Across america gets that from this movie. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Friday night bites. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Let me start tonight with the theater of the absurd now known as the republicanled u. S. Congress. You thought house of cards was bad. At least on that show they get things done. Here in the nations capitol on august 1st, 2014, they stay up late. They stay up late on a friday evening for the most ridiculous of reasons. Start with making it look like theyre working. Theyre here showing that theyre here, got it . So i and other commentators
cant attack them for truancy. Next reason, call it feeding time at the zoo. Some of the hard vicious right need to have votes they call their own, in other words, votes that cast scorn on the president. Cast them in a safe position having done nothing to help barack obama, only to keep him from doing anything. Why . Because any and every action by this president
What a shameful day this is. The government of the United States of america will close. They are talking now about not raising the debt ceiling. They will only talk after the government shuts down. Id like to say good evening, but it isnt a very good one. The president is driving the government shut down. The president is not willing to come to the table. He wants the checkbook. Maybe hes not the problem. The president s not asking for anything. They have to get a life. This is not a game of chicken. I feel sorry for Speaker Boehner. The sheer ridiculousness. Insane. Republicans have left the point of reason. Republicans are stail still playing games. They dont believe in government and tomorrow will be a bad day for government. A day of celebration in the republican dominated house. Tonight the United States government ends. The government shut down washington. This is the finale of [ bleep ] gov. I didnt come here to shut down the government. In 237 seasons this transformed in to an
Cooperate, god love them. What, if anything, is going to get done. They want to fight, they want to destroy. Going to put obamacare under a microscope. The obligatin lbligation to agenda of the angriest man in the smallest county in iowa. Could they drive Approval Rating all the way up to 0 . The Republican Party wants to make everything a fight over the president. President obama is expected to act on immigration. He did promise to act. Nobody likes people who actually govern. Look at obama. Work through and eventually solve problems. Weve handled ebow loo wee weve handled ebow loo webola w. He turned the economy around and give millions of People Health care. What a [ bleep ] hole. And after a sevenweek recess, Congress Returns to work tomorrow for an important lame duck session. The first and possibly only order of business will be the funding of the government of the United States, which is scheduled to run out of funding on december 11. The Washington Post reports, house and Senat
Bills for fiscal 2015, which began in october, out of the way, so they can focus on crafting a budget for fiscal 2016. Unelected republican leader Rush Limbaugh doesnt understand that republican budget strategy. Now if i ran the Republican Party and i had just skunked the democrats and i had just gotten more seats in the house and senate than ive had in 55,000 years, i would say okay, Spending Authority ends december 11. We get sworn in on january 5 or whatever it is, ill come up with a funding bill for three weeks. And then we budget soo as to give ourselves opportunity to defund that part of obamacare and defund that part. We make him the obstructor. But what im seeing in this story is the republicans dont want to do that. They want to take care of ten months of spending before december 11. If youre serious about hes not going to get away with executive amnesty. Theyve got the power of the purse and theyre going to throw that away, yonlds. Jeff sessions, who will be the Budget Commit
Will actually create and well discuss the latest assault on the Affordable Care act as the Second Period of open enrollment begins this morning . First, as ferguson, missouri, waiting for a decision on whether to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the st. Louis post dispatch shows wilson entering the Police Station after that fatal encounter in august. This was obtained through missouris sunshine law. Radio calls were heard in the minutes before and after the Fatal Shooting took place. That includes an unidentified officer calling in for support as a woman wales in the background. Get us several more units over here. Theres going to be a problem. Also happening overnight, Ferguson Police chief tom jackson said that if the grand jury does not return an indictment, officer wilson may immediately return to duty. Jackson also said that wilson will be fired if he is indicted by the grand jury. Were going to have a live update from the grou