president obama made a brilliant move about an hour ago, stealing the headlines from the nut job tea partiers and sticking it to the republicans holding down the middle class in this country. he used the word hostage. >>> are republicans eating their own? carve rove attacked the tea party's new darling, and the righties are ripping him. they all got a piece of rove today. i'll sort it out for you in a moment. this is the story that has me fired up tonight. now, i don't care how many psycho talkers won last night. i don't care, but, folks, it looks like the democrats really need to get this thing in gear. what happened is bad for america in my opinion. the so-called political experts think the tea party senate candidate christine o'donnell's win in the delaware primary signals an upcoming civil war in the republican party. tim kaine was on the ""today"" show. >> the other thing i think it shows is the deep civil war going on in the republican party. the message is moderates aren't welcome. mike castle, a moderate congressman rejected. that means that the moderate voters have to look long and h

well still to come on tonight's show the tea party is going to school. teachers partiers are going to learn politics while what my only question is then these people learn civics in high school on have a little fun on the issue with sarah but in cars and distant. from the city. they managed not only to stay alone. but to get to say sins and souls in human circumstances. nine hundred days in besieged. through the eyes of the survivors. would be so much brighter if you knew more about song from funniest impression in some. stunts on t.v. dot com. a federal court. has laid out a new ruling for law enforcement accessing cell phone data say up until recently police have had restricted access to your cellphone data but civil liberty organizations decided that they were going to take this case to court in hopes of finally putting restrictions on them being able to retrieve all that out of the belongs to you now the ruling on this case came down on tuesday and well the results are messy the court says that law enforcement can be required to obtain a warrant for mobile phone track

if the candidates do not-- or the tea partiers themselves do not start talking about what they actually stand for, independents will get nervous. the tea party eiers complaints are primarily economic. >> paul: they're fiscal, it's about spending, about the growth of government. since when are these radical ideas. >> they are not radical ideas and the criticism of the tea partiers by the liberal pundits never mention any of that. he think the burden is now on the tea party candidates and tea party representatives to start talking about economic issues. >> paul: well, kim, jim demint, the republican from south carolina who endorsed o'donnell at the end and sarah palin, do they have an obligation now to help her get across the finish line or can they just wash their hands of it and say, well, we conducted our intra party cleansing and now you're on your own, ma'am? >> no, they absolutely do. you know, the way they're going to have to do this. here is the problem with some of the candidates. this election ought to be about democrats, their unpopular agenda and the problems that they've crea

chris: when we come back, tea partiers have the power and a plan. yes, repeal healthcare and maybe even shut down the u.s. government. chris: welcome back. one of the tea party cries is take our country back. what would they do next year if republicans won the congress next november. here's a short list, take away government funding, sarah palin calls it starving the beast. >> we need congress to hear us when we say please, those in the positions of power and authority that cast the votes, starve the beast, don't perpetuate the problem. chris: also under a g.o.p. congress, there would be investigations of the obama administration and healthcare repeal would be on the agenda. >> uncle sam has no business in the examination room coming between you and your doctor. i would fight to repeal the bill. >> we, the governed, do not consent to a government takeover of healthcare and we will not rest until we repeal obama care lock, stock and barrel. >> we will stop the out-of-control spendingnd a tax increases and repeal and replace obama-care. chris: that ram

they have to run a tea partier? >> they might have to run a tea partier. look at what has happened with the tea party movement it is extraordinary. two years ago, no one paid attention to them. we looked at them as being people on the far right, on the fringe, very few stories about them in the news and now it is tea party candidate after tea party candidate. what happened in delaware last night was completely extraordinary and for "establishment republicans," as much as some people might want to ignore what is happening with tea party candidates, they don't have a choice but to listen to what constituents are telling them, constituents are -- some constituents are saying we value party, principle and freedom, ideological purity over winning elections. >> how can they run a mike castle-type, pawlenty or romney after all of this characters have been popped off this year? all their guys raises a head against a tea partier, anybody that looks like a country clubber would be gone. boehner would lose, mitch mcconnell would lose. >> two points. first, we have to

