Posted on 03/24/2017 4:09:13 PM PDT by drewh
Never one to miss a chance to slam President Donald Trump, Lawrence O’Donnell -- host of The Last Word, a weeknight program on MSNBC -- called the Republican occupant of the White House “the laziest, most ignorant president in history.”
Of course, he had an entirely different opinion of former Democratic President Barack Obama, who “never once said something like this in the crusade to get that thing passed because he knew how to stay with it and get it passed.”
The liberal host began the discussion by criticizing the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill intended to replace Obamacare and the differing opinions on the bill held by the president and the Republicans who have a majority of members in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
O’Donnell stated:
That's why this is so devastating. If you are a House Republican, and this is a tough vote for you, the president is saying to you on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow: ‘I quit, and I quit in the Senate.”
“I do not have the patience or the ability to stay focused on this and get it through the Senate, which is much harder than getting it through the House.”
Panelist Steven Brill, an American lawyer and journalist who wrote a book on health care entitled America’s Bitter Pill, responded: “I agree with you, but let’s put one thing in perspective.”
“As someone who watched Obamacare,” Brill stated, “it took 15 months. It was dead at least ten different times. Even if it doesn’t pass tomorrow, they could do something else and they could come back to it, and they might.”
That was when O’Donnell unleashed his venom toward Trump and praised Obama.
Then Joshua Barro, a journalist who currently contributes to Business Insider as a political commentator, presented a somewhat different perspective:
He’s lazy and ignorant, but he has a really good marketing sense.
He knows that this is not really what he ran for president on. He talked about it because Republicans have to talk about it, but he ran about trade and crime and immigration and making America great again.
In addition, Trump “was saying that he’d give insurance for everyone,” Barro stated. “He understood that this is not something Americans wanted, and I think that was against his better judgment to listen to (House Speaker) Paul Ryan about doing this first. He should have started with a tax cut.”
In an article posted on the Free Beacon website by Chandler Gill, the media analyst noted that the president “reportedly told congressional Republicans on Thursday that he was done negotiating on the American Health Care Act.”
Gill noted that Trump “apparently told GOP lawmakers” that they needed to vote on the plan Friday in its current form or live with the Affordable Care Act remaining in place.”
The conflict among Republican officials also drew the attention of Matthew Belvedere on the CNBC cable television channel, who interviewed White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney early Friday.
Referring to Trump, Mulvaney said he "is not a politician. This is a businessman, and he thinks the time has come to a vote.”
Many members of the Freedom Caucus didn't believe the GOP health bill went far enough to eradicate Obamacare's framework, Belvedere stated.
“Trump is prepared to move on to other legislative priorities such as tax cuts for individuals and corporations and updating the nation's infrastructure systems,” Mulvaney said before noting:
He has other things he wants to do. Impatient is not the right word. Busy would be the right way to describe this president.
He doesn't want to spend the time for the next two, four, six, eight months, whatever it would take. That's what it would take if you let the House go about its own business.
It now appears that the president can devote his time to other matters since Republican leaders in the House abruptly pulled the health-care bill on Friday afternoon, according to an article in the Washington Post.
Not surprisingly, the reporters claimed: “The decision means the Affordable Care Act remains in place, at least for now, and a major GOP campaign promise goes unfulfilled.”
“It also casts doubt on the GOP’s ability to govern and to advance other high-stakes agenda items, including tax reform and infrastructure spending,” they added.
O’Donnell and his fellow liberals at MSNBC will probably gloat about the GOP’s failure to pass the bill for a while, but Trump still has about three years to push through another version of the health-care proposal.
O’Donnell is a Comcast employee. Don’t support his paycheck.
Lawrence O’Donnell is one of the biggest a**holes in the history of journalism.
Is he related to Rosie O’Donnell? That would explain a lot.
Lawrence O’Donnell is one of the biggest a**holes in the history of journalism.
Is he related to Rosie O’Donnell? That would explain a lot.
“Who the hell is Lawrence Odonnell?
What the hell is “The Last Word”?
Who the hell listens to MSNBC?”
I had the same thoughts.
And all thirty of his viewers agree.
