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>> republican party leaders and candidates led by the tea party candidates have moved the party further right and outside the american mainstream. >> dnc chair tim kaine releasing what he calls the republican tea party contract on america. a very care scary list. of horrible things that democrats claim will happen when the gop tea party complex takes over america. republicans, as you may imagine. have a different point of view. david, how much of this in your view is fear mongering on the part of a political party? both parties seem to be brilliant at it. how much of it has any foundation and ...

>> mike, you have candidates all over that are running as republicans who have embraced áe tea party ageneral darks you have a republican candidate in idaho who supports abolishing the department of education, repealing the 17th amendment, you have candidates running for congress all over the country who have embraced that agenda and there's no getting around that. >> chris, i know debbie is -- debbie is the best they got on the other side. >> thank you. >> and we're on very friendly terms. >> we are. >> here's the thing, there was an effort this week, i think they thought we were rolling out...

Leadership -- michele bachmann is likely to be a committee chair. >> all the birthers are joining. real nut bags are joining that. you're laughing. you laugh off the nuts. you have crazy ladies and men in the attic up there and say, don't go up in the attic. that's your solution. >> marco rubio, who probably -- he was on the cover of the "the new york times" -- >> consultant. >> exactly. marco rubio was on the cover of "the new york times" magazine with the headline "the first senator from the tea party movement." i've never heard marco talk about repealing the 17th amendment. he doesn't talk ...

After -- people disagree. but i don't think going after proposing wall street reform is credible. you've got people like sharron angle who says we want to have second amendment remedies. you've got people like bachmann who want joe mccarthy tactics. you've got a lot of crazy screwball calls out there -- not screwballs as people. but the idea is, why doesn't your party go after the screwballs and say the party is in bed with these nuts. >> i think they could have executed that better. but i don't think yo get more unpopular privatizing social security and medicare. but they have -- >> you can't...

Part easier. they've got to meet that head-on on and say you want these guys here's what they stand for. i think it's a smart ad. >> here it is. they want to -- the dnc's republican tea party contract with america is kind of funny, repeal thelt insurance reform, privatize social security or get rid of it, end medicare, extend bush tax breaks for the wealthy, repeal wall street reform, protect those responsible for oil spills, abolish the department of education and department of energy, abolish the epa, repeal the 17th amendment. now, is this what the republicans want? what do you think? >> we...