that s the question, killing medicare versus raising taxes. and that s the fight. and the battleground, as always, will be the suburbs where elections are won and lost in this country. it s our top story tonight. plus, look who bounced sarah palin as the bright, shiny object dazzling republicans. the person will get more attention, we think, than votes. donald trump just finished tied for first nationally with huckabee, mike huckabee, with a cnn national poll with republicans. apparently all you need to do is repeat the birther line and the suckers will love you. ç as p.t. barnum once said, there s one born every minute. also, we learned today that pakistan is kicking out lots of cia operatives and special ops forces. wasn t pakistan our key ally in the fight with al qaeda? and some on the left are upset with president obama for not fighting harder against the budget cuts. to hear some tell it, obama is making too many concessions to republicans. do they have a case?
Stationed out west, in the far west, away from his family where he developed a bad drinking problem. his father who had some political pull tried getting him reinstated, but the secretary of war refused the appeal. the secretary of war at the time was jefferson davis. well, when grant got to new york on his way home from the west, he had to go around the horn to get there. he called up his old classmate, simon buckner, who stood up with him at the wedding and pleaded with him to eventually get him home to illinois. buckner, turned out, was the commanding officer that grant defeated in the first big northern victory in the civil war, ft. donaldson. those officers were so entangled back then, personally, all going to school together at west point. they knew each other as people, as individual classmates. you know, the way all people remember their classmates for all kinds of things. and then they had to fight each other in the war. some went south to fight. some went north to fight. buck
Let me finish tonight with the civil war that started 150 years ago today. it must have been something for those officers who fought in that war. ulysses s grant had been drummed out of the army several years before fort sumter, stationed out in the far west away from his family where he had developed a bad drinking problem. his father, who had some political pull, tried getting him reinstated. well, the secretary of war at the time refused the appeal. the secretary of war s name was jefferson davis. when grant got to new york on his way back home from the west coast, he had to go around the horn, of course, he called up an old classmate, simon buckner who stood up for him at his wedding and pleaded for him to get money for a hotel room and get home to illinois. buckner was, turned out to be the commanding officer who he
hear, tax increases for upper income americans. that s the question, killing medicare versus raising taxes. and that s the fight. the battleground will be the suburbs where elections are won and lost in this country. it s ourç top story tonight. plus look who bounced sarah palin as the bright, shiny object dazzling republicans. the person will get more attention, we think, than votes. donald trump just finished tied for first nationally with huck mike huckabee be with a cnn national poll with republicans. apparently all you need to do is repeat the birther line and the suckers will love you. as p.t. barnum once said, there s one born every minute. also, we learned that pakistan is kicking out lots of cia operatives and special opes forces. wasn t pakistan our key ally in the fight with al qaeda? and some on the left are upset with president obama for not fighting harder against the budget cuts. to hear some tell it, obama is making too many concessions, to republica
upper-income americans. that s the question, killing medicare versus raising taxes. and that s the fight. and the battleground, as always, will be the suburbs where elections are won and lost in this country. it s our top story tonight. plus, look who bounced sarah palin as the bright, shiny object dazzling republicans. the person will get more attention, we think, than votes. donald trump just finished tied for first nationally with huckabee, mike huckabee, with a cnn national poll with republicans. apparently all you need to do is repeat the birther line and the suckers will love you. as p.t. barnum once said, there s one born every minute. also, we learned today that pakistan is kicking out lots of cia operatives and special ops forces. wasn t pakistan our key ally in the fight with al qaeda? and some on the left are ç upset with president obama for not fighting harder against the budget cuts. to hear some tell it, obama is making too many concessions to republican