it s potentially a huge development. we ll get the latest in just a moment. we ll also look into the bp and lockerbie connection. did bp strike a deal to get the only man convicted of the lockerbie bombing released? at least four united states senators think so. plus, do unemployment benefits make people lazy? that s the case being made by a lot of republicans who say jobless prefer cashing government checks to going out and looking for work. we ll hear from people bonn both sides of that issue. and then there s this from karl rove in today s wall street journal . he said the biggest mistake he made in the white house was not defending president bush on charges he lied to get into the war. he insists it s the democrats who have been doing most of the lying. and waun tea party activist said on tv yesterday there s a place in america for racist, and it s the naacp. that didn t quiet suspicions that the tea party is too accommodating of racist memories. finally, i ll te
daily lives. johnson apologized last week for unflattering public comments he made about the palin family, that he now says were not true. finally, an unhappy nevada resident took her angst over senate majority leader harry reid with her to the grave. literally. charlotte mccourt s obituary in the las vegas review your mall read, we believe that mom would say she was mortified to have taken a large role in the election of harry reid to u.s. congress. let the record show, charlotte was displeased with his work. please, in lieu of flowers vote for another worthy candidate. the clock is ticking on congress to fix estate tax. correspondent shannon bream tells us why. more than any other part of our economy, small businesses fuel our growth. a senate majority leader harry reid pushes for passes of the small business lending bill, senators jon kyl, republican, and blanche lincoln, the democrat are
$14 trillion of goods and services get creates in this country and because of the mismanagement under the bush administration, we had only $13 trillion of demand last year. only $13 trillion demand this year. so at the bottom of the economic cycle which is where we re at now, the government has to borrow money to step in and sustain demand. otherwise the economy collapses and you have a second great depression. at the other end of the cycle where we were in 2005, 2006, we should have been saving money. that s what clinton did. we had four straight years of surplus, government surplus under clinton. we were seven years away from paying off the entire national debt through proper economic management. now we re in a much weaker position. we have to borrow. but when the economy gets better we have to save. that means government surplus is not government deficits. from a buy guy very successful in private business, thanks so much for your time tonight. thank you, ed. some final pages
like flies, leaving for some reason. i ll get the latest from the democrat who is trying to take her seat in the house, tarryl clark out of minnesota. but this is the story that has me fired up tonight off the top. members of the tea party have spent the last year basically spitting on black members of congress calling them the n word and carrying signs of president obama as a witch doctor. now they re upset because the naacp had the guts to call them out for what many people think they are, racists. the queen of the tea party is playing, well, of course, the victim again. here s sarah palin on mr. intellectual honesty show. the tea party movement is a beautiful movement full of diverse people, did i verse backgrounds. folks of all walks of life who for the most part happen to oppose president obama s policies. not the color of his skin. they don t care that he s half white or half black. it s very unfortunate they re taking this tactic because it s a false accusation tha
year-and-a-half in the $800 billion stimulus fan, white house officials say they found tracks to save or create the 300 billion jobs they promised. we d be barely growing at all if it not were have passed in the first place and been implemented. reporter: but on the other side of lafayette park, chamber of commerce officials who backed the plan said with 8 million people out of work the recovery summary is anything but. has it done everything we want it to do? no. has it created as many jobs as everybody hoped? no. would i do it again at the same time? hell, yes! would i do it now for another one? no. with $180 billion in stimulus money left to spend and the feds predicting the economy will slow the second half of the year, the question is whether the money will run out before the economy is strong enough to stand on its own. on capitol hill, democrats and republican s republicans usg charts and sta ticses to judge the impact of what has happened. the employment rat