Ed Schultz: Obama is in Denial About Liberal Anger

[GoLeft TV]

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The president is still defending his decision to extend the Bush tax cuts, and at the same time, he refuses to believe that the Democrats are really angry about this. Ed Schultz is "Fired Up" and fires back at the president for putting the needs of the wealthy over the needs of American families.

[otohara]

1. But as Rahm Said....Fuck em

and the President listened.

Nothing to see here, move right along.

[chervilant]

16. More like

pay no attention to the tall, slender dark-skinned man behind the curtain...

[Amonester]

17. Oh, That Professional LOSER

Everyone can SEE the clear results of having chosen that professional loser Rahm as COS: :puke: boner, SOTHOR, 2011-?.

Oh, And The Results Of All The Other Professional Losers That R Still There Too (All Of them, except Elizabeth Warren).

Why can't he? :shrug:

[PatrynXX]

22. Yeah move along nothing to see here....

jUst millions of americans getting pissed their taxes are going up and 99ers getting fucked over on this deal.


If he doesn't veto this thing, he'll become a one term president. The Republicans wouldn't even have to try.

[timefortherevolution]

2. Ed is correct on so many levels.

[JDPriestly]

3. Schultz is absolutely right.

The rich are sitting on their money, buying luxury goods made overseas with it. They will never use it to build the American economy. Why should they? The worse the ordinary folks do, the richer the rich feel.

Obama does not seem to have the courage to increase taxes on the wealthy and just put it to work building infrastructure and making small loans to new businesses. The banks won't make the loans or invest in America. Our government is going to have to do it directly. Do we want our government to be so involved in the private sector? No. But if the private sector doesn't believe in America enough to invest here, then we the people need to believe in ourselves, take back all that money the government is printing and put it where it will build our country.

As for all the foreign wars, we need to work much harder toward energy independence and the development of alternative energy sources. We cannot continue to spend so many of our resources on foreign wars.

What good will it do if we "win" in Afghanistan or Iraq or Somalia or wherever if we bankrupt our people and are forced to live in garbage dumps here to do it? Sounds like Detroit is at that point already.

[whoopingcrone]

9. well said. JDP

Aaround here, a doing not-so-hot small town surrounded by some doing very, very well enclaves,
it also seems that the worse really poor people do, the better doing not-so-hot people feel.

[frugal99]

4. KR

[madriver]

5. Damn right!

No We Can't is a far cry from Yes We Can in only 2 years...

We'll make the sacrifice, Obama...just ask us...and lead the f'in way!

[SemperEadem]

10. how do you say "yes we can" in Mandarin? Or "hell no" in Cantonese?

that's where we're headed--the United States of China.

[Dinger]

6. Kick & Rec # 30!

Goddamn right Big Ed!:patriot:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. He's not in denial. He's Rhett Butler, and frankly my dear, he doesn't give a flying fuck.

I don't think he's "refusing to believe" one damned thing. I think he wipes his ass daily with what "Democrats think." He's doing exactly what he wants to do.

[ohiogringo]

8. Maybe because he's really a (gasp!) REPUBLICAN!!!!!

[bjobotts]

13. Wrong. It's because he cares so much about suffering Americans that he even agreed to it.

[stillwaiting]

27. I agree with you.

He's much smarter than the "negotiating" he's done on behalf of our interests (those who elected him) over the past two years.

There were quite easy ways to get what he wanted without pursuing Bush policies that he was supposedly strongly against, and I don't think he's a coward.

So, I think he's smart and not a coward which leaves me with very limited options for what's happened over the past two years.

When your "compromise" is better financially for the wealthy elite than the Republican plan itself warning flags should go up.

[defendandprotect]

11. Doesn't matter if he knows or doesn't know ... bottom line, he doesn't care ....

and obviously nor is he worried about voters ...

Does all of that tell us anything?

[bjobotts]

12. Yeah, well get one thing straight Red. Obama has said he's against tax cuts for the wealthy and

Thinks it is an extremely bad deal for the economy but he says also that republicans will make America suffer horribly over this issue and he doesn't want any Americans to suffer like this, His only motivation for agreeing to extending the tax cuts is to keep the poor and middle class from suffering even though he thinks tax cuts for the wealthy stink...Republicans don't care about the poor or middle class.

Republicans said No to unemployment extensions; No to tax cuts for the middle class; No to $250 to SS recipients who will not get COLAs for 2nd yr in a row; NO to health benefits to 9/11 volunteer workers; NO to DADT; and NO to the new START treaty. So Obama knows that they don't give a shit about Americans and would let the entire economy collapse just to extend the Bush tax giveaways for the wealthy. There's no negotiating or compromising with these greedy heartless corporate pets on lobbyists leashes...but Obama is unwilling to use the American people as bargaining chips in their game. He doesn't want a single American to suffer because of these as*h*les.

So don't blame the president for caring or trying to look out for our interests. This is where he is coming from BUT I STRONGLY DISAGREE.

