women today, what can i say, wild. i'm living with two who climbed the highest peak in africa, their mother and grandmother would be proud, don't you think? that's "hardball" for now, thanks for being with us. "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" starts right now. gop is still discussing barack, deficits, submission, and marriage. >> i'm not doing it out of paranoia. >> punch of politicians eating fried twinkies. >> republican presidential candidates spend the day sleeping away their night. >> pawlenty did well enough to survive. >> iowa appears to be just not that into him. >> tim pawlenty offered to mow romney's lawn. >> i will come to your house and cook you dinner. >> john hauntsman did not stand out. >> all of them are getting more attention.

>> i have to give it to newt gingrich. >> mickey mouse. >> mittness protection program. >> corporations are people, human beings, my friend. >> members of your family, your brother fax machine, your uncle ben. >> corporations are people. >> fox explains submission. >> the lord said be submissive to your husbands. as president, would you be submissive? >> please, stop, because you're killing us. >> s&p explains the downgrade. >> we just heard from standard & poor's. >> michele bachmann's first answer. >> we should not have raised the debt ceiling. i led against increasing the debt ceiling. >> she said that and got applause. >> they dropped our credit rating. she said that and got applause. >> bachmann has a loose relationship with the facts. >> she is a joke. her candidacy is a joke. >> we're explaining that light bulb answer. >> i introduced the light bulb

freedom of choice act so people could purchase the light bulb of their choice. >> i'll come, look at me. >> still have potential. still have potential. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes in for lawrence o'donnell. we are one day away from the ames straw poll and what is the first real weekend of 2012 presidential campaign. well, kind of real. when it comes to the ames straw poll's influence on the presidential campaign, certain things are real and certain things are not. the carnival atmosphere that surrounds the iowa state fair with its fried buttered delicacies and pressing of the flesh bears the same resemblance to our actual presidential politics as the new york, new york hotel in las vegas does to the actual new york city. first, what is not real about

the stra poll. for the majority of candidates that come to iowa, the ames straw poll is like playing dress-up, close as they might get to experiencing a presidential election day. that category includes, herman cain, rick santorum, newt gingrich, and thaddaeus mccotter. they have chosen to essentially bypass the iowa straw poll, it will not be devastating. the more conservative to frontrunner mitt romney. of those two, the poll means the most to, pawlenty has struggled in polls and fundraising. he acknowledged the straw poll's importance this morning. >> so i think it will be a good result. with that in mind, but, you know, the thing went the other way hard, what do we have to

retrench in some fashion? probably, but i don't think that's going to happen. i'm confident we're going to do well tomorrow, if we do really bad, we might have to reassess, i don't think that's going to be the case. >> to team pawlenty, tomorrow's vote is very real. a poor finish could force him to second guess his candidacy, there's not a ton of upside. even a strong finish will say little about his chances for actually winning the nomination. the republican nominee for president in 2008 placed 10th in the ames straw poll. and speaking of john mccain and what's real and not real, sarah palin. a woman who somehow transcends that distinction altogether. she made an appearance at the iowa state fair today. >> are you a potential candidate? >> still a potential, still thinking about it, still a potential. >> she's not a real candidate, who she eventually endorses will be a real factor in this election.

a daily caller asked palin if she's concerned mitt romney is the frontrunner. her response. "no, nothing worries me at this point, could i support somebody like mitt romney? yeah." joining me now from iowa, congressman debbie wasserman schultz who chairs the democratic national committee. thank you for joining me, congresswoman. >> thank you, chris. >> i want to play this clip from the debate last night and get your reaction to it. a question about a hypothetical revenue to cutting deal and a question about whether the republicans there would take it. >> just making sure everyone at home and everyone here knows that they all raised their hands, they are all saying they feel so strongly about not raising taxes that a 10-1 deal they would walk away from. confirming that. >> congresswoman, what does that say to you? were you surprised by that moment?

