'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Nov. 30th
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10281920/NOTE: In accordance with DU's rule about posting no more than four paragraphs of copyrighted material, I've snipped four of the most outrageous comments from Tweety's exchange with Alan Simpson (Former Republican Senator from Wyoming) on Wednesday's "Hardball." Simpson appeared to be very, very impressed with Bush's "performance" this week. The first comment is in response to Matthews' question about why Bush never gives these speeches to "regular people," only pre-selected military audiences.SIMPSON: Because this is about war and the regular civilians don‘t understand war. They haven‘t got it in their being that we are at war. This is a war, and they don‘t—so he went to the war room and spoke to guys who are going to go to war.
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SIMPSON: I think so. But I don‘t think it was because his father stopped and Colin Powell stopped that he felt he had to go start it again. I don‘t think that. I really believe he thought that there were weapons of mass destruction there. He really thought he was going to put this butcher out of business and he really thought he could do it and I think he thought he could do it with that kind of a force and he needed more.
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SIMPSON: We‘re at a point right now where the mistakes mean nothing going to pull it right now where the mistakes mean nothing in the past. He said today, which was great, we made mistakes. We‘re revising our strategy, revising our military activities. We‘re revising how to take care of hour ourselves better, armament, ordinance. That‘s all done. Now, and whether they like it or not, and you‘ve got to stick your face—and that‘s what he was doing. He‘s sticking his face right in the face of the American people, saying you may not like this. We‘re here, and by God, we‘re going to stay the course, and we‘re going to be here as long as I‘m your commander in chief and, in essence, you can stuff it if you don‘t like it.
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SIMPSON: Well, he has to be very careful with Murtha and he did revise and extend his remark, because John Murtha, who was here when I was, is a patriot and a veteran. But Bush today is through with fun and games. It may work and it will look to the pundits like fun and games and that he stuck it in their ear, but I don‘t think he started out to do that. And he‘ll just say, this is it. Cast your vote.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10281920/