HuffPost editor Roy Sekoff appeared on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" Monday night to discuss the White House compromise on the expiring Bush-era tax cuts.
"The Republicans got everything they wanted. You can get the dictionary and show it to me, but this is not how I look at 'compromise,'" Sekoff told host Ed Schultz. "I'm not saying it's capitulation, but it's right next to it."
The so-called compromise suggests there isn't anything Democrats won't concede to Republicans, Sekoff added.
"You've got to stand where you live. There's got to be some core value," he said. "Over the last two months, the president over 50 times has said, 'We can't afford this, we can't give these tax cuts to the millionaires and billionaires, that's the line in the sand' -- and it just got erased."
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President Obama seemed brilliant; I worked so hard to get him elected but now it is time to look for someone to oppose him. He said he would rather be a great one-term president than a bad two-term president. It seems we have a well-meaning bad one-term president. He is unwilling to act to save the country it is time to look for someone else.
Where's YOUR sacrifice Congress???
I fervently and vainly wish that he would at least come out and trumpet the unemployment help as something, but he won't, so even the part of this mess than I like will get swept up in more of the same narrative we've been getting for nearly two years.
I don't get it.
No more funding trips christmas partys meetings etc stop all of it. Congress and senate get a buffet unch every day why cant they pack a lunch just like everybody else? No more long breaks for them they should get a weeks a year like most americans why pay them those high salaries for doing nothing? No more private planes for trips to work. If they want the job they need to figure out their own transportation just like us. Im not talking about 1 side or the other Im talking about both.
without the perks and high salaries maybe we would have people who really want to do what they are sent there to do.
We wanted something else than an Obama. Frankly, we would not have gotten it with Hillary as well. The Dem candidates are captured by the center which continues to go right. Basically, the candidates we put up are captured by the corporatists and "conservative" nature of what they think this country is about. We as liberals seem to have no electable champions for making a better America that is basically responsible for the "welfare" of the people as per the preamble to our Constitution. We are mentally captured by the theory of Capitalism which we say is the best economic system for modern man and refuse to ackowledge the "socialism" side of our sytem that includes amonst other programs our social security and medicare. We fail to acknowledge that greed and envy is the "dark" underbelly of capitalism. Others have seen and have written about this darker side but the public cannot or doesn't want to see this as "our way". Thus we get off shoring of jobs, diminishing unions, tax breaks for the wealthiest, lack of healthcare for all leading to bankruptcies, poorer schools all and more that we get under so called Capitalism. We voted and we got what we got. May we not regret our decisions.
Politicians need lots and lots of money to campaign - Democrats saw how much money corporations gave Republicans in the last election and want some of that.
Campaign finance reform and term limits - can't get either but it's the only way to save our country.
I think we need to call this system we have "ruined beyond repair" and start researching more healthy democracies around the world and, yes, learn from THEM. We, by far, don't have the fairest system. I think we need to face the facts: we will always lose to the bullies in this system, the way it is set up. This is being proven over and over. We need to change things at a core level.
Check out www.truthout.org ... they just announced a new form of journalism. It is interesting....