that how to depict every spending cut as being nonsensible that is the thing that s not serious. well, there you go, shocked, shocked that politics is being played. is a shutdown looking more or less likely to happen? major garrett, korchs the congress for the 9 national journal and david sanger, chief washington correspondent for new york times, and major, i always know when david would show up, we would always wonder, all right, what does he have that he s got on us. we have some breaking news out of libya that we ll touch on in a few minutes. major, let me start with you about the shutdown talk. i think it was at a national journal forum, saeg, hey, if i were the dnc chair, this would be great, but i ve heard the same thing from conservatives that have said the same thing. who is right here? and is either side really rooting for a shutdown?
mean that gadhafi doesn t have at hand something who the u.s. and others feel they can talk to. interesting. david sanger of new york times, major garrett of the national journal, thank you both. a lot of stuff to work on. up next, what what s a surefire way of a member of congress to alienate its constituents in how about this? complain about your pay, your government taxpayer-funded pay. that s what one freshman did. you re watching hardball only on msnbc.
progress? and failure to launch. what if someone threw a campaign and no one came? republican candidates still are going out of their way not to get in this 2012 race. we ve even postponed a debate. what s going on? finally a word to the wise. if you re a member to congress and make $174,000 a year, dn cola autt ou cotien. at n aoo thg. e onesanwhoidhead it into the side did show. let s begin with labor under siege. senator sherrod brown and john nichols having covering the fights for the union magazine. john, this is basically a fight in the industrial midwest, newly elected republican govern os believe they have a mandate and if they don t do it now, they ll never be able to do it. it s politically been painful it looks like. today is the center is ohio. messagingwise, as you heard in