, for every tv ad for russ feingold there were five or six at trashing him and we didn't even know who pay for them. "the new york times" just felt 40% of the chamber budget about $83 billion was paid for by the pharmaceutical insurance company and de use the chamber of commerce as the attack dog and we never knew until now. >> first two chapters of your book as you are leaving out the different elements of a real powerful movement that the first world war destroyed, the only a goal of people of faith that he mentioned was really the social gospel and the theology of walter roshenbuh. the evangelicals, the call themselves littleness at time, such as william jennings bryan. >> he wasn't a fundamentalist, he was an evangelical. there's a difference. >> i wonder if you can comment on today figures such as jim wallace -- could we see a return of the fundamentalists -- >> fundamentalists and evangelicals at that time were at war with each other because a fundamentalist who believed in the bible salles evangelicals who were charismatic and thought that there were many ways to come to christ

for every add on tv, russ feingold there were five or six ads trashing the guy and we didn't even knowho paid for them. the "new york times" just found that 40% of the chamber of commerce -- about $83 billion was paid for by the pharmaceutical insurance company, and they use the chamber of commerce as the attack dog. and we never knew until now. stuck in the first few chapters of your book as you're laying out the different elements of a real powerful movement that the first world war destroyed, the only angle of the people of faith that you mentioned was really the social gospel, and the theology of walter -- [inaudible] >> soy. and i wonder if you could -- something was notably absent was the evangelicals, they call themselves the fundamental at the time. >> he wasn't a fundamentalist. there's a difference. >> all right. so i wonder if you could comment today on figures such as jim wallis. could we see a return of the fundamentalism that the social conservatives -- >> fundamentalists, and evangelicals at the time were at war with each other because fundamentalists who believe in a st

they won daid obey's house seat and russ feingold's senate seat. they did that and a fairly blue states. they made significant gains in this last election. he promised to lead the rnc for it. >> what do think we will see? what you're looking for as we move into the jet -- chairmanship of reince preibus? >> he faces a fund-raising challenge. there were estimates before the vote happen that he will need to raise at least $400 million in the next few years to compete with president obama and senate democrats and the dnc. the other challenge he faces a the tea party movement. what we saw last couple of years was a movement, a decentralization of republican power into these groups, these 9-12 groups, activists and money were flowing away from the rnc and into this grassroots movement. he has to convince those activists and donors that the rnc is back and they are more viable and stable. they need to start putting their money in their efforts for the party. >> sean miller of the hill, we thank you for working with us today and we will talk to you again.

you have russ feingold agreeing with ron paul, ralph nader, rand paul. these are basic american values. i want to agree with don that if you are adopting policies or laws out of fear, what are you doing? york capitulating terrorism. it is a cliche to say that the terrorists win. if we are spending money and wasting our assets in being a distracted nation on things that the color coded security alerts that were fortunately got rid of after four years of being on the second-highest level. that sort of security measure does nothing in terms of genuine security. host: columbia, missouri. go ahead. caller: good morning. thank you for discussing this. my main problem with this whole flaying is that, again, it was a knee-jerk reaction. it seems to be with our federal government gives us in this area and every area. liggett the generalized systems that are supposed to be a one size fits all. we get it in security, taxation, everything. almost everything the federal government does is a one-size- fits-all government. america is a big place and one size simply doe

the loss in the senate, of course, of russ feingold is a huge loss, the great voice of liberalism after the at the deaf teddy kennedy. but in the house, the progressives did very well and came out much closer. so i think what we're going to see now is that the right wing is going to be much more the republicans, and the progressive side is going to be much more the democrats. it's not entirely that way, of course. et never is. but -- it never is. but it'll be closer to than than it ever has been. i think despite the tact that the economy -- fact that the economy remains the key issue particularly for the newcomers in congress, those who want to stop government spending, most of them have not yet been challenged on are you willing to say we should stop spending a trillion dollars on a military policy that is failing and use that money to provide jobs. are they willing to do that? we don't know yet. we haven't seen how that's going to play out. on the question of support for the israeli occupation which has remained a kind of third rail issue, i don't yet see whether there's going to be m

