AP, John Raoux
Obama speaks at NALEO
Tonight, we’re talking about the ongoing “Fast and Furious” political witch hunt—and you won’t want to miss this: Ed has an EXCLUSIVE interview with Matthew A. Miller, former aide to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
President Obama spoke to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials and wasn’t afraid to call out Mitt Romney and Republicans in Congress for preventing immigration reform. Eugene Robinson, MSNBC Analyst and Associate Editor and Pulitzer Prize winning Columnist for the Washington Post, and State Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL) join us to break down the speech.
A new Washington Post investigation found that Bain Capital pushed to export jobs while Romney was in charge. Now the Romney camp is trying to spin by calling “outsourcing”, “offshoring.” Ed will talk to Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH).
Our panel tonight: Karen Finney, MSNBC Political Analyst and Former DNC Communications Director, Assemblyman Jon Bramnick (R-NJ), and Errol Louis, Host of NY1's "Inside City Hall”.
And in the Big Finish, Ed will talk to Catherine Crier, Attorney and best-selling author of “Patriot Acts: What Americans Must do to Save the Republic”, about the latest out of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania and the fate of Former Penn State Assistant Football Coach Jerry Sandusky.
It's going to be yet another packed @EdShow at 8pET on @msnbctv.
Join the conversation now or during the show by commenting on Facebook and/or tweeting (with the #edshow hashtag) so we can share your thoughts on the show.
The @TweetTron9k is powering up the circuits to put yer tweets on the teevee!
Leave a Comment:
On immigration reform, why not keep it simple? If we catch someone who is here illegally, why not make them apologize, pay any applicable back taxes and associated fines for not reporting income, make them learn English and then, make them go to the back of the immigration line? You could add a step to prosecute who hired them as well.
I'm trying to get someone to respond as to whether they think this is a good idea or not- seems everyone wants to bash, but no thoughts on solutions...
Rusty, that's pretty much what Obama did........when they get their green card it's all out front. ya start going forward, not backwards.
now how are you gonna get the GOP to go for fines on corps? they don't even want to tax em or put regs on em now!
No what Obama is doing is saying he will not enforce the law that he swore an oath to uphold. There is nothing about learning english, paying fines etc. Eventually courts will rule Obama's order illegal and it will be thrown out.
Do you liberals agree with this? I mean there are several of you left out there. How about union members?
Let's offshore Romney.
Nice speech today President Obama. What a stark contrast from Mitt's whining yesterday.
Obama speaks... Mitt whines.
Obama/Biden and an all democratic House and Senate in November 2012 !!!
We noticed Marco Rubio is not invited to Utah for Mitt's swanky secret society meeting this weekend.
Please.....Obama gets in front of a bunch of demcratic latinos and promises them the world...just like he did when he was campaigning...promising everybody the world...then he just plan failed and didn't deliver anything. He is fooling them just like he fooled everyone else back in 2008. Oh, great speech. Yea, just like the one he gave day before yesterday. get with it. The public isn't stupid any longer.
Mitt is not whining. You are just a plain liar and I am sick of you doing so. He is our candidate running against Barack Obama...your man. It is going to be a great election and I know you dems are shaking in your boots right now.
Stop the lying on this blog. You people stop lying about Romney. We tell the truth about Obama and you guys have to make up stuff. Stop it!
You have leaders like Pelosi, wow, you guys have a good one there. She has to be the most .....I don't even know the word. Crazy? psycho? nuts? Who knows where she comes up with this stuff. You dems should be proud of your leader Pelosi. Maybe she knows who really killed JFK. What a nut!
With people like Ed, Rachel, Chris, Lawrence leading the charge down the left wing progressive road....we conservatives have nothing to worry about. People who lie, people who spin, people who call people names, people who slander others.....all of you are alike......................................
.............no message to preach so you slander the opponent. You people are heading down to road to defeat. Get ready. This country will change...back to its roots, back to ethics, back people with faith. One nation, under God. You will not take that from us.
You do mean like Bush did in 2000 and 2004, right? That's right -2004 was "fear".
Shaking in our boots? Hey our guy is winning in all the polls...what's happening is repubs are getting and showing desperation...we all see it and so do you.
Another thing, Romney is the one with NO MESSAGE...by the way no one is trying to take your GOD or nation.
3188986
Lay off the coffee. You're rambling nonsense.
#3.1. talk about whining.
kv6707, I've got all trolls on ignore. I cannot deal with the BS. Here's a few lines from a poem I like by C. Patmore
Beware, for fiends in triumph laugh
O'er him who learns the truth by half!
That seems to be the Fox viewers who come here spouting nonsense they've heard from the toxic talkers.
