the bankers would call them investments appear to be working just as the banks or as hoped tea party republicans on the committee are doing their best to kill key wall street reforms and block the volcker fire wall which will brevet banks from gambling with their money is the republican chairman of the house financial services committee spencer baucus admitted in a rare and perhaps accidental moment of candor quote the regulators are there to serve the banks and quote now just like the wealthy members of the british parliament were there in seven hundred seventy three to serve the british east india company. so the tea party today is what the billionaires who funded it and encouraged it hoped it would become a front group for banks as well companies and billionaire allegra's americans are figuring it out which is why generally people aren't showing up for lobbyist funded tea party rallies like they did back in two thousand and nine today instead young people are in the streets alongside real working people and like the real revolutionaries who dumpty in boston harbor more than two hundred thirty

had an agreement on the deficit that included taxes, entitlements, etc., and it was the 43 tea party republicans who rejected that in the republican caucus and brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy. when people say, look, things can not change. nobody heard of the tea party in 2009. two years later, they were bringing the country to the brink of bankruptcy because of their radical views. you saw a republican senator from indiana losing in the primary to a tea party guide to weeks ago. the tea party guys said, the era of confrontation has begun. he went on to say that his idea of being successful in washington was to get democrats to agree to this position. that shows such ignorant about the country. we would not have a constitution unless we had compromised. they do not want to compromise. on the other hand, you have occupy. they called attention to a very important issue -- income inequality. they had a great slogan and a work -- they had a great slogan. they chose not to get involved in congressional races. they chose not to have a specific objectives. they have less impact than the

tea party was supposed to be against. let's look at where the freshmen tea party republicans are today. ndy adams $33,000 from the bank $156,000 -- i can't even -- look at all of this money. every one of them -- every one of those 15 tea party freshman republicans, as soon as they came into office, don't forget no, no banks where are you? we're here to defend you. give us money! you frauds! you hypocrites! you sellouts! let me show you the top five. look at these guys. stephen fincher, he gets the most because he is on the house committee on financial services. that's where they really need the sellouts for the banks. black did a terrific job of completing in the sellout category. joe walsh, $70,000. he should use some of that money to pay his child support he owes. and dennis ross, and tim huekcamp all taking money from the banks. my favorite is joel walsh because not only does he take the money, but he gets animated and angry about it. listen to this. >> i don't want government meddling in the marketplace! the government sets the rules! don't blame banks! and don't blame the marketplac

tea party right now? this year? >> still a big part of the republican party, showing a panel of of these perris is. ey seemed to be having less impact, mainly because there are republican incumbents are now either tea party people or have moved to the party positions. so we are getting the endorsement caught the imprimatur of the tea party. serenata as these challenges, but there are some. we are working on sunset and house races word tea party members are challenging more senior republicans. we will have a better read on this. the you foresee california ever been a republican state for the presidency? >> 1988. look, a long time. i'm not going to say that it will never again be a republican state, but it is hard to see how , given the demographic changes that are carrying california. the biggest single problem that republicans have nationally is that they are not attracting many votes possibly from african-americans, but that has been a long-term trend. the loss of the hole with hispanics that george w. bush developed for the. he got over 40 percent in his reelection in 2004. john mccain get 31 perc

republicans have push legislation to undo nearly all these accomplishments and workplace safety tea party republicans tea party republicans or the freshmen republicans are right that they got it all figured out right they argued against child labor laws why oh they're unconstitutional and using the phony argument that we can't harm what you know frank once this phrase the so-called job creators can do anything to hurt them republicans are making it harder and harder to pass any kind of new laws or regulations that might keep the workplace safe for average working people laws and regulations for example the would prevent another massey mine disaster like the one that killed thirty eight workers or would prevent another b.p. oil rig explosion like the one that killed eleven. with the so-called reins act corporate shill republicans want veto power over any new workplace regulations proposed by this president or any president and with the so-called regulatory accountability act decades all the way back to nixon decades of safety regulations would be undone by these tea partiers and future regulations wou

