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‘I Can’t Even Talk About it Anymore!’: CNBC Anchor Santelli Gets So Upset Over Fiscal Cliff He Storms Off Set

Nov. 30, 2012 10:47am Becket Adams

CNBC’s Rick Santelli and Steve Liesman on Friday got into a heated exchange while discussing the so-called “fiscal cliff,” specifically on the topic of “fairness” and higher taxes for the wealthy.

“Why does he need to pump up his base and go on the road?” Santelli began, referring to President Obama’s decision to go to Pennsylvania to discuss tax breaks rather than, you know, sit down with Congressional leaders. “He won!”

Liesman agreed with Santelli, noting that the president “doesn’t owe” his base anything and that he should really be more concerned with “his economic legacy.”

“You want to get rid of the fiscal cliff uncertainty,” said Liesman.

But it was when Liesman started talking about “extracting more” from the wealthy and businesses that Santelli started to get annoyed. Really annoyed.

Santelli started by citing a Wall Street Journal op-ed illustrating his point, to which Liesman responded with a different Wall Street Journal op-ed illustrating his point.

“Don’t give me the switcheroo!” Santelli bellowed. “I’m not talking about that one, I’m talking about the one below it.”

Santelli finally had enough.

“I can’t even talk about it anymore,” he snapped, tossing his papers into the air and storming off camera.

“He’s gone,” one of Santelli’s CNBC colleagues muttered:

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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:50am
I can’t stand the way Obama has lied and done nothing to stop spending my kids amd grandkids future.

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- huey6367
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 12:45pm
  I never thought I would say this but, considering the current state of the country and this administrations insistance of remaking this country into a third world country, at 45 I am glad I never had children. They have no future.
  
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- RamboTheDog
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 1:06pm
  Sadly Im with huey6367… by all indications 4 more years of obama policies will mean 20+ trillion in debt, 8-10% chonic unemployment and further lurching to the progressive left…I’m glad I don’t have children who will grow up in indentured servitude to this government debt and the chinese overlords.
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 1:15pm
  Of course the rich should pay more, aren’t they the ones who over spent all of the tax revenue?? (sarcasm) Obama’s goal is to colapse the system. When was the last time obama passed a budget? If you dont have a budget, you dont have to stick to it. Liberals suck.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 1:21pm
  Agree with you both. With his constant divisive rhetoric and his punishing economic moves , his absolute hatred for America becomes more obvious every day. I guess that 60s radical Chicago Alinsky-Ayers hatred is just too toxic to cure. As is the hatred of the radical handlers who droned Obama on America. The International Far Left has invaded us . This will not end well for America.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 2:49pm
  Good posts; me too Huey, have dogs with small bark and big bite instead…
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 3:12pm
  huey6367, at 59 myself and I never had children. I used to think my brother was nuts in the 80′s as He was always saying He would never have children they would have hell for a future. He is not here to say He was right but I now see both you and He was right on target. I was so sickened today hearing a replay of part of a speech by mein furor about how we all have to tighten our belts and do without. Just weeks before he goes on a 4 million dollar nearly month long vacation paid for by those he is demanding to start doing without.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 3:16pm
  Some way or another I expect we’ll all get skrued. A lady who wanted to keep her multiple scratch & lotto tickets because she writes them off against her income tax. She probably digs into the trash bins to collect as many as she can to have more ill-gained deductions.
  Cut taxes on modest incomes, stop the deductions on lotto tickets and other things that aren’t necessary. Too many deductions given on frivolous things that are more a life style than the needs toward life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
  Don’t overtax the rich, simple take away their questionable deductions and you’ll probably get more than you’d get in raised taxes. Simple solution, why can’t you smarty pants in D. C. see it?
  
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- Bobj_1960
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 3:29pm
  Like several of my fellow posters above, I too am glad I don’t have kids (in my 50′s) for their future is shot and their kids are in dire straits (and the next generation is looking doubtful). Shoot, my parents are retired (80′s) and barely get by with private pensions and government programs. I know I can forget about retirement!
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 3:33pm
  The cliff is a win win for the democrates they get all that extra tax money. Obama doe’snt care about the people he just wants to build his empire and destroy America.
  
