mr. walker. joining me now, congresswoman gwen moore, democrat from wisconsin. e has the distinction of having triumphed over governor walker in his first public try for public office back in 1990 when he ran for her wisconsin state assembly seat. congresswoman, what are you hearing back in your district with the recall? i understand there's yard signs, there's enthusiasm, there's momentum. what's going on on the ground in wisconsin? >> thank you, reverend sharpton. i certainly drove through governor walker's neighborhood, and i was stunned to see recall yard signs any very neighborhood from where he hails. certainly there's going to be a rally tome in madison to recall the governor, and there's plen of calls to recall him. there is barely a family in milwaukee, union families and -- he's taking $1.8 billion away from every kinder garden student, college technical student, university student, a billion worth of medical assistance. there are disabled folks on waiting lists because of the policies he's trying to implement, trying to get a waiver on provides medical

mr. walker has made. it appears to be false promises that have been made by this agency about construction of the light rail. they were going to assist some of the merchants who were impeded by the construction phase. not one merchant receive 15 cents from this agency. in addition to that, we are dealing with the social plight and the economic blight that the city and county has not addressed through the redevelopment agency. your agency is part of that because you are riding the rails through the third street corridor. in addition to that, when you come for the approval of the rail going from king street to bay shore and the visitation valley, you came with the promise of jobs. the only jobs received were flat positions for the residents of the neighborhood. it is really making a statement that false promises to get a project approved and cosigned through the community -- it never works out to be the things of the past. we do not have the jobs. we have disturbance, we have social blight, and all the folk

mr. walker. i followed your career for years and i thank you for your service. .. >> caller: i can see the waste in medicare and medicaid from a firsthand knowledge. something as simp as diabetic shoes that if you buy them in the store, they are $250. you pay $15 for inserts, and the government is getting bills for $400 for one pair of shoes, and the law says i can receive a pair of shoes one pair per year. i have five. it's a waste. as far as the debt committee, it was never going to work because both sides went in entrenched in their own ideology. >> host: angela, thanks from the call from south carolina. to add to that, there's this from minnesota, essentially along the same lines, it's like congress to blame president for the failures. isn't the congress supposed to be our leaders too? evidently not. david wonker? >> guest: there was a leadership failure on multiple levels. first, the co-chairs of the so-called supercommittee share a lot of the responsibility. there was a total failure of lea

mr. walker comes to d.c., quote, every year lobbying for physical education to stay in schools. the congress team contains not only ringers but lobbyists? no, not really. herschel walker just likes more pe in schools, which is good. that said, one of the nfl ringers last night, ken harvey, was a registered lobbyist in '09 and '08.

mr. walker, did he run on breaking the collective bargaining and doing what he's done in terms of publicvoted for it, or did he run on something else and people thought this was about something else, and then when he got in he came with this kind of policy? >> well, can i tell you, reverend, he never once in the entire year i was a candidate for governor, never once mentioned that he was going to go after the unions and in essence destroy them. in fact, the first indication we got of that was early december about, a month after the election, and then in a conversation you referenced before when you thought he was talking to the koch brothers, he used the phrase in espens, the quote was, drop the bomb, so it was clearly a surprise attack, and i think what happens when someone drops a bomb is you either obliterate the people or a village, or if you're not still in obliterating them, they fight back, like they have never fought before. >> that's right. >> and that's what's happened here. is he tried to drop the bomb. he thought that within five or six days he'd push this legislation through

mr. walker comes to d.c., quote, every year lobbying for physical education to stay in schools.

mr. walker of the gingrich campaign. would you comment on the early staff exodus from the gingrich cain and the decision by some of those staffers to join perry campaign and how do you feel those staffers are doing now? [laughter] >> i didn't catch that -- oh, well, i think that rob and some of the other people that had been with newt early on did have a loyalty to rick perry when rick perry decided to become involved in the campaign. i think they felt that's where they could better serve. and we have picked up. we're staffing up the campaign as we speak and all the early primary states. and, you know, we move on from there. >> how do you feel the staffers are doing in their new roles? >> i think we're doing very, very well. clearly the campaign has been moving forward. we have a lot of momentum. there is a very strong momentum for this campaign. and we think, if anything, we've got more momentum at the present time than rick perry does. >> so we'll move forward for the bachmann campaign. there's been a lot of reporting

mr. walker, please talk about the grover norquist pleiads.ledge that people ought to make it to the united states of america. there should not be any special interest pledge. i think that anybody who is taking those pledges should resent those pledges. in many cases, those pledges were taken back in 1998, 1999, 2000. would we have surpluses. we are in a very different situation. it is not just the right. it is also the left. the left is in denial about the need to reform social insurance programs to make them affordable and sustainable. we will have to do things on both sides of the ledger. we better start soon. host: a democrat with david walker who is in new york. good morning. caller: this is my first time calling, so i am a little nervous. what i wanted to say basically was the problem with everything is we cannot have a one size fits all approach. you know, you have one side saying we have to raise taxes. you have the other side saying, we have to spend. the problem is, we are not punishing these guys for the failures that they had. that