there's no doubt about it. >> that's right. >> now do you think that the tea partiers, their influence on the republican party, are going to make it tougher? >> now, the tea party folks -- you know you've got two camps. what i can't understand is why they won't be more outspoken about the racist and the ranks, why they won't push them out. look, if you want to say party that's here to talk about small government and tax policy, great. let's have that debate. but if you want to let people in to kind of stir up the pot, pour gas on the flame, that's a real problem. i rarely say good things about glenn beck. a good sign for him to say, leave your signs at home. grier, down and florida, came out apologized to the president, and said how correspond he was about racist folks in party. >> grier is the former head of the florida republican party and he did a backtrack, apologizing for some of the racist things that had been said. your comment about beck is interesting. because he's just done a 180 in my opinion and said that the violence is going to come from the left. and of course in the lef

a male tea partier reportedly punched a woman supporting harry reid in nevada last night. just despicable. i'm going to get live reaction from las vegas in a moment. >>> and vice president joe biden thinks tea party nut jobs like christine o'donnell and rand paul will actually help the democrats in a month. >>> all that, plus, people behind carly fiorina's infamous sheep commercial are now work for christine o'donnell. what a nice fraternity. >>> and stephanie miller weighs in on boehner's tan man activity in club ed. maybe you want to rebuild homes for those in need? or, maybe you want to help improve our schools? whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take charge of making a difference. of lick racing, starting with you, dsrl. stufy, make the call. ♪ [ dialing ] [ beeping ] [ beeping ] [ beeping ] [ eli ] it's go time. ♪ ♪ >>> coming up on "the ed show," president obama, well, he's fighting like never before for american workers. he's ge

people that identify themselves with -- as tea partiers. they love her. but i think it's more than that. i think that -- that she really -- and what's interesting is when she -- i do believe that she's running for president and when she does start that -- >> i do, too. >> starts that goes to iowa as seeing today and starts shaking hands and kissing babies, as they say, we're really see her again on the trail and how successful she is with that politicking, that hand-to-hand politicking. >> what percentage of her voters are right wingers, would you say, hard right? and how many are sort of middle of the road frustrated people, normally not political? >> i think that a lot of them are. i wouldn't know exact percentage but i think that a lot of them are. find themselves as social conservatives. >> on the not have a absolutely, that's clear, definitely. >> because they like to deny that. numbers by the way from "the new york times." put into perspective. even though she's hot as blazes on the right and really influence republican voters who show up in primari

the tea partiers? the democrats? the republicans?e able to hide money in a legalized tax structuturstructu. where they're able to deploy money from different states. new york money goes to alaska, california money comes to delaware. whatever it may be. you may say, i don't care. no, no. take a look at some of the statistic specifically from alaska. in alaska, the gop primary poll as of july 2010, has lisa mur cow murkowski ahead of joe miller. enter is tea party express, $8.5 million in a california race, $600,000 in alaska. non-alaskan money. what happens? we all know. joe miller moves to the front of the line. jimmy williams, is it as sinister as it appear that is the tax code is allowing these 501 -- >> c 4s are educational foundation, if you will. they're not allowed to go out and advocate on behalf. >> c3 for senate, 4 is for education. which i believe karen finney does. >> that would be my past. >> c5s, labor unions -- >> all are way to spend money. >> these are all provisions of the united states tax code. congress enacted the

he's not a tea partier. >> if he tries a new character, which may be persona number five or six, he's going to have to stick to who he is. economic issues, which are his number one thing. that's what people care about. >> he was pro-choice, then said he was multiple choice. >> what do you make, you know more about, this fella. mitt romney trying to act like a crazy. a wild right winger which he's not. >> i think that you're right. that he really needs to stick to the economic issue. he could be pretty successful if he does that, if he goes after the president on the economy and really paints himself as who he is. someone who has a great background in finance, has been very successful in that. >> i don't know if that's what they're looking for right now. here's christine o'donnell tuesday night, thanking sarah palin, who endorsed her and really made her have a good chance to win that one in delaware. >> so, again, you betcha. there's another woman i got to thank. thank you, governor palin, for you endorsement. because she got behind -- she got behind us weary folks and gave us a boost

