it's just simply not true that republicans won't vote -- that youth won't vote for republicans and evenhe very first millennialist when they came to the polls, the first eligible to vote in 2000 what their ticket evenly between al gore and george bush. i think it is fair to say that because you don't have as much experience as older generation, their political views are formed as much by the failures we have known in my lifetime as they are by any vision that is espoused by a particular politician. i think reagan was aided by the failures of the carter investigation, but he also is able to communicate conservatism's though beautifully an entire generation rally to this vision. and i think that's also a barack obama was able to do. the youth -- the first at breaking in 04 because they believed john kerry's mantra that it was at the wrong time in the wrong place and in 2005 the failures of the federal government to really respond to hurricane katrina also affected them as well as candles in 2006 in the house of representatives. and i think it is republican brand damage they tribute away f

this is a republican stronghold county. she is a republican activist.re you worried -- i know you know a lot about wisconsin politics. are you worried that if it does come down to sort of election protection and election integrity concerns that that's going to essentially infect wisconsin politics with some contentiousness and acrimony and suspicion that's going to be hard to grow out of in years to come? >> well, i guarantee you, rachel, these folks here in wisconsin are not going to let this story go away. i've had two state senators tell me moments ago that they think it's going to end up in an investigation. i mean, they're going right to it. they have been worried about this in recent weeks about how this might unfold. and i know it's a tired and worn out saying, but you can't make this stuff up. it's almost unbelievable. that you have six recall elections tonight and oh, by the way, the county that's had trouble in the past is right back in the firestorm again? i mean, come on, folks. i just think it's just hard to believe. and there is a real sen

these are six republican state senators. five of their six districts lean quite republican.e are the results tonight. we're still getting partial results in from wisconsin in wisconsin state senate district 2 the republican incumbent is robert cowles, with 49% of the vote in he leaves his challenger 57 to 43. in wisconsin senate district 8 the incumbent republican senator is alberta darling. with 7% of the vote in she leads her democratic challenger sandy pasch 71% to 29%. again, just 7% in. in district 10 the republican incumbent is state senator sheila harsdorf. democratic challenger shelly moore. with 54% of precincts reporting the republican harsdorf leads her democratic challenger 58% to 42%. in district 14, a republican incumbent is state senator luther olsen. his democratic challenger is fred clark. right now with 51% of precincts -- sorry, excuse me, with 30% of precincts reporting the republican incumbent leads his democratic challenger 51% to 49%.

we all know they are not republicans. overwhelmingly not republican. and they represented 18% of the vote in 2008 and anticipated to be as much as one 1/4 of the electorate in 2012. in 2008 overwhelmingly voted barack obama, 66%, 32% john mccain. the reasons this is urgent is because partisan identity takes on the characteristics of cement over time it starts and after they clear barriers it begins to solidify. after three presidential election cycles, the identity solidifies. they voted john kerry 2004, barack obama at gwot 2008. this means republicans have roughly 16 months to make inroads into this generation before we lose them for the rest of their life. this is troubling to me. not just because i am a republican but i believe the ideas of the conservative movement and the republican party offer better solutions that affect them most directly. the title of my book "american individualism" is a reference to my great grandfather herbert hoover and the principal he set forth almost 90 years ago in which i believe captures the spirit of the millennial

the republican senators there in wisconsin was fired i mean is this. tensions high in wisconsin is this just indication of nasty stuff going on. well it certainly are a lot of people are keyed up they are engaged they are dialed their own air and i think now that the discussion on the debt ceiling has been out results for the time being that we will once again here in wisconsin really become the center of attention in the next seven days because there is so much at stake as far as standing up for our working families here in the state of wisconsin and if the democrats are successful be able to take back the majority in the state senate you can really beat that goal if you lack a lot of this extreme radical agenda that governor walker and his republican colleagues continue to rubberstamp and really told the party line at every opportunity need to stand up for senate we need to stand up for families we need to stand up for communities and we just cannot for wisconsin we are so polarized and divisive right now that people don't recognize the process and s

