party. 1964 goldwater, it 80 reagan, 94 gingrich revolution providing i think we can do it again but this time to a very different and not just take control of the party but all of american politics and when the g.o.p. again is a mere 10 a majority it will not be led by washingtwashingt on district of columbia insiders the people who cause a problem cannot fix it. as conservatives we have been betrayed by roche daybook a few years ago called conservatives the trade how george w. bush and other big government republicans hijacked the conservative cause" and we have problems with unions and the mainstream media and george soros and this and that but that is not our real problem we won three landslide elections in the '80s with the same opponents but the problem quite frankly is big government republicans george bush, at karl rove, tom delay, denny have scared to, etc. our leaders have betrayed us. and we will not get to the local park promised land until we get new leaders. kelly and conway co

the party of the people must always be the party of full employment. [applause] . [applause] to all those who work hard for a living wage let us provide new hope that the price of their employment shall not be an unsafe workplace and a death at an earlier age. to all those who inhabit our land from california to the new york island, from the redwood forest to the gulfstream waters, let us provide new hope that prosperity shall not be purchased by poisoning the air, the rivers and the natural resources that are the greatest gift of this continent. [applause] we must insist that our children and our grandchildren shall inherit a land which they can truly call america the beautiful. [applause] to all those who see the worth of their work and their savings taken by inflation, let us offer new hope for a stable economy. we must meet the pressures of the present by invoking the full power of government to master increasing prices. in candor, we must say that the federal budget can be balanced only by policies that bring us to a balanced prosperity of full employment and

party sarah was with.virtually all the men gave up or wigged out relatively early in the ordeal. it was those five young women that actually stayed clear-headed, stayed motivated, and that's why they got through and so few of the men did. there's a very interesting book if you're&ú interested in survil issues particularly in the psychology of the issue where lawrence gonzalez examines the survival -- the firsthand survival accounts of a number of different people and he comes to various conclusions but his overarching conclusion that people who tend to survive are those people who in a life-threatening situation maintain a laser-like focus on reality. the people that don't survive are the people who spend a lot of energy!m@ wishing they were somewhere else or imagining that they're somewhere else. the people who do survive oftentimes they remember particular blades of grass and minute details of the environment they were in because they are people who are taking everything in with this clear -- i don't kno

the strongest party. and that means he has to build a coalition, and that means he has to bring in kurds, and that means he has to reach out to the kurds, and the only way to do that is not to raise the rhetoric against the kurds, because that would have the opposite effect. there's very few kurds in northern iraq that have any love for baghdad and certainly for arab nationalism. and rightly so, because arab nationalism has hurt them tremendously in the past. and so what is interesting now with the intrakurdish dimension playing itself out, or starting to play itself out, we may well see attempts by the federal government in baghdad to reach out to dissenting elements within the kurdistan movement, the kurdish national movement, and bring them into a coalition, whether these efforts will succeed is an open question. i certainly don't know what will happen on that score. already goran has said it's going to run separately from the k.d.p. in the national elections, but it has also said that it will continue

the second party. i will say this, one of the things that we don't hear enough about on our side, we don't use the word enough and we don't think about it enough is what tom brought up, the word freedom and the concept of freedom. all of these debates that are going on in washington have been going on for decades. < < hear about freedom for the citizenry. freedom for business to build, freedom for all of us to reach our best possible, the best possible contribution to america but we hear about safety nets. we hear about opportunities to level the country, but i don't think we are hearing much about freedom and i think we ought to go back and talk about freedom. that is what the country was founded on and that is what drove the founding fathers and that is what drove many patriots. we lost it in the well, we should never expect to get ahold of the leadership of the country if we can't talk about freedom and what it means to each and every individual. >> richard, do you think that the party is salvageabl

and what we learn is that every time the left and the aggressive primarily within the democratic party have counted out the conservative's they always come back, often through the misfortune of democrats, so don't think conservatives should give up hope. they might, they still may have opportunities. >> when you hear the term modern conservative movement what do you think and who'd you think of? >> well, i think it is a movement that is really quite the verse within its own grouping and i think there are a number of tensions within the conservative movement and within conservatives with social conservatives and free-market conservatives and i also think that there is tensions within purists among the conservatives and people who are active within the republican party, who want to understand that concerta is in order to win elections need to be pragmatic and compromise on certain issues that in principle ways. >> schuett do you think is the voice of the conservative movement today? >> i think i was suggesting right now there isn't a voice and i think it shows some of the problems within

