it s going to take a long time to recover from this. i agree. he sounded like, you mean, this show is tonight? i thought it was tomorrow night. will, always a pleasure to talk to you. take care. thank you for having me. like heidi we interrupt this sports story for james thurber i went to sullivant on fridays with thurber. and in worsts he spews his hate against the president and gets slapped around by the republican candidate at whose rally he was speaking. on rachel maddow speaking of campaigning a republican challenger to the louisiana senator david vitter? i bet vitter is wetting his diaper. i just didn t listen until i awoke with pains in my chest. i almost lost my life. my doctor s again ordered me to take aspirin. and i do. i make sure that he does it. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone, so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ mike ] i encourage everyone to listen to the doctor. and take it seriously. [ male anno
paul of kentucky also getting reminded of his support for bp at his first debate last night with democratic challenger jack conway. perhaps most telling was an interview with a republican no longer in power, johnny burton. for five years head of president bush s mms. the agency that oversaw drilling. burton the former owner of an oil company telling the wyoming star tribune, quote, when i was there it worked well. her successor also part of dick cheney s wyoming republican circle and once cheney s intern refused to comment. he is now president of the trade group representing offshore drillers. let s turn first to the executive director of the louisiana environmental action network, part of the coalition behind bp makes me sick.com. thanks again for your time tonight. oh, keith, it s an honor to be here. thank you so much. a pleasure to share with you. your reaction to this report from green wire concerning the toxicity levels that bp is itself reporting among cleanup workers? kei
candidate. 1856, loses the vice presidential nomination. no, again, that wasn t even a primary let alone an election. 1858, loses a race for the united states senate. no, senators were not elected by popular vote in illinois until 1918. neither douglas nor lincoln appeared on the 1858 ballot. lincoln, seven electoral wins, one electoral loss. don t besmirch the greatest president s record. it tells us so much about the national review that it would be willing to so con tort the truth to serve its prejudices. either that or it is aggressively ignorant. daniel foster of the national review online, i am a member of the abraham lincoln association, don t mess with us. today s worst person in the world.
make bp give the workers respirators. the effort to stop rather than conceal the spill could take a major step forward this weekend. bp is hoping to attach a tighter containment cap to the spill by monday morning. the oil will flow unimpeded after the current cap is removed earlier than that and bring a new vessel as well the helix producer collecting from a different part of the leak starting sunday. if all that fails possibly funnel the oil for miles along the sea floor to other wells. the political fallout also continuing. democrats, the dnc launching a website of their own targeting what we have called the geo bp. this site bp republicans.com. reminding voters republicans like joe barton apologized to bp and that the nevada senate hopeful sharron angle called bp s gulf coast compensation system of escrow a slush fund, a point the president happily referred to as well at a fundraiser last night for angle s rival the incumbent senator harry reid. republican senate candidate rand