policy positions of their own that supports actually smaller government and supports lower taxes. but they find themselves side by side with some within the tea party movement that would carry those very racist signs, the kind of folks that would spit on african-american members of congress, the kind of folks who would call the first sitting member of the u.s. congress that happens to be gay the f word and call congressman congressman from kansas city, missouri, the n word. so that raises some concerns. we re simply calling upon them to actually notice that this being utilized that way. hillary, is it good enough that you heard you heard mark just a second ago, he rejects that type of stuff you are talking about. this is the leader of the tea party sitting right here with us. he repudiates that. how many leeaders do you need t come out and do that? they all really need to. quite frankly we know there are
racist. guys, i talked to the head of the tea party in memphis. i ve spent some time with him. i don t think anyone after meeting him would come to the conclusion this guy was a racist in any way, shape or form. so how are they supposed to which some give them credit for, the tea party movement now being a player in politics in this country that is going to be around. whose responsibility is it now to step up? how do you separate, luke, some of those racist elements as the naacp would say? how do you separate them from the good folks like mark skoda? look, the iron pilings know which way to point when the magnet makes itself apparent. i think you are looking at a group of people who are cultivating power and cultivating an audience with a direct message. and the message isn t very savory as far as i m concerned. these are people leveraging racism. if you look at the crowds, look on youtube, people against government health care, most of them are on social security and medicare, i
raw debate this week over racism? this back-and-forth we ve seen between the naacp and the tea party movement. taking a couple twists and turns. today one of the tea party movement s most visible spokesman has now pulled a controversial blog post, one that even had some of his own supporters saying he went too far. in the blog tea party express spokesman mark williams wrote a mock letter from the naacp president ben jellis to president abraham lincoln. one said black people don t cotton to the whole emancipation, a lot of people wonder if this is the way to move this conversation forward. last week before the blog posting, jellis talked about how tea party grops should move away from what he calls racist
could be the beginning of the end. that the tone from especially from officials along the gulf coast is that everyone is still cautiously optimistic but hoping in some sort of way, either the cap works by itself or they re able to collect all of the oil and keep it from flowing into the gulf of mexico. it s a huge breakthrough and people really are anticipating something big here. jim and kiran? all right. ed lavandera. fingers crossed. as we said, 16 hours and counting and should know mow how the tests are going this afternoon. and a nice opportunity to get good news down there for a change. i know. down there since the very beginning of this. doing great stuff. in the 88th day of the disaster in the gulf. for months watching in horror as clouds of crude billowed into the sea. that s what makes this before and after video so heartening. on the right a chance to exhale and what is happening now on the right. not single drop of oil is coming
we had this agency called the office of thrift supervision. they did really well. outdated thing. exactly. this agency does have rule making power. i want to point out this bill doesn t actually write as many rules as it tells other people to write rules. that s also a big concern to me because regulators haven t done a great job in the past so we re asking them to write 533 new rules to protect us. i don t know if they re going to do it. i think in the end when consumers have more information and it is concise and clearly articulated it is better. but in the at the end of the day, everybody here should know this bill is not going to do what you need to do for yourself educate yourself, protect yourself and ask a lot of questions. that leads to what i was asking about a glaring omission many say, which is reforming fannie and freddie. the government-backed mortgage giants that today have cost u.s. taxpayers $145 billion. all this screaming about the bailouts, that s $145