takes up ten pages and looks semi-credible even if this page is entirely clip art and this page is, of course, just the party. the republican big plan for creating jobs comes down to making things even better than they already are for corporations, for the only folks in this economy who are already doing great, better than ever, having record-setting profits, but the gop plan is they mus have more, gop proposing to lower corporate tax rates so corporations get more profit, they want to get rid of regulations that might intfere with making more profit and just like that by increasing corporate profit even more, even more than they are at with their record levels right now, somehow this time that will make jobs. the republican plan to turn this economy of our nightmares into the economy our i dreams is to keep everything great for corporations and the waters of prosperity will find everybody else somehow. while corporate profits are growing in double digits, even
cover because of news like that. this slow motion, seemingly endless economic crisis we have been slogging through for a few years now is not a beltway spat, t an election, it is not a fight. it is a really big american problem, and i m sorry to say that it is starting to get worse again, so break out the campaign bus. that is the response from the obama administration today, sending the president on a listening tour in campaign bus so we can hear about the pain in the heartland and try to reconnect with american voters on this issue for three days. that s the democratic response today. on the republican side, their plan is, of course, criticize the president s bus tour, that will make a difference and speaker john boehner broke from his august recess to tweet a blueprint for jobs. let me click on that for you. look, it s the same report from a few months ago, the one with enough type and clip art so it
i must tell those who fail to report to duty this morning, they are in violation of the law and if they do not report to work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated. 48 hours later, mr. reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers across the country. now, 30 years later to the day, president obama, today, is dealing with his own airline union crisis, a crisis marked, again, by republicans trying to break the backs of american unions the federal aviation administration right now is shut down. congressional republicans refusing to reauthorize the faa unless democrats concede to their demand to strip union rights for people who work for airlines or railroads. crush the unions or the faa gets it. the faa has been reauthorized 27 separate times in the last four
i think that s what wisconsin shows. look, wisconsin got the government they elected. those people didn t get put in by some sort of coo, they were elected to those positions, but when they saw what it was, as you point out, lit up the base. lit up the base not just in a way that made them angry about what the republicans were doing, which has succeeded the national level in terms of a democratic agenda, but made them start cheering for their democrats and wanting more of them. it s tough and they are going to have to do that with more than rhetoric. i remember during the campaign senator clinton said you campaign in poetry but you govern in pros, the question we regain the poetry along with the difficulty of the pros. melissa harris-perry, professor at tulane, msnbc contributor, thank you for coming back so soon. you did a great jobs. fans of the ed show, get excited, want to know who their guest is? want to know who it is? bill maher, it s true. dictators, say what you will a
who took the democrat s side was 77%. questions remain in this latest fight, do we, as a country, get our faa back? do those people get to go back to work? will democrats keep refusing to cave on this? but third and most broadly, will the democrats take this as an opportunity to go on offense? will democrats, if they do not cave on this, actually choose to thump their chests a bit, to speak up about what they are doing? will national democrats take a lesson from wisconsin democrats and tell everybody the reason they are standing up to republicans on this is because this is a right for union rights and union rights are important and worth fighting for. joining us now is peter defazio of oregon, he s a long-time member of the house transportation meeting. congressman defazio, thanks so much for your time tonight, it s nice to have you here. thanks, rachel.