. >> in their purest form, tea partiers are saying i've been let down by big business and government.ers of the tea party movement tend to be pretty far right extremists. their goal is to destroy the power of government to mediate the power of corporations. i don't really that is a sustainable position. >> what's interesting, to watch him diagnose this and sort out the organizers from the grass roots. i remember bill clinton did an interesting response one time to the phrase compassionate conservatism where he was trying to send a message to al gore, here's how you respond to push. gore didn't take it. this is where he's at his best, which is being able to message for the democratic party that usually republicans are better at. >> i think that's correct. the way he can be most useful to democrats is to get out there and go fire up the democrats. if you break down the polling, democrats have acute problems with african-american voters, working class voters. if you look at their level of enthusiasm, it's low an they have to figure out a way to reverse that. i think he has proven in the

here is mitt romney trying to talk like a tea partier in today's value voter's summit. >> if only he had been in fact transparent and uniting as he pledged in his campaign, then perhaps he could have delivered in his promise of yes, we can. instead we know all too well that no, he didn't. >> oh, my god. richard wolf? >> well, it's so sad. >> he is a smart guy. business guy. a good family man. trying to act like somebody he clearly is not. he is not a raging rebel against the system. >> if he has a new persona, he will be in trouble again. he has to stick to who he really is. economic issues, and that's his number one thing. >> he said he was multiple choice. you cannot keep track of this guy. what do you make -- talk about this fellow, mitt romney trying to act like a crazy, a right-winger, which he is not? >> i think you are right, he needs to stick to the economic issues. i think he could be pretty successful if he does that, if he goes after the president on the economy, and really paints himself as who he is, and somebody who has a great background in finance. >> the republican r

tea partiers ready for the big election and the tea party express hitting 29 cities in 15 days. before the tea party this guy started talking off against government taxing and spending, the european parliament member, the book is called "a letter of warning to america," and i cannot recommend it enough. i don't care what country you come from, whether you are an italian american what wants to be the next president of the united states, not just a crazy thought, but, back to the future prime minister, mr. hannan. >>guest: you said it all. we can now finish the interview. >>neil: i remember when you took on the form prime minister and you took him on over this spending before it was cool. and you rocked to international fame. but you have been talking like this since. >>guest: people were against the bailouts and the rescues. politicians weren't. in britain, as in the united states, they rushed to form a group around more intervention and when the opinion polls started coming in and people expressed their opinion, they said we never wanted the taxpayers to rescue wealthy individua

he's not a tea partier. >> if he tries a new character, which may be persona number five or six, he's going to have to stick to who he is. economic issues, which are his number one thing. that's what people care about. >> he was pro-choice, then said he was multiple choice. >> what do you make, you know more about, this fella. mitt romney trying to act like a crazy. a wild right winger which he's not. >> i think that you're right. that he really needs to stick to the economic issue. he could be pretty successful if he does that, if he goes after the president on the economy and really paints himself as who he is. someone who has a great background in finance, has been very successful in that. >> i don't know if that's what they're looking for right now. here's christine o'donnell tuesday night, thanking sarah palin, who endorsed her and really made her have a good chance to win that one in delaware. >> so, again, you betcha. there's another woman i got to thank. thank you, governor palin, for you endorsement. because she got behind -- she got behind us weary folks and gave us a boost

so i am thinking if they are the keystone cops, not the tea partiers. >>guest: i am optimistic and i believe if the leadership does not respond to what is happening at the ground level there will be a real issue but i see indicators that it is. i do believe there is an understanding this is an opportunity to lead this nation into the direction it needs to go. certainly for alaska that is an extraordinary opportunity. we will focus on that. we will focus on the optimism. there certainly will be along the way little butches and -- bumps but we have optimistic view the common sense americans will communicate clearly to their leaders they have elected that we have to go a different way and there will be a response. if not, that will just yet be another challenge. >>neil: say you are elected and the polls look good for you, and christine o'donnell out of nowhere pulls out of the race which looks like it is hers not to win you will have a bunch of inexperienced folks headed to washington, dc, and the establishment might, again, try to say, just, just want us,

