LiveBlog for Monday, January 31, 2011

The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about the president’s State of the Union address, and about the protests in Egypt

Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World

Edie McClurg joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT for another edition of “Mondays With McClurg”

Leaders around the world are calling for immediate economic and social reforms in Egypt as countries prepare to transport expatriates out of the area today. Yesterday, the US stepped up pressure on Mubarak’s fledgling government, urging reforms and throwing its full support behind “peaceful protesters” demanding change.

President Barack Obama issued a plea for restraint in Egypt after meeting with national security aides Saturday to assess the Cairo government’s response to widespread protests threatening the stability of the country.

• Republicans won dozens of elections last fall after claiming Democrats had focused too little on creating jobs. Now GOP lawmakers stand accused of the same charge, using their new House majority to push to repeal the president’s health care law, restrict abortions and highlight other social issues important to their most conservative supporters.

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Have a great day. My email: poet365@aol.com.

Later all...

Marcus, we need to communicate in Texas more and get the non religious conservatives together.

you can write a law not to teach the laws of nature. For example, one community for reasons I don't understand passed a law that pi was 3. They got tired of dealing with the irrational run of numbers to the right of the decimal. In 90% of the cases where you use pi, 3 will do as well as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643689259036001133053054882046652138414695194151160943305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854807446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912983367336244065664308602139494639522473719070217986094370277053921717629317675238467481846766940513200056812714526356082778577134275778960917363717872146844090122495343014654958537105079227968925892354201995611212902196086403441815981362977477130996051870721134999999837297804995105973173281609631859502445945534690830264252230825334468503526193118817101000313783875288658753320838142061717766914730359825349042875546873115956286388235378759375195778185778053217122680661300192787661119590921642019893809525720106548586327886593615338182796823030195203530185296899577362259941389124972177528347913151
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"What do you mean, "You people"?"

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Bolton would say if we blew up the top floors of the pyramids no one would know the difference.

English being spoken all over the world?...Damn British Empire.

marcus, that sounds like a lawsuit. if they aren't going to provide the education, they have to pay for it. talk to a jag officer.

73. Having lived here since 2007 not far from the truth. Well it's the beer, the "sositch" and the Whataburger.

#74: The day they repeal gravity is the day pigs fly. :)

CindyinNRHTX, I have XM in my office and house and Sirius in my car. That's the only way I can get any of these shows other than signing up for the podcasts which I heard are only 4.95 per month if you sign up for a year in advance.

The "Family" is in on the Uganda thing.

Re: "anti-evolution legislation":

Wow, you can legislate the laws of nature? Cool! Repeal gravity next!

and, of course, football is for procreation. No one would have sex with a texan over age 19, so they have to send their young men out to have sex and sire illegitimate babies with as many girls as possible before they lose their hair and teeth to meth addiction and the men drink enough beer to weigh 500 pounds.

Hey, can we also stop talking about Republicans for a month? We'd allow our brain cells to regrow and probably have better blood pressure.

I have a few problems with the support shown to military families. The support staff is just burnt out. Specifically, school administrators for military dependents. My son, has significant emotional issues, stemming from his mother and I both being deployed twice on extended deployments. Their response was to kick him out of the school...on post where we are stationed which is run by the proximal city's ISD. He was a transfer student and we were trying to provide some stability but alas end of last year we had to enroll him in the school district the next city over. This leaves us unable to use the benefits like daycare we made need to take advantage of considering our jobs can sometimes be time-consuming.

football is the only reason a southerner would go to high school. Your grades are adjusted to keep you eligible. If you give a football star a failing grade, your daughters and wife will be raped, your house burned down, and you and your sons will be castrated and forced to chew and swallow your sex organs. High school isn't for education or college preparation--it's for football.

Hey, Marcus can you get any of the Democratic radio shows down there from Fort Hood area?

If the oil prices are moving up for political reasons, it's probably more to do with trying to influence 2012 that resulting from 2010.

gas prices headed for the skies when nixon was president. there were severe shortages when ford was president. carter set up the strategic reserve and prepared rationing coupons, as it turned out unnecessary as high prices served to ration gas automatically. The next time I saw a gas line was under reagan. Gasoline has gone steadily upward during w's terms in office. He promised he woult "jawbone" the price down if it went up. Instead, he slew his promises with the jawbone of an ass.

I think the ustream is closed to dogs. I get a couple of barks, then it locks me out. You can kiss my furry butt, ustream.

The pyramids were Egypt's Sputnik.