Johnny-3188986
- No message - what is Romney's message. What is his economic plan - oh no details just it is Bush's but updated and he endorses Ryan's budget. De-funding family planning, denying access to basic health care, birth control, and criminalizing reproductive choices. Packing the Supreme Court with justices like Robert Bork -- who Mitt Romney named to co-chair his presidential advisory committee on law, the Constitution and the judiciary. Please research the history of this man in particular his view on civil rights and women's rights. He ruled on the side of a Chemical company forcing women to either get sterilized or get fired. He wants to privatize social security, what his friends did not loose enough of my money in 2008. They want to make Medicaid a voucher program - but no details.
Adelson big donor - hates unions does not allow them in his hotels - can you guess what he wants for his Millions he is donating? Koch brothers - do not like minimum wage law, they prefer segregation, they do not like EPA rules - check they have had to pay large fines for violating the EPA regulations. Gee what do they want for their Political donations. Look at who is championing this man with no core. I get whiplash just listening to his flip flops.
Did you know that Mitt Romney said 7/1/2004 "Semiautomatic firearms are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people." When did his Epiphany come that his view changed - when the NRA wanted to back him. NO core - no character - no integrity - he would sell his soul to the devil to win - oh wait he is selling his soul (what's left of it).
Hey Mitt why didn't you invite M. Rubio to join you'll in Park City Utah?...too many illegals working your swanky party? or he couldn't afford the $75,000 per couple price of admission? Take plenty of secret society videos for youtube.
Like George Clooneys 40,000 a person sit down dinner so you can say hello to George
Like Sarah Jessica Parkers and Anna Wintours $35,000 dinner for President Obama
Love Hypocritical Democrats
Governor Romney is beating President Obama at his own game
President Obama supporters were enamored of President Obama saying he was going to raise One Billion Dollars
Governor Romney raised him
LMAO
Toyota- I find your hypocrisy on the price tag for a campaign dinner date to be real funny. Not surprising for a lliberal
and I as liberal find the biggest hypocrisy on the TeaPuBliCon Party who claim to be CONSERVATIVE yet look how much money they have to spend on campaigns. Oh that's right they "justify" the SPENDING to their lost flock and the flock hangs on their every word! Just like in Wisconsin, that is hypocrisy!
I call it CONSERVATIVE FAMILY VALUE SPENDING! When the righties spend then it is OK and the flock falls in line and accepts since their leaders say it's OK!
LAstly, if anyone has anthing for a brain they would know CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE! That's why Rummey is in question since he believes corporations are people, what a frickin' num nuts.
Technically, hypocricy isn't raising and spending money on campaigns. Hypocricy is condemning the other side for doing it when you do the same.
You are now on ignore, Rusty. I am tired of this.
India- you are too funny. Toyota takes a pot shot at Republicans for hosting dinner fundraisers that the average person could never afford. It is pointed out to Toyota that Obama has hosted a whole string of such dinners- Then Enodot seems to think Republicans are being hypocrits- I merely pointed out he is actually the hypocrite on this point. If Republicans are truly the party of the rich- they can afford said dinners. If Democrats are the "99%" and yet routinely hold $50,000 a plate dinners, seems the H word would apply to them.
Perhaps you are just angry because you now realize what Obama's immigration policy is?
India you have to watch rusty why he is so honest he goes back to dead topics posts his same talking points and declares a victory because no one answered him, just ignore that people were talked out on the topic and his repeating long debunked rusty nonsense is just psycho babble because rusty believes if he repeats it enough it will become fact.
whom- you make me laugh so hard with your stupidity. This blog was opened on Friday, and my response was on Saturday- with no new blogs opening on the weekends. I love your concept of a "dead topic". It must be when a liberal says something stupid, and gets shown that, it becomes a dead topic.
Education and logic are wonderful items. I fear it is too late for you.
With all due respect, Karen Finney is lucky she wasn't in the studio with Mr. Bramnick- the slime was dripping off in puddles. He didn't even want to allow her to speak- couldn't understand or care what an uppity blah woman had to say.
He was a piece of work. Not unlike his buddy Chris Christie. They're both slimey. I bet Karen could have taken him though!
NObama 2012!!! VOTE!!
Romney/Nobody 1812!!!
It's AMAZING how CERTAIN STATIONS will CARRY the Water for President Obama (wink wink)
But President Obama is still having a Bad couple of weeks and looks like it will continue
As this economy slides back into a RECESSION
whistle in the dark
English
Verb
to whistle in the dark
Big Eddie's fan club has already forgotten how he told them for months the Unions would throw out Scott Walker and he lost. Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled Unions had violated the Constitution regarding forced dues - Eddie loses again. And for the next five months Eddie will say how OBama will win and Eddie will lose again.
Hmmm. The Democrats in Wisconsin lost nothing; the Republicans lost 3 senatorial seats, giving the Democrats a majority in the Senate.
