Ratigan Spells-It-Out! PAY ATTENTION OBAMA!!!

[EvilMonsanto]

Run time: 08:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z1XOBDbIy0   Posted on YouTube: August 09, 2011 By YouTube Member: MOXNEWSd0tCOM Views on YouTube: 303   Posted on DU: August 10, 2011 By DU Member: EvilMonsanto Views on DU: 13383

 
Time to start listening!

God Damn Bankers!!!!!

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. Holy shit.

Waiting to see if they roll him out a blackboard and some chalk.

:o

[civilisation]

30. It is a wealth extraction,. banksters are looting and burning!

"It is a mathmatical FACT!"

The monetary system; bankers in cahoots with the politicians and the so called regulators, are burning down the house as they are looting it. It is an old ploy to cause a ruckus to divert attention while you steal your intended plunder,. .

The president needs to take RADICAL steps as Ratigan states here, an "executive decision" to end this corrupted, broken, and destructive system. Why do we pay endlessly compounded interest to private for profit bankers ? Money need not be based on debt,. and created by PRIVATE banks,. should we not have a PUBLIC bank ? A bank that benefits all the people of the land equally,. not just the wealthy few who have been given the exclusive rights to create money?? Currently when your government "borrows" money from these private banks it pays interest to them,. and it also creates the money at the same time,. (but not the interest!) The "FED", although it sounds very much like a federal institution under government control, is actually a private bank! Why??

Watch "Money as Debt";

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544

Just as a start.

[Stevepol]

75. I wish Rhatigan would show a little passion here.

[Ruby the Liberal]

108. Hey now, normally he just talks over his guests.

This time he yelled. :D

(Am I the only one who did a breath suck when he made the comment about being at MSNBC "3 YEARS!!! SAYING THIS" - that is abject frustration right there)

[LittleGirl]

2. wow.

those women in the background looked like they were waiting for his head to explode!

Awesome.

but I love me some passion. And that there is some passion!

[Raksha]

105. Passion and TRUTH! Almost unknown to see that on national TV,

especially the second item, which has been in very short supply lately. Thank you Dylan Ratigan for telling it like it is.

[Metta]

3. Good going. He really tells it.

Not enough in the spotlight saying that.

[liberalmike27]

47. Yea I loved the fact

All the people in the background, usually milling around, doing work, and not paying attention, stood up and started looking at him, but who wouldn't.

I might add, he was doing everything Cenk Uygur did, waving arms, screaming loudly, but most of all revealing the basic truth of why our system is so f**ked, so lost, that it is basically a pay for play system, now with the Citizen's United decision to allow unlimited monies into elections, completely bought. Anyone (including Obama) who gets uppity, will be primaried, have a vast sum levied against them in election, and a corporatist like Walker will be installed in their stead.

So I suspect he'll go on vacation, and never come back at some point. Telling the truth will get you fired on the MSM.

[Metta]

68. Yes, I'm troubles that he isn't on today.

Though they're doing a segment with him about it later.

[nashville_brook]

4. smackety smack smack smackerstien mac smackerson

Ratigan 2012.

[chervilant]

42. PLUSSITY, plus, plus, plusserstein mac plusserson!!! n/t

[DeSwiss]

67. Thank you for that! :^D - n/t

[russspeakeasy]

5. This is a must see...Dylan is on his game and just told the

president how to get re-elected....I don't think he will listen...:toast: :smoke: :argh:

[nonoxy9]

6. But, but, but...

we have to wait til after 2012! THEN he'll find the balls to stand up for us! :sarcasm:

[dennis4868]

80. he can stand up now...

but what the fuck will that do? Do you think the repubs are going to work with Obama to make things better? Are you fucking kidding me? It's up to us to get the votre out in 2012 to get the fucking repubs out of congress and replaced with real dems.

[Doctor_J]

103. It will be a lot easier to GOTV if Obama stops kissing up to the Repukes

[Ruby the Liberal]

109. Know your audience

What do you think he is trying to do? He is promoting a book (Greedy Bastards - Jan 2012) and trying to wake people the fuck up. He wasn't speaking to congress or the owners of this country (RIP, George), he was speaking to US.

