The Chris Matthews Show - March 7, 2010

Guests:
Dan Rather
Andrea Mitchell
Katty Kay
Joe Klein
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Matthews: OMG Obama should never have
tried reform health care!!!

Rather: three words: bad bad bad jobs jobs jobs

Mitchell: Pelosi has to persuade Dennis Kucinich and Bart Stupak to vote for the same bill - how do you do that??

Klein: Nancy is really good at whipping people

Matthews: how do you get the fetus-Americans
on board

Kay: the pr- life Dems will derail all health care in
order to limit women’s rights

Mitchell: the Hyde Abides!

Klein: the good news is private insurers will not cover abortion -- they’d rather cover a baby for
the next 26 years

Rather: it’s socialism like a cactus in the morning

Mitchell: it’s a government takeover of health care
[ sobs ]

Kay: it’s possible this bill won’t result in genocide

Matthews: whoa!

Kay: if this doesn’t pass the GOP will have a
better issue than if it does

Klein: the elderly care about donuts

Matthews: Does Obama get a bill?

Kay: yes

Rather: yes but it in the bank and put a lock on it
and smack it on the griddle

Mitchell: yes or else Obama will resign

Klein: yes

Matthews: a great triumph for Pelosi!

Klein: nah

Rather: the GOP will say Obama is a nice person although he succeeded in passing health care Obama had to try too hard to do it and Obama
can’t sell watermelons to the NAACP

Matthews: only Teddy Roosevelt could create
the Panama canal!

Matthews: HA! Look JFK was an Indian and Nixon played the piano!

Teabaggers: Elitist!!!

[ break ]

Matthews: Karl Rove admitted that WMD was a lying sales pitch to trick America is supporting their phony war!

Rather: you can send that dog to hunt but you can’t make it a ballet dancer

Mitchell: they say they didn’t lie about WMD but it turns out they are lying about that too

Kay: They lied to get us into a fucking war!!!!

Klein: Dick Cheney didn’t do the due diligence because he’s an idiot and a vampire

Mitchell: Cheney’s book will go after his critics and Bush’s book will connect the dots

Matthews: ooh it will reveal all the connections between Iraq and terror?

Mitchell: no it’s a children’s book idiot

Matthews: will Bush’s book explain his other disasters like the economy?

Mitchelll: and Katrina

Matthews: oh right - forgot about that one

Klein: Bush’s book will make people love him

Matthews: Bush is really a mensch

Bush [watching at home]: hey laura what’s a mench??

Laura: that’s nice dear
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