Thom Hartmann - Has Obama just become a Herbert Hoover Republican?

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 09:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvXB4xWSxNo   Posted on YouTube: January 27, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 27, 2010 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 793

 
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[suede1]

1. Very good and informative!

[Overseas]

2. K&R. Excellent description of what I have watched happen.

Republicans run up the deficits and then push Democratic presidents to clean up their messes by accusing the Democrats of over-spending.

Part of their revisionist history-- they run up the deficits and then they pretend Democrats are the wild spenders.

That is yet another reason I hated all the gestures to be bipartisan with them. We really needed a bolder Democratic administration to explain the Republican mistakes as he corrected them, like giving a tax cut to the super-rich in a time of war.

Like having to do the Bush bailout and not following it with a Democratic bailout for the average people with Medicare Part E for Everyone.

And sadly, by falling for the Republican game again, we're playing along with their revisionist history and continued self-serving pretense.

Editing to add that it is even more sad that Democrats would be once again cleaning up GOP messes without the benefit of explaining their mistakes and getting them to admit culpability.

Even with health reform, we didn't get enough messaging about how much worse things had become during the 8 years of Bush.

I really expected Obama to be different. A smarter Democrat who would be a 21st Century Green FDR and play to his base and not allow the GOP to run all their usual tricks. Call them out on all the mistakes of the past 8 years that we'd all voted in large numbers to change. We needed the harsh critiques to get us going in a new direction and the public was ready for it, giving the GOP a 29% rating.

But our new president pretended he hadn't succeeded the worst administration in history. He and his team decided to push their base aside in order to pretend that the GOP was still reasonable. Yet we in the base kept telling ourselves to give him a break because he was following the worst administration in history.

But with right wing ownership of most of our mass media for over a decade now, we can't play nice, because playing nice is spun into right wing revisionist history. Pretending the deficit building wild spending GOP is the party of fiscal restraint. But we'll see. Perhaps the President will call out their reckless ways in his SOTU address tonight.

[JSK]

3. Thank you, Thom.

You are the best.

[dotymed]

4. I agree with Thom,

but I don't think Obama "fell" for anything. Our current Democratic party is just an extension of the Corporate Government (Fascism) that also controls the republicans. Sad but, IMO, very true.

[Quixote1818]

5. Last night I sent this to every Republican I know. :) nt

[izquierdista]

6. More like battered wife syndrome

Where the husband spends the family budget on booze and other women and comes home and slaps the wife around, blaming her that they are broke all the time. I say it's time to take a lesson from "The Burning Bed" and light a Republican in memory of Farrah Fawcett.

[mmonk]

7. Thanks Thom.

Things like this are why I listen to your program and show your videos.