Dear Chris Matthead,

NO, it doesn't bother me that the President is NOT watching the Congressional Debate.....but the American People (as You said) ARE watching.  I doubt if you will report the True Results of the Debate.

Chris, Does it bother you that American are NOT watching YOUR news broadcast ?

Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.”

President Abraham Lincoln

these comments are hillarious and on target.

Bush ignoring Katrina recovery - Ha!

I might suggest that the media (and Matthews) is ignoring what the Bush administration has done. Here's a note in the news (USA Today) from March of 2006.

The White House so far has asked for $108 billion in Gulf Coast relief and recovery aid, all but $19 billion of which has been approved by Congress. The remainder is under consideration by lawmakers.

Included in that amount - are you listening Billy Crystal ["if Bush would just spend 1 or 2 days of what he spends in Iraq, in New Orleans"]? - is some  $17 billion is funded to be handed out to some 200,000 homeowners to cover catastrophic losses they incurred, not covered by insurance. This breaks down to an average of $85,000 per homeowner. These are grants, not low - interest loans.

I'll bet that hardly a soul out there has a clue of this massive charity from the Bush administration and the Feds to the citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi. I suspect that few journalists have even taken a moment to understand this - and of course, they are not about to inform the public of it, if they had. Bush must be seen, as Matthews suggests -  oblivious. This is how the MSM sees thier job.

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This guy needs to stop pretneding to be a journalist and just get his paycheck directly from the Democrat Party.  This SOB can kiss my A$$ and go the He((.

If the Democrats Reporters would really assess what happened in Katrina they'd have to take on the Democrat/Black mayor who left his chocolate people to die and the Democrat/Female Govenor who was too busy doing her hair to federalize her Guard and ASK for Federal support!  That's how it works, but of course that assessment will never be done by the likes of Chris "Democrat" Mathews

Oh Chris! - Have you even noticed that the rest of us have been treating the msm (Lsm) the same way? When you start treating us with the same respect you give fellow travelers, start REPORTING and not EDITORILIZING, then maybe, just maybe, we might start respecting you. Oh, you say, we have people watching and listening - true, but when ALL they hear is editorial, then of course they will follow your lead. Problem is, you and yours have forgotten, YOU are NOT elected, and should not be leading. Be honest with yourself and the other fellow travelers, and realize  . . . sorry, asking for honesty from a msm stooge, a water boy for the demolibs. What a waste of 3 dimensional space, carbon and water.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Please ... if New Orleans was a predominently WHITE city, the libs would be saying the POTUS was spending too much money there that could be better spent on really important things like education and welfare.

Funny how you don't hear these "Help us, please!" cries coming from states like Mississippi - which suffered as much or more devastation from Katrina than NO.

Nope ... like states in the northeast who have suffered tremendous damage from yearly hurricanes, they pitched in, rolled up their collective sleeves and went to work!

GEORGE BUSH IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL...

George Bush is the first American President expressing Christian certitude in his Presidential decisions. God even speaks to Bush, and as the President told the press, he consulted with “another Father,” “a higher authority” than Bush41 on going to war with Iraq. If true, presumably God would have also told him how to win this Iraq war without all the blunders, suffering and death.

The world has seen Christian certitude before and it’s not a pretty picture: papal infallibility when the Pope had armies, the Inquisition (intolerance at home) and the Crusades (intolerance abroad). When the Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they slaughtered all its inhabitants. When the Arab leader Saladin recaptured the city, he spared all the Christian inhabitants. So the Middle East is already primed for another war with Christian invaders; and accordingly and as a recent NIE confirmed, the war in Iraq has increased the number of jihadists and terrorists and made America less safe. This is not praise for the enemy, but history and insight into why our “bring it on” cowboy President is only rekindling and fueling this centuries-old fire.