>> we entitled that we went strong way a democratic very conservative tea party republicans. and the bad times with bad economies people with the state of their lives we will see a lot more pendulum swing with the electorate thinks things are going on quite well. they don't feel motivated to participate to the degree they do when they are unhappy. read just have the deepest recession and it will take years with the mass of $15 trillion debt to calls increasing at 25 years of these will continue to produce economic changes. >> host: what is your crystal ball? >> that is our website. the center is about seven bridges a patient and one way we pull people into politics is two dangle predictions, the senate race, the house race and other trends in politics. is a newsletter that is free. every thursday morning 6:00 a.m., we remind people. >> the web site? >> this center or politics.org just click on the crystal ball. get your fix every thursday part of the university of virginia? >> absolutely. is copyrighted i am a product of the university of virginia they have my heart and proba

tea party having a comeback? their popularity certainly doesn't seen to be waning. all 29 refreshman republicansis year. that, the tea party class that rode into congress on a wave of anti-government sent assessment looks like the right-wing base is shaping the 2012ly. so should groups on the left like the occupy movement and others also step up and play political ball? and what is going to motivate them? here with me again of course are two people who know a little something about motivateing the democratic base. vice president al gore and rebuild the treme co-founder van jones. one of the things i think that motive asia it's a our basing knowing there is hope on the horizon with respect to some of the energy policies we have been talking about. during the break, you mentioned an interesting statistic. i would love for people to hear what you were saying about the warming of the incidents. >> i do think people are catching on to this in large numbers. but it's something like 326 months months in a row that the temperature has been warmer than the 20th sent re average. and the 12 months from a y

has emerged from the nomination battle is somebody who has tried to be comfortable with the tea party republican party and yet as you watch him, as you listen to him and just to sort of the general demeanor of mitt romney tells you that's not quite who he is subpoena the struggle he'll go through over the next several months to is to try to present himself in a comfortable way that keeps the base of the republican party energized. >> i'm going to open it up to the audience. we have microphones around. if you could please identify yourself. we're start right here in the back. >> ramon bueller. i'm originally from california. and my question is, one of the things that wasn't mentioned here was the new open primary law that passed by initiative in california this last year, which essentially puts the top two people on the ballot and practically empowerses independents. so now the nominees of both parties will have to compete not just against the, with the partisans in their own party registration universe, but with independen independents, and, of course, california sends more than 10% of the deleg

piece last night that the tea party freshmen, the guys who say too much government spending, you know, too much government in our lives, that the 87 tea party freshmen republican as you reported sent 25.6 million pieces of unsolicited mail last year alone and it cost us taxpayers about $10 million. can anybody say hypocrite? >> yeah. and the top 10, you know, most prelivic junk mail senders, eight were republican freshmen. >> tea party freshmen. >> they love -- they got in. they got in office and like whoa, free mail. they have just been blasting it out. >> unbelieve a.m. i am so glad you reported it. great work. check it out. hustington post.com. ryan grim is the washington bureau chief. thank you for joining us, ripe. >> thanks, bill. >> see you around the track. ryan grim. let's go back. geoff is calling from lexington, south carolina. what do you say, geoff? good morning. >> how are you, bill? >> all right. good. >> i wanted to call you on your piece about jakey and nikki. it's beautiful down here. football is great. the town of columbia is great. but -- >> by the way, charleston is one of my favorite cities on the planet. >> yeah. >> do you know this jake

are conservatives and republican is more likely conservatives and then the democrat party at this moment in history. i am not here to defend the republican party and neither is tea party movement. i think you are confusing the are confusing republicanism a tea party is on. >> host: but many agree the analysis the college is made of the bush president? >> guest: i cannot tell you how many have been to rate their frail as arguably against president bush and his failure to carry the mantle of limited government as they did against president obama. i mean, they have no sympathy or wish to bring president bush back. >> host: what did you find out about the tea party and money? >> guest: i don't know much about tea party and money as most groups don't get any money. they are grassroots organizations. a bunch of national tea party groups you can google and see right-click and i have no idea where they get money from. frankly that is not the tea party. those are people raising money for their own groups. it's a bunch of grassroots organizations in neighborhood and they don't get money. gop organizations that would like to bring them into a cross? >> guest: .i. know they

tea party is sending mixed signals. on the one hand, you nominated basically mitt romney to be the republican party -- >> untrue. >> republicans have nominated mitt romney regardless of who did it. he is not a tea party candidate. on the other hand, you have this election with murdock. but murdock is going to have the same fate essentially that sharon engel has, christine o'donne o'donnell. they all won the primary but end up losing the election. cause them to lose the election. they might even lose indiana. >> you're completely wrong. first of all, that's complete mythology. you're making up all along. >> it happened in 2010. >> you can't say that the tea party elected mitt romney and then say oh, it doesn't matter. that's not acceptable. >> hold on a second, i need another opinion on this. heather higgins, how do you see the relationship between the tea party and mitt romney? let's assume for the moment that the tea party is resurging. i think i just invented that. but you know what i mean. how does mitt romney relate to a resurging tea party? >> when there were primaries, the bar was incredibly high. the standard was ronald

