Russ Feingold talks with the Young Turks about the FISA bill and why it stinks.

From Cenk Uygur at Huffington Post:

Do the Democrats want to lose? That seems an odd question to ask. But they do it so well you begin to wonder. Now, they are about to lose to Bush and the grossly unpopular Republicans again on FISA and telecom immunity. But are they really losing? That depends on what your objective is. Let me explain.

The Republican Party is in a death spiral right now and they don’t even realize it. Sure, they understand something is wrong but they have no idea what the real cause is. Most of them are still arguing that they failed in veering away from hard right-wing, conservative principles. That’s exactly wrong.

The problem for the Republicans is that they have been going to the far right for far too long. Here is what the Republican Party and all of Washington is having trouble accepting — we are not fundamentally a center-right country, let alone how far right the Republicans have taken us. The idea that we are center-right has been conventional wisdom for so long that no one has remembered to challenge that assumption.

(more…)

Week in review from Cenk from the Young Turks

A wrap up of The Young Turks show this week.

Cenk from the Young Turks talks about how ridiculous Rudy Giuliani’s scripted phone calls from his wife on the campaign trail.

Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks has had ENOUGH! Washington Post’s analysis of the facts behind the “General Betray Us” ad. Watch the entire show at www.theyoungturks.com