Rachel Maddow Calls Out Republicans For Not Focusing On Job Creation (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow let the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have it Wednesday night for what she called their failure to find time to debate President Obama's jobs creation bill.

Maddow pointed out the seven topics Americans rated as the number one priority for the government in a recent NBC poll. Job creation and economic growth topped the list, followed by other topics like the deficit, health care, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the energy cost of gas. Poll responders could have checked a box for "other" if they thought the priority should be something not listed.

"You want to know what's on their agenda right now?" Maddow said of the House Republicans. "Other!" She called out Representative Eric Cantor for describing Obama's jobs bill as a total package as "dead," and highlighted that the House was not even spending time debating the bill. According to Maddow, the House said it did not have time.

"Why don't House Republicans have time to work on jobs?" Maddow asked. "Why don't they have time to even debate a jobs bill?"

Maddow then harshly criticized the House for their Thursday plans: debating abortion. "Thursday is abortion day!" Maddow announced.

She put responsibility on the "Beltway media" and its coverage of House Republicans. "Should the Beltway media just dutifully write that down and say 'well they say they're focused on jobs so they must be focused on jobs?'" she said. "Or is it the role of the Beltway media to not just take on faith what they say the Congress they control should be working on?"

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Comments

[Bushwhacked]

12:27 AM on 10/18/2011

Rachel is a valuable asset to all of us and of course MSNBC. She did a great job with Ridge, but once again let's Barney Frank off the hook tonight. First, Barney calls her "honey." Ok, maybe that's not so bad. But really, just because she's a woman?? She's a successful journalist for crying out loud. That's like a verbal slap on the fanny. I wish she took Barney Frank to task on financial reform as hard as she did Tom Ridge on intelligence. The reform Frank and Chris Dodd worked on is week and. How Dodd has quietly disappeared and Frank is blaming US for not protesting then! The nerve! He is a good reason for term limits. We need LEADERSHIP. Leaders inspire and motivate. The politicians we have now bloviate. And Rachel kissed his honey at the end of the segment. I want to puke whenever she interviews him because we get the bias, not the journalist.

[marymeade2]

09:15 PM on 10/14/2011

I'm sure Rachel Maddow has all the answers, right? Aside from government jobs, how does she plan to get the private sector moving?

[Erin Giangiacomo]

09:29 AM on 10/15/2011

What's your plan redneck?

[Protocolor]

09:55 AM on 10/15/2011

Dirt road trailers for everyone! Get rid of the gubermint and pay taxes directly to Walmart!

[marymeade2]

09:59 AM on 10/15/2011

My personal business plan would be never to hire a progressive, for obvious reasons, with the most important reason being they don't have thinking brains.

[REDSTATEREFUGEE]

03:23 PM on 10/14/2011

Has anyone ever noticed that Right to Lifers tend to be middle aged, white males, who, at least biologically, have no "dog in the fight"?

[BHooverO]

03:04 PM on 10/14/2011

Unimportant because the "jobs" bill has already died in the Senate because they can't even get Dems to vote for it.

[danneb1024]

05:23 PM on 10/14/2011

that is not what happened. They had to go for Cloture and you need 60 votes.

[DragonFly]

01:56 PM on 10/14/2011

Republicans are very focused on 'jobs'
--- but then ---
all those jobs just happen to be their own.

[Joel F Rodriguez]

01:04 PM on 10/14/2011

I think they still believe that if they pass something twice, it becomes law:)

[Jeff Parfitt]

12:05 PM on 10/14/2011

The Republicans are complaining that the economy is tanking. They ignore the massive profits of businesses and say they don't have enough money. They ignore the impact of deregulation on the Recession, and claim we need to deregulate. They ignore common sense solutions that are innovative and different and demand that we do the same thing that got us into this mess. They don't want to change anything and expect that everything will change.

According to Einstein: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." The GOP's plans have failed over and over, but they continue to say that this time they will be successful, as long as they don't have to deal with any of those meddling liberals. Dear GOP, get a clue and stop destroying America. Thanks.

[Mollyj]

11:47 AM on 10/14/2011

Abort all TEA Party/Republicans, Abort all TEA Party/Republicans!...
This is your Captain Mollyj speaking!
Abort all of them!

[rw302361]

05:35 AM on 10/15/2011

its no longer about the tea party its about all REPUBLICANS they are in lock and step with each other anoter words MARRIED

[Kathleen Hermansen]

11:39 AM on 10/14/2011

I suppose all you haters like the unemployment high, you enjoy the right wingers wanting your social security & medicare to end, you do not mind billionaires paying less taxes than you-it's no wonder there are alot of angry people...hello!!

[nothingchanges]

11:30 AM on 10/14/2011

The Republican Jobs Bill...........................

If we give enough tax incentives, rebates, and tax breaks to our corporate sponsors....................

We get to keep OUR jobs.

Why should we worry about anyone else s?

[den1953]

10:44 AM on 10/14/2011

Once again the republicans will promise Americans anything for your vote, 2010 you Republicans were duped and the American working class are suffering for it!

[boston996]

01:50 PM on 10/14/2011

And in 2008, all of you Obamabots were duped by believing in "Hope and Change".
How's that working out for ya???

