there are more republicans. they will pass it. they said they want to repeal and replace and we do not know what they would replace it with. they want to repeal it. 30 million people are going to get insurance with this bill. there are a lot of americans to be the bill because they could lose their jobs. people are losing their jobs. when they have health insurance through their jobs come if they if they need insurance for a child or their family, they will not get it. this assures and cinsurance. the supreme court said this is constitutional. let us to something to get people working. let to something to get the economy moving, not just rehash this issue over and over again. try to blow it up and politicize at war. when this bill is in effect in 2014, the american people will be very, very happy and they will ask what was this about? for generations, people have been trying to get health care for all americans. we finally got it. let us move on. let us not carp about this issue and understand how helpful is to people. >> congress

elected republicans in washington in a really awful spot because republicans are against what president obama proposed today. they're not against it because they don't want people to have tax cuts. they're against it because they want rich people to have tax cuts. and if the rich people don't get tax cuts, they say, then nobody should. everybody's taxes are going to go up unless the rich people get a tax cut. that's their position. that's hard to sustain in political debate. and the democrats know that. the whole idea is to make it look like republicans will do anything for the richest people in the abocountry. it's to make the republicans look ridiculous when it comes to the way they treat the very rich. and the romney campaign right now is doing every it can to live up to that caricature of republicans. at least i think they are. what happened to the romney campaign this weekend was so bad, and exactly the way they do not need things to be bad for this right now. it was so bad that i almost cannot believe it was self-inflicted. in fact, i think i may believe that this was orchestrated

main stream republican legislation. that same seen as koo koo has been happening in the great state of mississippi this year. in april, the republican governor of mississippi signed into law what is known as a trap law, t.r.a.p., in this case, stands for targeted regulation of abortion providers. and the acroinism is not an accident. new laws, new red tape and regulations that only apply to abortion providers. they're making it harder to be an abortion provider. they're laws that are designed to and intend to shut clinics down. but the folks who propose and pass and sign t.r.a.p. laws don't usually call them that. they try to pretend something else is going on. they try to frame the issue as something having to do with saeflt and protecting vulnerable women who need protecting. hats how t.r.a.p. laws used to go down, anyway, but things have changed and in today's republican party in the great state of mississippi, at least, you do not have to hide behind the health and safety stuff anymore, you don't have to pretend all

is this an image issue for the republicans? >> it is for the republicans and democrats when they're seen in highfalutin placs raising money. it's legal, look, you're not going to sit here and tell me the republicans have an attitude problem when president obama is >> it is for the republicans and democrats when they're seen in highfalutin places raising money. it's legal, look, you're not going to sit here and tell me the republicans have an attitude problem when president obama is at the home of george clooney, going to be a fund-raiser overseas. they're operating within the guidelines of the law. let me finish. my last point is to say that republicans don't look at people and say, oh, if you're not in the top whatever percent we're going to look down at you. they look at people as individuals. >> exactly, john, we saw the people at the hamptons fund-raiser, people donating to mitt romney do exactly that. the problem is not about people raising money, not making a lot of money. the problem is about the attitude. you have -- >>

when president obama takes republican ideas and puts them into a bill and republicans are opposed to their own ideas, it shows you it was never about reform, it was alwaysunts politics. the reason the american people are upset is he spent a quarter of a billion dollars to make people hate this bill. misinformation and disinformation and distortion. once you have some leveling off and people start to see the impact of it, this will be an extremely popular bill and that's what the republicans are afraid of. >> the spin has been near constant since obamacare came out. first, they'll like it once x happens, they'll like it once y happens. finally, the supreme court has given its acceptance and they don't like it. when are we going to like the bill? >> you think the $250 million spent against it telling people it was a lousy bill, you think it had an effect? >> the general argument -- they're pretty smart. i think they go home, they look at their wallets, their bank accounts, they have conversations around their kitchen counter and look at it. >> why would republicans campaign against it?

