to do a short extension on the house side from march 4 for a coup of weeks. only take a little bite out of the budget, you know. try to force the president to accept that as a kind of appetizer for the big meal to come later. they want to show they re reasonable because they want to dare the president to say i ll veto that, too. so this piss ant little cut, they can get the democrats to say no to, they win? that s what they think. i hate to say it, but it sounds like a smart move. you guys are opposed to government cuts in principle? that s right. you ve got a buyaire and mutually exclusive situation here. where senate democrats want to extend to march 30 without cutting a single penny. john boehner says he won t vote for a bill, he won t put a bill on the floor unless it does cut some money. as howard said, $2 billion a week for the next two weeks. somebody s going to give here. this isn t a matter of negotiation with these mutually exclusive goals. someone will lose this figh
is go out into the communities. we re doing spontaneous rallies all over the state, chris, having 2,000 or 3,000 people. wisconsin, the birthplace of the republican party, we ve had three rallies there, 500 people each night there. i don t know that there s 500 democrats there, but we ve had them out there every night. the day the state legislature meets again and passes a bill that takes away your collective collective bargain rights beyond maybe gets a cola, what are you going to do about it? keep organizing and fighting them. we ll continue to fight and organize and we will prevail, chris. we will prevail. it s great having you on. you look like the real thing to me. i would like to meet you sometime. marty biel, thanks for coming on tonight. great to have you on hardball. this is where democracy is, the people walking and the people talking. thanks, chris. thank you for coming.
perspective it is not enough, and i think this is something we ll continue to debate and that i personally will continue to wrestle with going forward. he s wrestling with it enough that he decided not to defend the constitutionality of the bill that works against it. a pew poll, 48% of the country oppose gay marriage, 42% support it. as a whole, the country. when you break it down to independenting, 44% were in favor, 43% not. so the independent voters is slightly in fact let s just call it 50/50 on the line. no surprise there. it s not clearly a big benefit so why is he doing it? i said before it s his base. he s a man almost 50 years old, a constitutional lawyer presumably. moral truth doesn t change because of polls, and the constitution doesn t change because of polls. how are you grappling and
the center since the november election. how has he done it? by basically saying i m open to other people s ideas. i want to hear other people s ideas, but ultimately we re going to need to make sacrifices for the good of the american people. the danger, i think scott walker has i think he was doing just fine for the first half of this. basically saying look, we ve got to balance the budget. this is the way we have to do it. the danger he faces now, now that the unions have offered compromise, he has to be careful to not come across as an ideologue unwilling to compromise because of his own ideology. the reason people don t like washington and government and politicians is because they think they have no interest in furthering the public good. do you think the president is in dangerous territory right now? i think scott walker is in dangerous territory. the union, to dafdvid s poin the unions have made sacrifice
attack people for what goes on in their family, outside their public lives, outside the positions they take is something that frankly is bad politics. i rarely raise this flag, but i think there s a distaken from people like limbaugh for the first family. he wouldn t talk about another first family that were white like this. he has a disdain and beck has it, too. they feel happy doing this because they know their followers like it. they re in the business of keeping a radio listenership. they know it doesn t affect their type ditto heads. there was a disdain for george bush and the bush family. who went after laura bush? who went after barbara bush? it fueled arise in the radio network. get me a list by any attack from the left, center, left, anywhere, attack on laura bush ever. any attack on barbara bush ever? the level of vit reobviously