if the republicans win, it's a tie and the republican governor gets to be the deciding vote. the first thing republicans would have done had they taken this over, probably voted immediately to repeal iowa's same sex marriage law. tonight, democrats have held on to their majority, associated senate calling the raze for democrat liz mathis against the republican, cindy golding. another race keeping our eye on, san francisco, ed lee has been interim mayor since gavin newsome left to become california's lieutenant-governor. and facing 15 different challengers in san francisco. if he elected today he will be the first asian mayor. heavily asian there and chinese. and he would become the only mayor elected in part due to a video endorsement that looks like this. ♪ thank you for blessing me and the rest of the city with ed lee. only 5'5" and gets everything done. see the moustache ♪ 2 legit 2 quit. ed lee. >> i think the floating moustache is a little scary. very early returns in from san francisco showing ed leeway ahead. at this point those are just early returns. the most closely

there's no excuse for 100% of washington republicans to say no. >> 100% of republicans did vote against the jobs bill today. new polling shows americans agree republicans are tanking the economy on purpose. >> our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama a second term. >> tonight dccc chairman steve israel. and "washington monthly's" steve bennan on republican sabotage. herman cain is soaring in the polls and rake in money as his scandal continues to grow. eugene robinson of the "washington post" is here with the latest. >>> in ohio it's the fourth quarter, and governor john kasich is fumbling his cleveland brown references. tonight, van jones is in ohio, where it's ground zero for workers' rights. >>> and in massachusetts tea party hatred is on full display. we'll show you the nasty exchange between an angry righty and senate candidate elizabeth warren. >>> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. republicans' calculated campaign to sabotage president obama, well, it hit a new low today. a few hours ago the senate democrats came up

can republicans lose? i suppose we could nominate someone who's not acceptable to the independent voters but we don't plan to do that and other people we've talked about. >> but it's all about the economy, and what is it, 27 of the last 29 months, unemployment has been higher. i guess there's been only charlie cook told me the other day just very few months between 1948 when harry truman was elected in 2008 when i think there's been only one was it 17 months of unemployment was above 9% in that entire period. it's all finished. do you agree it's going to be -- >> agree but i also think that what matters most is the presidential campaigns at the end is when it comes to the economy to people feel like things are getting better or do they think they're the same or getting worse? >> i think the president's team would acknowledge if people feel like things are the same or getting worse it's going to be a very long day for the president and of people to the economy's getting better and policies are helping and w

and some republicans to. just give you a sense that budget would be unconstitutional under the sort of balanced budget amendment that republicans are pitching now this is radical that's all right but this is radical polar and so there was a study. if you want to cap it eating percent spending at eighteen percent of g.d.p. government spending. according to the center on budget and policy priorities who analyze what a balanced budget amendment like this would do fifty fifty million people would be put out of work. it would kill the unemployment rate but it would shrink our economy by seventeen percent yet according to a c.n.n. poll earlier this year seventy four percent of americans support a balanced budget amendment so why is that are they just not know what it is i mean what's the deal with i think i think what the deal here is that republicans are really good at pitching these budget ideas in simple terms for instance and they often use an argument that budget the federal government judging system is just l

republican state officials seen as broader bellwethers for how this year's republican politics in the states are going over. in michigan, it's republican assemb assemblyman paul scott who's seen as an ally of republican governor rick snyder. the yes or no vote on republican paul scott's michigan recalls, therefore, seen as a bit of a proxy for whether michigan is feeling buyers remorse from the republican agenda they got. results are still coming in on the michigan race. also facing recall, republican state senator, russell pierce of arizona. the man who wrote arizona's paper's please law, a very powerful republican controlling the state senate there. his challenger, interestingly, is also a republican. but russell pierce's challenger is a republican who denounced who pierce and jan brewer have done to the state's image with their anti-immigrant legislation and announced it as something akin to alabama 1964. polls only closed in arizona moments ago. we're awaiting on preliminary results in the russell pierce recall. that watched closely around the nation. in iowa, today, a special ele

