saturday night after pressure from eric cantor. he has the power in the house. what can you tell me about the relationship between speaker boehnor and eric cantor? senator dick durbin joins me. john boehnor is along for the ride. not all republicans believe the united states will default. i will be voting no on increasing the debt ceiling. these are ignorant people feeding lies to their constituents. dr. evil only asked for $1 million. tax pledges aren t the only problem for the republican candidates. did two republican hopefuls really sign a pledge suggesting a return to the days of slavery? the marriage vow. back tracking from controversial pledges of their own. michele bachmann and former senator rick santorum have signed that pledge. america is also in need of some tough love. would you sign this pledge? well, the answer is yes. a portion of it suggested
more than 500,000 people are without power in illinois after a fast-moving storm downed trees and power lines across the chicago area. meanwhile, a heat wave is roasting the southern states with oklahoma city racking up its 12th consecutive day of triple digits. now back it hardball welcome back it hardball. in iowa, conservative groups, a family leader wants all the gop candidates this year to sign a new marriage vow. it s an attempt to make a point about the significance of marriage a preamble saying,
same-sex marriage. if this actually goes on the ballot, it will pass overwhelmingly. reporter: the controversial 2004 speech she compared what she called the gay lifestyle to slavery. if you re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it s bondage. it is personal bondage. personal despair and personal enslavement and that s why this is so dangerous. reporter: comments such as these alarmed some gop strategists and many gay republicans. congresswoman bachmann s view points on gay and lesbian americans is on the fringe. more and more americans believe and accept their gay neighbors, families, friends, colleagues, are just who they are. reporter: analysts say her uncompromising views on homosexuality are one of the big reasons she is gaining traction in iowa. just last week she reenforced her message by becoming the first gop presidential candidate to sign a controversial marriage vow that pledgees vigorous
other state she goes to also she was a strong, powerful woman. a woman that started her own business along with her husband and a woman who raised 23 foster kids and her own kids and became leader of congress and the leader of the tea party caucus. it doesn t survive. maybe he can focus on getting the i say the same thing about any other woman in politics, hillary clinton or anyone else on the other side of the fence. ears another one of the michelle bachman derangement syndrome. keep in mind they signed the marriage vow in the state of iowa. it had a preamble up at the top that talk about slavery, she didn t see that apparently and they have since taken that off and apologized. whoopi goldberg went after that big time yesterday on the view. i am starting to feel like
while we re heading boo nut country now, welcome back to hardball. in iowa, conservative groups, a family leader wants all the gop candidates this year to sign a new marriage vow. it s an attempt to make a point about the significance of marriage a preamble saying, slavery had a disastrous impact on african-american families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an african-american baby born after the election of the usa s first african-american president. the organization backtracked and took out that language saying it could be misconstrued. that was just the tip of the iceberg for this marriage vow. so far michele bachmann and rick santorum happily signed as written. original wolff, msnbc political analyst and sha shana walsh, has sarah palin on the cover of newsweek. there it is. what is it about the instinct of