some of these tea partiers are saying it's a way -- republicans are trying to calm the tea partiers down and get them on board to get votes in november. >> maybe. what susan said what's not in there, what also is not in there is what is expected of us. john kennedy said, ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. this is going to require an awful lot of people have been riding the entitlement gravy train to get off before it derails. are they willing to do that? are you willing to take more responsibility for your own life? personal accountability, looking out for your own retirement, investing wisely, getting married before you have kids, staying off drugs, all of these things are about me, about the citizens of this country. that's what i want to hear. the republicans are saying they're going to have a conversation with the american people. is it going to be one way or two way? >> juliet: peggy noonan wrote a piece and cal, you were talking with our producers about this. you found she was on to something specifically when it came to women in this so

tea partiers have become the main stream. maybe the main stream has become tea partiers.i've been out on the mall with hundreds of thousands of people just observing what happened. it's incredible. as a conservative i just have to day sai i'm excited about the prospect of a senate next year with six or seven or eight more like him. as jim demint told me, reinforce manies are coming. i think it's a welcome thing if you believe in limited government. >> take a look at a state like wisconsin. >> yes. >> it's hardly a right wing state. i mean i've had two democratic senators for 18 years, democrat governor for eight years. and republicans could sweep most of the state wide elections this year what. is going on in a state like that? >> it includes david obi, their congressman elected in 1960s. and. >> chairman of the appropriations committee. >> yes. his seat is a toss up. i think a year ago, rasmussen did a toll pol asking people what they thought about congress. 58% said they'd like to change the congress. and i think people have just become disgusted with the political clas

, to curious about the tea partiers and, then the poll showed one after another after another the teare not a fringe group and had significant backing and you have begun to see them treat -- be treated with a little bit more respect. martha: and i think, it typically, this kind of right-wing idea, ideology has been much more aligned with social issues, when you look at the tea party, they are not screaming and yelling about social issues, taxed enough already, is what "t" stands for and is that a sent -- what tea stands for and that is what people across the spectrum can sympathize with and understand and that is what was overlooked, the issues as you say of the group are central to people's gz gruntalment and the woman we -- d disgru disgruntalme disgruntalment, what we heard from the woman yesterday, with the president. >> and, what you hear from democrats and the white house, is they are arguing, yesterday's president obama yesterday actually taking the point, arguing for more government or defending the bigger government they have given us when, in fact, most of the country, tea p

and tea partiers pick paladino over cuomo 4-1. now, keep in mind, the tea party is not actually a political party, it's a movement with any number of leaders, including people like sal russo. ben tracy now on the man who's helped brew a revolution. >> reporter: the tea party prides itself on its grass roots a movement with no master. but when it comes to winning, 63-year-old sal russo may be the man behind the curtain. >> we've got to get everybody on the right page that growing the government, spending money that we don't have is the wrong answer. >> reporter: russo has been a republican strategist since the 1970s. now he heads the tea party express, run out of this office in sacramento, california. >> the tea party express and mark levin support common sense conservative christine o'donnell. >> reporter: russo's group has produced more than 24 t.v. ads, joined forces with tea party favorite sarah palin and organized 200 rallies. >> they're the ones who have managed to seize on the tea party momentum for the most fund-raising succ

we have seven states where tea partiers have won nominations over the establishment cases. florida and now alaska, third-party bids to try to win these contests that can split the vote and end up costing the republicans something. >> let me ask you about president obama today, he's made clear time and again that he's a believing christian. i wonder though on the margins that it's possible there wasn't some political calculation to his decision to attend church so publicly today. >> the white house is very aware that people think wrongly that he's muslim today. so, whatever president's motivations are, clearly the white house would love anything -- as you said, at the margins would help influence perceptions around this. and bring people back on the truth. >> thank you. >>> and now to that american hiker who was released after 14 months in an iranian prison. she returned home today to america after 14 months in an iranian. sarah shourd may be free. but she doesn't seem all that free to talk. two americans are still in iran tonight. once again tonight on this story, jim sciut

