{"id":1019,"date":"2012-11-13T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T07:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2012-11-13T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T07:56:15","slug":"with-the-election-behind-us-some-good-words-from-rachel-maddow-on-why-we-need-a-well-functioning-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"With the election behind us, some good words from Rachel Maddow on why we need a well-functioning GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of the of her segment, Rachel spends 3 minutes to explain to the conservative politicians, people, and media why that there are certain facts that really should be beyond debate and discussion. And also correctly points out that America is best served by a country that has a dialogue and debate to come up with the best ideas and to let those ideas compete and be considered. I have a strong feeling that because the messenger is Maddow no conservative will listen and that is shame because they are really good words.<\/p>\n<p>From Rachel Maddow (07 November)<\/p>\n<p>Transcript Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/49745053\/ns\/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show\/#.UKF71oawUzQhttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/49745053\/ns\/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show\/#.UKF71oawUzQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube Link: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e4699sVXbBo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e4699sVXbBo\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e4699sVXbBo<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MADDOW: Ohio really did go to President Obama last night. And he<br \/>\nreally did win. And he really was born in Hawaii. And he really is<br \/>\nlegitimately president of the United States, again.<\/p>\n<p>And the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make up a fake unemployment<br \/>\nrate last month. And the Congressional Research Service really can find no<br \/>\nevidence that cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy. And the<br \/>\npolls were not skewed to oversample Democrats. And Nate Silver was not<br \/>\nmaking up fake projections about the election to make conservatives feel<br \/>\nbad. Nate Silver was doing math.<\/p>\n<p>And climate change is real. And rape really does cause pregnancy<br \/>\nsometimes. And evolution is a thing.<\/p>\n<p>And Benghazi was an attack on us, it was not a scandal by us. And<br \/>\nnobody is taking away anyone`s guns. And taxes have not gone up. And the<br \/>\ndeficit is dropping, actually.<\/p>\n<p>And Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. And the<br \/>\nmoon landing was real. And FEMA is not building concentration camps. And<br \/>\nU.N. election observers are not taking over Texas. And moderate reforms of<br \/>\nthe regulations on the insurance industry and the financial services<br \/>\nindustry in this country are not the same thing as communism.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, last night was a good night for liberals and for Democrats for<br \/>\nvery obvious reasons, but it was also, possibly, a good night for this<br \/>\ncountry as a whole, because in this country, we have a two-party system in<br \/>\ngovernment. And the idea is supposed to be that the two sides, both come<br \/>\nup with ways to confront and fix the real problems facing our country.<br \/>\nThey both propose possible solutions to our real problems. And we debate<br \/>\nbetween those possible solutions.<\/p>\n<p>And by the process of debate, we pick the best idea. That competition<br \/>\nbetween good ideas from both sides about real problems in the real country<br \/>\nshould result in our country having better choices, better options, than if<br \/>\nonly one side is really working on the hard stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And the if the Republican Party and the conservative movement and the<br \/>\nconservative media is snuck a vacuum-sealed door-locked spin cycle of<br \/>\ntelling each other what makes them feel good and denying the factual, lived<br \/>\ntruth of the world, then we are all deprived as a nation of the<br \/>\nconstructive debate about competing feasible ideas about real problems.<\/p>\n<p>Last night the Republicans got shellacked, and they had no idea it was<br \/>\ncoming. And we saw them in real time, in real humiliating time, not<br \/>\nbelieve it, even as it was happening to them.<\/p>\n<p>And unless they are going to is secede, they are going to have to pop<br \/>\nthe factual bubble they have been so happy living inside if they do not<br \/>\nwant to get shellacked again. And that will be a painful process for them,<br \/>\nbut it will be good for the whole country, left, right, and center. You<br \/>\nguys, we`re counting on you. Wake up.<\/p>\n<p>There are real problems in the world. There are real, knowable facts<br \/>\nin the world. Let`s accept those and talk about how we might approach our<br \/>\nproblems differently. Let`s move on from there.<\/p>\n<p>If the Republican Party and the conservative movement and conservative<br \/>\nmedia are forced to do that by the humiliation they were dealt last night,<br \/>\nwe will all be better off as a nation. And in that spirit,<br \/>\ncongratulations, everybody. Big night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of the of her segment, Rachel spends 3 minutes to explain to the conservative politicians, people, and media why that there are certain facts that really should be beyond debate and discussion. And also correctly points out that America is best served by a country that has a dialogue and debate to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=1019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">With the election behind us, some good words from Rachel Maddow on why we need a well-functioning GOP<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}