senator defeating russ feingold. sean duffy. we flipped both houses of the legislator. we won five out of eight congressional districts. we did it the right way. we did it together with the conservative movement. once in thrall -- we can be darn proud to go to the polls on election day and said that is th kind of republican i want to vote for. you know why? because our republian party understands that we're not in competition with the conservative movement, we are part of the conservative movement, and we learned that if we can do three things we can rebuild our party and credibility. those three things are pretty simple. we need to find people of their word to run for office, we need to win the elections, and finally we need to govern like we campaign. if we can learn to govern like we campaign, then and only then will we be able to take back the white house in 2012. thank you. [applause] >> first question. there is no formal job description for each position you are campgning for. what do you think is the most important task for the chairman of the rnc in 2011 and 201

they won russ feingold's senate seat. he was able to make the claim that they did that in what typically is a blue state. they made to the gains in this last election. he promised to lead the rnc forward. >> what are you looking for as we move into the chairmanship? >> there are some challenges that he faces. one is fund raising. he is going to need to raise at least $400 million to compete with president obama and senate democrats and the dnc. the other challenge he faces is the tea party movement. what we saw over the last couple of years and the decentralization of republican power -- the tea party groups are activists. money was flowing away from the rnc and into this grass-roots movement. he has to convince those activists and those donors that the rnc is back and it is a more viable and stable organization. >> sean miller of the hill, we appreciate your work today. he was giving us some insight information on the vote today. reince priebus was the youngest person elected as a republican party chairman in wisconsin.

of the system, first i note an earlier "new york times" eledtorle which stated, quote, senator russ feingold, rightly points out while the primary cycle's public matching systems are broken and need updating for inflation, the system for the general election is not broken. secondly, i ask my democratic colleagues this -- have any of you received the specifics of what it would take to change the law that would cause president barack obama's campaign to abide by public spending limits in the general election for 2012? because without those specifics, this debate is not grounded in reality that the incumbent president has zero intention of giving up his gargantuan financial advantage in his re-election campaign by opting out of the one of the most perfect systems of public financing we could possibly adopt. i ask the supporters of public financing for presidential campaigns, are you willing to adopt a system that makes it mandatory for all candidates to participate in the system? and can you unequivocally pledge that the president's re-election committee will be agree to be bound by your new sy

we did it with people like scott walker, our new governor and ron johnson defeating russ feingold.uffy. shawn duffy is now where dave overy used to be. we flipped both houses of the legislature, and we won five out of eight congressional districts. but you know what the best thing is? we did it the right way, we did it together with the conservative movement one and for all tea party act terrorists, knows wisconsin, we could be proud to go to the polls and say that's the kind of republican i want to vote for. you know why? because our republican party understands we are not in competition with the conservative movement. we are part of the conservative movement. and we learned that if we could do three things, we could rebuild our party and our credibility. and those three things are pretty sitch. we need find people of their toward run for office. we need win elections. and then finally, we need govern like we campaign. and if we can learn to govern like we campaign, then and only then will we be able 20 take back the white house in 2010. thank you. [applause] >> first question. th

senator defeating russ feingold. sean duffy. we flipped both houses of the legislator. we won five out of eight congressional districts. we did it the right way. we did it together with the conservative movement. once in thrall -- we can be darn proud to go to the polls on election day and said that is the kind of republican i want to vote for. you know why? because our republican party understands that we're not in competition with the conservative movement, we are part of the conservative movement, and we learned that if we can do three things we can rebuild our party and credibility. those three things are pretty simple. we need to find people of their word to run for office, we need to win the elections, and finally we need to govern like we campaign. if we can learn to govern like we campaign, then and only then will we be able to take back the white house in 2012. thank you. [applause] >> first question. there is no formal job description for each position you are campaigning for. what do you think is the most important task for the chairman of the rnc in 2011 and