Page 102 - Ed Schultz News Today

Nor was it a ploy to generate free publicity, but i love the story. harry morehouse is the cofounder of moo click boo. he joins me tonight. whats the philosophy here? youre paying a living wage. your people will make $31,200 a year on 40 hours a week for 52 weeks. whats the philosophy? why are you doing this? >> because its the right thing to do, ed. thats what we thought from the beginning. and when we opened in april, we were paying $12 an hour right out of the gate. then when we saw people de...

95% of the economic gains of the last few years have gone to 1%. no boats have been lifted by cutting taxes, smaller government, deregulation. in fact, were losing the social mobility that made the american dream. so you got part of this country, ed, that needs to remember that the great civilizing reforms of the 20th century are embedded in their lives, their families lives. you talk about the farm bill. think of social security, medicare, medicaid. the agencies that keep our childrens water an...

Not debatable. as slates matthew iglesias explains it, normally the treasury department cuts the checks congress has told it to cut. collects the taxes congress has told it to collect. and borrows to cover the difference. but the law only allows the treasury to borrow a certain amount. iglesias continues. when we hit the debt ceiling on october 17, treasury will lack the legal authority to borrow anymore money to close the gap between spending and tax revenue. and this. from the social security ...

Seen it surface. its the worst example of the use and abuse of the media, and for example every time you log on to whitehouse.gov. there is a message there. >> the obama care coverage was outrageous. it was. on msnbc, 36 hours after the exchanges were open, everybody was reporting widespread glitches, and glitches was a kind word, and in some cases, she shut down. ed schultz looks into the camera and says there are no glitches, and he says fox is manufacturing talk about glitches.

They ask you for a password but there is no place to sign in and log in to give a password. it took me an entire day. by the end of the day i reached a public information officer, and her telephone number who said how do you get me? and i said it was given to me by this person. well, thats a legitimate story. >> yeah, and ed schultz said he was misunderstood that there were no glitches. seemed unambiguous to me. >> yeah, the anti-obama care people are losing the narrative. what happened to -- wh...

Showed president obama was showing define and strength that could redefine his presidency. well see about that. there are no glitches. there are no glitches! but, of course, fox news and the republicans they call that a glitch. this is the first day the obama care exchanges are open and its a disaster. reporter after reporter has been going to these healthcare.gov, and its a mess. >> the glitches were enough to shutdown the weekend for rebooting. >> ed schultz is crazy. i went on to help a fri...

>> james. >> that was the dark side of harry reid. its probably the worst example of the democrats in this episode and their use and abuse of the media where there have been skillful examples. for example, every time that you logon to whitehouse.gov, the first thing you see is a pop-up box that tells you, we are sorry but due to congress failing to pass a budget, we cant give you all the usual services on this website that wed like to. there have been skillful uses. that was not one of them. >> ...

Seen it surface. its the worst example of the use and abuse of the media, and for example every time you log on to whitehouse.gov. there is a message there. >> the obama care coverage was outrageous. it was. on msnbc, 36 hours after the exchanges were open, everybody was reporting widespread glitches, and glitches was a kind word, and in some cases, she shut down. ed schultz looks into the camera and says there are no glitches, and he says fox is manufacturing talk about glitches.

Safety. i know all of us want to extend that thanks and just to let them know we really appreciate it. >> senator, there is talent right there on the house floor. i dont know how in the hell he said that with a straight face. i mean, what is unfolding yesterday and what theyre doing right now exposes their hypocrisy, does it not? >> of course it does. i mean, just think about this, ed. two weeks ago, we had the tragedy here in washington at the navy yard. twelve people killed. and the people who...

I really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> i want to go back to this -- the senate conservative fund. this is all about citizens united, choking the chain of these guys on the right. if they dont act right, theyre going to get targeted. tell your thoughts on this. is that really the root cause on this and why boehner cant make a move? >> ed, in many respects, it is. whats going on right now, we have seen some moderate or moderate/conservative republicans having the guts to stand up to boehner and ...