getting into theรง fight and saying enough already, cut a deal. and your argument is cognitive dissonance. a pleasure to see you. thanks, dylan. nice to see you all. i ll see you tomorrow. hardball can chris matthews is up right now. good evening, i m crist matthews in washington. leading off tonight, republicans gone rogue. if this deficit crisis were a game of chicken, by now the republicans would have tossed the steering wheel out the window, dumped a cinder block on the accelerator and beyahooing like sam pickens riding the bomb at the end of dr. strangelove. how do you negotiate with people
who are happy to cut the baby in two, happy to see the economy destroyed as long as they get to hot dog over the rubble? that s where we are, because they think their leader s plan, the we win/you lose offer, is too liberal. that s our top story tonight. also, who s to blame? last night we showed you this graphic on how revenues, the black line, have not kept up with spending. what happened to the money? three words, bush tax cuts. the tax cuts that many republicans insisted would magically bring in new revenue, did the opposite. they cost us. but none of this is helping president obama. his numbers are slipping politically, in battleground states like michigan. numbers. why it may not be hot news, michele bachmann may have set a new standard by borrowing from fannie mae, the program she wanted to destroy. figure that one out. and why so many people look down on politicians. by the way, this summer the politicians are making it very easy to do that. we started with the
who are happy to cut the baby in two, happy to see the economy destroyed as long as they get to hot dog over the rubble? that s where we are, because they think their leader s plan, the we win/you lose offer, is too liberal. that s our top story tonight. also, who s to blame? last night we showed you this graphic on how revenues, the black line, have not kept up with spending. what happened to the money? three words, bush tax cuts. the tax cuts that many republicans insisted would magically bring in new revenue, did the opposite. they cost us. but none of this is helping president obama. his numbers are slipping politically, in battleground states like michigan. numbers. why it may not be hot news, michele bachmann may have set a new standard by borrowing from fannie mae, the program she wanted to destroy. figure that one out. and why so many people look down on politicians. by the way, this summer the politicians are making it very easy to do that. we started with the
the steering wheel out the window, dumped a cinder block on the accelerator and beyahooing like sam pickens riding the bomb at the end of dr. strangelove. how do you negotiate with people who are happy to cut the baby in two, happy to see the economy destroyed as long as they get to hot dog over the rubble? that s where we are, because they think their leader s plan, the we win/you lose offer, is too liberal. that s our top story tonight. also, who s to blame? last night we showed you this graphic on how revenues, the black line, have not kept up with spending. what happened to the money? three words, bush tax cuts. the tax cuts that many republicans insisted would magically bring in new revenue, did the opposite. but none of this is helping president obama. his numbers are slipping states. we will look at numbers and what why it may not be hot news, michele bachmann may have set a new standard by borrowing from fannie mae, the program she and why so many people look do
window, dumped a cinder block on the accelerator and beyahooing like sam pickens riding the bomb at the end of dr. strangelove. how do you negotiate with people who are happy to cut the baby in two, happy to see the economy destroyed as long as they get to hot dog over the rubble? that s where we are, because they think their leader s plan, the we win/you lose offer, is too liberal. that s our top story tonight. also, who s to blame? last night we showed you this graphic on how revenues, the black line, have not kept up with spending. what happened to the money? three words, bush tax cuts. the tax cuts that many republicans insisted would magically bring in new revenue, did the opposite. but none of this is helping president obama. his numbers are slipping states. we will look at numbers and what why it may not be hot news, michele bachmann may have set a new standard by borrowing from fannie mae, the program she and why so many people look down on politicians. by the w