Demand Question Time

The White Houe is already trying to schedule another round, but it’s unlikely the GOP will want this fiasco to repeat itself. Those righties had better be prepared to pressure the GOP, because they’re the ones holding up a “Question Time” rematch.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

After my initial surge of adrenaline watching Obama mop the floor with the Republican caucus, I gotta say that I was left feeling disheartened. It was too easy. I want a smart, capable, non-delusional right to sharpen my left wing beliefs. Right now the marketplace of ideas is being controlled by a monopoly, and monopolies get fat and lazy.
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C’mon righties! Get up off the floor and start THINKING! It’s no fun knocking you around when you have all the logical thinking skills of a six year old!

I’ve often watched the British Parliament’s Prime Ministers Questions and thought, “If only we had something like that here. How refreshing!” By all means, let’s make this an integral part of our government process. The biggest danger is that it turns into another form of Kabuki. Still, this kind of direct, civil, back and forth between opponents provides the closest thing we’re likely to get to an honest exchange of ideas in public.

Apparently, the posters above were watching a different session than I was. “Mopping the floor” indeed.
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Anyway, I think it’s a terrific idea, with one caveat (and, given First Amendment rights, this may not be doable): Punditry after the fact is forbidden. No talking heads telling us what was just said. No partrisan hacks telling us what the speakers meant to say.
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I dare say the lefties will still hear what they want to hear (again, wirness the comments above), but at least we don’t have to listen to the insufferable bores and “experts” weighing in on something for which they have little or no legitimate right to speak on.

Be more like the Brits? Gosh, I hope not. I have always valued top-flight dentistry.

that made me laugh, thanks.

Pardon me, my good man, have you any Grey Poupon?

Are you sure that “surge” wasn’t just gas? What kind of surge did you feel after the Mass. a$$whoopin’?

The best thing for Republicans is for the Democrats to keep talking. One its what Democrats do best and second the more they talk the bigger the lies and the more people figure out Obama is way above his pay grade.
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During that Questions, Obama spun more tires than any NASCAR pitstop. He was called out on his statement that Repubs offered no HC plans. He then proceeded to do his best Bill Clinton what the meaning of is is. He claim not to say those words in that speech of that day during a full moon while …

Lie after lie dripping with arrogance. Wave bye bye to the majorities. The public is fed up.

“liberal media predator L. Brent Bozell III”
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I think you might want to hyphenate that as “liberal-media predator L. Brent Bozell III.” He’d hate to be thought of as a liberal and we’d hate to have him thought of one as well.

All the question today are coming from the newest Democrats and the ones like Blanche Lincoln who are going to lose.
Blanche Lincoln just basically used her “question” to complain to the president that she doesn’t want to act like a Democrat nor does she want to have to make hard decisions.
I can’t wait til she is gone. She just weakens the brand.

Wow, the president just told Lincoln to stop whining, stop hiding, shut up, and start helping people who have treaded water for ten years without a raise a college and health care costs have skyrocketed.
Then he made it look like being bold is what Lincoln had originally suggested.
Nice way to stick a shiv in the DINO.

Oh I dunno… acting like a democrat nowadays is like wearing a fur coat to a PETA convention.

I like the idea of it and what came out of it, but can we please call it something besides “Question Time?” Something about that name just sounds silly, like it belongs on childrens programming.

How about “intense interrogation time”? Kinda has a nice ring to it.

And the usual gang of (right wing) idiots proves my point.

“Mr Speaker, I see now why this is called Question Period, not Answer Period” — Stockwell Day (amongst many others), then Opposition Leader and Leader of the Canadian Alliance Party.
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Mind you, you still get closer to an answer.

Aww, not that old oneliner again.

