let's see, let me see, the democratic party is the status quo party until they get the opportunity to ratchet up the state in a big way, which has been the story of most of the last century, after which they sit back and protect the new status quo and republicans are supposed to be fine with this? this is base stealing that would astound ricky henderson. "the culture and ideological center of the republican party must change if u.s. democracy is to regain its health." this amounts to saying the republican party should return to its historic role as the last century playing the washington generals to the democratic party's harlem reformtrotters as i call them or a return to accommodating moderation that trampted eugene mccarthy to say the principal use of moderate republicans is to shoot the wounded after the battle is over. i suspect that the mannstein ideal of good government would be president david gergen. is the republican party extreme? i can only answer i certainly hope so. let us recall that the republican party began its life as an extremist party, dedicated to the purpose of

>> i think he does bring the democratic party into nebraska's history. there were democrats here before the campaigns, but he elevates the democratic party in its stature in nebraska. here obviously he's a major figure in nebraska history, but the local legacy, of course, is this home and the hospital. which bears his name. >> jon is joining us from san francisco as we look at the life and political career of william jennings bryan. go ahead, please. >> caller: bryan publicly defended the ku klux klan in the 1924 democratic national convention. did he also privately embrace the practice of lynching in the south? >> he did not defend the klan in 1924. i'm not defending him. the debate in the 1924 democratic convention in new york city was about whether to denounce the klan by name or not. he believed that democrats should win over the klan rather than denounce them. he certainly had supporters who were in the klan, but it's unfair to say he was a supporter of the klan. he was not. he was a racist against african-americans. we consider him that now. he did

where was the democratic party when all of this was going on? where was -- this is what parties are organized for. how is it you can have 25 or 26 legislatures who have gone through the past two years doing this and the democratic party didn't know anything about it? i mean, we're pulling up the rear. and now we've got to figure out how we are going to get ms. jones, who is 80 years old, to the polls because she doesn't have any i.d. i mean, so we're doing this work. so now institutionally, the church, you are so generous to us. you let us come and you speak in your churches. and we get up and we say all the good things. don't nobody ask us any questions. we don't have to answer anybody. we just tell people all this good stuff we've been doing. all right? and we get away with it. stop letting us do that. stop letting us do that. as a matter of fact, i want you to have your social justice committee or whatever you have in the church. i want you to know my voting record when i get there. and i want you to go down that list and you say, well, now yo

post 1924 history and from 1924 until today, the gop has been the party of the right and the democratic party has been the party of the left and it was a great quote from fdr in 1924, and i think he was governor of new york at the time. the lesson that he concluded from 1924 and that he gave to the democrats was he said never again should we -- i think he said never again should we wear the conservative. basically, we've got to go in the other direction and that's one lesson they think the democrats have certainly learned. history would show they haven't gone back on that and the two parties stayed pretty much in that mode since 1924, but it's interesting to think that it really wasn't ordained that the republican party would be the conservative party or that the democratic party would be the liberal party. before 1924, each of the two parties had very large, progressive and conservative wings and there was basically civil war as to who would control each of the parties. while the democrats nominated the first progressive for president and that was brian in 1898, it was the republicans who el

they were not any better than the democratic party from a conservative point of view. they used bill clinton as a foil and got things done. they have yet to prove that they can actually govern as the majority party in a parliamentary sense for any other and that will be a big task that happen to win the election. >> we will go to questions by want to remind people that they can still either e-mail their questions to aeidebates or twitter. we have a question -- let's start off with this one -- what is the role of the tea party and is it the reason or how much of the reason at all that you think the republicans are extreme and how do you think the tea party fits into the republican party and the question of extremas and? >> i think it is the first time -- it is a pretty substantial populist movement of the right. getting into the rallies was unprecedented. >> there were all at country clubs. [laughter] >> there's got to be a good joke about a country club arrived. riots. . just as the new left and the anti-war movement and associated parts push the democratic party to the