and i don't think they can. >> i think the republican party. >> long form. >> the republican party, consideringush left, which was a bit of a disaster, i think the republican party is doing pretty well right now against obama with huge majorities in the senate now. bill: gentlemen, thanks very much. go ahead, chris, wrap it up. >> well, i think that the birth issue is a side issue but it's something that is symbolic. i like full disclosure from our president. i don't care if is he a republican or a democrat. bill: thanks very much. directly ahead juan and mary katharine whether president obama will break his pledge to working americans. culture warrior also take us to amsterdam, holland. some say it's the most@@-÷rp0w bill: you may remember this sound bite from barack obama campaigning for president. >> if you make less than a quarter million dollars a year you will not see a single dime of your taxes go up. if you make $200,000 a year or less, your taxes will go down. bill: but thats with then. this is now. yesterday, two of mr. obama's economic advisors larry summers and tim geithner both s

look here, ronald reagan changed parties. winston churchill changed parties. philip graham. case i think there was good provocation to do it, and i think it was the right thing. >> well, you're starting with the heavyweights. i can't argue with you about churchill. he did it twice. in fact, he said -- he switched to liberal and back to tory. he said anybody can rat. it takes somebody special to rerat. okay, you got me there. i love churchill. let me ask you, what is the fight about between you -- it isn't just going to be about this mickey mouse who had the most absentees, is it? is that going to be the vote? how many absences the other guy had or is it going to be about policy? >> well, i have a very strong record, chris, on matters which have traditionally been on the liberal side. i heard mr. toomey a few minutes ago, he called me an out and out liberal again and again and again. the afl-cio endorsed my candidacy. only republican to get it. so it's a matter of who can do more. look here, in august i'm bringing in the secretary of veterans affairs to pennsylvania to philad

and she is still a force within the republican party and within the conservative movement.she reflects social conservative voice within the conservative movement around issues such as abortion and gay rights, and those issues that appeal to primarily traditional catholics and evangelical christians and mormons, as well as traditional jews. >> there are a couple of books now on the market regarding the reagan legacy. and perhaps a reinterpretation of the reagan legacy. is ronald reagan's legacy on the decline? >> not among conservatives. i think he is writing as high as franklin roosevelt did in 1948 or after his death. i think ronald reagan's presidency has always been contested widely among historians. there was -- the picture of ronald reagan of a man not very smart, sleepwalking through history was challenged i historians, some very good ones, and we learned that ronald reagan was very well read. and also had principles. strong ideological principles. and that he was in control of his administration. he was a detail band that was able to articulate basic concerns of the

you have a disparate party in the house.t not going to go along with the sort of conventional liberal line of the party. that's causing problems. the democrats strategy right now is to try to blame the health insurance companies, try to blame the republicans. i think the hard reality is right now this is a democratic problem, and they got to figure this out on their own. let be speak real fast to the passion that we're seeing at some of these town hall rallies. it seems to me for the first time since maybe even four years that on the right -- we're finally see on the right some real fire. >> i think folks now are finally fired up. >> the dog that hasn't barked here is where the hell are the people who want health care? the poor people out there. the people who work hard but don't have health care. the union people. where are they? i haven't seen one placard let alone one protest demonstration for hale caealth care. >> and i don't hear from them either as radio callers. you hear from the people who retrospect now, in hindsigh

but of course the democrat party first amongst them. and yes there was a phone call that i was on in june 2000 err terry mccall paceically called ralph nader to stay out of his 19 states and offered unspecified resoues if he could only campaign in 31 and stay out of 19 states. now the hole conversation made me uncomfortable. of course ralph nader is not for sale. he wasn't going to say, oh, yes. of course not. he didn't get into that at all. he said it was 50-state campaign. then terry mccall started naming the states that the nader campgn of 2004 had to stay out of. and he said they supported the litigation that had occurred that day in arizona to baically make sure that ralph was going to get tested,itigated, every paper clip, every stap the was going to be tested on the petitis for how to get on the ballot in these battle ground states. it turned the out over the course of the next 12 weeks we would be sued two dozen times across the country to make sure that rph nader and peter were not a choice for american voters on state ballots.

