Hearing a Dem tell Chris HAYES that "common ground" (bipartisan/across-aisle) is plus makes me barf

[UTUSN]

Hookay, that said, LIMBOsevic (LIMBAUGH, don't ask) is who foisted Scorched Earth on our recent (30 years) past, putting us where we are now (no compromise, no discussion, no nothing) and by my feeling irreconcilable to Wingnuts I am being Scorched Earth (and I want *NOTHING* in common with LIMBOsevic) -

yet, the Dem went on to blame his own Dems (us) for having lost contact with the Repuke masses over the past 30 years.

This is how Tim RUSSERT (supposed Dem) went from being a "bleeding heart Liberal" to bleeding over how MEAN he and us bleeding heart Libs had been to the poor hurting wingnuts and RUSSERT started hosting LIMBOsevic for Thanksgiving (4 days' re-runs) hour long interviews. Since SHITLER came to shit on us, the meme has been how we Libs "lost touch" and need to "reach out" to the "populist" nativists.

So, Rachel congratulated Chris for hosting the first cable interview, but frankly there's not much left when it's about Chris.

Am prepared for "Huh?" type posts, and am 'fessing up to one of my more erratic posts, so if not to somebody's liking, please just let it sink like a stone (= "pass on by" ), tia.

[orangecrush]

1. K&R

[UTUSN]

2. Wow, thanks, was gearing up to Self-deleting!1

[shanny]

3. What clueless idjit said that?

[pnwmom]

4. I missed it. Which Dem was that?

I have a couple of guesses . . . .

[misanthrope]

5. Russert was corrupted by celebrity

and access to power. If you want to get a good look at what a lickspittle he had become then watch Bill Moyers' "Buying the War."

[susanna]

6. I disavowed Russert after that.

He was not the great wonderful liberal glory that people think he was.

I lost one of my best friends in that war, and as far as I am concerned, Russert was an accomplice to that.

I will never forget.

[misanthrope]

8. I never knew where his journalistic reputation originated

My only memory of him was his talking head gig on NBC and I was never impressed by it, certainly not as much as he was.

[susanna]

10. Same here. n/t

[Pompoy]

7. Beto the Texan?

Him and Buttigieg are the ones spouting that nonsense.

[Celerity]

9. Not true about Buttigieg, I think you have him confused with Biden

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/4/18290753/pete-buttigieg-bernie-sanders-filibuster-electoral-college-supreme-court

The central lesson of Obama’s presidency, Buttigieg argues, is that “any decisions that are based on an assumption of good faith by Republicans in the Senate will be defeated.” The hope that you can pass laws through bipartisan compromise is dead. And that means governance is consistently, reliably failing to solve people’s problems, which is in turn radicalizing them against government itself.

“You can only go so long with this divergence that we have between the center of the American people and the center of the American Congress,” Buttigieg says. “Donald Trump was not exactly a corrective, but he was a consequence of the fact that people watched their government drifting further and further away from them in terms of what it would deliver.”

Much more at the link