to rise quickly within the democratic party. >> let me go back to the way he was able to capture the imagination of the country. three times getting the nomination, ever happened where you received the nomination and lost all three times? >> the person you profiled the first time, the nomination and, of course, a little bit different 100 years ago. a lot more voters, a lot more media, more money involved. unlike clay, who had a small country, america wasn't just a country by the early 20th century. this was a modern campaign, all three of them. >> you write in your book that 14 million americans voted in that election in 1896, and 75% to 85% of eligible voters cast their ballots. >> some women too. women had the vote in colorado. they voted in colorado, a couple other western states, which he won actually. but, yes, 80% and that was actually -- the highest percentage of eligible voters in any election for men, who had never had that highest percentage of voters again. >> and the senate in 1894. >> sure, he started out campaigning to get both populous and democratic nomination, both p

line up more closely with the republican party and the democrats. ing in that direction. >> greta: disappointed in president obama? >> i'm disappointed that the promise of four years ago wasn't realized. some people, you don't leave a party because you are not going to vote for your nominee. i come from alabama. democrats routinely don't vote for the nominee down there. you leave a party because of a whole range of issues you don't feel the comfort, you don't feel the home anymore. that is where i am. i am not alone. millions of americans who supported the democratic party four years ago left because they don't see their view and common sense represented in the democratic party. >> greta: thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> greta: straight ahead, the member of the britain royal family headed for olympics. which young royal just made the team? find out next. [ gnome ] enjoying your holiday? ooo no. the hotel lost our reservation. nonsense! you book at travelocity, your reservation's guaranteed. well, i did not book with travelocity, okay?!? [ female anno

so the far left there was even losing control over the democratic party. >>> i'm going to put this toyou. november 6, 2012. five months forward from this date. will wisconsin vote democratic for current u.s. president barack obama? former massachusetts governor mitt romney? >> i think people across america, certainly my state, understand that america's at a tipping point. and that we can't sustain the kind of unprecedented growth we have right now in the federal government. if the governor were to come in and talk specifically about what he is going to the risk he is willing to take to turn the country around, that would be compelling. >> so who is going to win the vote? >> if the economy is as weak as it will be over the next five months, i think president obama will lose wisconsin. >> really? do you anticipate that economic condition will prevail? >> i do. i think we are in a very, very weak economy. i don't so how it is going to get turned around. the unemployment numbers are going to be weak housing numbers are going to be weak, spending numbers are going to be weak and ultimately

other thing that's interesting about george wallace is he sort of floodses in and out of the democratic party and he runs with the american independent party. >> fourth. first time he gets liyndon johnson. the first time the term backlash was coined, the idea that white would wield the democratic party and vote for a george wallace in the primaries and then my great in time to vote for goldwater that fall were to become conservative republicans. >> most of 18th is hubert humphrey. what comes to mind. >> just a lot of heartfelt emotion for -- >> you liked him. >> our daughter was graduating from the university of pennsylvania and we went very happily to the graduation and 3 1/2 hours later after his 1 1/2 hour graduation speech, we left. but nonetheless, hubert humphrey to me was indeed the happy warrior, which is a name given to al smith who i don't think -- >> by? who says the phrase happy warrior at the '28 convention? >> fdr. >> a speech written for him. which was fun any because smith was no kind of happy warrior, but fdr was and hubert singcerty was. >> 1948, he leads the walk out -- he

the government got support from the opposition liberal democratic party and the ally. the bills were sent to the upper house for approval. 57 members of noda's party voted against, including ozawa. ozawa suggested he would leave along with lawmakers close to him. noda is to decide whether to take disciplinary action against them. the opposition liberal democrats insist the dissidents should be punished severely. that would increase the chances of those members leaving the ruling party. members of the opposition groups are expected to limit their cooperation with the democrats to the tax bills t they are hoping for an early dissolution of the lower house and a general election. >>> people in japan's northeast are focused on overcoming the challenges of the 2011 disaster. but it won't be easy. they have to rebuild homes, businesses, entire communities. we'll show you their struggles and their successes on "the road ahead" every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. japan time here on "newsline." >>> priceless historical buildings dotted around northeast japan. many were damaged or destr

