Crooks & Liars: Matt Dowd Paints Republican Obstruction as Doing the Will of the People

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VIDEO @ the URL below.

Matt Dowd Paints Republican Obstruction as Doing the Will of the People

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By Heather Tuesday Feb 23, 2010 6:00am

Shorter Matt Dowd, nothing is ever the Republicans fault and they're just doing the will of the people with their obstruction. Another one of these a pox on both of your houses arguments and completely ignoring the media's role in drumming up public anger and hyping these tea baggers and not explaining to the American people that the reason very little is getting done is because the Republicans in the Senate have decided to block everything. I'm also tired of them acting like the Democrats ever had a true 60 vote majority when they had to court "Independent" Joe Lieberman and the ConservaDems that constantly do their best to make what legislation they get passed as terrible as possible.

Donna Brazile and Arianna Huffington did their best to try to beat back Dowd's nonsense but they may as well have been talking to the wall.

DOWD: Yes, they do love Glenn Beck. I mean, he's popular among a segment of the party.

I mean, I think this is more -- the commentary about this is more about the volatility of politics in this country today. Because if you think back a year ago, everybody said, well, what happened to the conservatives? What happened to the Republican Party?

And now people are saying, well, what happened to Barack Obama? And it's 13 months later, after the inauguration of Barack Obama.

And I don't think Republicans can sit there and say, oh, we're going to have this great success. This is not about the Republicans right now. This is about why people are mad at the Democrats in Washington and the incumbency in Washington. That's what people are mad about.

This is not a bunch of people flocking to become Republicans. But CPAC and the tea party is best representing people's anger right now, in the country, on the right. And I think that's what this is about, is people are angry, whether they're Democrats or Republicans or independents; they're mad at Washington, and anybody that represents Washington is bad.