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Democratic president who is in charge that the left by my opinion does not want to criticize even though he is exhibiting behavior that were it to be a right wing older white man, the left would be holding vigils, they would be -- >> i couldnt agree more. we have seen enormous hypocrisy on the left. were seeing it with gitmo. the president said hes going to keep that open. >> the banks. >> central campaign promise of president obama was to close gitmo. were not hearing a peep. >> so, were not go...

Gut check. welcome back to "hardball." all eyes are on wisconsin and washington to see what can be done about the mounting deficits. a new poll out tonight finds 3 out of 4 people say they know whats going on in wisconsin, the same number 3 out of 4 say that public employee unions should have the same bargaining rights, but when it comes to what peep consider acceptable steps that the state officials could take to deal with deficits, the poll has tough med sings. 68 march thinks states should re...

The economy has collapsed. effectively a depression there. theyve got 14, 15% unemployment. its a desperate situation. for two years -- there hasnt been a peep of protest and it just started in the last several months. >> and again, it shows you the size and flexibility and scale of the u.s., where what we did is the government said were going to bail the banks out and put up this money but because so many finance is a confidence game, it got most of the money back. >> right, we could play the c...

Effectively a depression there. theyve got 14, 15% unemployment. its a desperate situation. for two years -- there hasnt been a peep of protest and it just started in the last several months. >> and again, it shows you the size and flexibility and scale of the u.s., where what we did is the government said were going to bail the banks out and put up this money but because so many finance is a confidence game, it got most of the money back. >> right, we could play the confidence game and win. the...

Mideast tensions as an excuse to gouge us? >> they are to charge higher prices. airlines that are unable to make a lot of their flights takeoff within two or three hours of the scheduled takeoffs are able to adjust those fares within microseconds. the one good thing is they can afford to raise prices shows consumers are spending again. in capitalism, if you can charge more, you should. >> david: continue? >> im on my fifth flight of the week im a broken man no leg room. they charge me for the pi...

So there were actually not that many cars on the street. we didnt really pass too many peep with the exception of once we got to the check point. we saw one burned out car and that was about it. >> you lived in libya for about a year, working on a development effort. and youre seeing images of the country in revolt. have you sensed this sort of seething anger against gadhafi while you were there? >> no, actually. in tripoli, they seemed to support him in tripoli. but you saw that change real qui...

Could be his last stand in the capital city of triply and libyans still loyal to him must be troubled by his unbelievably erratic messages. today he phoned into libyan state tv to blame the rebellion. you cant make this up. on milk and nescafe spike with hallucinagenic drugs taken by the youth, provided by osama bin laden. take a listen. >> why do you try drag bin laden into our country? why do you listen? you are brainwashed by bin laden telling you what to do. those who are inside, who are bra...

Pointing at them saying shame, shame, shame! obviously the relationship with the republican side has to be disastro disastrous. is there anyone there to talk reason? or is it like ha ha, we got you and they run out of the building. >> it was pretty cowardly, ive got to be honest with you, to do this and cut off debate. the minority, the one right we still have is the right to dissent and make sure our voices are heard. they didnt even want us to do that. its a ridiculous pattern of taking away ...

Numbers because theyre going to the middle, is going to be especially difficult. >> excuse me to keep this rolling, but thune i thought was inoffensive, likable, lanky, western-like gary cooper type without being too religious in a bad way, but acceptable to the far right -- you know what i mean, like you. >> he would have been a formidable candidate, unlike me, but this is hardly a red-letter day. first of all, i could have told you six months ago that i didnt think john thune was going to run ...

Following through on that. >> he was one of the people that republicans talked talked about. he gave a peep last week that wasnt inspirational, i heard, and hi voted for the bailout, which i think makes it a difficult run for him, and hes from a state where its hard to raise money. so there are a lot of things lined up against him, and i think he made a smart decision for a political career of a young man. >> this has far more to do with his belief the republicans will take over the senate in tw...