believe she was prepared to stand up and fight for them. yep. check, please. can i ask? no, joe, you can t. no, let me help you. let me save you from yourself. i am going to ask. no, you may not. don t do it. why didn t the democrats elect bernie sanders? because he rigg they riggee cy system. it would have been a real fight. i don t know if he would have beat trump, but it would have been a real fight. michael, in states like wisconsin, michigan, those would have been real battle grounds. yeah, that s where bernie sanders as the nominee would have really made a difference for the democrats, because he would have pulled that working class vote, that blue collar
that is what you have to look at here. you look at the turnout issue. we show in our nbc wall street journal poll there is a way for democrats to fight to a draw on health care. it is never a winner yet the way medicare is such a winner now. you can fight it to a draw with that message. but that isn t going to rally the troops and get people the vote. the big spin today from democrats has been this wasn t really a swing seat because in a special election it was republicans plus 12 and all of this. of course, that means the democrats still live there. they still are residents of this district. they just did not vote. that s the question. you are offering a prescription at the start of the show. if i were a democrat i would be going why didn t the democrats come out? that message isn t getting them
journal poll there is a way for democrats to fight to a draw on health care. it is never a winner yet the way medicare is such a winner now. you can fight it to a draw with that message. but that isn t going to rally the troops and get people the vote. the big spin today from democrats has been this wasn t really a swing seat because in a special election it was republicans plus 12 and all of this. of course, that means the democrats still live there. they still are residents of this district. they just did not vote. that s the question. you are offering a prescription at the start of the show. if i were a democrat i would be going why didn t the democrats come out? that message isn t getting them to come out. that might get independents to not flee the democratic part right now. the democrats have to come up with something that gets the fannies out of the house. howard, some tv shows some
unemployment insurance extension for at least three months. if this is so important to the country, why didn t the democrats and the president insist that it be included in that budget deal that was worked out at the end of last year to keep the government open for two years? i think that s a good question. and the cynics would say, here you are, you have a great political issue to bludgeon republicans with. i think there are lots of democrats who raised that same question. i would argue, though, this will probably be retroactive, so that people would get the benefits who are missing them for these couple of weeks. but i do think that it s a legitimate question to raise. why wasn t this done, if it s that important, before congress went off on recess. that was immediately, as soon as i saw that other budget deal that patty murray, senator patty murray, paul ryan put together. that one significant bipartisan support in the senate and house. they could have included something along a
remember when the obama administration, when president obama took over, the first thing he did, the stimulus, $787 billion to create new jobs. now, suddenly before the economy even recovers, we have switched gears entirely and talking about $4 trillion in cuts. it is ass-backwards. we go backwards, and this means unemployment will go up. more people will lose their jobs. why didn t the democrats, when they had the majority in the house and senate, move forward to stop the bush tax cuts from being extended or at least to end them then and move forward with a jobs bill? i see a lot of self-righteous democrats in washington today, but they wanted to protect themselves last year this time when we were facing a midterm elections. where was the outrage then? there was outrage then. what happened? the president made that deal, and he forced that deal on congress. made what deal? made what deal?