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GRITtv: Robert Kuttner: Recovery Now, Deficits Later
"We have to build one movement, so that Obama either acts like the progressive president we thought we elected in 2008, or we get someone else to run against him." Robert Kuttner, co-founder of the American Prospect isn't pulling any punches with his disappointment in Obama and his advisers. "It's his own temperamental desire to build bridges complimented with bad advice." Kuttner joins Laura in studio to discuss the wrong-headedness of the deficit commission, the ongoing jobs crisis, and why Democrats might have to find a progressive primary challenger for Obama in 2012.
Email this pageGRITtv: Oct. 11 2010
Well as the Tea Partiers continue to prove they may be more than just a passing trend - at least in the fast-approaching midterms - we ask, where did the Democrats go so wrong in mobilizing their base? Did Obama's pandering to the center and big business alienate too many voters who believed in change?
Ari Berman & Karen Finney: Can Dems Regain Grassroots Support?
Well as the Tea Partiers continue to prove they may be more than just a passing trend - at least in the fast-approaching midterms - we ask, where did the Democrats go so wrong in mobilizing their base? Did Obama's pandering to the center and big business alienate too many voters who believed in change? And what could he have learned from Howard Dean in building a movement? Ari Berman, Nation Contributor and Author of Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics and Democratic Strategist, Karen Finney who served as the Director of Communications at the Democratic National Committee drop by GRITtv.
GRITtv: The Media as Establishment
Joe Lieberman hijacked news coverage for a while this week, but it was Howard Dean's defense of real health care reform that inspired White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to a snarling personal response. Ben Bernanke was anointed Time's Person of the Year despite a hold on his renomination and a bill passing the house to audit the Federal Reserve. Is the Establishment closing ranks around its own? John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation and co-author of the upcoming The Death and Life of American Journalism, thinks so. Karen Fragala Smith of Newsweek and Peter Hart of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting also join us to discuss this week in news.
GRITtv: August 27, 2009
GRITtv: Howard Dean: "$1 Trillion is NOT new money"
Threats to private healthcare insurers? Single payer leading to socialism? As the House and Senate move further in on their dissection of healthcare reform, GRITtv had our own house call from Dr. Howard Dean. Along with medical service and 12 years as the Governor of Vermont, Dr. Dean is continuing to expand his resume to not only author and DNC chair, but also as chair of the Progressive Book Club, which you can join here. Out with a new book, Howard Dean?s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer, Dean discusses why we shouldn't be worried about private insurers, how "Americans are conservative with a small 'c' " and how there are Americans living abroad who actually like a single payer plan. Who knew?
