in portage, you know, we heard reports earlier today of long lin lines, traffic jams, a turnout that was on the levels of presidential. how important is this race? how feasible is it that a democrat would win here? because olsen has been there for 16 years and sometimes unopposed. >> can i just tell you something? in that district the last time a democrat won that district grover cleveland was president. >> that would be 115 years. >> that's a long time. >> that is a long time. all right. now, just calling it like it is before, i mean, if you were in vegas, you would say that there are two republicans out there tonight that are truly expected to win. in the 2nd district, covering the green bay area, robert cowles, who is leading nancy nusbaum. gilbert brown, former defensive tackle for the green bay packers, got into the fray on this one. he did some robo-calls for nancy nusbaum. and our condolences go out to nancy. she lost her mother on friday. and it has been obviously that event has tempered the intensity in the race. but that is one that cowles is expected to win. that's one the

makes me wonder how they ever get anything done in israel or in italy or any place really of multi portage i would go to portage to an airport if you could and we can't get anything done it's utterly embarrassing this will be ashamed of themselves no matter what happens with the u.s. debt crisis the bottom line is we're bound to be a lot more pasturing from all the politicians in box. all right sticking with this discussion about the debt ceiling you know we've talked about the game about how it's been played and about what people think and it's also important to talk about how this changes the game and what we can expect to see ahead especially in terms of how this plays out for both president obama and for his supporters so joining me now to discuss the plight of the progressives as artie's own tom hartman host of the big picture thanks so much for coming on let's talk about this a lot of people disappointed of course with what was in this bill it's hard to argue that no one was more disappointed you know than the progressives is this the last straw for them i mean is this where they say

and what we are doing for ourselves, joining the whole city and region in celebrating asian-pacific portageth. i am so grateful to the board of supervisors for this whole four months of leaving this great city. i will say once again as i have said through many corners of the city, whether it is a town hall meeting or just your regular family association dinner, the hundreds i have been too -- i really feel proud of our asian community as a whole for allowing me to serve this great city and for all the years of struggle and coordinating and push to keep the doors of government open and to keep opportunities for many generations of asians to serve this wonderful city. thank you. i continue to thank the board of supervisors for this historic vote that happened in january. saying that, i want to kick off the celebration by doing the appropriate thing, signing the declaration that declares this month asian pacific american heritage month. i would like you to join with me the fantastic group of council generals here. if i can call up to join me -- the council generals from canada, china, japan, k

israel or in italy or any place really of multiport each i would go to portage to an airport is of included and we can't get anything done it's utterly embarrassing you should be ashamed of themselves no matter what happens with the us debt crisis the bottom line is we're bound to the a lot more posturing from all the politicians and it's. all right so we talked about the game about how it's been played about what people think i think it's really also important to talk about how this changes the game and what we can expect to see ahead in terms of you know president obama and also the president's supporters in order to discuss the plight of the progressives earlier i spoke to our own tom hartman host of the big picture i asked him if the disappointment stemming from this debt deal was the last straw for progressives in their support for president obama shares his take. this is just it's a defeat it's it's a short term defeat i think that what happened frankly was that rock obama tried to do a bill clinton he tried to triangulate he thought that he would cut a deal and i think he thought he

i have never seen the level of grass roots energy that is going on in races like fred clark up in portage, over in milwaukee where sandy pasch is running. it makes me believe something remarkable could happen tomorrow. we are talking about six republican districts, districts drawn for republicans, they have elected republicans sometimes for generations. if we see these seats fall, one, two, three, four, five, six, if that happens, that will be american history. >> what evidence do you have other than tremendous crowd and enthusiasm, what evidence do you have that it will be a big turn out tomorrow? >> i did a 1,000 mile drive throughout the week. i have been through all the districts. i can tell you, in every one of the districts, the signs are up in every yard. the people are on the street. when you go to the coffee shops and cafes, this is what they are talking about. this is a statewide referendum on scott walker's agenda. it's a referendum that was forced by the people. it's unprecedented. there's no doubt, the turn out is going to be incredible. the challenge we are going to have, th

this is one of these things when liberals are corrupt it doesn't get welcome portage they might be surprised to know that barney frank was censured by the congress for a scam and which ended up admitting to have used male prostitutes and pay them, and sustained them in his apartment in washington as a base of operations for them. did you know that as a member of congress regulating fannie mae and freddie mac he placed one of his gay lovers as a financial analyst at fannie mae? as a libertarian i have no objection whatsoever to his sexual preferences. i have a serious objection to corruption. we're talking about a deeply, deeply corrupt man whose corruption very nearly destroyed the world. another villain from "atlas shrugged" alive and well in the world is alan greenspan. what character in "atlas shrugged" is alan greenspan like? anybody remember dr. robert statler? kind of a minor character what a very key character. he was one of two college professors who was a mentor to the young john galt. and when golf was a young man, statler left academia to found the state science institute. so he c

there had been a gift cards donated to the city to give to kids at christmas time to pass out to portage at christmas time and she was accused of using those gift cards that have been given to the city by the poor shall friend to buy christmas gifts for her own family. and so she bought genex box for her nephew and a couple other gifts like that. a hint here if you are doing that as you know gift cards are hard to trace, but what she apparently did according to the evidence is she went to best buy and had a rewards card from best buy that had her identification so she used her gift cards but wanted to get the rewards so at the same time she used the gift card she used her reword card and allow the prosecutor to track the gift cards back to her. so watch out from trying to get that last discount. [laughter] welcome after the jury deliberated and reach a verdict in the case, and she was found guilty of the counts and acquitted of three of them but found guilty of one of the counts, and that was a guilty verdict on any count meant she had to give up her job as the mayor of baltimore. as a j