[Segami]

7. K&R!!- Are you listenin' Mr. President.

[Prana69]

8. Can I please have a "President Ratigan"?

Goddam that was some passion right there! That's telling it like it is. Name that elephant in the room!

Congress is owned by special corporate interests whose only concern is to further their financial positions. They are pack-raping America (and the rest of the world) via international financial institutions, the IMF and the World Bank.

Nothing will change unless:

1) A President steps up who is prepared to name that fact and take on his/her own corrupt Congress-people.

OR

2) The people rise up and dismantle the system themselves.

P69

[defendandprotect]

87. +1 --- it's going to be another one of those "Anybody but ..." years in 2012 -- !!!

[Jim_Shorts]

9. Good to see a legitimate rant

It's frustrating when we are being raped every day by bankers and plutocrats and there isn't any leadership in sight with any moral conviction because they are either weak or paid off. All we can do is watch the carnage because the system is sooo broken.

[CarrieLynne]

10. omg hes awesome!! and right!

how do we get that video into obamas inbox? lol

[Amonester]

13. Do it! Do it! Do it!

And to 'hope' he will watch it, just 'change' the M in MOX to an F. :sarcasm:

[Lorien]

11. He's right; money in politics IS the root of all evil, and the big banks

need to be replaced with a sane, uncorrupted system.

[defendandprotect]

88. +1000% ---

[Che Billy]

12. Get Money Out of Politics!!!

Gawd, how I wish Obama had the balls to say what Ratigan did - except EVEN LOUDER!!!!! Our country's future depends on it.

[kas125]

14. Wow. Just wow. Someone on television finally spoke the truth.

I expect that they'll find a reason to fire him sometime soon now, but I appreciate his effort. And I LOVED the looks on the faces of those two women.

[snipervictim]

15. WOW !

THATS ALL I can say =)

[chill_wind]

16. That was genuine.

And I'm not surprised at all. He just said it a lot more louder and more emphatically than he's always been saying it.

He'll get suspended or fired. Wait for it.



K & R.

[Curtis]

17. I was watching it while he was going on

I even paused it and called my wife in to hear it. I agree. We all need to quit fighting each other and go after the real enemy (money in politics)!

[chill_wind]

18. delete- wrong place

[chill_wind]

19. More of uncensored Ratigan- ripping into a teabagger

and asks to have his mic cut.

Must see video:

Dylan Ratigan kicks teabagger off of his show: "Can We Please Cut Off This Man's Microphone?"

By John Amato
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/dylan-ratigan-kicks-teabagger-his-show

Ratigan: Mark, do I run NBC? Are you a guest on my show? Do you have any intention of answering any of my questions because I don't want to continue to fool with this. You're wasting valuable oxygen. Can we please cut off this man's microphone, He has no interest in answering my questions, Mark a pleasure. Actually not really a pleasure. It was offensive, you're offensive. Your treatment of my show as a vehicle to spread your propaganda, ignore my questions, offensive and an indication of what is wrong with the dialogue in this country. Period. Not to mention that a group that would accept Nazis and racists.

(For those who missed another of his better rants.)

Debbie Wasserman Schultz trainwreck (HCR talking points)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8R8baHPr2E

(He did later apologize to her, but not to the teabagger)

“Racists and talking points piss me off,” Ratigan says. “And I will flip out.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/06/17/dylan-ratigan-cable-tvs-angriest-anchorman.html

[Ruby the Liberal]

22. He gets on my nerves (alot), but along with the OP, this clip with Debbie was awesome.

To her credit, he couldn't decide what he wanted to ask her, but to his, that is a very good question: "If you produce legislation and the stock price goes up 10% in under a month, what does that mean" (or alternatively, "how is this reigning in the company to the benefit of the comsumer as claimed".

