candidate. he said if mon dale lost, he would serve one more term as speaker and retire. well, it was a huge story. it kind of made o neil a lame duck. mon dale did not go on to win. he lost to reagan in a 49-state landslide, which meant a that o neil stayed on as speaker for the more years with everyone knowing he was on his way out. it wasn t the worst thing in the world. it wasn t ideal for tip o neil either. i thought of this, we are seeing reports another house speaker john boehner might be eyeing the door long before his term. the huffington post cited sources close to boehner last week who suggested the speaker is ready to hang it up after the mid-term elections. one of the chief reasons, there is so much disgruntlement with him on the right, he doesn t want to risk being deposed by his own party. beaner insists this is idle
. i think the sub theme of today s show is stuff i found in my closet. this is something i ordered on ebay a couple weeks ago. it has quickly become one of my better possessions. george went is the actor on cheers when o neil was the speaker of the house. he made an appearance on the show. tip o neil is from cambridge. it s sort of his hometown of boston. tip o neil is one of my all time favorite characters. cheers is my all time favorite show. it aired in february, 1983. it was a year later tip o neil kind of screwed up in a big way. it was early 1984. he let it slip to a new york times reporter he was thinking of retirement. walter mon dale the democratic
the republicans increase their strength in congress. the 16 seed is planted for the future. in one of his first acts as the official nominee, kerry has to choose a key note speaker for the convention. he opts for his party s candidate for u.s. senate in illinois. there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states of macro. and by 2006, there is chaos in iraq. confidence back home is fading. bush s numbers are collapsing. the president refuses to adjust. stay the course, he tells americans. change the course comes the reply from democrats. the election is a wipeout. democrats gained 31 seats in the house. they take sick in the senate. fine areally for the first time in a sudden years, that i have a majority back on capitol hill. that wave carries on until 2008. bush fatigue, iraq fatigue. it sstratus fer ec. a vote for the war in 2002 a vote cast when the politics of
that happens to the track with the electoral college projection, the state by state race. a multi-million dollars campaign attacking mitt romney s record on the issue we all know will define the election. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average and fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom. instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india. he cut taxes for millionaires like himself while raising them on the middle class and left the state 2.6 billion deeper in debt. the new ad is airing in nine states including seven you see in yellow here. that s thes to-up yellow. here is the state of the race, the race to 270 electoral votes and 155 days out. it takes 270 to win. we have solid blue and light blue. that means solid bam or leading obama and only 23 shy of victory if the map doesn t change from here on out. governor romney, a bit of a steeper hill but
away in a massachusetts hospital. she passed away with a blood cancer battled for 12 years. a trail blazier for women and politicings she earned a place in history as first woman and italian american to run on a vice-president ticket serving as walter mondale s running mate in 1984. occasionally in life there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words, their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. tonight, is such a moment for me. [applause] reaction to fer rowpassing. very nice person and she