overslept. 19 polls places in hawaii ran out of the ballots. folks, i think this is terribly unacceptable. the president said we have to fix this. i say let s get to work. let s turn to crystal ball, co-host of the cycle and ari melber. do you think in a maybe the american people and democrats, i think the democrats want to do something about this. is there any way to shame republican leadership into doing this, crystal? well, probably not, though i think if the american people get upset enough about any issue and make any issue hot enough, you can make a change. i would point to our home state of virginia. republicans took over the state senate, they held the house of delegates, trying to push through this extreme legislation, and eventually they went too far, mandating transadvantagible probes. people in virginia got upset, even though ropes controlled
corporate america one out of four corporations in this country paying nothing in taxes. we re losing over $100 billion a year because of the tax havens in the cayman islands that corporate and america and the wealthy take advantage of. yes we re going to do deficit reduction, but we will be damned, especially after this election if we balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. i hope very much that the democrats stand tall on this issue. i hope that the president is prepared to go to every state in this country and ask the people, no matter how conservative that state is, do you really believe we should give tax breaks to billionaires and cut social security and medicare. ed, i don t think there s one state in this country where the people will say yes, that makes sense. so, senator, you want president obama to hit the road after the first of the year and go sell the american people, just like bush did in 2005 when he won reelection? what do
democrats were elected out of i believe 33 races this year. more than any year in either party since 1964. that s a strong, strong message to move forward. here s calf rove today talking about how president obama won. he succeeded by suppressing the vote by saying you may not like who i am, but i m going to paint this other guy as simply a rich guy who only care being himself. suppressing the vote i thought was cutting hours and cutting days, and not putting voting machines where they should be, stuff like this. what s your response to that? that s the first thing that jumped out. i have not heard that clip yet about suppressing the vote. that s what they tried to do all over this state. on the one hand, the most
overslept. 19 polls places in hawaii ran out of the ballots. folks, i think this is terribly unacceptable. the president said we have to fix this. i say let s get to work. let s turn to crystal ball, co-host of the cycle and ari melber. do you think in a maybe the american people and democrats, i think the democrats want to do something about this. is there any way to shame republican leadership into doing this, crystal? well, probably not, though i think if the american people get upset enough about any issue and make any issue hot enough, you can make a change. i would point to our home state of virginia. republicans took over the state senate, they held the house of delegates, trying to push through this extreme legislation, and eventually they went too far, mandating transadvantagible probes. people in virginia got upset, even though ropes controlled every level of government, they
year because of the tax havens in the cayman islands that corporate and america and the wealthy take advantage of. yes we re going to do deficit reduction, but we will be damned, especially after this election if we balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. i hope very much that the democrats stand tall on this issue. i hope that the president is prepared to go to every state in this country and ask the people, no matter how conservative that state is, do you really believe we should give tax breaks to billionaires and cut social security and medicare. ed, i don t think there s one state in this country where the people will say yes, that makes sense. so, senator, you want president obama to hit the road after the first of the year and go sell the american people, just like bush did in 2005 when he won reelection? what do you think the president should do with this capital? i think on this issue, ed, on