she is very much going rogue, positioning herself possibly for a presidential run. and you know, michele bachmann is she is a lightning rod. she is forcing the boehner establishment part of the party to sort of reckon with the tea party in a different way. it s making it awkward. that s an interesting point. i was at a breakfast with the speaker this morning. i know you re talking to him tomorrow. this is a management challenge for him. he has all these new members. he has all this new energy, which is on the one hand is great. ideas, vitality, energy to a town that sometimes gets flat. but managing the expectations and the verve, if you will of some of the tea party members, pretty tough. that was always a big problem. john boehner, he recognized the power and the anger of the tea party. he kind of rode that into town. he was careful to manage them and respect them. but now those that are in the congress don t actually know john boehner. he has to street them with a little bit g
has taken a strong, controversies yell stand on this. eric: he has, and a spokesman of the governor saying the decision is not related to the tucson shootings and they say it was considered before the tragedy happened. you know some blamed talk radio, and defenders say there is no evidence that talk radio influenced the suspect at all. rode s governor, a former republican senator, now an independent, has barred state employees including himself from appearing on talk radio, what he calls for-profit entertainment radio programs and he says they are more entertainment than journalism. and he bill go on npr, public radio, though and the governor s spokesman told us and i quote, this is a brand new administration facing a mammoth deficit, we are looking in every way to be efficient and do not think it is appropriate to invest taxpayer resources to support what we see as an entertainment format, not a news format. but you know, during yesterday s snowstorms, state officials went on talk rad
watching. number three? the stock market. we had a bit of a santa claus rally this year, did we not? we are actually up 90% since the stock market hit their low in 2009. individual investors have pulled more than $100 billion out of stock mutual funds. they got shy is what you are saying. that s right. they were worried. a lot of people have missed the rallies and rode stocks all the way down and took money out as it comes back up. we are close to the end of the year. there s a smile for those who decided to stay? . what s number two? the american auto industry back from the dead. who could have thought two years ago that gm, chrysler and ford would be as decent footing as they are now. gm goes public. the federal government is getting out of the business. ford never took money to begin with and is profitable. the whole industry still relies too much on fuel and efficient trucks. it is kind of the come-back story. everybody in the united states
aren t these kids and mothers and husbands running toward each other. explain the process. they have to hang back momentarily. well, the process is fairly involved. they landed, they were on ships offshore. and they came to shore in smaller boats and rode over to the camp pendleton base. in buses. and then they have to go check their gear and store their weapons. so many of them have been here for several hours. and the family members have been waiting anxiously for them to actually reunite. it is quite a long process that they have to go through. let s just listen to this. deal. here they go.
be more liberal than the one that you have now because the liberal members by and large come from safe democratic district, they are going to stay around and win. the guys in peril are the moderates to conservatives. jon: is part of the problem for them the fact that they have the d in front of their anytime and this is an election where voters are saying they want everybody but the party in power. sure, the midterm seems to be the refer refer dumb on the party in power. that seems to be what happens in these cases. these people in many cases are lawmakers who have won in 2006 and 2008. they came in when the democrats were pushing out marginal republicans. they are not deeply rooted in their district. they are value in a rabl, they are not really established lawmakers. these are the people that rob emanuel brought in and rode in