going to happen so i'm take those words back maybe joining me now to talk about this issue is jane hamsher author and editor founder and editor firedoglake dot com jane welcome back thanks for having me tom thanks for joining us why didn't the president take mark and viner's warning seriously back in december i mean mark basically laid out the whole republican game plan for him in that press conference. but i have to say i take issue with that whole idea that the tea party determine the outcome of this i mean mitch mcconnell several weeks back operate the president a clean debt ceiling limit our raise and that could have passed the house with the non tea party members i think believe there's like four hundred thirty five members of congress and seventy who are in the in who are tea party identified so that leaves you know not to take my shoes off the count but a whole lot of democrats republicans who couldn't pass a clean debt ceiling limit next really extension and they did the president did not want that he rejected that so he put himself in the hostage taking position every day so that

so tonight we're going to dive into that topic with jane hamsher founder of firedoglake. nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the want to. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you a. great . journey. so what be a little. go. again because i see coming to you live from moscow to headline. isolated head to fighting still reported in tripoli as the hunt continues for criminal khadafi in while the united nations is set to vote another freezing one point five billion dollars of seized funds. while the u.n. the u.s. push for harsher sanctions against syria's president assad twenty five people are reported to have been killed by security forces but some journalists question the footage he used to highlight the government's violent crime down over the last five months and say it might have been staged. and the search and recovery operations underway in eastern russia policy then months faced that failed to reach its orbit and crashed back to. go back to their own show in our.

are exploited but is there any way to actually stop this deal from going through or to speak to jane hamsher we're going to have all of that for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so hurricane irene is about to unleash on the east coast in a few days and everybody is preparing for the harsh weather there are areas where tourists and residents are being told to evacuate their safety precautions to be taken there are the weather reporters doing live shots in the caribbean right now where the weather is getting pretty gnarly and then there are moments like this. i'm standing right here at the water's edge because this water is. more than eighty degrees and this is the fuel for the hurricane so you can see that there's a few people still here at the beach of occasion but it's very different it was yesterday and the occasional cold cave's gave us these today to get us through the day because we had nothing else he was a little symbols on and. and a little hurricane flags on there so. where do i even be

real problem and if president obama was going into this full tilt boogie gung ho as as jane hand jane hamsher is suggesting then i think all of us need to take a serious look at what's going on here and ask ourselves what what is what what what differentiates the parties anymore what does the democratic party stand for and if it doesn't stand for social security and medicare for example what does it stand for. and our last comments tonight is from the message board over at tom hartman dot com of all this is often said that a person and a political party's ideology stems from their perspective on the world depends on whether you view the world through a me window as in what's in it for me or how i benefit the situation or whether you view the world through a wee window as in how will the situation impact the greater good and this fear asks what's what is it in us that makes us one way or the other our from conditioning it seems is the distinction between selfishness and sharing between caring for all the people as opposed to caring for only a few between empathy and cold indifference for the n

actually happen and even if he does say no will china just say yes join me to discuss this is jane hamsher founder of firedoglake jane thanks so much for joining us tonight now i know that this is a personal story for you too because you were out in front of the white house this week and you were in fact arrested tell me why this makes you why you're passionate enough about this to go out there and risk arrest. well you know dan choi bill mckibben in iran a panel at the power shift conference earlier this year called what do you do when the president's just not into you and dan's experiences protesting in front of the white house chaining him self to the white house gate and really helping don't ask don't tell to get repealed was a very powerful i think for bill and so when he was designing this action he really kept that in mind so dan said that he would take part in it and volunteered me to and i was happy to do it and you know it was it's a very very important issue but more than anything else it's you know it's something that the president has the power on his own to either prove or di

now yesterday we spoke to firedoglake jane hamsher about protests in part of the white house those concerned for our environmental future risk arrest and all the sake for letting president obama know the keystone x.l. pipeline should be built by would stretch seven hundred miles from alberta canada to texas it would deliver seven hundred thousand barrels of tar sands oil a day and just one of the many reasons so many environmentalists are so worked up over it is because extracting oil from tar sands is a very expensive it's a very difficult process and it releases more greenhouse gases and other methods out there due to another really big blow to our already injured environment but it looks like the state department has found good in the keystone proposal because they released a statement that was favorable to the seven billion dollars project just today in the statement that said that trans canada had reduced the risk of an accident to an acceptable level and the benefits outweigh the potential costs there's also commentary from canadian ambassador to the u.s. gary doer saying if you ask am