waiting to make his move around the first turn, it s michael steele. michael steele, stride for stride and pulling closer. neck in neck as they round the turn. steele and duncan, duncan and steele with asmart money maintaining case. and now it s dawson opening up and making a move. dawson now with speed. steele, then duncan then dawson. it s michael steele in full stride. opening a lead, duncan. two lanes as we preareach the halfway pointing. i am always willing to make myself look stupid in order to make a point but that particular segment was a whole lot of stupid with really no explanatory value whatsoever. what we were trying and failing to communicate with our spectacularly bad g.o. preakness segment was the excitement of the horse race in the january 2009 race for republican party chairman. that night two years ago, michael steele officially became chairman of the republican national committee. it took six rounds of voting, but michael steele won it in the end. toni
nothing for jobs or the debt, but it does help maintain that polarizing political environment. 112th congress will be sworn in tomorrow. a new political order with a republican majority in the house. mr. speaker or protester general. welcome back, congress. less than 24 hours until republicans control the house elect john boehner as speaker and face a joyce between governing or playing political games. the president said he s expecting politics as usual. a sign of who is the adult, both republicans and democrats. is there any of that. the republicans a protest party or a governing party? the first task for republicans who promised to focus on jobs? killing health care reform. this is my evidence that they re not serious. republicans naming this bill repealing the job-killing health care law act. that s the official name. it s not going to go very far in the senate. we aren t even doing this right. after playing politics with health care, it is time
user name chris l. hayes. have a good night. rachel maddow live from the 92nd street y is up next. in a short span of time, it was about 15, 20 minutes, we were able to employ all the weapons from my aircraft, and as well as i guided all the weapons from my wingman s aircraft while we were under, it was constant aaa fire, and i believe we were fired upon approximately eight times by surface-to-air missiles. and you took out that enemy position out entirely? we took that target out and that night they took out baghdad airport. i am a platoon leader in the army national guard, and by saying three words to you today, i am gay, those three words are a violation of title 10 of the u.s. code. it s a code that is polluted by the people who want us to lie. and basically, they want us to lie about our identity, and it s an immoral code. and it goes up against every single thing we were taught at west point with our honor code. thaddeus from lansing, michigan asks, is the n
it may drive the base but does it run the risk of taking the party off of a more universally appealing message about the economy? our strategists tackled that one. also, president obama may be making good on that campaign promise to make washington, getting a lot of flack to support the building of a mosque at ground zero. plus, this morning s new york times carried this troubling headline. taliban orders stoning deaths. it s a story about how the taliban executed a young couple who eloped. it demonstrates the new-found strength in afghanistan and could have big implications for our mission there. and finally, i ll have some thoughts about why he needs to do more in that regard. let s begin with the blagojevich verdict. here is what the ex governor said late today. i want the people of illinois to know i did not lie to the fbi. i told the truth from the very beginning. this is a persecution. we have police officers being gunned down on the streets and we have a prosec
how the government now checks if there is dispersant in gulf coast seafood. sniff it and see if it smells like windex. all pretense dropped. fox news parent company gives a huge donation to the republican governors association. how much? $1 million. funny, didn t the real life version of that character say i don t think we should be supporting the tea party or any other party. tea party hostile takeover. a bunch of white corporate fat cats trying to commandeer the gop. what about their current? our guest, salon s alex pereen. worsts, missing for 26 days. fiance polygraphed. websites set up. two states searching. she s fine. you will never believe this story. all the new and commentary now on countdown. tell me where in the world is good evening from new york. many colonists like those who settled in jamestown traveled in search of fortune betting the cultivation of cash crops would allow them to realize the promise in a promised land. others like those wh