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Bernie Sanders speaking to Ed Schultz today says he's so tired of being on the defense. He said it's incomprehensible how the rightwing is lecturing them about the deficit crisis when it was the repubs who caused it! The war in Iraq that will eventually cost between 2 and 3 trillion, NOT paid for; Hundreds of Billions in tax cuts for the top 1%, NOT paid for; prescription drug bill written by the drug and insurance companies costing 400 billion over 10 years, NOT paid for; over 700 Billion TARP bailout by the Bush administration with NO strings attached, NEVER to see any of that money returned..... ALL under GW Bush. This my friends is the reality. It has to be time for democrats to go on the offense.The rethugs have a strategy and that is to obstruct and make sure Obama has no successes. Sanders says time is long overdue for dems to realize that and start using reconciliation to go forward on jobs, healthcare reform, bank reform, etc. I say it's time to stop coming before the cameras and get to work doing these things you all complain about! Dems say the right things and have the right ideas but they are too friggin' SLOW!!
The video also has Ed talking about the rethug hypocrisy and the Christmas bomber talking to the FBI. The masterful job the FBI has done to bring the bombers parents here to convince their son to cooperate, plus the valuable and usable info they are getting from the bomber is practically being laughed at by the GOP. If it's not done their way, ya know torture, then it's not being done right! That's ok GOP, keep talking, keep saying Obama does nothing right. I pray to God it all backfires on you the way you pray to God Obama fails! The hypocrisy coming from the right wing is astounding!!