it's a second kind of wave of tea partiers that coalesce after that rick santelli outburst on tv. it's interesting i remember in the 2008 campaign when i covered it, that people who are now tea partiers were barring ron paul supporters from their events. they were separate groups of people then and they're the same now. >> you argued that the case of rand paul as a nominee shows how the republican interest and the republican party has co opted the tea party, beginning with an incident that occurred in this very studio where rachael maddow interviewed ron paul back in may. we're going to take a look at that. >> i don't want to be badgering you on this, but i do want an answer, do you think a private business -- >> i'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form. but i think what's important about this debate is not written into any specific gotcha on this. but asking the question, what about freedom of speech? should we limit speech from people we find abhorrent? should we limit racists from speak something. >> i think there was an overriding problem in the south, that was so bi

forget what the tea partiers will do. this guy is already scaring unions and the white house right now. >> unlike the president of the united states, i can't print money. >> brenda: neil's exclusive with new jersey's very blunt governor chris christy coming up. but first, we've been warning you about it. now, we have the proof about it. stimulus isn't working and if the vice-president is listening, he might want to listen to this. >> joe biden today saying keep defending the stimulus is working like a charm. >> i don't know what he's smoking, but the rest of the world on this. interesting grooming. thanks. i got the idearom general mills big g cereals. they put a white check on the top of every box to let people know that their cereals have healthy whole grain, and they're the right choice... (announcer) general mills make getting whole grain an easy choice. just look for the white check. fire was fire. and the first language, the language of chemistry, was universal and eloquent. and the unique ability of chemiry to chan

castle watched as tea partier joe miller toppled alaska senator lisa murkowski. >> she called me, younow, several days after she went down and said, you know, these people will come hard, you know, just be very careful. >> reporter: did she give you advice on -- >> yes, just general advice, be careful, prepare yourself and go for it. >> reporter: he's certainly not holding back. even attacking o'donnell for problems with her personal finances. >> -- using campaign funds to pay her own rent -- >> reporter: clearly, this unlikely tea partier has the establishment worried. jonathan karl, abc news, dover, delaware. >>> and up next, weather watch -- hurricane forecasters have their eye on a mega storm in the atlantic tonight. the biggest in three years. igor is already a category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 miles an hour and headed towards a category 5. it's more than 800 miles across, bigger than texas. tonight it doesn't look as if igor will threaten the east coast but hurricanes change course, so everyone is watching. and a troubling discovery tonight about the story that consumed us

of course, some tea partiers want more than just tax cuts.nt right-wing victories on social issues as well. senator judd gregg telling "the new york times" that launching into social issues, quote, will be overplaying our hand. cue overplaying the hand. congressman joseph pitts telling the newspaper "the hill," gop leaders have assured him abortion will be part of the republican wish list to be released later this month. social conservatives are pushing for anti-gay measures as well and more government endorsement of christianity. let's bring in msnbc contributor, dave weigel, also political reporter for slate.com. dave, good evening. >> good evening. >> senator demint claims the energy that his candidates are going to bring will make up for whatever support they lose from the moderates and the independents. is there any evidence for or against that yet? >> well, you just presented some of the evidence against that. the thing that irritates some people about what demint's doing, and let's give him some credit, i mean, flip the script. how muc

when asking in this poll what role the tea party played in it they said that sixty two percent of tea partiers wanted a third party so do fifty nine percent who are neutral of tea party but tea party opponents people who don't like the tea party are less likely to see the need for third parties to do you think of this is a negative reaction that people were liking the idea of a third party then they saw what that turned out to be and the tea partiers and the crazies in donal's in the sharron angle's of the world and they decided to back off a little sure and they are the ones who are aligned with power right now i mean it's traditional interest group democratic politics which no one really has any enthusiasm for but if you're part of that super structure you're going to view anything that's different with some kind of shudder of revulsion normal but i don't i don't look for that to last of the question will be will this conservative in this independent sort of distaste for the two party system last beyond the bamber second if it does then we're into something new that we really haven't seen in

