carnahan in missouri and claire mccaskill -- they're hearing from their constituents. latest victim, mccaskill. roll the tape. >> the people in congress and the senate, are they going to be willing to be on the same plan they're asking us to be on? sean: there is an open revolt. the polls are showing obama is below 50. the country does not want this but they're still trying to ram this through fast. >> americans, let your voices be heard. that's what the principles of this country are founded on. go to these people, tell them you are not satisfied -- sean: tell them sean hannity sent you. >> tell them sean hannity sent you. sean: but also this revolt is coming from the democrats themselves. it's more inphyting than we have seen since obama has taken office. is that why he wants to push this through so fast? >> he knows the people are getting sick of this. they didn't buy into this. missouri is one of those swing states. as days go by, the polls are getting worse and worse. whether it's health care, the economy, or whatever, it's just tanking. >> interesting numbers, se

we saw what happened to kathleen sebelius and claire mccaskill. get beaten up when they go in front of an audience. they will go home, these politicians, over recess, and their constituents will be out there in numbers, and that is going to change this debate radically. >> this will be a bad august, and i think the extraordinary thing about this debate -- mitch mcconnell has been out on the floor every day, hammering it, but the thing that is dragging it down here is the division among democrats that just one dressing. the cbo director elmendorf, who is an analyst, and the sheer weight of the plan, and it's nonsensical nature -- it is falling on its own weight every day -- its nonsensical nature. sean: he keeps going back to this mantra, "blamed bush, blame bush, blame bush," talking about the debt, when he, in fact, quadrupled in one year. >> as a practical political matter, it is already over. it was over when he passed the stimulus and maybe outrageous claims about what the stimulus would do, which are being discredited every day. and, sean, th

that statement from clair mccaskill. lou? >> ideal certainly that one would hope would be observed every day on capitol hill in every day, as they say. thank you very much. terrific story, lisa. thank you. >>> there are nearly 11,000 lobbyists trying to directly influence congress. typically they are former federal official, presidential appointees, cabinet members, congressional aides, former senators and catholic men. it worked out to 20 lobbyists for every member of senate in the house. to hear my outs on that issue and issues that dominate the news, join me on the radio, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. each afternoon. go to loudobbs.com to get the local listings for the lou dobbs show on the radio and follow me on twitter. lou dobbs news@twitter.com. >>> governor sarah palin's resignation could actually help her political career. that's the subject of tonight's face-off. is it a correct assertion? >>> schools across the country consider charging students for extra curricular activities. >> we're so strapped for cash that sometimes you

. >>> and democratic senator claire mccaskill and what she twittered late last night about the healthsupport the pubic option on health care reform, but must make sure private market can kpet. -- compete. but nine minutes later she tweeted again, correcting her mistake, "public option." let's bring in michael ian black. currently starring in the comedy on comedy central. good evening, michael. >> good evening, david. >> let's start with joe the plumber, a pretty wide range of opinion about him, even among republicans. care to offer yours? >> well, first of all, i'm a huge joe the plumber fan. everything that he says, i'm fascinated to hear it. i love his opinions. his insightfulness, and his craziness. but it's interesting that on one hand he said, i'm, quote, not just a dumb plumber. but he also said -- no, he said he was a dumb plumber, but he also said, i'm not some ignorant redneck who doesn't have anything to say about anything. so it sounds like he was maybe contradicting himself a little bit, but that's the genius of joe. he can talk out of both sides of that plumbing mouth. >>

senator claire mccaskill learned that the hard way.her views on health care she wrote this. i support the pubic option on health care reform but must make sure private market can compete. working on that in the senate. a few minutes later she corrected the typo. adding big mistake, tweeting when dead tired. one more time spelled right. i support public option, as long as private can compete. >> when you tweet the letters go in slowly so you don't realize you made a typo. >>> when it comes to fashion, president obama says it's simple. he doesn't like to shop, which the first lady has also said about him. the president caught some heat after wearing a pair of simple baggy jeans when he threw out the first pitch -- >> what's wrong with those? >> i don't see anything wrong. he threw this out at the all-star game. today meredith vieira asked the president about his fashion sense during a recent interview. >> i heard they were cracking on my jeans. >> dad jeans. called them nerd jeans. you are married to one of the most fashionable women in

