Rachel Maddow’s Anger At U.S. Senate: ‘Game Over’ For Support From Obama Base?

Mediaite ^ | 12/17/10 | Colby Hall

[Libloather]

Rachel Maddow’s Anger At U.S. Senate: ‘Game Over’ For Support From Obama Base?
by Colby Hall | 10:22 am, December 17th, 2010

Last night the U.S. Senate voted on a bill that will extend the current Tax Cuts first put into place by President Bush after Senator Harry Reid appeared to capitulate to the threat of a Republican filibuster. This appeared to frustrate, if not anger MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow last night, and not only because it messed up the rundown of her show. It understandably irked the self-described progressive because it was just another example of, as she put it, “this phenom of passing bills in the house only to see it die in the Senate.”

Maddow ran trough a litany of examples where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was successful in moving legislation consistent with both Obama’s and the progressive agenda forward through the House, only to see it die in the U.S. Senate. Then Maddow made very clear the stakes put forth by Senator Reid’s consistent surrender to the GOP:

With the endless obstructions and delay tactics. The margins that Democrats have over Republicans has been equal. Things have died in the Senate, not because Democrats didn’t have the votes. They had the votes. The senate broke. Without President Obama recognizing that is the U.S. Senate and acknowledging it is a broken institution that may be should be fixed, it’s sort of game over in terms of the rest of his agenda. It’s therefore sort of game over for his support from his base. Especially with a whole slew of Republicans on their way to Washington in January.

[Lancey Howard]

And altogether that’s about 35% of the voters (mostly because of the hugely bloated government unions).

Yep... and the affirmative action president Ubama got 53% of the vote... which means that it was normal, working, traditional American families who ultimately tipped the balance. There is no antidote for brazen, malicious stupidity.