has emerged from the nomination battle is somebody who has tried to be comfortable with a tea party republican party and yet as you watch and listen to him and the general demeanor tells you that is not who he is. the struggle he is going to have is to present himself in the most comfortable way possible that also keeps the base energized. >> i am going to open it to the audience. if you could identify yourself. >> i am originally from california. my question is, one of the things that was not mentioned was the new open primary law they passed in california last year. it was the top two people on the ballot and empowers independence. now the nominees of both parties are going to wrap to compete -- going to have to compete with independence. california sends more than 10% of the delegation to congress. how will that impact moderation in the republican party and democratic party? >> as a fellow californian, it depends in part on how the district lines are drawn. we have this crazy process. my references the 1990's. california passed term limits. it also had special masters of for everything. the

tea party. another example of how republicans have become an protest party with no action for our country. mitt romney staffed stopped reporters from asking him questions today. what is is he afraid of? why won't he answer questions about the jobs killed by bain capital? plus the defense rests on an edward case and never calls edwards or his girlfriend, hundred hunter, to the stand. how about outside money changing senate election in nebraska and pushing candidate back by sarah palin way over the top at the last minute. is that more of dirty angry money we've been talking about? >>> finally let me fin wish strange thoughts rather about a strange election getting under way. this is going to be a strange up with. we know obama but who is this other guy? we begin with a sequel to this year's infamous debt showdown. the inside look at what happened last time when obama fought back against boehner, caine and the tea party. look at this. here is speaker boehner. he is trying to sound like one of them. listen to this spaesh yesterday demanding cuts. tea party style. >> yes, allowing america to de

a lot of what the president's wanted to push through failed because tea party republicans shot down his to increase the spending in washington. ironically he gets the benefit of being the least spending guy in 60 years thanks to the tea party in a sense. >> there's that, and also the fact that in 2009 much depends on who you credit 2009's fiscal year to. president bush passed -- he approved a continuing resolution that said we're going to keep spending at 2008. we're going to keep it on autopilot and then president obama signed a fiscal year 2009 budget in 2009. so there was a big gap of $3.1 trillion in president bush's proposed budget for fiscal year 2009 and $3.5 trillion in the budget that we eventually got. so i think that report from cbs market watch tries to kind of glide over that distinction a little bit. and there's also the fact that the cbo assumed that from 2009 to 2010 spending would go down considerably. and in fact, it actually stayed level. that was a big change. >> i mean, look, there's all kinds of ways you can cut it. but when you add those things in, the president h

but cornel's point about the tea party taking over the moderate republican party. to say that the conservatives are taking over, this is what the democrats where are saying in 2010, that the american public wouldn't go along with the tea party and now they control the majority of state houses and the majority of the governor's mansions. >> and look what we're getting, we're getting stuff like in north carolina gay rights and abortion and attacks on health care front and center, when he came into office talking about the economy and deficit. and we haven't seen the republicans argument at all on the economy and deficit. we have seen all these social issues run front and center. and that's why the tea party has run favorable the way it has. it was a false bill of goods. >> this was just comical, all these socialists who just run center. this was the same group that was trying to do something about independents who were based in wisconsin and ohio. the tea party has been a healthy injection in the republican party, it has really brought republicans back. it's an effort

republican party. as you pointed out, the victor in indiana, that was a three-way tea party race in nebraska. nator who won was endorsed by sarah palin and herman cain, and she was considered the least radical of the three. this is what the republican party is. i was in boston last week at romney headquarters. to me it doesn't feel like the senator of the republican effort. it's more broad than that. but the romney people i talked to said, no new taxes under any circumstances. the republicans in congress, and we will hold the line. >> contrast that to the obama campaign. you go to their headquarters, it's all about the president. it's flipped around. it's all about the personal side with obama, all about barack obama, what he's done, what he wants to do, or what shortcomings there have been, that they're going to talk about how to get over. it's all about him. for the republicans, it's all about the republican orthodoxy. there is a republican orthodoxy now, from the house, all the way through the to the senate to the presidential candidate. and mitt romney is very much a part of it, but he's b