[BETGR627]

03:02 PM on 10/14/2011

I wasn't duped into anything. I'm really glad that McCain and Palin didn't win but you must be very disappointed. Somehow I cannot bring myself to feel sorry for you. And what is more, I will be happily voting for Obama begin in 2012 especially because I will be negating your Republican vote in Massachusetts.

[Erin Giangiacomo]

09:34 AM on 10/15/2011

It's working great thanks. How's Sarah Palin's hokey plagiarized bullshit working for you?

[Malik Skyy]

10:27 AM on 10/14/2011

If The OWS crowd were to turn their numbers to anger towards Obama and the Dems, the propaganda wing of the GOP, faux News, would be cheering them on with pompoms 24/7, calling them True Americans and genuine Patriots. Instead, they are treated with the same distain reserved for rotting fish left in the kitchen trashcan. But such is the nonsense news in zombie land faux news and their legions of zombie followers. Right is wrong, day is night, and the best way to create jobs is to do absolutely nothing, nada, zilch. And while their Flavor of the month will continue to change, from the plain vanilla of Romney, the kooky y cranberry of Bachmann, to the wacky Black Walnut of Cain, collectively, they cannot overcome the totality of the innate flavor, terminally turdy.

[Pippen]

09:33 AM on 10/14/2011

Nobody cares about jobs except the people out of work which is still growing fast.

Next those people would need to get angry and get off their ass and protest. Unless of course Dancing with the Stars is on or they have to shop at Walmart (China) or shop crap on Ebay or watch the shopping network........

Americans have become drooling cattle. Sheep would be considered anarchist compared to what Americans have become.

1. Completely remove and overhaul Campaign Finance Laws to remove all lobby money from special interests businesses from our political campaigns. Maybe then we'll get a real candidate and not one created by special interest like a puppet.

2. Promote legislation that mandates that NPR and Public Broadcasting is made at prime time and have the government pay for it with taxes.

3. Put NPR and PB incharge of "News" rating for the level quality and credibility of actual nationally recognized "News" programs. I'm thinking Fox would get an "F" for failure to be a news program.

Have a broad streaming alert on all shows that have "News" in the title disclaiming "...this is not relevant news but more like entertainment editorial and humor driven bantor..." like a warning label on cigarettes.

4. Make taking a test mandatory to vote. If you cant define the issues you can't vote on the candidates. Period. Remove some level of ignorance from the process.

[dcbarton]

11:46 AM on 10/14/2011

I kind of like idea 4, that would leave a massive number of Liberals out of the voting process. It would make it a lot easier to fix the problems in this country.

[Pippen]

05:55 PM on 10/14/2011

So you don't like 1- 3 but you like 4 ? So you are against removing corruption and special interests from running for public office ? So in other words you are for corruption and special interests having a superiorvoice in the legislation that is signed into law in our country ? More access and control to our legislation than you ?

You The People ? More power than You The People ? So you like that Sony can influence our legislation and government body function more than the people can ?

That's a serous National Security issue and a flagrant anti-American position against our U.S. Constitution. A constitution that men and women died to build.

You sound like you would fail a voters test on issues. You sure you don't want to retract your earlier statement of liking number 4 ? Apparently it will disenfranchise you also.

[BETGR627]

03:05 PM on 10/14/2011

In response to your ideas I agree with all but number four but hopefully if people actually learned from NPR and public broadcasting them might learn something about what the issues are and vote with intelligence.

[Willie12345]

08:58 AM on 10/14/2011

Mad Maddow, Al is angry, O'Donnell is irate, ............ do these folks have emotional stability problems or is it just the HP making "much to due" about very little ?

[DelKat]

09:23 AM on 10/14/2011

If you aren't angry, you don't understand what is going on.

[BETGR627]

03:12 PM on 10/14/2011

Or you're part of the problem – that has to be it!

[BETGR627]

03:21 PM on 10/14/2011

I think that if they aren't angry there either part of the 1% that is filthy rich, a Wall Street tycoon, a Republican or a member of the tea party. Otherwise they would understand why we are so angry about what is going on in this country.

[mattielb]

09:33 AM on 10/14/2011

I think about 99% of this country is angry. Especially at a House of Representatives who can find the time to debate abortion and loosening EPA standards rather than how to end the jobs crisis.

[Believein2012]

08:40 AM on 10/14/2011

once again dr. irrelevant speaks and no one listens. mad.cow is as useful as al bore

[DelKat]

09:18 AM on 10/14/2011

Republicans openly ignore the will of the American people. They are utterly irrelevant.

[Believein2012]

10:53 AM on 10/14/2011

Over 60% of the American people oppose obamacare yet it was forced down their throats so explain to me genius just exactly how the kommunity organizer is listening to the will of the people?

[dcbarton]

11:52 AM on 10/14/2011

Republicans only ignore a small minority of the American people. That small minority of the American people enjoy the support of the puppetmasters of the Democrat Party who ignores the majority the American people who are center-right. Exactly who is irrelevant?

[BigFootJesus]

09:58 AM on 10/14/2011

Yet here you are commenting on her. Reminds me of the old joke "no one goes to that club anymore it's too crowded."

[Believein2012]

10:55 AM on 10/14/2011

mad.cow and the entire msnbc program is nothing more than Romper Room level journalism (LOL) geared for it's Capt. Kangaroo intelligence level audience.