Her response about not being a stock analyst was weak at best. It doesn't take a 'stock analyst' to think twice as to who benefits from your legislation based on market expectations of future profits.

Then again, thats what we get for electing attorneys (in general) as legislators and Presidential advisors while our Nobel Laureate Economists are off teaching college and writing in oped columns.

[PatSeg]

57. I remember that teabagger show

and it looked like a Ratigan stunt. Any reputable host would have never invited such an extremist on his show. I'm sure Ratigan knew exactly what he was going to do and say ahead of time. It got him some exposure on a lot of political boards, which is what I think he was going for. That's what I think he was doing yesterday with his "unplanned" rant.

What next? Beck style tears!

[slipslidingaway]

20. knr nt

[hulka38]

21. From Dylan at 6:03 to Jimmy at 7:10 is the absolute truth.

We need a hard core change agent with a mandate to risk his political career and frankly his ass and take it directly to the American people in order to make that change. That change is not incremental but whole sale campaign finance reform with no built in loop holes. That's what has to happen for there to be hope.

[Ruby the Liberal]

23. You mean like McCain Finegold? That "first step" that was completely dismantled

by SCOTUS and just bought the WI senate their majority back?

You mean that McCain Finegold bill that our Dem majority in both houses didn't think to write into law and tell SCOTUS to stick Citizens United up their collective asses?

Campaign reform like that? That will cut off their own re-election funding?

/Rhetorical

*sigh*

[hulka38]

33. Are you saying that because McCain Finegold didn't work

that the situation is now and will forever be hopeless?

[Ruby the Liberal]

69. SCOTUS decided with Citizens United that corporations

can pour unlimited, anonymous cash into the political process and elections without impunity.

Congress has had 3 years to act on that, and yet, not one bill has been brought to the floor under Pelosi, Boehner or Reid.

To Dylan's point - they CAN'T. These corporations with their unlimited pockets fund the very campaigns of the people who would fight this, and that isn't happening.

To put it another way, one half of McCain Feingold has enough cash (but not political capital) to make it happen and the other is working on his yard and spending time with his family.

Yes - I DO think we have gone through the rabbit hole and daylight is but a faint memory.

[hulka38]

107. Dylan's point is Congress won't.

It sounds like you and I agree on that. Dylan's solution to that monumental problem is to have a President who really is a change agent and go directly to the American people with the truth, that the system is busted. The American people know that already. What's missing is a leader who will hammer that message home relentlessly. I agree with Dylan that that is our only way out of this situation. Unfortunately, this President is not that leader.

[Ruby the Liberal]

110. We do agree - on all counts.

[CleanGreenFuture]

24. You know, this video has to go viral. No matter what you think of Ratigan, he

laid it all out on the table and threw down the gauntlet before the President.

As many people as possible need to see this. A guy on what is considered an MSM news outlet blew a gasket and spoke truth to power. And people will be moved by that.

[Ruby the Liberal]

25. Yeah, and in a week, he will be the new permanent guest host on TYT if it gets play.

As for me, I have already bookmarked it and made a note to reload my YT download app to get a local copy.

[PhoenixAbove]

26. K&R - Holy Sh*t and Wow! n/t

[xchrom]

27. recommend

[Roland99]

28. K & f'n R!

[timefortherevolution]

29. GD! THANKS RATIGAN! I needed that!

Watching the bs that passes as government is like drowning...
You want someone to state the obvious, that its all about getting corporate dollars
for reelections.

No one will say it out of fear over losing a dollar in donations.

[Roger Floyd]

31. Wow!

[DirkGently]

32. Best voicing of the real situation we face to date. Righteous.

[Name removed]

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[bvar22]

35. Nails IT....AND offers a SOLUTION!!!!

Ratigan for President!

[The Backlash Cometh]

36. Problem is, everyone will agree that the presidency can be bought too.

Did FDR come from a rich family? Maybe he was operating under noblesse oblige? Someone coming from a poor environment who owes his riches to Chicago political maneuvering may not be the one to understand what needs to happen next?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

40. We're not gonna get help from a guy who...

... feathered his own nest with shady land deals and no-work "board seats" for his wife the very minute he got any real power.