this trade agreement and vote against nafta the percentage is growing but a bunch of these tea party republicans who sad i'm against offshoring i'm for buy america buy america particular moment is banned in these agreements right and these international tribunals that the u.s. gets admitted to to have our laws attacked republicans shouldn't like that it's a loss of sovereignty and an operator nine hundred thirty five franklin roosevelt passed a law called by america act which explicitly says that if the federal government is going to source anything it's going to buy anything they have to first look to american supplier and they can and they have to have a waiver in order to buy it from a non american supplier and so you know during the reagan administration giving the waivers became routine and so we you know to to get lower prices for government and the result has been in part i mean it's combined with everything else to blow all this up now you're saying these trade deals even invalidate a law that's still on the books that's right basically for any of these agreements and you know speaking o

americans to take the lead and so this chronic impasse has been exacerbated by the rise of radical tea party republicans the very same people who use that clumsy rhetoric take a look at congressional approval ratings and congressional oratory complexity both of those have declined in recent years now we're not suggesting that there is cause ation here but the correlation is pretty striking of course it would take a huge giant scientific study to prove a link between the two trends one too big for louie gohmert east and let's not forget it isn't just republicans obama's state of the union this year was written in eighth grade level too but it does seem appropriate that the most unpopular congress ever would struggle to write a book report on animal farm at the same time the writing's on the side of the barn what would happen if the rest of the animals learned how to read. and while the streets of chicago may have been the scene of clashes and chaos over the past few days inside the nato summit completely sheltered from the discontent of the protesters the leaders met and aside from officially agreeing on

the republican tea party want to make sure that the bush tax cuts are extended to the millionaires ands can continue to receive the benefits they have received while continuing to increase our deficit, and make sure that we don't have an ability to create jobs, that's what the tea party republicans agenda is all about. we want to create jobs by investing in infrastructure, making sure our health care sector moves forward, and create opportunities for all. >> in your latest book, and i'm quoting from the book, if everything that matters is at stake, then take enormous risks with the country's well-being as the house republicans did in the debt ceiling battle is no longer out of bounds. rather than pushing to the limits and beyond become a form of pay try schism. when your adversaries goals are dishonorable, it's better to win the fight and pick up the pieces later. interesting kind of statement e.j. >> it sure seems to be what happened on the debt ceiling fight, and i think you have a different kin of republican party and conservativism that rejects things that liberal republicans used

parties that actually work together in washington. and it's in sharp contrast to congressman joe donnelly in that state. jennifer, it's not just about establishment republicans running against teaarty republicans. it's about republicans around the country reversing decades old positions because they think they have to in order to win the republican primaries. a grated example is geoff blake in arizona. he has supported comprehensive immigration reform his entire career. and then he announced for the united states senate and then within 48 hours he refersed his position. i don't think it was a change of heart. i think it was a change of politics. and what we are finding in races across the country is the republican party that's moving to the tea party extreme and alienating themselves from independent voters in all of our senate races. >> i hope citizens wake up and realize if they want to get something done in washington they have to send people who are willing to compromise and move forward. >> that's guys. thank you for joining us inside the war room the executive director of the democratic senate campaign committee. up next, what's more important in a presidential campaign?

ground swell, not only of democrats, but of moderates, and a number of republicans who have looked and said we don't want a tea partyntative. so we have been able to put together a coalition of not only democrats, but an awful lot of moderates, and there is a group, republicans for donnelly that are already starting up. >> i predict you will do very well. that is joe donnelly democratic senate candidate from indiana. thanks for joining us inside "the war room." >>> up next nancy keenan is the current president of naral pro chchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchch (vo) don't miss your chance to catch the premiere of the gavin newsom show. with special guests: >> i'm lance armstrong. if somebody put my back into a corner, i'm coming out swinging. from silver screens... to flat screens... twizzlerize your entertainment everyday with twizzlers the twist you can't resist. if you have copd like i do you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduc

republican party kicked another moderate to the curb last night after thirty five years of serving in the senate indiana senator dick lugar lost a primary battle tuesday night to wall street's candidate tea party republican challenger richard mourdock moredock attacked lugar for crossing the aisle to support the auto bailout the start nuclear treaty and president obama's supreme court nominees but lugar's real crime was voting on the side of the big box retailers to put a ceiling on how much banks could charge the stores in credit card fees that vote caused the banks to sixteen billion dollars and to get revenge they showered money on murdoch using conservative blogs like red state k. street hacks and funding millions in t.v. advertising in indiana to quote republic report as political pointed out quote the banking industry is making an example of senator dick lugar and quote now lugar will probably follow in the footsteps of indiana's past four senators and become a multimillionaire lobbyist himself as for murdoch the plans on carrying the bankers water all the way to congress are rolling on here was murdoch on m.s.n. b c given his definition of bipartisanship. i certainly think that bi

spending about twice as much as we bring in so that number's got to come down a lot of the tea party republicans little got elected in two thousand and ten admit that part of that number to go down is going to happen to defense spending the idea that you can't the social spending required defense spending cuts i think is kind of a false choice and i think he's kind of doing that because it is the kind of the easiest way to make it any versus obama and kind of belittle this in between us because just last week in foreign policy there was a article that explained how making a very serious case that mitt romney well has brought obama secretary of state because their foreign policy is not really that different and so this is a way for mitt romney to try to say that stereotypical of the democratic presidents week more slowly than i think he understands that there's not money there to spend more on defense that we're spending already because the so-called cuts aren't really defense than still growing it's growing at a slower pace so i think this is just a lot of hot air and i don't know how much mitt

he has the backing of tea party republicans. lugar is currently serving his sixth term in the senate. mayor rahm emanuel is warning that chicago's "quality of life will suffer".. unless illinois lawmakers curb soaring pension costs. testifying before an illinois house committee in springfield.. emanuel called for implementing a pause on cost-of-living increases for ten years. he also called for boosting employee contributions one percent each year for five years.. to help rectify a system that hasn't changed along with longer life expectancies over the years. wgn's tom negovan is in springfield.. he'll have more on this story in the wgn news at five, and the wgn news at nine. today's top business stories are up next along with advice for keeping a sharp mind while at work and how they commute bait may be ok! who gets occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announc

have lasted longer and been more hardcore sure absolutely but you also had some hard core tea party republicans like michele bachmann come out who you would say might be. pro-war in certain cases come out against the obama administration for this because they did not seek authorization of congress and it was totally unconstitutional very true i want to get your reaction austin to the people who say that the only reason that ron paul is doing this is a staying in the race and be continuing to campaign is for his son that he wants to get his son now kentucky republican senator rand paul eventually in a spot where he might run for president in four years or eight years what's your reaction to that i mean it might be but that just doesn't sound like ron paul to be so singularly focused on something like that i think ron paul is more the type of person who wants to carry the torch you know he wants to light up the minds of young people like the brushfires of liberty i think the rand paul issue is something that is significant i think that if we were to lose this election and rand paul came back in t

the c romney that has emerge sa diego someone that's tried to be comfortable with a tea party, republican party and yet, as you watch him and listen to him and just the sort of general demeanor tells you that's not quite who he is and think the struggle he'll go through over the next several months is trying to present himself in the most comfortable way possible to keep the base of the republican party energized. i'm opening it up to the audience if you could identify yourself we'll start here in the back. >> bueller. i'm originally from california. and my question is, one of the things that wasn't mentioned here was the new open primary law that passed by initiative in california this last year. which essentially puts the top two people on the ballot and practically empowered indianas and now the parties will have to compete not just against the partisans in their own party registration use but with dependents and california sends more than 10% of the delegation to congress. how do you think that will impact moderation both in the republican party and in the democratic party. >> fellow

tea party republicans in congress. they will bring this economy to the brink of default in order to try and insurance some partisan game. they have to stop the partisanship. they walked away from our cuts. we said oil companies should do more as well. >> you know i have david corn with me who is an expert, you wrote about this, the republicans passed their fix it thing. protect the defense department from any cuts, that was the deal last year when all of this mismash occurred, and just medicare and food stamps. they're cutting medicaid for poor people and food stamps for poor people and pushing for big tax cuts for the rich. >> perhaps more important, they're not sticking with the deal they accepted a year ago john boehner, you know, tried to cut a deal with the president. i write about this in "shoudown" that would have sacrificed revenues, and he could not dot it because of the tea party. so they cut a smaller deal, smaller cuts, social programs and the defense department, and now they can't stand by those, and now t