(2010/02/10) The Futility of Leaning Right (Congress) (MP3)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 February 2010
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Edition #332
The Futility of Leaning Right
Act 1: Obama crushes house GOP - Young Turks
Act 2: Doris Kearns Goodwin on weak Dems - Daily Show
Act 3: Change terrifies conservatives - Ring of Fire
Act 4: Obama nails Rep and Cenk debunks lies - Young Turks
Act 5: The word Siren Song - Colbert Report
Act 6: Killing the filibuster - Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Polls show GOP are nuts - Young Turks
Act 8: Introducing the Dem Opossum - Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Political Shift in D.C. - How to succeed
Music:
Walk on the wild side - Lou Reed
Messages - Xavier Rudd
Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash
The right thing to do - Carly Simon
Naive - The Kooks
Once around the block - Badly Drawn Boy
I can't - Ben Sollee
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by GoSim. Start saving 85% on international calls with a free |
| 0:05.6 | SIM guard by visiting GoSim.com slash Best of the Left. Now welcome to the award-winning Best |
| 0:11.5 | of the Left podcast with clips today from The Young Turks, The Daily Show, Ring of Fire, |
| 0:16.4 | The Colbert Report, and The Rachel Maddo Show. |
| 0:30.0 | Obama, two sides. You know what? I'm coming to your house. I'm coming to your house. |
| 0:37.5 | So he goes to the House Republican meeting and I'll tell you what, policy-wise I got issues with |
| 0:44.0 | this and I'm going to explain why I think the overall strategy is a bad idea. But here's what you |
| 0:48.4 | cannot argue with. What he did today absolutely worked. Politically brilliant, okay? He goes in there |
| 0:57.2 | and it was everybody couldn't take their eyes off of it. Everybody's watching it, okay? So one of |
| 1:03.5 | the most reported, as a client from the Washington Post said, maybe the most interesting political moment |
| 1:08.3 | he's seen in his lifetime, okay? Not in terms of like, of course Obama election was gigantic. He |
| 1:13.5 | said, but as a snippet in time and he starts to debate with the House Republicans and they say, |
| 1:18.5 | all right, how about this? And he says, all right, here's my answer. And you know what? He |
| 1:23.1 | effectively answers all of their questions and by the end the Republicans go, oh my god, what |
| 1:27.0 | did we do? Why did we allow cameras in here? This guy just took our, came into our house, |
| 1:31.2 | slept with our wife and he's walking out the back door. What happened? Okay? He's wearing a lot of |
| 1:36.0 | trouble here. This about health care and the health care debate because I think it also bears on a |
| 1:41.6 | whole lot of other issues. If you look at the package that we presented and there's some |
| 1:52.8 | straight cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating. We were in the process of |
| 1:57.6 | eliminating, for example, for example, we said from the start that it was going to be important |
| 2:09.6 | for us to be consistent in saying to people, if you can have your, if you want to keep the |
| 2:17.6 | health insurance you got, you can keep it. That you're not going to have anybody getting in |
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