Rachel Maddow Bashes Conservative Democrats (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow tore into several conservative Democrats on her Tuesday show, scolding them for what she saw as their dangerous undermining of their own party.

Maddow began by playing the now-legendary video of Herman Cain singing "Imagine There's No Pizza." Citing Talking Points Memo, which analyzed this video with a far more discerning eye than others, Maddow froze the footage on a man who was cheering the Republican presidential nominee as he sang about trying to imagine a world without pizza and just tacos.

"There. Do you see who that is?" Maddow said. "Politics geeks of the world, do you see who that is, standing and enthusiastically cheering on Herman Cain?" It turns out it was Ben Nelson — now a Democratic senator from Nebraska, but at the time, the governor of that state. (Maddow had a different way of putting it, calling Nelson a "sort-of" Democrat.)

Maddow pointed out that Nelson has been making headlines for being one of two Democrats in the Senate who voted against President Obama's jobs bill as a whole last week. Maddow labeled Nelson and Montana Senator Jon Tester as being "Conservadems," Maddow's term for Democrats who "always try to get ahead by trashing their own party." Maddow said that Nelson and Tester were suspected to vote against Obama's jobs bill again. The bill is being broken up into separate entities for the Senate to revisit and vote. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was also suspected to vote against President Obama's jobs the second time around.

Maddow criticized these Senators for voting against Obama's jobs bill and said, "...Conservadems like Jon Tester, and Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman are siding with the Republican Senators who are siding with no voters, not even their own, and who are siding against firefighters and against cops and against teachers."

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Comments

[anothervoice]

06:41 AM on 10/21/2011

Rachel threw down the gauntlet to the Brothers Koch last night in a pretty profound way and yet no mention here on the HuffPo?

You'd think a red meat item like that would be the Media Lead.....

[cgoodie]

01:28 AM on 10/21/2011

The DINO's have always been Obama's biggest problem. They helped block several pieces of progressive legislation during the first two years of his presidency.

[gumbo1049]

08:28 AM on 10/21/2011

You are very correct. They are the reason we are here today.

[lielib]

07:43 PM on 10/20/2011

Mob group think. Throw out diversiy of opinion. Who cares how big the country is. Who cares if we are different in thoughts and understanding, Rachel, the low rated boring host says you must submit. How enlightening. I just hope she doesn't call for the dude haircut she has for all.

[hpblue5011]

08:54 PM on 10/20/2011

Now that is funny, I don't care what your political party is!

[cgoodie]

01:25 AM on 10/21/2011

Not!

[lielib]

07:36 PM on 10/20/2011

Must all think the same, We are Robots, Liberal extreme Robots. Dude, I thought you were a big tent party. We're not all marxists losers or low rated msnbc hosts.

[anothervoice]

06:39 AM on 10/21/2011

New here?

[Hegemoneyhoney]

07:32 PM on 10/20/2011

Running as a member of a particular Party should carry with it basic understandings derived from a Party Platform. Thus,you can know that a D or R candidate endorses certain basic principals and will vote that way if elected. Neither the Democratic nor the Republican Parties stand for anything anymore and certainly not for anything that differentiates one from the other. When Joe Lieberman can actually CAMPAIGN FOR George W. Bush and STILL get Democratic committee appointments, that is WRONG. When Ben Nelson, Max Baucus, and so many other Democrats can actually vote like Republicans against any real or perceived Democratic principal, that is WRONG. Health care, war-mongering, Social Security/Medicare - all of it - we KNEW what Republicans would do. Where the shock and awe came was when DEMOCRATS got on board with Republicans. We have a President who is also a Republican in Democratic guise, like too many in the D Party. First we must define what it means to be a Democrat (or Republican), then by God stick by it and stand for something besides raking in money and getting reelected in order to rake in more money. Clinton led the Democratic Party down that insidious path - and many "Democrats" still worship at the Clinton altar - and Obama continues the Clinton model. We need real Democrats, but first "real Democrat" needs to be defined for the here and now.

[lonbwoy]

05:07 PM on 10/20/2011

Conservative Democrats??, is that like a Liberal Republican??.

[JoanneRM]

09:45 PM on 10/20/2011

There used to be Liberal Republicans. Senator Jacob Javits, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, New York Mayor Lindsey, and in retrospect, President Richard Nixon to name a few. Only Nixon is a Liberal in comparison.

[trystiantt1]

04:43 PM on 10/20/2011

You don't follow the party line, prepare to be excoriated by Maddow. Then again, since it's Maddow, it doesn't really matter anyway.

[lielib]

07:37 PM on 10/20/2011

Next she'll call for everyone to have her haircut

[JustJoy7]

01:46 PM on 10/20/2011

I want to see posted here Rachel's last night's segment on why the GOP are so eager to get their hands on and privatizing Social Security. Awesome, and should be shown on prime time tv.

[lielib]

07:37 PM on 10/20/2011

Alas, she sucks, so that will not happen.

