(Ed Show) Ed V.s Johnathan Alter

[dsamuels0078]

Things are blowing up, these two might fight

[polichick]

1. Holy shit! nt

[madmax]

2. wow

I've never seen Ed so livid!! :scared:

[lamp_shade]

3. Ed needs to shut up.

[Peregrine Took]

24. Alter needs to shut up - its Ed's show and he's in the right. n/t

[BlueIdaho]

4. Details Please!!!!!!! nt.

[gateley]

12. Ed and Alter have differing opinions on how to best achieve healthcare reform.

Ed was passionate, as he often is, and Alter was standing pat. I loved it -- it was a good, HONEST debate between two good guys who want to achieve the same objective.

[KathieG]

5. Loving me some Ed...he is so passionate about this!

[gateley]

6. Nah, I think that was a healthy, albeit heated, debate. They're both on the same side. nt

[d_b]

7. dammmnnn

[108]

8. Alter actually makes a good point

it is true that there are many ways to skin a cat

regulating the hell out of the insurance industry could potentially do the same thing

[gateley]

9. Agree -- and there are always good points on BOTH sides of a real, honest

debate.

[DJ13]

10. Regulations always leave wiggle room to circumvent the regulations

I think thats why a corporatist like Alter wants that instead of a public option.

[valerief]

13. So that Phil Gramm can come back repeal them. No, a public option will be

set in stone like Medicare and they all know it.

[jannyk]

16. It would be so easy for the Repugs to put that 'genie' back

in the bottle. De-regulation, a la Ronnie Reagan, would put us right back where we started. And they'll do it as soon as they win back power (which they will eventually - nothing lasts forever).

[bigdarryl]

11. DAMN!!!!!!!

[bigdarryl]

14. it might get worst later on in the show Joe Madison the black eagle

is supposed to be on saying it's time for a march on Washington on healthcare

[Connie_Corleone]

15. If Ed would just shut up for maybe 10 seconds, I could actually hear what Alter was saying.

It was a good, healthy debate, but I really would like to hear more of Alter's side. He was making some sense there.

[Phx_Dem]

22. Agreed. I was thinking the same thing. I thought Ed was going to

blow a gasket, and he nearly did. But Alter is right, legislating almost always means compromise because the Dems have some conservatives on their team. The Republicans, on the other hand, have NO liberals on their team so they had no problem pushing crap through because conservative Dems often vote with them. Shit, even Hillary voted for the Iraq war!

[Thrill]

17. Alter is a big Obama guy. His sister is good friends with Obama

He won't take attacking President Obama

[Clio the Leo]

18. Ed's a nice guy.......

.... but he's a goob.

Sometimes I think that the only thing separating him and the jokes at Faux is politically ideology.

[dsamuels0078]

19. ed

is public option

[bigdarryl]

20. Alter said if the left draw a line in the sand on public option there going to

drive themselves off a cliff on health-care. He said CO-OPS can work with very very strict regulation

[SoFlaJet]

21. I agree Clio

there was a time when a lot of us didn't really even believe Ed Shultz was really a democrat, but just a guy who saw a niche to make some money. He even copied Rush's tone and if you didn't know what station you were on 5 years ago you couldn't tell if you were listening to Schultz or Limbaugh. Personally, I'd like to see Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC @ 6PM instead.

[Clio the Leo]

23. oh, I dont doubt his ideology.....

.... I just dont dig his delivery.

Perhaps I'm showing my liberaly snobishness, but one thing I like about Tweety, Keith and Rachel is their delivery is a little more intellectual than the emotional pandering that Fox has made into an art form. Ed does the same thing sometimes.

But to each their own ......... and I DO wish there was room for O'Donnell ....... he's dreamy. (That's a good reason, right? lol)