>> given the debt ceiling debate that we just went through in congress and the absolute rigidity and intransigence of the republican house members, no, not really, but i mean to even suggest that 10-1 cuts to revenue, they would still reject, it surprised even me. it just shows how out of touch they are with the american people, how out of touch they are with the middle class and working families, and our need to come together and make sure we can reduce the deficit and work together on continuing to get this economy turned around. it was -- it was shockingly out of touch. >> did you think last night's republican debate was good for the democratic party? was it good for the republican party? was it neither? >> i don't think it was very good for the american people, because if you were an average voter looking at that debate and

trying to see, you know, if -- is there an alternative out there for me or is there someone who might be worthy of my support, you know, what you saw in that republican debate is reach of the candidates trying to outright wing each other. michele bachmann and tim pawlenty acting, what i thought, was pretty childish, sniping at each other like my kids do when they are deliberately trying to get on each other's nerves. there were really no serious solutions, nothing anyone could sink their teeth into in terms of policy that would say yeah, that's the direction that america needs to go. that's why i think americans will continue to embrace barack obama. >> i want to ask you about the dynamic that's on display in the republican primary, in the republican party, and the display of the 10-1 moment hand raising. it seems if you're making a calculation as a republican candidate, the thing you have to worry about is getting as far to the right as possible, right?

that's clearly the game here. no one's worried about, you know, looking insufficiently moderate. and i wonder if that is -- does that create problems for the governance of the country? is it the case that the primary competition happening at this moment is producing political incentives for it possible for anyone to agree with anything barack obama ever says? >> well, chris, we're there already. if you just look at what's happened since the tea party took over the republican party and has strangled their leadership for the last eight months, i mean that's why we are in the situation we are in and we were not able to get the republicans to come to the table. finally, we wrestled them to the table basically and agreed on a debt ceiling deal that at least ensured that the balance that exists cut defense and we didn't have to pile all the pain on middle class and working

families, but to get the long-term deal that we need, we're going to need to make sure that we have folks committed to striking that balance, agreeing with the overwhelming majority of the american people who believe there should be a balance between revenue and cuts, and we should be asking the most fortunate americans and the wealthiest among us to pay their fair share. >> final questions. >> there's nothing to me that indicates there's any -- any interest from any republican candidate to do that. >> final question, then, it's slightly off topic, but i see you're in the great state of iowa, which is a fantastic place. you're also head of the democratic national committee, that's a party that is very, very diverse along racial lines particularly and represents voters in urban areas and suburban areas and rural areas. do you think it's justifiable or rational that the state of iowa, given its demographic makeup has such a disproportionate say over

the presidential system? >> well, we've had this system in place for a long time, and there are a variety of states that go first in each nominating -- each party's nominating -- and i think that's understandable. i mean, i've gotten to witness firsthand how personally the folks in iowa take it. it's been a thrill to be here today. >> i think the phrase was a metacommentary on your response. congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, thanks for joining us tonight. let's take a listen to michele bachmann and tim pawlenty at last night's fox news debate. >> it's an undisputable fact that her record in congress is nonexistence. >> you said the era of small government is over. that sounds a lot more like barack obama if you ask me.

>> she fought for less government spending, we got a lot more, led the effort against obamacare, we got obamacare. let the effort against tarp, we got tarp. it's not her spine we're worried about, it's her results. if that's your view, please, stop, because you're killing us. joining me now from iowa, katny obradovich, thanks for joining me tonight, kathie, i really appreciate it. >> thanks, chris. >> what do you make of the sort of sniping is the characterization people have given to it, congresswoman wasserman schultz said it was like her kids. >> first of all, pawlenty and bachmann are the key competitors in saturday's straw poll. pawlenty wanted to sort of knock bachmann down a peg, but the other thing is, pawlenty was accused of kind of wimping out

of saying to the opponent's face things that he had already been saying to the media. he really couldn't afford to have that happen to him again, so when he was asked specifically about comments he was making about michele bachmann's record, of course, he had to reiterate that. she responded with an attack on governor pawlenty, and he ratcheted up his attack, so it was sort of a nuclear escalation there for awhile. >> a nuclear escalation of pettiness, so you were out there today, i imagine, talking to folks, and what is both the press's reaction and people's reaction to the sudden appearance of non-candidate sarah palin who's being so coy so as to border on self satire. >> man, you should have seen her at the state fair, because it was a -- one little woman walking through the cattle barn