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campaign is quote to publicize the disastrous policies of the pro corporate anti middle class scott walker mr bush. won wisconsin now and a slew of other groups have sixty days to collect the five hundred forty thousand signatures needed to trigger a recall you can find more information on wisconsin no doubt work to get out there collect signatures and sponsor the bad herman cain the pizza man who's pretending to run for president is once again suffering from foot and mouth disease in a recent interview cain again echoed the often deep islamophobia claims that a majority of muslims hold extremist views speak when g.q. cain said i have had one very well known muslim voice say to me directly that a majority of muslims share those six the extremist views and president rather not he thinks the claim is right cain said yes because that's his community that's his community i can't tell you his name but he's a very prominent voice of the muslim community and he said that. you know and i can't tell you where i heard it but i heard it thing made famous by michele bachmann when she said someone she can

mr. walker. i thank you for your service. you are right when you talk about "we the people." this country is more about politics than a governing. the people seem to have forgotten how the system of government works. president cannot go in and make demands on the congress. the congress cannot make demands on the president. there's too much ideology in this. i'm a recipient of government help. i receive medicare and medicaid. i am a disabled. i am 57 years old. i can see the waste in medicare and medicaid for may 1 hand knowledge. something as simple as diabetic shoes. if you buy them in this store, they are $50 and you pay $15 for inserts. the government is being billed $400 and $500 for one pair of shoes. i can receive one pair of shoes per year. it is a waste. as far as its debt committee, it was never going to work because of both sides went in entrenched in their own ideology. host: we have this from carly from minnesota, along the same lines. david walker. guest: i think there was a leadership failure on multiple levels. the cochairs of this super committee share a lot o

mr. walker. i have followed your career for years. i thank you for your service.talk about "we the people." this country is more about politics than a governing. the people seem to have forgotten how the system of government works. president cannot go in and make demands on the congress. the congress cannot make demands on the president. there's too much ideology in this. i'm a recipient of government help. i receive medicare and medicaid. i am a disabled. i am 57 years old. i can see the waste in medicare and medicaid for may 1 hand knowledge. -- from firsthand knowledge. something as simple as diabetic shoes. if you buy them in this store, they are $50 and you pay $15 for inserts. total costs, $65. the government is being billed $400 and $500 for one pair of shoes. the law says that i can receive one pair of shoes per year. i have stopped it. it is a waste. as far as its debt committee, it was never going to work because of both sides went in entrenched in their own ideology. host: we have this from carly from minnesota, along the same lines. david walker. guest

mr. walker. would you comment on the early staff of the gingrich campaign and the staffers to join rick perry's campaign and how do you feel those staffers are doing now? >> i didn't catch that. >> i am sorry. [inaudible] >> rob and some of the other people who have been with gingrich early on had loyalty to rick perry when rick perry decided to become involved in another campaign. they felt that was where they could better serve. we have picked up -- we are staffing the campaign as we speak and all the early primary states and we move on from there. >> how do you feel staffers are doing in their new role? [inaudible] >> doing very well. clearly the campaign has been moving forward. we have a lot of momentum. there is a very strong movement for this campaign and we think if anything we have more momentum than the present time than rick perry does. >> moving forward for the michele bachman campaign. there has been a lot of reporting about turmoil in the campaign. new hampshire staff quit and the f

mr. snyder. go on over to wisconsin and tell walker if you want to keep your job, you better tread lightly on the working folk of america. better tell chris christie, he likes to walk around with a tremendous amount of bravado and toss himself around, oh, we cut teachers, we're going to straighten out the teachers union. you're going after the fabric of america. i wonder if the right wing republican governors understand who you're going after. do you really believe that people who make $50,000 a year, that have a goal just to pay off their home, and to have some kind of retirement and maybe be able to see the doctor with a little bit of health care, do you really think they're the enemy of the economy in this country? do you really believe that with your heart? do you really believe that you can't go to the wealthiest americans in this country, that these people are the problem? governor, governor, i have a chair for you. it's still here. come talk to your buddy, big eddie. you know, i want to talk to you, mr. kasich. right here. you know, you know, i mean, governor kasich, i understand, i unders

mr. chair, we have seen this song and dance before. under the guise of deficit reduction, governor walker undermined workers' rights, rammed through legislation that cut state employee benefits and strips unions of their collective bargaining rights. ohio, too, has seen this horrific curtain call with the governor and the passage of s.b. 5. but what governor walker and casey is not prepared for is the second act of this drama. when the curtain opened on november 8 in ohio, they flocked to the polls with a resounding voice and repealed s.b. 5. it continues in my state of wisconsin wherein in just two weeks we have garnered 300,000 signatures poised to recall governor scott walker. mr. chair, the american people will not be upstaged by this anti-union, anti-worker and anti-family play. our nation's middle class is demanding to bargain for more of the wealth that they created. mr. chair, this clear attack on workers' rights departs from democracy in the workplace. it's time to pull the curtain and pull the hook out on this circus act and bring up real jobs. i yield to my colleague, the lady

