where is the boehner agenda? what are the republicans are going to finally stand for as opposed to just trying to knock me down? i think a key thing to see as we move forward. and i think that the progressives will be looking to see how strongly does he fight these attempts to encroach on medicare and on social security and on the core issues of a progressive agenda? and i love the rhetoric about the middle class, but i still feel that the feeling out in the country, among the middle class, is that the banks and the corporations are still getting the sweeter end of the deal from this administration. only time will tell, roy secroft, bob shrum, great to both yov you guys. thanks so much. we ought to thrust guy. he has earned our trust. that bill he signed today and what he s achieved in the last month, he s earned the right to ask us to give him some breathing space and to see what he will do next year. he s already done more than most progressive presidents in a very long time. h
thef he thought were essential to economic growth. look, he s just trying to get a positioning here where he can oppose republicans as they try for draconian cuts. burks ed, i want to say one other thing about the base. i have a very good friend david mixner on the forefront for gay rights for 40 years and who was in that room today and he called me afterwards and he said it was one the most moving moments-s life. i don t think that we can forget that what happened today was that this president made one of the great civil rights speeches and we ve now achieved one of the great civil rights milestones. we have a lot more to do. we also have to focus on the economy. but you know a presidents got to do more than one thing at a time. i want him to come back and fight on immigration and jobs, if. where do we go from here, roy. i think what will happen is we, you know, after the election, boehner said that we re still dealing with the obama administration a obama agenda. i think that oba
they should be cut and he was going to defend programs that thef he thought were essential to economic growth. look, he s just trying to get a positioning here where he can oppose republicans as they try for draconian cuts. burks ed, i want to say one other thing about the base. i have a very good friend david mixner on the forefront for gay rights for 40 years and who was in that room today and he called me afterwards and he said it was one the most moving moments-s life. i don t think that we can forget that what happened today was that this president made one of the great civil rights speeches and we ve now achieved one of the great civil rights milestones. we have a lot more to do. we also have to focus on the economy. but you know a presidentpse got to do more than one thing at a time. i want him to come back and fight on immigration and jobs, if. where do we go from here, roy. i think what will happen is we, you know, after the election, boehner said that we re still dealing
obama agenda. i think that obama has to play a little return there and say, where is the boehner agenda? what are the republicans are going to finally stand for as opposed to just trying to knock me down? i think a key thing to see as we move forward. and i think that the progressives will be looking to see how strongly does he fight these attempts to encroach on medicare and on social security and on the core issues of a progressive agenda? and i love the rhetoric about the middle class, but i still feel that the feeling out in the country, among the middle class, is that the banks and the corporations are still getting the sweeter end of the deal from this administration. only time will tell, roy secroft, bob shrum, great to both yov you guys. thanks so much. we ought to thrust guy. he has earned our trust. that bill he signed today and what he s achieved in the last month, he s earned the right to ask us to give him some breathing space and to see what he will do next year. he s
health care bill. i will talk to the author of the health care bill and two 9/11 first responders who stormed senator tom coburn s office earlier this morning. president obama, well, he was got his swagger back, he just held a year-end press conference to remind america just how much change has been delivered over the last two years. the the huffington post roy secroft and bob shrum democratic strategist will break down the press conference with sound cuts coming up in the battleground story. and i love this one, bill o reilly, he s all worked up against reverend al sharpton is actually talking to the fcc. the reverend will respond right here on the ed show. and media matters, as name sarah palin, the misinformer of the year. lionel will tackle that one in the playbook tonight, you won t want to miss it. but this is the story that has me first fired up tonight. 9/11 first responders i guess you could have shamed republicans. that will finally, finally