Big Ed needs to get that gray stuff between his ears headed in the right direction.

[RBInMaine]

I admire Bid Ed Schultz's populist sentiment. He's a tough advocate for working people. But this guy also needs to get his brain out of blasting Dems and Obama for "not doing enough for the middle class" and aim his fire square at the RePUKES where it really belongs. Cut the ignorant shit Ed ! Like this crap about non-scientific tv/online polls asking "Have the Dems done enough for the middle class?" What shit just to be Freeped by TeaIdiots. How about asking "Have the RePUKElicans done enough for the middle class?" How the fuck about that Big Ed? Where the fuck is that poll on your show? I for one am sick to death of this purist shit.

Ed needs to call Rachel Maddow and ask her to remind him of the laundry list of bills passed by Obama and Dems that have ended losing 700,000 jobs a months, saved millions of jobs, invested the most in green energy EVER, extended SCHIP for kids, increased student loans to be re-paid at a cheaper rate, re-negotiated home loans, increased access to healthcare and ended pre-existing conditions, lowered payroll taxes for the middle class, increased tax credits for small businesses, extended unemployment benefits, saved the auto industry from total collapse, just saved hundreds of thousands of teacher and public safety jobs, and on and on. Yes, Dems do need to SHOWCASE these pro middle class accomplishments better, but c'mon Ed, quit the shit. Dems have also just come out with a bill to help the 99rs, bills to increase domestic manufacturing, and next month I am sure we'll get the small business lending bill. And all of this with almost ZERO, yes ZERO help from the ReSCUMliPUKES.

Get real Ed. We lost 8 and a half million jobs. Anyone with a teaspoonfull of brains knows it will take several more years to replace them all. Obama in his inaugural said it would take "Years" to dig out of this mess. Did the depression of the 30's end overnight? No. It took 12 years and a world war. We aren't in a great depression, but it sure as hell was a great recession NOT CAUSED by Dems, and will take several years to dig out from.

And, let me remind you we did just add ANOTHER 71,000 private jobs, now over 700,000 since Obama took over. Not enough, but it's moving in the right direction. Not happy? Then keep up the INSANE "punish the Dems in November" horseshit and enjoy YOUR return to Bush/Cheney RePUKElicanism because you'll fucking own it. Then see how much you'll REALLY have to bitch about.

[firedupdem]

1. K&R

I didn't really know who Ed was until he got his show. Can't stomach the yelling and negativity. Excellent Post!!

[xchrom]

2. Unrec. Nt

[Webster Green]

3. Nah

Big Eddie is right on. He usually is. Dems need to start kicking some ass.

[RBInMaine]

7. Big Eddie needs to train his fire better. He needs to listen to Maddow. I will agree that Dems do

need to ATTACK the ReFUCKlicans VERY loud and clear and relentlessly.

[depakid]

4. You're actually touting the current jobs report?

:rofl:

Ed's been out there carting the Dems water- and the administration and the Senate have left him (and others) out to dry.

Frankly, I'm surprised that he's been as supportive as he has, given the track record.

[RBInMaine]

5. I said it isn't enough. BUT, I'd rather gain 71,000 than lose 700,000 in a month. What is your

expectation? Are you so naive as to think we were going to dig out of this REPUBLICAN mess overnight?

[RBInMaine]

9. How many jobs would McSame and Failin Palin be creating right now?

[jenmito]

12. Rachel Maddow touted the positive parts of the current jobs report

and pointed out the Repubs.' hypocrisy on it, which nobody else did.

[depakid]

17. People were touting last month's dismal report, too

-without noting that anything under about 150,000 jobs doesn't keep up with the growth in population in the labor force.

btw: that report was revised downward by over 50,000! From a purported 83,000 to 31,000.

As to Republicans, I take it as a given that they're hypocritcal and want high unemployment to continue- if not worsen.

And really, why shouldn't they? Their strategy has thus far been a political success, and rescued them from the fringe for a generation, while Obama's obsession with "bipartisanship" and "reaching across the aisle" has prevented him from placing the onus on them at every opportunity as FDR did.

[tularetom]

6. Yeah it pisses me off the way Obama killed the extension of unemployment benefits

Oh wait that was the Republicans.

And how about the way he gave all that tarp money to the banks? Oops, that was the republicans too.

But what about the way he refused to bail out the American auto industry? No, he did that over the objections of the republicans and their mouthpiece pundits and saved a few hundred thousand middle class jobs in the process.

I like Ed, but he's way off in the wrong direction on this one.

Should Obama do more? Yes I think he should, but anything he does is going to be constrained by the obstacles the asshole repubs throw in his way. Beating him about the head and shoulders isn't going to accomplish anything.

Dumbed down messages and emotional appeals to the idiot mob isn't the way to go. It works for Rush but it isn't going to work for Ed.

[RBInMaine]

8. My point exactly. Get the fucking message squarely in the right direction: against the RePUKES !

[firedupdem]

10. +1 n/t

[DFLforever]

11. These ex-Repukes like Schultz, Kos, Arianna, Cenk

are all big pains in the ass imo.

The only ex-R I read is John Cole. He at least kept the old-fashioned Repub virtue of solidarity when he crossed over.

[depakid]

13. They are big pain in the ass for partisan hacks

who care nothing about principles or responsible public policy, that's for sure.

[jenmito]

14. K&R up to 0. n/t

[donheld]

15. If Ed doesn't fight for the 99ers who will?

[Hawkowl]

16. Why do YOU hate Obama?

Do you recall Obama saying he wanted his feet held to the fire? Those of us who took him at his word, will now have the opportunity to make him eat it.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

18. EXACTLY, taking pot shots at each other leaves us out in the cold politically. When I say Alvin...

you say Greene. Hey what other choice we got. Let's get this train back on the track and ROLL!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfBqk9qujM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSJ6P1gS4Ys

And sing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHwEATUytFQ

Al in the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/06/alvin-greene-south-carolina-senate

[niceypoo]

19. Another in a long line of phoney 'purist' straw man arguements

If you spent as much time looking at reality as you do constructing straw men, you might actually concoct something constructive rather than this hateful nonsense.