I almost switched it off. Listening to the shadow host, defend right-wing Tea Party obstruction again and again, was grating to say the least. But then this happened ...
David Gregory slipped in this clip from consumer-financial counselor, Suze Orman, as a way to challenge MTP guest Senate Leader Harry Reid, to lay his Class Warfare 'cards on the table'. To his credit Senator Reid was up to the challenge -- he adeptly called Gregory's bluff ...
If you missed it ... the full-house transcript, and clipped video, is over the jump ...
(MTP = Meet the Press;
and to NBC Producers: WE are still waiting for a host worthy of Tim Russert's impartial Reporter shoes ... come on already.)
... Video has been clipped to start around Time Mark 5:15
for the longer clip
MTP Transcript, Jan. 15, 2012:
[...]
MR. GREGORY: Let me go through some issues quickly. You talk about the economy, income inequality. We talked to Suze Orman for our Press Pass conversation, which is on our website; I want to play a clip of her and ask how the president will deal with it.
(Videotape, Thursday)
MS. SUZE ORMAN: When the truth of the matter is that the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and years ago I used to say the middle class is going to disappear, the middle class has disappeared. Today as I sit here there is a highway into poverty, there is not even a sidewalk anymore to get out.
(End videotape)
MR. GREGORY: Specifically, State of the Union coming up, what is the inequality agenda for Democrats as we get into this new year?
SEN. REID: To create jobs, to have the richest of the rich contribute to the problems we have in the country, that's what our agenda is. And I couldn't have said it better than she did. I think she is absolutely right. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class are being squeezed almost to death.
[...]
Game On!
Will the well-paid Tea Party shills and stooges, ever find that "Royal Flush" ... ?
Well with Royalty like Romney speaking up for 1% Hoarding Entitlement, they can only pray, they do ... I think they'll be drawing 4 cards, the next hand, and for many more hands to come ... given the very real-life squeeze most of the Middle Class is in.
The on-going GOP obstruction against Infrastructure Jobs, is hardly even funny anymore -- as if it ever was.