quote, paying people to do nothing for 99 weeks and while newt is blaming the victims of this recession, his republican colleagues just broke off from the fiscal crisis inquiry commission and wrote a report of their own on what caused the crash on wall street and you ll love this part. they refuse to even put the phrase wall street in the report. it was an effort to deflect blame from their banker donors and put it on the government and the poor. but the democrats need to share in the blame, too. time and time again, the obama administration has failed to crackdown on wall street. in fact, he just had a meeting with the top ceos in the country to ask them what he could do for them, again. joining me now is brent badowski a columnist for the hill newspaper. it appears that first of all fighting are if the middle class and not constantly appeasing the bankers would be the most obvious political strategy of all-time, so why doesn t the president do that? well, i think that you re goin
jesus said that the poors are blessed and that we should feed the hungry and clothe the needy. i don t need any right wingers from fox telling us, or newt gingrich, that christianity means letting people suffer for 99 weeks or more on unemployment. newt gingrich let s buy him a copy of the new testament and the sermon on the mount when we celebrate christmas. that s my christmas present to newt. if democrats make that case, we win. all right, well, you know that s a curious thing, brent, because you know i first of all, i think that they got their spiriting a little bit not fighting the republicans but fighting the president when he caved in on the republicans on that tax cut deal. that s where i sensed a little uprising the house on the democratic s side but let s s s talk about why the republicans never pay that price. the middle class, the people who lost their jobs, shouldn t the democrats be able to punish the republicans for these, you know, points as you rightly point out,
administration has failed to crackdown on wall street. in fact, he just had a meeting with the top ceos in the country to ask them what he could do for them, again. joining me now is brent badowski a columnist for the hill newspaper. it appears that first of all fighting are if the middle class and not constantly appeasing the bankers would be the most obvious political strategy of all-time, so why doesn t the president do that? well, i think that you re going to see a lot more of that, when we have a republican house and the new congress comes back. what newt gingrich needs to do and our friends at fox news need to do as well is spend christmas each turning on and be seen and watching it s a wonderful life, where jamie stewart and that great frank capper movie with the big small time bankers. and he was up against mr. potter the crooked banker who was trying to rip everybody out and put stewart out of business.
that s real america, the jimmy stewart america. that ought to be our america. that ought to be what we re fighting for and i think when the congress comes back, the president is on a roll, there s no question about that. her ay reid and the democrats in congress are on a roll. they have a new fighting spirit that i think came out of the last election. and what we need to do is to reclaim christmas. reclaim jesus. jesus said, cenk you should sell your possession to give the proceeds to the poor. jesus said that the poors are blessed and that we should feed the hungry and cloepgt the needy. i don t need any right wingers from fox telling us, or newt gingrich, that christianity means letting people suffer for 99 weeks or more on unemployment. newt gingrich let s buy him a copy of the new testament and the sermon on the mount when we celebrate christmas. that s my christmas present to newt. if democrats make that case, we win. all right, well, you know that s a curious thing, brent, beca