Arianna appeared on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" Tuesday to discuss Obama's recent move to review federal regulations agencies and his assertion that deregulation will create jobs.
Olbermann asked Arianna if she thought the president's move was "political pandering, some sort of sincere idea for job growth, or something else?"
Arianna responded that it seems the president has one priority on his mind. "It shows that his primary, maybe his exclusive preoccupation right now, is reelection," she said. "Because there is no other explanation. Obviously he wants businesses to stop just giving to Republicans and start contributing once again to his reelection campaign as they did in 2008, especially Wall Street."
She continued that she believes Obama's effort to deregulate regulation agencies "just doesn't make any sense at all. We need to have a big debate on how to save American capitalism."
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Our government is not protecting the American people from anything! Yes an over the top statement to point out the critical state Americans are in! And no it is not okay for people to make 100 million plus, like someone else mentioned, while the world burns! Again an over the top metaphor! Being filthy rich is not the end-all! We are one people in this sewer we call earth. It is a sewer cause we've made it so! Think if our boys and girls that give life and limbs to protect America’s freedoms took a similar self-serving position? Warrior on camels will be the victor! We do not rise -- no, we go to the lowest denominator in life "man's inhumanity towards man -- that we proudly, and stupidly, refer to as " survival of the fittest;†and I would add, “at all cost (i.e., without a conscience!)!" That is what is in hearts of man – and stubbornly will not to change!
his beliefs, that deregulatiÂon and trickle down are his economic answers. One could be upset
that these are right wing policies, but one should be more disturbed because these policies have
failed miserably for over 30 years. You can accept that he leans to the corporate agenda, but
you certainly must question his sanity when he embraces a deregulatiÂon that nearly brought on
the 2nd great depressionÂ.
Where was the President's op-ed on the need to tax rich people and corporations more? Those are actual problems...yet...silence.
My criticism is that, in the grand scheme, this is a FAKE (or marginal at best) issue and the intent of the op-ed was to appeal to the lowest of us (those who still think that government is the problem) at the very time that the Reagan mantras need to be repudiated by all in power and especially those on the Democratic side.
Are there bad regulations? Yes. Are there WAY MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES RIGHT NOW? Absolutely. Positively. Unequivocally. In terms of message - in terms of framing the debate there is NO reason for the President to be doing the Republican's job for them and pay attention to such a minor thing as this (thereby making it seem bigger than it is) when there are so many REAL issues out there.
Look - you Obama fans are all about "pragmatism" and looking at what gets passed. Fine. I try not to have fights with you guys on that stuff because I am much more concerned with the message - with shifting the zeitgeist in such a way that our government of the future will have the social will to enact more progressive policies. So...this is a messaging issue and you guys have no footing here. The President needs to stop making the Republicans' (disastrous) points for them.