Sounds like a win to me.
The Senate can not even go back into session before the next election unless called into special session by the Governor. The Assembly remains overwhelmingly Republican, and 16 senators, including 10 Democrats, are up for re-election this November in districts redrawn by the GOP-controlled Legislature. So it is very possible that the Democrats could take control of a senate that never even meets before they are kicked out in November. Kind of like winning a monopoly game.
whistle in the dark
English
Verb
to whistle in the dark
Remember - people said they voted for Walker not necessarily because they support him, but rather they did not support the recall for that particular reason.
Of course Mitt would veto the Dream Act. Since dodging the draft he never believed in the Amedrican Dream and still believes the people of Pennsylvania eat gruel then feared at a social near Pittsburg if the lemonade was lemonade.
Wow, republicant vitriol is leaking out all over. Personally, I'd rather have Ed on my side, fighting for the middle class who are the backbone of this country - unlike the 1% who seem to be either spineless (Mitt?) or who have had too many fusions of their vertebrae (ramrod Cheney).... BTW, I am a PROUD union baby (Teamsters!)
Keeda, My husband is a long and proud union member also. Unions gave us the middle class; the consumer class, which causes demand for goods and services. Demand causes supply. Supply causes work. Work creates JOBS!
The GOP wants to bust unions. Why do they want to destroy the middle class? That is the $64 question, isn't it. Won't that destroy jobs?
Yes, it will. We need to think hard as to why they are so adamantly in favour of destroying jobs. I cannot imagine a reason for it, but that is what they are hell-bent on doing.
Did anybody ever think about how the billionaire's boys club can contribute millions of dollars to a candidate's campaign, which then uses the $$ to buy ads on various kinds of media that are, more than likely, owned by the same billionaires that gave the money in the first place. Sort of an incestuous never-ending circular relationship and I wonder if it's legal.
Good point. But who's going to investigate it?
Toyota3, Our president is an excellent speaker. He is so uplifting and positive and honest! I just love him.
You really get the feeling he cares, which is so untrue of the GOP. It's all negativity and lies from them, and Romney the head liar!
I fail to understand what Obama has ever said that is uplifting. Obama promised transparency while hiding his administration. Obama promised no lobbyists while hiring hundreds of lobbyists for his administration. Obama promised to cut debt in half while growing it at the fastest rate in history. Obama promised no new taxes while raising billions in new fees and of course the $1.2 Trillion in new Obamacare taxes, and Obama promised bipartisanship while immediately attacking his opponents. Obama has failed miserably and on many occasions his statements have been proven FALSE by politifact and factcheck - meaning he LIES.
Are your facts from FOX or Rush Limbaugh? Maybe both. No wonder they are all lies.
I notice you didn't actually dispute anything. Unless you specify the untruths, you're just hot air.
Obama will say or will sell anything or anyone even his kids for a vote, every week he makes outlandish statements to grab a few more votes from every special interest group, or every political seeking agenda that is hot at that time...from sexual orientation, to unions, and now with immigration, he even did with the poor kid who was killed for just walking home in Florida and even medical marijuana...we all know he will never make change in any of those things i just listed, but he will come out and talk about how he cares about it and who's to blame for it and how he wants to do something to change it, but of course he never will. Like this dream act, he fails to include the Democrats added almost half a trillion dollars in spending in that bill so of course the republicans said hell no....This guy is dangerous because he has no moral center, he is guided by nothing except by what ever minority is speaking or is being played on the air at that time by tweedle dum and twenty d better know as CNN, MSNBC....and everyone knows unemployment is at least 15 percent....If you take The group of us here in California who was collecting unemployment till it ended one year ago, but still have not found work, you come up with some scary numbers. Our support group of 31 that we started still has 7 not working 2 with part time work, you see a very high unemployment rate, but because of our system those 7 are not counted as the unemployed... of course unemployment gets better because everyday 1000's drop off the radar...I really think we are screw....
To bad for you that it is only true if you watch the Fox news fake outrage propaganda. Funny how you ignore that the present unemployed counting methods were created by the GOP not Obama or the democrats. Reagan started tinkering with unemployment numbers back in the 80's by dropping everyone on welfare from the unemployed list, it has been more of the same since then all brought to you by your friendly GOP.
The problem is that the President knows that the private economy on Main Street is difficult with slow job growth. The Congress has sat on its butt and is busy persecuting AG Holder rather than helping unemployed and middle class Americans. Congress should have passed the Transportation bill that passed the Senate this month but languishes in the House. Student loan interest rates are going up in eight days. Everyone agrees that we should pass this bill fto keep student loan rates down. But Speaker Boehner is an empty suit of a Speaker who does not get the work of the American people accomplished. Congress has to approve funding in a real bill to help get contracts signed with construction companies on the Main Street economy.