eisenhower, a moderate republican. liberal republican crowd, rockefeller. nixon in the middle all of those years. now it looks like romney, probably running as a kid when his dad failed to win. pawlenty running for years in his mind, and new people coming into politics, some with a religious background like bachmann and rick perry. who's going to win this? someone way new kind of background in the republican party or the traditional wing, sort of the whose turn is it crowd? >> a good question and hopefully what we'll help to decide tonight at the debate and saturday in the straw poll, and beyond into the caucus and the primary, chris, but i would say this, that one person left out of this equation that there hasn't been much discussion, ron paul who has built a lot of organization here and we should not underestimate the five years of work he's invested in this. aside from that, then i think what you're looking at is, will the energy that's generated by these candidates carry them through a straw poll and fairly high profile that haven't entered into this f

republican president, republican congress. they've lost the high ground on being able to say that they're the party of national security, they're the party that can deal with national conflict questions. and because of that, we see them confused. we see them almost irrational in their criticism about obama. the same thing we saw when obama killed bin laden. or in this situation, right now he was right about gadhafi. he was right about libya. and that's killing them. because the contrast, ed, is they were confused. they were disoriented on what to do about libya. you remember one day they were saying one thing, the next day it was another. they were confused about what to do with the most violent terrorist in the world who was responsible for lockerbie. let me point this out. ronald reagan was the president during the lockerbie incident and george bush sr., if you recall, he's the guy that gave gadhafi a free pass on those murders when george bush sr. came into office. every single one of the serious republican candidates, if c

do not tell me republicans would object to that, republicans have asked for it, even if they did only ask for themselves. they say politics is the art of the possible, beltway has been saying for more than a year that any political action to save the economy is impossible because republicans will just not allow it, but we as a country have been through four huge shocks that should have changed everybody's perception about what is possible right now. we learned the recession we are trying to crawl out of now was even worse than we originally thought it was. we came within a whisker of defaulting on our debt because of the flirtation with default, krit rating was downgraded and now the market looks like this every other day or so. we've absorbed these dramatic shocks in just the last two weeks. anybody who tells you about what's possible and impossible in washington, if their list of what's impossible is the same now as it was before all of these shocks, stop listening to that person. we've had a wake-up call followed by an alarm clock, followed by somebody throwing a bucket of water on

it's the republican party.but it's interesting to ask, well, did all republicans back then now end up in the tea party? and the answer is, no. actually, the tea party supporters are less than half of all the people who favored the republican party. so the tea party movement represents a minority within the republican party. >> and specifically it is a minority that has differences of opinions, statistically significant differences of opinion with the rest of the people you're serving and even the rest of republicans about the role of religion in government. but yet that hasn't really become part of their sort of tea party brand. is that fair to say? >> it isn't part of the tea party brand yet, but it essential is a certainly is a fact. what we were asking is what differentiates the republicans that ended up with the tea party from republicans who don't support the tea party. and, you know, you might think maybe it's the size of government. these tea party people are really upset about big government, and maybe

and republican legislatures. chris christie, i didn't even feel like i needed to say the state because we all know chris christie. and in michigan, rick snyder, new republican governor of michigan just passed sweeping reforms that are going to effect every kid in the school system in detroit. this is just something, to me, that the millennials get implicitly, and i think we just need to start, start really screaming it from mountaintops when we have the next opportunity which will be in the next presidential election cycle. the other issue that always ranks highly are with millennials is the environment. and i argue in my book that we need to make a very strong case for a conservative environmentalism. incidentally, the republican party has a pretty good history with environmentalism; teddy roosevelt, richard nixon. i think that we can talk about climate change, and we can acknowledge that climate change is happening, but it's also an inexact science. we know that the cover of "newsweek" in 1975 showed that the g

he is a republican and oversaw a the balloting. he now tells radio iowa that some of the sproets were counted for rick perry were actually cast for rick parry. spelled with an "a." they were all write-in votes. quoting the secretary of state, to be honest with you, i don't exactly know how many parry votes there were. but i know they were all given to the governor. so the strong showing at ames may have been numerically in part thanks to stephen colbert making fun of him so hard in iowa which is like, there is a diagram. one is just and one is fantastic. i >>> here's how governor scott walker of wisconsin spins the employment figures in his state. when job numbers in wisconsin are up, it is because of his policies, obviously. when the job figures go down, who, me? then it's objectly the lousy national economy that's to blame and poor scott walk her nothing to do with it. >>> wall street roller coaster -- concerns about

