the second time. they love this country and love its constitution and all they have is about 50 amendments up their sleeve they always want to change is people get marry and say change. i love you and now it s time to change. joe, i love you but change. i love this country but change some things, like let s get rid of the 14th amendment. this is the second time this week, you know. they want to violate the first amendment, too. they want to take away the rights of muslims to freedom of worship by denying them the right to build a mosque in lower manhattan where they have every right to do it because they don t really like the first amendment either. now they don t like the 14th amendment. these are the people, chris, who tell us all along that they are the strict constructionists of the constitution. the rest of us are not really believers in the original meaning of the constitution, but these people actually want to rewrite the constitution. they don t like it the way it is, a
jonathan capehart a writer for washington post. joan, i ve got to start with you. what do you think of ted olsen now, my friend, ted olsen and david boies, these two, the right winger and the conservative the conservative and the liberal have won this case. right. have brought this and it s heading towards the supremes. it looks like we ll see a broad decision interpreted here, the right to choose basically, same-sex marriage, liberty clause, 14th amendment live and well, equal protection, all the good causes that the gay community and its allies out there have sought all along. well, i m very grateful to ted olsen, okay, there you have it. just wanted to hear it. this should never have been a conservati conservative/liberal issue. the republican party made it the party of people who wanted to shut down civil rights. that should never have been, never true. ted olsen did a truly conservative thing in my opinion
post on facebook and website and she s doing fine. raising enough money to compete with harry reid raising money for six years with a lot of power. people like chuck grassley mainstream conservatives, not ringers, somewhere down the middle of the right wing of the conservative party obviously, chuck grassley moved over on health care, on the issue negotiating with the president, david, and now he s off and now he s joining the 14th amendment people who want to take away the right to citizenship if you re born her. lindsey graham, always expected lindsey as a guy who is willing to go across the aisle willing to make an arrangement with the other side. here he is joining forces with people who want to deny citizenship to people born in this country. here it is. most americans are offended that you can buy a visa, come over here and have your baby in america and turn around and leave and you get citizenship through that process. i don t think that makes sense. well, it just raises
wait till there are four weeks left. the a party saying we have a plan but we re not going to tell you what it is yet. we don t really knead know what we stand for or what we might do if we were given control of congress but we ll tell you four weeks before the election after a lot of candidates have absent most of their campaign money, we ll tell you what we re for. what we re for is being a check and balance on the obama agenda. you re a good strategist. you know an alternative beats saying no every single time. they don t have alternative, they re saying no. frankly, if they had an alternative, they d be doing much better than now presuming the alternative was at all pal labl to the american people. how many seats are you going to pick up by getting rid of the 14th amendment? i don t think we ll pick up nel. people like john mccain who i think are great americans and have had good positions all of a sudden joining this bandwagon snnl chuck grassley joining this
against the tea party, as they say in massachusetts. party. thank you, chuck todd and thank you, charlie cook. tomorrow on hardball, flav governor charlie crist still ahead in the polls, moving further ahead. john mccain is the latest republican to call for senate hearings. they are all aboard this thing, on whether the 14th amendment should be changed. he s drinking the kool-aid. john mccain is now with the anti-immigrant group again. is it good for this push? is it good for the country that people are talking about taking away the 14 d amendment, and is it good for the republicans to be telling hispanics one more time, one millionth way we don t like you? you re watching hardball only on msnbc.