CNBC's Harwood to Liberals: "Lay off the hallucinogenic drugs"

[democracy1st]

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"...but I gotta say, Contessa, just because so much of the commentary I've heard has been really idiotic. Liberals who want universal health care ought to be thanking Harry Reid for getting this thing done rather than talking about what's inadequate in the bill. I'm not saying the bill's a good bill, but if you're a liberal, and you want universal coverage in this country, and think that you could do better than Harry Reid, can do better than what he's done, or the White House can do better, they ought to lay off the hallucinogenic drugs because we have had a vivid demonstration of the limits of political possibilities on this issue."

[DJ13]

1. When the corporate shills start getting shrill it means they're feeling the heat

[Vermontgrown]

10. touche'

[Enrique]

2. Contessa asks him, let's stop being stupid, and talk about the bill

She was nicer than than, but she does ask him to get serious, at about 0:55.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Apparently, they have plenty of those drugs in other parts of the civilized world.

Because THEY have the health care that America is supposed to do without.

[Hello_Kitty]

4. It's very telling the way the MSM is shilling this bill.

When's the last time they were so full of praise for Democratic legislation?

[DJ13]

7. NAFTA

How did that work out for us?

[Hello_Kitty]

8. Bingo!

I've noticed that most of the ardent free-traders on DU are for this bill.

[maxsolomon]

5. no liberal is claiming they could do better

we're claiming that the senate is irredeemably corrupt and dysfunctional and that it should be a democratic body instead of an oligarchy. reid got r dun, but this country needs to join civilized europe and remove profit from health care.

about 45 senators are too old/stupid to even understand that this would OK. we don't profit from fire stations or the police.

[GrantDem]

18. Yep.

[fascisthunter]

6. The ones he takes make everything look so "grand" my Darlins

pompous washington shill, whose drug is money while people die.

[mystieus]

9. Harwood is right on the money. Some Liberals are living in a fairytale world.

Yes, we all want it "perfect" but damn! I am not naive.. blaming dems is certainly not the way to go

[JDPriestly]

15. No, all we want is cost controls.

The "savings" estimated for the Senate bill depends on a lot of unknowns and unknowables. Those savings are way exaggerated. The Senate bill's cost control measures are subject to all kinds of manipulation. Who runs the CBO anyway?

[lib2DaBone]

11. John Harwood.. you pompous corporate shill.....

read: "Those dirty un-washed libruls (sic) think that they are entitled to basic health care and freedom from disease". Ha ha ha ha ha

Yes John.... my Washington Bureaucrat-Sycophant friend... just what do those annoying little librul voters expect from you Big Corporate social elites? The nerve...!

Next thing you know libruls will want "clean air and clean water... good paying jobs.. peace on earth and goodwill to men.... and a pony"

[librechik]

12. Yep, we're nuts. Govt single payer healthcare is a worldwide global fraud

which has never worked anywhere and we are crazy to even imagine we could work towards it here with our representative democracy.

That's our liberal media helping America with their excellent reporting I suppose.

GET OUT OF THE BUBBLE BEFORE YOU LET THEM DESTROY MEDICARE and the VA WITH YOUR IGNORANCE, HARWOOD

[spiritual_gunfighter]

13. Sounds like Harwood posts at DU

[DJ13]

16. I thought it looked familiar!

:thumbsup:

[JDPriestly]

14. So -- elections only have consequences when conservatives win.

Well, now ain't that special.

[asdjrocky]

17. Harwood = Corporate Tool

It's that simple. And you can say the same for 99.9% of the cable media.

[kpominville]

20. Harwood works for the conservative corporate media

so his shilling for insurance companies is no surprise.

[edc]

19. Harwood's dismissive remarks

are just a crasser form of what's been coming from the White House. You need to be one pretty dense liberal not to know when you've been rolled and told to hit the road.

[AlbertCat]

21. limits of political possibilities on this issue."

Limits set by whom?


The 1st drug to lay off of is that Right Wing Kool-aid everyone in DC and the media apparently live off of.

The minute the Beltway stops thinking like the Reagan and Dubya years, then we'll be able to get something done.

[lamp_shade]

22. Harwood speaks for me.

[Hulk]

23. He had been practicing that snide remark for hours...

What a dick head. Pretty apparent he had that stupid little insult prepped to toss in to this interview today. What a dick.

I think Reid did bust his butts...considering those four wolves in sheep's clothing (aka D after their names). But that doesn't mean we have to be happy with a cold soup with rocks in it. Such a dumb ass!

It's a start. NOW we need to weed out the worthless Congressmen with D's after their names and replace them with Congressmen determined to look out for the American public, NOT the corporate interests.

Eat shit and bark at the moon harwood.

[Indenturedebtor]

34. 4 D's? How many does it take to pass a bill again?

Accept it - 80% of the Dem senators are corporate whores, and the "fight" we've seen over the last few months is nothing more than theatrics.

THEY DONT WORK FOR YOU!

[peoli]

24. I agree with Harwood.

[jefferson_dem]

25. Pretty harsh remark...

Not far off base though.

[90-percent]

26. It ain't the drugs

It's the whole TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION that's really starting to get to me.

-90% Jimmy

[Tutankhamun]

27. Harwood is just articulating Obama's attitude towards his base -- "Go Cheney yourselves."

[suzie]

37. How did the fringe group of so-called "activist progressives" that post on

DU suddenly become "the base" of the Democratic Party. I thought that we always considered the African Americans who reliably vote Democratic in election after election to be the base.

So, how do so-called "progressives" plan to elect other "progressives" once they've completely alienated the African American base of the Democratic Party by rhetoric that sounds awfully far right, and I hate to say it, awfully racist.

[Tutankhamun]

39. Racist?????

Suddenly this is about alienating African Americans? Your post isn't particularly coherent. It's just some weird diatribe about I'm not really sure what. Did you mean to respond to my post?

[steelyboo]

28. I dunno if I can, John, because this must be some primo shit. For instance, I thought you were an

actual journalist, and we both know that just isn't so.

[whathehell]

32. I like that one, Steely..!

[hmorehead]

29. His Fox-like comments are truely bogus. When does a "reporter" legitimately editorialize?

[and-justice-for-all]

30. I do not use hallucinogenic drugs, but they need to lay off the crack.

N/T

[Goldstein1984]

31. The "limits of political possibilities on this issue"

were imposed by corporations.

The people, rightfully, expected more.

Nobody should acceptthat Washington insider excuse for the status quo.

[Gamey]

33. Telling others what liberties they "ought to" engage in is un-American!

[go west young man]

35. The irony is that half the country is actually on psycho-active drugs

and big pharma has John here in it's pocket.

[winyanstaz]

36. If this guy laid off the viagra..

Maybe he could get a better blood flow to his brains.

[jeremyfive]

38. Must have been a Reference to Druggie Rush Limbaugh.

Must have been a reference to Druggie Rush Limbaugh--he has the biggest reputation for drug abuse that I am aware of.

Now prostitution, that would be Sen. David Vitter, but for the drugs, it's Rush.