Chris Hayes NAILED IT!

[kpete]

"The theme of the last 10 years of this country is that the people at the top don't think the rules apply to them. And you send your people to sit down and negotiate a set of rules, and 20 minutes into it you throw it out the window. Everything we've seen, from the financial crisis to every thing else that's happened to this country has been about the Oligarchs and the ruling class, and the people at the top, feeling like they are not a party to the social contract. So some stupid little contract that was negotiated by your people, you don't worry about it 20 minutes into it. "

This comment was in regards to Romney breaking the rules in this debate, and the previous debate. And how it was a microcosm of what has happen to this country.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/16/1145608/-Chris-Hayes-NAILED-IT

[porphyrian]

1. . n/t

[cilla4progress]

2. So true.

I work in the field of law and I see this all the time.

Might makes right.

[City Lights]

3. Yup. He's spot on!

[RainDog]

4. k&r n/t

[KansDem]

5. Suddenly, this photo makes sense!

[MrMickeysMom]

29. Stellar poster, Kans...

I will thusly share it with others.... starting now...

[CanonRay]

6. That was a great comment; I was pissed when the Rev interrupted Hayes.

I wanted him to finish the thought.

[marions ghost]

7. I also liked what Hayes said about NO mention of climate change

in the discussion about energy... maybe that can come up in the last debate?

And hopefully more defense of Obamacare?

[ellenfl]

8. did anyone else hear rmoney interrupt president obama to say . . . twice . . .

that government does not create jobs! he's been running on being the job creator president for years!

ellen fl

[Eddie Haskell]

9. If you can pay the price ...

the rules were made to be broken.

For those of us that can't afford it, the 47% ... there's a prison cell.

[bvar22]

10. I would disagree.....

....ONLY with the "last 10 years" limitation.
This has been the pattern for the last 30 years,
ever since the "Greed is Good" Reagan Administration.

At one time not so long ago, it was a Patriotic Duty to Pay Taxes and Buy, Build, & Spend American.
After WW2, BOTH The Republican Party and the Democratic Party agreed that the RICH,
especially the War Profiteers, should STEP UP and do their Patriotic Duty to Pay Off the War Debt, and they set the Top Marginal Rate at 91% and Long Term Capital Gains at 25% minimum until the Debt was Paid Off. (Then the TOP Marginal rate was lowered TO 71%!!!)

The ODD thing is that Businesses Flourished, people still got RICH,
and this Tax/Trade Structure helped build the Largest, Wealthiest, and Most Upwardly Mobile Working Class the World has ever seen.

Spending Political Capital to raise the Top Marginal Rate to a very LOW 39% is FAR too little to solve our problems, and wasted effort.
We should be fighting for 70+% on the top bracket,
and tax Capital Gains as income.


[font size=4]I want MY America back,
the one where the RICH paid their Patriotic, Fair Share![/font]



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
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[Blanks]

28. Don't forget payroll tax.

Raise the ceiling on payroll tax and all this austerity and voucher talk disappears.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

11. Rules! Don't You Know Who I Am?

I'm Gumby Dammit!

[SalviaBlue]

12. Truth. Love it!

[nxylas]

13. Bbbbbut Michelle Obama applauded!

This terrible violation of the debate rules is all the Freepers are talking about this morning. Let's face it, it's about all they can talk about.

[beac]

17. What??

I'm TV-free. Can you give me the Reader's Digest version of the applause kerfuffle??

[nxylas]

30. Debate rules said no clapping. Michelle Obama clapped at one point.

That's it, really. Something that might solicit a "tut" from most people, but in Freeperland, it's a crime on a par with the Clintons murdering Vince Foster.

[beac]

31. Well then they must be livid that the whole audience clapped

when Candy smacked down Mittens. Or are they claiming Michelle has twenty pairs of hands and only she was clapping??

Poor Freepers. They don't even like Mittens and now they have to defend him against rogue clapping.

[ffr]

14. That was an enlightening statement

Robme was rattled last night and the pictures of him last night made him looked pissed off.

[Grins]

15. I caught that comment right away.

So well done, and so well delivered. No notes. No pause.

Thanks for capturing it.

[Whisp]

16. Chris is a really sharp guy

I am boycotting MSNBC but if I do go back, I might have a peek at him again.

[Peregrine Took]

19. Brightest and most articlulate young broadcaster out there.

He has a nothing short of brilliant future.
I loved his comments about global warming. Its a huge issue and never even addressed due to the cowering before the coal miner's.

Hey -learn a new job and stop despoiling OUR planet.

My dad did at age 50 and he didn't even have a high school diploma.

[abumbyanyothername]

26. Better yet

Take the miners out of the mines and put them on communal farms.

They will be far, far the happier for it. I guarantee.

[raouldukelives]

34. Not just the miner's but the entire stock market.

It will never allow itself to be regulated to the extent it would require. All it will do is fight tooth and nail with other peoples money to continue the rape of our natural world for profit now. The only thing really worth passing on to anyone and its being gobbled up before our eyes and in many cases, with as much assistance as we can give.
Most people, when given a choice to love nature or love big money, choose big money. Very hard to find someone who actually cares more deeply about wildlife and its natural habitats than an 8.75% return on corporate investments.

[LittleGirl]

18. Yep, I saw him make the comment

and agreed completely.

[yurbud]

20. now we need to get Obama & corporate Dems to hold oligarchs to the rules

[Hutzpa]

21. Awesome Chris

Mittiot believes the rules does not apply to him, can you imagine someone like him in the White House, the whole country will be screwed.

[bullwinkle428]

22. Beautifully expressed, and Tweety essentially boiled down the same sentiment by saying

Mitt is the guy on the airplane that refuses to turn his phone off!

[ljm2002]

24. Yes that was a great comment too...

...it just neatly captured who Mitt is.

[Ineeda]

23. And it's not just people at the top

although they're the most egregious. The "the rules don't apply to me" trend crosses all demographics and is probably the only thing to actually 'trickle down' in this country. I loved Chris saying this. It's been a pet peeve of mine for quite a while. Chris Matthews said it last night, too, when he said rMoney was the guy who wouldn't turn off his cell phone on the airplane, without a care that he was holding up take-off for the rest of the passengers.

[Blue_Tires]

25. kick

[Vincardog]

27. Too true. We need to return to the Revolutionary days. No Taxation without Representation.

[Hamlette]

32. His weekend show, Up, is excellent. You should all we watching it.

It is the only show that really makes me listen. Often I even have to rewind because I missed something (I have a tendency to be doing something else while watching TV like reading posts or playing solitaire. Up makes me listen. Most of the time. Some stories are not as interesting to me.)

[fishwax]

33. agree -- it was a great insight