just a tamiccctical change. sarah palin will be the new point guard for the miami heat but not run for president. i ll work on that. thank you both. up next, just how serious is small government advocate grover nord quist about opposing taxes? read my lips. read his. he wouldn t raise taxes if his life depended on it. wait until you catch this. the sideshow coming up next. you re watching hardball only on msnbc. you name it. i ve tried it. but nothing s helped me beat my back pain.
circumstance at all in which republicans would be willing to raise taxes? not if your grover nord quist, check out steve colbert and the sideshow. and with us, ladies, thank you so much for this. i want to show you some things today. the front pages of two major newspapers. the new york times and the washington post today. look at the kind of legitimacy and i mean it great spreads there, susan. it s your business. look at those decisions. what do they tell you about this candidacy and how the big papers and candidacies are looking at it? she s had a great launch. she s better known now. did an almost flawless performance at the big first debate. a few hiccups in the interview afterwards, but has become the leading alternative to mitt romney and the representative of the tea party. so, that s right. she has the cultural right, the
hasn t really tackled the tough parts of the issue and that he needs to show some more courage. i think he s laid out a road map, but he has to be more specific, more detailed. i think he s got to take some of the suggestions and put together a package that will pass. the art of governing can be best summed up by the famous rolling stones song, and that is you can t always get what you want. right? we all know piece it together. the president drew some lines in and the and i agree with the american people ree with the lines in the sand. but we stril to gill have to ge ultimate result. and that mean the president has to get more specific and i think he will. i think he will engage in serious negotiations with the republicans, but they have got to get more specific. look, right now i think tom coburn is an american hero. i probably killed him by saying that, but he s an american hero because he told grover nord quist get a life.