We're not gonna get help from a guy who talked tough on NAFTA during the campaign while he was, behind our backs, assuring Canada it was all phony campaign bullshit.


We're not gonna get help from a guy who talked a good game about prescription drug re-importation and health care reform but made a deal, behind our backs, to sell us down the river.

We're not gonna get help from a guy who sid he wouldn't hire lobbyists but hired them en mass and meets with them at the coffee shop across the street from the whitehouse to hide the public records of said meetings.

[FLAprogressive]

37. How long before Dylan Ratigan meets the same fate as Cenk and KO for truth-telling?

[seeker4ever]

38. They'll "Have a Talk" and then Ratigan Will Blow Brietbart Again

[katty]

46. yup-how long?, he can't take it anymore-the sys is so corrupt

he can say it often enough, KO was practically jumping out of the TV box at the end of his run...

[sunwyn]

39. I don't always agree with Dylan but this was dead on.

And if Obama would take his advice, he would win alot of people over.

[dennis4868]

81. Obama already has...

the people on his side over the economic issues...heck the people blame repubs for the mess we are in....the problem is the people don't get to vote in congress...what most people on DU don't want to admit is that Obama is not a king and has to work with the congress w egave him in 2010. The same congress (repubs) that OBSTRUCTS everything...SO rtigan rant was a waste of time...we need to get out the vote in 2012!

[defendandprotect]

90. "Obama is not a king" ... ? ROFL

Catch up -- the latest one the other day was "haven't any of you ever

played POKER?" --

Guess the Chess Game is also over --

Can't wait until Dems control ONLY the House so that they can "disrupt everything"

and turn everything to the left!!




:nuke:

[Ruby the Liberal]

111. Totally missed the point.

At the end, he referenced the Brady Bonds in SA, The Civil War and WWII. In other words, fuck congress and just do it. Repatriate our tax dollars via executive order and start the infrastructure projects.

Rants at that speed/volume are hard to process (I have listened to it over a dozen times now to catch it all). Recommend you give it another listen.

:toast:

[watajob]

41. Thank God...

... for Dylan!

[Bozita]

43. !...

[florida08]

101. lol..luv that pic

[LaPera]

44. He's so full of shit - Blaming BOTH parties-We know who the obstructionist are, record filibusterers

uncompromising fucking elitist republicans, who won't cut a nickel from any of the rich and their corporations, subsidies, taxes, loop-holes, private jets maintenance and other deductions only the wealthiest receive.....I heard Ratigan's whole spewing bullshit live yesterday on MSNBC (not just this out of context clip) and I wanted to kick Ratigan's ass right then on the spot the asshole...when he said the usual talking points and attacks to please everyone on both sides, the fucking coward!

There's only one party who admittedly wants to see our government & economy go down so they can get the black man out of the White House, (and I'm certainly no big Obama fan) The republicans have publicly admitted they'll do anything to destroy any hope or good the Democrat's and/or Obama try to do....Republicans were just hoping to bring down the government to default last week - Obama had no choice but to give in or we would of ALL been fucked (except the wealthy they could hold on) Republicans purposely doing nothing to help get jobs or help the economy, NOTHING! - They are REPUBLICANS - the rich & their corporations who want the presidency to destroy their long hatred of Social Security Medicare, unions and every other social program from or taxes and weekly pay checks we are paying for SS....One party the republicans, want to privatize and give it ALL to the richest motherfuckers - And Ratigan has such little balls as to scream to pretend to make a point for ratings "it's both parties" what bullshit! What a staged, lying kiss-ass asshole!