second, the republican primaries will end right now. the republican primary, the candidates, and then their senate and congressional supporters to the right. you know, all of them said they wouldn't be for a dollar of revenue for $10, in return for $10 of spending cuts. but once you get a nominee, they have to move to the middle. that's where the american people are. and third, is people go home, they're going to hear from their members, solve this problem. their constituents, solve this problem. so my view is we have a really good chance, basically a long the outlines of simpson -- the broad outlines of simpson/bowles, you couldn't vouch for any specific, but the broad outline of $1 trillion in revenues, $1 trillion in mandatory savings, and $1 trillion in discretionary savings to get that done. >> let me do two quick ones. on politics, does president obama stand to gain politically after the super committee's failure, in your judgment? >> yes. here's why i think 2000 dwell is going to be a very good year for democrats, because the big

the republicans did.and utter lack of shame as they take their baseless recall effort to the doorstep of private businesses, harassing their customers to engage in what is nothing more than a selfish power play to suit the ends of liberal special interests. should petition gatherers not leave the premises upon request, we encourage businesses to contact their local law enforcement." what do you make of this outcry of the republicans asking businessowners to call the cops on your people who are out there getting signatures? >> well, look, the republicans have been running a campaign of intimidation and fear and trying to scare people into both not helping us get signatures and also not signing signatures. but, you know, the folks from united wisconsin and the democratic party and all of our allies are, you know, we're stronger than that, ed. the republicans aren't going to scare us away from this recall. it's too important. >> walker is already campaigning to keep his job. what do you make of that? he's fe

enius republican plan wa. by the genius republican governor there is foiled. that happened in iowa. was national focus on ballot measures in a e1 few different states last night, and new jersey and kentucky hadi some pretty striking results.+ in kentucky, a number of statewide office holders were up for election, and it was nearly a clean sweep for the democrats, in kentucky. abramson won re-election by a 20-point margin.5a the state auditor's race and th attorney general's race, despite some big national guns weighing on behalf of the republ'ç people like mike huckabee, rudy giuliani, sarah palin, the republican in the ag's race just got creamed. and in fact, in all of those other races.lpe1i]c actually, a quick correction on the attorney general thing. i have been calling the pa-pool, because it's spelled p'pool, but it's pronounced my apologies.q the only race that a republican won last night in kentucky, only statewide race was for agricultural commissioner. despite that electoral route of republicans,t( the website politico today managed to find a silver lining for the kentu

has been engaged under republican presidents, there hasn't been an isolationist republican president, right, since the '20s, tendency towards a hard line approach. that's been the consistency. the variety, though, has been somebody like, let's say bush 41, bush sr., and bush 43, bush jr., followed very different foreign policies in some ways, and the two of them each different from richard nixon or ronald reagan as well. >> how were the two bushes different treason ronald reagan? >> the first bush, his main emphasis was on stability, prudence, caution. i mean, he was trying to preside over very dramatic changes and maintain u.s. national interests. i think he was pretty successful in doing that. bush 43 after 9/11 was convinced of an approach that was much more idealistic, that the u.s. would try to undercut support for terrorism by invading iraq, democratizing the middle east. i mean, really very different from what his father's approach had been. >> now, in your book, "hard line," you have chapters as well on barry goldwater and robert taft. >> right. >> why? >> i chose those two be

but this week, a group of brave republicans -- remember, the threshold for bravery in the republicans brave. a group of brave republicans joined arms and took a stand against grover norquist. 40 house republicans, 37 of whom have signed grover norquist's anti-tax pledge, signed a letter to the deficit reduction supercommittee saying that all options for deficit reduction must be considered, including tax increases. politically, this is, by far the biggest thing that's happened in the house of representatives this year. it is a devastating setback for grover norquist. grover norquist didn't get to be the most powerful republican in america without knowing how to handle setbacks. he issued this threat to those house republicans who signed that letter, saying they would consider tax increases. consider anything. just don't vote for a tax increase. team norquist then turned to washington's traditional tactic of fighting a letter with a letter. norquist's errand boy in the united states senate, south carolina's jim demint, got his republican colleagues to sign a letter to the supercommitt

