so michelle bachman is helping by drowning out the tax argument that's going on in the senate finance committee right now. >> we have canceled the october recess, so there's no second round of town halls with democratic congressmen, it's left with showing as many wrenches into the work as possible. what is the most they can get within the framework of not having the wild-eyed protesters out here? >> the worst they can get is killing the bill completely. they did it before. now when i look at boehner, i have to say, boy, i wish we had been up against him in '94, we were up against bob dole, they were very -- they came at us on the policies that were in the bill. that's how they won. this time around these people are lost, between boehner and michelle bachman they have no idea what to say about this. >> you know why he got that fake tan, because otherwise he would be so transparent you could see the board behind him. >>> by this unimproved overpriced rigged insurance policy or go to jail. this is the end game of what began with singer payer and the public option. and tonight there's a d

. >> we already had the michelle bachman image from before. >> thanks for the nightmare. thanks, keith, and thank you at home for staying with us for the next hour, during which i can honestly tell you it is going from big to weird to big to weird again. senator brad is going to visit a foreign country in order to tell that country to resist the united states, then he has that trip canceled against his will at the 11th hour. the national republican congressional committee decides to call me names. and the unexpected resource of some of the bold faced names from the bush era's republican scandal. and they're resurfacing in today's highest possible stakes, republican politics. there is a ton of news going on in the world and it's all coming up this hour, but we begin tonight with some big breaking news, the "new york times," in an article, a long article posted tonight, appears to have blown open the john ensign affair story with new allegations not about senator ensign's sexual misconduct, which we have known about for months since he admitted it, but with very serious all