how do you reconcile the characterization of the american autumn as organic and understandable but unfocused at a time when it austin powers they are very focused on what mark, you, myself, congressman paul and many others are talking about right now? i read our friend jonathan capehart, he wrote an editorial in yesterday s washington post about this and said you ve got to have a cause, got to have sort of delineated ideas, and i don t disagree with him on that, but these people down at the park, the tea party movement, it s not a party, it s not a political party, it s a movement. it has been a movement. by the way, 1992, ross perot s people, they were pissed off. america as a whole is pretty damnpissed off right now, and they have absolutely no way of channeling this and funneling this except through avenues like this so we re seeing it. do you see a movement like this, mark, as a good as a
had two washington political pros with us. one, our own jimmy williams from the lobbying side and mark mckinnon, co-founder of no labels. gentlemen, it is a delight to welcome you back. i am proud to present to you on behalf of our entire community, after just one week, 100,000. i believe it was 105,000, maybe 106,000 signatures and counting. we are pushing for what we call asymmetrical growth. each person tells another person and we re hoping we can actually watch this number in ten clicks work well into the millions. mark, are you surprised by the immediacy of the response? i feel like a guy who stuck a knife in an oil well and it blew up in my face this past week. i m not surprised, and i m excited to see it, dylan. people are mad as hell, and they are not going to take it anymore. i weapons of mass destruction the network movie with the great hour beal s speech and was struck how it relates today. when citizens united, the
diverse protesters want to do more than get mad about the power of the 1% over the 99%, they ought to emulate some of the tactics that the conservative, older, whiter tea partiers. sure. it s probably a bit crazy to think that tea partiers and the occupy wall streeters might join forces, but as mark a tea partier from ohio wrote to me today, quote, both see corruption in high places corporations and government, and those two areas are so closely aligned that there isn t really much of a difference between criticizing the tyranny of corrupt government and the tyranny of corrupt corporations. dylan, you ought to think about it. yeah. there s a lot to think about, indeed. thank you, jonathan. as i said at the top of the show, more than 100,000 of us have signed on to the get money out campaign. having nothing to do with any of these protests. it is a campaign that we started last week.
because the fear is easily resolved frequently with playcations based on handing out resources in the short term. you ve been down there. these people don t want to be placated. they want reform. they actually want to see resolution. yes. mark. thank you so much for rejoining us and really for helping us, not only present this, but understanding it and communicate it. we really appreciate it. yeah. keep kicking, it dylan. appreciate what you re doing. thank you, mark, and jimmy, of course, not going anywhere. coming up here on the d.r. show, the occupy movement sweeping america. we ll have the very latest on the protest including their pledge to get money out, occupy colleges all over that particular aspect of this movement, plus, the 112-9-congress breaking records for making america mad, that is. the mega panel weighs in, to hell and back again. a new poll revealing what
did we get here and started to realize how pervasive the money is behind everything and unless beattack that, that s the root problem and cause and until we address, that we re not going to get to all the other problems. mark said something very interesting. i think in 1992, and i moved to washington in june of 1992, i wanted to be involved, right, and what i remember distinctly was ross perot playing on people s fear. it was, the giant sucking sound, et cetera, et cetera, your job is going to go. politics 101. by the way, the economy in 1992 was in far better shape than it was in now and certainly in far better shape than in 2008 and 2009. now it s a reversal on this. now the folks that are so upset and pissed off, politicians will have to play off their anger, it s a complete reversal. politicians don t proact, politicians react, and there is absolutely no way in hell that they will not have to react to what s happening. it will be interesting to see