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This generalized attacking on labor, you dont hear that anymore. its like birth control. you might have one guy like jimmy hoffa going after it. >> were really going back to the 50s this week. republican leaders out there, including governor rick snyder, are not backing romney up on the union bashing. when asked about it theyre saying, we have some disagreements because they know the stat that you just put out there. 18% of the voting electorate are union households. so what hes doing is making ...

From households that included a union member. meanwhile, romney continues to struggle to explain his opposition to the auto bailout, when that believe saved gm and cities in michigan. well be talking to the mayor of flint. with me is david corn. this generalized attack, you dont hear that more. its like birth control. >> were really going back to the 50s this week. republican leaders out tlrks including governor rick snider are not backing romney up on the union bashing. they are saying we have ...

To earn a competitive salary with benefits which is just what public employees in wisconsin want. the difference is the average teacher salary in wisconsin is $46,000 a year. im guessing thats quite a bit less than the salary your union secured for you, tucker. thats the takedown tonight on "the ed show." its not just union bashing. americas rich are also picking your pocket every time you fill up at the gas tank. matt taibbi, wall streets worst nightmare, is standing by to join us tonight. its ...

After all, tucker was a card carrying union member when he worked here at msnbc. the union gave him the ability to earn a competitive salary with benefits which is just what public employees in wisconsin want. the difference is the average teacher salary in wisconsin is $46,000 a year. im guessing thats quite a bit less than the salary your union secured for you, tucker. thats the takedown tonight on "the ed show." its not just union bashing. americas rich are also picking your pocket every time...

That last segment was an awesome example of awesome conventional thinking. what do the american people think? well, im not going to tell you. blrt all right, im being a little unfair because hes not here anymore. i would love to have him on again. why are bill oreilly, sean hannity and rush limbaugh hypocrites when it comes to union bashing? [ male announcer ] you are a business pro.

To why were here and what wed like to see happen in order to move us forward. this is what we get in return. i think they should spend more time on actually concentrating the problem in wisconsin as opposed to you wasting time coming up with resolution after resolution that doesnt make any difference. >> welcome back to "morning joe." mike barnicle is with us along with pat buchanan in washington. and now with us at the table, the man whos going to challenge our union representative, mike barnic...

This guy is not doing well with his union bashing. >> i think what that poll and other polls show that independents and even some republicans who were supporting walker i think are abandoning him and are looking at this fight between what looks like union busting and deficit cutting and having second thoughts. and i think this is the new generation of reagan democrats. remember union member -- ronald reagan appealed to those union members. now their sons and daughters are moderate republican typ...

Beyond wisconsins borders, governors are split over the labor standoff. cnns senior political reporter ed henry is here with more. >> reporter: republican rick scott of florida was on the show and basically saying that he was trying to reframe it and say this is about treating taxpayers fairly, about treating public employees fairly. maybe not having a sharpened edge as scott walker has had in wisconsin and democratic governor martin omalley also on "american morning" really kind of jumped on th...

Maryland, were asking our public employees to come to the table and to make adjustments and make additional payments to the pension systems. but this goes beyond that, which is why several republican governors, i think, including governor scott are distancing themselves from the governor of wisconsin. this is about union bashing, this is about eliminating the unions. this is about taking advantage of this crisis in joblessness in our country in order to destroy public employees unions. i dont th...

They dont want the union bashing. >> some people on the left like to argue and i dont think theyre ever thinking it through, josh, most republicans are not rich people. they may serve the interests and their votes patterns of rich people, they may vote for trickle down economics, but many are cloth cut republicans. my parents were. i know all about it. regular million dolla regular middle class people. did they venture into grabbing those middle of the road reagan democrats to vote for them and ...