frankly, the republicans lost. they thought they were going to get 50, 60, 70 democrats to turn their back on the bill. that didn't happen. >> they thought they were going to get more votes than they did. do you think you can pick up seats in the house on this vote, on what happened today and on the health care law? you confident this is going to help the democrats pick up seats? >> it's going to help us pick up seats, particularly in light of the fact that we're spending time on something that has no chance of passage, no chance of enactment, and will take things away from the american people, and ignoring the principle problem that is confronting the american people, job creation, a jobs bill. the president had a jobs bill he sent up here that would create a million to 2 million jobs. i have urged mr. cantor to put the job on the bill, if they don't like it, vote against it. if they don't like it, amend it, but let the representatives of the people vote on a bill that will create more jobs. we need that, the amer

of fellow republicans in june. voter i.d. which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania done. reveal action for mitt romney in pennsylvania done this is also what's happening in wisconsin a state which also recently passed a voter suppression id law here's a republican state senator glenn grothman told think progress reporter scott keyes about his state's voter suppression id law. yes we will probably ask. you. since. you actually. see. these protections in place of them either. ultimately. close race. so we basically have states with republicans in charge pushing voter suppression idea laws that those same republicans admit or even brag will help romney win the election. this should be very troublesome to those who believe in american democracy joining me now is cathy. solids senior attorney and director of the voter project for the advance of voter protection for the advancement project catherine there kathy welcome thank you my apologies for this crew to put in your organization is inv

this is a republican state, republican seat.hose other strongly conservative tea party minded senators in washington in the event that he wins tonight he may not but if he does, and i think he's right. what's happened here is the institutionalization of the tea party. reminds me of what happened in 1988 when a preacher from virginia, pat robertson, basically decided to put together a political operation. not a religious operation but a political efficient political operation and that institutionalization of the tea party and in a place like texas today has created a turnout that says basically you have to be farther right than the other guy in order to be nominated. these two people who were running against each other, ted cruz, and the so-called institutional sort of establishment candidate, lieutenant governor, aren't -- don't differ virtually all on any main issue. this is about the tea party demand that you have a visceral sort of fighting stance when you show up in washington. i was with ted cruz last week here in texas tra

the real republican party is charlie baker, these people copping out to represent the republican oathgeorge bush and rush limbaugh but the republican oath which holds principles of sound money policy, free enterprise and even equal rights in the republican oath. >> i've heard of those. >> that's why i'm happy to say i'm a republican. i'm not the republican that george bush represents. i'm the republican that the republican oath represents. >> you are having to fight tooth and nail to be recognized by main line republicans in terms of what you just said. they ought to be really happy to have you. thanks a lot. good luck to you. >>> evan kenney elected as alternate del for the republican party. see republicans, it's safe to come here. we can have very constructive discussions. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] summer is here. and so too is the summer event. now get an incredible offer on the powerful, efficient c250 sport sedan with an agility control sport-tuned suspension. but hurry before this opportunity...disappears. ♪ the mercedes-benz summer event ends july 31st. ♪ a great

if you're a rising republican, it's awkward and difficult to ask people to look back to previous republican leadership, to previous republican politicians, to previous republicans in the white house because there's. dick cheney and george w. bush throwing a black bag over your head and extraditing you to a secret torchen position to experience a torture position. on the eve of the dick cheney fund-raiser, the first appearance of this year's republican nominee with either george w. bush or dick cheney, they picked dick cheney, not george bush, and the romney campaign has decided to try to draw everybody's attention away from this. they have tried to draw everyone's attention away, while they're doing this thing tomorrow, they're feeding a story from the washington post telling everybody to ignore, instead of telling everybody to look at that era of the recent republican past, the romney campaign has decided to direct everyone's attention to a different period in republican history. as of last night, they have debuted at the romney online swag store a new item of historical commemorative ruga

tonight, i'll ask a reasonable republican to explain why republicans are being so unreasonable. this is "the ed show," and as ed would say, let's get to work. ♪ oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain ♪ >> a brand new poll from nbc news and the wall street journal says going negative is going well for the president. his lead jumps nationally to six points. eight points in the swing states, and there is new evidence that the bain attacks are working. >> i had no role whatsoever in the management of bain capital after february of 1999. >> howard fineman will break down all of the numbers. >> voter id, which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania, done. >> protests erupt in pennsylvania where activists are fighting a modern day poll tax, and the state now admits there's no voter fraud. >> and mike huckabee squares off over equal rights with the muppets. the big panel weighs in on chick-fil-a and the fight for gay civil rights. >> what do you think? >> it's 105 days until the presidential election. and the political silly season is in ful

