political fight. so i think if we can make that political fight more visible to the american people, and it s really just starting to heat up, then i think we re going to have a stronger hand to try to get this consumer agency passed. heather, maybe we can get a lady gaga video on the internet in favor of the agency. heather mcghee, thanks so much for joining us tonight. thanks, chris. up next, watch congressman eric massa make glenn beck s world fall apart. so allstate wi. switch to allstate, and your new agent will. help tell your old insurance company goodbye. saving you that uncomfortable breakup moment. and serious cash. drivers who switched saved an average of $396 a year. $473 if they dumped geico. breaking up is easy to do. remember when that s allstate s stand. are you in good hands?
matters until we do that. until we do that, nothing will change. i don t know, that s my that to me is the number one issue facing america today. it really is. we won t change jobs, we won t change anything until that is changed. beck really really didn t know what to do with that. you could see his brain trying right in front of your eyes. i want names. on the left and the right we re always looking for villains, the bad guys who are screwing people over or screwing up the country. a lot of times the problems go much deeper than that. and the answers involve pretty boring sounding reforms like campaign finance. as glenn beck might expect a dirty hippie like myself to say, it s the system, man. it s the system. now, in one of the more colorful electoral races this year, charlie crist is in a b r
bare-knuckles primary fight for the senate. it s a job he thought he had locked up a year ago. his republican primary challenger leads him by more than 30 point notice latest poll. if there s one thing we know about desperate campaigns and desperate candidates, it s that they make really stupid mistakes. here s crist taking a jab at his opponent. he s trying to pawn himself off as a fiscal conservative. in recent weeks, he had a republican party of florida credit card, that he charged a $130 haircut, or maybe it was a back wax, we re not sure what all he got at that place. beyond just insinuating the hairiness of your opponent, is there a point here? you spend $130 for maybe a haircut, maybe other things, i don t know what you do at a
welcome back. i m chris hayes in for rachel maddow who has the night off. karl rove has written a book. courage and consequence my life as a conservative in the fight. to sell it he went on the today show this morning, where he tried to explain away the bush administration s mishandling of hurricane katrina. the president of the united states, if he had dropped into new orleans that morning would have discombobulated the recovery efforts. rather than a cargo plane coming in with rescue people but that picture was worse than we should have gone to baton rouge, which is where the governor was, and that s where we should have gone. you also write in the book, we did not have the ability to get realtime information so did
has been being waged in the shadow of health care. the american people shouldn t have to learn that there s a fight going on for their wallets from hidety montag and the snl presidents, but they have. i think most americans if they knew what the stakes were, that there were payday lenders and sub prime mortgage companies on one hand and a consumer financial protection agency on the other hand would be outraged. the democrats haven t been able to take the mike and make that contrast clear. and so we ve got backroom deals right now, we really have senator dodd wants to make a deal, he s going to give away a real opportunity to make a very clear contrast and say, hey, this is what the democratic party stands for, and it s you, your family, your retirement savings and your home. republicans are trying to gut investor protections, consumer protections, they re trying to stand up for the sub prime lenders and the payday lenders. this should be a very easy