members in the house and plus this week the texas democratic party released its official two thousand and twelve party platform and last month the iowa republican party released its official two thousand and twelve party platform and look at these two platforms there's only one conclusion you can draw there are still massive differences between republicans and democrats exhibit a the iowa republican party their platform includes a requirement for future presidential candidates to prove that they are natural born citizens playing courtesy of the burgers the complete rejection of global warming courtesy of the oil barons who want to keep polluting our skies the total limitation of the departments of agriculture education homeland security housing health and human services energy interior labor and gummer's the t.s.a. the e.p.a. the f.d.a. the a.t.f. the n.e.a. courtesy of the iran libertarian whack a doodle who support by corporate fat cats instead of our country being run by the will of we the people another platform is an end to the federal income ta

but there's the tension between the democratic party.he liberal base and then folks who have a much more expansive interconnected attitude about business. we may be seeing a blow back on the bain attacks that's showing it beneath the surface of the democratic party surfacing again. >> hogan, it's interesting when you think of bill clinton weighing in on this. i think it's clear that he's voting for barack obama, he wants barack obama to win. but he did what he did with business on board. >> that's right. right. and bill clinton's not -- he's a very smart man. he knew what he was saying and doing in the interview. who knows, there might be some residue left over from that campaign he and hillary faced off with barack many years ago. but look, i remember in new hampshire in the primary when mike allen from politico said to rick santorum, can you believe romney said this about firing people and to rick santorum's credit he was the only one who said, look, that's capitalism. some jobs you grow and make businesses grow, some people lose their

i think the democratic party is a mess. >> cenk: that's a fair point. ate senate. that's a fair point. i appreciate that. obama having better numbers in wisconsin doesn't mean anything to me. i don't think he's a progressive any way. that's why greigo loses in the democratic party. obama who is not a progressive heads the democratic party. alexis you're more of a conservative. go ahead and enjoy the moment. >> this was democracy in action. the unions didn't get the result that they wanted but i don't think this is all bad news. i think president obama made the right decision to maybe not get into the recall election-- >> cenk: i disagree on both those counts but i only have time to address one. we're not saying that this is a death of democracy because the progressives lost. of course the processsives can lose, but it's the death of democracy because they outspent the--obama had more money in 2008. there was more money on the side of gay rights, then gay rights wins. the answer is not in the votes but in the money. that's why democracy died. it died befo

think his success may also be attributed to the patronage network that are part of the national democratic party mubarak's party, that we really did not see the parliamentary elections but has come back with a vengeance in the presidential election. i just went to a conference of his a couple of days ago. there were leading members of of the now dissolved party, and the wife of the former assassinated president was there, of supporting ahmed shafiq for president, supporting him as a bulwark against the rise of the islamists, against the rise of the muslim brotherhood. he has a lot of support from the state that the protesters rose up against last year. >> egyptian activists had unveiled a campaign to boycott the elections, calling it a false choice under ongoing military rule. a boycott organizers said each its military rulers have effectively ruled -- rig the election to ensure the continued dominance. >> they do that, what they're trying to do is show was there is no other way for the revolution to continue except for collaborating. they make these elections customized specifically for them so

>> well, the answer was the democrat party, bill, wants everybody dependent upon government. they are the party of government. i mean, it makes sense. if you are dependent upon government, more and more for your livelihood and your benefits, you'll citizen to vote for that party of government. >> bill: and this is a question i just asked the two ladies before you. >> yeah. >> do you think that the democratic leadership and that includes president obama, of course, they meet and they say, you know what? we have to buy votes. because that's what it is. we have to buy them. so what we're going to do is target hispanic americans. we're going to do this program and we are going to target african-americans and do that program and maybe some lithuanian americans and so on and so forth. do you think they sit there and they state it that way. that clearly? >> yes. i bet they do state it that explicitly. bill, look what the president has been doing. his entire last 6 to 7 months has been running around from interest group to interest group promising things. contraception, war on women.

