and this stinks so bad, i can't believe that they're still rushing to push more through. >> neil: dagen, the reference to the dash for cash at the grocery store game show, you only have a set time before the end of the month, in the envelope department to use the 10 billion dollars on hand for whatever purpose or it goes away. so, the administration committed billions more t green initiatives, that might have the same same-- >> at least four companies have gotten money from the government since solyndra filed for bankruptcy and you have more than a dozen lined up just by the end of this month. and get more cash, but the problem is, something interesting that was uncovered just in the past week, is that when you get this kind of money from the government, it isn't spent well. you've got half a billion dollars going to solyndra and it looks like that could have pushed the company over the edge, they get the money and then build the factory and don't need and increases supply and investors won't come to the rescue. >> you've got a huge loser if you think about it. if you get more than half

>> net zero exposure it french banks, dagen. >> i'm not worried about the u.s. banks, so much better funded and capitalized than in 2008, but they. >> neil: they've been coughing up blood the last couple of weeks. >> they are, but we're not in any danger, with the liquidity-- coughing up blood means the stocks are down. >> losing money. >> the stocks are down. >> the stocks have tanked. do i have to do your job, too. >> the stocks are tanking because the economy is-- >> you say coughing up blood, it conjures up images of loses lots of money and taking huge write-downs on exposure to debt. >> bank stocks worldwide down a trillion dollars. >> worldwide. >> the european banks are a different story, but wouldn't they love to nationallize them. >> neil: charles. >> first of all, i mean, i don't know that the stock market is not a harbinger of things to come. it's not telling us, yes, they're coughing up blood, we're going to find out later. i agree agree, it may not be 2008, it's the son of 2008. the same dna and holding the-- >> did you see beneath the planet of the

here the culture warriors, dagen mcdowell in for margaret hoover and gretchen carlson.lson, we begin with you. this poll is surprising, right? >> the poll on sarah palin? >> bill: yes. >> not really. i'm not that surprised by it because i think that republicans know how much she got beat up in the press the first time around. they think that it's a advice really reaction to her by a lot of people, and so they want to win this election, so they probably are thinking she will not be able to beat president obama, so let's not even get her into the race at all. >> bill: you think, though -- what? >> she's spot on. >> bill: you think so? >> thank you, dagen. >> bill: i mean, many republican voters and democratic voters when she was on the other side, they get angry about the media attacks and say don't let that stop you. if you think you can go and you have a message, go. i don't know if that's really it, that it's all practical politics. >> no, but republican voters see the tabloid fodder out there, that the left would sling. look no further than that ridiculous book, the l