Greenwald: Starting w/ Fiscal Cliff, Obama's 2nd Term Rests on Organizing, Not Cheerleading
November 14, 2012
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President Obama will open deficit reduction talks on Friday with a call for a $1.6 trillion tax hike on corporations and the wealthiest Americans over the next 10 years. Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are sitting down to avert the so-called fiscal cliff of expiring tax cuts and automatic spending reductions set to take effect at the end of the year. We're joined by Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, who says the protection of "entitlement" programs will depend on action from Obama's progressive supporters. "The question is: Will the Democratic Party -- specifically the progressive and liberal components -- change its behavior from cheerleader, from blindly supportive partisan apparatchiks ... into some kind of a force where they actually fulfill their duties as citizens, which is to hold political leaders accountable?" Greenwald asks.
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