and as a lot of the rights that we still want to have so i think if president obama and the democratic party or any party or politician wants a vote of the community they're going to have to come through on these promises and so far there have been and kept you know this is more like a bullet wound that is still bleeding today we got a band-aid but that's simply not enough so who will have your vote at this time or are you just not going to vote does anyone match what you want to see happen. i think you know it's the responsible responsibility of those who can vote to go out and vote but only vote for politicians or for parties that represent their interests and if there is not no one that represents our interest then we have no we have nothing to do with it we should have nothing to do with these parties so i'm going to vote but i obviously am not going to vote for a republican and if there's no there's no vote there's no promise kept by the obama administration then i cannot myself or to anyone else and have any kind of dignity by going to vote for the democratic party so ron you said your

they were not any better than the democratic party from a conservative point of view. they used bill clinton as a foil and got things done. they have yet to prove that they can actually govern as the majority party in a parliamentary sense for any other and that will be a big task that happen to win the election. >> we will go to questions by want to remind people that they can still either e-mail their questions to aeidebates or twitter. we have a question -- let's start off with this one -- what is the role of the tea party and is it the reason or how much of the reason at all that you think the republicans are extreme and how do you think the tea party fits into the republican party and the question of extremas and? >> i think it is the first time -- it is a pretty substantial populist movement of the right. getting into the rallies was unprecedented. >> there were all at country clubs. [laughter] >> there's got to be a good joke about a country club riot. just as the new left and the anti-war movement and associated parts push the democratic party to the left in the

look, the democratic party have a very diverse party. you can ask my home state senator.as. you can ask a number of conservatives if they have a place at the table, a seat at the table. and they will tell you, absolutely. we are very, you know, diverse political party. so i have profound disagreements. and you know, what was interesting, wolf, is he said that he had policy disagreements, but he didn't lay them out, because i was ready to explain to mr. davis that under president obama, taxes are the lowest in 60 years. and the discretionary spending, lowest since president eisenhower. so i wish he would lay out some of the disagreements so we can respond to them. perhaps he's trying to get to speaking at the republican convention. be careful now. >> what do you think about this? it's not every day you see a prominent african-american who was actually close to the president in a certain degree. he seconded his nomination at the convention, a four-term democratic congressman from alabama. eric, all the sudden announced these major decisions in his life. >> you know, the dif

secular socialist machine that newt gingrich called it or that this is an administration an a democratic party that as herman cain said just the other day consciously, deliberately is trying to destroy capitalism i find a little bit ridiculous. but you can imagine both parties moving further apart an leaving those traditional conservative jeb bush type republicans with no easy place to go. on

always a tension in the democratic party.hese liberal base and folks with a much more expensive interkeshgted attitude about business. one of the things we may be seeing a blowback on the bain attacks showing the divisions beneath the surface of the democratic party surfacing yet again. >> hogan interesting. think about bill clinton weighing in on this. it's clear from everything bill clinton said he'd voting for barack obama and wants barack obama to win but he's a guy who did what he did with business onboard. >> that's right. and bill clinton's not -- a very smart man. knew exactly what he was saying and doing in that interview. who knows. there might be some residue left over from that campaign he and hillary faced off with barack on many years ago. look, i remember in nashville and new hampshire in the primary, mike allen from politico came up to rick santorum and said can you believe this about firing people? to rick santorum's credit, that's capitalism. some jobs you grow and make businesses grow, some people lose thei

