agents and forced to miss your flight because the bush cheney fear mongering tells us we should worry that our own children are trying to blow up our planes or this young boy bound to a wheelchair who also had to be felt up by t.s.a. agents to ensure that he wasn't a terrorist threat as well think about this we're subjecting our children to abuse because bush and cheney decided to use fear to get political capital even in israel where they actually are surrounded by countries have declared war on them they don't grope kids or x.-ray people in their airports all our fear has driven us to the pause of national insanity. but in norway where christian and terrorists anders breivik murdered seventy seven innocent civilians most of them children who he says by the way he killed because they looked like liberals his words the people there refused to succumb to fear even though breivik isn't alone there are plenty of hate filled racists in norway just like there are pretty much every other country in the world but rather than screaming about terror and fear and calling for brother head on a s

that in two thousand after the bush cheney election there was a dramatic acceleration in drilling activity both had received large contributions from oil and gas interests and the vice president had been the chief executive of halliburton a major player in the drilling industry. in the days of our growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are by. i don't feel for transportation electricity in manufacturing whatever i hope you get enough of an alternative source and for conserving energy and that's part of our plan the reality is a muslim you'll supply virtually one hundred percent of our transportation needs many democrats thought the bush cheney energy policy they felt they were shut out of the process of developing the nation's approach to energy this administration is a gas and oil administration frankly and so they're they're wedded to an old policy they're wedded to a twentieth century policy when we need a twenty first century policy you have the bush administration you know to all mean it's a very tough and they aren't sympathetic they

supply virtually one hundred percent of our transportation needs and many democrats fought the bush cheney energy policy they felt they were shut out of the process of developing the nation's approach to energy but this administration is a gas and oil administration frankly and so they're they're wedded to an old policy they're wedded to a twentieth century policy where we need a twenty first century policy you have the bush administration you have to mean at the very top and they aren't sympathetic they're making very serious mistakes because they talk to themselves and the energy companies and only themselves in the energy companies we don't know what other provisions may have been and it is a special interest provisions that that are easy to add in when you're writing one of these bills in secret in two thousand and five the administration's energy bill passed with support from members of both political parties it provided the gas and oil industry. of dollars in subsidies tax breaks and research money sixty five percent of the current subsidies go to gas and oil and you have this imbala

bush and dick cheney went to work turning a budget surplus into a deficit. huge tax cuts. they started two wars without paying for them. and charge, bush and cheney had led the country into an economic freefall which dick cheney has the nerve to blame on president obama? meanwhile, the bush administration had the worst job creation record since at least 1939. and that's not all. after the 9/11 attacks happened on their watch, bush and cheney decided to go to afghanistan only to shift focus to pursue a second war in iraq looking for nonexistent weapons of weapons of mass destruction. the war worked out great for dick cheney's halliburton and the company's multibillion dollar military contracts. it did not work out so well for the united states treasury not to mention the more than 4,000 american soldiers who lost their lives and tens of thousands who were wounded. meanwhile, bush and cheney decided it was okay for the united states of america to go ahead and torture. to top it all off, while a great american city was drowning, president bush glanced down at a

. >>> dick cheney says the obama administration is a disster. does he remember the bushdministration? i'll remind him, next. >>> one colorado congressman hopes a slowed economy is the key to his re-election. state representative joins me t respond. >>> well, three weeks after dick cheney received a heart transplant he's back out this public trashing president obama. over the weekend cheney spoke at the wyoming state convention. >> i can't think of the time when i felt it was more important for us to defeat an incumbent president than today with barack obama. i think he's been an unmitigated disaster for the country. >> unmitigated disaster. i'll show you what an unmitigated disaster. as soon as they took office, george w. bush and dick cheney went to work turning a budget surplus into a deficit. they gave their rich buddies huge tax cuts. they started two wars without paying pr them. by tend of their eight years in charge, they led the country into an economic free fall which dick cheney has the nerve to blame on president obama. meanwhile the bush administration had the

