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country since medicare passed nearly 50 years ago. he got that done. tonight, once again, before a joint session of congress, president obama faced his stiff political head winds and called for another big new initiative. one to fend off the unspoken, but looming, threat that the country may be about to plunge back into recession. after barely escaping a depression brought on by the financial system collapse at the end of the george w. bush administration, after a recovery that tried a...

and breaking in terms of news relatively recently. an enormous amount of news tonight political and otherwise. but we begin as we must in washington, d.c. when a president addresses a joint session of congress, its usually for the state of the union address. only very rarely do presidents ever ask congress to address a joint session for something other than the state of the union. before tonight, president obama had only done that once before when he unveiled his health reform plan. hi...

he couldnt have won this nomination with that crew up there. i think ronald reagan looked like the democrat in the room. and i think the dnc should take the social security line of mr. perry and the attack on social security and the ponzi scheme and put out bumper stickers saying, its not about obama its about your momma and well win. >> lawrence? >> als point is very important, i think the real headline tonight is romney lives, because perry failed. he came into this campaign and stea...

the wild lefty in the room getting less than 1% of the polling vote in this crowd with huntsman polling above them. >> who did themselves the most harm tonight? >> rick perry. he had to come in here and perform according to his polls, as a very strong front-runner. he could have created a bigger zns between him and romney tonight. he failed to do that, romney, much more debate experience. performed better than any of the rest of them. and i think helped remind republicans, dont rush to...

point in which america deviated the most from the way we have always been before, if you were looking for the one point at which washington took the most radical departure from american history and american tradition and american political values, if you were looking for the one point when u.s. policy completely divorced itself from our national interest after 9/11, i would argue that point happened in may 2003, may 2003. when george w. bush had been inaugurated, we had a surplus of mo...

trillion worth of tax cuts that essentially undid that budget surplus thing rather fast, but whatever you think about the wisdom in 01, morally and historically, what was important about the 01 tax cuts is they happened before 9/11. george w. bush signed the 01 tax cuts into law in june 2001. when 9/11 happened three months later, of course, america then went to war, we went to war on a global scale and a footing that looked to be rather permanent. never before in american history woul...

simi valley, california. leading off tonight, well, this is the week. todays tuesday. by friday a.m. well know two things we dont know now. does president obama have a convincing jobs plan? and the hard commitment to sell it to the american people, and to fight the republicans tooth and nail to get it passed. or make them pay if they try and stop him. great question. question two -- can governor rick perry prove himself the obvious conservative challenger to president obama next year? ...

also with us is "new york" mass sines john heilemann. look at the first big set of number, gentlemen. these are amazing. start with the bleak numbers for president obama from our nbc/"wall street journal" poll. heres a new low. when it comes to job approval, the best number you can have, just 44% approve of how hes handling his job as president. 51%, now a majority, disapprove. also a personal low when it comes to his handling of the economy. no surprise. 37% approve. i dont know who t...

impression once and his act is getting a little old. >> bill: dennis miller? >> welcome to the montel california. >> please join me, your humble correspondent in a special presentation you dont want to miss. >> my liberal friends rarely make me angry these days but they do amuse me with their crazy liberal ideas. >> bill: duo of news analysis goldberg and miller right now. captions by closed captioning services >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins righ...

meantime president obama is preparing to unveil the new jobs plan before a joint session of congress thursday evening. a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll showing that americans are increasingly losing confidence in the presidents ability to solve the nations problems. look at the numbers. 44% approve of how he is handling the job, and the lowest rating ever in that poll. 51% disapprove and 37% approve of the presidents handling of the economy and another all-time low. 59% disapp...