{"id":1499,"date":"2009-09-06T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2009-09-06T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T12:14:27","slug":"boobleheads-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/09\/06\/boobleheads-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Boobleheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just gonna cheat, and mostly copy and paste this week, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Press the Meat, with Gilligan Gregory: White House senior advisor David &#8220;Ollie&#8221; Axelrod, 9\/11 hero (and genius inventor of the above ground emergency command bunker, not to mention no-bid emergency radio contract evangelist) Guidi Ruliani, former Rep. Harold &#8220;Where&#8217;re the White Women&#8221; Ford, Jr. (D-TN), NBC&#8217;s Tom Brokaw and NYT&#8217;s Tom &#8220;My Head is Flat&#8221; Friedman<\/p>\n<p>Faze the Nation: Education Secretary Arne Duncan<\/p>\n<p>This Weak with George Snufalufagus: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and a roundtable with former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd, The Nation&#8217;s Katrina vanden Heuvel, NYT&#8217;s David Sanger and ABC News&#8217; and columnist George :jerk: Will<\/p>\n<p>Fux News Sunday, with Weaselface Wallace: Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), former Democratic National Committee Chairman Gov. Howard Dean, Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and this week&#8217;s fuxheads, Weekly Standard&#8217;s Bill Kristol, NPR&#8217;s Mara Liasson, Weekly Standard&#8217;s Stephen Hayes and NPR&#8217;s Juan Williams<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s State of the Union: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas Frieden, Gov. Tim &#8220;That Bridge Looks Fine to Me&#8221; Pawlenty (R-MN), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Republican strategist and CNN political contributor Ed Rollins and Democratic strategist Joe &#8220;Hippy Dippy&#8221; Trippi<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Reliable Sources with Howie Kurtz: The Baltimore Sun&#8217;s TV critic David Zurawik, BBC&#8217;s Rome Hartman, The Daily Beast&#8217;s Tina Brown and CBS&#8217; chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara :hubba: Logan<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s GPS with Fareed Zakaria: Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer and the Dalai Lama<\/p>\n<p>The Chris Matthews Show: Time&#8217;s Michael Duffy, BBC&#8217;s Chatty Katty Kay, WaPo&#8217;s Eugene Robinson and CNN&#8217;s Gloria Borger<\/p>\n<p>Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: WaPo&#8217;s Dan Balz, Slate and CBS News&#8217; John Dickerson, ABC&#8217;s Martha Raddatz and NYT&#8217;s Jackie Calmes<\/p>\n<p>Notice any talk of Labor Day?  Or how organized labor paved the way to create a prosperous middle class in this country?  Or, speaking of health care, how the only reason those who <strong><em>have<\/em><\/strong> insurance in this country (whether represented by a union or not), have it because unions paved the way for decent pay, safe working conditions, and health insurance for workers and their families?<\/p>\n<p>No, didn&#8217;t think so.  The corporatists that run this country and the traditional media hate unions because they hate the middle class.  Sadly, they&#8217;ve also managed to turn much of the middle class against unions and their own self interests.  <\/p>\n<p>Health care isn&#8217;t the only way Europeans have it all over us, either.  We&#8217;re the only advanced country that&#8217;s a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/index.php\/publications\/reports\/no-vacation-nation\/\">no vacation nation<\/a>,&#8221; meaning that we are not leagally guaranteed paid vacation or holidays. Twenty-five percent of U.S. workers receive <strong>NO<\/strong> paid vacation or paid holidays, and it&#8217;s the worst for (surprise, surprise) low-wage and part-time workers, as well as for employees of small businesses (which Republicans pretend to revere, even as they cede power to the mega international corporations undermining those small businesses). <\/p>\n<p>And these idiot tea baggers, birthers, racists, and death panel evangelists are happy to goose step along, demanding that the government screw them, &#8216;cuz they hate those damn dirty anti-capitalist unions, and you&#8217;re goddamn <strong><em>right<\/em><\/strong> health insurance ought be for profit, and those CEOs <strong><em>deserve<\/em><\/strong> hundreds of millions of dollars more in a year than most of us will make in a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>You know, they say you get the government you deserve, and for these folks, that&#8217;s true.  But, damn, how come <strong><em>I<\/em><\/strong> have to get stuck with the government <strong><em>they<\/em><\/strong> ?<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, at least we&#8217;re not <em>Socialists<\/em>, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just gonna cheat, and mostly copy and paste this week, so&#8230; Press the Meat, with Gilligan Gregory: White House senior advisor David &#8220;Ollie&#8221; Axelrod, 9\/11 hero (and genius inventor of the above ground emergency command bunker, not to mention no-bid emergency radio contract evangelist) Guidi Ruliani, former Rep. 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