It's stress inducing watching Mr. Pig Eyed Morning Joe and his potted plant Mika mugging for the Republicans this morning. Mark [what a dick] Halperin is wincing and snarling about Joe Biden offending the Ryan/Romney ticket telling the viewers how R/R hates Obama and Obama hates R/R. Willie Geist has to chime in and express disgust to bolster Joe, while Mika fumes.
Jonathan Capehart is shown in his 'Hollywood Square' as he listens to Joe make outlandish assertions and stress that the Obama campaign are haters and racists. If only Capehart could actually say what he is thinking. He held his ground and said Biden should not apologize for uttering his "chains" comment, but there was more there under his look of total exasperation. We're not going to hear it because Joe squints imperiously from behind his George Will knock-off eyeglasses.
Finally LO'D arrives to inform the chicken littles that this is America and this campaign isn't more acrimonious than any other. Halperin wants Obama to call Romney to work out terms of detente.......yeah right, dream on jerk face.
Arianna bleached her hair and says Ryan is vague when he says, "I don't want to get wonky on you because we haven't run the numbers..." in response to Brit Hume's question of when the budget will get balanced. SERIOUSLY? What a weasel answer. Whose budget? Romney's or Ryan's. Neither reconcile how they get to anywhere. Krugman says they're both $4.6 Trillion off.....at least.
LO'D explains how neither R/R budget is ever going to be revenue neutral even if every loophole is eliminated. Halperin agrees but he wants R/R anyway. Joe says: "He's [Ryan] the budget chairman and he can say whatever he wants.". ???
Chris Van Hollen comes on. Mika asks him the stupid question: "What's the best thing about Ryan if he becomes VP." Van Hollen says he can't say anything good about Ryan and his budget and all it does is provide another big round of huge tax breaks for upper incomes and no increased revenue. Chris goes on to explain the ACA and Medicare cost containment.
Reince Priebus shuffles up to the desk with a present that looks like it fell under a bus and was then stomped on by the bulls of Pamplona. Turns out it's cheddar cheese. Reince nasally says: "The American people are starving for cheese genuine people who tell the truth about the issues and big solutions to big problems.".
Halperin grills Reince on why there are no specifics on either R/R budget. Cheese gets passed. Reince tells about the time he was in college and went to the 92 Republican Convention and met Arianna for the first time. And blah blah jobs blah and one thing to keep in mind is Mitt Romney is going to be President........false narrative blah Romney has proposed some very specific plans GDP blah blah 20% on the table blah more specific than anything ever blah if issues are the topic we win blah blah I'll bring more cheese next time.
That's all for now. MJ will now loop to the 6AM point and rehash until 9.