it didn t work for republicans in 2006. not working for democrats right now. dick armey s goats. that s a heck of a goat. dave weigel of slate and msnbc. thank you, dave. thank you, keith. let s bring in as promised the president of the afl-cio mr. trumka. thanks for having me on. how do you fire them up and get them ready to go under these circumstances? it is real simple. a real clean choice for working people. between continually going forward with an economy that works for everybody, and going back to when wall street and corporate america ruled the agenda and ran wild. that s what our members are about. this is about jobs and the republicans have done nothing on jobs. they ve only offered three things. they ve offered to get rid of social security. raise the age of it. privatize it. cut benefits and give more tax cuts to the rich. our members know that doesn t work. our members are going to be excited and it is our job to get
right now because we have all of this bureaucracy and all of these intelligence analysts. what do you say to dick cheney? he had his mitts all over this. if you want to fix the problem which has grown up under at least two presidents, obviously under two presidents then you have to make it a presidential priority and you have to put somebody in charge of one of the toughest things you ll ever see in washington, reform of bureaucracy. unless do you that, nothing will change for the better. you just won t say the last administration ran wild with security. the patriot act, the explosion of government. no. the republicans have all been getting it down into a bathtub, but on their turf, they just can t spend enough money on this. it s out of control. there s a difference between the patriot act which is a law which helped people connect the dots and building dozens of new buildings and dozens of new agencies. south carolina, thanks so much. south carolina s once unknown senat
republicans stood by as wall street ran wild. now they are standing with the big banks again, tell republicans if they side with wall street over main street, you won t be siding with them. the democratic national committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. republicans sound so evil in that. yeah, they do. they say that the republicans are part of that whole fat cat thing on wall street. got some news for you. coming up on monday, there s going to be a fundraiser for republicans? no. for chris dodd and kristin gillebrand and here s the thing, it will cost you $10,000 to get in the door. apparently, it s being held at the home of c.e.o. of an investment firm. doesn t that just look cozy? especially when you pounded the other side for being in with the wall street bankers and then you yourself are going to be at a big fundraiser with the wall street bankers. doesn t look so good. harry reid has a fundraiser. he already participated in one with two huge hedge fun
but when it came to wall street reform that would protect consumers and prevent future bailouts, every senate republican voted no. republicans voted to block reform after a fundraiser with wall street lobbyists. republicans stood by as wall street ran wild. now, they re standing with the big banks again. tell republicans if they side with wall street over main street, you won t be siding with them. the democratic national committee is responsible for the content of this advertisement. here s the problem. three days after holding out to have a voice in the bill, they re now going to move forward so they re going to be able to start debate so i don t know if they re going to pull the ad or not. debate was going on behind the scenes anyway. i thought so. absolutely. even the president seemed a little confused by that. twice, he s called out the republicans for standing in opposition to his plan. because he said it wasn t in public. it was going on behind closed doors. bit of
as dynamic has it has in the past. yes, this debate can be contentious and heated. in the end, it serves only to make our country stronger. it has allowed us to adapt and to thrive. and i read a report recently that i think fairly illustrates this point. it s from time magazine. i m going to quote. through the great banking houses of manhattan last week ran wild eyed alarmed, big bankers stared at one another in anger and at astonishment, a bill just passed, rivet upon their institutions what they considered a monstrous system, such a system that would reduce all u.s. banking to its lowest level. that appeared in time magazine in june of 1933.