with a 15-deep group of media beyond her. i don't think she saw anything in the cattle barn except camera lenses and microphones. i was worried, there were cows lining the sides of this barn and we're wandering through this, not being able to see anything. i was thinking it was a good place to get kicked and maybe even by a cameraman, but it was insane, absolutely insane. she was mobbed by people at the fair. now, i think that some people would look at that and say wow, sarah palin is really popular and therefore, she should run for president, but she's a celebrity, and anybody at the fair with a mob of media is going to attract a whole lot of attention. anything you read into that is maybe not quite there. not real, i would say. >> in the not real category. final thing i want to ask you is about the conventional wisdom, one i subscribe to and i want to

give you a chance to disabuse me. it's quite, quite, quite conservative and they are going to be more conservative. these are voters, huge evangelical contingent and voters looking for a sort of conservative standard there. is there anything you're seeing there that disrupts that general sense of where iowa caucus voters are? >> the only thing is historically, if you look at iowa caucuses over time --

kathie obradovich of the des moines register, thanks so much for your time tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> coming up, more on the not so bright spots in the republican debate, specifically light bulbs and michele bachmann, that's next. and later on the show, standard & poor's explains how the tea party caused the downgrade. [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card

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technology has made it possible to safely unlock this cleanly burning natural gas. this deposits can provide us with fuel for a hundred years, providing energy security and economic growth all across this country. it just takes somebody having the idea, and that's where the discovery comes from. as to congresswoman bachmann's record, welcome, she's done wonderful things in her life, absolutely wonderful things, but it's an undisputable fact that in congress, her record of accomplishment and results is nonexistent. >> former minnesota governor tim pawlenty repeatedly hammered fellow minnesotaen, michele bachmann on her lackluster congressional record, but bachmann fired back with this. >> i have a very consistent

record of fighting very hard against barack obama and his unconstitutional measures in congress. i'm very proud of that record. that is what qualifies me as a fighter and representative of the people to go to washington, d.c. and to the white house. people are looking for a champion. they want someone who's been fighting. when it came to health care, i brought tens of thousands of americans to washington to fight the unconstitutional individual mandate, i didn't praise it. when it came to cap and trade, i fought it with everything in me, including i introduced the light bulb freedom of choice act so people could purchase the light bulb of their choice. >> you'll notice the only piece of actual legislation bachmann cited was the light bulb freedom of choice act, a bill she introduced but did not get past. like many viewers, the particular dog whistle, it turns

out the fate of the household light bulb has evolved into a hot button passionate issue among the conservative grass roots. you see the old fashioned incandescent light bulb is a nifty device, but inefficient. compact fluorescent bulbs use 1/5 of the power a standard light bulb uses. so the security act of 2007 was passed, which would require all light bulbs sold in the u.s. to meet certain efficiency thresholds. similar to the way all cars must meet mileage efficiency standards, for example. the bill was signed into law by noted tree hugger george w. bush. the natural resources defense council estimated the standard included in the 2007 light bulb law would save the country more than $12.5 billion annually when

fully implemented in 2020. in all, a fairly non-controversial piece of policy. but all that was before the tea party back lash and now the lowly, humble, incandescent light bulb is taking on significance to the right, the latest sign of the tyranny of barack obama's nanny state. bachmann's light bulb freedom of choice act was aimed as repealing the 2007 law and republicans viewed the issue as such a monumental priority that on july 12, in the thick of the debt ceiling debate, speaker john boehner made sure to get a vote on a version of bachmann's bill. they said it would stop big government intrusion. it failed, 233-193. edison wept. but the battle, as we saw last night, wages on. judging me now, dave weigel, political reporter for slate.com and msnbc analyst.

dave, that back drop is looking mighty familiar, how are you doing? >> very well. thanks for asking. >> excellent. it was not enough to give that light bulb freedom of choice act shout out once, bachmann also gave a shout out after the debate, take a listen. >> i never thought that in congress we'd have to introduce the light bulb freedom of choice act that you brought up tonight. >> i introduced it, it's what's wrong with washington. you have the federal government telling you what light bulb you can use and can't use, that's why i introduced the bill. when i'm president, you can buy any light bulb you can buy. >> dave weigel, when did this become the rallying cry? >> i really sort of towards the end of 2010, along with the rise of the tea party, this was something tea party groups started to focus on and bring attention to. she introduced the bill before

