cr khrushchev. by the way, it would have made a lot of force of will, it took a lot of force of will to top that from being a nuclear catastrophe. no one will believe that president obama is learning unless he seems to be learning. nobody will believe the second term will be better than the first unless he lets it be known that he's learned from his mistakes in the first term. that's common sense. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. hey, republicans, you're pushing unpopular policies, and president obama knows who you are. there's no excuse for 100% of washington republicans to say no. that means that the republicans in washington are out of touch with republican voters. handling republican foot dragging in four easy steps. tonight, senator charles schumer is here live on why the gop con job is over.

>> thousands and thousands and thousands of white people can't pretend that they like me. >> candidate cain said race wouldn't be a factor in his campaign, but now he's the one playing the race card? >> excuse me. excuse me. >> give me a break. joe madison and dana milbank on the cain crumple. >> let's play "hardball." >> chris matthews joins us on why obama's poll numbers are climbing, and his new book "jack kennedy, elusive hero." and a dinner date? hope it doesn't turn into this. >> food fight! "politics nation" starts right now.

welcome to it was a day of fast-moving developments, new accusations, and herman cain naming names to who he thinks leaked the information to ignite this political firestorm. we begin with tonight's lead. the president is winning the argument over jobs. today he was pushing a $60 billion plan to fix our crumbling roads and bridges, and help the nation's unemployment crisis. but as expected, senate republicans are expected to block the bill. how do you win an argument with these people? if you're the president, you do it in four easy steps. step 1 -- name them to shame them. >> i can't imagine that speaker

boehner wants to represent a state where nearly 1 in 4 bridges is classified as substandard. when the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell visited that closed bridge in kentucky, he admitted, roads and bridges are not partisan in washington. that's a quote from him. paul ryan, the republican in charge of the budget process, recently said you can't deny that infrastructure does create jobs. >> that doesn't work? then go to step 2 -- win one with the gipper. >> now, if you don't want to take my word for it, take it from one of my predecessors, one of the previous presidents. he said, and i'm quoting here -- the bridges and highways we fail to repair today will have to be rebuilt tomorrow at many times the cost. that president was ronald reagan. we just put up a statue of him at the airport. since when do we have

republicans voting against ronald reagan's ideas? >> that's a good one. but step 3 is the clincher. when it doubt just preach the truth. >> you had legislation reaffirming that in god we trust is our motto? that's not putting people back to work. i trust in god, but got wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work. >> and the president's already mastered step 4 -- just keep hammering republicans with their own message -- where are the jobs? joining me now is new york senator chuck schumer, he's chairman of the senate democratic policy and communication center. thank you for being on the show tonight. >> good evening, rev. good to be on your show. >> let me ask you, senator, are

republicans being honest brokers in this whole jobs debate? >> i don't believe so, no. the president in working with us deliberately put pieces in the jobs bill they had always supported. as you mentioned earlier in the show this evening, they have always supported infrastructure and transportation. that's always been a bipartisan bill. so the payroll tax cut is a republican idea, to keep more money in people's pockets and get the economy going. they haven't come out for that. some break foss small business to expand, they're against it. they're almost ainst anything we do, so much so even things they have supported before, so much so that some people are asking -- i am one of those some people -- maybe thy they want the economy to be as bad as possible, because they think that's the best ad to electoral victory.

mitch mcconned said the number one goal is to defeat barack obama, and if that means defeating a jobs bill, i guess he'll do it and order his troops to do it. >> and senator schumer, you're a reasonable and thoughtful man, we're both from brooklyn. >> you bet. >> you are saying that now you're thinking that maybe they would even rink tanks the economy just to defeat this president? >> they certainly don't want to make it any better, that's for sure. you don't want to come to that conclusion, but the actions draw you in that direction. >> let me tell you why that doesn't seem extreme. let me show you nod what the president did. let me show you what they said out of your own mouths, and then they're going to vote against infrastructure. watch this, senator schumer. >> if you're a republican and you want to create jobs, then you need to invest in infrastructure that will allow us to create jobs. >> the basis for growth is infrastructure. this is the right way to go.