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- E.Souchak
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 3:42pm
  Chicagogate: Cover-up Exposed
  
  http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/11/30/chicagogate-cover-up-exposed/
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 4:11pm
  The left sees Global governance and all its restrictions and totalitarian rule as the savior of civilization. Socialist redistribution being the “only” way to fulfill this vision, that immediate goal becomes the agenda.
  All leftist reasoning revolves around this ‘vision’. There can be no deviation from this agenda, lest any ‘progress’ that has been made be lost. There will be no other viewpoints considered, and any ideas presented that do not support the original hypothesis will be deemed ‘deviant
  This type of thinking is the seed that grows fascist government.
  
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- Polwatcher
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 4:35pm
  Hitler had schools that turned out “his” kind of kids. Obama does too.
  
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- cbrown
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 7:16pm
  @RamboTheDog
  
  Love the specificity in your response. I totally disagree with it but we can compare our notes. I believe in 4 years: Unemployment rate will be down to 5%, GDP growth at 3-4%, Deficit lower by 40+%, debt would be 18T, Food stamp receiptants down by 30+%, Stick market up by 30+% ..
  
  Better days are ahead of us and my kids will be glad to enjoy it.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 7:31pm
  @C BROWN: Read you response and the first thing that came to me was:
  the old song my mom used to sing: “Beautiful Dreamer”
  
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- stanbeck
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 7:34pm
  This country is a 3rd world nation. No law, he does what ever he wants. Runs guns, watches for 7 hours as our people die, and never has to answer for anything.. That’s 3rd world my friend.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 7:44pm
  cbbrown……your head is in the sand and your posterior is exposed to whatever……Have you no education in math or history? The math does not add up and the mistakes that are being made have been made before and the results were disasterous…….you are of the deluded. Bah Rahk will not alter his course toward complete collapse, you say why would he do that? To make it easier to accept communistic world goverment….to make us desperate and weak.
  
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- cbrown
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 7:57pm
  @Bluebonnet, @MaxJones
  
  If I’m wrong, I will admit my stupidity in public and become a loyal Republican In case I’m right, I hope you will admit how wrong you were and poo poo the so-called “experts” you are listening to now. I guess, not (you will have a waiver).
  
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- Chinishque
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 8:46pm
  @CB Dude…screw the Republicans…they are socialists/statists and the Democrats are the Communists/Marxists…you wanna change to something? Be a man and educate yourself and stop spewing pap…unless of course that is exactly what you are paid to do.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 9:01pm
  CBROWN…How I see the next few years is this…..Continued polarity and increases in extremism and Racial conflict. I see the people who know how to create wealth and value for society, fleeing to other parts of the world as our system “socializes”. I see the middle class leveling out at poverty levels and becoming a greater liability on the entitlement culture, out of necessity…..no wealth creators= no jobs= more poor people who have no alternative to to food stamps and welfare. People got to live, money or no money.
  The left thinks that we can sustain the entitlements, even force its growth, but the money is finite and as the movers and shakers find it harder to move and shake it will inevitably dry out. You won’t find the evidence in any of the rhetoric of the administration, But it is right before our eyes …food stamps at an all time high unemployment not being reported accurately…foreclosures at an all time high….small business failures at an all time high. I don’t know where you are but it looks very discouraging where I am. None of the people I know have enough work, if any, and the youngsters have nothing.
  I’ve asked some of my acquaintances, whom I know voted democrat, why they did, and they have no answer….they just don’t know what they voted for at all……if they even voted! Its depressing to know we failed like we have.
  
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- Bill OReally
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 10:25pm
  I can’t stand the way Obama has lied and is never held to account. Damn the press to hell!
  
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- cbrown
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 10:37pm
  @MaxJones
  
  Thanks for the detailed response. I see the numbers differently and personnel experience has been different from you. My conclusion are based on following data: stronger housing demand, manufacturing is growing steadily (we control 20% world manufacturing market – we make great products), business profits are increasing (predict better profits for 2013), order books and inventories suggest a better half for 2013, GDP was +2.7% (not great but good), increase in exports by 3.1%,
  
  Investors (wealth creators0 are not leaving the US but in fact more are coming here. We have best eco-system and opportunity to invest. Tax rate generally play a minor role in investment decision.
  
  I am optimistic that policy makers will come up a fiscal deficit deal to reduce the deficit by 4T in 2013. Our revenue will about 18.5% and spending around 21% of GDP will be attained in a couple of years. In fact we will have a drop o10+% of food stamp recipient in 2013.
  