for democracy and local democratic party. can any of you explain why prince county, virginia seem to have become ground zero for the whole nation in opposition to immigrants and maybe that kind of analysis would apply to other parts of the country or other groups of people who are similar. for people not from the washington area, it is one of the outer suburbs and i think this is fair to say that housing, it is a little cheaper there than it is say in it d.c. and the inner suburbs. you probably get a lot of the working class white people who have moved out there. that is my question. >> it is truly ground zero for opposition of immigration? >> it was, but not so much anymore. >> brilliant documentary by a group called 9500 liberty. >> are they here? >> yeah. >> we may be showing here. >> about prince william, which is really gripping, in my own view. they are the experts and you should talk to them. you have a fast-growing excerpt. you have doing construction and related jobs, they are not particularly well organized and you

governing party in this nation. i wanna start today with breaking news. you have been in meetings all today. there is news coming across the wire. they are announcing that president obama is making great progress on climate change. he is turning the political climate of our country back toward republicans. [applause] as you know, in the eyes of many, president obama is cool, cool, cool. but the american people are figuring out he is wrong, wrong, wrong. [applause] this current presidency reflects a collision between the image and personality of president obama and the important lessons of history. as you know, he famously ran on the theme, change we can believe in. now we're starting to understand what he meant. what he meant by that is he was to change what we believe in. the american people in this country ain't biting at. we remember that he was a community organizer and as prior life. we need to remind president obama forcefully and strongly that the federal government is not our definition of community. [applau

he wants to create the parties. he needs to do this.w, he has to transform his position into the strongest leader of the strongest party. that means he has to reach out to the kurds. there are very if you kurds that have any love for the arab nationalism. that is hurting tremendously in the past. the dimension starting to play itself out may be the a text by the federal government to reach out to the elements of the kurdish national movements. i don't know what will happen on that score. already, they have said it's going to run separately in the national elections. it does not want to undermine the unity as it comes from the federal government. that will be occupying some 38-41 seats. that will push the kdp and the pok towards the openness, which is not a bad thing. this remains an open territory. our sense is that this time line is bass you cannily a year before the draw down and it is too short to accomplish this. once american troops pull out of the area. i can assure you, the conflict is almost inevitable. that could lead to an all

-- not participating in the six-party framework. want a one-on-one relationship with the united states. that does not fit our administration's strategy. >> i think that's right. i think that is generally right. i think the one thing that i would beg to differ with my good friend, governor richardson that maybe rhetorically true, in practice, when they actually sit down and negotiate, there really is no difference between bilateral or six party, because do you a lot of bilateral negotiations in the context of six-party talks. >> you go on the side and in fact, what chris chipper hill did the former negotiator, now our ambassador, of course in iraq, but when he was in charge of those talks, that's how they broke through, when condi rice got the approval to begin to have one-on-one talks? >> that's right. that's right. most of the substantive can be done in those side bilateral meetings. >> do they still want to be recognized as a a nuclear power and be able to pocket what they already achieved? >> i think you put your finger right on

, is a party that's intolerant to anything that is different.nd what these comments do is just exacerbate that perception, so i would suggest that people who are leaders in your party work toward diffusing that and not having more of that. >> i agree with you on that. >> i think you're very right on that. the republican party needs to do some rebuilding with its own base but it needs to reach out to its constituencies and build new coalitions. >> let me ask you, can you do that at the same time? >> you can, because face it, taking a look at whether it's the ted kennedys of the world or other people, he was able to reach across party lines in many instances on-the-job training and partnership act. >> education. no child left behind. >> absolutely. there are people who are able to do that, but you have to have the right person with the right message who cannot put an olive branch up but to reach out to other people and say, we are not going to agree on 100% of thish eyissues but we can form coalitions and makes a difference in a couple of these ar

they were also the lobbyists who organized the very first tea parties back in the tea party day. do you see this strategy as being all of a piece? is there a connection between the tea party movement and what we're seeing here about health care reform? >> the tea party movement didn't really go very far. perhaps for the right it was an organizing tool but it didn't really have much of an aim except, you know, we're mad as hell. and not going to take this anymore, whatever "this" is. this, on the other hand, you know, health care is the subject. and so there's a definite aim here which is to stop in its tracks the most serious attempt at actual health care reform that could make a difference in millions of people's lives and also make a difference to the bottom lines of insurance companies and others that make money off the health care industry as it is. but this is the most serious challenge in, you know, certainly in many years. and they're taking it seriously obviously. and, you know, it's almost like the old cold war arms race days but this is a tactic that's sort of almost mo

