joining us now is steve kornaki. he s political news editor at salon.com. steve, thanks for joining us tonight. nice to have you here. sure. am i being naive to be shocked by the allegation that the bob vander plaats fundamentalist social conservative endorsement comes with a price tag? well, you ve got to love the irony because one of the sort of messaging things republicans have emphasized for a couple of decades now is the democrats are the party of machine politics, they re the old school party with vote buying and chicago politics. right. and here s the religious guy engaging in it. but i think the thing about iowa, this sort of thing does happen in both parties, in primary states, but i think it s really pronounced in a state like iowa on the republican side because you have such a small activist activist-dominated voting universe. when you look at what the turnout is like for the iowa caucuses, gnaw normal year the percentage of iowa voters who will participate in th
let s get to work. i, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying wall street. the 99% movement has republicans changing their tune. we agree that there is too much income disparity in this country. tonight, van jones, joan walsh, mike patmantonia on the one-month anniversary of occupy wall street. the liberals will destroy this country. herman cain isn t buying off the claim that liberals are out to destroy america. steve kornaki and joe watkins are here. before there was wall street, there were the protests in madison. is scott walker the man who started the 99% movement? we ll ask the head of the wisconsin professional firefighters, maylon mitchell. hope you had a great weekend, folks. great to have you with us. the occupy wall street movement captured the attention of america one month ago tonight.
tea party demanding more cuts in federal spending, a cap on future budgets, and a balanced budget amendment. but at a republican caucus meeting speaker of the house john boehner told everyone in his party, and i quote, get your ass in line. and listen to senator john mccain. what is really amazing about this is that some members are believing that we can pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution in this body with its present reputation, and that is foolish. that is worse than foolish. that is not fair. that is not fair to the american people. to hold out and say we won t agree to raising the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. it s unfair. it s bizarro. and maybe some people who have only been in this body for six or seven months or so really believe that. others know better. the ground is still shaking in d.c. over this tonight, with no doubt many late-night phone calls going under way right now. we ll cover all of the a
even vegas put their money on perry taking the nomination so mitt, where s the boastful bravado coming from? joining me now, david wine gold, political reporter for the slate. and msnbc contributor. and steve kornaki political columnist for saloon.com. thank you both forbeing with us. is romney just that sure of himself? is he trying to project the kind of rose garden strategy without the rose garden or is he just arrogant? i ve been watching mitt rom fee for about two decades now since his first race in massachusetts in 1949. one thing i noticed about him is this veneer of polish to him where he seems like a really charismatic persuasive calm guy. but when you get him in the
where he didn t win last time. if perry is in there there is a huge block of the republican primary and republicans weigh the southern states higher. it is tougher for him to grind out the nomination. for now i think it makes it easier tore him to split the vote. up and keep a lead. all right, david and steve, thanks. ahead, is boehner s job as speaker in jeopardy? you won t believe what he says. . i ve tried it. but nothing s helped me beat my back pain. then i tried this. it s salonpas. this is the relief i ve been looking for. salonpas has 2 powerful pain fighting ingredients that work for up to 12 hours. and my pharmacist told me it s the only otc pain patch approved for sale using the same rigorous clinical testing that s required for prescription pain medications. proven. powerful. safe. salonpas. somewhere in america,