mr. k-6 and the governors scott walker in wisconsin. >> is that a fair characterization of the tea party?absolutely. >> why? >> they are mercenary movement funded by the coke brothers. i mean, that is not -- >> there's no one in the tea party like there's no one in occupy wall street. viciously popped up and supported for three years? >> i think the tea party is a felony populist movement that is funded by corporate america. >> knowing the tea party isoprene for themselves and has convictions for government is to beg ambitious all a conspiracy? >> i think the people that started to unfurled a yellow frats when a black man got into office. i didn't notice these flags unfurled >> of a $13 trillion debt had nothing to do with? >> i didn't notice when mr. bush started getting trillion dollars debt with iraq and with afghanistan and went six chili and revenue was lost with the tax cut. >> with all due respect, i don't think the tea party could make the progress in 2010 by some corporate backed financing. i think there's a lot of people. i think there's a lot of people in the tea party who has

mr. k-6 and the governors scott walker in wisconsin. >> is that a fair characterization of the tea party? >> absolutely. >> why? >> they are mercenary movement funded by the coke brothers. i mean, that is not -- >> there's no one in the tea party like there's no one in occupy wall street. viciously popped up and supported for three years? >> i think the tea party is a felony populist movement that is funded by corporate america. >> knowing the tea party isoprene for themselves and has convictions for government is to beg ambitious all a conspiracy? >> i think the people that started to unfurled a yellow frats when a black man got into office. i didn't notice these flags unfurled >> of a $13 trillion debt had nothing to do with? >> i didn't notice when mr. bush started getting trillion dollars debt with iraq and with afghanistan and went six chili and revenue was lost with the tax cut. >> with all due respect, i don't think the tea party could make the progress in 2010 by some corporate backed financing. i think there's a lot of people. i think there's a lot of people in the tea party who

mr. hi guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight goes to one of the most unpopular governors in the u.s. the ever since wisconsin's scott walker took office he's caused nothing but trouble for the state on his watch unemployment in the state has gone up from seven point one percent to seven point eight percent he gave the national spotlight when he made his first act in office stripping a public sector workers of their collective bargaining rights and next item on the agenda threatening it to lay off teachers firefighters and other government workers were governor walker claims that he's still working hard to try and fix the economy he even called a jobs special session called that to work with constant we're calling back to work with the special session to put the focus firmly were you to believe beyond that some jobs. wow well that definitely sounds like a step in the right direction so keeping with his goal of making sure the legislature is laser focused on jobs he's now pushing for abstinence only education that's right walker and several other state republicans are working on removing the year old healthy youth healthy yo

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mrs. davis can make education a little more personal. so every student feels like her only student. dell. the power to do more. >>> the 60-day push to recall wisconsin's union-busting governor scott walker phone calls and other phone calls are getting harassed online, but it's not stopping the walker recall effort. volunteers already have more than 100,000 signatures, and the push will continue with a black friday recall drive at malls all over the state. meanwhile, governor walker is on spin control. this morning he went on local tv and was asked about misleading the public about his anti-collective bargaining agenda. >> i just think they are fundamentally wrong about it. aft which isçççç sharpton, reminiscent, this is a throwback to bull connor and birmingham, alabama. this lieutenant reminds me of bull connor. those students remind me of the students who are washed away with fire hoses. this is what this is about. here's my suggestion. i think the two of us, ben jealous, mark moriel, the civil rights community, we really ought to go to the university of california davis and stand in solidarity with these students. >> oh, there's no doubt we ought to stand this solidarity with the

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mr. speaker, nearly 25 million americans are currently unemployed or underemployed. yet despite this, efforts to strengthen the work force are being derailed by special interests. in wisconsin, governor scott walker has taken nearly all collective bargaining rights from employees. in ohio they look to strip workers of their rights. the state led the nation in safety force stoppages when the city and its safety forces had a dispute concerning wages an adequate staffing there was no way to resolve that disputeful that's why the collective bargaining law was passed. and it has worked. only through collective bargaining to american workers still have a voits. still this right is being attacked. in new jersey, state house passed a pill destroying the worker of public worker union sector to bargain over health care and pension issues. these efforts turned back the block of -- clock on public safety an on those who protect and serve our people an it's unacceptable. i rise in support of the workers of wisconsin, i rise in support of the workers of ohio, i rise in support of workers in my home state of new jersey. i rise in support of millions of americans who stand as proud union members seeking fair lab

walker bush was nominated and became the vice president under ronald reagan. for two term, 1980 through 1988 or 1980 through 1999 -- or 1981 through 1989. so i would speculate, mr. speaker, that had it not been for the iowa caucus victory of george h.w. bush, he very likely would not have been named vice presidential candidate since he ran a competitive nomination -- competition against ronald reagan. gerald ford was not named vice president. george h.w. bush was. he became vice president for eight years and then president for four years and would we have had a president george b. bush if we'd never had bush 41? maybe never would have had bush 43. so the continue of history has shifted itself dramatically on the results of what was prior to that time, you know, a very low profile caucus in iowa. in the last caucus we saw what happened with barack obama emerging, his movement began in iowa. iowa gave him that launch to new hampshire. and wasn't my choice, obviously, mr. speaker, but there's a legacy there that will play itself out again january 3 of this year. i'm watching all the presidential candidates and i'm watching how they perform and how they resonate wi