[abelenkpe]

50. More like one side more than the other

You are right in that Reps want to destroy any good the dems attempted the second they won the house. Cutting spending is their way of undoing any gains the economy made from the stimulus. Attacking entitlements is their way to make sure dems get the blame for that after they saw how much crap they were getting from the Ryan plan.
Ratigan leans too right for me but he is correct that both parties are bought. Look at Baucus. Look at who donates to all the members of congress. That no one in congress has moved aggressively to counter Citizen's United suggests they are all looking forward to the corporate gravy train and we will not have anyone truly representing the people until that is stopped.
Extraction is a great word for it, too. That is what is happening. How anyone can defend that and still be elected is beyond me.

[Javaman]

52. Yes, blue dogs don't exist.

:eyes:

there is plenty blame to go around.

politicians exist to get reelected and will say and do anything to have that happen.

[rhett o rick]

54. He is right on. Granted the Republicans are the badest but the Democrats are

pussy-footing it along so they dont lose their parking spot. It's time for someone to stand and fight.

[PatSeg]

55. Thank you

I saw this live also and I just don't trust Ratigan. I have serious doubts that his tantrum was genuine. He has a huge ego and I think he is capable of faking outrage to get attention.

I have watched many times as he played the false equivalency card, blaming both the right and the left equally for our problems. The one thing I know Dylan Ratigan believes in is Dylan Ratigan.

I'm sure his ratings will get a slight boost and I'm also sure that was his intention.


Oh, and I am also sure MSNBC is reading this and many other liberal threads right now about yesterday's show. If they've gotten to MY post, sorry guys, I ain't buying it.

[DirkGently]

58. You saw the whole thing? What part, exactly, was not true? Or is the problem it was too true?

[BobbyBoring]

61. The Dems have done their fair share

Dodd, Frank, Reid, and others are owned by big finance.

All in all, we have MAYBE 10 out of 537 in office that give a shit about us.

[fascisthunter]

64. Um... Third Way Dems helped the GOP

they both wanted the same thing... snap out of it.

[defendandprotect]

91. Agree -- Koch Bros. DLC .. also funded by Pfizer and Chevron criminals ....

Third Way seems to be pressuring Pelosi for her still populist comments on

Social Security and Medicare?

Looks like they want to shut her up -- !!!

[fascisthunter]

119. wouldn't doubt it... we have criminals running this country

[Ruby the Liberal]

70. Did you LISTEN? He said "over 2 decades". NAFTA? Repeal Glass Steagal?

Sorry, but they are both to blame.

Where are our uncorrupted masters of democracy looking to write legislation to undo Citizens United? Dennis and Bernie?

Hows that coming...

[defendandprotect]

92. Dems were colluding with the GOP at least as far back as 1978 ---

when they colluded with GOP to break the tax code for the benefit of the wealthy --

and this was while Dems were in FULL power -- and well before Reagan --


And we've just had the three new trade agreements W Bush was pushing moved along

by Obama -- !!! Colombia, Panama, Korea --


Hartmann commented last week that we would lose another 1 million jobs by the end of next year!!



For the info on the Dems/1978 -- see Wm. Greider's "Who will tell the people?" 1992 --

[Ruby the Liberal]

112. Thanks for the heads up - looks like a good read.

Book or white paper?

[defendandprotect]

115. Book -- and fortunately my library had it --

But first may I recommend this interview with Amy Goodman --

Really heats up as it goes along -- you could start from the bottom up -- !!!

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/5/william_greider_come_home_america_the

Edited to add link -- !!


:)



He has four books I haven't read -- and hope to catch up with soon --


Here's a list of his books -- and I'm way behind in catching up with the last four!

Though I think I read something of Fortress America --


Highly recommend Secrets of the Temple -- if you haven't already read it --


http://williamgreider.com/books

[Ruby the Liberal]

116. Roger that!

:thumbsup:

[defendandprotect]

117. Edited the post to add link to the Goodman/Greider interview -- !!

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/5/william_greider_come_home_america_the

[calimary]

100. Both sides! Both sides! Yeah, if you take a brick and a grain of aquarium gravel and call them equal

BOTH are the SAAAAAAAAAAME!!! Why? Uh, well, they're the SAAAAAAAAAAME! Uh, 'cuz they're both hard!