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour republicans head to tampa bay in august to nominate mitt romney is their man to take over the white house ron paul and his supporters have some different ideas which is paul need to do this weekend to get his fifteen minutes of r. and c. fame also democrats are fighting back against the flood of corporate cash being used against them this election cycle what if they do yesterday and put a force romney backers like karl rove to disclose donor information before the election in november and right now the american economy is struggling as millions of americans find themselves unemployed but could having americans work fewer hours help the economy and send the unemployed back to work tell you all about it and i. like the energizer bunny ron paul keeps going and going to go on despite suspending his official campaign in may run paul still has his sights set on the republican national convention in tampa florida next month after winning a plurality of republican delegates from iowa maine minnesota louisiana ron paul

is a right and not a privilege and the republicans are so proud of it. but the guy the republican governor of pennsylvania hired to let states know the citizens of that state know about pennsylvania's new voter i.d. law is a bundler for mitt romney it's like they're robbing us of our votes and then putting a robber in charge of the courts and now the cost of getting an idea what's really happening is that alec in these states are violating the twenty fourth amendment was passed back in one thousand nine hundred sixty three and it explicitly forbids poll taxes today the attorney general of the united states going off prompter and speaking his own mind call out this truth the republicans find so uncomfortable. many of those without i.d.'s would have to travel great distances to get them and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them we call those poll taxes. so what can we do well is a simple solution if we passed a constitutional amendment saying the voting was a right republicans could no longer limit the right to vote si

he is a black republican. he is the person that said we have communists and he believes in --. >> wait. wait. >> he is crazy because he is the person that said there are 20 communists in our congress right now. there are 20. and he is out there with michelle bachmann who has the phobia that -- and we are out of time. maybe we'll continue this argument. that is it for this edition to the contrary follow me on twitter@bonnie erbe and to the contrary and check our website. where the discussion continues. and whether you think that you agree or to the contrary, please join us next time.

you know, as a chairman of the dccc, my job is to whip republicans. it's to whoop republicans. we are going to get this majority by holding republicans accountable for consistently having the wrong priorities. we are going to sends them back to their districts this weekend and they are going to face the fight of their lives. they are going to have to look a woman who has breast cancer in the eye and explain to her why they just took away the protections that we created for that woman in the health care reform act. we are going to send these republicans home to town hall meetings where they are going to be forced to explain to seniors why they just took away the protection that seniors have so that they can afford prescription medications. we are going to send them to town meetings where they are going to have to tell young people why they just rolled back the appropriations that that we provided so they can stay on their parents' health care. my job is to focus on beating republicans and it's easy to beat republicans when they consistently have to defend the indefensible. >> i

that's what republicans go after. it's a bind where they don't want to say they're against universal health insurance, but they wait for the moments when it's on the table and they start going after all of the things people are going to lose. >> the one thing you can look at is voters fear change. when they bring up changes to things that matter in their lives they get scared and back away. another piece of something mcconnell said recently is sort of in the same vein. i have been someone who thinks contrary to conventional wisdom if republicans take the election, they will be able to repeal the affordable care act. they can use 51 votes and get all the money out of it. without the money, it collapses. but mcconnell doesn't think that. i want you to listen to what he said here. >> thought it was a good idea for the federal government to go in this direction? i would say the odds are still on your side because it's a lot harder to undo something than it is to stop it in the first place. >> so is he right? are republica

virginia republicans have become a liability for even the national republican party. instead of possibly sharing the spotlight with mitt romney at the convention this summer, governor ultrasound has been assigned to chair the platform committee, which means you can find him in the back by the deflated balloons and cup cakes nobody wanted with everybody in him worried he's putting something in there about a medically mandated procedure. but virginia is the state that less than four years ago went for barack obama decisively, along with a lot of other blue surprises. the obama win was not a landslide, but coast to coast the country kind of fell in love with him. it's true new presidents come with high approval ratings. but his ratings were in the quadruple digits. that was this country in 2008. two years later we saw the biggest republican landslide in a lifetime. a red tide in congress in the midterms and in the state capitals across the nation. since then republicans have been governing as though they have a mandate for their agenda. this be a really radical couple of