This from an MSM outlet that was too lazy to vet Obama, or investigate corruption in the Clinton inner circle.
He may not know the full dynamics of some things, but the word ignorant is not one I’d ever use in relation to Trump.
I think he’s a pretty smart cookie, and I think you feel the same way.
I have never seen a harder working person or president work as hard or as much as President Trump. O’Donnell is not watching if he cannot see.
FYI, Obama is laughing at you.
http://www.bravotv.com/below-deck/blogs/barack-obama-island-vacation-south-pacific-the-brando
Is that the same L O’_Donnell who claimed that Trump could not mathematically win the election. His premises are obviously and permanently flawed.
Is this clown Rosie’s brother or something?
I agree. The pubs should have had a plan and bill ready to rock that had already made the rounds through all the different factions within the party. Why it hadn’t is anyone’s guess. I’m just going to call it poor leadership and laziness for the moment and this has nothing to do with Trump. Laws come from congress; sometimes at the behest of the President.
The could have done a straight up repeal with a phase out plan then went to work on a replacement knowing the ACA was officially done and gone. They could still do this.
I’ll bet this is the first time, ever, that Trump has been called lazy.
Before showing a taped interview with RNC Chairman Michael Steele, O’Donnell caused controversy over his intro to the interview which was considered racially insensitive. He said, “Michael Steele is dancing as fast as he can, trying to charm independent voters and Tea Partiers while never losing sight of his real master and paycheck provider, the Republican National Committee.” After drawing criticism from Steele and talk-radio host Larry Elder, O’Donnell apologized for his remarks.[20][21][22]
O’Donnell also drew criticism during an interview with Congressman Ron Paul, when Paul accused him of breaking an agreement not to ask him about other political candidates.[23] O’Donnell said he was not part of any agreement, but an MSNBC spokeswoman stated, “We told Rep. Paul’s office that the focus would be on the tea party movement, not on specific candidates”.[24]
During an October 2011 interview, O’Donnell accused Republican primary candidate Herman Cain of sitting on the sidelines during the civil rights protests of the 1960s and also charged him with avoiding the draft during the Vietnam War. Conor Friedersdorf said the questions posed by O’Donnell were “offensive” and declared, “In this interview, O’Donnell goes to absurd lengths to use patriotism and jingoism as cudgels to attack his conservative guest, almost as if he is doing a Stephen Colbert style parody of the tactics he imagines a right-wing blowhard might employ. Does he realize he’s becoming what he claims to abhor?”[25] O’Donnell’s interview with Cain was later defended by Reverend Al Sharpton.[26]
In 2007 O’Donnell criticized Mitt Romney’s speech on religion stating that “Romney comes from a religion that was founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist.”[27][28] In the April 3, 2012 broadcast of The Last Word, O’Donnell made comments regarding the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), saying it was an “invented religion,” which was “created by a guy in upstate New York in 1830 when he got caught having sex with the maid and explained to his wife that God told him to do it.”[29] During the April 11, 2012 broadcast of The Last Word, O’Donnell apologized for the April 3, 2012 comments, stating that his comments offended many, including some of the show’s most supportive fans.[30]
Answer? Only the Looney Left.
“Romney comes from a religion that was founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist.” This guy thinks he is a SHOCK JOCK, he has no actual ability to PRODUCE Something in our Capitalistic Society,so he says STOOPID STUFF... I think that he has problems with his MOTHER, And he hated His Father, his ANIMA, (SOUL), is fighting his Animas, Animus is the archetype of reason and spirit in women. This is the male aspect of the female psyche, as the anima is the female aspect of male psyche.
This archetype is projected in various male images and characters like great artists, heroes, warriors, sportsmen, philosopher, and so forth. When identified with the animus (animus-inflated), women develop an excessive rational drive which may end up in excessive criticism and stubbornness.In other words, he has Psychological Problems..
In other words The Guy is a Moron
So Hillary was practically in a coma during the campaign and Hussein never took a meeting before 10am in 8 years but Trump is lazy. Okay Larry.
I’m 59 and could have never maintained Trumps schedule during the last 9 months.
Given the fact that MSNBC is Bizarro World, this actually makes sense. Or at least isn’t surprising.
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