republicans for democrats. it goes to the core issue, getting young the finger- pointing and getting something done. >> as to the finger-pointing, when it comes, as it did recently, on the president's national televised debate with you relied on certain issues of the past, republicans learned through a very painful time where we have rightfully been put in the minority for our failure to control spending. we self assess ourselves. we were assessed by the public. many of our colleagues did not return, and we learned from that painful experience that spending in the way we did was unacceptable as such to the republican party, so we learned our lesson. democrat party has not here they talk more taxes, more spending, and pretend somehow that the government will help grow the economy or lead to prosperity would exactly the opposite is the case. to me, you have one party that has learned from being put into a minority for failing to control spending and another that has not in terms of the senate and in terms of the

he is a republican and overyou a the balloting.s radio iowa that some of the sproets were counted for rick perry were actually cast for rick parry. spelled with an "a." they were all write-in votes. quoting the secretary of state, to be honest with you, i don't exactly know how many parry votes there were. but i know they were all given to the governor. so the strong showing at ames may have been numerically in part thanks to stephen colbert making fun of him so hard in iowa which is like, there is a diagram. one is just and one is fantastic. every time a local business opens its doors or creates another laptop bag or hires another employee, it's not just good for business -- it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact that local businesses have on communities, so we're helping them with advice from local business experts and extending $18 billion in credit last year. that's how we're helping set opportunity in motion. a living, breathing intelligence that's helping drive the future of business. in he

credit rating agency reacted to last week's republican debt limit deal and delivered our nation its first ever credit downgrade the markets had their chance to speak during trading this afternoon president obama said this about confidence in our nation's credit worthiness after the s. and p. downgrade. markets on the other hand continue to believe our credit status is for a boy in fact warren buffett who knows a thing or two about good investments said if there were a quadruple a way to give the united states that. i and most of the world's investors agree. you would think maybe his speechwriters wrote that much earlier in the day because then the dow continued its plunge which would open the day with basically and ended up six hundred thirty four points down for the day it was the largest one day lost since the financial crisis of two thousand and eight and it was the sixth largest point for in the history of the dow jones and the first time since last november that the market closed below eleven thousand points meanwhile the guy who engineer the republican hostage taking that as simply

but i think republican. ever since its inception that party has been under that kind of pro special privilege and they kind of create. it a congress. i still ask for adequate they. are displaced persons then and it committee and it can't make no witness. and truman was just getting warmed up. department know what they've done to the labor department since that torn it up is on a one zero left the sponsor thing and they've got the appropriations on that so it can hardly function. i recommended an increase in the minimum wage. what they get. nothing. i discussed a number of the failures of the republican congress and every one of them is important. by indirection this a.d.'s congress has tried to sabotage the power policy with the united states has pursued for fourteen years we can you say this country from a continuation no they have congress and from miss ruth from now on i must have your help you must get in and push and win this election the country can't afford another republican congress. are you taking

republicans have been critical of his record on economy and jobs in recent days and the republicans areng. listen to the president back home at a fund-raiser wednesday night -- >> when i said change we can believe in, i didn't say change we can believe in tomorrow. not change we can believe in next week. we knew this was going to take time. because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy. >> we've got this big, messy, tough democracy won't fit on a bumper sticker. how does it work in 2012? what is it, change takes time? keep the change? how do you frame it, david? >> i think the president has a very clear vision of how we recover from this recession and restore the -- the economic security of the middle-class, and those things are related. and that's what this fight is going to be about. it's not going to be about bumper stickers, it's going to be about real lives and about how we lift our economy in a way that's fair, that gives people broad opportunity, that lets people live the lives they want to live. that's the debate people are looking for. >> we learned today that governor per

republicans changed the debate. earlier the president wanted to talk about job creation, investment. that's not happening. it's on the republican terms. they really did change that debate in washington. and, you know, probably for the next year and a half. host: let's go to san francisco, where tim is on our independent line. go ahead, tim. caller: hi. thanks for taking my call. i was actually going to say very similar points to what you were just saying about how the republicans came out on top on this one with no tax revenue and then, of course, the increase in the debt limit. i was just kind of confused by the whole argument. i feel like e media missed the idea that the size of the u.s. economy is going to keep growing and that the debt iling will have to be lifted in the future again, where it's at the same point as far as percentage to g.d.p. i think it's definitely an inflexion point. i think it's a time for the u.s. to kind of rehash the way that it collects taxes and sets up its codes, and i think in the fut