You would not believe the size of the HS football stadiums here in Texas. The first time driving through we passed a stadium that for a year I thought was a Big 10/SEC college I had never heard of, not being keen on the sports. The only thing that rivals the football stadiums are the land-hogging, tax-evading mega-churches on prime real estate sucking up revenue from the school districts they are in.

I don't want to start down the road of connecting gas prices to Party control, as Gas prices started to rise to $4/gal after Democrats took control in 2007.

The connection is tenuous at best.

Art said we have more oil than Egypt. Is that the new right wing talking point? Of course, Egypt doesn't have much oil, but right wingers can be depended on to be too ignorant to know things like that.

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We sure could use non conservative Republicans calling out on these guys. I have been but I have been very critical about Obama but they do not budge on their leaders then later down the line, defend Bush's actions.

Now we do not have any stations except for KNON 89.3 and they are local talk shows. The liberal shows are near Austin and San Antonio areas. The D/FW has none: zilch.

Gforce, we had Air America down here in 2004 to when they folded. That station is how I found out about Cindy Sheehan protesting in Crawford, Tx. I went down there for 2 weekends. I have a picture on the internet from Life Magazine the day before hurricane Katrina.

I was removed from Sarah Palin's facebook forever. I mentioned being a Democrat and actually called another Democrat a Bitch and told her to watch it with her comments. The Palin's facebook people thought I said that to a Sarah Palin fan and was bumped off.
I tried to be neutral towards this woman and I see the 1st Amendment does not apply unless you are wanting to say vial things about Obama.

#55 - look at who controls our media. Liberal media is only a myth. If we truly had that, people would know more than they do.

Call from 6am to 10am to: Jeff Bolton Show 214-787-1570.
We, Democrats and Independents, need some help on these shows who are distorting the truth and getting away with it.

The Jeff Bolton show, here in Dallas, is having people on air from 6-10am. They are comparing the peaceful demostrations by the tea party with the peaceful demostrations in Egypt.
They are saying it is because of George Bush freeing the Iraqis is the reason Tanesia(?spelling), Egypt, and Yemon people are uprising.
You guys to need to call his show tomorrow morning on this.

This Democrat has not been an Obama fan the 1st two years and now he has a golden opportunity to express human rights and allow a fair leader to take charge in Egypt and the other countries in that region.

It will be up to Hillary on Obama's success. As we can see, she has the knowledge of what it going on. Obama does not have the knowledge to take charge of this crisis. It will take Hillary's skills and the people trust her while they are cynical toward's Obama right now.

We only want democracy for other nations when we can choose their leaders - silly.

Send Steve Martin to Cairo to do his King Tut dance and turn it into a dance party. Just spit-ballin.

What has become of this state?

#47 Look at the state leadership/mentality.

Pulling blatently falsehoods from your ass?? What the hell are you trying to do, justify a war in Iraq...oh nevermind.

"The Muslim Brotherhood" is (was?) anti-violence, condemned OBL and 9/11, and have appointed Nobel Peace Prize winner Elbaradei as their spokesman.

I went to school in rural Texas, and when WE were students, we students threatened a "walkout" over budget cutbacks that would of cut math and science classes.

What has become of this state?

#45 - true, an oxymoron :-)

Is it really possible to dumb-down the Righties? Wow! That's profoundly sad.

Well Texas is also altering their text books, so no surprise.

No one is coming to your house to arrest you if you buy an incandecent light bulb.

Faux news - doing what they do best by dumbing down America every day.

So we're about to see riots over incandescent lightbulbs?

ibid 18.

End O'January Love Letter To Momma:
Oh! Stephanie! Miller! I saw you on one of your many
appearances on The Tracey Jordan Show and I was just blown
away I don't care I know it's The Love That Dare Not Speak
It's Name since you are a rich and famous Star and I'm a
drunken washed up manque loser who you don't know is alive
even though I got published with articles on goats and bears
in an obscure military history magazine read only by war
gaming geeks and you're into girls but I don't care, I know
Ours is a Doomed Love and your dogs are gigantic canine-ponies
while mine are basically furry quadruped versions of jumbo shrimp

I saw you performing as Grace Potter And The Nocturnals singing
your Ooo La La (La La La) song: that was awesome. You should use
that as a trailer. Or bumper. Whatever you call it.

So who cares that we live teetering on the edge of the Fin de
siècle abyss; that the world and life as we know it are all
about to come crashing down. Let us go down in flames. Together.

Sean Hannity's latest? I'm guessing it's about how the Liberal Left "savaged" Michele Bachmann about her on-camera performance last week (that CNN so kindly made possible).

Actually the dumbest thing Sean Hannity ever said was easily about a year ago when I heard him state that Sarah Palin was easily smarter than Barack Obama.