no taxation without radiation! and clearly john boehner is going to be particularly hard hit. because i believe his tanning bed is also his bed. i have not seen legislation so specifically targeting one republican since they passed a tax on turtle wax. well, you know, we re not sure he uses a tanning bed. he does play a lot of golf. anyway, next, talk about a power play. barry wong, a candidate for arizona s corporate commission, has proposed turning off utility service, things like electricity, water, natural gas for those found to be in the country illegally. it proved to be a little too much for even fox news. here s wong yesterday with stuart. you suspect there s a little tongue in cheek here. you don t really want to cut off the electricity to illegal immigrants, do you? i think that could be a reality. i think we have to give proper
83,000 jobs last month. that does not even cover the monthly population growth. when you factor in the census jobs that went away, overall the nation lost 125,000 jobs. the unemployment rate dipped to .2 to 9.5%, but that s because a whole bunch of folks stopped looking. we re going to put it together and get into what this means for november right at the top of the show. plus, the hits keep coming for rnc chairman michael steele. what was he thinking when he said the war in afghanistan was a war of president obama s choosing? now prominent republican supporters are calling for him to step down. just the latest gaffe. also on this independence day weekend, we note that it could be a banner year for independent candidates. two will be with us tonight. is america ready for a third party? and remember this ad? tom campbell, is he what he tells us, or is he what he s become over the years? a fcino? that s right, any excuse for me to play demon sheep. the infamous demon sheep
that senator will be the filibuster buster. torturing the afflicted will come to an end. we have a new high in tea party low. underground border fences. i will see you the fences and raise you land mines. gather your army said the voice in his head. no ooh boergz because rape and incest are part of god s plan. enter barry wong. hello mr. wong. he is running for a seat on the arizona corporation commission. his plan is shutting off power to illegal immigrants. it sounds crazy. did gets crazier. he wants to verify the immigration status of customers and if they find an undocumented immigrant wasting our precious electricity, you shut it off. this way he said there will be more electricity for americans and the power companies wouldn t have to build new plants and prices go down or this way the power companies would have to
seeking some sort of political opportunism, that s what they re levelling at barry wong, the candidate and he has a plan for immigrants. cut the power off at his home and turn off the power. the corporation commission has the authority to set the rates, the prices in which utilities charge to all customers so the job of a commissioner is to look at how to keep those rates as low as possible. and one of the issues to look at is to look at factors that impact the rates and if we have a population that s growing and fast growing that like illegal population, we have to ask, is that population impacting rates for everybody that is here as a u.s. citizen or here illegally? critics, of course, say this is outrageous and some sort of human rights violation shutting off the power to people. others are saying he s running for office. if you want to win office right now, the best and most politically viable thing is come out and say you re against
welcome back to hardball. in honor of independence day, we wanted to look at the political independent. the time could be right. in the may nbc/ wall street journal poll, nearly a third said the two-party system was seriously broken and even said that the country needs a third party. in our most recent poll, nearly half said if they re enthusiastic or comfortable running as an independent candidate. they both join us now. happy independence day. senator chaffee, i m going to start with you. what is it that you sort of left your party even before you officially left your party. it s easy to run as an independent these days, but what are your fears about governing