  I agree that middle class will continue to be squeezed but standard of living will not go down. Also, our entitlement spending will continue to grow and Democrats will be forced to fix it.
  
  This is the greatest country in the world and will continue to be a decade from now.
  
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- Beck_Art_-_Obama_In_Pee-Pee
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:17pm
  “But it was when Liesman started talking about “extracting more” from the wealthy and businesses that Santelli started to get annoyed. Really annoyed.”
  
  Everyone say it with him … with feeling …
  
  I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE !!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfCRaNg5EU
  
  Wake up America! You’re doom is nigh!
  (And it stinks like Obama in pee-pee.)
  
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- Agnes
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 1:02am
  The only ones concerned with the “fiscal cliff” are working Americans – not the food stamps; not the fake disability recipients etc, To the brainwashed people who voted for the clown the second time, I hope you have a great life……
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:56am
  The same morons, WH included, who created the “fiscal cliff” ultimatim with their
  super-duper committee set-up, are now going to make US suffer for their idiotic politics.
  These “negotiations” are a sham. The Republicans are being ambushed big time. They have agreed to “negotiate” on Obama’s turf. Then while he goes off campaigning and getting major media coverage with his sound bites aimed at Mr. Joe Shmoe, Boehner is giving political “tough” statements–understandable only to those “in the know.”
  Obama is talking to the people.
  Boehner is talking politicians’ politics with the media in mind….
  
  The Congressmen should stop wasting our time, stop trying to win at Obama’s game, and get back to Congress.
  That’s where they may still have a fighting chance in the public opinion game.
  Write legislation to bring debt down and reform the tax code.
  Pass it on to the Senate. Then the public might see what is really happening here.
  
  AND, Mr Speaker! Please learn how to explain things to Joe Shmoe. He needs to know in simple terms about what’s in it for HIM.
  
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- Thatsitivehadenough
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 7:23am
  I hate Obama and anything he does, says or wants is bound to damage the USA. Anyone who tries to find any goodness in any of his acts is a loser. An idiot. A fool.
  
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- Raider1
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 7:57am
  Look into agenda 21 by the U.N. It explains alot of what is happening.
  
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- M4-A1
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:02am
  I have no children either, and am glad, because this once great country is $hit now because of liberals, democrats, communist, and OBAMA.
  
  when I’m dead you won’t get another penny from me.
  
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- vadale
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:44am
  Why do these guys have jobs on tv? Go look at the cnbc youtubes from 05 and 06 where they deny all calls for the coming housing collapse. steve lies-man is an ass…..he never stops pumping up the liberal crap.
  
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- georgesgirl
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 11:02am
  I do have a young adult child and I am more fearful for her than I am for myself. Will she ever know the happiness of purchasing a home of her own? These young people that support O don’t remember the pictures from the former USSR of the 3 generations crammed into a single apartment while the younger adults were on the “wait list” for their government apt. The lines for bread and T.P and do you remember the “special lanes” for upper party members that were virtually abandoned? They think everyone will be equal, we will, equally miserable. Except of course for their betters in government.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 12:32pm
  The U.S. government announced last week that gross domestic product grew in the third quarter at an annualized rate of about 2 percent. That’s hardly vigorous growth, but considering the previous quarter’s annualized rate of 1.3 percent, the news was received with optimism.
  
  But optimism is unwarranted. As the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis explained: “The increase in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE), federal government spending, and residential fixed investment.”
  
  To put it another way, what grew was not the real economy but GDP—a statistical construct that is subject to myriad assumptions and dubious measurements of, for example, inflation. And the reason GDP grew at a higher rate is that the government and consumers spent more than previously.
  
  So despite what pundits, politicians, and the news media tell us, this doesn’t bode well for the future because economic (as opposed to GDP) growth requires investment, which is made possible by saving. But saving is consumption deferred. (One reason people save is to consume more in the future than they can consume today.) An economy cannot consume its way to real, sustainable growth.
  
  Commentators never tire of saying that consumption accounts for more than 70 percent of the economy. But this is highly misleading. Adam Smith accurately wrote, “Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.” It
  
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- OlderCowGirl
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 2:41pm
  I believe that Obama travels to his “listeners” so that he can “feel the love”. I think he gets bored at the WH where he is supposed to work. Obama is lazy, in my opinion. Obama loves the attention of the many…like an actress or actor. That’s why he hob-nobs with Hollywooders.
  
