Former Governor George Pataki joins Michael Eric Dyson to talk about why Republicans were for so many things until President Obama suggested them himself. Watch it.
Pataki is made fun of constantly by the people of New York. Even Letterman makes fun of him (no secret Letterman leans left). Another empty suit.
Pat, Grand Lake Co
7/26/2012 8:24:23 AM
No, President Obama did not have a super majority for two years, but that's beside the poiint anyway.The President was elected by a large majority of Americans. I contributed to the campaign, money and time, and voted for the President. That said, I read his record and knew that, while he is a progressive, he is also a corporatist. To me, Obama is a very moderate Republican (remember them?) That he and his advisors so underestimated the extremism of the new RepubliCON party ( they really should change their name) is a political mistake we are all paying for. All those good moderate Republcans in the White House just didn't have the guts to come out swinging, railing against the filibuster, demanding an up or down vote, taking charge. W Bush did it, and he got every piece of crap legislation passed and started two wars. Are ya ready for mittens? Such a sweet name, let's make it willard because he will take us to war, and you better believe that one, even if we have to attack ourselves to get there.. al-Qaeda showed us the way.
Disappointed? yes. Still support President Obama? absolutely! the alternative is horrific.
TAX THE RICH, let em pay for their own fracking wars!!
eagleeye
7/25/2012 10:33:08 PM
Alex really shows his misinformed small mind. President Obama has not had a mojority in the Senate. Independent and blue dogs don't vote democratic. It takes 60 votes to end a filibuster. You do know what a filibuster is don't you? Record number of GOP filibusterd in the last 4 years. But hell, you know everything already. Go back to Fox Lies and get some new lies.
ron mariposa
7/25/2012 3:56:38 PM
to alex how do you think the gop=tea baggers can make this a one term president?Yes for two years you can control the house and senate, but the other party has some power also to block things by the 142 filibusters and other means. So control as you put isnt really not total control unless you have a LARGE MAJORITY, TO SAY IT ANOTHER WAY SIZE MATTERS!! The size of the majority matters to break a filibuster or to get things out of house committes. The majority doesnt mean that much so dont hand us the poop that he had two years of total control.
just my humble view
Rob, Oregon
7/25/2012 1:53:47 PM
We need a leader that can work with the other party? Yeah sure Alex. You mean like how the repubs steamrolled over the dems for six years straight under Dubya? Yeah, they really worked with the Democrats. The pubs have devolved into my way or the highway. Working with them is do what I say. Screw that. We need a leader that can stand his ground, and it took Obama a couple years to figure that out. The strategy now is the only one he can adopt. Keep showing the public how childish they are, and how they could care less about the middle class. The repub led house and the endless filibuster Senate are the reasons Congress has the lowest ratings of all time. These immature, inexperienced, fricken idiot teabags aren't the solution to anything. They are the problem, and Romney is a total self serving fraud. Paul's description of Romney is the best: a serial flip flopper. The guy is a non-man with malleable values that change daily. As President, if the Koch brothers ask Mitt to jump, he will ask them how high?
As the video points out, the pubs are against several of their own ideas if Obama is for them. Obama needs to come out for a huge increase in Military spending. Then the pubs who must absolutely disagree with him on everything would probably hold out for cuts.
blueb
7/25/2012 11:56:01 AM
Alex, you are so right and so smart....we really need to start calling them the obama tax cuts...if the current trend hold, the house will vote 31 times to repeal them. We are just looking at this the wrong way....Its the Bush tax cuts for the first $250,000 and after that it becomes the obama tax cuts! I can live with that as long as it works.
ron mariposa
7/25/2012 11:37:17 AM
Just was flipping the chanels and saw a gop from ND he was saying how 50% of the taxes were paid by the wealthy and that by making the bush taxes become the law of the land for now and ever or even lowering them would balance the budget, create more jobs and give the middle class more money to spend. Have we heard that line before 2001,2003,2010, and now 2012 and I want to know where the heck are the jobs mr senator from ND and mr george pataki. Minnestoa Senator Franken said it all when he gave the cbo's numbers if the gop hadnt done the bush cuts our national debt would have been paid off and that we would have had a surplus now even with the recession. So tax cuts for the wealthy and the corportions really didnt do what was advertised and why do they keep saying these are the answer to our problems. and again I say where are the jobs and if anyone on the right can give me an answer why tax cuts and deregulation hasnt created jobs please do so. To anyone who answers this please dont use the indecison poop at for 8 years was there indecision because they didnt know what bush was going to do...
Alex
7/25/2012 11:32:48 AM
This president could have pass any legislation he wanted for two years. He could have done away with the Obama tax cuts for the wealthy, he could have closed loop holes for corporations, he could have cut the deficit in half (like he promised). He could have done all that but he didn't.
It is time for this president to take responsibility for his performance in office. What type of leader constantly blames others for his failure? When is this dude gonna "man up" and put on his big boy pants and hold himself responsible?
We need a leader that can work with the other party in Washington like, Pres. Clinton, Pres. Reagan to get things done. It is clearly obvious this guy can't.
Donna, I suppose you read the ACA bill? Right?
Everyone who voted for it read it too, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACbwND52rrw
blueb
7/25/2012 10:02:51 AM
I am getting so tired of double talk. Got an interesting video/email on the subject of Romney, One person said we really need to start listening to our politicians.....it was such a reversal on other political campaigning...which is usually we need to elect a politician who will listen to US.
it might be the hole we are in is because we demanded too much to be listened to without listening back. So we elected people who would listen to our issues, then do nothing about them or even exacerbate them...
Funny as i type this i am remembering a page i read in 'What's The Matter wih Kansas?" by Thomas Frank
In the book he explained how so many people could vote against their own interests...He wrote those people vote for their ideals and never look at what they get....
ideal: .... "There should never be an abortion"(even pro choice people believe that, no one is pro abortion, just pro choice)_YES_NO
Get: Banking Deregulation
Ideal: The sun should always shine _YES _NO
Get: bush tax cuts, so the sun always shines for few.
Our wrong turn in getting to the point we are at now. might have been we were too insistent in having our elected officials listen to us and not listening back....probably truth for 50% of us.
donnajoy
7/25/2012 8:05:40 AM
George Pataki is full of himself. He spoke the GOP lines just like a robot. I am sick and tired of the GOP calling Medicare and Social Security entitlements when they are benefits we have earned. The subsidies to the Oil Companies are NOT earned. When did we give a check to the unions? How is it that the subsidies to big businesses are OK and sustainable but this is not true for government workers. Because his father was a postal worker, Mr. Pataki feels that those jobs are OK to have the government pay for. George's nonsense about private vs. public unions was also bull. He, like his colleagues, used the tax line with the ACA and it sounded ridiculous because his numbers were made up. George has obviously not read the ACA bill because his comments about employers were incorrect. He notes the Paul Ryan bill but not the fact that a bi-partisan committee was set up by the President to put together a bill but the GOP insisted on cuts without any revenue. He definitely sprouted the bull that the GOP is trying to sell to the public that it is all President Obama's fault and the GOP has no responsibility even though it was their obstructionism which caused in-action these past three and a half years. . Romney would re-instate the Bush polices (domestic and foreign) and add the flavor of the Paul Ryan bill to take us further down the wrong path. At least George did not use Romney’s name in the discussion.