republicans, particularly. only ones asked are the ones that raise a lot of money in the last 90 days. do you know that was a criterion for the last debate? did you raise $500,000 in the last 90 days. is that the way you pick a president, rachel? >> when i think about your effort and who you are talking to and the different constituencies you have chosen to address with the different things you have done, what i'm wondering is whether you think there is an audience among conservative voters who want to hear about money and politics. >> we don't. you don't know. >> of all the republican candidates, all of the candidates have dark money behind hem. >> all of them. >> not a peep from the voters. >> it is a catch 22. unless you walk in the room and say there's a fire here nobody knows the room's burning. they just know there are fewer jobs than 12 years ago. they know we're one of the lowest countries in the industrial world with the difference between those at the top and those at the bottom. they know we're in tr

folks, republicans have done it again.ngle gop senator voted against an infrastructure bill that would have put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work. it's the third time in the last months they have acted governs the nation's unemployed. first the american's jobs act, then the jobs for teachers and firefighters, now jobs to rebuild our roads and brings. this is appalling, but what's most appalling is they might be holding this country hostage because of one man -- >> speaker boehner, grover nor quist was on the hill this morning. was he an influence on your -- >> listen, our focus here is on jobs. we're doing everything we can to get or economy moving again. it's not often i'm asked about some random person in america. >> now to be fair, for most americans grover nor quist is some random person, but for republicans, nor quist is an antitax hero, and signing his pledge not to raise taxes is a must-do with this congress. 236 of the 242 republicans in the house have signed it, as have 40 of the 47 senate

the amendment was sponsored by mississippi republicans and pushed by mississippi republicans and willi a bundle the state might otherwise have charged for i.d. cards because the i.d. cards will have to be free so they do not become a modern day poll tax which is illegal. here's the thing. to get one of those i.d.s you have to show a birth certificate. to get a copy of your birth certificate, that costs 15 bucks. mississippi the poorest state in the country. that 15 bucks is kind of a poll tax anyway, once removed, barely. mississippians will also have to pay to defend the state against all the legal challenges they will face on this. legal challenges that probably do not have a very good, excuse me, legal challenges that probably to have a pretty good chance of overturning the law in the end. in florida this year, republican governor rick scott signed a law that cuts early voting in half. thus ensuring longer than ever lines to vote in florida. it also makes voter registration drives all but impossible. florida's new rules are so ç complicated and onerous that the league of women vot

the republican governor of maine this year, republican legislators in wisconsin this year, republican legislators in missouri this year proposed this year in 2011 getting rid of child labor laws. when something happens like the supercommittee collapsing today in washington, because of an inability to reach a point of economic compromise, everybody tends to react to that in the beltway by saying stuff like, oh, how come the two parties can't compromise anymore? how come they can't find common ground on economic issues? democrats haven't moved in any direction except to the right in their economic positions in the last 20 years. meanwhile, in republican politics this year it became normal to talk about eliminating child labor laws. this is why we can't have nice things. this is why we cannot come together, kumbaya. you want democrats to go halfway toward eliminating child labor laws in the interest of bipartisan harmony? seriously? today newt gingrich also proposed privatizing social security as in allowing the stock market to determine what brand of cat food we will expect elderly amer

republicans won most.i listen to rand paul not a candidate for a rhode scholarship, sitting here saying that -- that was a cheap shot. i take it back. but the fact is when he talks about 27 to 28% for millionaires. that is $270,000 in taxes. talks about guys making $57,000 as carpenter who pays $20,000 in taxes. hitz net is 55 -- his net is 55. the millionaire is still making $735,000. do you find that fair? >> greg: yes! he creates work and produces something. it's falled at that amount. that is how much he deserves -- >> bob: can we get rid of the talk about the millionaires creating jobs. >> greg: i am talking about creating work. >> eric: this is a problem with the liberal leftie progressive liberals. you have don't understand what it costs to create a job. if this works you are we warded. >> bob: overwhelming jobs are by the small and medium companies. owners don't make million dollars. >> dana: you have to ask yourself. i'm not in this position. how much then of the income they get do they plow back