if you give credit to bush and cheney. and cheney that read the first ad of 2004 using the site of ground zero to politicize. that's politicizing it. >> eric: what? bush and cheney did what? >> bob: if it's not spiking the football -- >> dana? >> dana: president obama, that was an ad. i think to a person, everybody is supported and grateful and thankful for what the commander-in-chief, president obama did on that day. i don't know when president clinton says he made, he made that harder decision. i don't know why it was harder. if they put out an ad today, that said this happen, thank you the seals, tough decision, done. >> dana: we should celebrate. this is a good day. they had to take it one step further. overplaying their hand and suggesting that mitt romney wouldn't have done the same thing. that is the difference. why did they step on their own message? >> bob: because the choice is send a drone in, which is an easier call to make. or chance of collateral damage. >> kimberly: predator drone in pakistan -- >> bob: we d

meanwhile bush and cheney decided it was okay for the united states of america to go ahead and torturegreat american city was drowning, president bush glanced down in air force one before heaping praise on an incompetent leader. >> you're doing a heck of a job. >> after the bush-cheney track record, dick cheney is the last person in the country to be saying president obama is an unmitigated disaster. >>> a campaign manager let the cat out of the bag when it comes to gas prices. they feel good about the economic news. we'll talk to his democratic opponent about a republican strategy of rooting for bad news. stay with us. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. monarch of marketing analysis. with the ability to improve roi through seo all by cob. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. i'm going b-i-g. [ male announcer ] good choice business pro. good choice. go national. go like a pro. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus

i think it's also what's important to remember is that under the bush/cheney year, cheney had no qualmst all talking about national security and wrapping this tell around the political choices people made. i think matt welch is absolutely right that there was no resistance at all among gop circles in doing what they're now accusing president obama of doing. but i think what's different is that obama would be a done president had he failed, had that helicopter had a disaster and had people come out with either casualties. so it's a remarkable gamble and i think they're trying to show that when obama weighs all the issues, he acts like a commander in achiechief and sets things i motion even amidst differences of opinion around him. >> two things this brings up. one is the decision making and he was decisive and he made the right decision in this case. but the second thing is has it made uts safer. obviously osama bin laden was symbolic of the al qaeda movement. the question was how much influence was he having at that point. let me read for you part of an op-ed from the "wall street journ

in two thousand and four the bush cheney administration's environmental protection agency asserted that fracturing does not threaten drinking water this was child lynched by a thirty year e.p.a. environmental engineer weston wilson acting under protected whistleblower status the former chairman c.e.o. of halliburton cheney within a few months of coming into office and as vice president he was pressuring the administrators of b.p. christie todd whitman to exempt hydraulic fracking from safe drinking water act regulations my own point of view as a technician. i just thought it very alarming that he a technically had described how toxic these materials are toxic at the point of injection and still come out with a summary that says they don't need to be reported or regulated. and that led me in the fall of zero four to object on technical grounds then the inspector general of e.p.a. began an investigation of my complaints. and several months into that congress took the report from e.p.a. saying that fracking did not present a risk along with other information and exempted hydraulic fracking

taking on ohio's secretary of state jake kenneth blackwell who also happens to be co-chair for the bush cheney campaign in ohio a let me just remind you of a few of the facts. ken blackwell called it a model lection. but we're trying to figure out what is was he talking it was a leave these first clue ghassan said it was not a single act of irregularity and it's investigative reporter that's true there were tens of thousands of acts of irregularities in a single precinct in ohio that total of six hundred thirty eight ballots were cast on election day bush received over four thousand of them. twenty four point nine three percent of all the voters in cleveland were purged a city that went eighty three percent for kerry. seven thousand voters lost their right to vote in the inner city of toledo. because the bolt optical scan machines froze up warren county as the last county in ohio to come in with their vote totals and they locked down the place where they're counting the votes and they want to allow any witnesses in one allow any media and they say because of the homeland security threat and ye

walmart officials have as much chance to be prosecuted as bush-cheney did for war crimes." that's his point of view. where will the investigation and charges actually lead? is there a possibility of a criminal prosecution? >> there is a possibility. i actually think that one of the bigger criticisms of enforcement is they haven't gone after high-level executives at some of these major companies. seimens payed $800 million to settle bribery charges and none of their executives are in jail. i think the justice department has said they've gotten more serious going after individuals and they've shown that to a degree. there are some statute of limitations here. it's a five-year statute of limitation, and looks like this was going on before that. there are ways that prosecutors can get around that but they're going to be looking hard at the executives and will be thinking strongly about charging them. >> in addition to criminal proceedings what are some of the other enforcement mechanisms or tools the federal government has to enforce the act? >> so the law is jointly enforced b