bob is a republican. caller: what i noticed about the debate last night, the thing i shot -- the three i think should drop out should be temple into, paul, and hunstman. i think is more like a trojan horse. he is more of a democrat i think that a republican. host: and why do you think they should drop out? caller: i did not like the answers. i thought paul was made about iran. pawlenty, i do not think anything about him. huntsman, he stayed mainly on what he was going to do. he did not bring up what i thought was more important, the economy. i am tired of hearing everyone complained about barack obama being on vacation. it is a lot of work trying to destroy a country that is 250 years old, especially when people are catching on to you. host: perhaps this decoster sentiment, she writes -- it is way too early for this nonsense. we're seeking your reaction to the republicans campaigning for voters attention in advance of the iowa straw poll. you might enjoy this local reporting. for the 100th anniversary of

he is a republican and overyou a the balloting.tells radio iowa that some of the sproets were counted for rick perry were actually cast for rick parry. spelled with an "a." they were all write-in votes. quoting the secretary of state, to be honest with you, i don't exactly know how many parry votes there were. but i know they were all given to the governor. so the strong showing at ames may have been numerically in part thanks to stephen colbert making fun of him so hard in iowa which is like, there is a diagram. one is just and one is fantastic. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's ene

with 7% in the republican ahead 54% to 46%. and in district 32 the republican incumbent is dan kapanke. democratic challenger is jennifer schilling. with 24% in kapanke leads -- excuse me, kapanke trails 49% to 51%. we'll be updating the recall election results as they come in throughout the night. but now, live from madison, wisconsin with the latest, it's "the ed show." have a good night. >>> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show," tonight from madison, wisconsin, where the recall elections for the radical republicans under way. the polls have closed. the results at this hour. in the 2nd district, 49% reporting, republican state senator rob cowles 57%, democratic challenger nancy nusbaum in at 43%. in the 8th district, 7% reporting, republican state senator alberta darling 71%. democratic state representative sandy pasch in at 29%. in the 10th district, 29% reporting, republican state senator sheila harsdorf 59%. democratic challenger shelly moore 49%. in the 14th district, republican state senator luther olsen

normal republicans, conservative republicans that seem mainstream or moderate, you are going to be replaced. the tea party is taking over. in fact, the next senator in line for that treatment is the other utah republican senator, orrin hatch, with a 90% rating from conservative union. orrin hatch is, in fact, a very conservative senator but perhaps not conservative enough. tea party supporting extremely conservative republican congressman jason chaffetz of utah has been making noise all year long that he was going to go after orrin hatch next. he was going to primary hatch from the right, take that deep red republican utah senate seat and make it even deeper red. this week he finally made his big announcement about challenging hatch and he's not doing it. now, he hadn't just been hinting at this. he was telling everybody he was likely to do this. he was very open that he was going to kick orrin hatch out of the senate but he's decided not to run against him. this is not going to happen in utah. after orrin hatch, the other senator was olympia snowe of maine, up for re-election in 2012. the

republican politicians believe intransigence is what republican voters want.hite house and democrats think that what voters in general want is conciliation and compromise, a willingness to be reasonable and work things out. are those two perceptions accurate? >> i think they are accurate. i think if you look at the country as a whole, you're going to get a misleading idea of what republicans' behavior is going to be like in congress. i had a hard time understanding what was going on in the debt ceiling debate until i looked at polls 20% of americans wanted to balance the budget by cutting spendi ing spending. the truth is, extreme elected on tea party craziness who either don't know or understand the consequences of their actions, but also members who watched their moderate colleagues lose in primaries in 2010. the memory is fresh in their minds. they watched castle lose in delaware, lawden lose in delaware. they know it's a minority of a minority that's going to vote them out in the primaries. you can't look at the polling among the general public and predict

