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Trade bait in state budget negotiations here in ohio. im standing with the nurses, ill stand with the teachers, and tonight i stand with the firefighters. america, who are you with? this is "the ed show," lets get to work. [ cheers and applause ] >> 08! 08! >> ohio! >> 08! >> ohio! >> they love america.

To see you both. >> good to see you. >> good to be here this morning. martha: sally, whats your reaction to that? >> my reaction is shock and disappointment. lets be clear it wasnt the editorial board of the tribune writing this, it was one editorial board member and its part of a conservative pile-on to try and distract from the fact that republicans have, in fact, lower approval ratings than the president but rather than draw attention to that they want to distract and pile on to the critiques...

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Im standing with the nurses, ill stand with the teachers, and tonight i stand with the firefighters. america, who are you with? this is "the ed show," lets get to work. [ cheers and applause ] >> 08! 08! 08! 08! 08! >> ohio! >> ohio! >> they love america. they love america.

Mastercard, and american express. $50 or less, please, because then i dont have to keep a record of who gave it to me. >> reporter: and often these entities are run by former staffers or lobbyists for the party. for instance, one of rick perrys multiple super pac s is run by rick toomey, funded by merck. mitt romneys super pac is run by three former staffers from 08 and the money is increasingly given anonymously, so the public is entirely in the dark. in one instance, a romney donor set up a sh...

Dip, return to something bad put us for these markets? >> i watch two things closely. that is, financial stocks and i watch retail stocks. right now they are telling me there are big issues. financials are leading the market down again like they did in 08. something is not right there. retail stocks, a lot of coming undone telling me the consumer is on their back also. when they were okay for a while. i add those together and i look at semi conductors which are a harbinger of the economy. it tel...

>> you dont discount their concerns? >> of course, but i dont discount concerns on all of us. when you look at the fact that in 08, we not only elected president obama, we elected a democratic congress and senate, and none of them came out with a jobs bill. many in the congress set let us get past the midterm election, we dont want to look like were going to change -- >> so theres enough blame to go around. >> exact. >> im sure you sea "wall street journal" report this morning on the obama admin...

Membership, right? you may also remember the varm int hunter episode in the 08 campaign. in "the new yorker," describing a campaign stop. suddenly a heavy set man wearing a bright orange cap entered the room. mr. romney, he called out, im a hunter. it was a potentially awkward moment. earlier this year, romney claimed that hed been a hunter all his life. i have hunted game numerous times. later, he told a newspaper, any description of my being a hunter is an overstatement of capability. still, t...

Wisconsin is only happening because of the democratic base, not the republican base that gets covered nine ways to sunday by the beltway, but the democratic base. oh, yes, there is one. the democratic base is the reason these recall elections are happening at all, a reminder both to the beltway press and beltway democrats that the democratic party does have a base and it isnt just a liability, it can be a tremendous asset if they could pay some freaking attention to them every once in awhile. bu...

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