a third of republicans, people who said they were republicans -- not leaners but people who describe themes as members of the republican party, when you asked them their ideology, called themselves moderate to liberal. a third. and in this pole, for the first time, republicans enthusiasm for an advantage the race and declining thump among group. so there's not a republican in washington who would describe themselves as a moderate or liberal but a third in the country do. >> and then they lose primaries. >> there's that. >> just to eliza's point. rahm emanuel liked to say the republican party is deeply divide between its small government wing and its no government wing, and i do think, if there's a truth win that barb. i'm told we are now at our time. i want mickey to come back in and a couple of closing comments. incidentally. the part of this book that hasn't gotten as much attention, and susan mentioned it, i like the bromides we shoulding now our chapter. the american political system will correct itself. third party to the rescue, no. a constitutional balance el but apple. they s

for republicans, health care is a privilege. and if you can't afford it, well, you're just out of luck. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell was asked on safe haven fox news on sunday, you know, what are you going to do with the uninsured if you guys go out and you repeal the health care law? >> one of the keys to obama care is it will extent insurance access to 30 million people who are now uninsured. in your replacement, how would you provide universal coverage? >> well, first, let me say the single best thing we could do for the american health care system is to get rid of obamacare. >> well, if you didn't hear an answer to the question, you're not alone. chris wallace tried to get the senator to answer the question again. >> the single biggest step we could take in the direction of improving american health care is to get rid of this thing. >> but you're talking about appealing. how would you provide universal coverage? >> chris wallace is getting a good taste of what president obama and the democrats are dealing with. m

there is no moderate republicans, moderate democrats but no moderate republicans. and the notion of people coming together to make a joint decision. that's why the country has all of the problems it has now. the economic situation. it's a big problem. then maybe it was -- historians can look back, one of the last time that people can sort of come together. it's a tribute to i them keep saying we came together. and also what i'm proud of. i think i mentioned this before, if not in this interview. i thought there would be a historical backlash against the impeachment process, against the president nixon reservation because we forced him out of office, this was a partisan gang that put it all together. there was never, that back lash never came. nobody ever writes that somehow -- no meaningful position, i'm sure some have written, that somehow error was committed. this shouldn't have happened. this was a president being driven out of office and he wouldn't. no respectable authorities have really said that. and that's another tribute to that process. i'm very proud of

>> they really say unfortunately the republican party has become -- it's not the republicans.rank will you it's not even the republicans in office in many cases. it's that the republican party leadership and the primary process makes it very difficult to be a moderate republican anymore on women's health care issues. i think those republicans who are moderate are often now have opponents in the primary as they are trying to move the party to the right. i think that's of concern. again, this has been a topic discussed a lot. republicans started planned parenthood. they believe, just as we do, that women should have access to health care without government interference. that's really what the american people believe. unfortunately it is a political party issue. it's not a republican issue. >> just curious when it comes to abortion, is planned parenthood open to any restrictions that still keep abortion legal whether it's parental notification, things like that, moving at all in that direction in order to assuage some opponents that might say, okay, if you do that i won't be agai

groups are already trying to capitalize on so where does the health care fight go from here also our republican governors going to put politics ahead of the well being of millions of americans and where super pacs worse than mafia hit man all that and more in tonight's edition of the politics and thousands of acres have burned to the ground from the colorado wildfires seventeen people died this week into the hands of free east coast storms a wildfires and super cell thunderstorms the new face of weather in the era of global warming. you need to know this over the past month chief justice john roberts may have changed his mind on obamacare c.b.s. news reporting the roberts initially sided with the conservatives on the court to strike down the entirety of president obama's affordable care act before changing his mind and switching sides a few weeks ago to uphold the law according to c.b.s. roberts kept a close eye on media coverage of the court leading up to the decision and one source close to the court suggested that roberts may have changed his vote to keep the court's reputation intact but ul

i remember working with republicans, republicans, and by the way, this ain't your father's republican party. remember working with republicans on motor voter on expanding the franchise on early voting, on voting by mail, some of these were republican ideas. but this is not the republican party view today, nor romney's. they see a different future where voting is made harder, not easier. where the justice department is even prohibited from challenging any of those efforts to suppress votes. i know you know it, but i'm not sure everybody does. the house of representatives republicans voted affirmatively to prevent the justice department from even investigating whether or not there was voter suppression. folks, there's a lot more to say, but this is preaching to the choir. let me close, my friends, by saying, i mean this sincerely, just close your eyes and imagine. imagine what the romney justice department will look like. imagine when his senior advisor on issues is robert boric. imagine those incredibly important positions of justice. imagine, and i mean this, this to me is one of the