last november, as in many states, the republicans won hugely in wisconsin's election, the new republican governor decided although he had not campaigned on the issue of union rights, he would use his new power as governor and the big republican majorities in both houses of the state legislature to strip union rights in wisconsin. wisconsin, in turns out, is pretty attached to his union rights and so huge, no, really, huge crowds took to the streets of madison and to the state capitol building itself this winter and spring protesting governor walker and the republicans' action. the largest demonstrations at the state capitol in history. the state senate's democrats hatched a plan to stop the republicans from passing the union-stripping measure by themselves fleeing the state so the wisconsin senate could not get a quorum, so the senate would not be allowed to vote on or pass anything. ultimately on march 9 of this year by unprecedented and dodgy procedural means, the wisconsin republicans did figure out how to pass the union-stripping bill anyway. every republican in the wisconsin senate

and mitt romney, of course, the old republican party, perhaps tired old republican party? is that the big three or the only three? >> i think the big three and the only three, chris. you have perry coming in so strong it's his to lose. romney a very, very beleaguered front-runner who's had months of a wide open campaign to prove he can do a what howard just described, agents bit of handshaking and a little bit of eye contact, and romney showing that he's about as robotic at al gore was. i think michele bachmann is also a very good retail campaigner. also very organized, but i talked to a republican strategist and very big donor today who is a porting perry. while we were talking for about an hour, his phone didn't stop ringing. it was pawlenty supporters, it was bachmann supporters. it was romney supporter, and it was money coming in. he can match romney dollar for dollar no matter how much money romney spends. it is over for mitt romney. >> okay. looking down the road. i love your projection. howard, a poll production. you're doing the regular street corner, what's it cal

both of those senators are republicans, so that would be a democrat and republican. one senator from california, one senator from texas represent the two most populous states, together they represent 20% of our population. if you then threw in a new york senator, which would be a democrat, and a florida republican senator, and then throw in a democrat from illinois and a republican from pennsylvania, which they do have in the mix already, you would get to 41%. and then the house members, all of whom represent roughly the same number of people, so it doesn't really matter where they are from, could bring you up to a maximum, a maximum of 42.4% of the people represented by a committee designed like this. but we didn't come close to that democratic maximum, which would still be a minority, and so, the most momentous budgetary decisions of our time will be made by a committee that represents only 15% of the people. most of the congress already feels left out of this process, and now 85% of the american people have every right to feel completely left out of this process.

will he lose more than 22 republicans on this vote? that's probable and one of the reasons we're watching this play out. a huge policy debate for the country and international economy and also a fascinating political story. >> john will be all over this story reporting live from capitol hill on "john king usa" which comes up at the top of the hour for the north american viewers. john, thanks so much. we're standing by and getting ready to hear from john boehner, the speaker of the house of representatives. still doing a quorum call in the house. the vote getting ready to start momently. our live breaking news coverage continues right here in "the situation room." labored breathing ] [ coughing continues ] [ gasping ] [ elevator bell dings, coughing continues ] [ female announcer ] congress can't ignore the facts: more air pollution means more childhood asthma attacks. [ coughing continues ] log on to lungusa.org and tell washington: don't weaken the clean air act. >>> you're looking at live pictures from capitol hill right now. the quo

as republicans, we're angry at obama. we're not so angry we would vote republican. maxine waters the congresswoman at that town hall with a lot of angry constituents. these are supporters of the president saying we don't know what the strategy is. why is it so many supporters of president obama consistently say we don't know what he stands for? >> he's got to be clear. he's got to be bold. i agree with my frind maria. he's got to give certainty to the markets. markets, again, don't be critical o wall street and big business in this country. at the end of the day those two forces are main street. they create job do those things, it will turn around. 4% to 5% growth again, america feels like america again. maxine waters will come around. >> we need to get our arms around spend ing morethan we take in. >> we've got to live it there. rundtable, thank you. >>> before we go, next sunday our meet the candidates series continues as the former governor of utah, republican presidential contender jon huntsman wl join david gregory live in studio for an exclusive [ male announc

