republican party. and newt gingrich is smart enough to understand he s going to walk into that opportunity. even with the debate. if he s the only one to show up, he ll use that as an opportunity. so now what all this chaos and all this donald trump story and all the craziness, this carnival atmosphere we ve seen with republicans, what we now have is a republican front-runner who the general public does not like at all. he s an old politician with more skeletons in his closet than a damn haunted house. he s a candidate that the republicans have got to have because now they re going to have to go hold their nose and vote for this guy. mitt romney, it s going to be very tough for him to make a comeback. this chaos has all been created in part by donald trump. now, trump going to be the moderator even for two people now. and it may be one after tomorrow. who knows? but for michele bachmann and rick perry to step out of this debate when they desperately need the camera time, martin, what
republicans demands are concerned? well, the answer is i certainly hope that s the case. the american people, ed, have been extremely clear on this. the rich are getting richer. the middle class is collapsing. and the american people are saying, you know what? the wealthiest people in this country have got to participate in deficit reduction, they ve got to pay more taxes. and also, we ve got to keep the focus on jobs. and furthermore, in my view, we ve got to draw a line in the sand, defend social security, defend medicare, defend medic d medicaid. what about those folks on unemployment right now that s going to end here? there s going to be a bunch of people, well over a million, coming up on february 1st. and the president seems very adamant about getting these two things done before anybody takes off for the holidays. absolutely right. he s absolutely right. what if it doesn t happen? well, if it doesn t happen, we re going to be having christmas breakfast i think in the
do believe. and so what you have is a man vicariously polluting the trough on their behalf every single time. he s not a showman. he s their spokesman. and that s why he s of value to them. mike papantonio, does this is this the end of the road for donald trump in this election cycle? does he have to run now to be even somewhat relevant? well, he ll always make himself relevant, even whether he s not. look, this is he is a showman. and what s happened here, the republicans are always looking for a leader, ed. that s one of their flaws. they re always trying to find a leader. and they re always willing to follow a leader. so he has a television show. he looks like a leader. and all of a sudden you have these republicans that are falling crazy over donald trump. and what s happened here, ed, is it s left this chaos has left this big opportunity in the republican party. and newt gingrich is smart enough to understand he s going to walk into that opportunity.
saying cumulatively ends up resulting in a kind of horrible underestimation of african-american and latino people and an overvaluing of the situation for white americans in this economy. we all know this economy is bad for everybody. so why is he pretending he doesn t know that the economic downturn has blasted african-american and latino people especially hard? i ll tell you what, if this guy becomes president, the republicans will walk right with him on this issue. you know they will. because all they are is about busting up the unions, and they re all about the money. notice in that sound bite we just played of newt gingrich he talked about the money. right. what about the investment in the children? you re going to make kids do work around a school instead of teaching them writing, reading, arithmetic and all the advanced studies that they can learn before they go to junior high school or go to high school and get prepared for college? absolutely. i mean, don t we want ki
i just want to send a message to the senate. we are not giving up on this. we are going to keep on going at it. we are not going to allow politics as usual on capitol hill to stand in the way of american consumers being protected by unscrupulous financial operators. that was president obama calling out gop obstructionism earlier today. of course, the senate republicans let 99% of americans know exactly where they stand. with wall street. republicans blocked the confirmation of richard cordray, a former ohio attorney general picked by president obama to lead the new consumer financial protection agency. the final vote, 53-45. and all no votes coming from the extremist right-wing republicans. in fact, the only extremist