republicans retook the house. it will be interesting to see whether public distaste has grown to the point where it will be a message that will resonate at the end of vote -- in the voting booth in a way it didn't in 2010. >> eliot: you're framing the issue perfectly. for all of the excitement, the fervor you hear on the democratic side of the aisle in favor of the disclose act clearly the republicans who voted against it aren't shaking in their boots saying i'm going to be voted out of office because of this. they must have polled and looked at the landscape, shrug of the shoulders, the public will care more about other issues. all of this is inside the beltway chatter. are they wrong in that calulous? is this going to be a repeat of 2010 where the public says a pox on all of you all politics is dirty. we don't like any of you. >> i don't think republicans are wrong if that was their calculation. even if it was their calculation, the extent this could hurt them being seen as voting against additional disclosure o

playing chicken with the debt ceiling and because the republicans. would not agree to any kind of a budget deal that included any tax cuts the fallback was this automatic trigger that would produce automatic budget cuts that has created what ben bernanke either head of the federal reserve calls the fiscal cliff so this perils of pauline drama has been created mainly by the republican refusal to do anything other than stonewall so i think that's part of the senate so a but genuinely if this this is the outcome of the process of the sequestration sequestration sequence ration process are obvious right yeah if this happens do you agree that we would be looking at another recession serious recession or maybe even a depression sure it's completely crazy i mean the last thing you want in a very fragile recovery of the sort that we have now is a contractionary fiscal policy meaning. one point two trillion dollars worth of spending cuts and i'm not sure one other quibble i guess i'm not sure the democrats have resigned themselves to to spending cuts the demo

>>reporter: con johners called the -- john conyers called their bluff of the republicans and the republicans doubled down. >> if there is somebody that isn't cooperating with us in this investigation, which is a legitimate subject for discussion, we should subpoena them. >> if the gentleman will yield i will take the gentleman up on his offer immediately. >> how about the people in the situation room? >> wait a minute. just a moment. >> you can see cross talk there but the bottom line the chairman of that committee, republican smith, saying he will take up the congressman on that offer. what is not clear is whether there will be bipartisan support for drawing up the list of names and actually issuing the subpoenas. >>trace: for the first time we are hearing from one of the u.s. attorneys that is leading the investigation. what is he saying? >>guest: there are two u.s. attorneys leading the separate leak investigations. and listen closely as reporters asked him whether he is too close to the attorney general to be effective. and the status of the case. >> we are working very hard. that is the

republicans have dominated. the republicans squeaked out a narrow two-point victory in 2010. this was a pretty remarkable when, as i pointed out, in the republican wave in 2010. big changes in congress, as well as in state legislatures all across the country. host: looking at the numbers that came out on friday, this essentially is the status quo, nationwide. why is that? guest: i think it is because of the diversification in the economy, east of the susquehanna river. you have lots of activity, pharmaceuticals, the service industry, technology. the same in lehigh valley. the expansion of tourism in the northeast. basically, what is going on, in the southwestern part of the state, in the old mining and miltown part of the area, where the so-called reagan democrats reside, these were union members, catholic, conservative. democrats in those areas. there has been a brain drain. the kids graduate. they do not return because there are not any jobs there. it is still a lot tougher economy in the southwestern part of the state than it is in the east, so to speak, of the susquehanna

and he did it without a single republican vote. and he was attacked as a tax raiser by republicans. a tax raiser, who was going to ruin the economy. in fact, the economy during bill clinton's presidency soared and mitt romney's right about one thing. new democrats, as he put it, have done some good things. bill clinton did some good things. and raising taxes was one of them. joining me now, co-host of msnbc's "the cycle," krystal ball and richard wolffe, an msnbc contributor. krystal, the clinton thing for me is fascinating with romney. he's -- it seems to me that he thinks he's taken the republican thing as far as he can go. in order to get these swing voters, in order to appeal to people in colorado, independents, he wants to now run as bill clinton. >> it's an awkward fit, especially -- >> it's an awkward fit. >> the best comparison to him with recent democratic candidates is probably john kerry, just in terms of being the sort of out of touch wealthy guy, who's running against an incumbent president, rather than actually portraying himself, and putting himself -- >> john kerry,