‘If They Only Had a Brain’: MSNBC Mocks Republicans for Being Tough on Sebelius

‘They decided to joke about “The Wizard of Oz” and frat guys doing keg stands’

BASHIR: “And this presented a great opportunity for the GOP. So they decided to joke about the Wizard of Oz and frat guys doing keg stands. With people like, of course, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn foaming at the mouth, it seems as though they were less interested in exploiting the opportunity than auditioning for the House Republicans' vampire costume this evening.”
MILBANK: “Yeah, I think they could have really done Sebelius and the administration some damage if they only had a brain. But in this case, it turned out not to be functioning very well, the collective Republican brain. I think what happened is, she simply disarmed them by doing that rarest of things in Washington and taking responsibility for something, saying, ‘Yep, we screwed this thing up, I'm sorry, we're going to fix it.’ That seemed to have taken the wind out of their sails. You had a few. You had Marsha Blackburn, you had the keg stand. you had a couple of those other clips you played, but I think they were kind of didn't know what to do and instead they went off down that yellow brick road and were attacked by flying monkeys and fields of poppy and things.”
BASHIR: “Yes, they were.”

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