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Continue the fight. but this issue of -- you have to give the republicans credit. they really stick with the guy what brung them to the dance. they protect the wealthy. and its hard to explain because they have said these taxes at the high end, theyre going to create jobs. they didnt. we had all of this during the bush years. and think of this, ed. in the second year of the obama administration more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the bush administration combin...

Very clear that this is a coordinated, well-funded national campaign that were just now starting to see come to fruition. >> is there research out there that for someone to have to get an i.d., that that definitely says they make a decision im not going to vote this year, ive got to go through this hassle to do this, its a disincentive? how evidence -- how much evidence is there out there that that works? >> thats a great question, ed. the brennan center report, according to a national survey in...

All eligible citizens can and should be automatically registered to vote. it should be the governments responsibility. the governments responsibility to automatically register citizens to vote by compiling from data bases that already exist a list of all eligible residents in each jurisdiction. >> lets turn to caroline heldman. these a professor of politics at occidental college. professor, great to have you on the program tonight. i appreciate your time. what kind of impact would a universal vo...

The debate. good for us, because we clearly win the debate at this level, as nancy pelosi junior -- but let me put an overlay on this. what concerns me, ed and gene, is that if this is the entirety of what were talking about to get our economy moving again, were not going to make the progress we need to make, and so i think while this is good short-term stuff, we need a much broader conversation to get our economy back to where it needs to go. >> so the democrats have not gotten what they wanted...

And at this point it may be too late to kind of roll back the clock. eric holder coming out, hes speaking very late about this. so im a bit pessimistic, but perhaps in time for the next presidential election we will put a stop to this corporate assault on democracy. >> my friend attorney mike papantonio says the damage is done. he thinks that this justice department has acted way too late. do you say do you share that -- do you share that opinion? >> i do. the nrkts came out in 2008 saying this ...

justice department effort to fight voter suppression at the polls. this is "the ed show," live from washington, d.c. lets get to work. the payroll tax holiday is set to expire for 160 million working americans. more than 2 million of the nations unemployed are on the verge of losing their benefits. the government could shut down if a deal is not reached. these are the consequences, i think, of a republican obstruction in congress. today house democratic leader nancy pelosi didnt tiptoe...

and we have the latest on the justice department effort to fight voter suppression at the polls. this is "the ed show," live from washington, d.c. lets get to work. the payroll tax holiday is set to expire for 160 million working americans. more than 2 million of the nations unemployed are on the verge of losing their benefits. the government could shut down if a deal is not reached. these are the consequences, i think, of a republican obstruction in congress. today house democratic le...

Not elvis has already left the building. if you think about it, if they start right now trying to enjoin a lot of these laws, its very difficult. when you consider the federal courts are packed, absolutely packed with republican appointees. >> so the timetable here, mike, what im hearing is this is going to have to be really a big-time priority by the justice department to have it effect 2012. >> ed, thats exactly right. youre going to have to staff up. its going to have to be a priority that --...

I mean, it doesnt matter if you got an "r" or "d" behind your name. theres been so much obstruction out there and the people are so angry and frustrated, they might just throw them all out. >> no wonder theyre frustrated with congress and hats members of congress. this week, they extended the tax cuts for the wealthiest of americans. no problems, zippo, right. easy. the idea of extending the tax cuts for the 99% for working class americans and suddenly its so complicated and hard to do and they ...

And what the right wing does is that they want people to believe something instead of teaching people to think. and i think the majority of the people are thinking and as they see this ridiculous -- and i get it from drivers that drive me over here. people keep asking, ed, what are they doing? who are these people? where did they come from? >> well, that brings us to the next subject here about the national poll. i mean, i dont think that the democrats should be too overconfident here. i mean, t...