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Facing him is from 1865. the sons of confederate veterans in mississippi want a 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 p...

Nathan bedford forrest -- >> 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 nullification, secession, selling confederate day in virginia without mentioning p slavery. im not saying they should go around beating their chests, it wasnt them that did it, but why act like it isnt there? >> its ...

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555%. a total disconnect. health care reform, cant live with it, cant live without it. 55% want to keep on funding a bill they want to get rid of. up next, the vice president of common cause joins us with its complaint against supreme court justice clarence thomas. did he have an association with a group that had an interested in a case before the court? well hear the other side, too. ear watching "hardball," only on msnbc. you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and m...

This tone-deaf thing here, this is a haley barbour problem, just six weeks ago, apparently was defending 9 citizens council, a latter-day version of pretty much the same thing. what is it about the south, in that deep south, where a politician, a governor very popular and effective, wouldnt want to ruffle fetest? >> this is a haley barbour problem. there are other conservative politicians who get it, or at least who get it after the first iteration, after the first problem. haley barbour said ol...

>> i am raising the question, based on the koch industries own statement that he was featured at a strategy session, and by his disclosure forms that suggest that he was there, and asking the court to provide the american public with a clear explanation of whether he was there or not. >> and he was at a corh brothers there, a federalist society event or koch brothers event. >> exactly. >> im asking the question. was he at a federalist society event, which he clearly put on his form, four days pa...

Going on. chris yiie is going to washington. hes the guy who tells it like it is, the guy who, lets face it, actually has a personality. no wounder theyre pops the question, and popping it the first time he shows up. >> well, that took a long time, didnt it? what do ifz to do short of suicide to convince people im not running in apparently i actually have to commit suicide. there are lots of people who will run just because the opportunity presents itself. im not stupid. i see the opportunity. i...

There are legitimate interests about -- justice breyers does it, scalia does it, thomas does 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? you...

Civil and adult discord. >> i love the new word, adult. >> presumably behind the scenes. the president and the republicans are really going to have to take this issue up with gusto and i dont see that happening before the election is over. >> i think the president is trying to play a deep game. whether it would work or not, i dont know. the fact that dib durbin is in that group means that the president is preserving the possibility, however small it is, that hell be able to pull off some kind of...

Him. then you find out hes ready to 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 theyr...