week, talking across the country about the real solutions that will actually move the needle on the critical issues of spending and debt in our country at this time. that s how you break through. the national polls mean very, very little at this time. we ve been working on the inside game of organizing at the grass roots level. that s what matters now. phil, elections are about choices. inside the republican primary, it s going to be poe continuationly a choice between tim pawlenty and mitt romney. four years ago, you were with mitt romney. you made the choice this time to go with tim pawlenty. why? mitt romney is a great leader and an important leader in the republican party. i m with tim pawlenty, because if you look at the record results, whether it s balancing budgets, cutting taxes, performance pay for teachers, taking on unions, this is a record of results that is unmatched in the republican primary field. as more republicans understand
moammar gadhafi and even more with his son saif gadhafi. phd from the london school of economics who went on tv warning of rivers of flood. what are they thinking. first an all-star gps panel to talk about revolutions abroad and in america over budgets and politics. nick kristof back from the middle east. eliot spitzer familiar with the problems of balancing budgets. david frum. chrystia freeland. what in the world. we found a nation even more divided than our own. finally we ll take a last look at the ultimate mubarak bling. i ll explain. now, there s an interesting debate about whether the events in the middle east are good for the united states, the west, good for peace and stability, but i think there can be little dispute about whom they are bad for. al qaeda. in fact the arab revolts of 2011 represent a total repudiation of
with his son saif gadhafi. what are they thinking. first an all-star gps panel to talk about revolutions abroad and in america over budgets and politics. nick kristof back from the middle east. eliot spitzer familiar with the problems of balancing budgets. david frum. chrystia freeland. what in the world. we found a nation even more divided than our own. finally we ll take a last look at the ultimate mubarak bling. i ll explain. now, there s an interesting debate about whether the events in the middle east are good for the united states, the west, good for peace and stability, but i think there can be little dispute about whom they are bad for. al qaeda. in fact the arab revolts of 2011 represent a total repudiation of al qaeda s founding ideology. think about it. for 20 years al qaeda has said that the regimes of the arab
government employees shouldn t be making more money and having five times better benefits and pensions and health care programs and all the rest of us. people agree with that. people agree with the fact that when it comes to balancing budgets, asking government employees to pay just a fraction of what the rest of us have to pay in wisconsin and the rest of the country, is reasonable. i think it matters a lot how the question is asked. neil: you are right about that. both sides on the polls, will ask it to get the desired response. if republicans are going to see this issue potentially boomerang and i have raised this with others in 2012 democrats will say, they re again the working man, they re against helping the little guy out. and they re against trying to level the playing fooled by hiking taxes on the rich and all that. what do you say guest: this issue in 2012,
vermont requires a balanced budget. he s right. there s a joke about there s a ceo billionaire sitting at the table along with the union party guy and a tea party guy and there s 12 cookies. the ceo eats 11 of the cookies and says to the tea party guy, look out, that union guy wants half of your cookie. i think that s what s going on here. the republican governors are sucking up to their billionaire donors. come on, do you really think ok. i genuinely do. martha, i ll let you respond to that. no, absolutely not. what we ve got in georgia, for example, we ve got a right to work state. we ve got teachers that are already negotiating their contracts every year. they re already paying part of their pension and their health care. they re looking at wisconsin and saying wait a minute, why are you different than somewhere else? this isn t about collective bargaining. this is about the health of the state. and they need to balance the budgets and you know what? it s not just republ