Where’s the Outrage?

Keith Olbermann speaks with Senator Hillary Clinton about FISA. The Dems seems to be willing to roll over and let the Bush administration and telecom companies off the hook. I really don’t understand that. If you break the law you should have to pay some type of penalty.

They discuss the problem of the middle class squeeze. Senator Clinton does a pretty good job at talking about her collection of proposals to help the middle class.

Is it me or does Senator Clinton seem completely wooden?  Come on! You are on Countdown.  You are on a progressive show.  There won’t be any sneaky questions.  Why is she looking around like people are moving around behind the camera?  Focus.  Be relaxed.  Be Presidential!!

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Part of Transcript:

OLBERMANN: When the Democrats went to someone of that group, the 12-year-old car accident victim, Graham Frost, to answer the president on the SCHIP health care program and the radio speeches, this poor kid was eviscerated by the far right. His family‘s address home was posted online. He‘s gotten death threats for merely having become involved in the political process.

Is there some sense here that maybe the greatest threat right now to the middle class is not economics or health-related issues, but getting too involved in politics when politics are as toxic as they seem to be at the moment?

CLINTON: Well, Keith, think about why these people on the right and the Republicans whom they support are doing this? It‘s because they don‘t want the changes that middle-class Americans need and deserve.

I was appalled at the way this young man and his family were treated. And I said last night in Boston, “You know, as someone who has been pretty used to taking the incoming fire from the right, I‘m—I‘m willing to take it. I‘m big enough. I can keep going and not worry too much about it, as I‘ve proven over the years”.

But to turn on this young man and to impugn him and his family for telling their true story—that there are millions of hard-working families in America—we‘re not talking about poor families who are eligible for Medicaid, we‘re talking about families who work, whose employers don‘t help them buy insurance. We‘re talking about families who can‘t go into the so-called individual market and afford the average $12,000/year family policy. And they‘re left without help unless we have a program like the children‘s insurance program, which I helped to start 10 years ago.

And what we did, on a bipartisan basis, was to extend that coverage to more middle-class families, and to get them the relief they need to take care of their children when illness or injury strikes. (more…)

 

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