The Wall Street economy is doing very well under President Obama. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has doubled under President Obama to 12,640 yesterday. Record corporate profits last year were $2 trillion with this year's profits. So despite all the GOP complaints the private economy is doing fine. The trouble is that the Main Street economy is facing major issues in job creation. The middle class has little money, with a 40% downturn in people's net worth in 2008. It could take a generation for this wealth to be made up. Middle class people's purchases of goods and services make up 70% of the commercial activity in our economy. Congress needs to pass the Transportation bill, the American Jobs Act, and a bill that will help keep the student loan interest rates low.
We have had 27 months of job growth creating about 4.3 million jobs created by our businesses during Obama's Administration. We have to have more stimulus to the economy because the 2008 Great Recession was in many ways the worst economy since the Great Depression that started in 1929. We are still down over four million jobs since the start of the recession in 2007. President Obama's American Jobs Act is sitting in Congress with little or no action on it. Economists say the American Jobs Act would put over one million Americans back to work in the near term and help many hundreds of thousands of public sector workers back to work or keep them from losing jobs due to state budget cuts.
President Obama has done an excellent job as command in chief of our country. We got Osama bin Laden. Many al Qaida terrorists have been eliminated with drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and other places. Remember he had two hot shooting wars, with a $1.3 trillion dollar budget deficit that greeted him the first day he came into office. The war in Iraq is over and all the troops are home from Iraq. Afghanistan is winding down with plans in place to get our troops home by 2014 and turn over security to the Afghan army and police. President Obama has done much in the area of foreign policy particularly running a brilliant campaign in Libya that overthrew a vile tyrant without a single American casualty.
President Obama has also been a very good administrator. The Affordable Care Act will give 32 million Americans coverage. There is a host of good things in this bill that will eventually make it popular overtime. If the Supreme Court overturns this good law or the individual mandate then the GOP needs to have an answer about how 50 million uninsured Americans can find affordable health insurance. President Obama also has increased border security but has also shown compassion for the Dream children.
I have written the White House numerous times asking for a $2.5 trillion infrastructure repair bill to be paid for by bonds and borrowing over the next five to seven years. Our bridges and roads are literally falling down. President Obama should ask for a large $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill in front of a nationally televised speech in front of Congress. If the GOP says "NO" then President Obama needs to go to the American people Harry Truman style and give them a clear choice. They can support the President's infrastructure bill and invest in the country to build it up or we can go the GOP way and give tax cut for the rich and live in a country with slums, huge wealth inequality, and broken down 3rd world infrastructure. Then the voters can make a choice: Infrastructure and jobs to build up the country or the GOP way that tears our country down so it gives more tax cuts to the rich that create jobs for Asians not Americans.
One of my absolute truths is that whenever someone says, "Everyone agrees" it usually means "I think so and I'm more important than anyone not like me".
>>create jobs for Asians not Americans
You sound like a racist.
>>President Obama needs to go to the American people
Exactly what has he been doing the last three years? Certainly not working on being President. His presidency is perpetual campaign with victory just around one more speech's corner.
>>Our bridges and roads are literally falling down.
This has been the Dems mantra for 30 years to justify pork barrel boondoggles designed to pay off union campaign contributors. When the president agrees to reverse Davis-Bacon and only award contracts to companies paying below union scale, we'll talk.
How the hell can any Mitt Romney supporter accused anyone of lying, when their have never been any politician who lie as much as Mitt Romney does.
He can do it because he's a liar.
Romney is Pinocchio on steroids
Rex, Good post India, I believe the $64 question is that if more Working Right's are taken away then then Big Buisness can dictate and there is no balance and that is what they want. They hate workers that Organize, Speak up about issue's, workplace safety. People really think that Big Buisness will look out for their best Interest and not mess with them or cut their wage, or avoid paying Benefit's. They have been given every advantage to screw the Worker, the 18-25 yr old's have no Idea about LABOR at all. I ask any Repub to justify Giving big Tax Break's to Corporation's then Tell me why Wal-mart should get them? Along with All the other Co's that have a track record like them, Look how many Labor related lawsuit's that Co has. I would actually take them away (if possible??) That is all about GREED and nothing else. Until People become Labor educated and If by Chance the Repub's take over it will slowly become Wal-mart condition's for all. We are going backward's and People don't see it. I think the 99%'s Should UNITE on Labor Day coming up and Share our VOICE AS WORKER'S and as Citizen's and let the 1%'s deal with the Buisness of the day at the Workplace and let them know that WE ALL MATTER.
Isn't that what you all did for months in Wisconsin. And you lost. Maybe the people aren't with you.
Please specify the tax breaks to corporations you think are so unjust.
So for the sake of the discussion, let's say Bain outsourced jobs. Why is that bad?