it became an issue when she reintroduced it earlier in the spring. on the campaign trail, she brings it up in every speech. having seen her give a version of her speech many times, it's up there with saying barack obama will be a one-term president. i think she explained it well in that clip, it's because conservatives like examples of the government doing things that sound silly to validate what they are thinking. they will say the stimulus failed and the first example they'll bring up is wasteful-sounding science projects it funded. a bill was full of pork, john mccain is good at this. he'll mention a couple of bare intelligent research in that. you can disqualify all government does for people if you find negative examples. that's a long-time conservative trend and tactic. >> let me ask this, what's brilliant about this issue, it

resinates with a certain section who are, sort of hard-core partisans and ideologues and flies over the head of, you know, a general election audience. it's not like abortion. other issues on the radar screen right now that are getting those kind of applauses out on the trail that we are not aware of? >> i'd say two things. we're becoming more aware of the debt ceiling argument, right? we're hearing michele bachmann insist she was proven right when s&p downgraded america's credit rating and if we listened to her, they wouldn't have. s&p says that's not true. that's one dog whistle. she's trying to will that argument into existence. another thing she explains what ipad is to people. doesn't quite explain it 100% right, but ipad was set up to determine, you know, cost-effective care if it goes into effect. republicans are already refusing to let anybody serve on the

board. as it comes up, they are doing what they do with elizabeth warren and strangling it. that's -- again, a kind of dog whistle because i don't think a ton of voters know about this and the first time they are hearing about this is a death panel-like room full of people with dark robes who are going to take your care away. what if there's only 10,000 hip replacements in the country and you don't get one? that's the kind of decision ipad is going to make. >> it's probably the single-most important mechanism for restraining long-term health care costs and dealing with the, you know, the cost of entitlements, quote on quote, and projected deficits, yet republicans are going after it the same way they went after medicare cuts the last time around, which is keep your government hands off my medicare contradiction. >> it does. it's also something that people

who have private health insurance are familiar with. you can't get everything you want. if you're serious about reducing costs, you need to have discussions like these. it's important you pointed out the point of this light bulb regulation is it will save electricity costs over the long-term by a lot, and the trade off for that is just bulbs that really, if you read some of the arguments by tea party leaders, by her, it's the bulbs look ugly and some people might get sick for them. in exchange for that, they want to waste a lot of money. things that sound scary and dumb. >> dave weigel, thanks for joining me from iowa. have a great weekend out there and eat fried butter for me. >> already done. thank you, chris. >> done and done. still to come, what standard & poor's now says about the downgrade of u.s. debt. puts the blame squarely on republicans, even though, of course, the s&p never quite brings itself to use the word republicans.

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in 2006, when you were running for congress, you described a moment in your life when your husband said you should study for a degree in tax law. you said you hated the idea, and then you explained "but the lord said be submissive. wives are to be submissive to

your husbands." as president, would you be submissive to your husband? >> thank you for that question, byron. >> you're welcome. >> marcus and i will be married for 33 years this september 10th. i'm in love with him, i'm so proud of him, and both he and i, what submission means to us, it means respect. i respect my husband. he's a wonderful, godly man, and a great father, and he respects me as his wife. that's how we operate our marriage, we respect each other, we love each other. >> in the spotlight tonight, still have a knot in my stomach, uncomfortable questions. that was last night's most gasp

w worthy moment. first, according to a profile of michele bachmann in "the washington post," she said in 2006 that she pursued her degree in tax law only because her husband had told her to. she explained. "the lord says be submissive wives. you are to be submissive to your husbands." her husband's brother also weighed in on their marital hierarchy. >> he is her godly husband, the husband is to be the head of the wife, according to god. then there was a question itself from byron york, which seemed as it left his lips, at best, uncomfortable and at worst, unfair. york defended his question on fox and friends this morning. >> this is a serious and legitimate question about something she has said, and believe me, if she progresses

very far in the campaign process, she would have been asked this question, and i personally thought she handled it very well. she handled it in a very human moment for her. >> fox's chris wallace also defended the question, telling a radio show, "in these days of women's liberation, which is a hilarious acronym, for her to submit, so i submitted, it is worthy of note." joining me now, irin carmon, reported for jesabelle.com. what was your reaction when you saw that? >> you know, i don't often find myself in the company of byron and chris wallace, but it was a perfectly legitimate question. we're talking about somebody, first of all, she made the statement about being a submissive wife after she was in public in 2006. we're talking about somebody who has her entire political career