:banghead:

[Ruby the Liberal]

113. Calimary, much respect but I have to give you a D- for reading comprehension

It was their grandiose idea and our complicity.

Otherwise stated, can you name me *one* movement working to repeal free trade and de-regulation currently sitting in Congress? (Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders don't count)

They have defanged Dr Dean, Gov Spitzer, Reps Grayson and Weiner, etc... Who is pushing for this (against their own re-election financing) TODAY.

[calimary]

120. You make a VERY good point, so says this STILL die-hard Dean fan.

I love all those people you mention: Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Governor Spitzer, Alan Grayson and Anthony Weiner - and PARTICULARLY the Good Doctor Howard Dean. I still remember removing the Kerry bumper sticker from the inside of my car's back window the day after the 2004 election and thinking with great sadness - "I was right the first time." I'd kept my "Dean for America" bumper sticker even after replacing it with the Kerry sticker. And I put the "Dean for America" sticker back in place.

Even so, I stand by my disgust at the "false equivalency" that runs rampant out there. By degrees of fault, CLEARLY the republi-CONS and teabaggers are exponentially more guilty. Certainly they couldn't have enjoyed the success they have unless the pushback from the opposition weren't so flabby, and in some cases non-existent. Yes in that case both sides are indeed to blame. But at the same time, I don't blame the Jews as much for "trying to get along" while civilization as they knew it in pre-war Germany was spiraling down toward the gates of Nazi Hell. I blame the fucking Nazis. One could say those who didn't try to resist (in that example, ours now, or in ANY such case) were complicit. But the instigators who pushed, manipulated, and exploited events like so many opportunistic infections remain in a guilt/blame class by themselves.

Bad guys, with or without enablers, are still bad guys. And they will still try to pull bad shit.

[Ruby the Liberal]

121. There is no question who is wrong here

But I think it really does do a disservice not to call out the complicity. Dylan saying "burn it down now" vs "kick the can" did that, IMHO. One party is that of destruction and the other wants to put in place temporary measures (that won't do shit) in the hopes actual adults will be elected before they have to deal with it again (or thats how I heard it).

BTW - I was a 2004 Deaniac too :D Never did warm to Senator Kerry. He is growing on me, but that was a hold-yer-nose election.

[cottonseed]

45. What's 2% blending?

Honestly, I don't get up for the screamers. I like the idea of being a truth teller, but it's just distracting.

[PatSeg]

56. Same here

The screaming looked like a stunt and I felt it distracted from what he was saying. I don't think it was effective and I will put it right up there with his stupid puppet and baby doll visuals to explain the economy a while back, as highly insulting and ridiculous.

[harun]

48. Ratigan's right about the problem but Obama appears as bought as Congress.

[raouldukelives]

49. k&r

[Javaman]

51. Show me a president that didn't retire richer after serving in office

The only one I can think of is Carter.

after that, they are all part of the system of screwing the middle class and the poor.

There is an old saying in Mexico, "you want to retire rich? Become president".

And here we are.

nothing will be fixed because those in power don't want it fixed.

Why upset the gravy train?

[rhett o rick]

53. This is exactly what I have been saying all along. nm

[lovuian]

59. if your an American be it Republican or Democrat

you must be infuriated at the stealing of trillions of our children's future and the cause of the GREATEST DEPRESSION to be seen


We will find the crooks where ever you are you will be hunted down

this is the message that Obama should be stating to the American people

[mochajava666]

60. Hard to argue with him on this point. He is right.

Normally, I wouldn't say that about Ratigan, but when he is right, I'll give him props.

[Mrhyde719]

62. I think Mr. Ratigan

just lost some serious scratch in the stock market lately. :nopity: :nuke:

[proud patriot]

63. kick rec and shared on facebook and tweeted

We all must do the same

[hifiguy]

65. Great rant

and that "James" something guy put the cherry on it by stating flatly that "money in politics is the root of all evil."

Kickety kick.