>> it's essential to our long-term -- >> talk about infrastructure, yet they're all talking about voting against it tomorrow. >> yeah, and the bottom line is if they would come to us and say how can we vote for it, we would work with them. some of them say it's because we want to raise the tax on incomes of over a million. that's not on millionaires. and, um, that's sort of -- even though 59% of republicans agree those folks should pay an increase in taxes, 80% of democrats, 70% of independents, they say that's their objection, but we go and say, well, then

tell us a way you will pay for it, they give no answer. they don't want to do anything. >> now, as you said, you have 58%, 59% of republicans even against their own plans. then let me play you something senator harry reid said and see if you agree with senator reid. >> my republican colleagues, they're in submission to a man whose singular focus is he keep taxes low the very, very wealthy, no matter the effect on this nation. they fear his political retribution. >> what do you say to that, senator schumer? >> yeah, they're all afraid of grover nor quist's pledge they all signed, the pledge never to raid any kind of tax. the bottom line is very simple. they care about the deficit. the republican party has always been the party of reducing the deficit. what created the deficit? you may remember, when bill

clinton left there was a surplus of $300 billion, when george bush left, there was a deficit of $800 billion. what created that? well, one of the major things was the bush tax cuts, so you can't believe in reducing the deficit and say aisle not going to be for any increase in revenues. and so they speak sort of out of both sides of their mouth. the democrats are really the party of deficit reduction, reverend. >> no question about it. let me go to the politics of it, by saying you introduced an amendment that authorizes congress to regulate the raising and spending of money for federal campaigns. this is important because they are groups spending a lot. politico reports that the koch brothers plan to spend $200 million in the 2012 election.

you combined that that's $440 million from outside interests in this campaign. this is amazing. >> and not only that, reverend, it doesn't have to be disclosed. the supreme court in citizens united did one of the worst things to america in the last 00 years. whether that was part of the conservative justice led by chief justice roberts' game plan to do that and tilt the political world so heavily in favored of the moneyed interests, i don't know, but again you have to think that. it is an outrageous decision, so tom udahl, jeff americaly, myself, michael bennett, dib durbin, we put in a bill that says repeal constitutional amendment buckley v. vallejo, which is the decision that equates dollars with speech. that is not true. dollars have never been speech, and the buckley v. vallejo

course is based on the first amendment. you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. you can't sell child pornography. you can't slander somebody. what is the most sacred value of our constitution? having democracy. the buckley v. vallejo decisions, and the citizens united, which is buckley on steroids, undos the democracy. it was an absurd decision, and we want to repeal it. >> now, do you feel that a lot of this money that is being poured in, and a lot of this changing the rules is because they're losing ground? when you look at the latest polls, not only is the president edging up, you have polls saying that 42% of people would vote democrat as opposed to 34% republican. >> yes. good, you're -- >> does that mean that congress may even -- we may see the house change a little?

>> one of the things we did, starting in august, and i played a role in this, and i'm proud of it, is we started focusing on jobs and the economy, and we started showing the american people who's for creating jobs, such as this infrastructure bill and who's against it. the president to his credit has called out republicans on it, day in and day out. it's changing the whole political structure. the president's numbers are going up. let me give you one interesting one. in august, who is better at creating jobs and getting the economy going? which by the way is the number one thing america wants you to do. you know what it is today? 49 democrat, 34 republican. and if that keeps happening, and i hope it will, and i am trying to get us focused on job bill after job bill after job bill, even if they defeat it, because it takes a while to get the message through, to get the reality through. if that keeps happening, we will

increase or majority in the senate and take back the house. now, i am -- i still care about the good of the country. i am hopeful our republican colleagues will not let those on the far right just run them ragged, but we'll see what happens. >> well, that's why there's a lot happening, but i start with jobs every night, because at the end of the day people need to work. the distraction shouldn't get us off of that. >> you bet. >> senator schumer thanks for your time this evening. >> reverend, it's good to see you, a brooklyn guy like you making good. >> all right. i feel the same way about you, sir. herman cain bombshell. he's now accusing rick perry's campaign of orchestrating the sectionium harassment scandal. now we're hearing about a possible third woman. all the developments straight ahead. plus president obama's fighting for the middle class, and america loves it. he's winning and republicans don't have an answer.