in missouri, and a claire mccaskill town hall, and so many showed up they had to move it. and senator mccaskill was not there. but there were mastiff argsive eruptions. people really care about this. a big meeting. >> yeah, meetings can be very eventful. >> the governor needs money. >> yeah, let's make money by taxing plastic surgery. >> people on wall street probably have a lot, so they could pay for it themselves. i like it. just like legalizing marijuana in california, they are going to drill for oil, and now tax plastic surgery. >> i understand barney frank is here. so we will take and break and then come back and talk to him. we'll have that conversation after this. 90s slacker hip-hop. ♪ singer: buckle up, everybody 'cause we're taking a ride ♪ ♪ that can strain your relationships and hurt your pride ♪ ♪ it's the credit roller coaster ♪ ♪ and as you can see it kinda bites! ♪ ♪ so sing the lyrics with me: ♪ when your debt goes up your score goes down ♪ ♪ when you pay a little off it goes the other way 'round ♪ ♪ it's just the same for everybody, every boy and girl ♪ ♪

claire mccaskill was apparently tweeting late at night and wrote i support the pubic option on healthould have done that so many -- i probably have done that. >> you know what? i didn't even read it as a mistake the first time i read it. nine minutes she corrected her mistake. big mistake tweeting when you're tired. i support public option is what it should have said. >> come on. >> al franken put forward his new first bill here. >> really some. >> yeah. he thinks it's time for the government to pay for service dogs for wounded iraq and afghanistan veterans. he's a major u.s. o-boosten and entertained troops in afghanistan and you think that would be something that would already be done, wouldn't you? >> you would. you have conversations with our veterans and tell you not a lot there. >> who is going to vote against that? nobody is. >> good politics. take care of the no-brainers. we're so busy on the hookers, pot and gay marriage. anyway. we're going to take a break. we take breaks all the time. >> we have to pay the bills. >> when we come back, where there is hail, there is a way. ho

claire mccaskill on twitter today says we simply cannot afford any more taxpayer dollars to extend cash for clunkers. the idea was to prime the pump, not subsidize auto purchases forever. does she have a point, democrat? >> no. it's $1 billion. we have already spent $180 billion to prop up aig. i have no idea what we got for that. i don't know if that was wise. for $1 billion, we have -- it's good energy policy because it's helping wean us off of foreign oil. it's good environmental policy because these are cleaner cars. it's good economic policy and it's actually very cheap. only in washington could you have a program that's so wildly successful that people are clamoring to get into it and have people say we shouldn't do it. >> good economic policy? >> debatable. the question was how many cars were bought anyway? even in a recession, 9 million cars get bought in america. people kind of thinking buying a car this year at some point, this might have gotten them into a show room. there's no doubt the politics of this are great because every congressman and senator has a lot of cars in the

but claire mccaskill cannot sell it. she can't do it. >> i will sell it?issouri, you are not. >> watch us. >> a lot of financial ties between some of the medical special interest groups, and the blue dogs. does that put more pressure on the blue dogs because it makes them look bought off by money interests? >> i would never say a member of congress is unduly influenced. but the blue dogs need to listen to what these insurance companies have been doing with regard to cutting people off. >> you just brought up insurance. >> nancy pelosi, saying the insurance companies are carpet-bombing public opinion and immoral, she adds. >> well, nancy pelosi is my speaker, and i respect her. i do believe when you read the "washington post" article this morning, too much money is being spent. i think the blue dogs are going to put themselves in a position -- >> would you agree with nancy pelosi, are insurance companies immoral? >> i think what they are doing are immoral? >> i think they are bringing great harm to the american people -- >> are they immoral? do you agree wi

. >> claire mccaskill. >> he needs to call the two democrats from arkansas in, he needs to call themoval office and say -- >> they stay centrist and what does he say to the house democrats. >> he says look at 1993. you've got a choice to make nancy pelosi. do you want to stay in the majority or do you want to have it your way? we can do it like democrats in the house did in '93 and '94 and lose control of the house or we can worry about moderate democrats who are not going to follow us over the cliff. >> why do you think -- >> what does that look like? >> i don't know. you would have to ask evan buy. i think you've got to figure out if you can't in sure 47 million americans, you've got to in sure enough of those americans -- i would start with the young. i would narrow my focus. i would do something that will not save health care because they don't have the political will to do that, give the american people something that will make them feel better about themselves. we're taking care of this segment of the population that never had health care before. did i get 47 million? no, unfor