  Not a big enough crowd at the White House to really feel adored.
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:57pm
  who the hell is this clown anyway? he is the prime example of a construct. he played adoptive parent, via kidnapping, to the real Tea Party by turning it into a rejuvenated neocon corporatist movement.
  
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hauschild
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:47am
Marxism is a helluva thing for traditional Americans to deal with. I hope it is merely a glitch in the road and not something we must embrace, because I’m not sure how well that is ultimately going to go over with the good people.

Whatever is going to happen, we can be assured it is most definitely going to be interesting.

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- DIgnified
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 12:37am
  ‘Marxism’ isn’t a political strategy. It was a prediction of cause and effect. Marxism, in a nutshell, essentially says capitalists will hoard resources limiting entrepreneurial possibilities without massive startup costs, and when having everything available isn’t enough. Then they will go after workers and their property/money, and attempt to reduce to slavery the people who they built their fortunes on. He even stated this would happen in a good, bad or morally gray world due to the nature of capitalism. Look at Monopoly. It was designed originally to point out the dangers of capitalism. One of your family/friends ended up with all the money and property and it was 4 hours building to a stupid fight. Nothing is 100% good. And treating something like it is creates problems. Wanting a business us super. Playing winner take all isn’t.
  
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ElChupaCabraDeUSA
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:44am
God bless Rick for swimming in that cesspool of liberal filth and trying to save some of them from drowning. The liberal power brokers are floating on ever smaller piles of **** and will eventually be flushed by the real power brokers. The only consolation when this pending disaster unfolds will be watching the shock on the faces of some of these liberal media clowns who abandoned every shred of dignity to secured themselves a seat at the progressive big boy table only to tossed aside like garbage…

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- ONLY4UANDME
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 2:01pm
  http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KLqISfAblQmGIA4s_7w8QF;_ylu=X3oDMTBrc3VyamVwBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQD?p=rick+santelli+tea+party+rant&vid=6bf369425b0f964f34cabf6146a12db2&l=5%3A16&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DV.4513079448895543%26pid%3D15.1&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwcvSjKCU_Zo&tit=Rick+Santelli+calls+for+Tea+party+on+Floor+of+Chicago+Board+of+Trade&c=25&sigr=11a2a5ii7&&tt=b
  
  Rick Santelli started the Tea party.
  
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- socialism.rocks
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 5:06pm
  the teaparty was around with ron paul… it was paulinites the nazi who started the teaparty with bullhorns
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 5:40pm
  They want to raise taxes on CAPITAL GAINS. WRONG, So many of us scratch together a few bucks here and there to invest in the market that goes up and goes down regularly. It’s money we invest that’s already been taxed. It’s ours! Money we didn’t use for all the perks, like dinners out, movies, expensive travels, buying expensive new shoes & clothes every weekend. Just blowing money rather than save for a rainy day so we don’t have to rely on the gov’t to take care of us in our old age. (Oh! this is what we’re supposed to do, right?)
  
  When I make a couple of thousand on my investment, I still think it’s MY money and the Gov’t has no right to to tax me for being smart and investing instead of spending on personal perks all the time.
  Some years you make money (Capital Gains) some years you lose money depending on the Stock Market, and they have no right to charge us Capital Gains on our own money. They should have the courtesy to charge a larger amount on people who earn many thousands+ on their investments and leave small investors a tax fee of 0-10% only. Taxing leaves us with little if we roll over the investment rather than taking it out to blow away.
  Often In bad years I’ve lost all the money I’ve had to pay taxes on and went back to my original investment after having paid 15% on lost money This just AIN’T fair when the 49% have their hands out and never have to pay for anything, including taxes. From cradle to grave. UNFAIR methods of taxin
  
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pookieamos
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:41am
Quite frankly , I don’t think Santelli did anything wrong ! Think about how maddening it must be to him , with all his knowledge of economics ,to see what , to understand that what Obama has been doing and continues to do are destroying the free markets and the economy. I’m afraid , I’d have said and done far worse !!! IT’S MADDENING !!! To know and see Obamas intentional destruction is VERY frustrating. I’ve had to go on blood pressure medication , as millions probably have !!

