immigration in arizona, cambridge cop when they arrested professor gates at harvard. backfireed every time this is particularly damaging because obama proved himself to be irresponsible with the budget on the federal level. now you have a governor who is responsible on the state level and obama is trying to undermine and impede him. this is a bad place to be. bret: ten seconds each. down the line. government shutdown looms next week. a week from tonight. republicans have a continuing resolution, two weeks. do they figure it out this week? yeah, i don t think there will be a shutdown. it s fine for march 4. democrats will accept what the republicans are offering somewhat. but before the 4th of march it s after that between the 4 and 18 when the real rubber meets the road. i wouldn t rule shut-down out. first one of march fourth. it s clear that the republicans don t want a shutdown this is a clever proposal because it should appeal to president obama.
and then she could be on her way to nomination. you have to put this into perspective. the last time of great social change in america in the early 1960s when we had civil rights a lot of movement under the kennedy/johnson administration in terms of economics and poverty, there was a huge reaction on the right and that reaction in a much more moderate republican party then led to the nomination of barry goldwater so i certainly wouldn t rule out sarah palin winning there nomination. and look jim demint, south carolina, very, have been influential person and the tea party just came out and compared to ronald reagan which is you know unbelievable but ask you one last thing, about obama camp. are they all pulling for palin, or is there some other machination here. what are they thinking? oh, no, i don t think that they d be saying what i said about it. never get in the line of a developing train wreck. i think that they hope that the train wreck does develop here. the president will k
they have had before in new england and new york and pennsylvania this year. delaware, i wouldn t rule out the fact her prospects for winning harder but not impossible by a long shot. chris: erin, we talked earlier that james rosen had a piece about king makers. sarah palin and we ll talk about her, one of them is jim demint bucking the national establishment, supporting a number of insurgent republican candidates like christine o donnell. he said he would rather have a minority that believes in something than majority that believes in nothing. listen to senator demint. i don t want the majority back if we don t believe anything. it came in when we had 55 senators, large majority in the house, republican in the white house. frankly, we didn t do what we said we would do. chris: is he driving his fellow republican senators nuts with the sentiment? yes. he wants a conservative purity test. he made it very clear.
they have had before in new england and new york and pennsylvania this year. delaware, i wouldn t rule out the fact her prospects for winning harder but not impossible by a long shot. chris: erin, we talked earlier that james rosen had a piece about king makers. sarah palin and we ll talk about her, one of them is jim demint bucking the national establishment, supporting a number of insurgent republican candidates like christine o donnell. he said he would rather have a minority that believes in something than majority that believes in nothing. listen to senator demint. i don t want the majority back if we don t believe anything. it came in when we had 55 senators, large majority in the house, republican in the white house. frankly, we didn t do what we said we would do. chris: is he driving his fellow republican senators nuts with the sentiment? yes. he wants a conservative purity test. he made it very clear.
mike viqueira at the white house and andrea mitchell, let me start with you. what are you hearing at this moment about what we ve seen so far this morning. certainly colonel jacobs has the right take on this, i think, which is that you would have expected that he wouldn t be leaving this quickly, that general mcchrystal would not have left the white house if he was going to participate. i wouldn t rule out the possibility that he was going back to the pentagon and it being so close that he then would be back and we don t absolutely know whether or not it s all over and whether he has been fired. i just talked to a top white house, rather a top foreign policy official current administration official not involved in the white house meetings and he said, look, he s got to go. this is not a tenable situation. but when you talk to people around town, chris, people are arguing it both ways. that he is critical to the effort, not indispensable from the effort. if you believe in the