plausible map towards 270. it s also where unemployment was quite profound too. he ll be spending a lot of time there. it s kind of his home region as well, it s not a coincidence at all, of course not. richard wolffe of msnbc, ari berman, author of hurting donkeys and nate silver with the new york times, thank you all for joining me tonight. paul ryan s republican plan to balance the budget doesn t actually balance the budget for nearly 50 years. oh, yeah, and it adds more than $60 trillion to the national debt. why don t the message and the math add up? i m joined by ezra klein next. and megan mccain gets tonight s spotlight. she ll react to last night s state of the union and the republican party s dueling responses. ( laughter ) all: yeah-hh. ( cheering, laughter ) all: no-oo. no-oo.
that s where elections are won and lost. if obama wins most of those states in the upper midwest, republicans don t have a plausible map towards 270. it s also where unemployment was quite profound too. he ll be spending a lot of time there. it s kind of his home region as well, it s not a coincidence at all, of course not. richard wolffe of msnbc, ari berman, author of hurting donkeys and nate silver with the new york times, thank you all for joining me tonight. paul ryan s republican plan to balance the budget doesn t actually balance the budget for nearly 50 years. oh, yeah, and it adds more than $60 trillion to the national debt. why don t the message and the math add up? i m joined by ezra klein next. and megan mccain gets tonight s spotlight. she ll react to last night s state of the union and the republican party s dueling responses. [ tires squeal ]
it s also where unemployment was quite profound too. he ll be spending a lot of time there. it s kind of his home region as well, it s not a coincidence at all, of course not. richard wolffe of msnbc, ari berman, author of hurting donkeys and nate silver with the new york times, thank you all for joining me tonight. paul ryan s republican plan to balance the budget doesn t actually balance the budget for nearly 50 years. oh, yeah, and it adds more than $60 trillion to the national debt. why don t the message and the math add up? i m joined by ezra klein next. and megan mccain gets tonight s spotlight. she ll react to last night s state of the union and the republican party s dueling responses.
it s the melting pot of america. it s not up to me to tell them what to think. good stuff. you can watch more of this interview tonight on nbc nightly news on your local nbc station. so we re going to talk about what faces speaker boehner. one decision capturing attention is mitch shell bachmann who has been will not have oversight of the cia and rest of the national intelligence apparatus and new buzz that bachmann may be considering a presidential run in 2012. the author of hurting donkeys the fight to rebuild the democratic party and shape american politics. what are her credentials, this is a very high profile assignment he has given her. she s known for saying pretty bomb bass tick and controversial statements. this is the first time
finally did that as opposed to having this democratic thing that looks like nancy pelosi as speaker and president obama at the white house and the other leaders were hurting cats, meaning the democrats. was the president able to have those accomplished in the lame duck session despite what bob s describing there? it s funny, i have a book called hurting donkeys i thought a little bit about this. nancy pelosi was an incredible leader for the democrats and president obama handed her the entire agenda and she passed not some of it, but all of it through the house. republicans ran against her in 2006 and 2008. it didn t work. it only worked in 2010 because of the economy. democrats ran against john boehner in 2010, it didn t work because people don t care who the speaker of the house is. they care about the broader party in power and what s going on at the time. they didn t like how the bush administration was running the