party did not support the bills. that's about 20% of the ruling dpj. the democrats will lose their majority in the lower house if more than 54 lawmakers left the party. and that would open up the possibility of a nonconfidence motion. in that case, prime minister noda will be forced to dissolve of the law of house and call a general election or he will have to simply resign and that could happen in the near future. >> thanks as always. for a closer look at the likely impact of this extra tax, my colleague ron madison spoke earlier with an executive fellow at the research institute and an expert on the japanese economy. >> i guess the big question for many is what is going to be the short term and long term impact of the tax hike? >> i think it is more certain that there will be some short-term negative effect on the japanese economy. it is clearly pushing down that level of consumptions. that was exactly what happened 15 years ago when the consumption tax was introduced for first time. and that might repeat again. but speaking about the much longer term effect, i th

we need to give these democrats real third-party choices of a good democrats can rise up in the ranks. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i live in work in san francisco and have been a police inspector for several years. in this june's election california puts the famous system proposed by supervisor rod. a top to primary in which voters choose a top-10 canada. california has used this in more than 150 races. all of what was predicted from his proposal has come to pass in this election. for example, voting in ballots were rampant. congressional district 8, 13 candidates in the top two and one with only 15% of the total votes cast to each. this is far fewer candidates than in some san francisco races. similarly, in congressional district 31, the predominantly- latino districts, two white republicans advanced to november. the third-place canada, a latina democrat, was knocked out because the general electorate was older, whiter, and healthier. what good does add -- what good does add to do if they are not the right candidates? the right way to avoid this is to avoid rank choice boating in

if you are in the democratic party, if you do not think the same on about five or six or seven issues as the mainstream of your party, you are as much out to lunch as any moderate republican would be and many can testify to that. that is not simple isly part of my story, it's the part of the story of many democrats. and people say, davis, isn't it true that 35% of democrats call themselves moderates and 25% call themselves conservatives, that may be the case. there's a difference between people and the elected officials who are the voice for the party. there are plenty of moderate democrats and a few conservative democrats left in the party in terms of people who i.d. and identify with the party. but when it comes to people who are elected officials that number is low. that is the challenge. democrats have in the south been open and inclusive party. >> i know that congressman jordan is here, please stay with us. >> thank you. i will. >> thank you all. >> congressman jim jordan is the chairman of the republican study committee, he leads on a number of committees to lower taxes and prev

and supporting the democratic party and so i think what you'll see going forward is other attempts to undermine their actual rights and their numbers. they're going to have to try to hold the line at that while still probably giving up some dollars at the bargaining table which, again, they've shown willingness to do. >> ifill: and perhaps tomorrow's election will give us some sort of guide of which direction this union's going to go, at least this one. alec macgillis of the new republic and steve greenhouse of the "new york times," thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, gwen, nice to be here. >> brown: next, a story of poetry, basketball, and the preservation of a native language. it begins with a trip down the colorado river. >> haykwirr iithoo. >> what's that? >> rattle snake fangs. >> if you look at those rocks, they look like rattle snake fangs. >> brown: for mojaves, this part of the colorado river-- california on one side, arizona on the other-- is nyev-thee nyuh-vie, the place where the spirits live. and on our early morning boat trip, before the heat of the deser

let me see if i got this right the democratic party and status quo problem to become party until theyet the opportunity to ratchet the state in a big way which as been the story in the last century after which they sit back and protect the status quo and republicans are supposed to be fine with it to this is founding of rickey henderson. they further argue that the culture in its ideological center of the republican party must change if he was democracy is to regain its health. what this amounts to saying the republican party returned to its historic role as the last century playing the washington journal democratic party of the charters as i call them or a return to the kind of accommodating moderation that prompted the great eugene to say the principal use of moderate republicans is to shoot the wounded after the battle is over. i suspect that the man steam idea of good government would be president david gergen. as of the question is the republican party extreme, i can only answer i certainly hope so. let us recall the republican party began its life as an extremist party dedicated