from miami. we begin tonight with a question. where s sarah palin? the gop lined up lots of speakers important the republican national convention. today rick santorum was added do the list. and so was tea party favorite senator rand paul. both come on the heels of yesterday s big get governor rick 36% approval scott. huh? but still no word on if sarah palin will speak. could it be that governor romney just doesn t like her all that much? that story ahead. there is someone else that hasn t made the speaker s list yet. someone who could be tapped as mr. romney s vp. i m talking about congressman paul ryan. the man who embodies unfairness and his budget literally takes from the poor and middle class to give to the rich. mr. romney has fully signed on to that fair logic and president obama slammed that thinking last night. he asked the middle class to pay more in taxes so he could give another $250,000 tax cut to people making more than $3 million a year. it is like robin hood
spent a good deal of time with congressman ryan when his plan came out i applauded it as a very important step. this is guy that s willing to stand for something. what paul ryan stands for is a system where the top 1% thrives at the expense of everyone else. at the expense of the poor and the expense of our seniors. that sort of topped down economics is a tough sell. and president obama made that point last night. if this sounds like an idea that s difficult to explain or sell to the american people, you would be right. so there are all kinds of different gymnastics being perfect formed by the romney campaign last week. they have tried to sell us this trickle-down tax fairy dust before. guess what, it does not work. don t be fooled by the fairy dust because what mr. romney and mr. ryan are selling is a might mayor. joining me now is joan walsh, editor-at-large with salon.com. and political analyst for msnbc. and dana mill bank, columnist for the washington post. tha
from the former state chair of the republican party of florida? well, the former chairman of the republican party in florida, jim grier, would certainly know and those are some explosive allegations. in there, we have been struggling, democrat versus republican, since 2000. democrats fighting to make sure we can get as much access to the polls for eligible voters as we can and get their votes counted and republicans have been doing the opposite. republicans since 2000 from when they shut down the recount and prevented lawfully and legally cast ballots from being counted to the last two years since they took over the governor s mansions and held the governor s mansions and the legislature, that passed laws designed to make sure that fewer people can get access to the polls. what we are doing is making hurt that in spite of all that effort to prevent people from getting to the polls, the obama campaign and democratic party is making
a former chairman of florida s republican party has some new accusations that are even worse. in court documents released last week, jim grier talked about attending a gop meeting where political consultants and staff were talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting. he said, quote, they talked about not letting blacks vote and minority outreach programs were not fit for the republican party, end of quote. these accusations are does pushing to say the least. so what s being done about it? joining me now is florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. chair woman of the democratic national committee. congresswoman, thank you for joining me tonight. thanks for having me again, reverend al. it is great to be with you. let me ask you first what s your reaction to these claims about suppressing the black vote
laws restricting abortion even when they know they will go nowhere. but speaker boehner pretends to care about what really matters. the american people are continuing to ask the question where are the jobs? the american people are still asking the question where are the jobs? where the jobs? mr. president, where are the jobs? i hope he s looking in the mirror when he s asking that. let s go to the record. republicans have consistently put forth bills that even economists say won t create jobs. yet, they pushed 14 anti-abortion measures. and here s now how radical today s vote is. this law would send d.c. doctors to jail for up to two years for performing abortions past 20 weeks. this criminalizes abortion. yet, it has 222 co-sponsors. 222. how s that for a priority? how is that for an agenda? and over in the cincinnati today, senator mcconnell pushed to repeal the affordable care act. one day before key women s health provisions going into effect things like coverage fo