If the media wasn't owned lock, stock and barrel by the big corporate interests desperate to maintain the status quo for their own sake, what you're going to see below is how real news and opinion TV would look every day instead of that drivel coming out of CNN, Fox and the broadcast networks.Rachel starts off on her own-- well, noton her own. She has a little help from Republican Governors Schwarzenegger (CA) and Crist (FL) representing virtuallygovernors of both parties with the exception of a tiny handful of secessionists and über-partisan hacks like Mark "Tango Dancer" Sanford (SC), Rick Perry (TX), John Hoeven (ND) and delusional presidential aspirants Tim Pawlenty (MN) and Bobby Jindal (LA), in talking about how useful and successful Obama's stimulus package has been in saving and creating jobs, not Inside-the-Beltway, where out-of-touch congressional ideologues spend their lives, but in America, which they all avoid assiduously. Governors of 42 states and 5 territories signed a letter to Pelosi, Reid, Boehner and McConnell urging them to give Obama their "assistance in protecting jobs and speeding economic recovery by extending the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (ARRA) enhanced federal match for Medicaid (FMAP) for two additional quarters." Yes, even far right Republicans like Haley Barbour (MS), Sonny Perdue (GA), Bob McDonald (VA), Mitch Daniels (IN), Bob Riley (AL), Dave Heineman (NE) and Sean Parnell (AK), when faced with the realities of real life Americans elected congressmembers Inside-the-Beltway are shielded from (they only talk to wealthy donors and lobbyists), aren't willing to throw their state's citizens under the bus for narrow partisan gain.You'd never know it from listening to obstructionist GOP hacks like Boehner, Cantor, Pence, McCotter, Foxx, Issa, Ryan, McHenry, Schock, etc., but last year's stimulus bill created something like 2.1 million jobs in the last three months of 2009 according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.Crist: "We accepted the stimulus money; I think all of my fellow governors did. I think it was the responsible thing to do for the people and it puts people above politics. In Florida alone, for example, it created or maintained at least 87,000 jobs."Schwarzenegger: "I have been the first of the Republican governors to come out and support the stimulus money... and anyone who says it hasn't created a job can talk to the 150,000 people who have been getting jobs in California."And then Rachel talked about the grotesque hypocrisy and partisan game-playing of Lindsey Graham, Tim Pawlenty and John McCain. Man, did she nail those three-- especially poor pathetic old McCain! And then she brought on Barney Frank, who's been working with Republicans in Congress since 1980 and has some understanding of what makes them tick, to drive a stake through their hearts. You'veto watch this:

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