Our brave, innocent young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting for a better world, but a leader ignorant of history and cultures can easily cause the opposite. The stupidity of World War I and of Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau caused terrible consequences for another 70 years after the end of that war, including Hilter and Communism. Afghanistan is the right war, certainly a just war and the whole world agreed and was on our side, and if we would have concentrated our efforts there we probably would have wiped out Bin Laden and those responsible for 9-11 by now. Iraq is a total disaster, and Iran will be even worse. Let’s face it, all George Bush knows is how to start wars!

AMERICAN DIPLOMACY… now there’s an oxymoron! The leader of Iran comes off as a whacko, however, the Iranians and the rest of the world view George Bush in the same way, so there is a common starting point. Real diplomacy involves talking with your adversary one-on-one without preconditions, and there’s a lot to discuss with Iran: the CIA in the 1950s, the Shah, the 1979 hostage crisis, sponsorship of terror, Israel and justice in the Middle East, and nuclear issues. But if past is prelude, Bush’s diplomacy with Iran will be perfunctory and rigged - this time, our mentally unbalanced, messianic President needs to provoke a war, AND HE WILL FIND A WAY!

This new Bush war should further help over one billion Muslims in their decision to fight America in a mutual holy war. When the President finally increases the level of hatred against the United States to where it engulfs Pakistan, then we face nuclear terror, and Biblical Armageddon becomes real and a self-fulfilling prophecy. Oh, the joy, the Rapture! Right now roiled Pakistan is just one assassin’s bullet away from going under, and still jihad recruitment is in its infancy.

Back at home, Christian certitude is present in Bush’s politics of division and hate. Nonbelievers of Bush’s Christian values and policies are viewed with contempt, instead of as fellow citizens in a pluralistic democracy. Civility has gone out of our civilization, and this type of Christian Right hate is completely out of the closet with Ann Coulter’s book on 9-11, which has been repudiated by few if any on the right who claim to practice the Christian message of love. Hate, hate, hate -- welcome to the new Christian America (not exactly like Mother Theresa or the Amish).

“Good and evil” is a concept common in religion, morality and ethics. Obviously the whole world needs more good and less evil. But is there a practical definition that everyone can agree on and that lends itself to objective measurement. How about: GOOD is something that makes the many human lives better and no or few lives worse, while EVIL is something that makes many lives worse, and no or few lives better. Some obvious good in this world: Habitat for Humanity, St Jude’s Children Hospital, etc. Evil under this definition would include a considerable number of Hollywood movies, a lot of poison on TV and violent video games.

Measuring George Bush’s actions by this definition with objective facts, our compassionate conservative, Christian President does mostly EVIL: from the Iraq disaster to Katrina mismanagement/incompetence to “no child left behind” (children in extreme poverty up 20% since Bush took office) to the $3 trillion dollar tax giveaway to the rich. Particulars on the last item: SUPPLY-SIDE (trickle-down) economics is a bogus theory promoted by those who benefit from it. In a mature capitalist system, supply side never rules, it’s always the demand side of the equation that governs growth and well-being. Think about the 1930s Depression, General Motors had plenty of supply, but demand evaporated.

Previous U.S. recessions have been cured with only $200 billion in tax cuts targeted to the middle class, because the consumer (the great middle class) spends that tax cut and primes the economic pump. But George Bush has raised the debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay from almost $6 trillion to almost $9 trillion for this current recovery, which is uniquely without wage gains, and which has shrunk the middle class that makes America strong and great.

Corporations (the supply side) are now loaded with cash, but there’s no place to spend it because they don’t see any demand. So many corporations are using that cash to buy back their stock -- WOW, isn’t supply side wonderful in how it fulfills America’s needs? As the rich-poor divide increases, we’re headed toward previous shining examples of trickle-down economics: South America of the recent past and feudalism in the Middle Ages (South America and feudalism also had no wage gains). This is such good evil by our compassionate conservative, Christian President and his myriad of engorged friends.

I see a dark future for the country we all love. Even our Constitution is at risk when a President says he speaks directly to God (witness how God/Allah influences and corrupts Islamic attempts at democracy). The Constitution guarantees freedom to all, and freedom for all from tyranny. Our precious Constitution binds us together as a nation, and allegiance to it is the definition of patriotism.