Hey, Dead Intern Guy -- You must be blind.

[travelingtypist]

. GREGORY: How does the president reset and move forward, change some of this dynamic, his approval, relations with Republicans?

MR. SCARBOROUGH: Well, he's got to reach out to Republicans that want to work with him on issues. He's got some great opportunities. Politico reported a few weeks back he was going to focus on the deficit. Now, he can't ]o a whole lot with the economy sagging, but he certainly can find some allies there. Education reform, I'm really excited by what I hear from Secretary Duncan, what I hear from the president about the fact that he's going to take on teachers unions. He's going to go into schools that have been problematic in the past and really talk about real reform. He can do that. And also, he can, he can stop deferring to Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman and Democrats on Capitol Hill. This year has been a year of deference, where he's deferred--like, for instance, on the stimulus package. This started very early, by the way, where the president came up with an outline that a lot of Republicans said, "You know what? We may be able to go along with that." They marched Axelrod and Larry Summers up to the Hill. Democrats said, "No, we're in charge now." And so the division started right away.

I would like to know, from either Tavis or Markos, where has he reached out to Republicans in a meaningful way? Because I haven't seen it one time.

MR. GREGORY: Well, let me--Markos, let me, let me--because we, we, we've litigated some of that.

MR. SMILEY: Joe...

MR. MOULITSAS: I'll let Tavis take that.

MR. GREGORY: Well, no, no. But I, but I want to ask you, as you look forward to the next year, Markos...

What was the courting of Senator Snowe if not reaching out? The examples of Obama's willingness to reach out to the Party of No only to have them slap his hand aware are legion.

What irritated me more, though, was how Gregory moved quickly on to another question of Kos and didn't let Tavis respond with the examples he could probably cite by rote. Nice job by the NBC media whore.

[stevedeshazer]

1. The rest of the panel was laughing and openly mocking Joe.

It was a delicious moment.

They're all like, 'WTF, dude, are you kidding me?' <snort>

[Atman]

2. The only real question is...

...is this the start of Joe's 2010 or 2012 campaign?

.

[Jamastiene]

3. I wish he would reach out to progressives instead of bashing us

at every turn.