now david cameron leaves the party. what is the relation between the two, and what will be the role of william k. going forward? >> relations -- there have been too conservative leaders between mr. haig and mr. cameron. they determined -- encouraged him to come back and saw him as one of the party's most talented politicians. he has some appeal to the right of the party. mr. hague is adamant that he does want to be leader again in the future. >> for our viewers who did not know, you write for the press association. what is your organization about? >> the press association is a british national news agency. we supply a full range of stories to the british media, news paster at b.g.e. newspapers and broadcasters. >> we appreciate you for joining us with the press association. thanks for the update. now that speech by william hague, the british conservative e party's shadow foreign secretary. his remarks are from earlier this summer in london. [applause] >> thank you and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. it is a great

their own third party.ight now i don't know what colin powell stands for. i don't know what obama's doing, he agrees with or disagrees with. well, he did hint he doesn't like all of the spending, but then last december he said american people want higher taxes and bigger government. that's not republicanism. >> larry: go. >> yeah, what i said that he's referring to was not the american people wanting higher taxes and more government. they don't. who does? who does? but the republican party can't live on a slogan that says we want limited government and then they never do anything to limit the government. the deficit increased during the previous eight republican years and we created more government, not less government. what the american people want is effective government. they want government that works. they want a health care system that takes care of them. they want homeland security. so i believe what the republican party ought to focus on is limited effective government with the emphasis being on eff

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within your own party and certainly within other parties, hamas has control of the gaza strip. >> unfortunate, hamas has successfully come under the watchful eye of the israeli army, smuggled big amounts of weapons. when the israeli government is told these weapons are dangerous to it, it has launched a war against the gaza and closed the tunnels. so hamas was smuggling weapons, encouraged by the israelis, to take over power in the gaza strip to end the story of the peace process when israel -- so i think israel is very happy about taking over power by hamas in gaza. >> thank you very much. if you ask the palestinian people here in bethlehem, they are not much interested in internal party politics, but they want a pollock -- a party that can bring peace, prosperity, and a country of their own. so far, has not convinced people. everyone is watching over the next three days. >> now we have got nothing to hide. that is the response from the british government to accusations that its security agents are involved in torture overseas. the parliamentary human rights committee says there has to be an

to the party, they weren't presidents necessarily but the heart of the parties. it's hard to imagine the democratic party in the 50s without hubert humphrey the great leader of civil rights. it's hard to imagine a republican party without everitt dirksen or barry goldwater or the republican party without nelson rockefeller. without a leader like teddy, where is the democratic party right now? >> that's a really good question, chris. i'm not sure because you don't have those -- those independent leaders of stature in the congress that you used to have. they're just not there. senate in recent years has become much more like the house. they're raising money all the time. sticking with ideological brethren all the time preaching to their respective choirs all the time, not independent perps or independent personages if you will, they're not independent moral forces and whether it was barry goldwater as you said or gene mccarthy that will somebody else you might mention or hubert humphrey or ev dirksen on the republican side, those kinds of figures who provide ballas

also this party has right wingers and left wingers. all different idea of people in terms of the national security monitors. so the question is how they can consolidate their policies into international security. >> and give us a sense of -- i mean, hatoyama has this extraordinary mandate. how is he going to use it? for instance, the health of the japanese economy has a direct impact on our own economy in the united states. what kind of changes do you think that he will have to make to stimulate the economy and, of course, create jobs? >> yeah, the economy has been the biggest issue for this campaign. hatoyama's party promised to increase the growth by consumption, spending the money on social network and also raising minimum wages and giving something to each family and so forth. but the question is where the money comes from. nobody has the answer. they haven't answered the question yet. so this is going to be the issue. >> kenji kona, thank you very much for joining us from washington, d.c. >>> from south asia tonight, a harsh priso

