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Big stimulus bill. the big prospect is for business to get the hiring confidence to begin expanding its work force in preparation for higher sales. the president needs to get the jobless number down below 8%, if he doesnt, he could suffer what happened to the great winston churchill in 1945 -- popular, historic, having won the war, all good things, but people worried about the economy back then, and picked the other party to run the country. it can happen here in 2012. thats "hardball" for now. ...

Michele bachmann is. joining me now is mike papantonio. if sarah palin has been damaged, theuys you were talking about backing sarah palin why not back bachmann? >> she organized the tea bagger caucus. look, mainstream, mainstream republicans might publicly say shes a little bit edgy, but when it comes to her getting out of there and saying the stupid stuff and raising plenty of money, they can always count on her. the problem is this, ed. its hurting just the visible, just the pictures of the s...

You know, a billion people speak chinese, and china -- we owe a lot to china. theyre holding a lot of our debt. >> should he apologize? >> rush limbaugh is never going to apologize for stuff like that. thats part and parcel of what you get. its an element of that show that i simply dont care for. >> stephanie? >> well, at least somebody on the right has finally found something they cant defend that rush limbaugh did. it had the added benefit of not being just horribly offensive, but also incredi...

if not, why do they speak? if the messages people get day after day have no effect on their behave why do millions spend millions on advertising. theres a daily climate of attack, stand tonight of angry attack, loyalty, legitimacy and americanism churn people up. the politically correct judgment is that we cant blame anyone for what weve seen recently, that words dont matter in this discussion of peoples violent actions, but do we really believe that words dont matter, that they dont i...

we begin this morning with the next step. congresswoman gabrielle giffords road to recovery has been paved. two weeks after being shot in the head, she went outside for the first time yesterday and heads to a rehab center in houston today. nbcs jay gray is in houston with more on that. jay, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. congresswoman giffords has shown incredible resolve over the 12, now 13 days since she was injured. doctors and therapists now say she will need...

>> is this an admission that the republicans really dont have a plan to create jobs, that they seemated on tearing down what the last session did on health care? wheres the jobs talk? why arent the republicans demanding it? >> i think youre right. when you look at the real problems facing this country, and thats creating the millions of jobs that we desperately need, moving us towards a balanced budget in a fair way, not giving tax breaks to billionaires, not allowing corporations to continue to...

Whos moving forward? what do you make of it? >> as an old football player its a lot -- >> easy on "old." easy on "old." >> as a classic football player, ed, you know its a lot easier to stand on the sidelines and boo and hiss. its the old nicholson line when he says to tom cruise, tell me you got more than this. tell me this is not all youve got. the american people are sitting here, 43% of them want congress to focus on jobs. and what is the fist thing they do autoof the gate? health care repea...

Community development. it was nighttime. the month was july, 1969. ooze he sat with his swazi friends and neighbors, he pointed to the white blur darting across the sky. he explained it was his fellow americans, their fellow humans, heading towards the moon. that was the wild, exciting legacy of a man who asked americans to think big of what they could do for their country. tonight, we honor a half century later, that legacy. thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. right now its time...

>> republicans seem to be very short on jobs talk. how long is this rhetoric about health care going to go on with the republicans? how long are they going to ride this pony in your opinion? >> well, i think this pony may be bucking a little bit. and the polling i have seen, ed, is that while there is a real split in this country about whether people like the health care reform bill or not, most people understand that when you have 50 million americans uninsured, when the cost of health care is ...

Years. the republicans love reagan so much, they want to put his picture on a dime, you know what i mean? reagan this time in his presidency, 10.4%. president obama, 9.4. job approval, 37%. president obama, 54. re-election? well, what do you think? i think it looks pretty good right now. i think the next two years, roy, in my opinion is going to be all about messaging and protecting what the democrats did in the last session. >> you know what were going to see, ed? just as barack obama looked fa...