and welcome back to a special edition of the ed show. i m ed brandon in for rachel maddow. she ll be back tomorrow night. battleground story in this segment. there is not a single american out there who won t be untouch beside think tax compromise the president just announced hours ago. i have no doubt that everyone will find something in this compromise that they don t like. in fact there are things in there that i don t like, namely, the extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest americans and the wealthiest estates. but these tax cuts will expire in two years. well, the wealthiest people in the country will continue to make out like bandits for at least the next two years. the president i think is punning to the next election, but i wonder if he is willing to have the fight in two years, or are we going to be back to the same old conversation. the republicans of course they re praising the compromise,
adam green, the co-chair of the progressive campaign change committee. adam, your analysis. what is the future? ed, tonight across the nation there was a very regretful but collective sigh of how dare he as the president spoke. there is nothing wrong with a reasonable compromise if you have truly tried your best. but millions of people trusted this man when he said that he would fight for his core campaign promise to end the mortgaging of our nation s future by giving tax cuts to the rich. he says he was not willing to let the economy slip backwards. that s not good enough? well, again, he didn t even try. so in his statement tonight, he actually said the progressives, those who are asking him to fight are asking him to play games with people s lives. those are harsh words. has he said anything as remotely harsh as that toward republicans in the last month since the election?
position, a very clear position, 250,000 and more you weren t going to get a break, and those 250,000 we were going to stand with you, and they were angry about that. ed, i think, you know, somebody made a deal. and reached an agreement here. and i have a funny feeling that doesn t mean there aren t those of us that aren t going to stand up and fight. but i think we better get ready for the reality, given the last two years of moderate democrats. in the long-term, is this deal good for america? i mean we re going right into the financial ditch with the republicans. listen, i listen to the introduction you gave, ed. and i think we should take that introduction you gave about world war ii, about korea, and bring it into the present the following way. we did go into war in we didn t pay for it. we did go into war in iraq. i voted against it. we didn t pay for it. congressman, that s my point. we the prescription drug
did it with a gimmick. they would expire. remember, they did it with dick cheney s vote. and our progressive allegedly progressive president is letting this happen. i m with mr. gerard. sometimes you fight and even if you lose, it s worth fighting. now, ed, we really do where we got some money for the unemployed. and i m happy about the payroll tax cuts. but what we did to get that is deliver more money, bushels of money to the wealthiest americans. it s a travesty. the white house can say what they want about the professional left. my blackberry is blowing up tonight. our e-mail to our ed schultz radio show, it s a record number. liberals are mad about this. they wanted this fight. and the president made the case about two million americans were going to be hurt, what about the four million americans that are 99ers that have something on the table. nothing. how much is this going to politically hurt the democrats? you know, i think it does hurt the democrats, because now
i suggest they will have him for breakfast, lunch and dinner. do you remember a month ago, boehner was saying okay, we ll compromise on 250,000. boehner was saying it was good. now all of the sudden there is all this vulgarity in terms of treating what are democratic proposals. we got to remind people, we were winning on this issue, and moreover, two-thirds of the american public was with us. if we can t win when the public is with us, imagine when we have to do things that congressman, thanks for speaking tonight. things that aren t favorable. thank you so much, ed. the generational ramifications of the argument don t seem to matter. it s really sad. bad. coming up, newt gingrich and psycho talk ahead of a 2012 run. he wants to kick the unemployed while they re down and out, let the rich decide what taxes they ll pay. we re going to chase his fox ç fanny right into the hen house in the zone, next. stay with us.