and they didn't just create a political party that was a mere shadow of the normal democratic party which revolves around politics, but they created a radically democratic party. all people have the right and hold within them the possibility to control or make the decisions that affect their lives. so they said domestic workers, sharecroppers, people with limited education, african-americans who have been disenfranchised ought to become the sheriff. ought to have a right. so it is really a remarkable story of transition and the possibility. challenging white supremacy to the creation of independent. >> how did that happen? >> the long process of grass roots organizing. begins in early march with a handful of people deciding that we are going to try to register to vote. and so they go down to the courthouse the first day to register. all of them are turned away. they are asked to leave their name to identify who they were which was a dangerous bang because now the white community knew who they work, and they were exposed to the possibilities of economic and physical retaliation. >> and was

we do home parties. like a tumor ware party. we go to people's homes.they invite their family and friends and have them bring their unwanted gold. we actually buy the gold there on the spot and the host makes money for having the party. many of the people wind up joining the team. >> the priamerica folks wouldn't talk about their direct marketing of financial services but the brochure spoke for them. >> the top 20 reasons to join priamerica now, extremely slow start koupss. >> sales jock on commission. massage opportunities. while this school was looking for paying studentsing not aid to employees. >> among the most popular recruiters, the national guard. >> especially in an economy that we have right now, you know this is one of the best things that they have going for themselves. >> in fact there were so few promising prospects for the thousand or so attendees that most of them lined up yet again to speak to the state department's swron smithson for one obvious reason. >> the department, working for thed federal government, you have a lot of job secur

this political party, the republican party, is too far out there for me to support. i'm going to listen to what sherrod brown says. i'm going to listen to what shelton whitehouse or bob casey says. i'm going to listen to barack obama more than i have because these opponents are just way over the line with what they're saying. >> i happen to agree with you 100%. i suppose it remains to be seen whether or not it plays out that way. but that certainly is where it feels like it's going now. democratic senator sherrod brown, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. >>> having grown up watching a lot of cartoons, i sort of figured we would have flying cars by now, right? didn't you? well, chevrolet hasn't gotten there yet but they are a little bit closer. at least in my mind. here's some really, really cool car news and including a lot of pictures and a mechanic to explain it all. and then kent jones has a report about flying cars and the jetsons and stuff. seriously. coming up. okay...um...ghteen pounds and a smidge. a smidge? y'know, there's really no need to weig

party away from the center.to me who is the leader of the conservative party, the conservative movement and how do you bring that back so you can have broader appeal? >> well, two things, the desire for individual liberty does not need leaders. soci socialist, status big government need leaders. what happened with the tea party movement, which obama said he didn't know anything about and was completely surprised by when somewhere over 600,000 people on april 15th had rallies across the country unhappy with his spending policies that are bankrupting the country. the only commune organizing obama has done, if you want to know who the leader is, obama has organized mainstream america against big government in a way that george bush never did. >> respectfully, mr. norquist, who is the leader of the republican party at this moment and does the republican party and conservative movement need to come back towards the center to broaden the base of the party? we hear a lot of that in the aftermath of the election haven't

[laughter] >> so mondale had a christmas party. he had a christmas party. and he walks up to me at the christmas party, and he said well, how are you doing? i said i'm doing good for a guy who had absolutely no job. and he picked up the phone and the next day i had a job. >> okay. very good we had a chance to chew on quite a few things and i think we should open it up to the other participants. [inaudible] >> there's kind of a folk wisdom about whether it makes good sense to develop policy. during a campaign it identifies what voters are voting for and if it's a mandate or if it's a bad idea because candidates running overpromise. they may not understand the tradeoffs -- they do understand the tradeoffs but not to give them airing. we can see that with the current administration in iraq and healthcare and whole slew of other areas. is the campaign a good place to develop policy? and if it isn't, does it then make sense to look to the campaign to inform policy during the governing policy? >> i feel pretty strongly that anybody who runs for president needs to

not david cameron is leading the conservative party. what is their relationship and what will his role be going forward? bubblers' the relations had been very good. william hague did step back from front-line politics for a while. it was david cameron who encouraged him to come back, and he is one of the party's most talented politicians. he has an appeal to the right of the party, which is not mr. cameron's as strong as face. mr. hague is adamant that he does not want to be leader again in the future. >> for our viewers who do not know, you write for the press association. what is your organization about? >> it is the predecessor -- the british and national news agency. we provide a full range of stories. they get picked up by far in newspapers as well near >> we appreciate you, gavin cordon, for joining us. thank you for the update. that speech by william hague, the british conservative party's shadow foreign secretary. this was at the institute for strategic studies in london. >> thank you and good afternoon. it's great to be here ag