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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:49am
  Yes, our government certainly would get more accomplished if we had more people like Santelli in office.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 8:35pm
  SENDTHEMETERORS…..Lots of snide, snippy remarks from you….But what, pray tell, are YOUR ideas of what the issues really are? I will consider, seriously, your response. Please, give us something to chew on.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 9:17pm
  Just like I thought…. no real discourse with SENDTHEMETEORS. No reasoning behind the snippy comments……
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:48pm
  Hey MAX, I think the bald guy in the video stated pretty clearly the substantive issues. Watch the video. I thought that was self-evident, but I’ll side with him on the generalities if not the specifics.
  
  With regard to Santelli? He was shut out of the conversation, his loud proclamations got no traction with the adults in the room, and so he took his ball and went home. That’s a perfect example of lack of professionalism. If he had a point, he could have made it without yelling and staying on the air and expressing his objection calmly and logically.
  
  I know he represents the Tea Party, but fewer and fewer people think that form of expressing opinions (loud, yelling, self-righteous outrage without intellectual substance) and then running away when someone disagrees with him is appealing. That vacant form of expression just sounds snippy to most Americans now.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 12:48pm
  SENDTHEMETEORS…..Well since you have no viewpoints of your own …I’ll bloviate. the left’s agenda looks like chaos. but the bully pulpit is alive and well. So I agree with Krauthamer….Let them have whatever they want….lets judge it later when the faulty reasoning can no longer be concealed…..
  
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:39am
This is the exact kind of FIRE we need from John Bon-er, Joanne McCain and Linda Graham, just to name a few, about this “cliff” and Benghazi. But all we’ll get is gutless wimps that spend most of their time on their knees under the Traitor’s desk.

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- ONLY4UANDME
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 2:08pm
  http://video.foxnews.com/v/1998822641001/susan-rices-role-in-benghazi/?playlist_id=930909813001
  If you didn’t see this last night you should.
  
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- marathonman
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 4:39pm
  Agreed, How refreshing to have someone standup and say it like it is. Santtelli has guts.
  
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POET
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:38am
The Ant and the GrassHopper, We Ants have been getting ready these last 4 years

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- TRIXIECAT
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:11am
  That’s right Poet. I’m also teaching my children everything I can, as should all of us. With the way things are going in this country, and around the world, they will need skills that are not going to be found in the liberal text books! Future leaders and soldiers of this great nation (I still have some hope left) are being shaped right now.
  
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EBL
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:30am
This is why you need good communicators and tough/clear negotiations. The perception of “fairness”: The challenge the GOP faces with some voters…

The Dems are working feverishly to shape this argument. Do you think Republican leaders are doing the same?

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- angeleyes63
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 3:30pm
  @EBL
  You unfortunately are sadly correct the repubes do not for whatever reason get the message out in a way the masses can relate to.
  
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neverending
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:29am
Can certainly relate to Santilli because I feel the same way and with each passing day I detest barry boy and all the ignorant people that voted for the sorry sob. Yes everyone supposedly on our side but particularly the anti-Mormon – you should just be so pleased because you DON’T have that terrible Mormon headed to the whitehouse. I detest every one of you as well and can’t wait til you get to enjoy what is coming down the road!!

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IntheDirt
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:28am
Seriously. CNBC’s “panel” is these morons? I remember why I don’t watch TV.

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- Theocracy588
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 3:21pm
  Not because it was repossessed?
  
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kettererbg
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:28am
The dumbazz dimbocraps want to raise taxes and have little or no spending cuts.
The GOP wants spending cuts and no new new taxes.
Which is the better plan?
Uh, duh!
And the dimbocraps don’t care if we go over the fiscal cliff. They will still get a paycheck. So who is the real enemy of the American people, other than Owebowma?
Uh, DUH!!

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- CatB
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:55am
  They want us to go over … to promote their plan of complete dependency and control. The R’s need to walk away and make them OWN THIS!
  
  Remember Benghazi.
  
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- huey6367
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 12:51pm
  @CATB
  
  I posted on another article earlier that I think the best thing the Republicans can do is let is let the Democrats have their way. Raise taxes. Kill jobs. Kill the economy. Can you say hyperinflation? When all that hits, then Republicans step back and say “We told you their plan wouldn’t work for 4 years but you didn’t listen. We tried their plan and it failed. Now try ours. You have nothing else to lose.”
  
