martha: even with all the raging wildfires across several western states fire tkerpt departments are not immune to deep budget cuts. it s lights out for three fire stations near san francisco. the fire chief vowing to do the best we can withwha with what he has left. we are going to respond the best we can and prioritize the emergencies and that s the resources we have to work with. martha: the chief saying this will increase response times. he s looking to add volunteers to lessen the burden, but says it will take time and money to get them trained. gregg: new fallout from the healthcare decision, and allegations that the supreme court has gone political along with the chief justice of the united states, john roberts. critics say roberts broke from his conservative colleagues
something that in d.c. i think they try to do that. so there is one around. but they don t get a lot of publicity. i want my friends at the media research center that do a great job, a fantastic job of exposing liberal media bias and are decent people because i know more than a few of them. i want them to look at both sides. they will never do it because they their money will dry up if they do. just as media matters won t do it because their money will dry up if they do. but that s the media landscape. i m hoping for. but i m not holding my breath. bill: all right. did you watch a lot of coverage of the healthcare decision last week? yeah. bill: did you see joy in mudville? yeah. i think i did. bill: okay. here is what i saw basically. 10 seconds 10 seconds before the decision came down, liberals, both in and out of media but i watched it on tv mainly, liberals in the media were portraying chief justice
something that in d.c. i think they try to do that. so there is one around. but they don t get a lot of publicity. i want my friends at the media research center that do a great job, a fantastic job of exposing liberal media bias and are decent people because i know more than a few of them. i want them to look at both sides. they will never do it because they their money will dry up if they do. just as media matters won t do it because their money will dry up if they do. but that s the media landscape. i m hoping for. but i m not holding my breath. bill: all right. did you watch a lot of coverage of the healthcare decision last week? yeah. bill: did you see joy in mudville? yeah. i think i did. bill: okay. here is what i saw basically. 10 seconds 10 seconds before the decision came down, liberals, both in and out of media but i watched it on tv mainly, liberals in the media were portraying chief justice
trip of two midwestern state, ohio and pennsylvania coming up. he will be touting his economic record. is that a record to run on? the theme, all he can salvage is say we re growing, healing but slower than i would like. numbers at the end of the week on the unemployment in june are bad, and the way the growth rate is going 1.7% you can t decrease unemployment. it s too slow a growth rate. he is not going to have that narrative anymore. we are improving too slowly. we ll be slipping backwards. i think it can be devastating. this is the third summer of recovery in a row. that is not a summer recovery. three strikes an you re out. john: talking about this idea of the record to run on, romney looked like he lost his signature issue three months ago when the economy looked like it was cooking. does he have the signature issue back again? that is a very good question. certainly the romney camp thinks so because they talk about nothing else. neb light of the healthcare decision and enn
healthcare decision make them more likely to vote in november. the democrats don t seem to have that kind of enthusiasm. 18% say the decision will motivate them to go to the polls. is this a net gain for the g.o.p.? we ll have to see how the swing states turn out. if more and more republicans in a state like, gosh, like, you know, north dakota for instance go to vote it s not going to make that big of a difference. if it really motivates republicans in ohio, florida, some of the swing states to go that could be a game changer. the poll that came out yet from opinion research corp done for a competing network is so important. i would caution viewers, though away from reading too much into this. there were still 20% of the surveyed registered voters in that poll who said they could still change their mind before november. so the middle is very soft. and also they surveyed registered voters not likely voters. so you show me a poll of likely voters that shows mitt romney