unlike richard nixon and his lies, neither president bush nor his vice president cheney have ever beenirs. however, a new book called "cheating justice" says the evidence exists and it is not too late to bring both to stand up for their actions. i'm pleased to say the book's author joins us now. welcome. >> thank you. great to be here. >> now, being the worst president and vice president in history isn't necessarily a crime but which specific laws do you believe they broke? >> well, as a former prosecutor and as a former member of the house judiciary committee during watergate, i spend a lot of time taking a look at the statutes. i saw big abuses of power. that's one thing to abuse power and one thing not to do the right thing. it is another thing it appears these criminal statutes may well have been violated by president bush and vice president cheney. >> you're talking about them deliberately -- and knowingly. it is called conspiracy to defraud the united states. that does not, that would entail the deceptions that were involved in going to war in iraq. the second statute has to do w

do republicans support violence against certain women and is the time our war criminals you know bush cheney rumsfeld among others got the public trial they deserve those questions and more in the night's big picture rumble and saturday is national workers memorial day a day of remembrance for working men and women who have been injured sickened or killed on the job and unfortunately our nation has a lot of remembering to do and action to take i'll explain closed religious. freedom once conversations in the great minds i'm joined by dr james lowe and dr alone as a sociologist historian and author a graduate of carleton college who received his doctorate doctorate in sociology from harvard university he taught race relations for twenty years at the university of vermont and has been an expert witness in more than fifty civil rights and voting rights and employment legal cases among dr loans many awards and honors is the first annual speed back award from the american sociological association for sociological research applied to the field of intergroup relations are too low and is currently th

. >>> still ahead investigating the misconduct of the bush-cheney administration.et's check in with jennifer grandholm. how is it going? >> it's going great. we're looking at mitt romney campaign strategy of following the leader around but actually we have a great pollster who released the poll today, the leader seems to be president obama he is six points ahead. we'll talk with the man who did the poll. very exciting. we'll have our host our cohost liberally talking stephanie miller. >> excellent. mitt romney has become the stalker. i think the secret service is going to get after him and say you can't do this. >> it's an amazing strategy and we all know that it happens -- >> absolutely. >> we'll talk about it. >> all right. more "viewpoint" coming up next. have a great show, jennifer. >> thank you. >>that partnership in order to invest in our country is critical. >>driven to find the truth. >>how did romney get his groove back? >>fearless, independent and above all, politically direct. as i understand it in radio they can't see you, so this is big for me. >>tv an

there that have now been inspired to take action and that build up largely occurred during the bush/cheneyears and what president obama has been doing, and i was skroekijoking around, with many of those people at the white house correspondents dinner a year o. iaedo ln n tks d in immediately identifying the connections and the ecosystem in which bin laden operated, then this would be a failure. but what we've seen is a very steady roll up targeting of many other senior al qaeda lieutenants, executives, plot managers, and we'veeen t ceerit nio o t igall edneoran ma othafliescy ti oth orin aqaa twk d nyf e fi. rolling up this network continuing to operation. so i think the momentum has been on the side of the administration and t pentagon and cia and our allies frankly who have been key partners in this in really taking down what was such a horrible threat for so long. >> and obviously this is serious business, but you you bring up the white house correspondents dinner in part because it was about the one year anniversar it wassed r forejokes incling this oyth pridt. >>asye ath mein fa o tsv

not time that we stop listening to the torture apologists and begin criminal proceedings against bush cheney rumsfeld in the and the others who really deserve their day yes so so we're going to reload agape the whole debate that this country basically already had we had two thousand and eight election where are we at the two thousand six like that was not a court action ok but so votes and we're talking about criminalizing this stuff was so you're suggesting was which was legal under under the law that was that this was how the bush administration's lawyers interpret of the law and does what it was legal under the law doesn't mean it was legal under the water could mean is there a lawyer is were committed and then john you and jay bybee should be injured should be well. doc as well i would go to i disagree with that entirely but we both look i mean one of mine is this the other one is this study was done by a completely democratic because the first lady the republicans refused to participate he had a door was open to modern guys let's have a congress that's correct they don't because they're

