Gradually, we will eradicate the toxic Bush stain.

Video- Former Bush Speech Writer Says Obama is Inviting Another Terrorist Attack, Larry O'Donnell fights him on it

I want a dollar for every time they said Lawrence, double it if they sounded condescending. Wussies.

UPDATE- Here's the complete vid with the relatively staid bit after the commercial. Does it bother anyone else that Scarborough seems to mock O'Donnell and the idea that he's "off his meds" a bit too much?

Note- Title changed 'cause FDL came up with a better one.

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VIDEO- Countdown: What Senate holdouts get for moving health care bill forward

By GottaLaff

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Last night Lawrence O'Donnell ticked off what the holdouts would get in exchange for letting the debate move forward.

Keep in mind, this is just to let debate begin... not voting for a bill. How generous of them. How democratic.

Sen. Mary Landrieu just announced she'll vote "yes" to move the bill forward, but is now speaking critically of the public option as I type this.

Video- Arrogant Michael Steele to Lawrence O'Donnell: I Apologize for Allowing You to Ask Me a Question

Great thanks to FDL for grabbing this since I could barely believe it when I heard it. What an arrogant f***wad.

Note To Lawrence O'Donnell

Dear Mr O'Donnell-

If one of these days you should decide to take Joe Scarborough by the scruff of the neck and face plant him into the sidewalk in front of 30 Rock, I'm pretty sure there are people out here in the blogotubes who would be more than happy to help out with bail money.

Just sayin',

Paddy

VIDEO: Lawrence O'Donnell destroys what's left of Bernie Kerik

By GottaLaff

Ohh, suh-nap! Smackdown City:

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A work of art. Lawrence O'Donnell scores. Highlights:

--The first mugshot ever awarded to a New York City Police Commissioner.

--Judge: "A toxic combination of self-minded focus and arrogance."

--So you can see what Bush and Giuliani could see in this guy.

Ouch.

VIDEO- Shannyn Moore on Countdown: "I can't imagine an hour and a half of" Palin

By GottaLaff

Shannyn never disappoints:

VIDEO- Hardball: O'Donnell calls Culberson a liar on health care issues

By GottaLaff

Lawrence O'Donnell doesn't take no guff from no one, nohow, no way:

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Culberson was so desperate, all he could do was try to disparage MSNBC, repeatedly, instead of answering O'Donnell's direct yes-or-no questions. Why? Because he had no answers. As O'Donnell said, all Culberson could do was sputter his "endless spinning".

It was like watching a cat play with a doomed, inept, helpless little bug.

And yes, O'Donnell used the "lie" word. Bravo.

Kathleen Sebelius discusses town hall disruptions on The Ed Show

By GottaLaff

Kathleen Sebelius is on The Ed Show right now, talking to Lawrence O'Donnell about the town hall meetings and the corporate faux grassrootnuts who tried to shout them down. Not the most effective speaker, but here you go:

We knew something was up when the introducer was booed. But we had a good exchange, lots of people eager to talk about how we need health reform.

What was clear at the outset was that some folks intended to disrupt the entire meeting. The supporters of health reform finally persuaded the disruptive element to allow the conversation to go on. There can't be a more serious conversation than [this]. It's life or death for way too many Americans.

The health insurance industry gets to pick and choose, stand between patients and their doctors... We want to have consumer protections that the bills will likely have....

O'Donnell: How will you go forward with this kind of protest?

I think we're seeing that people were frustrated at those who disrupted. Same happened in La. As the meeting went on, people wanted to have a dialog. Hopefully, that will continue.

People are terrified they'll be dropped from coverage.

O'Donnell just said this kind of hooliganism will backfire.

VIDEO- Lawrence O'Donnell re: Cambridge cop tells us why "stupidity" was right

By GottaLaff

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Lawrence O'Donnell was absolutely terrific last night. He clearly and confidently declared that Gates was a victim of false arrest.

Countdown: Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits

Quote-O'-The-Day: Lawrence O'Donnell edition

By GottaLaff

Lawrence O'Donnell just now on Countdown:

"Barack Obama is the best politican we've seen since the invention of television."

Pat Buchanan Says Sotomayor Is An 'Affirmative Action' Nominee Because No White Men Were Finalists

Those poor downtrodden white men, always getting the shaft. Looks to me like Lawrence is just letting Pat spew his bile, I mean really, let him damage his party all by himself. Sorry for the light posting, but I'm all discombobulated from lack of sleep.

Liz Cheney and Lawrence O'Donnell Square Off on GMA

Oh yeah Lawrence, oooh baby. /fans self

VIDEO-- O'Donnell on Cheney Speech: Full of Lies, Sleazy-- Buchanan Thinks it Was Great

By GottaLaff

As referenced in my earlier post here, now you can see for yourself:

Lawrence O'Donnell goes for the big crazy

He's subbing for Ed S on the Ed Show and he has Frank Gaffney AND David Rivkin** on defending torture. Video as soon as I get it, should be tastey.

Here's what FDL got.



**Apparently I misspelled his name, fixed.