joan walsh is with salon and a political analyst.lad you've got the right attitude, i can see, with your teeth, you're talking to me already. >>> these guys, now, they're all republicans. i took out one democrat because his charge was totally vague. it was campaign finance or something. >> oh, god. >> yes, yes, i'm honest with you, michael and you put the dagger in my heart. >>> a lot of republicans on tonight. you're the third or fourth on tonight. so it's a good night. >>> joan, you're first. what do you think of this? these people being so complacent when they know they've done wrong. >> it's the lucky dog club. these are lucky dogs. it looks like they're going back. it's not done yet. some of them could still lose, not mark sanford, obviously. chris, people are tired of adjudicating marital behavior. they're saying these guys are no trying to be husband of the year. they're going to congress, they're not asking me the marry them. that's a good thing. i would put michael grim in a really good category, and that's kind of mystifyin

joining me now is joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com. ank you for being here, joan. >> thanks for having me, rev. >> there's no question the propaganda from isis is scary, but we can't let that intimidate us really, into making bad decisions. am i right? >> i completely agree. i'm worried about this, i know all of us are and i think the president is trying to walk a line between acknowledging a very real threat, but not being baited. i think it's clear that isis wants nothing more than to go one-on-one with the u.s., make us out to be the great satan, the opponent of muslims worldwide, and we don't want that on a moral level, as well as a political level. so, i think it's very dangerous. i understand why secretary kerry is making the pitch he's making. the word "genocide" jumps out at me. these people are equal opportunity killers. and i think the word "genocide" sometimes implies a great global, moral responsibility. there's that, but there's also a responsibility of our allies and not so much allies in the region, to deal with the threa

joining me now, democratic strategist jamaal simmons and salon.com's joan walsh.hank you for for being here. >> thank you, rev. is this a classic case of overconfidence from the right? >> yeah. this would be what my dad would call, selling wolf tickets. they won't do as well as they are telling people they're going to go but they're talking the game up so much to try to get people to believe it. i was talking to a senior white house economic official today talking to me about the unemployment rate, economic rate. and you could start to see the long-term unemployment is coming down. short term unemployment is coming down. job growth is continuing. we have new numbers at the end of this week. we just don't feel the same build that you felt even in 2010 toward those elections. you don't have obama care being the hot flash. there just isn't that combustible energy out there before. so i don't see a way. they will do well. i'm sure republicans will do fine, but i don't think they will take the senate. >> joan, let's look at what the senate looks like now. 53 democrats,

professor thomas shall lore, the author of "whistling past dixie," and msnbc political analyst joan walshh us. tom shallot, you literally wrote the book on this. let me start with you. the article being made by people around the clintons is arkansas, kentucky, west virginia, missouri, these are states that barack obama didn't carry in 2008 or 2012, they've become more republican at the presidential level, but that bill clinton carried. they are saying that democrats can get back. do you think that argument has merit? >> not really. that strip along appalachia where she did well in the democratic primary, that's democratic voters. that's what you saw two days after the 2008 election when barack obama despite a ten-point shift -- bua ten-point net shif in 2008, those counties went more republican. >> as the rest of the country was going to the democrats in 2008 -- >> the notion here is that hillary clinton, maybe because she's clinton and her husband is from arkansas and i guess she's from arkansas and it's white voters, she can bring some of them back. i think she will bring some of them b

. >>> let's bring in msnbc political analyst and editor at large joan walsh.with us from washington, chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner, susan ferichio. let's begin with the airstrikes in syria. susan, did president obama wait too long to act? >> well, i think the point made earlier in the show is a great one. bomb first, ask questions later. you can't do that anymore after iraq and afghanistan. there's the expectation that we'll know about it ahead of time. congress will have a point of view. but the question is, what did that accomplish? in some ways, it may have worked against us. we heard reports that the islamic militants have scattered into civilian populations. they have taken down indications of where to find them. there's a strong argument to be made that we should have taken the action first. but i'm not sure the public wants that anymore. and congress wanted to be talked to ahead of time. in a way, the president was boxed in on that. i don't think it helped us. >> jeanne, it is interesting to listen to arguments. the presi