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welcome back to "politics nation." new signs today that president obama's jobs pitch is working. a new poll shows the president's approval rating has shot up 8% in just the last month. a sign his message on jobs is resonating. >> see, construction workers, they want to do their jobs. we need congress to do theirs. it's time for folks running around spending all their time talking about what's wrong with america, spend time to roll up their sleeves and help make us right. >> the approval rating is 47%, more than double the approval rating for republicans in congress at just 20%. joining me now is my friend, chris matthews, host of

"hardball" here on msnbc. he's just written a new book called "jack kennedy: elusive hero." it is out in book stores everywhere. chris, i want to talk about the book in a moment, but let me ask you what you make of these new poll numbers for the president? >> i think he's beginning to say "we" have you noticed rather than "i" watching what a brilliant man we have as president, but seen more now as the leader of the the people who having hurt by this downturn. i think he lost some of that in the last three years as chief executive, sort of isolated in the white house. >> so you think that he's captured the message of "we" and starting to relate to the pain of the voters, and that's why we're seeing the poll numbers go up? >> he has to be a "we." remember being on the mall on inaugural day? for the first time i've lived in washington for 40 years, this is the first time african-americans all came to the mall, their

national capital and felt that was their part of the town, too, and then sent everybody home. i felt, okay, you've done your job, go back to where you came from, i'm the president. i think he's got to rally the people and become our leader. he's got to find ways, and i don't know them yet, to bringing people in a mass way to participate. whether it's a big jobs programs or ccc, i don't know how he uses his power as xharder of the army to keep people in uniform while they have jobs, do things that ask us to do things. i think he'll have to ask the rich people, not just attack them, but ask the good ones to say we need fair taxes in this country, we've got people fighting for this country, you've got to do your share. i think he ought to shame them a bit. don't divide the country. at some point he's got to get past 50%. this will get him up to the high 40s, but at some point hi has to surpass the 50-point mark.

>> this crowd he's up against -- >> not the politicians. >> i think they scatter the crowd. >> i'm not talking about the politicia politicians. they're hopeless. i think there's some -- not just rich people, but people who make above the average say we ought to have fair taxes. that latest poll that we saw, 86% -- 86% -- agrees on nothing in this country, but 86% believes wall street has too much clout on capitol hill. >> no doubt about it. you wrote a book, and i thought no one could come with more inside information and things we didn't know on president kennedy, but you've done it. i've got the book, i read is it, "jack kennedy: elusive hero" is in book stores. you talk about some of the stories and insight things that we've never heard about president kennedy that's instructive today as we go into a presidential election. one of the things you know caught my eye is some of the

things during the civil rights movement. i was barely born and a kid during some of that time. i always felt that kennedy was dragging his feed. but you talk about how he actually did some steps that were courageous in private. one story you talk about is when mrs. king had made the call, he was put in jail, brought to another jail, and no one knew if he was in extreme danger, and this was during the '60 campaign. kennedy did something that nixon wouldn't do, and it really turned the black vote around. >> he did something, and it's always hard to know -- you never know what impulse in people makes them do the right thing at the right moment. he gets a call. what happened is mrs. king called her friend harris wattford, graduated from howard university law school as well as yale, really good guy, and louie martin, a great friend, a business guy from chicago, very active in the civil rights

movement. they were working together with kennedy. they got to sarge shriver, and he got to kennedy. mrs. king was scared to death. she was pregnant at the time. her husband had been arested on a hopped-up charge, hauled into the backwoods the georgia, she was scared to death he was going to get lynched. she called her friends, they went to the president, the president made the call to mrs. king expressing his sympathy for her, and then he got bobby, very resistant -- you talk about being resistant, his first impulse was we're blowing this campaign. he got ahold of the governor of georgia. the governor gave bobby a heads-up on how to deal with the judge. the judge released him, and then the real politics began. they went to philadelphia, got two ministers, they mimeographed, creating this pamphlet called the blue bomb, it was printed in blue ink, and

sent it to 2 million people. >> i found one. i've got that pamphlet. they put it into black churches. that's when many blacks, including his father, returned from republican -- dr. king's father had an "i'm a nixon man" took it off when kennedy helped get his son out. so much for being brainwashed. it was based on who political forward us, but fascinating part, where now he's president, and george wallace says i'm going to stand in the door at the university of alabama, stop a young black male and female from entering the qulufrt of alabama. what does the president do? >> the president went right back, sent nick catsenback, about eight feet tall, stood next to george wallace and pushed him out of the way. they registered those students in the university of alabama. that night, that president of the united states went on national television and said

