http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/chuck-todd-asks-if-democrats-should-have
There are many things in life that are a certainty--like...the sun comes up in the morning, the sky is blue, oceans are filled with water, Democrats should bow down to Conservative nut jobs and douche weasels.Gene Sperling, President Obama's chief economic adviser joined Chuck on The Daily Rundown to discuss whether President Barack Obama will reach his 2014 goals with or without the help of Congress.Todd also focused on the failed proposals that would have extended unemployment benefits to at least 1.3 million people now and many more to follow.The Senate failed to clear the 60-vote hurdle on two proposals to extend unemployment benefits, thanks to a GOP filibuster.The obvious problem is that Republicans want to cut spending someplace else to pay for the extension. It's the ridiculous pay-go scenario.The dispute centers on how to pay for the aid. Republicans have insisted the cost of the benefits be offset with spending cuts elsewhere in the budget, but they balked at the pay-fors Reid suggested last week.
ok all the back and forth posturing is drama theater the republicans oppose helping the regular American and refuse to offset by taking away unneeded perks of tax cuts and loopholes from the rich, they refuse to stop corporate welfare billions to corporations who pay little to no tax and net billions, are we seeing what the real problem and solution is?
Chuck definitely knows this is the issue, but his framing said another thing altogether and without mentioning that Republicans filibustered all Democratic efforts to get something done.Todd: Let me ask you this, why, what happened yesterday unemployment benefits the longer you go the less sense of urgency these lawmakers are going to have. They're going back, it's not happening at least for another couple of weeks. If some eighty Senators all saying publicly that they think there should be some form of an extension, how does it not happen at his point. Ahhh, should Democrats have given more to the Republicans to try and make this happen? Is this a parliamentary issue. Is this a relationship problem, what is it?Firstly, it never matters what the Democrats give up because it's never enough and secondly, why didn't he ask if the Republicans should have given more to the Democrats so that the bill was passed?
sometimes i'm at a loss to understand interviews by various MSNBC commentators they tend to lean slightly more unchallenged right wing and less expression of the Progressive position, it's like they are afraid to make it to tough the right winger may not come back.
too many times the republican rhetoric is where they cut the interview leaving viewers with the oppositions point which the world knows is not in favor of "we the people", to me it is a disservice to viewers it implies that the right wing point is favored.
no we should not keep giving America away to those that would abuse her, the world knows the skulduggery perpetrated by the republicans they are willing to burn the country down to get their way which is totally oblivious to "we the peoples" needs.
they do these things expecting the party that cares will pull America's fat out of the fire at the last minute didn't work the last time.
Pres. vowed no more i believe his resolve