  No matter what Republicans do, however, they will get the blame for anything bad that happens. They always do.
  
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jrcess
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:27am
Santelli should join Fox Business network and run head on with CNBC. Liesman is nothing more than a Russian Commie and if you watch for a few weeks, you can detect his socialist outcry. He belongs with Stuart Barney and Cavuto. Why is Joe Kern hanging out with these socialist imbeciles.

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- Mapache
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:54am
  Whole heartedly agree. Santelli should go where people understand business. He would be a great addition to Fox Business. Give him his own show in the A.M.!
  
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- Mr Sanders
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 12:25pm
  No… Leisman is a Keynesian believer then a redistributionist…. which is Progressive.
  
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- searcher619
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 5:18pm
  Ummm… Russia isn’t communist….
  
  >.>
  
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tbacct
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:24am
I feel his frustration…

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Obamujahadeen
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:23am
He’s (Santelli) like the ONLY sane guy on that whole network reach associated with NBSleaze.

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paulwbrown
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:21am
Rick Santelli, you are the one bright spot at the NBC empire. Keep up the good work but watch for the loss of your sanity is so doing! Living in the asylum can be dangerous.

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autofixer
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:16am
Everyone who appears on CNBC is a Keynsian socialist or a crony capitalist pig. Why does Santelli continue to beat his head against the wall. “Atlas has shrugged” and it is time to go to “Galt’s Gulch.”

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- edcoil
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:26am
  “Fairness” is the 14th Amendment requiring the government to treat ever American the exact same way. It should not tax one citizen differently than another. It should also give no benefit to one American and not the other.
  
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- Mr Sanders
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 12:26pm
  Where is “Galt’s Gulch”?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 1:35pm
  ED: I think that Affirmative Action was the slippery slope that has led to this. One group is “speical” and gets treated differently than other citizens. In that case they were given advantages that other citizens were not. Now it is acceptable for the president to target the ” rich?” To demean and single out one group of citizens for this ” special, ” but disadvantageous treatment ? This is positively un-American. Just like today’s Far Left Democrat Party.
  
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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:15am
Idiotic behavior and I’m not talking Santelli I’m talking the progressives. They’re fighting over insignificant revenues that history shows will do more harm than good. Progressives fabricate issues to further divide the country and manipulate the masses. It’s the divide and conquer plan and the’re playing with fire. We are fighting a battle against the indoctrination of the stupid, the naive and the takers.

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ResistSocialism
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:06am
What’s to be upset about? These politicians were elected to do a job, it’s their problem.

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- omega309
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 1:07pm
  Proposals and Referendums have taken away there only job(polititans that is), to kill a republic, you have to treat it like a democrazy.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:04am
Santelli should not be at CNBC or have anything to do with a news agency with the letters NBC in them. He should know better. He is in a nest of liberal trash and the more fools with them he gives them some legitimacy. He should attack them verbally, argue with them, and hold his own……but he should not talk with them…just talk at them.

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nzkiwi
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:03am
There are none so blind as those who will not see, and none so deaf as those who will not hear…

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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:02am
i love this guy

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- gyro
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:09am
  plus one
  
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- hi
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:44am
  me too
  
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Cymry
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:02am
there are a lot of people who don’t believe that Jesus is returning soon. to these people, the events spoken of in bible prophecy that have happened and are yet to come will take them unawares. this fiscal cliff is only a blip on seismograph when compared to the things that are coming down the pipe. i know that there will come a time when these people see the truth of Jesus’ return…….I just hope it’s not too late for them.

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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:35am
  The Book of Revelations is not a Ouija Board. The Bible tells us not to worry about “the end of the world” because only God knows when it will be. The Book of Revelations was written for people living under the Roman Empire, using slang and codes for the people of the time. People have been worried about “the end of the world” for two thousand years and they’ve died still waiting for it to happen. The Bible tells us to live our life by God’s will and not to worry about it, to be prepared and to be ready (The five wise brides’ maids and the five foolish ones.) I’m prepared to accept whatever happens, but I refuse to hide under the bed worrying about it.
  
