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Dnc-sponsored event where meek was in attendance. but beyond that, we don t know why there isn t a big rally. no comment on that from the white house, wolf. if you get something on that, i m curious. it looks like a real snub of the democratic candidate in florida, kendrick meek, a loyal member of congress. the president comes to his home state in the midst of a three-way race there with charlie crist and marco rubio and the president doesn t do a public event with tv cameras there. it looks like something is going on. let us know i want to discuss this with james carville and ed rawlings later as well. a closer look at campaign ad spending and the final critical days before the elections. specifically the outside groups that aren t required to reveal who they are and how much they re paying to influence your vote. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is in the situation room working this story. lots of big money. but the transparency, not necessarily there. that s ri ....
in the interest of disclosure, i think i sent out something to help him save money. i m a supporter of his. it may be that the president isn t that powerful. maybe they would want that. i m not sure that s the case. but one has to consider that s a possibility. i had him on my show last week, ed. and he bragged about the fact that the white house, the president, bill clinton coming down to campaign for him. i don t see that public campaigning for him on the part of the president of the united states. he is going to do some sort of radio ad for kendrick meek that they ll send out some voiceover. but do you understand what s going on here? i don t. i think it s a total misuse of the president. he was in philadelphia yesterday. he didn t say a whole lot about the candidates there. the problem is that meek is a congressman, a member of the black caucus with a lot of credibility back home. he s going to spend the next two ....
Harmful attempt to score political points. go ahead and weigh in on what s going on here. i think the reason they said he feelsn t qualified, not sure how you score political points by denying employment to the fed board, the fed just wants a nobel prize. just a case of out and out obstruction if the truth be known. and maybe the nobel committee knew this and wanted to make him look ridiculous. who knows. he s a distinguished he s a distinguished professor. 70 years old. he s been teaching a lot of economists over the years, ed. go ahead. including the chairman of the fed reserve. this is inside baseball. one senator can hold up somebody. senator shelby had some concerns about the monetary policy. but someone else put a hold on it. at the end of the day, he ll be cleared. he s got a vote out of the committee in three republicans join the majority of the democrats to vote him out. ....
Calculated, some might call it passion. whatever it is, mr. boehner has reason to be full of energy tonight. as the government comes out with this last unemployment report before the election, bad news for the democrats, we have new poll numbers that are good news for the republicans. look at these numbers. likely choice for congress. we ve had democrats on the attack. we ve had a more visible president. but, ed, what do you make of that and mr. boehner s passion? well, first of all, it s the first time i ve seen john boehner i ve known him since 1980 without a suit and tie. looks pretty good. good look. those numbers are terrible, and they re not going to turn around. they ll only get worse in the next wee three weeks. i think the reality is people in washington are starting to realize republicans are going to have this. 22 seats that most of the experts say are already republican seats, another 60 in play. all we need is 17 of those to be the majority. ....
Economic numbers and say, look, the private sector has been gaining jobs every month this year, it s actually the public sector which has been cutting those jobs, that s an economic seminar. the hardcore fact is it s not about spending and this die is already cast. the man who would be speaker, the house republican leader, john boehner, the stimulus package before the vice president spoke, the stimulus package one of his big complaints. he said the obama administration and the democratic congress simply will not listen to voters concerns about spending. mr. boehner. ladies and gentlemen, your government has not been listening. your government is disrespecting you, your family, your jobs, your children. your government is out of control. do you have to accept it? do you have do you have to take it? hell no you don t! a bit of emotion there, but ed rawlings, some that might call it contrived and ....