>> this week on to the conary: up first, raally-charged coents haunt the repubcan party. en, feminists mourn the loss of a women's rights champion. behind the headlines, sile-sex education ves online. ♪ >>ello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to "to theontrary," a discussion onews and social trends from divers perspctives. first, publicans' racist -- race-based cments. freshman cgresswoman lynn jenkins ishe subject of so unwant media aention after she de a racially-chard atemenat a kansas tn hall meeting. in response to a questioabout the futu of the gop, jenns to her conservative nstituents, the republican party "strugglinright now to find the great white hope." she thenent on to name thr of her colagues as potenal party leaders, all white males. the phrase 'great whithope' was first spoken bwhites as part oa nationwide mpaign to find white fighter cable of defeatinthe first black xing championjack johnson. jenkins later apologizedor her wors through a spokperson. but she is not theirst to make such racially-charged atements. since president obama's win, there have been seral r

that is how the republican party started. at the beginning of the 1900's, the first 50 years, the majority of blacks or african-americans were republicans. the clan was started -- the koga clan-- the kkk was started by democrats. you should on yourselves about today's issues like the tax code and how it is more regressive on poor people than on rich people. don't fall for the rhetoric of class warfare. that is all that it is. arm yourself with the facts. so that when you get an opportunity -- the republican party, generally speaking, has done a terrible job of getting its conservative message out. tony said the same thing. i was talking to rod in the back. the more you are yourselves with the facts and history and be able to explain some of these issues like i talked-about health care, also cap and trade, then you will gradually get to these people. first of all, you will not save everybody. save the ones that you can save. thank you. >> i think you could be our next black president. >> you are very kind. yes, sir. >> i comme

. >> the democrat party of japan charged to ctory. in seisc shift in japanese politics, the center left position has broken the nservative stranglehold on power ending dades of virtual e-party rule. >>ranslator: the people are very angry with the conservative ruling party. i thank the pple who suorted us. we n need to fight and work hard. >> hungry forchange, the japanese turned out in droves. 70% of eligible voters cast ballot. >> we needhange to break the current situation in japan, just li the united stas, we need chge. >> in tokyo, oly heavy rains from ayphoon stopped more people fromaking it to a lling booth. within minutes ofhe poll's closin it was clr that the oppositi had swept to power in alandslide. for the primminister taro o, the election p an e to an 11-month reign fnked by verbal gaffes and public paralysis. >> ifeel it was my fate to take this electn loss. i acce it. >> japan w hit by the perfect economic and polital stor >>people sufring unemploymen at a recd hi. sohat was a big fact. the otr factor was the opposition

a backbench member of parliament for the governing party is working hard to defend his party. he seems to have plenty of local support, but he understands the problems weighing against his party. >> we want to make the people like the economy better. people have suffered quite upset because of the deregulation and other -- the kind of policy. people are looking for work. we are now paying the price. >> the japanese are generally apathetic about politics, but people are turning out to see the campaigns this time. this is the most hotly-contested election for years. the message of the opposition is simple -- it is time for change in japan, a country that it's been nominated by one party for decades. -- a country that has been dominated by one-party for decades. this would be the second time that the opposition has taken power in more than 50 years. bbc news, tokyo. >> parliament has approved a controversial piece of legislation in iceland. it does mean that iceland will need more help from the imf. the governor of nigeria's central banks has assured a meeting in london that the

the party of the people must always be the party of full employment.applause] to all those who doubt the future of our economy, let us provide new hope for the reindustrialization of america. and let our vision reach beyond the next election or the next year to a new generation of prosperity. if we could rebuild and germany and japan after world war ii, then surely we can reindustrialize our own nation and revive our inner cities in the 1980's. [applause] to all those who doubt thwork ha living wage, let us provide do hopnew hope that their price of their employment shall not be an unsafe workplace and a death at an earlier age. to all those who inhabit our land from california to the new york island, from the red word forredwood forest to the gulf stream waters, let us provide a new hope that prosperity shall not be purchased by poisoning the air, the rivers, and natural resources that are the greatest gift of this continent. we must insist that our children and grandchildren shall inherit the land which they can truly call america the beautiful. [app