which republicans had taken away.sconsin, maine republicans say they want to block you from voting anymore in maine unless you show documentation you've never had to show before and many eligible maine voters do not have. in ohio this year, republicans passed a law that cuts early voting in half and cuts absentee voting by almost as much. in september, a campaign to repeal that law delivered petitions to put it on the ballot this year. they got help in collecting the petitions from the obama re-election. but even with that help from the obama campaign, the petition drive on the ohio early voting thing has fallen short so far by about 10,000 signatures. ohio democrats say they will turn in 150,000 more signatures this week, more than enough. and they say they'll turn them in in plenty of time. the fact that they got national help from the obama re-election campaign and still had to go out a second time makes you wonder how strong the fightback is for the activists sticking up for voting rights. sticking up for voting r

this is classic republican.chael steele, you know the game that's being played here. >> it's never happened before now. he's talking down america. >> knits never happened before. the democrats have never in the annals of modern politics ever run a commercial that's clipped together out of context something that george bush or any republican candidate for office has said. this is the first time this has ever happened. i'm shocked. >> you know, michael -- michael, you remind me of my uncle bill. he was a plumber and a good guy, but every time he heard about somebody left their wife for somebody else or stole some money, he'd say, you know, it's like everything else. that's what you sound like. you sound my uncle bill. >> this is politics! come on! you like to speak with almost bragadocia about wait jack kennedy operated and it is very clear in your book. he used the tools of politics to convey the message to the base and ultimately to the nation that he needed to convey to win. this is no different than 1960. >> s

. >> we know republicans don't want tax increases. >> republicans will not see taxes go up under any circumstances. >> fighting so hard to protect tax breaks for the wealthy. >> there has been a war, it has been waged. the victims essentially of that war are the 99% of the people in this country. >> campus police pepper spraying peaceful occupy protesters. >> militarization of our police department. >> they are being sprayed at pointblank range. >> this is absolutely disgusting. >> it looks pretty horrific. >> go get a job right after you take a bath. >> go back and get a job? what's wrong with you? it's disgusting. it's absolutely disgusting. >> go get a job right after you take a bath. >> someone needs a bath and i don't think it's the people from occupy wall street. >> go get a job right after you take a bath. >> it's much easier to wash the body than it is to cleanse the soul. >> take over a public park they didn't pay for. >> support for newt gingrich continuing to grow among republican votes. >> use bathrooms they didn't pay for. >> the statistical tie of the lead. >> i'm begin

actually he did write that i did next time i read a republican you watch a republican campaign can't campaign it play a little drinking game with how often you hear these words used again rich memo then lays out the words to be used when describing democratic campaigns words like bizarre bureaucracy coercion corruption of our in danger liberal pathetic shame taxes welfare. these may seem like trivial words that don't have an effect when it comes to political messaging words are extremely important as right wing pollster frank luntz pointed out during the health care debate back in two thousand and nine if you call it a public option the american people are split if you call it the government option the public is part of it well mainly against it you don't like it's a great point and not from now on all couldn't called the government. by so called news took the bait and executive bill sammon sent out an e-mail to his team of talking heads saying friendly reminder let's not slip back into calling it the public option please use the term government run health insurance or when brevity i

fox news republican. her new book is amerrcan individualism, how a new generation of conservatives can save the republican party. she's margaret hoover. this is overheard. >> margaret hoover, welcome.ú >> thank you for having me. >> nice to see you. >> wonderful to be here. >> i want to ask you about the subtitle of your book. ferfirst of all, it assumes that the republican party needs this is not a view that a lot of republicans share, but you believe this is the case. >> the subtitle is now a new generation of conservatives can save the republican party. and of course republicans don'tt3 think we need to be saved from anything. and of course, right now we're coming out of of some pretty interesting victories in washington in terms of having 87 new members of the house of representatives have helped change and steer the course of the dialogue and the discourse of policy making in washington from just raising the debt limit over and over again to actually reigning in spending. so that is a significant win

the president is hammering republicans on jobs as republican primary, well, it's turning into a circular firing squad. the pizza man, he's got big problems. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >>> rick perry and his campaign owe herman cain and his family an apology. >> explosive new allegations from the herman cain camp that rick perry's campaign dropped the dime on sexual harassment charges. now the perry campaign is pointing at romney. politico's ken vogel broke the story. he's here tonight. >>> democrats are gearing up for the fight with mitt romney. >> everything corporations earns ultimately goes to people. where do you think it goes? >> bill burton of priorities usa is here. >>> construction workers, they want to do their jobs. we need congress to do theirs. >> the president hammers republicans again on jobs. and new polling shows the country is responding. >> are you kidding me? >> katrina vanden heuvel of "the nation" is here with the latest. >>> republicans in ohio are fear mongering about your children. you won't believe their latest ad. >>> good to have you with us toni

