as i ve seen against this bill. all the major objectives, the senate immigration bill will do. compared to the big things this bill does, they re minuscule. mystified by congressman, respond to david brooks on that. i m sorry, but what i just heard was totally ridiculous. the brain trust is here. they re not totally ridiculous. angela raw, and bob franken and colin hannah. good to see all of you on a sunday. angela, i ll start with you. david brooks, his main point there was that many of the issues addressed in the bill will reduce illegal immigration. they will generate growth, will reduce debt, all gop objectives. and, again, we should note this is according to nonpartisan cbo, the congressional budget office. why are they arguing that s not
republicans want to privatize social security, remind democrat that these rough and ready republicans never did like medicare. oh, yeah, republicans in the hawkish party, that another war might be in your picture. maybe democrats can drum up turnout by warning their troops what glenn beck and his tea party crowd have up their sleeves. speaking of beck, how about the obscenity or insanity of him saying he want to regain american honor by hijacking the anniversary of martin luther king s i have a dream speech on the washington mall itself, right in front of lincoln s memorial. he s comparing the importance of his rally to the moon landing. rosa park, the wright brothers. honestly, i wouldn t have thought of those connections myself. and a mississippi middle school has insisted on deciding which elected class positions can be held by black students and which can be held by white students. for instance, the president of every class must be, you guessed it, white. the school b
freedom ring. look at the latest poll we got from the new york times. we asked people in the tea party movement, how do you usually vote. the numbers are pretty amazing. they almost always vote republican according to this. always republican. 18%. usually republican 48%. that s about two-thirds. you ve got about 5% that vote either occasionally or always democrat. the numbers are overwhelmingly republican. what is the difference? let me go to colin hannah. what is the difference between a republican and tea party person? a tea party partnersherson i incidentally republican, chris, but doesn t necessarily subscribe to the party, contribute to the party, wear elephant ties and things like that. but their behavior is similar, because they re both, i think, rooted in the same set of america s founding principles.
policies? if the kind of spending that we ve seen in the last year and a half were the case, absolutely. but i don t think that s likely to have been the case. what s happened, chris, is that the overspending has accelerated. not simply that it existed back in the bush years, of course it did. but then it got worse. so that s where it started, now it s expanded. well part of the problem, sir, and you know as well as i do, we all study kensyn economics. this president was hit by a what could have been a second great depression, that s just my argument. we could have been in worse shape. that s my argument. i accept yours, you were very well spoken tonight. thank you for explaining your cause, i think there s a lot more crazy thinking in your crowd than you re willing to admit. but that s based upon the poll data we have tonight. that s your wishful thinking, chris. well it s the new york times poll. maybe that s the same thing. thank you, ryan hecker and colin
let freedom ring. look at the latest poll we just got from the new york times. it asks people in the tea party movement how do you usually vote. and the numbers are pretty amazing. they almost always vote republican. according to this. always republican, 18. usually republican, 48. that s about two-thirds. and then about 5% that vote either occasionally or always democrat. the numbers are overwhelmingly republican. what is the difference? let me go, colin hannah, what s the difference between a republican and a tea party person. what s the difference? a tea party person is operating from principles, from a constitutional framework and is perhaps incidentally republican, chris. but doesn t necessarily subscribe to the party, contribute to the party, wear elephant ties and things like that. but their behavior is similar, because they re both, i think, rooted in the same set of america s founding principles. let me go to ryan hecker on that.