Allow these monsters to get away with this now and they will never stop doing it...holding the American people hostage at every point just to get what they demand. Enough is enough. IF NOT NOW...WHEN? Their greed is destroying America and they must be stopped before their dynasties end our Democracy and replace it with a plutocracy. No matter the costs we do not deal with economic terrorists like Mitch McConnell and the republican leadership. They use to pay 90% under IKE to 28% under Reagan and they are complaining about 34% after 10yrs of enormous prosperity. Just pathetic greedy destroyers not "job creators"(they already get a tax break for job creation anyway). Time to stand up and say NO MORE you greedy bastards. You may be our last chance to do so.

[Amonester]

19. Hundreds of billions MORE to pay back later, PLUS interests!

Do you really think America will not suffer BECAUSE of that?

Oh, they aRe gonna cut-cut-cut EVERYTHING, except the yearly BLOATED MIC BUDGETS, and you think the working- and middle-class Americans will not suffer from it?!?

You should think about it over again.

[olegramps]

29. Give me a break.

Super Wimp says that he is willing to fight on a number of issues in the future. Just like he fought for Health Care Reform, Pharmaceuticals, Financial Reform, and this disaster. I have absolutely no faith that he will deliver on any issue of importance to the working class.

What I would propose to so-called Liberals in the media is stop using that term and use the term "Working Class" instead and thereby actually shifting the issue to the class that is taking it in the rear that includes Democrats, Republicans and most importantly the Independents. This is really what this all about. The 2% of the wealthy that control the Republican Party. It is their sole interest to increase their wealth at the expense of the working class. This how to divide and conquer. Tell the working class that we are not your enemy, it is the greedy 2% of the citizens that are totally responsible for your plight. Make the fight its us against them.

[juajen]

14. Someone overdid his eyebrows. He needs a new makup consultant. NT

[HarveyDarkey]

15. Ed nailed it

K & R

[chervilant]

18. Obama has been digging

himself a huge hole and--with this proposed legislation--he has jumped in over his head.

Most of my activist friends will not support Obama in the next election. He has squandered our good will.

How can such a smart man be so completely clueless?

[avaistheone1]

20. My thoughts as well

Obama has only himself to blame that he is losing our support.

[stillwaiting]

30. I don't think he's clueless.

I believe he's pursuing his ideological agenda and is doing so brilliantly.

That agenda is neo-liberalism.

He will run in '12 to shut out any potential Democratic candidate that might not pursue the agenda he wants to see pursued. All of his big decisions over the past two years lead me to this conclusion (what he fights for, what he fights against, and what he doesn't spend anytime fighting for despite his campaign rhetoric).

He would rather see a Republican win than an honest liberal in the White House, and he is set for the rest of his life regardless of the election outcome. I just don't believe he cares if he loses at this point. He'll be just fine.

He puts more passion into his arguments AGAINST the interests of those who voted for him. 'Nuff said.

[Dinger]

33. Your Last Sentence Is Something I've Wondered About

"How can such a smart man be so completely clueless?"

That is a VERY good question, unless of course he isn't clueless. Maybe it's deliberate. Scary.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

21. He did what he had to do while he had the leverage, maybe not the best deal ever but a deal while he

had power.

[florida08]

23. great rant from Ed

Yes we can doesn't hold much inspiration when you hear it's the best we could get. For a democratic president to defund SS is not the direction most of us expected. I know I didn't.

[1badjedi]

24. HELL YEAH!

+ infinity!

[sellitman]

25. Ed is dead

to me.

Fuck him.

Don't vote my ass.

[Faith No More]

26. Bush had no problem

identifying with his base but Obama seems to be embarrassed by his. Maybe he is an elitist after all.

[crim son]

28. I don't know that he's in denial. I'm noticing that

where his speech used to be very precise, he's now using phrases like "a buncha stuff" which strikes me as odd. He knows he's pissed everybody off and is choosing to appeal to the folks who are more apt to understand "a buncha stuff" than they are specific details. That's my take, anyway, and I'm always right. Heh.

[nashville_brook]

31. I've noticed the impresion od speech, too. It's something I do when I'm frustrated.

When I want to say "fuck it" but can't.

[crim son]

36. Exactly. But I interpret that "fuck it" attitude as contempt

for those who stand in his way i.e. his detractors.

[Dinger]

32. Fucking SPOT ON ED!

That was awesome. I'm surprised they don't "Donahue" Ed. He's not kissing any corporate ass there, that's for sure!

[davidwparker]

34. At what point will the rest of this party see that, unless

Obama faces a primary, he will remain center right.

June?

When we see that at sad performance in the first two years becomes tragic in the new Congress, does he have until June before we see at least one candidate with a PROVEN center-left to progressive record?

I am as shocked as the rest of you. But, he lost me when I learned he pressured Spain to sweep war crimes under the rug. There is NO coming back to Obama after that.

What will it take for the rest of you and this party to read the tea leaves, the writing on the wall, or whatever. He is a trojan horse; a gatekeeper; he has no executive skills; and he is both risk- and controversy-adversed.

[goforit]

35. Denial?...I think he just doesn't give a shit.