[JoanneRM]

09:54 PM on 10/20/2011

Wall Street took all the equity out of your 401k. Corporations took all the money that was socked away in your pension funds. Big Banks took all the equity socked away in your house. George W Bush tried to privatize Social Security, and Americans raised Hell about it. Now the GOP has brought it up as a way to turn all the money in the Social Security Trust Fund over to that good ol' trust worth Wall Street. That is Privatizing Social Security, gambling with your old age. It it comes up snake eyes, you will be begging on the street. In another Market Crash, you will have no Social Security, no savings, and no house.

So what part of Rachel letting people know about it sucks?

[wutzhappn]

12:46 PM on 10/20/2011

Rachel who?

[lielib]

07:38 PM on 10/20/2011

The funny looking dude in the photo above

[JoanneRM]

10:00 PM on 10/20/2011

Rachel Maddow is a Liberal on TV on msnbc at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. She gives you her sources for what she says, so you can check any fact she tells you. Watch her some time.

[Footwarrior]

12:16 PM on 10/20/2011

Conservatives don't vote for what the people want. They vote for what the money wants.

[trystiantt1]

04:44 PM on 10/20/2011

As opposed to the Democrats who change their standards, or lack thereof, with their underwear. Once a week.

[hpblue5011]

08:56 PM on 10/20/2011

I have never saw a democrat with a standard, it is a moving target...

[lielib]

07:39 PM on 10/20/2011

Somebody told you that and you thought it was funny. Really, wake up.

[stumpedI]

07:58 AM on 10/20/2011

none of these people work for the people.. they work for the corporations and rich people that hire them. There are a few brave politicians who spit in the voters face.. to support tehir employers.. not caring what public opinion is. They are doing the job they are paid to do. .. IT is not their fault that the people in this country have handed the govt to corporations and private entitys. Imagine you allow electronic paperless ballots to decide your elections (30% votes are un verifiable). We allow our media to subject americans to misinformation lies and propaganda.. in fact most of that coming from our own govt. We allow politiicans to do what they want dispite over whelming public opinion to the contrary.. not to side with a miniority of citizens to protect their rights.. but to screw over every american by supporting some corporations profits.. so shame on you all.. for bashing nelson, leiberman, almost all the republicans even obama.. .. and the other loyal employee's of the people who hijacked our govt. I'd like to see YOU risk a french revolution to profit your employer over the slave/serf class. Kudo's to these brave fine politicians ...

[James De La Cruz]

03:08 AM on 10/20/2011

It has become a full-time job fact checking the blatant misuse of data that certain posters have been contributing. It's like a super machine that is spitting out bad data that 700 other followers are believing as fact. It's time for America to ask itself if its ready to go back to the way of life that drove the forefathers to the continent in the first place.

[hpblue5011]

08:57 PM on 10/20/2011

What are you really trying to say?

[James De La Cruz]

10:23 PM on 10/20/2011

All points of view are welcomed, but there is a growing trend of specific Conservatives on this site who are arguing facts using facts and data that are completely falsified and are being unchallenged. It's one thing to argue in favor of a candidate, but using it to hate monger is starting to go too far.

[jesocr]

01:14 AM on 10/20/2011

Nelson is also one of those that held the Afforddable Healthcare Act hostage. Can he be thrown out of the party for being an impostor?

[DanoX]

04:27 AM on 10/20/2011

Yes he could, but it would require a spine from the Dem leadership. They don't have the conjones for the media circus that would ensue.

[wordsalad12]

12:53 AM on 10/20/2011

I would add Kent Conrad and Max Baucus to the list. Max Baucus and his cronies are said to have hollowed out (with the help of everwilling GOPers) what could have been a very sturdy, sensible and actually effective health care reform, not the adulterated garbage they finally consented to pass.

[cincinnati]

03:10 AM on 10/20/2011

unfortunately in many cases, but not all, we'd end up
with even more right wing GOP if we didn't have the
Dem's like Baucus.....it's a terrible price to pay
sometimes.....

I'd add Sen. Bayh of Indiana, with his wife getting big lobby money,
and I think he now is too.....his dad was a far better Senator.

[wordsalad12]

09:54 AM on 10/20/2011

very good point.

[wordsalad12]

09:57 AM on 10/20/2011

it all comes down to this - can progressives unite and stop apologizing for their views and go out and vote, come heyck or high water. Is the passion and drive to match /overwhelm the right wingnut crowd at the voting booth. Gethold of where it hurts them.

[wordsalad12]

12:50 AM on 10/20/2011

Thank you Rachel, for bringing up an issue that has undermined the entire progressive agenda, and yet, just like GOPers, these Blue Dogs have gone scott free. They know they can pull string because the D vs.R numbers game gives them undeserved power!

[JTyroler]

05:57 AM on 10/20/2011

Almost all of the so-called Blue Dog Democrats who were up for reelection in 2010 had to find a new job this past January. Right now, being a Democrat who acts like a Republican is not a good way to stay in office. (Hint, hint Ben Nelson and Claire McCaskill)

[wordsalad12]

09:53 AM on 10/20/2011

good point! well said!

[wordsalad12]

12:46 PM on 10/20/2011

however, i think the most likely scenario is that a blue dog will be replaced by a conservative GOPer, since they probably come from (obviously) red states/districts.