you re talking about the rhetorical order, we also must talk about who buys the ringside seats. because big oil companies donate big money. during this campaign in 2012, this cycle, 88% of the big oil money, $20.5 million, is the exact figure so far, 88% went to republicans. only 12% went to democrats. well, that s exactly right. and that s the other point i wanted to raise. let s see the politics in this for what it is. part of the reason that you have mitch mcconnell and other republican members of congress attacking the president, they also know there s nothing the president can do to truly lower gas prices. but they go home and they get their butts can kicked by their constituents, who say, how come you haven t created jobs? how come my gas prices are so high? and the only answer, so far, they have is, well, you know, we voted against obama care, and we voted against this and that. they haven t done anything. and so they re trying to push the blame off on to the president, when r
in charge of bain, and they were turning around businesses, they often cut jobs. and so that s not really the best message for him. now, joe, in light of they, themselves wishing he were projecting different things, in light of the fact the polls, even the polls that we have now, fox news has the president winning against both romney and santorum, head to head. president obama, 46, romney, 42. president obama, 51, rick santorum, 39. these are fox polls. is it any wonder that some of us feel that they are planning to do other things that are not quite, in our opinion, principled and fair, like come in with crazy money and using these pacs s in ways of using negative campaigning. and in ways as this brennan comes out today, affect the electoral vote by having some
this money, where we, the average voter out here, we don t even know where the money s coming from. have no idea. so, but i think the strategy should be just what the president is doing, but most important of all, we who have voices need to expose this for what it is. but they better be careful, because again, someone once said, you expose a devil, and people will rise up and take care of that devil. so they can keep being evil, but you might just motivate us to go out and vote in big numbers. it may motivate a huge vote. erin mcpike and joe madison, thanks. thank you. ahead, a feisty and downright funny president obama handed those republicans promising low gas prices today. and pennsylvania governor tom corbett tells women forced to have an ultrasound to just close your eyes. what is he talking about?! stay with us. [ male announcer ] if you think any battery will do.
astray by aides and unfortunately the day and a half essentially of a government closing really, i think, on the law, totally rebutted that as they showed this clear, absolute chronology, this quest to retain and obtain power and reward loyalists and, remember, they do not have to show a quid pro quo but showed clear intent. let me ask you this, lynn. when everybody watched this nationally, let s assume he gets convicted. will that teach the country that you can t sit around with your staff and plot ways to steal money? maybe, maybe not, chris. it should only be so easy. you know, people have plotted corrupt places, you know, they might be investigating, might be wires, look at the congressional investigations. they are always ongoing. but when the guy goes in the can it does have a certain message to people. it says you don t have to pull off the crimes as jim said in order to do something wrong. in order to do sou thing wrong. describe it, will there be an appeal here if he g
know and i m running against a guy who s taken more than a million dollars from special interest groups who doesn t? i m committed to this cause. doesn t everybody do that? by the way, what are the special interests? let s nail it. drug companies, big wall street banks, oil industries. my opponent is top ten recipient among those groups. and you re clean in all those departments, not taken a nickel from any of those crowds? i the only candidate in the date, one of the few in america who doesn t take a dime of special interest money. you don t take a dime from the executives of any of those companies, period? you don t do the trick of not we decided not to take a single dime from any political action committee. they have enough politicians on their payroll. do you take it the other way when you go around and done the executives of the companies and they get paid back later so they don t go through the pac money? you don t do that either? 95% of our donors live