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this hour the republicans yell and scream about illegal immigration is one group of people who are making a lot of money off of the for profit private prison industry operate down this tangled web of special interests and politicians who are profiting off the most downtrodden people in our society and so much for being able to ask your republican congressman a question on the next town hall about him ideally take i'll tell you how paul ryan and his buddies are privatizing democracy to avoid anger. constituents of the sun. in the midst of the rest of the news with the economy flailing there's at least one industry other than wall street and big oil that's booming and that's the business of locking up immigrants now because there's more illegal immigration in the united states that is actually less but because private prison lobbyists with the help of paid off lawmakers who write strict anti immigration laws like arizona's as phaeton seventy are making sure that more and more illegal and sometimes legal immigrants are rounded u

also district 10 goes to the republicans. and district 2 goes to the republicans. 32. district 32, we are reporting tonight that district 32, including the city of lacrosse, has been called for the democrat, jennifer shilling. jennifer shilling has been declared the winner in district 32 over state senator dan kapanke. kapanke is the first republican to be recalled in wisconsin. john? >> and ed, this is something we should underline. a republican senator, a veteran who has won again and again, won in the obama landslide year, was defeated after he voted to take away labor rights. that was never going to happen until this year. >> how big a win is this for jennifer shilling and the democrats? >> that district the democrats have been trying to win for decades. they have had a very hard time getting that district back. they finally got it back, and we have to recognize that that is a district where jen shilling went out and said i stand for labor rights. she was in the assembly. she voted against the walker agenda. kapanke in the senate voted for it. >> so it has been a l

also district 10 goes to the republicans. and district 2 goes to the republicans. 32. district 32, we are reporting tonight that district 32, including the city of lacrosse, has been called for the democrat, jennifer shilling. jennifer shilling has been declared the winner in district 32 over state senator dan kapanke. kapanke is the first republican to be recalled in wisconsin. john? >> and ed, this is something we should underline. a republican senator, a veteran who has won again and again, won in the obama landslide year, was defeated after he voted to take away labor rights. that was never going to happen until this year. >> how big a win is this for jennifer shilling and the democrats? >> that district the democrats have been trying to win for decades. they have had a very hard time getting that district back. they finally got it back, and we have to recognize that that is a district where jen shilling went out and said i stand for labor rights. she was in the assembly. she voted against the walker agenda. kapanke in the senate voted for it. >> so it has been a l

he is actually a republican pooch.ever my weekend with banksy. we were out around the city. first, i took him to see the statue of liberty. banksy loves anything green and stands for american freedom. i tried to take bank ss sy on a walk but it was the wrong green a soy took him down to wall strooet to do his business and boy did he have fun. he made lots of friends with i goes on the street. we strolled up to wall street and banksy enjoyed how to and we made a stop to see his favorite baseball team, the mets. banksy loves citifield. there wasn't an empty seat in the place. those people in the crowd are corporations. but one thing ways confused at, it doesn't seem that the police in new york understand that people are corporations. because you know, you have to use a pooper scoopener new york when your dog does their business. and they never made me take out my pooper scooper, even those banksc and all his friends were craping all over the people in town. thanks for watching, i'm al sharpton. "hardball" is next. >>> th

tree threat and i don't understand why the tea partiers and the koch brothers in the republican party are so hell bent for leather to create a nation where the rich people or rich people in a poor country would you know tom i really think that a lot of the people who voted for tea party candidates in the last election were not voting for rich people or not voting for a nation where rich people were getting rich or they were voting in outrage against the bailouts to wall street they did was not done by the bush administration and and they didn't realize that i had said i don't think they realized because the democratic party was party to those bell. i was bad on messaging but you're right it was a bi bi partisan bring how did president obama drop the ball in this debate and what does he like you know should he be channeling f.d.r. absolutely f.d.r. faced the situation almost identical to the situation that barack obama has faced over the past year f.d.r. in one nine hundred forty two one thousand nine hundred forty three faced a hostile congress people people now don't remember that fo

dare the republicans to vote against it.number two, compromise a little of this, a little of that or roll over and give them what they want, more business tax cuts. the options. where should he go? >> b and c are about the same, chris. compromising with republicans is rolling over. that's virtually what happened in the debt ceiling debate. there were absolutely no tax increases, because the republicans wouldn't give in at all, and the president did.ç he absolutely needs is to be harry truman. >> you have to choke him. >> you have got to -- even if he proposes small things, they're not going to vote for it. they're going to say no. why not be big, be bold, be imaginative and hang it around the republicans' necks. >> my big question. why wouldn't the president tell them what to do if he didn't have opposition? let him know what he stands for and thet lem vote against him? what do you think? >> he's beal realistic. look at the economy proposals on the table now that are sitting, languishing in congress while they do nothing, t

