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occurred in michigan it was right span of real says no no its roots
they were those markets weren't marcus bullets as the founder of publisher of
the daily coz
clinton sex and artists
to the radical right course website daily coaster comp has been forever and
we knew one of the real ground breakers in this his whole world and and you're
part of the any news conference what's marcus for small welcome back to the
show thanks to create a cabinet minister what's going on here yeah you know it's
bad for every year i get a lot of credit for people come up and if they are
paying for the conference graded and the real
truth of the matter is that i a actually had very little to do with the start of
this conference now it's began its yearly kosam that's for the reason
people think that it's a illegal status
to start by volunteers going to be with us community it was in an official
bailey coz events
as studies guys who want to come together by say all you can use a name
tag even some
herbal support i guess but there was a lot of money that wasn't that many of my
staff wasn't involved in it you know
and staff back then but
as i was basically grassroots organization van *** smeal first here's
a big a site like ike
walked in and i would be happy had it been like the art you know that
boardroom past the at water coolers the lens of the vending machine sixty-five
people karenge you are given it was a real conference they had to be the best
part about it for a year
was it afterwards in new york times reporter came up to me and he said you
know what i've been covering the serb liberal conferences for the last twenty
years
and this is the first time i've been the one where every session started on time
and that's our you know there are one of my things always been that pos amateurs
here people are passionate about something could actually do things that
make the right way to make a strange fenders recall meets has arisen
of so the delight i understand it uh...
there was a uh... barber speech this morning opened this thing i've done
dream second-hand i've noted in catchy ad hoc at trinity edu forever but for
him is how does this mean for the problem as you know what they have a
year i say this is the year of actually get it
visited fascinates indeed
annex enjoy it as a knows that there's not going to you do immediate media and
talking to people i think it's hard for me to even walk down the hallway have
because they lack of people here are very much daily coast readers issue
anyone's top and saddened giving their advice and other you know what to do
with the sided i think people at the site is doing
and that
i gotta say that they've probably berries of my time in sitting in in the
panel
because if it's meeting with people who are who are my readers and then at some
point to talk to those guys in support of party to abroad arising talk about
the broader mission of the merits well let's talk about that
what is the broader mission that was fun though it's it's always been about
empowering people regular people who are not part of any sort of establishments
empowering them to become active in our politics i think that the rule
in a written in the world around them and that and to be the best the best
that stories are always people who say i'd never really getting the votes
serine blogs that i've gotten vote move on antenna supporting emails to regular
city editor and now the precinct captain my local party in
amp organizing and discovers it's full of those stories and these are people
who really taken a series an active role in your party and in our nation not
because they were some you know it's the consultants are or part of some
organization but you know i can all school legacy eric lover then because
that they've already been doing that these are people who didn't feel like
they were part of this political process in now technology has enabled them to
become active members that's the prodding complex come there are really
looking for ways to to be more effective in that activism and it's a lot you
learn you organized to meet people online than you think that offline where
you can actually influence voters and public policy
brain elizabeth it's a venue for help a lot of great parties and we were
drifting liberally last nights in cedar nair do it again tonight over the news
restaurant in everything more partisan wonderful signing friday night and since
that's like we had a lick of party on saturday night yeah ordinances like
everything is going on he said it's like the center of the universe what in your
mind are the issues the progress and should be focusing on between now and
twenty twelve elections how yet uh... it's enough birthday cards issues i mean
obviously at the battle over medicare
protecting social security from people
from both parties that for some reason the headed out for for a safety net amid
deeply offends them you know that they want as a defense budget and it's okay
that you know the banks you know to get away with *** adopt for bits of worth
his or her entire life and burn the pension under social security benefits
into medicare benefits pastor big
that they're able to take advantage of the benefits and is somehow deeply
offensive reasonable well i i i think it's more that wall street is looking to
two point six trillion dollar sit in the social security trust fund on you know
if we could skim one percent of the top of that we could make a pile of money
and with one hundreds of one percent of that we can probably by two hundred
congressman and sixty senators uh... thik i take it for and that's that
that's to me
twenty thousand filed dot probably the biggest phillips four oh
goal is that spring that's because policy
yeah absolutely critical email retrieved read in the house regain the house she
did she did just an absolute kickass job i mean just over two hundred pieces of
major progressive legislation
that died in the senate
which raises the question you bring back into below sea and you've still got the
senate is the place the graveyard of of legislation anak i think i do not better
while ago about break california three states breaking your committee state's
record in two states pretexts tuesday to get a new democratic senators masonic an
you no longer have you'll fifty percent of the american public burp represents a
fifteen percent blocking ledges and from right wing red you-know-who homa
adequate babbitt but doesn't happen eleven as i haven't actually got more
likely to happen and that
in two years that next year but a along for a longer term goal is is to get rid
of the filibuster
there is no constitutional basis for the filibuster jazz a rule they're going to
be overtly candy bars it's not even a two hundred-year-old released so you
need to be a dozen accidental it wasn't designed to be when it ended up being
art
and sever venues before hanson and so what you what you do is is the majority
votes for the caucus at that when you both for the majority leader when you go
for the committee's finance fabolous majority vote
but why didn't they do that means democrats don't want to be a carnival
for anything in i gotta tell you went to me that you know in an area that you
know i got a love hate hate hate relationship larry was in a while they
don't need
but before he pleaded democrats got fifty nine seats back in two thousand
eight right geeky but again that's happened a hundred emma present mandate
u_s_ super-majority
he came out first thing he says all we have sixty votes what he expects us to
do
c_n_n_'s at think the worst day of his life of the data al franken here
minnesota that seated personally you know that excuse anymore
focusing its fury at six o'clock at by the best second best in his life was
when scott brown one especial our two messages attorney losses of maturity and
even though he had a built-in excuse and part of it is because he has he's wall
street bought democrats and plain states particularly the chiefs dating other
their photos and nelson sam and max baucus is simply a and so they're
they're you know they're not gonna then i can hear the party line
uh... so he wasn't gonna get them but instead of pushing in working in the
meantime pick up some some dumb republican support from them
advocate two options surrendered wat
dot you did for years i've been making this joke on the radio but somebody
needs to be and this is one for cigarettes and the governor's mansion
california somebody status as mailbox but first the month and *** that
boxer testosterone when it comes to mexico and to know run to wash in d_c_
when harry result look and you know
mccurry arshad ahmad and uh...
deficit but but be alive as i got a half hour was gonna say there's there's an
aversion to losing the democratic party republicans on my losing a mean that the
poll rivals
mini screwed up because deeply unpopular but they weren't afraid to lose as the
boat
and democrats are in instead he has been sick immigration reform right
while we don't have the votes for immigration frontiers katha bolte
looking at the note was with them was against them and issue after issue after
a few democrats are afraid of taking a losing votes when actually that section
more of a rallying cry for people like me as a lecturer fighting let's fight
harder for these people for so so the message that we need to be communicating
to reread
immediately it's possible that we can be pushing harry reid
ashes to be a more proactive you didn't have a bug orion you know plan which was
that with lows and there was no brainer right but what
you know what the senate democrats no-brainer tart for sure not because of
her granddaughter is another riverboat and with that's that's that's very
interesting so if yes
how do you know i agree marcus i think that is because there is the biggest
accomplishment if we said earlier stood more important then unconscious process
right now we do have process when he did
hardest places thanks so much for being with us and events and really close
encounters