Arianna Talks HuffPost Women Launch And The Debt Ceiling Deal On 'Morning Joe' (VIDEO)

Arianna went on "Morning Joe" today to discuss the official launch of HuffPost Women, debuting today, as well as HuffPost Parents and HuffPost Black Voices on Wednesday. At the top of the Women vertical today is an exclusive by HuffPost reporter Amanda Fairbanks about college-age girls selling sex in order to pay for school.

One young woman, named "Taylor" in the piece, found herself with $15,000 in unpaid tuition and resorted to using a matching site for "sugar daddies" to find college-age "sugar babies". As Arianna points out, the perverse reality is that: "This is what is going on in America while we debate the debt ceiling."

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Arianna also gave her impressions of the debt ceiling compromise reached Sunday night by President Obama and Congressional leaders.

She lamented the outcome as a breakdown of our political system, and that the president surrendered to congressional Republicans without negotiating over what his own party wanted.

Talking with NBC's Chuck Todd about the fallout, she contrasted the economy Obama faces with the one President Clinton dealt with. Most notably, Obama's pledge to now deal with the jobs crisis was labeled his most "laughable" statement of this whole process, as it's a promise he's made many times before.

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Comments

[2crudedudes]

05:59 PM on 08/01/2011

When can we finally get a science tab?

[solarman44]

05:39 PM on 08/01/2011

I worked and gave to Barack in 2008 because I "thought" he WOULD fight for us, but he has not. He has caved on all the bills and I will not work or support him in the 2012 election.

[champions1]

06:44 PM on 08/01/2011

Try to wrap you brain around this...Republicans,Tea Party, Conservatives,Libertarians. No matter what Barak has tried has been shot down as soon as the INK was dry on his Presidency, It has been WAR from that moment, they have NO Intention of the Democrats Winning anything, hell they have even thrown Granny and Grammps under the train, college students and young children this is NOT your Mother and Father's America.....The constant dripping since the 70's with Reagan and the Bush's Monopoly have destroyed this County and now with the Supreme's WE THE PEOPLE...haven't a flying fish of a chance to redeem what has happened...The poor will become poorer and the Middle class well you get the picture...You are on the way out...So now you want to vote for the Republican Party ....sheesh what will become of us...

[7dr361]

09:42 PM on 08/01/2011

I would rather have the worst democrat.......than the best republican for president......( I ) democrat

[jojojo]

03:18 PM on 08/01/2011

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-benedict/arnold-schwarzenegger-alimony_b_913112.html

See this article about Alimony battles, from HuffPost Women

[Kellie OHeron]

02:08 PM on 08/01/2011

I recently had a discussion about Obama and how he might just be a "Wall Street" democrat. If you look at all of his policies from health care to the financial reform, they are in fact republican policies. This is very disheartening for many progressive Americans, who believed in his message of change, but I argue that Obama really has no choice, or the power to overthrow what has been set into place by the Bush Administration. I believe the President no longer has the power or authority to overrule much of the legislation that was supported by a toxic ideology that resists any sort of change. What we really need is media reform, so there is logical information being filtered through the infotainment, so we can really see who is to blame for this mess and have the people take back with is rightfully theirs: Democracy.

[chiodo08]

02:45 PM on 08/01/2011

he had a choice...he just doesn't have the character to do what he was elected to do...he is more interested in being Lincoln instead of coming off his front foot and giving a progressive voice a seat at the adult table...NOPE he's feckless at best

[jojojo]

03:03 PM on 08/01/2011

he's had choices. here's Paul Krugman, in p[art...

First of all, he could and should have demanded an increase in the debt ceiling back in December. When asked why he didn’t, he replied that he was sure that Republicans would act responsibly. Great call.

And even now, the Obama administration could have resorted to legal maneuvering to sidestep the debt ceiling, using any of several options. In ordinary circumstances, this might have been an extreme step. But faced with the reality of what is happening, namely raw extortion on the part of a party that, after all, only controls one house of Congress, it would have been totally justifiable.

At the very least, Mr. Obama could have used the possibility of a legal end run to strengthen his bargaining position. Instead, however, he ruled all such options out from the beginning.

But wouldn’t taking a tough stance have worried markets? Probably not. In fact, if I were an investor I would be reassured, not dismayed, by a demonstration that the president is willing and able to stand up to blackmail on the part of right-wing extremists. Instead, he has chosen to demonstrate the opposite.

[Tara Mofid]

01:53 PM on 08/01/2011

great section--my brother reads it too--any insight is good--

[Longhorn Buddy]

01:20 PM on 08/01/2011

Just like Clinton approving NAFTA and allowing financial deregulation (repeal of the Glass Steagall Act), Obama proves he is a moderate Republican. The fix is in. We will not turn this around until a Labor Party begins to field candidiates. I recommend that EVERYONE start reading on the labor movement in America. It is a tremendous story. You have no idea how far the right wing will go until you read about the private police forces beating workers. If we forget our history we will have to repeat it. What you have today you owe to many people who fought for decency 80 years ago.

[carllafong]

01:46 PM on 08/01/2011

NAFTA? Bye, bye jobs. Perot was right.
Clinton was the first republican I voted for and Obama was the second.

[ron ray]

02:50 PM on 08/01/2011

let me just say this to my progressive friends:

don't blame me, I voted in 2010. If it was up to me, they'd be no tea party to give in to....

Can you say the same about 2010, and will you stay home in 2012.

staying home is caving in.

[separatingwheatfromchaff]

01:06 PM on 08/01/2011

Not much to say about the prez,he has gone against his base over and over.What we have is "better than a Republican",that's it.

[ShanaJuly]

01:32 PM on 08/01/2011

On ANY given day...

[Never-The-Less]

03:05 PM on 08/01/2011

even today, how could the Republicans get any better of a deal? I moved away from this site a while ago because so many on here supported Obama in the same manner so many supported Bush, blindly. I hold my elected officials accountable, even if I voted for them, actually especially if I voted for them. If you can't see the logic of this, you are the reason Obama can make this deal and get away with it, nice work.

[Never-The-Less]

03:02 PM on 08/01/2011

why would you say what we have is better than a republican? If it were a republican the Dems in the ghouse would not have lost and they would be able to stand united against this pres. NO this IS the worst case, a dem who is a corporatist and who works from the inside of the democratic party, basically killing it from with in. Your ilk may take anything you can get but in a moral world, it is better to loose but stand on moral ground that it is to make deals with the devil. You who say otherwise are the reason we are where we are at: the nation moves to the right, just a little more slowly.

[ron ray]

05:19 PM on 08/01/2011

we're not talking morality. we're talking politics. The GOP is on record in favor of eliminating medicare. and social security. their ryan budget uses that money to fund more tax cuts for the rich, not even to balance the budget.

democrats, for all their flaws, oppose these things. they're on the defensive, but far better than the alternatives.