welcome back to hardball. today was the first day of the annual conservative political action conference, called cpac. kicking off the event were a few presidential hopefuls who took their turns bashing president obama and his potential successor hillary clinton. hillary clinton embodies the corruption of washington. obama care is a train wreck. that s actually not fair to train wrecks. i started to talk about all the failures selfthe current administration, but i figured that was too depressing. that s probably why they re ready for hillary, too. yes, mr. president, isis indeed wants to drive the whole world back to the middle ages, but the rest of us moved on about 800 years ago. like mrs. clinton, i too have traveled the globe.
president of the united states as a republican, one of the groups you need to impress is the group called cpac. this is where the top conservative opinion leaders and money raisers of the republican party, they get together they decide who s up who s down among potential contenders for the race istie said when asked about his temperament a few mints ago. if i didn t care there s no reason to do this. sit down and shut up? sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up. [ cheers ] and you know i m sitting down by the way. yeah. and quite frankly, laura, some more of that stuff should be happening in washington, d.c. because there s so much ridiculous stuff being spewed especially out of the white house. someone should say it s time to shut up. the wisconsin governor scott
of a new iranian revolution and you might even end up having a republic over there. also, obama presents his budget. is what he showed us and the republicans today a lure, a first attempt to bring both sides together and really cut the debt? and glenn beck may be losing it. what else can you say when he say the communists are behind the egyptian revolution. and the islamists are trying to infiltrate the american right wing. finally, let me finish with the propaganda that got us to afacemask iraq in 2003. lies that so voided truth that even donald rumsfeld has stopped repeating them. let s begin with the right-wing jamboree called cpac. the washington bureau chief for mother jones and msnbc political analyst and josh marshall is founder of talking points memo. here s a taste, a little montage of what we heard at cpac. well, interesting things were happening in cairo, this is what we missed. let s listen. the american dream is under attack.
is what he showed us and the republicans today a lure, a first attempt to bring both sides together and really cut the debt? and glenn beck may be losing it. what else can you say when he say the communists are behind the egyptian revolution. and the islamists are trying to infiltrate the american right wing. finally, let me finish with the propaganda that got us to attack iraq in 2003. lies that so voided truth that even donald rumsfeld has stopped repeating them. let s begin with the right-wing jamboree called cpac. the washington bureau chief for mother jones and msnbc political analyst and josh marshall is founder of talking points memo. here s a taste, a little montage of what we heard at cpac. well, interesting things were happening in cairo, this is what we missed. let s listen. the american dream is under attack. but the good news is we are fighting back.
you might even end up having a republic over there. obama presents his budget. is what he showed us and the republicans today a lure, a first attempt to bring both sides together and cut the debt? and glenn beck may be losing it. what else can you say when he say the communists are behind the egyptian revolution. and the islamists are trying to infiltrate the american right-wing. let s begin with the right-wing jamboree called cpac. the washington bureau chief for mother jones and msnbc political analyst and josh marshall is founder of talking points memo. here s a taste of what we heard at cpac didn t interesting things were happening in care jobs this is what we missed. let s listen. the american dream is under attack. but the good news is we are