Unhinged Chris Matthews Smears Tea Party Republicans as Baby-Kidnapping ‘Terrorists’ for Debt Deal
An unhinged Chris Matthews on Monday decried the debt ceiling deal negotiated in Congress, attacking Tea Party Republicans as a group of baby-kidnapping terrorists. He also bizarrely described the compromise as “political polygamy.” Talking to Jonathan Chait of the New Republic, Matthews excoriated, “Why did [Obama] let this develop for six months…this drum roll of the Republicans saying, 'We've got the baby. You don't get the baby back unless you pay us?' Why do you let the other side have the baby, to use kidnapping terms ?” [Video to appear shortly. MP3 audio here .] In an earlier segment, Matthews talked to Jack Lew, Barack Obama's Office of Management and Budget Director. The frustrated Hardball host wondered why the President lamented the President's failure to say,”[I will accept] no game playing, no hostage-taking, no terrorizing this country with the debt ceiling. I'm not going to negotiate with you guys. You can't play it that way.” Matthews began the program with this odd explanation of the deal: “Leading off tonight, political polygamy. The problem with this deal being struck among Republicans, Tea Parties and Democrats today is the problem with polygamy. It's not balanced. It's not equal. It's not fair.”
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