[DeSwiss]

66. K&R!!!

"Stand firm for what you believe in. Until and unless logic and experience prove you wrong. Remember, when the emperor looks naked, the emperor is naked. The truth and a lie are not "sort of" the same thing. And there is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza. Thank you."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zbXDRpCNaM">~Daria Morgendorffer

[KansDem]

71. About time someone spoke the truth...

I can sense his frustration at a corrupt DC...

[emcguffie]

72. HE's been saying this since day one, since he got this show on MSNBC.

I don't know what he was saying when he was on Bloomberg. But this is what I saw him saying when his show first began, yes, less emphatically and with less anger. But he's been calling it "extraction" all along.

I love him.

Go, Dylan!

EDITED to correct syntax.

[Ruby the Liberal]

114. This is the reason he left CNBC

(not Bloomberg) - they told him to Cenk it (tone down the corruption talk) so he quit and went where he could have more freedom to speak his mind.

He does work my last nerve at times, but that IMO is immaturity given his age (mid 30s). He has a good message, I think he just struggles om how to frame it.

[LatteLibertine]

73. Big money + politics = us fucked

[Beavker]

74. I love the passion

Man he must be glad to be off of CNBC! That friggin channel is something else.

He's right, it's a systemic, deep rooted problem that will take the political will and fortitude our current congress doesn't have.

[LatteLibertine]

76. A good place to start?

Real campaign finance reform and better term limits.

[MerryBlooms]

77. Epic rant, but -

Before the Citizens United decision, we had a chance to change the way campaigns were financed and then move on to the rest of the political bribe and blackmail money. Too many were apathetic, or ignorant, as to the money flowing into our elections, and many still are. We're toast now. I don't see any way to change this and I've lost any hope.

[socialindependocrat]

89. I believe that action is the key - no matter what

I hear your frustrantion!!! The only way is to keep fighting and move forward. I suggest that we expose the political bias of the Supreme Court and get that decision reversed. I'm just middle America and I used to say that the Supreme Court is the only group of peropl we can still trust - NO MORE!! If the Supreme Court rules based on the law it shouldn't matter much whether we have liberals or conservatives there. Now I see that every appointment is contested and the decisions are based on the split of the court. If it weren't we would see more 8-1 and 7-2 decisions but every time they decide we see a 5-4 split. These people need to get their act together.

It may look hopeless but the only way to fight is to fight.

If we don't fight in the political arena, there will be fighting in the streets.

THERE'S NO DOUBT - VOTE THEM OUT!!!

I FEEL YOUR PAIN!!!!

[MerryBlooms]

97. Thank you. n/t

[ooglymoogly]

78. 0's original sin: Not upholding the law and protecting the constitution

from the day he took office as he promised and swore he would. He, on his knees, kissed the ring of bankster Dons and thugs by not prosecuting their obvious and well documented fraud, thereby defrauding this country of trillions, (now approaching $100 trillion.) Thereby bankrupting this country and willfully now going after what is left, the trillions in SS and the gold in our teeth, that does not belong to this government to plunder. Until this country "takes arms against a sea of troubles" we may as well just be content to die in the squaller of poverty that will be left to us. 0 is not weak, he is part and parcel to the looting of this country and the world for that matter....Pollyannas and two shoes be damned.

[FLAprogressive]

84. +1

[dennis4868]

79. HIS RANT WAS COMPLETE BULLSHIT

It assumes that repubs would work with Obama and not obstruct if there is a plan out there that will help the country. He doesn't get it - REPUBS WILL BLOCK ANYTHING THAT WILL MOVE THE COUNTRY FORWARD and there is very little Obama can do on his own. Ratigan is in fantasy land when he says that Obama should get out there and make a speech bashing congress; REPUBS WONT GIVE A SHIT - THEY ARE WILLING TO RUN THE COUYBTRY OFF A CLIFF so that they can get the WH back in 2012.

[blank space]

95. His point is not

what can be done, by himself, the dems or repubs - rather his point is that Obama just needs to stand up and tell the truth.

