in tonight s battleground story never mind the phony tyranny coming from the white house. demint needs to be worried about the tyranny coming from the establishment wing of his own republican party. today demint s people said the senator would be headed to iowa in march. they also said he isn t running for anything but of course that s what they all say. we re all, we ve already seen sarah palin do a few tours in iowa. michele bachmann was there last week lying about slavery. and last night s mrs. second amendment remedies showed up in johnston, iowa, for a movie preview personally, i hope they all run. i hope one gets the republican nomination. i hope really one of them wins it but it can t happen because a small number of establishment gop bigwigs, they re not going to let one of those folks get in there. the fix is on, folks. the fix is in and it s on.
ever meeting of the senate tea party caucus in washington today. in tonight s battleground story never mind the phony tyranny coming from the white house. demint needs to be worried about the tyranny coming from the establishment wing of his own republican party. today demint s people said the senator would be headed to iowa in march. they also said he isn t running for anything but of course that s what they all say. we re all, we ve already seen sarah palin do a few tours in iowa. michele bachmann was there last week lying about slavery. and last night s mrs. second amendment remedies showed up in johnston, iowa, for a movie preview. fir personally, i hope they all run. i hope one gets the republican nomination. i hope really one of them wins it but it can t happen because a small number of establishment gop bigwigs, they re not going to let one of those folks get in
suffrage to civil rights to equality. let s take don t ask, don t tell. but there s a way, i think to effect it. it means bitter debate. don t bend your principles. but i think like ed kennedy did on education with george bush, you can get prin peld cipled compromise. thank you for being here tonight. we not moving forward. no we are not. congressman, great to have you on. thank you so much. i appreciate your time tom tonight. always a pleasure. coming up, mississippi governor haley barbour is trying to walk back his shocking racist comments. are reverend al sharp tonight won t let him get away with it. heartless republican senators are blocking health care for 9/11 heroes. when it comes to tax cuts that cost doesn t seem to bother them but helping here voce another story. republicans at their worst, coming up. plus, senator arlen specter goes without a bang today. he joins me live in the playbook. you are watching the ed show on msnbc. stay with us.
slam the obama administration. and they are the last people who should be making fun of someone for misspeaking. in fact, for those two to mock secretary napolitano s slip of the tongue when most of what they say is complete nonsense is laughable psychotalk. coming up, mississippi governor haley barbour is backtracking on some racist comments, kind of a pattern here, isn t it? i don t buy it. he is playing the classic republican race card. reverend al sharpton blasts off on the governor in just a moment on the battleground story. and caribou barbie rolled into her home state for a book signing and nobody showed up. i guess they quit on her, the way she quit on them. rapid fire response coming up in a moment. plus, the bully. across the river, chris christie meets his match. president obama is coming back strong. and it might really be over for brett favre. can t we talk him into one more year?
1-877-ed-msnbc. my question tonight is do you think the number one priority for the republicans is defeat president obama in 2012? press the number 1 for yes, the number 2 for no i will bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now ohio senator sherrod brown. good tough with us tonight. good to be back. nice article by howard curtz today, man. you are my hero. we got to tell it like it is, we can t back down. i like that story about the i like the story about the homeless shelter, ed but go on, sorry. great story. it is the truth. thank you. i appreciate that sir. talk about the kind of person you are. well, and i think from the record of what we ve seen of mitch mcconnell here in this most recent comments after you compromised and you voted with the president and a lot of republicans this is what you get for mitch. he is putting out a political