that the civil rights of all americans is as fundamental as the american constitution, as deeply held as the bible. he insisted on the moral right of people to have the equal rights. it is so profound, no president, reverend, has ever done that. this is not only the right thing to do, have some rights, this is the american thing to do. it was so amazing that he made that statement in that moment of crisis. >> snow, let me tell you something that i -- when i was reading this, chris, what's fascinating. when you look at those two students, that young man and young woman walking into the university of alabama, what most americans don't know, which is why they need to read that book, that young lady had a little sister. that little sister married a young black lawyer years later. that young black lawyer is not the attorney general of the united states, eric holder. to think that the first black attorney general of this country -- the brother-in-law of

that sister that george wallace stood in the door, and john kennedy made him move, shows why some of us still believe if we stay on the road, we can make some change happen. >> and she's a physician and he's the attorney general of the united states, one of the brightest bulbs in the pack in this country. i'm so glad you see this deliverian that kennedy played a part. dr. king was the man, of course, but kennedy played a big role. >> kennedy was a visionary talking about put ago man on the moon. if he was facing the guys that president obama is facing, they probably would say it's not in the budget and call him all kinds of names, but he was able to raise the vision of the country. at that time, you had republicans that were actually -- dirk sen was eloquent. >> good man, back in the early

'50s, the republican party was a northern party, a lincoln party, and they all voted for the civil rights bill. the '64 once that really made ha difference in public accommodations, where you didn't have the "whites only" signs at the men's rest rooms. they outlawed all that. it was that dirksen was a big part of that. i still sometimes think if kennedy had been some sort of conservative democrat at a time, history wouldn't have gone as well as it did. it just wouldn't have. >> crist matthews, thanks so much. congratulations on the book. >> thank you. >> "jack kennedy: elusive hero," it's in bookstores everywhere, and you can catch chris on "hardball" weeknights here on msnbc at 5:00 and at 7:00. thanks, chris. still ahead, herman cain says rick perry's campaign is behind the sexual harassment

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nation." the herman cain scandal grew even larger today. they accused the perry campaign of leaking the information about sexual harassment complaints against him. in an interview today, cain called it a professional hit job by a former adviser, curt anderson, who now works for the perry campaign. moments ago, mark block, cain's campaign manager, the one in the commercial smoking, demanded an apology. >> actions of the perry campaign are despicable. rick perry and his campaign owe herman cain and his family an apology. both the rick perry campaign and politico did the wrong thing by reporting something that wasn't true from anonymous sources, and like i said, they owe herman cain and his family an apology. >> now, the perry campaign shot

back, quote, no one at our campaign was involved in this story in any way. any claim to the contrary is patently false. the first we learned of it was when we read the story in politico. this bombshell comes as associated press reports a third woman considered filing a workplace complain against herman cain when she worked for him in the 1990s. nbc has not independently confirmed this. the cain campaign called the allegation baseless, but he did show some signs of the pressure coming on his campaign is getting to him. >> let me say one thing, i'm here with the doctors and that's what i'm going to talk about. don't even bother asking me all these questions that you all are curious about. okay? don't even bother. >> but it's a good question. >> are you concerned about -- >> what did i say?

excuse me. excuse me. what part of "no" don't these people understand? >> joining me is dana milbank, national political reporter for "the washington post," and joe madison, talk show host on sirius/xm radio. dana, big developments today. now, let me ask you something, because i'm trying to follow this correctly. how do you accuse anderson in the perry campaign of leaking this? how did anderson of the perry campaign get this information in the first place? >> this is the normal course of things. he said first it didn't happen, then changed his story, then sailing various people were out to get him. i think this is another stage in that, in saying my opponents are the ones out to get me.

