So this morning I woke to Morning Joe, having fallen asleep watching Rachel's late rerun. They teased an interview with Tim Huelskamp, the wingnut who Boehner recently purged from a powerful committee for being too crazy for the House Republican leadership. OK, I thought, I won't instantly change the teevee channel while I try to wake up. Off to the shower....
A few minutes later Rep. Huelskamp was given a long interview over the Boehnerpocalpyse last night. Joe eagerly agreed with all Huelskamp's lies about tax hikes killing jobs, and the need to cut (always unspecified) spending. But even Joe kept asking Huelskamp whether he acknowledged that in a divided government some compromise was necessary for the good of the country. He got a badly-spun "No" each and every time he asked -- pled -- with his interviewee, clearly hoping for a different answer. An angry Donny Deutsch broke in and demanded a yes or no answer: Should anybody's taxes go up at all? Even somebody making $5 million a year? Huelskamp got his back up and said no, he wasn't going to vote for any tax hikes, using a pulled-out-of-his-ass figure of 200-700,000 jobs that would be lost due to tax hikes. Joe went back to pleading for a different answer to his question.
(Link to video here. Sorry, work network won't allow video posting.)
