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good evening. i m chris matthews in washington, leading off tonight, campaign kickoff. the fall political season is on and the race for the republican nomination is boiling down to rick perry or mitt romney? so who does president obama want to run against? i love that question. does he think either of them will be easy? that s our top story tonight. then, we could have seen this coming. republicans are already grumbling about president obama s jobs plan, saying they don t want to give him a political victory. they don t want action, even if that means hurting people who desperately need to get jobs. and that s why the president needs to take this fight straight to republicans and highlight projects, work that needs doing in their own districts. all politics is local. he s got to dare them to vote no for projects that help their own constituents. tomorrow, president obama goes to ohio, home of house speaker john boehner, and boehner s district is home to 95 bridges that ....
will be easy? that s our top story tonight. then, we could have seen this coming. republicans are already grumbling about president obama s jobs plan, saying they don t want to give him a political victory. they don t want action, even if that means hurting people who desperately need to get jobs. and that s why the president needs to take this fight straight to republicans and highlight projects, work that needs doing in their own districts. all politics is local. he s got to dare them to vote no for projects that help their own constituents. tomorrow, president obama goes to ohio, home of house speaker john boehner, and boehner s district is home to 95 bridges that need repair, structurally deficiency. shouldn t this help the president s argument? we think so. so plus, ten years after the september 11th attacks, is the n n neocon movement over for good? did the hawks that took us to iraq learn their lesson, finally? dick cheney writes how he was pushing for an attack ....