sufferings of their ancestors in this country, they are somehow hostile to white americans and thus american history at large. because to hear thousands of g bigots and the president tell it, confederate history is american history and should be preserved, not just as school book chapters, but also in the form of taxpayer funded statues of violent racist traders on public property. but are black children in alabama expected to tolerate statues of slave holding terrorists and not be offended by that past? then conservatives in arizona should be able to tolerate mexican american students empty bra embracing theirs past. because the students of today become the voters of tomorrow. and in that future, they gotcha. become the voters of tomorrow.
billion profit. that has many believing the 2008 tarp program is an unrivalled success story, but in a new article for rolling stone the secrets and lies of the bailout, matt taibi says not so. to listen to the bankers and their allies in washington tell it, you d think the bailout was the best thing to hit the american economy since the invention of the assembly line. not only did it prevent another great depression we ve been told, but the money has also all been paid back, and the government even made a profit. no harm, no foul, right? wrong. it was all a lie. one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold to the american people. joining us now is contributing editor at rolling stone matt taibi. matt, a great piece. a lot of research went into this. yep. a lot of plain speak. no b.s. attitude you have taken here. but in terms of it being the bailout being one of the biggest and most elaborate lies sold to the american populous, tell us why you think so. the s
day, people in arizona would be alive today that died that day. that s my question. why has the gun debate dropped off the radar? in today s daily beast, new york city mayor michael bloomberg tell it, hear most pundits and americans are hopelessly divided by guns, but we re not. polls show that nra members support common sense steps to ensure that guns are kept out of the hands of criminals. and the long angeles times says, few presidents have shown as little interest in gun control as barack obama. it s as if avoid gun control at all costs has become a plank in the democratic party platform. they re ain t loser. guys like mr. gottlieb and the nra are very effective at standing and lobbying. but take a law that i tried to get instituted in pennsylvania,
the white house says it s all about winning the future, their words. that s one of the broad themes as we learn more about the president s state of the union address. we re told mr. obama will spend a good chunk of time tomorrow night talking about the economy, jobs and making america competitive once again. to hear the president s spokesman tell it, the two parties are well positioned to find common ground on some big issues like cutting the budget. we re not going to have a debate in washington about whether we need to make some changes and whether we need to control our spending. we re going to have hopefully a discussion a bipartisan discussion and work together on how we go about doing that. certainly a lot of talk about bipartisanship heading into the president s big speech tomorrow night, especially after the tucson shooting, but there s also a good deal of tension between fellow republicans right