i don't think it's fruitful to go down the avenue of exactly what the mechanics are, but somebody close to cain, who turns against cain would have some goods on it, because you do opposition research on yourself, essentially. >> that's my point. here's what i'm trying to get to, dana. >> didn't they say that cain told him about an allegation that would been dealt with about sexual harassment, which was one of these cases? >> that's entirely possible, reverend, but many people knew about this, it turns out. many others were working on it. politico did get it first. my newspaper, "new york times," associated press. now, this is coming from many different directions. a lot of people were sitting on this because -- >> i got that. my point is this. listen to what herman cain said to "forbes" today, and i want your reaction, joe madison. he says to "forbes," quote, when

i sat down with my general counsel curt anderson in a private room, we discussed opposition research on me. it was a typical campaign conversation. i told him there was only one kay, one set of charges, one woman while i was at the national restaurant association. those charges were baseless, but i thought he needed to know about them. i don't recall anyone else being in the room when i told him. now, joe madison, that is a direct contradiction to several things. second they're quoting anonymous sources. he's the anonymous source if he told anderson himself about the accusation when anderson was working for him. >> you just answered the question. you're absolutely right. i mean, you have to go back only, what, two days or three days and you're dealing with a man who says he didn't know

anything about this. he tried to get us to believe there's a difference between a settlement and an agreement. he's got to have the worst advisers of any campaign that i have seen runs, and now this perry is responsible? you better have proof when you make these kinds of accusation. jim henson's muppets could run a better group of candidates than what the republicans have right now. i think what's going to put all this to rest and the reporters with the post and politico are going to get to the bottom of this, and it's going to be when the women cut out and they tell their side of the story. can you imagine sitting there listening in day in, day out, night in, night out, to someone on tv basically mall lining you

and you're not able to say anything? they're going to talk. >> even before we get to the woman part and their coming out, dana, my point is how do you say that these were anonymous stories that people were working on when the candidate is saying i told the guy the story, he said it was baseless, but you should have known when it was brought to you what it was about when you yourself briefed your campaign aide on this a couple years ago, a few years ago when you were running for the senate. >> we don't know if that's the case horrid in the -- >> well, he said it. >> he has to be at some point, because first he didn't know about the thing at all, and now is recall -- severaliers. they both can't be true at the same time. >> now, let me go with another element here, joe.

last night on fox he brought in race. let me play you this. >> there are some people who are democrats, liberals, who do not want to see me win the nomination. relative to the left, i believe that race is a bigger driving factor. i don't think it's a driving factor on the right. >> this is a man who says he thinks that race is a factor on the left. he just a few days ago said this about race. >> some people want to say they're still, you know, rampant racism in america. no it's not. it's not. i would recognize it if it were. it's about content of your ideas, character, and not about color. >> so three weeks ago. it was about content and character, but when there's questions right or wrongly raised about hi character, joe madison, now the left is about race, even though we're now

finding out by his own statement to "forbes," this is inform he gave a guy that he's claiming now is in effect using it against him because he's in another campaign. >> i'm going to remind the right of a young senatorial candidate named harold ford in tennessee, who was on his way to win that election. they threw in an ad red meat at certain people on the right. i don't want to generalize this, but i want to tell you what really upset me this morning. to hear people on the right, on the other channel, talking about our black folks are smarter than their black folks. since when did i become or you become a possession? what are you talking about "our black folk"? if the right does anything -- when you hear that kind of language that somehow suggests that i'm owned? it's absolutely ridiculous. that kind of discussion doesn't

take place on the left. i don't hear nancy pelosi talking about "our" they may say african-americans who are democrats, but they don't say our black people as if we are owned. this is the kind of language you get. herman cain better be very careful, because the women have not been identified. i'm not being racist here, but i'll remind the people of tennessee, the ads they saw in that last-minute campaign effort to defeat harold ford, it was like red meat thrown at the right and it brought down harrell ford's campaign. >> but harold ford was dealing with racial suggestions. these are actual settlements. we're not talking about innuendo. it either did or didn't happen, and either these women were telling the truth or not. let me say this, dana, the politics of it is that this man is all over the place. it's race one minute.

it didn't happen the next minute. it's i told -- it's perry did it -- let me tell you something, mr. cain. a wise man once told me a fish wouldn't get caught if he kept his mouth shut. dana milbank and joe madison, thanks for your time tonight. ahead, the fight over voters suppression just got tougher. we'll tell you what president obama is doing to fight for your rights. juice drink too watery? ♪ feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for unsurpassed fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion. could've had a v8.

