Quote of the Day x2 + Video: Maddow

by: Rosi Efthim

Wed Jul 06, 2011 at 11:41:02 AM EDT

We have 2 Quotes of the Day today, both from Rachel Maddow's commentary last night, on Sweeney, in a segment called Democrats Doing it wrong in New Jersey. The first laments NJ's sad-assed Democratic performance of the last few weeks, compared to a more heroic midwest state:

New Jersey, you are not Wisconsin.

And as for Christie punking Sweeney and the block of Dems who voted with him, and his 'fightin' words' about Christie after that, Maddow says this:

The time for fighting, generally, is between the opening bell and the closing one. You can fight and win, you can fight and lose but lose forward like Wisconsin Democrats did, fighting like hell and thereby inspiring the people that they fight for. But if you instead assume the fetal position during the fight (inaudible) and then come up fighting once it's all over, the technical term for that is "too late". On union rights or on any of what are supposed to be core Democratic Party principles, if you surrender and you still get beaten up, you're doing it wrong.

Here's the video:

Couldn't scrub the short ad. Just deal with it. Vid clocks in at 8:01, with what's behind the Minnesota budget. shut-down leading, the fight for right in Wisconsin, and the failure to fight for right in NJ. Want to skip right to NJ? Skip to the 4:55 mark.

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Quote of the Day x2 + Video: Maddow | 2 comments

Maddow destroyed him (4.00 / 1)

almost hard to watch, almost.

by: DSWright @ Wed Jul 06, 2011 at 17:14:49 PM UTC

there's a lesson here (0.00 / 0)

for President Obama. Stop making concessions before the opening bell rings!

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." (Teddy Roosevelt)

by: DottieG @ Thu Jul 07, 2011 at 14:35:54 PM UTC