tea party. and bill press nationally syndicated radio host and author of toxic talk. is senator mcconnell right, dr. die son? will all the future votes to raise the debt ceiling be held hostage by the political opposition? thank you, reverend sharpton. by the way, you were brilliant at the funeral services for butch lewis today. thank you. i think absolutely he is right and distressingly right. that once having been successful at blindfolding the american public, putting a gun to the president s head, forcing him to read into law or to sign into law this extraordinary act of, i think, unpatriotic and irrational frenzy, i think they re emboldened. they ll take this as a blueprint and a document of manifesto of
syndicated radio host and author of toxic talk. is senator mcconnell right, dr. die son? will all the future votes to raise the debt ceiling be held hostage by the political opposition? thank you, reverend sharpton. by the way, you were brilliant at the funeral services for butch lewis today. thank you. i think absolutely he is right and distressingly right. that once having been successful at blindfolding the american public, putting a gun to the president s head, forcing him to read into law or to sign into law this extraordinary act of, i think, unpatriotic and irrational frenzy, i think they re emboldened. they ll take this as a blueprint and a document of manifesto of sorts to go forward and disrupt the workings of american government at the behest of a
independents would hold republicans responsible and almost 30% of republicans would blame their own party. and when it comes to the economy, as a whole, 54% of people say that the bad economy is w. s fault. only 27% are ready to blame the current president of the united states, barack obama. for more on this as well as some other hot top stories of the week, let s bring in bill press, author of toxic talk. and also with us tonight is heidi harris, i don t know if heidi s had anything to do with that or not. not poisoning them. and joe madison with us tonight. great to have all of you here. heidi, i know that you don t like polls so let me present it to you this way. as a question, who s winning in the arena of public opinion when it comes to the debt ceiling debate in washington? well, you know, i think the voters are disgusted with everybody. the way i look at it is 14
blame their own party. and when it comes to the economy, as a whole, 54% of people say that the bad economy is w. s fault. only 27% are ready to blame the current president of the united states, barack obama. for more on this as well as some other hot top stories of the week, let s bring in bill press, author of toxic talk. and also with us tonight is heidi harris, i don t know if heidi s had anything to do with that or not. not poisoning them. and joe madison with us tonight. great to have all of you here. heidi, i know that you don t like polls so let me present it to you this way. as a question, who s winning in the arena of public opinion when it comes to the debt ceiling debate in washington? well, you know, i think the voters are disgusted with everybody. the way i look at it is 14 trillion, 16, 20, what difference it make? 12 zeros.
welcome back to the ed show. quite the discussion coming up. i just told you about congressman barney frank and ron paul reaching across the aisle on a very controversial bill to allow states to legalize marijuana. we ll see if my guests can come to a consensus on that story as well as some of the other big stories that we ve been talking about this evening. let s go to nationally syndicated radio talk show host heidi harris with us tonight and also bill press. and hopefully they won t scrap it out because, bill, i think you probably would lose that one. bill is also the author of toxic talk. how the radical right has poisoned america s airwaves. and we also have laura phelaners with us tonight the host of grit tv and free speech tv. always great to have all of you with us here tonight for this discussion. i want to go back. i have some friends from high school who smoked a lot of pot. and not to pick on them but