Anybody watching Lou Dobbs on CSPAN 2?

[BuelahWitch]

He's pushing his new book to a bunch of businessmen, they're foaming at the mouth re: his feelings that business should have a conscience. He said the middle class is getting shafted and they're the backbone of this country...

[Royal Observer]

1. Very few people

watch Lou Dobbs. Too bad.

[Joy Anne]

4. ratings

His ratings have been good. Supposedly, his show will move to prime time in the near future.

[Royal Observer]

8. What are his ratings now?

Last time I checked they were very low.

[Joy Anne]

18. Dunno

Just read a blip somewhere a couple of weeks ago saying that CNN would be revamping to give him a prime time slot because his ratings are so good for the slot he's in.

[checks-n-balances]

2. I thought corporations were classified as "persons" in our gov't, so

...why shouldn't they have consciences?

...why shouldn't they be punished when they break laws?

...why shouldn't they be educated the way individuals are required to do?

Otherwise, aren't corporations trying to "have it both ways?"

On edit: another question added

[Syrinx]

3. I used to consider Dobbs a republican jerk in the old days

I don't know if he's changed, I've changed, or that he just seems so great compared to O'Reilly, Coulter, Savage, Hannity, etc.

[BuelahWitch]

5. I don't know either

But at least he's not espousing the same old right wing BS that everything is wonderful. It could be that he's a realist who sees that
the millionaires can't hold up the US economy. Sooner or later, the others will see it too, but by then it will be too late.

[Disturbed]

6. Dobbs

He seems to be a Paleo Conserv. I heard that he is an Independent.

I do agree with his views regarding oustsourcing, mfg. re-locatioan and immigration concepts.

[Skittles]

7. the Enron debacle really got to him

he was truly disgusted

[Royal Observer]

9. He's changed

He seems to be very anti-business now.

[Cleita]

10. I think he's still a Republican jerk, but he's a principled one,

unlike the mafia style crooks running the Republican Party now. Most Republican jerks I knew in the past, my father included, maintained that a strong middle class was what distinguished the United States from banana republics. Since my dad lived in South America for forty four years, he knew what a banana republic was. We are becoming a banana republic of a diminishing middle class, masses of poor and marginal people and a small elite controlling everything. This is what Lou Dobbs is seeing too.

[Royal Observer]

11. To Hell with the elite!

I refuse to be a poor and/or marginal person.

[Cleita]

12. Well, you'd better start getting active in

getting rid of these people. Electing them out doesn't seem to work, so I think we need to dig up all the dirt we can on them and start dragging them through the courts, through impeachments and everything else we can throw at them.

I don't know where to start either, but start we must.

[Royal Observer]

13. I'll let you handle that.

That's not my style.

[Cleita]

14. So what is your style?

What I am talking about is legal. I don't understand why our leadership hasn't done so yet but it must be done, or we will become another menance on the planet.

[Royal Observer]

15. This is NOT my style...

"we need to dig up all the dirt we can on them and start dragging them through the courts, through impeachments and everything else we can throw at them."

That seems more like the Repub style to me.
Maybe that commentator was right when he said that the Repubs won because they forced the Dems to act like them.

[BuelahWitch]

16. I agree with Cleita; time to play dirty

We're not getting anywhere with the Mr. Niceguy, "oh please kick me again, sir" act. The bully quits shoving once he knows you're going to shove him back.

[Royal Observer]

17. OK

I'll say it again:
"It's not my style. I'll let you handle it."

[Rockerdem]

19. That means that someone in our party has to be like Ken Starr.

WTF? I cant think of anybody offhand that could mimic that prick. Even James Carville doesnt come close. That strategy is DOA.