i d like to say they re not mentally ill or drunk. maybe those camping out but in term of to movement one of the biggest problems is they don t want to be organized. they don t want to be organized. john: yet they have a generally assembly. they think moveon.org is part of the establishment. they want to be more radical. if you re not going to organize or lobby or do the things that groups do to influence washington you probably won t have influence. there is an attorney out of philadelphia michael pollack that wants an occupy convention in july with 876 delegates chosen from congressional districts. now the general assembly of occupy is saying no, we dent sanction that because that would be representative movement, where we are consensus movement. where is this going do you think, charles? french revolution. guillotines. [ laughter ] it could be entertaining. this is never this never
strategic petroleum reserve. it shows that the administration recognizes supply affects prices. but he argues we have a bigger reserve under our felt if we only develop it. in washington, jim angle, fox news. john: with oil prices rising the stock market can t figure out which way to go. the dow hovers on both sides of the 13,000 mark. it lost two points today after briefly going over the threshold. the s&p 500 gained two. nasdaq picked up seven. sales of new homes dipped in january. biff .9 of a percentage point by .9 of a percentage point. figure for the last three months of 2011 were revised upward. crisis in the housing industry led to massive problems for local community. declining property tax revenue meant major cutback for some. tonight, dan springer shows us how some people are stepping up to pick up some of the slack.
theition lammic center in urban washington was peaceful and call made to recognize how some might exploit the incident. we understand that the individuals and forces on the ground in afghanistan trying to take advantage of this politically. 20 people have been killed across the country in four days of violence, including two american soldiers who were shot by a man wearing afghan military uniform. the president apologized for the burning, but i haven t seen the president demand that the government of afghanistan apologize for the killing of two young americans. a white house spokesman deflected that question. the president is gratified that president karzai appealed for calm in afghanistan.
was a serious movement. ever. it still isn t. we have occasionally protests on the left and we will in the future now. a name occupy. it doesn t mean a thing. it isn t a movement. that s a slogan. john: that s it, as far as it goes? end of story now. let s talk about algae. john: you were very good on algae yesterday. talk 2012 politics and start off byin by showing you what happened on the campaign trail. i m afterring more than a change of policy. i am offering dramatic and fundamental change in perspective and philosophy from washington, and for the nation. i have a track record of being a strong consistent conservative. for mitt romney to attack me as not being conservative laughable. we could go in the caucuses next saturday and everybody in the caucus is like at n $2.50 as were for newt gingrich we d sweep caucuses. john: before that, there are contests in michigan and arizona, contests that can either clear the air a little bit or muddy the waters more.