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anniebelle

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37. Chuck Todd has certainly 'grown up' in these last few years.
Mon May 15, 2017, 05:50 AM
May 2017

Yesterday is the first time I've watched MTP in years and I was pleasantly surprised at the conversation. Hopefully, Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, etc. represent a new breed of reporting we haven't seen in the last few/several years. I usually go to Bill Moyers, Dan Rather or Lawrence O'Donnell when I'm searching for 'real' news, but lately I see a slight shift coming from others ~ like Chuck Todd ~ who I just could not stand to watch during President Obama's term.

The right has become anti-anti Trump. DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #1
Still just anti-government, I think. Orsino May 2017 #59
Yep. Never underestimate canetoad May 2017 #2
Interesting and very accurate. Tom67 May 2017 #3
They've been gerrymandering..... SergeStorms May 2017 #33
That's why they have started talking about a Constitutional Convention bigbrother05 May 2017 #49
!!! Alice11111 May 2017 #66
They stand for greed and unborn babies. mucifer May 2017 #4
That's our view of them; yes. Not that it's wrong, but they don't see themselves that way. nt Xipe Totec May 2017 #6
No, unborn babies are just useful tools to them. n/t Beartracks May 2017 #35
Yep Freddie May 2017 #51
Their sheep are too dimwitted to see the strong correlation between contraception/abortion MrPurple May 2017 #60
That's it in a nutshell jberryhill May 2017 #5
Recommended. guillaumeb May 2017 #7
they don't want to govern; they want to RULE. n/t lastlib May 2017 #18
And they are. guillaumeb May 2017 #19
Their ideology is tax cuts for the ruling class hibbing May 2017 #8
Tax less Plucketeer May 2017 #10
Anti-Obama Has Been Their Only Motivating Philosophy for 9 years Stallion May 2017 #9
Message deleted by DU the Administrators Useless in FL May 2017 #11
Right wing conservatives bucolic_frolic May 2017 #12
Capitalism was never "founded"; it evolved from feudalism organically - nt KingCharlemagne May 2017 #25
Capitalism grew from technological developments bucolic_frolic May 2017 #30
Um, no. They want government only when it serves their capitalist purposes. Fantastic Anarchist May 2017 #39
Um, no. That's ridiculous. bucolic_frolic May 2017 #43
No, it's not ridiculous at all. Fantastic Anarchist May 2017 #65
and the "anti-whatever the Black guy said" ideology grantcart May 2017 #13
Power is their only ideology & selling out the country is not too low for them to get it. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #14
Anything to stick it to the libtards. NBachers May 2017 #15
They act as if they were still the minority party in opposition Xipe Totec May 2017 #20
I once asked a conservative acquaintance just what it was that conservatives wanted to conserve... lastlib May 2017 #16
Comforting the confortable and afflicting the afflicted. - nt KingCharlemagne May 2017 #26
Actually, it is true lovemydogs May 2017 #17
They're against progress as it does not favor them. Ligyron May 2017 #47
That's why it's better to accentuate the positive BarbD May 2017 #21
Gee Thanks Toad.... Grassy Knoll May 2017 #22
So the GOP is the "Party of No." Right? Nothing new here. N/T slumcamper May 2017 #23
Message deleted by DU the Administrators BigBearJohn May 2017 #24
+1 n/t jaysunb May 2017 #61
Certainly is easier. tazkcmo May 2017 #27
Took him long enough. Volaris May 2017 #28
I heard that but don't know what the hell he meant. And of course, the Righties have always been Akamai May 2017 #29
Trump did not 'win'. He was annointed by Putin. triron May 2017 #31
We've been calling them obstructionists for years. lpbk2713 May 2017 #32
one of these days liberals will figure out it's just a few hundred assholes certainot May 2017 #34
He didn't "formulate" anything, just restated stuff that liberals have been saying... JHB May 2017 #36
Chuck Todd has certainly 'grown up' in these last few years. anniebelle May 2017 #37
I somewhat agree. I think there's a right-wing faction and an anti-left-wing faction. Fantastic Anarchist May 2017 #38
To me, the present day Republicans are those who always resented their parents Jim Beard May 2017 #40
George Washington called it the spirit of party. Bucky May 2017 #41
No shit Cosmocat May 2017 #42
I can agree with that.. disillusioned73 May 2017 #44
It's been that way since GW. They're completely lost. byronius May 2017 #45
Here is a good read on the subject. Snotcicles May 2017 #46
The right is anti-American dalton99a May 2017 #48
Partly true... Mike Nelson May 2017 #50
+1000 n/t jaysunb May 2017 #62
F--- Todd being profound? 47of74 May 2017 #52
They won't defend DFT, they just attack his attackers. Ilsa May 2017 #53
We have come to this: That we call the media's noting the obvious, "profound." WinkyDink May 2017 #54
Confederates. moondust May 2017 #55
Groucho Marx was mocking these people 85 years ago DFW May 2017 #56
At one time, being a "Conservative" meant.... Xolodno May 2017 #68
That was back in the days when the main language was English DFW May 2017 #70
Bullshit. Read their platform, for one. Check their actions. L. Coyote May 2017 #57
I think their ideology is "money above all else." No? Yes? Honeycombe8 May 2017 #58
I disagree with Todd paulkienitz May 2017 #63
I hope Todd gave credit to the New York Times . FairWinds May 2017 #64
Hell, it's 7 years since it became a central tenet of Balloon Juice, a leading liberal blog muriel_volestrangler May 2017 #67
I usually don't watch that stupid show Dem2 May 2017 #69
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