they are diametrically different. on other old site she was against regulation and now post-bp she s for regulation. ron christy do, we have a confused candidate on our hand? no, we have a despicable senate majority leader. it s not just re-posting her old site. what the reid campaign did is took the code from her original site and ask individuals to put in their e-mail addresses and their personal information. i find it morally reprehensible they have actually moved that. that s what they removed in the new site. sam, it s what they were doing. no, i know. that s been removed. i find it offensive that the senate majority leader would try to fish for information of people who thought that they were submitting information to the angle camp. they got caught. they removed it. if they want to have a discussion about content, they should talk about the fact that nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country and the fact that senator reid has done a terrible job as se
i guess president obama is keeping us safe. and the wall street campaign contributions to democrats seem to be drying up as congress puts the finishing touches on a financial reform bill. with us tonight, sam stein, political reporter huffington post and ron christy, republican strategist. great to have you here tonight and good to be back with you as well. i want to talk about the harry reid situation. he s basically digging up her old comments and making them public. sam stein, what is the reid s camp reaction to all of this now that she, of course, is demanding that he stop doing in? well, tonight actually, ed, the reid camp is actually placing back on the web her old campaign website defying in some respects the cease and desist order. obviously this shouldn t be that controversial. all they are doing is taking her old positions and putting them on the web. in fact, we at the huffington post did the same thing. had an archive and put it up there compared to her new site.
form of campaigning here. that s a little hyperbolic. go ahead, sam. that s a little hyperbolic. literally all he s trying to do is get her old positions out there. i don t see why that s a problem f.harry reid had an old website and wanted to take it down, i think sharron angle would be completely within her rights to do it so long as she didn t solicit donations or e-mails of recipients as ron points out. here s the thing. very quickly, sam, the thing that i think is not hyperbolic about this is they sought information about people, private information about private citizens. we re not debating that. they have already taken that s out. that s what we re debating. they got caught and had to remove it. ron, when it comes to going after someone s previous position on something, would you say that s fair game? i always think in the realm of policy and politics you can talk about what people have said. my point on this, as i ve said to you, is i think that they under false
the political advisers are telling the president to focus his team and efforts on lowering the deficit. often to the contrast of job creation. i don t quite understand why they are doing this. i don t think you can get your handle on the deficit within the next election cycle. got to focus on jobs. it s the one thing you can do. ron, your old boss dick cheney said deficits didn t matter? well, my former boss, former republican representative john kasich, who was chairman of the budget committee, actually balanced the budget back in 1987 when i worked with him. dick cheney dick cheney speaks for all republicans. you guys can laugh, but the reason the democrats are going to get clobber this november is they see president obama jetting around, taking vacations, people have lost their jobs. people are balancing their own very, very tight budgets, and they see an administration in washington, d.c. way out of control with spending. that s why people are angry. hasn t done as much
tim kaine going to be joining me in just a moment. arizona has been served. the justice department made it official today. filing suit against the state over its harsh anti-immigration law. reverend al sharpton joins me at the bottom of the hour to talk about that. and vice president joe biden is making some pretty big predictions about the democrats in the mid-terms. you ll want to hear it, but this is the story that has me fired up tonight. actually, there s a bunch of them that got me fired up. after being on vacation i can t believe the republicans didn t fix the country. at this hour, millions of americans, nothing has changed, they are out of work, getting cut off from any government aid. that s still going on. oil, still pouring into the gulf, killing the small businesses down there and our ecosystem. june, should we mention, was the deadliest month the united states has ever had in afghanistan, and the congress is on vacation. i guess they have to take some time off,