(2010/12/16) The Bad Deal Part 2 - The Politicians Strike Back (Tax Compromise)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 16 December 2010
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Edition #439
The Bad Deal Part 2 - The Politicians Strike Back
Act 1: We got screwed – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light – Deja Entendu
Act 2: Sanders speaking to oppose tax cuts – Young Turks
Song 2: You Talk Too Much – Carnival Time – The Best of Ric Records, Vol. 1
Act 3: History made – Countdown
Song 3: Tell me tell me – Burning Spear
Act 4: When opposites attack – Rachel Maddow
Song 4: Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) – Josh Groban
Act 5: Bernie could not be stopped – Citizen Radio
Song 5: The Holidays Are Here (And We’re Still At War) – The Holidays Are Here (And We’re Still At War) – Single
Act 6: David Cay Johnston – Democracy Now!
Song 6: Carol of the Bells – Christmas Celebration
Act 7: Rep. Peter DeFazio leading the charge against – Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Se Quiere, Se Mata – Pies Descalzos
Act 8: Rep. Jim McDermott on Obama giving away the store – Young Turks
Song 8: First Snow (Instrumental) – Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Act 9: Bipartisanshi* – Countdown
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
SuperCuts – Daily Show
Sources:
Wait wait don’t tell me
The Young Turks
Countdown
Rachel Maddow
Citizen Radio
Democracy Now!
Thom Hartmann
The Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.0 | the membership tab at bestoftheleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with clips today from Wait-wait |
| 0:12.4 | Don't Tell Me, The Young Turks, Countdown with Keith Olberman, The Rachel Maddo Show, |
| 0:16.4 | Citizen Radio Democracy Now, and the Tom Hartman program with a bonus video clip for our Apple |
| 0:21.1 | iOS and Android app users from the Daily Show. |
| 0:29.9 | The first quote is from a Democratic congressman named Gary Ackerman, he was reacting to a |
| 0:34.8 | White House deal made this week. |
| 0:37.2 | I disagree that we didn't get anything. |
| 0:40.3 | We got screwed. |
| 0:41.3 | Mr. Ackerman was speaking for many of his pocus in reaction to what? |
| 0:47.0 | I believe it was Obama's tax plan. |
| 0:51.1 | Yes. |
| 0:52.1 | Yeah, the big tax deal with the Republicans is very good. |
| 0:55.0 | President Obama's supporters have been adrift since President Bush left office desperately |
| 1:03.3 | in need of an enemy. |
| 1:05.3 | Now they have one, President Obama. |
| 1:09.0 | Liberals were outraged with the deal the President announced with Congressional Republicans, |
| 1:13.0 | which will extend all of the Bush tax cuts, including the ones for the rich. |
| 1:16.8 | Ask what they would do instead in the face of really effective Republican opposition. |
| 1:21.6 | Democrats said they would lose and then bury their heads in the sand, but with their heads |
| 1:25.4 | held high. |
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