gets underway a growing number of folks in this country from tea partiers to libertarians don't necessarily want to be so united with the rest. of the world the. for r. t. d. and a soft ski. well dean is here in the studio with me to tell us more on this story you know do you know one thing that i think so interesting is that you spoke to a few people there that were saying you know they don't like the fact that they think that the u.n. controls america that it is fringes upon america's sovereignty you know on the other side of the spectrum the majority of the critiques about the u.n. are the fact that america perhaps has the most most say in that they're too controlling of the u.n. so i mean it just seems like such a disconnect here it's because it's just a fair and balanced report alone where you do bring up a really good point and the underlying question there is one of national sovereignty these super powers the united states russia china you know have to answer to the fact that are they willing to give up their own national interest for the good of the global you know global institutio

she has all the credentials tea partiers knead. >> turns out she never graduated from college. >> i'm kind of aware what's going on. >> this is not a race we're going to be able to win. >> christine o'donnell, when voting to abstain is just not enough. in a very real sense her modest success in delaware produced a kind of arms race of tea party belligerence and fabrication. if there's an escalation in the stupid the safe money is always on michele bachmann. today she made stuff up about nancy pelosi and alcohol on air force planes. somewhere in america... there's a home by the sea powered by the wind on the plains. there's a hospital where technology has a healing touch. there's a factory giving old industries new life. and there's a train that got a whole city moving again. somewhere in america, the toughest questions are answered every day. because somewhere in america, more than sixty thousand people spend every day answering them. siemens. everyone knows a fee is a tax. you raised some taxes during that period, particularly the property tax as well as a lot of fee increases. as yo

demint says tea partiers aren't republicans and don't want to be republicans. i don't believe that.ut he says he's willing to arrange i guess you could say a marriage of convenience to knock out the democrats in the midterms. but if the republicans win control of the senate, i am convinced that demint is going to hand over the keys to the kingdom to mcdonell. i don't think he'll do it, unless he has a big, big role to play in the republican party. i think demint's going to end up being the leader. for more bring in former assistant to george w. bush dick cheney and george bush. >> nice to see you. >> i've wanted to go face to face with you on so many issues for so long. i'm in new york, now we're in washington. >> we're here, let's do it, ed. >> all right, jim demint in many respects is the leader of the party right now, is that a fair statement? >> i think he is the leader of the conservative party, no question. >> has he had more victories than mcconnell? >> i think that he's been very successful along with governor palin of recruiting people, as you said, long-shot candidates. pe

look, what's a good way to forget what tea partiers are demanding from the republican party. very tea party group has a list of principles. glenn beck's 912 list is a pretty useful screen. one screen baggage is is a contract from america which is a 10-point plan for leadership that tea party activist in texas developed. freedom work picked up, activist put it online and decided which 10 principles they want republican candidates for congress to follow. or any candidates but is going to be republicans for the most part. the principles were protected constitution, reject cap-and-trade, demanded balanced budget, at fundamental tax reform, restore fiscal responsibly, constitutional limited government, and runaway spending, runaway government spending, replace government run health care, passing all the above energy policy, stop work and stop tax hike. there are two things there, there's overlap because items one and five protect the constitution and restoring constitutional government are basically the same. this importantly but if you look at the policies, those are what republic

perfect in this country and everything else will too according to these now telling us how many tea partiers are there because you know this is an interesting group of individuals that has you know seen some success lately too in these primary elections and yet social values aren't exactly at the top of their agenda i mean these people just want smaller government so they could be conflicting here they want more freedoms not more restrictions of moral values so you know how do they put those two together right they only want the government to get involved when it comes in to making stricter laws about abortion stricter laws about marriage stricter laws about the military stricter laws about speech that's the only time the government should be involved in that when you ask how many tea partiers were there there's a lot of people that associate themselves both with these values voters and the tea party michele bachmann today said the tea party by the way is not a political party it's not a red party or it's a blue party it's the red white and blue that's what she said so i mean i think really