and the look on the face of the staffer from clair mccaskill's office. she was very professional.there and took notes of everything i said. brian: what was her response though. did she say don't worry about it, i think you guys are all wrong. i think you are misinterpreting this bill. >> no. she said she would take that information back to the senator and voice my concerns about her. i certainly hope that she does because, you know, this is a pretty big step for our officials to be taking when it's not in the con constitution. gretchen: it is a big step. the bill is more than 1,000 pages long. we have a congressman on record today from speaking at the national press club yesterday congressman conyers who says why shouldn't we read these bills? what do you think of elected officials and whether or not they should read the bills. >> i think they should be required to read every bill. more importantly they should be required to read the u.s. constitution. maybe on national television. maybe on your show before they even swear in to take the oath of office. brian: do you believe that

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down to -- we've been saying it here consistently -- it comes down to democratic senators like clair mccaskillgoing to win in a state that mccain won. it comes down to evan bayh, a state that's probably going to go republican in 2010, that always goes republican -- didn't last time. the senators in arkansas, mary landrieu in louisiana. that's -- that's the center of the democratic party. the center of the democratic party has held this up. i think that's why we are where we are. >> lawrence o'donnell, should we keep him? >> yeah. >> okay. all right. >> that's all the material i've got. >>> coming you, blue dog democratic congressman baron hill. and we'll check in with cnbc's erin burnett live at the new york stock exchange. >>> and guitar heroes. oscar winning director david guggenheim turns up the volume with his new documentary. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. >>> welcome back to "morning joe." let's get back to business here. with us now, democratic representative from indiana and member of the joint economic committee, congressman baron hill. congressman hilled is is the

dave: plenty of democrats are against it including claire mccaskill and harry reid, but only roughlyher hand talk about a second stimulus? what they really need is a do-over, isn't it? >> well, look, this was poorly designed. when you design a program as badly as this one is, you can't rescue it here. look, this has money in there for obesity counselors and smoking cessation counselors. i don't know too many unemployed smoking cessation counselors. only 5% is for infrastructure. i know a lot of people in construction are out of work, but this program only had 5% aimed at that, 95% aimed at something else. the problem is today. less money will be spent in this fiscal year than will be spent between october 1 of 2011 and september 30th of 2019, there will be more money spent then. the house republicans put forward a comprehensive plan that was actually much, much better, they used a model of the obama white house, and using the obama's white house own model the republican house program costs less than half as much and generated jobs much more quickly and generated 50% more jobs, and we

what if you were claire mccaskill in missouri, if you were evan bayh, what if you were the pro-life,nt make your job easier going home to the august recess? >> i think he did two things. that front, yes, i did. number one, when he singled out a tax hike that he might be comfortable with, he used the word millionaire and millionaire only. he did not allow that number to get into the income levels. that was number one. the second thing that i thought he did was by not really explaining the public insurance option, which was to me the -- one of the things he didn't explain very well, and at least to me was code for, well, if you tell me about this co-op and explain it to me a little bit more, i might be open to it. and the fact that, joe, i would like to explain the co-op. it's like the role of electric utilities, it's like a credit union. i guess i kind of get it but, boy, explaining it to average americans isn't going to be easy. they almost have to use it to understand it at the end of the day. and i think -- but signaling an openness that he's not -- he didn't sit there and throw it

clair mcaskill saying it's a nonstarte but politico runs down the list of democrats ping-pongi. >> they're facing a problem. the midterm elections are next year. i don't k about senars whitehouse or mccaskill, but i'm re many wo are running next year might be running scared, they'll be up for reelection with an economy that's still in the toilet and with an unemployment rate that might be in thuble digi. so thas what i thinks ginning up a lot of this. again, as you chiron this stimulus, it's a pr probm. >> the dnc h put together, related republican leader bain boehn boehner, here's what t dnc is running. watch. >> annouer: this weekend john boehner said this about the economic recovery act passedy congress. >> in ohio, the infrastruure dollars thatre sent ere mont ago, there hn't been coract let. >> announcer: bus hi own stats newspaper founthat boner was flat wrong. johnhner from the par of no to the party of no fas. >> nathan, is that that effective? is that theright message fo democrats to have when they're getting pressure on the economy? >> sure. it's sort of beating back this drumbeat from the republicans who have been against this from the very ginning and, you know, having that a p