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- beckistheking
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:37am
  It’s people like you CYMRY, who have their heads buried in superstion and delusion who are also part of the problem. The realists among us are left to do all the heavy lifting and try and fix this mess while you religious nutters sit back with your hands folded placidly waiting for Jesus/Christ/Yeshua to miraculously reappear and float you off to paradise. Well, I have news for you: Jesus is NOT “returning.” You won’t believe me now, but in the future, if you’re lucky enough to be conscious and aware when you’re near death’s door, you’ll believe me then, because your prediction will still not have come true.
  
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- Cymry
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 12:54pm
  both of you are going to have Jesus seriously ruin your calendars. our work is to believe in God and the One (Jesus) He sent, to preach this gospel into all the world…….not to hide under one’s bed. the harvest is full but the laborers few.
  
  bitk. remember, even after the rapture, it’s still not too late to make Jesus your Lord and Saviour.
  
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- Mudd
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 2:52pm
  And if Jesus says, upon his return. “Sorry, I’m here for the Jews.”
  
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Spinmamma
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:01am
Yeah, walking off the set is never a good idea–no matter how bad it is. Better to do the broken record thing. Looks childish and leaves the impression the other side won.

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EBL
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:01am
I do not blame Rick Santelli for being upset. That little voice is telling me this is a bad bad thing. And so there is no confusion, the guy on his knees is Boehner.

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ares338
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 10:52am
I lost the argument. I’m taking my ball and bat and going home. Typical juvenile behavior.

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- Gregory_Adams
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 10:59am
  No, it is impossible to debate with someone who refuses to follow the rules of honest debate. ares338, Santelli reacted the way most would. He was playing chess with a pigeon.
  
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- xcapeillinois
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:04am
  No, more like the abridged edition of Arguing With Idiots….don’t.
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:06am
  lost what argument, exactly?
  
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- Cymry
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:06am
  so, if the economy collapses, is rick still wrong?
  
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- willingtoupe
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:06am
  No ARES338, thats called a power grab. Now nobody gets to play.
  
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- vic138
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:11am
  Lost the argument? Steve LIESman changed the subject.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:15am
  How do you argue with someone who refuses to acknowledge the moral and philosophical underpinnings of their own argument? It isn’t a debate…it’s a freaking joke! Santelli was pointing out the fact that the people clamoring for all of this were working overtime to escape it. So this a-hole decides to change topics. Who took their ball and went home?
  
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- jrcess
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 11:35am
  no that answer is one of a moron, Liesman is nothing more than a communist and you are siding with him.
  
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- Cadcamtrainer
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 12:39pm
  No sense to argue with idiots and Koolaid drinkers. Better off walking away. Never argue with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig loves it!
  
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- DIR
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 1:17pm
  Unfortunately Rich did loose the argument. I can understand his frustration. If in an argument when one party retreats the other wins. Rich clearly retreated. He should have stayed his ground. He took his opponent to seriously and his emotions got the best of him. Steve played cat and mouse with Rich, turning him into the mouse and Rich fell for it. Rich could have easily turned the tables if he had played his card correcly. It is sad that he did not.
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 1:49pm
  @DIR
  
  explain the argument??
  
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- Todd P
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 5:12pm
  Which is worse – the fool or the one who argues with him?
  
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- DIR
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:27pm
  @UNALIEN: “Explain the argument!”
  
  Which one? The fiscal cliff, or the Santelli Liesman situation?
  
  Whereas Santelli steaming off, my perspective is Santelli initially made his point and it appeared the other parties to the group ignored his position or at least played it down. Santelli seemed frustrated and aggravated to begin with. When the discussion again focused on Santelli the others came back to him wherein he got into his argument, banter, discussion, repartee, exchange (whatever) with Liesman. Liesman’s position only added to Santelli excitement and aggravation to the point were Santelli became steemed and, like a pressure cooker, blew. Liesman was cool and calm and knew he had Santelli with his quotes from the WSJ, which may or may not have been relevant to Santelli’s original point. Nevertheless it adding to Santelli’s frustration which sent him packing. That’s the argument I’m referring too! Santelli lost control, seemed like a hot head obscuring his initial point. Did I answer your question?
  
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copatriots
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 10:50am
Rick, your job is done, my friend, and was well done. You are preaching to a deaf audience. It is time for you to leave CNBC. It’s affecting your health and well-being.

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