also looking for as you said these cards out will come back if it's a political purpose is the republicans planning illegal actions voter caging it needs to come to a stop in the justice department has to get involved now. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question is voter suppression the only way the g.o.p. and their funders the koch brothers can win elections in wisconsin or anywhere else your choices are yes they have p. absentee ballots of late return dates are being sent to democratic with rogers and to wisconsin recalls or know the sleight of t.v. ads with one hundred fifty thousand bucks funded by a.f.p. in the walkie no big deal log on to let us know what you think the poll be open till tomorrow morning. crazy alert yet with chavez in attempts to squash talk that he may not be fit to run for reelection after undergoing cancer treatments venezuelan president hugo chavez has released a workout video to show just how healthy he really is flanked by his cabinet members chavez offers up some exercise tips complete with a techno soundtrack

of diseffected people in middle class to gain power as a republican and build a republican machine in kentucky. that's what he did in the last 20 years. now he is trying to do the same on a national level, taking the anger and protests, using the energy of it to cut deals in the senate, and he did it brilliantly. his role model is an old name in american politics, henry clay, going back to the 19th century. the great compromiser. henry clay was trying to use compromise to build a nation and keep it together. mitch mcconnell is using his role as the sort of anti-clay to tap into this protest movement and try to take the federal government out of a lot of business at the state and local level. that's his vision, what he is trying to do. that's why as jonathan said, he preserved the position in the majority leader role, because as jonathan rightly pointed out, republicans didn't want to drive the bus over the cliff, did not want to be blamed for shut down, for default, et cetera, and it was brilliant maneuvering by mcconnell. >> joining us now, jim more and, democrat from virginia. congr

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture president obama gave republicans exactly what they wanted round one of the debt limit hostage taking so in round two rolls around will we finally see some balance as the president already lost that fight to the us they claim their job creators will this republican debt limit plan actually lead to job creation a little break the back of our limping economic recovery and the koch brothers are on the ground it was constant find out what their political operatives are up to in the badger state to make sure republicans come out on top in the upcoming recall elections here's a hint voter suppression. now that the republican written debt limit deal has passed the house and senate with half the democratic caucus eighteen along the way and president obama has signed the raw deal into law republicans are soaking in their victory it was john boehner last night an interview with c.b.s. and when you look at the this final agreement that we came to with the white house and i got ninety eight percent of what i wanted i'm pretty happy. i'd be ha

as the republican party continues to be chased to the right by the tea party, one republican presidential candidate has decided to directly confront the extremism in his own party. huntsman's campaign hasn't jumped out of the single digits in the polls, unlike mitt romney and michele bachmann. in spite of or perhaps because of rhetoric like this. >> printing more money to play politics at this particular time in american history is treasonous in my opinion. >> first rule of war is know your enemy, so i went to the inside to learn how they work, because i want to defeat them. >> we need to be free from this country from overregulation and free in this country from overtaxation, from overlitigation. >> the best thing that we can do is shut down and close the federal department of education. >> in texas we teach both creationism and evolution. >> i guarantee you the e.p.a. will have doors locked and the lights turned off. >> i'll work every day to try to make washington, d.c. as inconsequential in your life as i can. >> now in an interview on abc's "this week," huntsman warned republicans ex

you think of the way obama handles this republican house and republican-influence senate, what makes you think he will do any better? >> that is a great question. what difference would an obama victory make? >> it would prevent counterrevolution. 1/6 of the american economy, that is where a lot of republicans worry. yes, we will hold last, yes, we will probably win the senate, but unless we win the white house, americans will change indelibly and republicans will think obamacare -- >> obama must be sitting in martha's vineyard asking himself, can i be the same old guy i have been or, or do i have to be something radically different? for the first time he has to be asking himself that. as the numbers get worse, he has to look for some big thing that gets the attention back on him. tax reform, there are other ways to go, but it is a fundamental question for him because of the sort of rope-a-dope coasting into re-election is looks more precarious. >> he has to look for 41 democratic senators. if he does not, but he is in trouble. >> well, he will -- >> he has got to thwart republicans i