his idea of compromise is making the other side cave in? that s the language used by richard murdock the tea party candidate who won the race between he and senator lugar in indiana. take a look. what i ve said about compromising bipartisanship is i hope to build a conservative majority in the united states senate so that bipartisanship becomes democrats joining republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce of bureaucracy, lower taxes and get america moving again. he s not exactly laughing when he says that absurdity. imagine what happened if every senator talked like that guy. would anything ever get done? don t compromise on thinking. u.s. congressman joe donnelly, a moderate democrat, is running against murdock this november in what could be a very tight race. congressman, donnelly, you re a notre dame guy so i like you already. is this a close race right now fairly put? it is. the last poll put it a dead heat 42-42. i noticed in your speaking you re out there open
graders. you know, back in the 60s, i think 62 caper was flying to far to the right and your state dumped him. they said too far. does your state still have the anti-far right attitude? absolutely. what we re about, truly, is bring us solutions to the problems. don t talk about it, get work done. they don t expect us to go to washington and just give flowery speeches. we re the hired help. we re sent there to get work done, not to talk about it but do it. here s murdock. after losing to murdock, senator lugar wrote a sharp concession letter. he said, quote, if mr. murdock is elected, i want him to be a good senator. but that would require him to revise his stated goal of bringing more partisanship to washington. he will find unless he modifies his approach, he will achieve little as legislator. worse, he will help delay solution that s are totally beyond the capacity of partisan majorities. i was just talking about this. i mean, you re the expert, i m
venture socialism of this government and these demonstration projects and all of these enviro enterprises have proven to be not only waste of taxpayer dollars, but, of course, dangers to public safety, the true dangers to public safety. brian: i want to get to you weigh in on ted cruz s victory. what do you think it says for the tea party that everyone is saying has been dead, especially if you look at what happened in indiana against senator lugar. what is your feeling about what happened in texas? i think it s always good to be underestimated and the tea party has been since the very beginning. i think this is another nice theme of this entire segment of the use of social media because, of course, the tea party movement that gave rise to the victories of richard murdoch and ted cruz really was rooted in takes book and twitter and across the internet.
summer games, right? so much fun. good morning, everyone. welcome to early, early early start. up first, debby doing more damage and dumping more rain than some full-blown hurricanes. the deadly storm now downgradeds to a tropical depression where is slashes across florida where a state of emergency is still in place. that storm is second to bring rains to florida for another day. george, i was reading this morning the folks here were really scared because the water came in so quickly. how are the conditions there now? well, you know, zoraida, good morning. we know the storm cloud have all passed here but again, these residents are dealing with a very difficult situation right now. just take a look. you see this home submerged for the most part in water. that s what you find in many of these low lying areas. it s hit or miss that more water that is covering these homes. in some places drivers are having to deal with six inches to a foot of water on the road. you see pol
today wisconsin is a fall preview. they look at wisconsin, and they see america s battleground between people who want to work together to solve problems and penal who want to divide and conquer. democratic challenger and milwaukee mayor tom barrett on his bid to oust the republican governor in a recall race. then battleground politics with virginia republican governor bob mcdonald, u.s. jobs and the bloodshed in syria. plus, unemployment is up, the dow is down, and the presidential election is 157 days away. analysis from mark zande of moody s analytics, stechen moore of the wall street journal, and dan balz of the washington post. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. 19 months after electing republican scott walker as governor, wisconsin voters decide tuesday whether to recall him. walker s critics were galvanized by his first budget designed to fix a $3.6 billion shortfall. it included stripping collective bargaining rights for most public workers