until very recently when he's opportunistically gotten interested in economics has legislated and tried to legislate and be an activist driven by people's personal lives. really interested in secular education, teaching children homosexuality, opposing homosexuality. i think it's fair game to say to what extent you talk about your marriage informs your ideas for this country. >> so the argument there is it's the nature of what the ideological vision of politics that open her up. >> her priorities, and what informs her politics and the way she's made her marriage an example for the way people should live their lives. >> it feels a little john kennedy in 1960 in the catholic church where the question was

you belong to the state where you have to listen to the authority of the pope, yet you want to run the united states of america, aren't you going to do what the pope says? i think we recognize there's something odious about that conception. what's the distinction? >> michele bachmann totally embraces evangelical christianity unless she's talking to another general audience, it's a big part of her life, it really informs her policies, and she put it on the table. even sarah palin, when she was governor of alaska, she did not really create as a priority, social issues. michele bachmann from beginning to end up until very recently, this was something very important to her and she continued to hold up her marriage as a model for all marriages. >> aside from its fairness, do you think it's a legitimate concern? >> no. i don't think it's a -- here's why, i think michele bachmann very wisely plays to her audience. at the time she was at the living worth christian center, she was talking to women and men

who needed to see themselves in her, and, you know, i think this is actually -- let's think about her answer, which she said in her answer was submission equals respect. all day today people were making fun of that, that's crazy, here's the dictionary definition. one of them is mutual, one of them is one-sided. but if you look into gender roles and evangelical communities, this is a commonplace paradox. you have people who say the husband is head of household, but they have lives for economic reasons or personal reasons, women end up having lives outside the home and their marriages are more equal than what is laid down in the law. >> the final question is about this sort of scapegoating, it always does feel it's hard to tease this stuff a part. at some level there is something uniquely infuriating about sarah palin and michele bachmann, but

at the same time there's always this kind of underlay of something insidious gender-wise in the way people pounce. do you think there was anything like that in that question last night or do you think that was above board? was there sort of two things operating? >> look, michele bachmann's camp was very happy the question was asked. they said on record they felt it was an opportunity. all of those -- it sounded like men, booing, they felt she had been victimized. don't attack the woman, don't ask her a legitimate question. did they ask about newt gingrich's marriages? not to my knowledge, but i think if this is going to be a part of your politics, it's going to be completely fair to ask and we don't need to protect female candidates different from male candidates. >> irin carmon, you convinced me. thank you. >> thaing very much. coming up, downgrade of u.s. debt helped make the economy

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the s&p downgrade was a purely political act taken by these two leaders of the confederacy of dunces known as standard & poor's. john chambers and david bearce is the head of the sovereign credit ratings division of s&p. what john chambers and david bearce, the most incompetent analyzers of american debt in history failed to understand is that the debt ceiling has always been a political bargaining chip. the political game in the debt ceiling just has never been played quite as loudly as it was played this year. the incompetent, politically illiterate john chambers and david bearce offer as a basis of their utterly wrong downgrade, nothing but the political worry that maybe congress won't raise the debt ceiling the next time it has to.

>> that was lawrence on monday issuing a blistering critique of s&p's downgrade of america's credit rating. today we know even more about s&p's flawed logic, and who else can share in the blame for the credit agency's clumsy move? standard & poor's director told politico, people in the political arena were even talking about a potential default. that a country even has such voices, albeit a minority, is something noted. this kind of rhetoric is not common amongst aaa sovereigns. in other words, the downgrade was precipitated by a skeptical of officials lending their full throated support to the u.s. defaulting on its debt. >> if a bondholder misses a payment for a day or two or three or four, what is more

important, you're putting the government in a materially better position to be able to pay their bonds later on. >> i want to reiterate we will not agree to the president's request to increase the debt limit without serious spending cuts and reform to the way we spend the american people's money. >> we can't keep spending money that we don't have. that's why i fought against the wasteful bailout, against the stimulus. i will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. >> i will not vote for this bill, because i don't think we should be raising the debt ceiling at all. we need to be doing what a business does when it becomes overextended. i introduced a bill to lower the debt ceiling, not raise it. >> that logic hasn't died in the republican party, no, it's flourishing, even after the debt ceiling was raised before the august 2nd deadline, here's michele bachmann just last night answering the very first question asked in republican presidential debate in ames, iowa. >> we should not have increased