well the orders went out from president bush and vice president cheney and that these high high valuesuspects were to be given enhanced interrogation techniques and that a course meant that it needed a secure place to do them the story broke in a crash many years ago but not its own out of holes pretty much it made it that a small site there was condoned by the secret service at all and by their intelligence people and by their top officials you know how it came to be of course it is probably some money that passed hands i won't get you very interested in the results of this investigation to see how much the head of the intelligence was able to crew from this kind of thing but the general thing is just for iraq wait for me . if if you don't realize i used to be an expert on the soviet union and these the kinds of things stalin did and this is a case that makes the nazi did not use did in world war two and so it's very very awkward for me to be talking about cruel inhuman and degrading punishment whether or not waterboarding was included by my own government is there anything this is a

post-bush cheney. the party did have to nominate something else for the 2008 race. the party nominated john mccain for president and sarah palin for vice president. no one would say that either of them have emerged as leaders of their party. who is running it? what does the republican party stand for after george w. bush? who is the republican party after george w. bush? today on the day that mitt romney all but locked up the republican party's next nomination for president, today we learned that the republican party post-george w. bush is the republican party of george w bush. in a strange con influence of political news, george w. bush picked tothd to gather headliner republicans, governors like chris christie of new jersey and members of congress like paul ryan of wisconsin. george w. bush picked today to convene in manhattan, a who's who of current republican politicians to campaign for keeping his tax cuts. wow. the still deeply unpopular president has kept a low profile but his emergence today of all days heading up a tax conference did put him squarely back i

mccain and palin, bush and cheney. dole goes to kemp. bush senior goes to quayle. >> right.george h.w. bush in '80 is the fascinating one. it proves it's not always a tonally moderate candidate that wins the nomination. reagan clearly was a conservative's conservative. but he was not an establishment guy. george h.w. bush, he was the establishment's establishment. >> i remember in 1980, his slogan was, a president we won't have to train. let's look at some of the people likely to be on the short list. on the one hand, you have the potential game changers. they include marko rubio, new jersey governor chris christie, bobby jindal, paul ryan, susanna martinez. on the other hand, romney might look to safer bets, bob mcdonald, tim pawlenty, ohio senator rob portman. eugene, i can't see him throwing a long ball the way mccain did four years ago. i joked earlier today, i think he has some alga rhythm he's be applying. in terms of the list we just showed you, anything jump out? >> i agree with you. i think it's unlikely that he goes for a game changer. i think it's much more likely

and something that has not been talked about in media much, is the bush cheney administration kept talking about al qaeda and bin laden, but they were at war with other foes. they used them as a threat to hang out there when they needed to pump up the budget. truth be told, they diminish the resources down and closed down the hunt for bin laden except for a very small priority. president obama came in and made it a requirety. it's not just killing bin laden, but obama reversed the flow to catching and killing hem and realized there was no way to get out of afganistan without killing bin laden. >> the fact that you say, and rightfully so, there was some even in the president oes own administration that was not sir or was opposed to the attack really is what i'm addressing when mitt romney says today, any president, even jimmy carter would do it. but everyone was not with it. so it's really to oversimplify what happened to act like this was an easy call. it was not even a unanimous decision in the obama administration. >> that's right, it's sloppy to call this an easy call. presidents are fa

. >> put that $53 million perspective in march of 2004, the bush-cheney campaign raised $26.2 million in a tote of 45 million. the spokesman for the president, susan page is the washington borough chief. and dan walls is the washington chief correspondent. i want you to react to a comment david plouffe said about superpac is in general. >> this is no way for our democracy to work. you've got a few dozen who are going to write $50 million checks to try and purchase the white house for governor romney. >> you're trying to raise $7 million checks at your superpac, is he hurting your cause? >> better learn to love it, here we are, it's the law of the land, i look at what we do, i'm not a lawyer, i'm not going to be on the supreme court, i'm not running for congress, so unless the supreme court or the congress does something about it, these are the laws that woo we' we're going to have raise money under. >> it may be three months of silly season. by time we get to the conventionings, that both biographies of mitt romney and barack obama will be a mess. >> that's an interesting notion and h