A Cheerful Mary Matalin Praised TWO Democrats? (Hint: One of Them Was NOT Barack Obama)

Mary Matalin formerly worked for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. She is a CNN contributor, and also runs Threshold, the conservative publishing imprint of Simon & Schuster. According to Imus, Matalin’s latest career venture includes hanging off a pole in New Orleans, an allegation she did not dispute.
 
“At least I’m working honestly,” she said, and noted the “good tips” she often receives, along with a full-body workout. “It’s the complete job!”
 
As for her job at Threshold, Matalin excitedly told Imus she’d be publishing Cheney’s memoir later this summer, to which he replied, “What’s he lying about this time?” and gladly accepted his guest’s challenge to ask Cheney that question to his face.
 
Speaking of delusional Republicans, Matalin would have supported Govs. Haley Barbour or Mitch Daniels for president in 2012, had they decided to run. While “nothing’s wrong” with Mitt Romney, she admitted her politics run more conservative than his do.
 
“I need you to get on the Mitt Romney bandwagon,” Imus pleaded. “Unless, of course, somebody else eases ahead of him.”
 
Asked to choose between Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, Matalin demurred, accused Imus of being sexist, then replied, “Everyone wants to put them in the same boat because they’re attractive, conservative women, but they’re different.”
 
She neglected to explain exactly how the two ladies differ from one another, instead moving on to talk of raising the debt ceiling, which, despite being incredibly boring, is pretty much the only story anybody’s talking about these days.
 
“They’re going to come to a deal, and it’s going to be a deal that is not the best political deal for Barack Obama,” Matalin predicted. “They’re going to corner him.”
 
Obama, in her view, “has nothing on the table,” and does not understand that the Republicans who were swept into office in 2010 cannot go back on their proimse to the American people.
 
“These Republicans who got elected—not only the 87 freshmen in the House, but the senators that got elected, the governors across the country, the state legislators across the country, it was an historic, hundred-year election—all got elected to do the same thing,” Matalin said. “Stop spending. Not raise taxes.”
 
Matalin’s daughter Mattie, whose father is Democratic strategist James Carville, turns 16 soon, and she worries that for the first time ever, the world will not be a better place for the next generation.
 
“That’s a very powerful factor,” she said, adding that when Washington begins to look dysfunctional—as it does now—Americans take problems into their own hands on the local level, as her city of New Orleans has done.
 
“The country has a 75 percent wrong track, Mitch Landrieu here has a 75 percent right track,” she said of the Democratic New Orleans mayor. “He’s fighting with the garbage men, he’s furloughing city workers, he’s balancing the budget.”
 
She even touted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief-of-staff in the White House, for cutting spending there by laying off city employees. “We know how to do it, we know what the answers are,” Matalin continued. “This is not rocket science.”
 
Suddenly, Imus cut her off with, “I gotta go,” and Matalin accused him of not liking her “happy talk.” “We’re out of time,” he instructed his passionate pal. “Calm down.”
 
-Julie Kanfer