the debt ceiling, in the last two months, i was leading on the issue of not increasing the debt ceiling. that turned out to be the right answer, and this is part of the movement that we're seeing all across the country. i've been leading that movement, i've been giving it voice. >> turned out to be the right answer. that same kind of republican intransigence will unquestionably be the defining feature of the continuing debate over cuts and revenues, something the super committee will have to deal with. this week, house majority leader eric cantor sent a memo to his republican colleagues that said, "over the next several months there will be pressure on congress to bridge our differences is wrong. in short, there will be pressure to compromise on tax increases. we will be told that there is no other way forward. i respectfully disagree." again at last night's republican

debate, every candidate on the stage showed they would not accept any deficit reduction deal that includes any new revenues. >> raise your hand if you feel so strongly about not raising taxes, you'd walk away on the 10 to 1 deal. just making sure everyone at home and everyone here knows that they all raised their hands, they are all saying they feel so strongly about not raising taxes that a 10 to 1 deal, they'd walk away from, confirming that. >> all this underscores this is a problem with two parts. here's the issue with s&p and its ill conceived downgrade. mike lawrence, i don't think very much of the ratings agencies, particularly standard & poor's, same rating agency that gave lehman brothers a satisfactory rating one quarter before it collapsed. they are responsible as any other broken institution in the entire country for the worst financial crisis in a lifetime. but secondly, we have seen over

several months now that a significant portion of the republican party has come to view economic cataclysm of the country not as a horrible fate to be avoided, not as a bad outcome to be wielded as an effective bargaining tool, but actually as an outcome to be preferred. an outcome to be welcomed and cheered. and it is difficult to fault any analyst who looks at the clips we just played and concludes our current political outlook is sub prime. the best of late night comedy is up next. we're thinking about them. a couple decades ago, we didn't even realize just how much natural gas was trapped in rocks thousands of feet below us. technology has made it possible to safely unlock this cleanly burning natural gas. this deposits can provide us with fuel for a hundred years, providing energy security and economic growth all across this country. it just takes somebody having the idea, and that's where the discovery comes from. it just takes somebody having the idea,

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from the downgrade to the republicans in iowa eating eccentric dairy, the carnival dysfunction this past week provided a ton of comedic

material. >> on friday night the u.s. actually lost its aaa status, or as joe biden put it, what happens if i get a flat tire? >> china warned the u.s. its days of borrowing squandered money is over. maybe we shouldn't tell the chinese last week we spent $76 million to see the smurf movie. >> when you look at this final agreement we came to with the white house, i got 98% of what i want. i'm pretty happy. >> then you are the world's most disguided tangarine. >> america gets a aa-plus. that's us now. waffle eating kiwis putting mayonnaise on our french fries. >> whatever, john, just offering suggestions, i'm not the one freaking out because we owe some

people some money. turn off the lights. america's not here. jon, if you snitch, i will cut you. >> crazy stox like a hooker's drawers, up, down, up. this, folks, this is the analysis everyone can understand. you get a hooker, everyone's excited that her panties are up, then the underwear starts to drop, people start getting upset, grown men are crying, worried for their futures and their children's, then the hooker pulls her underwear up, happy days are here again, somebody rings a bell, and everybody goes home. >> michele bachmann is on the cover of the latest issue of "newsweek," have you seen the picture? if not, take a look. that's when you know it's bad when even you look surprised you're running for president.

>> no, no. no, it doesn't. that's not a "i'm gthe iowa" isn't it soon to do a female remake of "the 40-year-old virgin"? be honest, "newsweek," you used the picture to make her look crazy. >> getting heat for calling michele bachmann the queen of rage. when asked for comment, she said there's only one household, tha. here's the photo right there.no makes her look crazy, and that music comes with each issue. >> rick santorum will be there. his tent boasts rick santorum summer dance party, which, by the way, is the lowest testing

bet pilot ever. >> yeah. >> corporations are people, my friend. they are like members of your family, your brother fax machine, your uncle ben, your aunt annie, your mama celeste, your go daddy. >> when you cut your hair, it zapped your conservative strength, like a right-wing samson. rachel maddow is ten weeks away from a fox contract. >> oh, that image. late night hosts have the last word, you can have the last word on our blog, follow my tweets at @chrislhayes and watch my show. msnbc will have coverage of the ames straw polls, beginning at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. "the rac