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>> well, so about it i think will go down as one of those cracks that suggests a callousness about unemployment. what covers him on this, howard? >> its a little bit like bring it on. remember that? >> yeah, with bush. >> it was not smart politics at all. >> its wise ass. >> its wise ass and at a time when people are suffering all over the country, including people who work for the federal government. what boehner is doing is playing to the prejudices in the base of his own party -- >> so youre ...

Rhetoric of the tea party, which he has to deal with every day. >> idiom. >> he has to speak in that idiot, and its changed who he is. >> thats part of why he said, so be it, because he thought it would play with the anti-federal, anti-big government tea party people who are now the key to his wicnning any votes in the house. >> i think youre right, and whether its fair or not, you hear they make more than the average work enand all that and they dont like them. >> which is not true, by the way,...

>> but you grew up in south carolina, you know the whole thing. im watching it from a distance and watching a republican party that used to sort of duck its head in the south. were the party of lincoln, we cant be selling that past. now theyre talking about new fi canullification, secessi, selling confederate day in virginia without mentioning slavery. im not saying they should go around beating their chests, it wasnt them that did it, but why act like it isnt there? >> this is shout it from the...

State-issued plate to honor a confederate general that was also a grand wizard. the naacp has denounced the push. governor barbour explaining tuesday why he wouldnt do the same. >> first of all, i think the bureau of revenue has got to prove it. secondly, i dont think that theres a chance it will come out of the legislature. and then -- i know theres not a chance that it will become law. >> wow. thats not exactly a profile in courage, is it? just the latest example of a republican leader especia...

It, and some people say they should take the approach, but justice thomas has been on the supreme court for over 20 years. hes voted to strike down as unconstitutional every single campaign finance case thats come before him. nobody thinks his decision has anything to do with, you know, him having spoken to a group of people that immediate meet that talk about political issues. >> your response, arn? youre saying it affects his decision? >> i think if the -- if a liberate justice had attended a ...

First, talk about a low blow down under. during a sports report on australian tv, a female anchor woman made what many heard as a snarky comment about her male coanchor. many believe it had to do with gender. well, youll figure it out. >> and englands skipper andrew proudly showing off an urn, before flying out for the world cup. i cant understand how something so small can be so impressive. >> well, mark, you would know about that. thank you very much. weather is next for jane reilly, but first...

Is this jailhouse pleading or a good question to ask? finally let me finish with the absolute need for senate hearing with this new evidence from secretary rumsfeld that saddam hussein had no nuclear weapons or even the facility to produce them. we begin with john boehners dismissive response that the budget cuts will kill jobs? alex wagner writes for politics daily.com. howard, lets look at the sound on tape, as we call it. heres speaker boehner saying jobs may be lost. lets listen. >> over t...

Kill ought kinds of federal jobs, but yet he wants to protect the job for the new systems he has. right? >> right. >> when it comes to a defense contract in his neighborhood, hes all for those jobs, but nationwide, scree it. >> thats the problem. >> you like the way i asked the question -- >> no, i apologize. go ahead. >> no, no, go ahead. >> i was going to say, to just only say that is the problem. if they said, yeah -- i know the republicans dont think theyre productive jobs, that a lot of gov...

Can see articles for ourselves. is that evidence? >> no, theres not. there were a lot of people saying there could be issueses. that was the common parlance. i come back to -- i know i thought this, too. i heard the things -- >> why is he shoveling this stuff out of the federal prison in north carolina? hes in for life. hes not getting out. is this just to screw people, he gets in the headlines? what is this about? >> i think its exactly that. i think he wants to try to bring down other institut...

Looking at the books? >> i know some of the banks that are being suggested that they were complicit. for instance, theyre looking at jpmorgan. i think that they may have been confused by madoff. when i say confused, it just seemed like he was doing too well. but chris, when you see something like that, your natural instinct is to be able to say well, wait a second, what does the sec think of this? if the securities and exchange commission has blessed this, who are we to question it? i had a frie...