kick back and attend a cuddle party. yes. a cuddle party is the newest rage. before you snuggle up, there is something you need to know. >> i bet there is. we have traffic and your weekend forecast on the 1s. it all starts >>> senator ted kennedy is asking state leaders not to change a law. he wants to speed up the process of repraising a vacancy. a process that takes about five months. kennedy's aides suggest the letter is not an indication his health is deteriorating. doctors diagnosed him with brain cancer last year. his absence from last week's funeral of eunice kennedy shriver prompted a series of questions about his own health. >>> voters in afghanist had a chance to choose a new president today but the larger decision for many people was whether to risk bodily injury by going to the polls. the taliban made good on its threats to try to disrupt the election. and at least 26 people were killed by rocket attacks polling places. as one man was being interviewed, more rockets fell nearby. the attacks have kept many people at home in kabul. voters trickled in

out there who says that the republican party or state parties or republican activists are out there doing that are flat-out lying. they're wrong. >> flat-out lying, they're wrong. actually, they're not wrong. the willie horton ad-making republican pr activist guy is the same guy that reps the anti-health care reform obama equals hitler website. no wonder people are afraid. we have been tracking this sort of astroturfing and false flagging, really, for the entire month of august now. mainly because this sort of thing still isn't being widely reported, which amazes me. this is a perfect system for the republican party. it's a constant feedback loop. the republican party activists stir up fear and anger on the internets, fearful, angry people go to town hall events, and then republican party officials say they're just responding to that anger and they have no idea where it came from. it's a perfect cycle. rile them up with madeup stuff and then sympathize with them that are so riled. joining us now is senator bernie sanders, independent of vermont. he's a member of the senate health, e

i'm concerned because i believe my party is being sabotaged.modern democrats better deal with what is happening to us. glenn: i think there is 70 or 80% of this country that they want no part of this. >> everyone thinks the politicians work for themselves. glenn: on both sides of the aisle, that's right. so, michelle, help me out here with seiu having a real seat at the table, this is the thug-oc. acy kind of idea. acorn, can you draw the connections between black panthers and seiu, or are these others just lamping on because they see -- latching on because they see what direction the country is headed? >> you know, there is both implicit and explicit coordination of this corruption, glenn, and obviously you have laid out very well the twinning between seiu and acorn, the sharing of many of their top lieutenants, and of course, the seat at the table that both of those organizations have within the white house, and i talked about the money that the obama campaign gave to one of these front groups of acorn, citizens services, inc., which the s.e.

the republican party has gone natovist. it is the party of no. what is going on? todd harris. >> that was a long intro. >> i'm going to you down in texas, by the way. most of the members are from texas. the governor is the one who doesn't think he is from the union. this is irony. a guy tame named ted poe. a member named john carter. well, it doesn't surprise me dan burden is on the list, the guy who likes to shoot off cantaloupes. randy newburger, why are there so many texans who think the president is not from our country? >> i don't know. i guarantee mideast of us are here in austin. >> it is a good town, the i know. >> i think that the polish shoe is ridiculous. frankly, the people pushing the issue are not a bit nuts but a lot nuts. i have to tell you, you talk about the republicans playing games with this issue as if there's some strategy behind it. every single republican consultant that i know rolls their eyes at this issue and wants it actually to go away because i think we are making real traction taking on the president on, you know, his massive governm

again, the base of his party, the anti-war base of his party, is going to be coming back and saying youd time. what do you have to show for it. >> could this be as unpopular for him as iraq was for president bush? >> well, i mean, i think over time, it is a question is the public prepared to lose more american lives there. that's what happened. deadliest month was july. and are americans prepared for the cost of what winning in afghanistan would entail. and that's a steep cost what do you have coming sunday. >> we will talk more about this and health care debate. admiral mike mullen. talking about afghanistan. and then two key members of senate finance committee. schumer and hatch. they will be debating the way forward on health care. you don't want to miss it. >>hat will be interesting. th will go at it. david gregory ogon "meet the press," airing sunday morning here on news4. 10:30. >>> a police officer in tennessee is in trouble for sleeping on the job. she was nodding off and it was recorded on the cell phone camera of a man who had called police to his house for help. the man said