but at the end of the day, i think that people of goodwill come come together and recognize that given where the economy s at right now, given the struggles that a lot of families are still going through right now that we ll be able to solve that problem. we get all of that, mr. president. we just want to know in f that ultimatum was put down in front of you yesterday in that meeting. give us a break. i mean if the president can t see the republicans for who they are and clearly he does not get it. and you know what it s not at point that he needs an adviser he needs a counselor on how to deal with these people. should have publicly jumped all over mcconnell when betrayed his trust, and instead what we get out of this is just more weakness, in my opinion, at this point i think that the president is asking his base to make some a real leap of faith and trust that he s going to hold the line on the bush tax cuts. i mean, you re either are or you aren t. where s the line in the sand?
maybe a little diamond-encrusted bottle or something like that or a $3,000 rolex watch? how many of you are going to nimus marcus or saks fifth avenue? they were all laughing. they don t have enough money to buy christmas present for their kids. this is what we ought to be telling the american people, that s going on. and the republicans want to give more tax breaks so they can have more luxury spending and our jobless have to go to soup kitchen for christmas dinner. so how do yyou deal with neae republicans who are doing everything that they can to make sure that this lame-duck session, your last four weeks in the majority, will be a disaster for trying to get something done? i mean, the ultimatum is there. what do you want the president to do? well, i want the president to do is say, look, we re going to stay here till christmas eve. we ll stay here on christmas day if we have to to make sure that the people are hurting the most in this country, people who are out of work, throug
of jobs in america. baloney. they want to defund every program they possibly can and gut government and concentrate the wealth even more. joining me now is leo girard. president of the united steelworkers union. mr. girard, good to have you with us tonight. based on what you saw today released by what i call simpson crowd, what s your response? i think, ed, this is a as senator harkin said this is a moral outrage. it s a financial outrage. this is the equivalent the right wingers, both right-wing republicans and hopefully no right-wing democrats but this is the extent of the right wing holding a gun to america s head and said, give us what s left of your benefits, give us what s left of your income, give us what s left of your future, social stability or else we re going to bankrupt this country. what we need to look at it, ed, is what caused this deficit? you look at what happened during the bush years, largest tax cut to the ultra rich that added trillions of dollars to the
well, the republicans are restoring racism in the people s house. during a debate over the black farmers bill psycho-talker steve king and michele bachmann freaked out on the black farmers. they said most of the claims were bogus. then they showed their true colors. the fraudulent claims might be, well, johnny, yeah, he was raised on a farm but he wouldn t help his dad. he went off to the city and became a drug addict and when his daddy needed the help, johnny wouldn t come and help his daddy. but now his daddy s died and johnny wants the $50,000 that comes from the usda under this claim. this is just flat out wrong. can we say it? can we be gutsy enough on the floor of this house of representatives to say, this is pure and complete fraud? but of course are king took it even further. claiming barack obama had a racial motive because he supported black farmers as a
street, and yet they re telling the unemployed get into the soup line for christmas. we ought to be outraged at this. at what the republicans are doing to the unemployed in this country. and we ought to let the american people know just what mitch mcconnell and the republican leaders are doing here in the senate. after a meeting at the white house, he comes out, short period of time later, and basically issues an ultimatum. says he s got a letter signed by 42 of his colleagues on the right. we re not doing unless we get what we want. what should the president do with this kind of talk going on? i hold up this piece of paper, ed. right here it is. this is a moral outrage. luxury spending is back in fashion. but in small print it says the jobless still aren t buying the essentials. luxury spending back in fashion, we had unemployed people here in washington and i turned to them, how many of you are doing your christmas shopping at tiffany s? maybe a little jewel.