again, with the crazy tea partiers. what is it that the tea partiers believe in, exactly?'s be very clear. smaller government. lower taxes. less spending. more individual choice. stop spending america in oblivion. be honorable human beings. that's what i hear. now i'm going to play the tape from these crazy nut jobs. watch. >> i definitely want people to be filled with real hope and conviction that anything is possible in america. that we just know who we are. and believe in each other. you know, the people and really it's not the government. it's what has made us exceptional. just remembering what brought us here. >> glenn: full of hate. i miss the crazy hate angry part in that. but there is only one clip. i'm sure he went off the deep end after that. look, here is just a note, fyi to washington. it doesn't work. i mean if you call the tea party extreme all you want. the pictures tell a different story. america knows. we have had an incredible response from people sending in their photos. we have asked you last week, we put together 8-28 photo book. send us more photos. d

can you be a tea partier and not be anti-abortion? family values and social issues necessary if you are a tea party or not? coming up despite grumbling from old hands like karl ro rover is there a big coalition forming within the gop? family research council's tony perkins is next >> welcome back live everybody. let me thank our guests matt kib bee and susan milligan. at large exclusive tony perkins is fresh off the 5th annual voters summit hosted by the research council in which the prevailing message seems to be regardless of whether they are tea party people fiscal conservatives or social family values conservatives they will unite. thank you to the -- welcome to the program. the message was we will support candidates to uphold the competition founding principals on which the nations founded. that happens to be the prime focus of the party. the primary focus in terms of issue sets is on the economic issues but social conservatives share the same concerns about the economy. it's just they are not at the very top priority. what i thi

5% of you said yes, 95% of you said no the tea partiers don't care. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "hardball" with chris matthews starts right here from the place from politics on msnbc. we'll see you tomorrow on "the ed show" on msnbc. >>> it's teatime so who is the maddest hatter of them all? let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews up in new york leading off tonight, boiling hot tea. the fire on the right that consume mike castle and threatens democrats in the fall is now beginning to burn republican bridges. in the last two days mike castle blamed his loss on lies by shawn hannity and rush limbaugh. karl rove dismissed christine o'donnell as a loser. sarah palin and rush went after rove. the tea party has a seat at the republican table. but the knives are out. and make no mistake, if this new band of republicans get -- grabs control of congress, they'll force another government shutdown and probe the obama white house to death. that's their goal. they've said it. launch a relentless campaign to kill government and take down this president. and

tea partiers may not dress up anymore. it's hurting their credibility >>> with apologies to herman had melville's description. the sails beat against its white sails. the great shroud of the sea of propaganda rolled on as it rolled 5,000 years ago. i only escaped alone to tell thee. >>> 36 hours after carving up christine o'donnell, karl rove has endorsed christine o'donnell. nothing to see hear, folks. move along, please. the washington post reported today mike castle will not endorse her, citing his opponent's personal smears during the campaign. likely a reference to the homophobic comments o'donnell launched at the congressman. sarah palin's advice to her, speak through fox news. less than 51 minutes after that advice was issued, she was kissing sean hannity's ring. >> christine, congratulations on last night. thanks for being on the program. >> thank you. thank you very much, sean. and thank you to you and all of your viewers for helping make this happen. >> hannity later playing a portion of his election night interv

>>neil: we will look at the results, nose those by just tea partiers but those who won in states thatliberal, where republicans won like scott brown or a democratic like in new jersey, or in virginia that reversed what had been obama sweeps just the year prior. my only point in mentioning this is if it is, indeed, a response to spending and big government why don't those on capitol hill cool it on the spending of big government. >>guest: well will talk about spending projects. even the tea party people believe that having people building roads and those otherwise unemployed would be better for the committee if they were employed that is better than worse. >>neil: but they argue otherwise. when you ask, is the economy going in the right direction and two thirds say no. >>guest: i know you tonight like to look back, this was a hole dug before president obama. i know you tonight like to hear that. look forward, the congressional budget office and other independent economists say that the enough structure projects are a sthus to the -- stimulus to the economy. and the business tax cuts if