there's leadership in the proxy but i don't think any of them would say that eric kantor is eir genuine leader. >> charlie: albert, when u look at this over the last year, say, what could the president have done that would have made a different result? >> well, he first could have shown some consistency, which he did not show. you don't go out and say things and draw a fine line and say i'm sorry. you can only have a clean debt ceiling bill. you don't go out and say there must be a balanced package and then blink the next day. you have to decide, are you really going to be tough on this or not and there was a total inconsistency. frankly from what i hear, the president as a negotiator, as a bargainer was lesshan effective. >> charlie: less than effective because he sort of was prepared to compromise early on and everybody knew where his compromise was. >>epublicans aren't convinced that yolkis tough. >> charlie: they think he can be had. >> they are not convinced that he is. that poses a problem and i think he conveyed that. i don't think handled this -- people argued he should have emb

norquist maybe has a little more consistency from the attitude of boehner, eric kantor and the rest.y want to take this money out of the economy, because they want to see to it, that the economy's in bad shape next year, they hope they can stall the recovery, so that they can ride the power on economic ruin. wait to see the final legislation before weighing in on this tax hike. make no mistake, a tax hike is just that, a tax hike. if the republicans tell you >> he wants to be for tax cuts, all tax cuts all the time. so it's pretty hard for him to oppose this bill when could propose a tax increase. at the same time, he wants to get along with the republican party. you have a republican party who hates the president more than tax increases. norquist maybe has a little more consistency from the attitude of boehner, eric kantor and the rest. they want to take this money out of the economy, because they want to see to it, that the economy's in bad shape next year, they hope they can stall the recovery, so that they can ride the power on economic ruin. >> do you anticipate any of the repub

norquist maybe has a little more consistency from the attitude of boehner, eric kantor and the rest.take this money out of the economy, because they want to see to it, that the economy's in bad shape next year, they hope they can stall the recovery, so that they can ride the power on economic ruin. >> do you anticipate any of the republican candidates to come out in favor of this? i mean, romney loves to say he's the job creator. perry talks about what kind of jobs he's created down there. it would seem to me this is something they would be on safe territory if they stepped up and said they were for it. >> romney's fallen apart as the front-runner, all the new polls show perry moving well ahead of him. romney is not going to do anything to offend the tea party folks. trying to cow tow to him so far hasn't worked. the tea party folks, leadership, who in essence are really conservative republicans, who don't care about those ordinary middle class folks -- there are members of the tea party who do, the leadership is exploiting those people. they really care about tax cuts for the wealth

those creeps, eric kantor, mitch mcconnell -- can you imagine the lobbying that is going on with this committee be made up? host: we got your point, cathy. let's try to do so without name calling. from the "los angeles times," a picture of somali refugees attempting to get aid in that country. here is the story. "u.s. relaxes rules for troops in somalia. the department of -- easing restrictions on humanitarian aid groups so they will not be penalized if they inadvertently help al qaeda-linked militants battling for power in the country." we are covering the senate foreign relations subcommittee hearing on african affairs, and they will look at the drought and famine in the horn of africa. new york, a republican. good morning. caller: good morning. i keep hearing about both the democrats and republicans talking about shared responsibility in this economic downturn. i would like to know why the congress and the senate has not share the responsibility. why don't they take a vacation with 5% or 6% of their salaries until this crisis is over? host: from the news leader website, "look at th

bill in a moment we'll talk to house majority leader eric kantor, don't miss that, moments away. >> you have people, they fall into a -- into a mon hole and go down into the sewer system and they're not going to survive that. bill tpwha*eul is one of the reasons why so many officials are telling you to stay home. we talked to the mayor of philadelphia, around this time yesterday. michael nutter. he said you're looking at record, if not greater than record, flooding throughout the areas of philadelphia already. now, rick leventhal is watching that, he's live in new hope, pennsylvania. that's right near the tkeldz river. behind you, rick, how is it looking today? >> reporter: well, bill, it's definitely well over its banks. we're about a foot above flood stage and locals tell me we're eight or 9 feet above where this river would normally be, but the good news, the expectations are the flooding won't be quite as bad as they first thought. despite that, they are still issuing evacuation orders for anyone who lives in low lying areas, not just here in new hope, but also, in easton, also on t

kantor spokesman added, we are going to speculate on damage before it happens, period. but as you know, ericid that conditional funds for federal disaster relief ought to be offset with spending cuts. really in that seems to be at odds with kantor's previous fiscal positions in his political career. he's given approval to some our country's biggest debt drivers. take, for instance, kantor vote for the bush tax cuts without spending cuts. he vote for the wars in iraq and afghanistan without spending cuts. he voted for the bush's unprecedented expansion of medicare without spending cuts. so why the twist? well, you've got to make it tough on the american people in barack obama. the majority leader has proven time and time again that he is all about helping party not people. joining me tonight is michael eric dyson, political analyst, professor at georgetown university, and author of the book, "can you hear me now?" good to have you with us tonight, michael. >> always good to be here, ed. >> we had a report earlier tonight from two weather channel meteorologists painting a very grim picture of

in a memo to his republican colleagues, house majority leader eric cantor is laying out the gop's agenda for the fall. according to kantorthe priorities are, "repealing job-destroying regulations," and "tax relief for small businesses in federal and state and local governments." it comes as republicans come -- >> what's that? >> what? >> what's that? >> i'm kidding -- >> you start laughing. >> smiling. >> guess what, small businesses, you know what they want? they want regulatory relief and tax relief. you talk to small business owners, and you can shoot the piano player if you want to. >> i'm not. i'm smiling. >> they'll tell you -- >> it's a morning ohio is. >> -- morning show. >> you do it with a sneer. >> i'm sorry. i should be perky. >> you ask 1,000 small business owners, regardless of their ideology, what do you need now, they will say the tax relief and regulatory relief. and you can mock them if you want to. that's how you get them back to work. you're smirking -- >> i was not. i was smiefling in-- smiling a kantor's -- >> i understand. >> thank you. >> maybe they should do something about it. >> i think that wh