from a visit to a nearby university. one person is missing after an explosion in houston. a friend says two american teens killed in a car lot in mexico had crossed the border for a party and stayed to shop for a car. lindsay lohan will face felony charges for allegedly stealing a $2500 necklace from a jewelry store. now back to hardball. business worldwide. now back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. it s actually less than a year before the iowa caucus is on us, republicans haven t been lining up for president, at least publicly. what are they waiting for? why isn t the gop excited about the candidates? should younger candidates step up and run like president clinton or jeb bush who just said he isn t running again.
in tennessee a poll by vanderbilt study institution for studies. said obama ahead there, palin. in georgia an inside poll found obama with a four-point lead over palin, 47-43. that s not much. if palin doesn t capture the republican nomination f. the poll of all these polls show obama would lose in both states, mike huckabee, newt gingrich. get the message? palin easy to beat. we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.com. take action. take advil. go to takeadvil.com. of all the places you look when you need new ideas for dinner, it s time to discover the best place of all. go to campbellskitchen.com. where you ll find hundreds of fresh recipe ideas, made with the brands you love. make campbell s kitchen part of your kitchen.
we re looking at it now. it is tester, mccaskill, nelson, and manchin. it is a problem, can t live with them, can t live without them. how do you have a democratic party that s only progressives, the only argument we have here every night. well, you can t. i ve just been talking to democrats on the hill this afternoon about this. this is a different situation from what it was like last congress, chris, where the obama administration was trying to pass massive legislation for healthcare, financial services, auto bailouts, tarp, you name it, where they needed 60 votes to overcome republican opposition and republican fill busters to put these massive pieces of legislation on the books. now that that legislation is on the books, the democrats are in a different position. more in a defensive position and don t have near 60. they don t really need 60 for most of this stuff to defend it, just need 50 plus one. so harry reid is still the democratic leader, is telling
avoid hitting a muslim new world order site because he didn t want to offend the purposes of this movement? what could it possibly mean? i m not saying it makes any sense at all but there s been a concerted effort to denigrate the bush presidency not because of foreign policy, but because of his expansion of government. i don t know what the downside is for beck or anyone else to go after any of the bushes. let s go back to 92. ben, republicans back in 92, a lot of people believe our colleague pat buchanan s speech, not him personally, the speech he gave at the convention in houston hurt their chances in 92 about bringing back the streets block by block. it hit people pretty tough, they thought it was ethnic, they thought it was outrageous, they thought it was trouble-making. my question, are the republicans afraid they are going to have to clean up their act or cannot be seen as an credible alternative to obama? certainly a desire to be seen as a responsible alternative and t
and all those that end up being moderates when they get in there. let s look at what rich lowery said in the national review. editor, he wants bush to run for the following reasons. field wide open. 2016 would be too late for jeb if he waits another four years. waiting doesn t seem to work for people. he also says he ll still be a bush in 26 and still have that on his shoulders, and that s a any difficult. deroy said no. what do you say, sam? deroy is bringing the one-liners tonight action and i hate to disagree with him on jeb. aids report a couple months ago, shocking to me democrats are fearful of jeb more than anything else. they think his more tolerant stance on immigration is something that can appeal to the hispanic population and a wider swath of moderate voters. the problem is jeb can t get by the republican primary in part because of his last name, and in part the immigration issue. that s the main problem. you re not talking about a wider electorate a primary electorate