Fucking Hack! He's the same idiot who, for months kept telling us there would be no public option. The closer we get, the more this moron squirms. He really should have stuck with the whole polling data gig because, as a reporter he really sucks! And yes, just imagine if Reid would have been unable to get 60 votes tonight. It may have become "Breaking News" like Baloon Boy.

There is a human need to see big things fail.

The thing is, at the bottom of that link, he mentions how tomorrow would be plastered with "How could Obama recover" etc, and I can almost guarantee that tomorrow's shows will downplay the whole damned thing and focus completely on how they could lose the Conservadem votes as it moves through debate.

Instead of just telling us what the results were, which is his only job, we have to get his take and his spin. Just the facts dick!

Someone needs to beat Chuck Todd mercilessly and repeatedly up side his head with a copy of the HCR bill.

It looks like this guy succeeded Halperin as the poster boy for the idiot reporter.

No, Mark Halperin is not writing for Chuckie. Chuckie is the frickin' ghost himself, as usual being as cynical and scathing as can be. Maybe in Chuckie's world he thinks that that is cute and funny. He is a misfit, and a sinister son of a gun!
Shall I repeat..'IT"S THE MEDIA, STUPID', it's the goddamned media gleefully running the narrative on failure. The lot of them should be disgraced daily as they are failing the American people with their sabotaging mechanisms!

Chuck Todd is correct:

"Then shame on them. In fact, it would call into question the party's ability to be a governing party."

He's right. Yesterday was simply a vote to agree to talk more about it. To open debate. Big deal.

Even several who spoke (Sen. Lincoln, for instance) was very clear about agreeing to talk about it, to open debate, etc. but that she is against the proposed plan.

So if the dems couldn't be unified and get enough votes to just agree to discuss, then that would have been really really lame.

And the flip side of it is that if they can't even accomplish that very basic beginning, they're nothing.

It would call into question their ability to be a governing party, as Todd suggested.

Bob, stop getting your panties in a twist over every little word and blemish.

Terri
Your last sentence is rich. I bet you do not even see the irony of that statement.

Here's a lie by Harry Reid (he started an incorrect narrative that Dems are going with which is inaccurate, but which is catching on): "What happened just now [the Senate vote on Saturday] has never happened in the history of the United States Senate. For the first time ever, the Senate will debate a bill that puts health care decisions in the hands of the people." - Harry Reid

Lawrence O'Donnell: " "Not only have we been here before, but Harry Reid himself has been here before. (In 1994) Hillary Clinton's health care bill came up for debate on the floor of the United States Senate."

Bob Cesca and other dems are guilty of repeating this false narrative.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#34118867

The piece by Lawerebce O'Donell makes it pretty clear that Ried's statement is incorrect, doesn't it?

What was Chuck Todd wrong about, again?

Notthing that I can see!