He gave a direct answer on the deficit, gave a direct hit on Republicans about partisanship, and noted the major similarities between his Health Care plan and the one Republicans fielded 15 years ago – all of which gave him the credibility to sell his claim that he couldn’t find credible economists or the CBO to support Republican claims on the deficit, the stimulus or their Health Care proposals. Add in that Republicans gave him two very bad questions that were clearly predicated (to those who knew the details) on false claims and Obama smashed both of them, the Republicans were the clear losers in this particular contest.
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I agree that Obama spent too much time spinning, but the Republicans weren’t able to deliver any major body blows while Obama delivered big ones.
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Next time, CNN should get one of those focus groups that they have during the debates that basically keep rating how the President is doing.

I actually enjoyed the session with Republicans more than the one with Democrats (happening now) – Obama and the Democratic brand shine better in opposition.

Yeah this is pretty terrible. I wish Obama would counter nepotism-hire Evan Bayh’s bleatings about the deficit by asking Bayh why he voted for Bush’s tax cut s and he keeps voting to get rid of the Paris Hilton Tax.

That shine comes from the sweating. Get used to it.

I would think a Limbaugh/Beck fan would stay away from making sweat jokes.

That one sailed right over my head Poofro.

Similar to the “big ones” he delivered up in Mass. the day before the election?

You consider a 51.9% margin of victory against an universally accepted mediocre opponent to be an a$$ whooping? Really?

MS: “What do you think? Shouldn’t we all be more like the Brits?” YEEESSS!!!

In a deep blue state like Mass. for the esteemed holy seat of the “late great” Ted Kennedy? Yes it was an A$$ whoopin’!

Not really. You had a pretty bad Democratic candidate who didn’t really campaign until close to the end, a lot of local issues at play and a very bad season for incumbents in general. It isn’t as if he actually defeated Ted Kennedy himself.
Now the John Thune/Tom Daschel match-up was pretty interesting.

Well it’s like they say in the good ole NFL. A win is a win. Obama won by a similar percentage and they called that a whoopin’.

“In a deep blue state like Mass. for the esteemed holy seat of the ‘late great’ Ted Kennedy?”
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You really don’t know anything about my home state, do you, rocks? I know because Ted Kennedy is from here that it is easy to call Massachusetts “deep blue,” but here’s some reality checks for you about the commonwealth:
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1) Massachusetts went for Reagan…twice
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2) Once you get outside of Metro West (the suburbs surrounding Boston), you basically have Western New York — and these are the areas where Massachusetts Republicans typically hail from.
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3) We elect Republican governors pretty frequently: Romney, Salucci and Weld are in or near past
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4) A good chunk of the voters here, like myself, register as Independents.
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It’s easy to paint with a broad brush when you know not of what you speak. But you trying to draw some great victory for Republicans overall about Massachusians going for Brown (who invoked John F. Kennedy in his campaign ads, btw) is stupid. There’s a little more complexity here at play than election night maps on Fox News (or whatever feeds your thinking on my state).

I’m on board.

You might suggest that Fox not cut off the feed 20 minutes early to begin their punditry.

forgottenlord

“gave a direct hit on Republicans about partisanship,”

Do you mean the part where he lectured them about partisanship and they were excluded from any meetings and he never responded to any of the proposals they sent?

Yeah he hits like a girl! But I guess when your agenda sucks and everything you touch turns to crap you take sandlot wins and imagine you won the Super Bowl

pafro, good to hear.

Shouldn’t we all be more like the Brits?
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I’d like to see Bush answer questions about Iraq, like Blair has had to do: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/jan/29/iraq-war-inquiry-tonyblair
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And have to publically account for his lies, like Blair is having to do: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/29/tony-blair-chilcot-iraq-inquiry
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But in this country, no one wants to face the horrors they allowed, either through complicity or ignorance. We must look forward, not back… Isn’t there a saying about those who don’t learn from the past?

I laugh thinking of an American question time. The Brits have it down to a fine art. It’s an orchestrated act, with the Speaker gaveling for ORDER. Would it work in our congress? I doubt it.

queen, an upstart Republican candidate (who campaigned mostly on going against HCR) won by 5 in the most liberal state in the country, that had just elected Obama by 36 points, to replace the liberals’ most beloved senator. I would say that qualifies as an arse-kicking. C’mon man.