grover norquist. ♪ >> well, i get cpac's next speaker, governor tim pawlenty.20 years have two teenager daughters. he was the first in his family to attend college. his father drove a truck for a living and was a teamster. he got involved is a reagan republican early on. went to the state literature. -- legislator. has twice been elected governor of the sometimes blue state of minnesota. 2002 and 2006. and he has governed as a conservative. he has said no to tax increases and vetoed tax increases. he has no to too much spending and vetoed too much spending. he's helped to bring minnesota out of the top ten taxed states down towards the center. and he's been a leader in reform. he's been advocating real healthcare reform, not more government. but saying let's start by electing -- allowing people in all 50 states to buy their health insurance in any state in the nation. less government will lead to lower cost healthcare for all americans. and more opportunities for americans to have healthcare. ladies and gentlemen, our next speaker, the governor of minnesota, a

grover norquist. ♪ >> well, i get cpac's next speaker, governor tim pawlenty.ollege. his father drove a truck for a living and was a teamster. he got involved is a reagan republican early on. went to the state literature. -- legislator. has twice been elected governor of the sometimes blue state of minnesota. 2002 and 2006. and he has governed as a conservative. he has said no to tax increases and vetoed tax increases. he has no to too much spending and vetoed too much spending. he's helped to bring minnesota out of the top ten taxed states down towards the center. and he's been a leader in reform. he's been advocating real healthcare reform, not more government. but saying let's start by electing -- allowing people in all 50 states to buy their health insurance in any state in the nation. less government will lead to lower cost healthcare for all americans. and more opportunities for americans to have healthcare. ladies and gentlemen, our next speaker, the governor of minnesota, a reagan republican, a conservative, governor tim pawlenty. ♪ >> thanks a lot. i s

here's how grover norquist was introduced. >> let me say, i'm happy to see grover today.tting tetty in the past couple of weeks and i'm happy it was not him flying that plane into the building. >> i don't know. maybe wait until the building is not smoking anymore. maybe wait until after the funeral. >>> an ill-timed considered joke is not the end of the world. it is not humorous misfires. it's the deep consistent tea how much we are seeing about violence against the government on the right now. here is how patty murray was name checked at a tea party event over the weekend. >> how many of you have watched the movie lonesome dove? what happened to jake when he ran to the wrong crowd? what happened to jake when he ran with the wrong crowd? he got hung. well, that's what i want to do with patty murray. >> you can sort of hear the shock in the audience and response to that, right? after initially denying that she said that at all, the tea party organizer later knew that they had the rope on hand to do the hanging of senator murray any way. if this is reminding you of somethin

look, in many ways what's happening now is similar to what we saw in 1994 when grover norquist calledt the leave us alone coalition. if you have a democratic government, democratic president, democratic house, democratic senate and they're doing things democrats want to do there is a big chunk of the country. somewhere between a third and 40% that will recoil from that. overwhelmingly white, mostly down scale heavily rural. we are replicating what happened in '94. the longer term question between now and november, and 2012, can obama reassure more of those independents who are less ideological but right now are not seeing results. >> we'll be right back with ron and susan to talk about whether republicans can actually sweep this november with the senate as well as the house. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. announcer: trying to be good to your heart? so is campbell's healthy request soup. low in fat and cholesterol, heart healthy levels of sodium, and taste you'll love. chef: we're all kind of excited about it. guy: mmm! i can see why. announcer: campbell's healthy request. m

grover norquist. [applause] or that kind introduction. grover norquist. lot of challenges and one of those, of course, is the epic snowstorm that blew through town about a week ago. schools were closed. businesses were closed. people couldn't come and go as they had hoped. even the united states congress was closed. [applause] >> and i say -- and i know you agree, that any day, any day that harry reid and nancy pelosi can't get to work is a good day for freedom. it's a good day for liberty. and it's a good day for the american people's wallets. [applause] >> now, you know that with these terrible weather conditions that this isn't president obama's fault. he inherited these problems from president bush. you know that. [laughter] >> that's the line. i'm delighted to be joined here this morning by the fabulous, wonderful, beautiful first lady of minnesota, mary pawlenty. [applause] >> amongst her life experiences as she was a judge for 12 years. and she's been a dedicated champion for great causes in our state of minnesota. one of which is the support for f

you have the person who runs move on with grover norquist, one of the key conservative public -- republican strategist. glenn reynolds, a very prominent conservative blogger. it you have a democratic consultant and mark mckinnon, adviser to george w. bush and john mccain, and the founders of the day, with tbi, craig's list. so it quickly came together. what was encouraging was, as we were pulling this together, it did not take a lot of time to agree on the four or five paragraphs calling on the president and house republican leaders to make those sort of exchanges called question time, to make them happen on a regular basis. we set up a petition, demands questiontime.com. i sound like a pitch man on tv. we got a lot of good attention from the media and throughout the blogosphere. our site crashed immediately because there was too much traffic and it is back up again. thousands of people are signing it and we are getting responses already from the white house and republican members of congress. host: the site on the screen, you can join the petition if you are interested. what are the people

you have the person who runs move on with grover norquist, one of the key conservative public -- republicanocratic consultant and mark mckinnon, adviser to george w. bush and john mccain, and the founders of the day, with tbi, craig's list. so it quickly came together. what was encouraging was, as we were pulling this together, it did not take a lot of time to agree on the four or five paragraphs calling on the president and house republican leaders to make those sort of exchanges called question time, to make them happen on a regular basis. we set up a petition, demands questiontime.com. i sound like a pitch man on tv. we got a lot of good attention from the media and throughout the blogosphere. our site crashed immediately because there was too much traffic and it is back up again. thousands of people are signing it and we are getting responses already from the white house and republican members of congress. host: the site on the screen, you can join the petition if you are interested. what are the people asking to have happen? guest: very simple. we don't put a lot of details but we simp

but transparency is a way that people on the other side of political debates kill issues, and grover norquist always said this very, very clearly. so did the democratic side in the bush years. and there is something called transparency, right? where you could really help people's understanding of it. when the senate finance committee releases a bill, they release what is called the chairman's mark is written in strange language we call english, people with fairly, i'm not saying people who have a fifth grade reading comprehension, people who can read a fairly normal novel to read the bill and get idea what is going on. not saying everything, but much broader range of the american public and experts and everyone else and i'm sure all of your legislative people are ecstatic when there is chairman's mark to read as opposed to legislative language. legislative language makes you want to die. real transparency would be saying, everybody, has to release a chairman's mark in plain english. that goes without saying just like the finance committee does. that would really change the way people can asse