for the republican inauguration this year, wouldn t you think you had a chance? no, i mean everybody acknowledges this is one of the weakest fields republicans and it is strange. we have the single greatest opportunity we ve ever had to contrast ourselves with that which we oppose, and we have one of the weakest fields, everybody knows this! every once in a while rush notices and states the obvious. some republicans have for some time now trying to steer the party away from the famous named presumed front runners, like romney, huckabee, palin. ann coulter fears they will tut fully hand it to willard and romney simply because it is his turn. that s how bob dole got it, john mccain last time. that is how republicans do business, that is how loosers get the inauguration. here is what colter says will happen if they do that this
but it is not an indication that she s actually getting into the race. it is more indication that she finds that somebody else is really stealing her spotlight at this point. now, george willis very worried about what s going on in the republican field, saying there s too much strange sounding stuff coming from republicans and that s going to rever brat and spill over to republicans that may not be spouting the crazy stuff. an example would be michele bachmann. listen to what michele bachmann had to say to david gregory on meet the press this sunday. you refer to obama administration as gangster government. you said this president has anti-american views. do you believe that still? i believe that the actions of this government have been emblematic of ones that have not been based on true american values. consider obamacare. over 900 waivers have been given out to unions and protected special interest. is it appropriate to refer to the government as a gangster government and t
don t like. but if you keep the bargaining rights in place, we could bring the senate democrats home tomorrow. when the senate democrats come out of the secret meetings with the republicans, do they in any way report or get word to you democrats in the other body? they do. we have informal conversations with our members and their members, we have friendships that go across both houses. we talk to our friends, get a sense of where they are. the sense i get is a real frustration that real negotiation so far has not happened. i know there are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle, the poll at a rate of 2 to 1, wisconsin citizens want both parties to come together to negotiate and preserve bargaining rights. i would like the governor to show some leadership here, bring labor peace back to wisconsin. senator cory mason who hasn t
get the inauguration. here is what colter says will happen if they do that this time. if you don t run chris christie, romney will be the nominee, and we ll lose. the problem for coulter is that chris christie said definitively he will not run. george will began his sunday column this way. if pessimism is not creeping on little cat s feet into republicans thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism. this is because it indicates they do not understand that sensible americans who pay scant attention to presidential politics at this point in the electoral cycle must nevertheless be detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the party. will added the most recent vibrator is mike huckabee. george will was so troubled by
and joining me on the phone, wisconsin senate majority leader, republican scott fitzgerald. representative mason, i want to get your reaction to the news conference today where the governor is basically saying that senator miller s letter is bogus because what he s asking for is something that they already did over the course of the weekend. i think what the senate is asking for is for the governor to come to the table and actually negotiate, and negotiate in good faith, might find a resolution on the bill that gets to the governor s fiscal concerns in the budget repair bill without taking away 50 years of bargaining rights. it is nice they had a meeting, but you have to be willing to negotiate if we find resolution to this. i would hope that they would bear that in mind. republicans talk about taking away negotiation rights. but i think they could learn something from the rights they are trying to take away by going to the table and bargaining in good faith.