It is therefore not bullshit - but the essence of reality.

[humbled_opinion]

82. Ratigan is way too subtle...

How come he can't just come out and say what the problems are.... LOL

This was great, it was spot on and amazing... imagine if the President actually did this he would be hearlded for his willingness to risk it all for something that he truly beleived in.....

[highplainsdem]

83. K&R

[defendandprotect]

85. Anyone left who thinks that Obama is paying attention to anything but big money players -- ??

It is a "Coin Operated" Congress --

but remember that citizens also gave Obama HUGE amounts of money --

wasn't it something like $850 million ... ?

And, as I recall it, DU'ers gave him another $280,000 as he entered the White House!!

Did that give citizens any leverage over Obama -- ? Nope!


There is only one group that has Obama's attention and interest -- and that corporations!!


Was listening to Hartmann today and he was suggestin that Mitch McConnell would probably

be going off to a $5 milliion a year job with Koch Bros when he retires!!


Think he said McConnell -- though could also be John Boehner?


All of thse future payoff's are something we have no way of controlling --

We can only rely on the honesty of men -- and what our Founders tried to make clear to us

and what we have to remember is that there are many dishonest men among us!!

[Mr. Sparkle]

86. Blaming a Democratic President for a corrupt republican congress ?

and Dylan's solution is for the President to go and talk to the American people? That's just batshit. I like Dylan but just taking to the American people will make no difference.

Thanks to the citizen united decision, there is no easy solution.

[julian09]

98. He wants Obama to go to the people because he has a bigger

mike to reach people. Dylan is lucky to reach 250,000. In the next four years the next president will have a supreme court appointment. If dems gain one they can challenge corporation person hood. Dylan is tough on everyone, doesn't seem to recognize the obstruction first two years, then tea party influence over the republican majority in the house, which only wants his destruction.
He needs Gop votes to get anything done, but he must now expose that the Gop goal is to destroy US economy, just to get him out. He has to make it known to everyone that Gop is only serving big corporations and destroying the safety net for the elderly, poor and middle class. :crazy:

[humbled_opinion]

106. Your wisdom would be spot on,,,,

If Democrats were not in charge of the Senate but they are. Talking to the American People bypasses the HOUSE, the Senate is already going to do what Obama wants them to do anyway.

[Badsam]

124. If you did make a comment, we wouldn't know how dumb you are

[liberalla]

93. Hell, yeah! that was refreshing.

:kick:

[Lint Head]

94. This is EXACTLY what needs to be broadcast everywhere!

Now!

[midnight]

96. Yep.... Our elected officials are bought...

[ErikJ]

99. I'm Mad as Hell and Not Going to take it Anymore!

I thought Dylan might have a melt-down someday. He's been repeating this theme about the banks extracvtion for 3 years now as he said. But its like nobody has taken him seriously. It was his Howard Biel moment. He forgot to tell us all to shout out the windows though.

[florida08]

102. glad to see the majority of people here get this

If this doesn't clear out the cobwebs nothing will. Saw it originally and glad it got posted.
Thanks..great job. Time to start listening...AMEN


:kick:

[spooked911]

104. it's ALSO THE GODDAMNED WARS!!!!

not just the bankers-- it's the evil of the military industrial complex

[southerncrone]

118. Maybe we should support Ratigan for Prez!

Nice to hear the truth on TV for a change.

[Stand and Fight]

122. I couldn't agree more.

Those here who continually blame one side or the other -- be it Democrats or Republicans -- are missing the point. It's the money stupid. The money in politics is a cancer on the body politic, and we're not going to get shit done so long as that is the case. Until it changes, we're going to continue to see the leadership in Washington and our elected representatives chasing their tails and getting no where fast. The President needs to buck up and use the power of the bully pulpit to bring his case to the American people to start implementing real solutions, because it's damn clear that Congress sure as hell isn't going to do it.

[domonkos]

123. Oreilly and Ratigan sexpocolypse

If this guy and Bill O'reilly had sex, the sound emmited would make the world implode.