republicans particularly.ed are the ones that raise a lot of money in the last 90 days. do you know that was a criterion for the last debate? did you raise $500,000 in the last 90 days? is that the way you pick a president, rachel? >> when i think about your effort and who you are talking to and the different constituencies you have chosen to address with the different things that you have done, what i'm wondering is whether or not you really think there's an audience among conservative voters who make up the electorate for gop primary, whether conservatives want to hear about money in politics or whether -- >> we don't know. >> you don't know. >> you don't know. >> if all of the republican candidates, all of the big candidates, all have dark money behind them. >> all of them. >> not a peep from the voters about that. >> not a peep. but because no one's raised the issue. it's a catch 22. unless you walk in the room and said there's a fire here, nobody knows the room's burning. they just know there's a million

the republican party left her.ow accurate do you really think that is quite say that utah about the republican party took a turn for the right, but i talked to allie peterson in the late 60s and she was already can do at the administration was too far to the right to conservatives. and today, richard nixon probably isn't acceptable at all to moderate republicanism. so how much did she actually change her views or do you think she was absolutely pretty much rock solid, the same in her philosophical outlook in ideology from the time of larry wendover in the late 50s all the way out until the unquiet >> no, i think she evolved clearly in the 1960s, she was concerned about right-wing elements of the republican party, both in michigan and on the national level. one of the reasons why she was there about the possibility to become president of the national federation of republican women. i think the banshee champion during the romney rockefeller, bill scranton, that kind of mold. she says when nixon ended at that candidat

media segment of the republican party.he more conservative side that would respond to an argument like that. he's been very consistent all the way through. so he has kind of stood out that way. i don't think we have heard enough yet about his agenda and his domestic agenda. he hasn't really come through in the debates. he is starting to make an argument, though he chose not to repeat it last night to my colleague, national journal colleague major garrett, that romney is a change agent. i think the biggest problem gingrich faces, he comes across to voters more as an intellectual provocateur. the way you run for president, as we talked about before, is changing. the debates are overwhelming many of the traditional things we thought you needed. an organization by county, a local presence, and he's clearly getting his moment to be looked at by that portion of the party that is very lee rhreluctant toe on mitt romney. >> he's also benefitting from cain's handling of the allegations and perry's most recent slip. >> yep, absolute

i'm a republican. i'm running as a republican and i fully intend to be running as a republican. >> chris: well, you have been very critical of president obama's policies and you have been very critical of mitt romney's what you call flips on issues not to say that is going to be the race but the question is can you flatly state right now and some say this is a game we play but can you flatly say right now that you will support the republican nominee and that you will not run as an independent? >> well, i'm running as a republican. that is where i am today and where i have always been and where i fully expect to be during this race. >> chris: just to play the game one last time i'm running as a republican is not a denial, sir. can you flatly state you will support the republican nominee? >> i am running as a republican and will support the republican nominee. i stated that before and ile state it again for you. >> chris: thank you, governor. thank you so much for coming in and talking with us on this ho

hell and that's what it sounds like from the republican foreign policy debate you know. paul i think by the time the election rolls around iran will already have been bombed the hell most likely by israel whatever it can be done to prevent your brains from getting a nuclear weapon has got to be done i mean it's insanity to deal let them have that weapon because we all know what they'll do with it the idea that the girl in the hands of a criminal is the same as a gun in the hands of a cop is crazy nuclear weapon in the hands of russia or the united states or france is over tool for peace nuclear weapon in the hands of iran is a tool for genocide and extension ok if i can go to you in washington just be kind of counter-intuitive here you know we have an election coming up in a year in the united states and considering the rhetoric that we've heard from the united states and other western capitals for years about iran i've been around is doing everything it possibly can he can a nuclear weapon now because they know that the next president the united states will probably go