i mean, intellectually, newt gingrich was responding to a magazine article that was written by denesh desouza, who is, by the way, a native of mumbai, who thinks he knows a little bit about anti-colonialism, so gingrich is basically buying into that. does that have to do with tea parties? but what people don t read in is that denesh desouza is a former analyst in the reagan administration. but it s red meat for the base. it s what he s been doing, what sarah palin s been doing. that s why these candidates in alaska and florida and maybe in delaware and in new hampsre are going to win in these primaries, and i don t tnk iort ets votes f them in the general. but it certainly riles up the base in the primaries. and theseth analysts say that republicans are going to overwhelmingly turn out because of these primaries, i don t buy it. they ve ju had much more contentiouprimaries around the country and are bringing out this kind of base. let s move on to my favorite
listen, obviouslyeople are going to have their points of view and we need all the great ideas we can,obviously, in the economic situation we re in. but i was in iowa yesterday, i ll be in sacramento tonight, talking to a lot of people who are involved in the elections and i think people are very proud of what we ve done on the economy. and you know, i saw some of your program earlier, the debate on the tax cuts. this is really galvamonizing democrats. i mean, basically, the republican party is saying, we want to spend anoth $700 billion, almost as much as the recovery act, by the way, to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. as opposed to the president and a lot of democrats saying, let s give them to the middle class. and this is going to be a big debate in the coming weeks. it s a very important debate for the country. and essentially what that say s to the american people is the republican economic policies, which are a big contributor to have the recession, that s all t
get at there? llw two words that come to mind are sad and reprehensible. you know, i was working in congress when he was speaker and disagreed with just about everything that he did. but you got the sense there was some principle volved. he s clearly a very intelligent person. and to see him it makes me think, by the way, he s probably pretty sure he s going to run for president, becse he s clearly trying to appeal to the folks that are supporting christine o don in delaware tomorrow. and you know, whether he believes there s a perceived weakne there or not, i ll leave that to him to answer. but it has no place in our politics. he knows better. he s made comments like this in the pastaround the islamic center in new york,at for instance, th are really not the newt gingrich i think a lot of us remembered. so i think it s very prehensibl. it may have an audience during the iowa caucuses next year or, pshire or new h south carolina. but i don t think that s where most americans ar
republican nominee, he ll prob tab win tt seat. but if the tea party chaenger wins that nomination, she wi probably lose that seat. do you see ithe that way? well, the republicans in delaware are going to make that decision next tuesday. and once it s over, we ll rally behind the nominee and try to win the seat. now, that was the diplomatic mitch mcconnell. but if you talk to anybody involved in this race, here s their frustration. they think they have a chance at picking up joe biden s seat in t inware, barackbama s sea illinois. last year they got ted kennedy s seat in massachusetts, and they think they have a shot at harry reid s seat in nevada.is this candidacy threatens to undermine their dream of getting the senate. reporter: they use very colorful language to describe what they think will happen if becomes o donnell their nominee. they feel like this is within their grasp, picking up this seat, and if it s her, there s just no hope, is the general nse you get. not only tha
you re a success story in america, wbue re going to redistribute the wealth. that has been the progressive democrats and that has been the strategy of this president since day one. this goes back to his community organizer, where he basically passed out welfare checks. at the end of the day, working people want to move forward. they want their kids to move forward. and the only way their going to move forward is t be ae to have the ability to save more of their own dollars or invest more of their own dollars. e everybody, hang on for jus one sec. this whole group staying with u throughout the show. before we go to break, we re talking about the policy of tax cuts and i want to come over here for one sec. if you re wating at home and ering, what does this mean to me? if you are a married couple that makes around $85,000 a year, if they extend the bush tax cuts, as is. this is about what you would pay next year. if the president got his way, u would pay a little less if you a married c