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voter suppression in america is real, and it's happening right now, but good news, the fight is on. right, democrat it is? >> there is no more fundamental right than the right to vote. >> this seems to petty and so ridiculous that there would be a movement among a conservative group of people across the country to literally try to disenfranchise american citizens. >> it's a phantom menace, a fraud, the basis for a well-funded movement around the

country making it difficult for eligible voters to cast their votes. >> to all of the governors in all the states that have passed this legislation, please understand it is time for you to do the right thing. >> do the right thing, and if you don't, someone else will. today we learned the president is getting involved in the fight gheiting to repeal laws and educate voters, by fielding thousands of volunteers. and if you want to know why the president has joined the fight, just look. here's a map of the 37 states where we have seen voter suppression laws pushed this year. this is how many of those same states were won by president obama in 2008, only four states he won't to the fight for justice is on, and we can't

stop. joining me now, congresswoman gwen moore, democrat from wisconsin, who sits on the budget and financial services committees, and cochair of the women's caucus. she's also one of the democrats that spoke out against these voting laws last night. >> thank you for joining mess tonight. >> republicans say fraud is the reason for these laws. what do you say to that? >> i think that's absolutely proxy for disenfranchises hundreds of thousands of democrats. this is a problem, a solution in surge of a problem. when you look at extensive and extensive investigation of so-called voter fraud in wisconsin in 2008 after the 2000 election there were 20 cases of voter fraud. out of 3 million votes cast.

>> let's go slow on that. 3 million votes cast in wisconsin, and they came back with only 26, i think, we have cases of fraud? >> that's right. >> that's 7 10,000ths of a percent. not one of the single cases could have been involved by having an identification card. this is a clear effort to disenfranchise people. when you stop and look at the number of people in the united states who don't have this kind of identification, you'll see nationwide that 25% of african-americans don't have this kind of i.d. americans in general donnell have this kind of voter i.d., but when you look in wisconsin, you'll see that 70% of americans don't have this kind of idea 49% of african-american women, 59%

of hispanic women. when you look at the 18 to 24-year-old group, you'll find that 66% of african-american females, 18 to 24 don't have it, and 78% of african-american men between 18 and 24 don't have this i.d. >> let me say this, congresswoman, one of the significant points that people need to understand how insane this is, in your state, 3 million people voted, only 26 cases found of fraud. this is really motivate d it wa 414,000,818 votes. that's what he won by. voters lacking proper i.d. now in your state is 475,000, so the politics of this is that if they can stop people from voting,

it's the margin of victory next year in your state, and i would argue that's going around the country that is use the suppressive laws to try to -- >> that's absolutely the kay. there's no constitutional right that has been more protected than the right to vote. the 14th amendment, the 15th amendment, 919th, the 24th, the 26th amendment, and of course the voting rights act. there's no right, the right to bear arms, nothing is more protected that is the right to vote action and so i think that, you know, if all is fair in politics, it is certainly un-american and unconstitutional to suppress these voting rights i think we are seeing just the beginning of an effort to

suppress the vote. >> we've got to fight back, congresswoman. >> we do. >> thank you for your time tonight and good luck. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ when the things that you need ♪ ♪ come at just the right speed, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ medicine that can't wait legal briefs there by eight, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ freight for you, box for me box that keeps you healthy, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪

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in washington, you want to keep your friends close and your political opponents even closer. tonight vice president joe biden is wining and dining none other than republican majority leader eric cantor. a gop aide says kantor and biden are buds, quote, they've been trying to get together for sometime and really enjoy hangin'. the last time we saw these two back in june, kantor was walking out of the biden budget talks in a huff. apparently that's all water under the bridge, but if things are still a bit tense, the vice president could set kantor at ease with a little mood music.

i know just the thing. ♪ imagine there's no pizza ♪ i couldn't if i tried ♪ ♪ eaten only tacos -- >> i feel calmer already. of course, before anyone takes a bite. they may want to have their food tasters nearby. when it comes to the menu, i'm sure kantor will say everything is on the table aside from raising taxes. he should be eating crow when it comes to the stimulus. earlier this week we showed you this letter from 2009 revealing that kantor was privately begging for stimulus money for his home state while criticizing the stimulus in public. well, mr. biden, many progressives say why do you guys keep trying