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spending and zero to cut spending. santorum even voted to raise his own pay and joined hillary clinton to let convicted felons vote. rick santorum, big spender, washington insider. a megapanel time. imogene, jonathan, and rob are with us. again, i watched these ads, jonathan, and i can't help but think about my samurai in the cave three months after the war ended swinging his sword wildly at the wall. here we are with a big spender, insider, and a mud slinger. right. and meanwhile america is on a totally different page that we talk about all the time but it is interesting to watch. right. well, we have to keep in mind something here. you have these two men who are going after not a general electorate but a republican primary voting electorate. and so the messages are very direct, very pointed. you can see that in mitt romney's -- the super pac ad going after rick santorum over
thank you so much for making the trip. >> great to see you, dylan, imogene, rob. can't see you but i know you're there. >> is you guys later. straight ahead who is keeping america hooked on oil? and what is preventing america for its energy independence. we're connecting the dots right after this. my wife and i have three wonderful children and they make my life just perfect. we were having too much fun, we weren't thinking about a will at that time. we were in denial. that's right. [ laughter ] we like our freedoms, but at the same time we have responsibilities to the kids and ourselves. we're the vargos and we created our wills on legalzoom. finally. [ laughter ] [ shapiro ] we created legalzoom to help you take care of the ones you love.
and what's unfortunate about that, i do think that we could have confirmed this, you know, views, critics of the media have, we are navel gazing, a problem in new york, or washington, it's a disaster for the world. the coverage tended to confirm that. >> imogene, your thoughts, six years after katrina? something that must have been, i think you were in the uk at the time. >> i was, yes. >> must have seemed shocking that in advance, an advanced western society, weren't of the wealthiest on earth, leaving so many literally stranded on rooftops? >> of course, incredibly shocking. why i think we saw the response we saw this weekend. moving forward hoping that positions, we would learn from the past. anyway, they and the media. >> tim carney, what do you make of, your thoughts on this as we remember katrina. obviously, it put a huge black mark on president bush's presidency in the eyes of the critics for really not being
subs skies for oil companies and commit to getting out of wars and to not oversubsidizing highways and put it in public transport. >> we agree on that. >> yes we agree. >> in noor? >> yes. >> imogene? >> absolutely. >> we just made a deal. very well done. thank you very much. coming up, we put aside the political charade, whether we've been dealing with the past half hour to look at inspiration and intrigue from the world around us. ♪ i like dat ♪ ♪ i like dat, all right
you're saying that it's either/or. >> no. i'm saying a bought congress making rules is not anecdote to a subsidized cost of oil, and i'm saying all the rules in the world from a bought congress are nothing until you actually release the pressures as we saw in europe, by the way, where there's 71 miles a gallon, they also pays 12ds tos 15ds a gallon and have way more of an incentive to actually buy that car. >> no argument getting rifd the subsidies for oil makes sense. we're saying that if prices are going up you need to make sure all americans have the best vehicle possible so they're fought getting stk with high prices. >> we're saying, is the best way to make sure of that to actually release the marketplace to drive them as they did in germany or the best way, make sure americans get the best thing and trust a bunch of bought precision politicians to do it? >> two things. in europe they've had these standards for a longening time. why they have the vehicles on the road. >> the standard is not thes 15ds gas? go ahead, imogene, is that right? >> i would say $10 a gallon to
today's mega panel, sam seder, and imogene and tim carney. what do you -- it's impossible to know, i guess, tim, but what do you think the -- america's population's tolerance of hearing politicians talk about jobs and efficiency but not doing it? >> you have a duopoly, right? republicans who can put out drill, baby, drill and democrat whose put out, one new stimulus or jobs bill. >> right. >> all that stuff. >> what's the point of a duopoly? >> there's no real competition. both guys can find a nice stable balance of providing no value, and so with this blue duopoly and two parties i don't think either party has to provide. obama is hoping the job market will move up slightly and republicans hoping it will tick down and still be bad and they'll win. >> at the same time it is clear
primary challenge in town i. agree totally. i would like to see someone get up there. >> i wish they'd get over the hooker thing and think about it. >> get up there, bring this point to the forefront. the very least we can do as progressives make it clear that president obama is not elected as you might want to call him, he is not a progressive. he's not liberal. he's not pursuing those policies. he's a democratic president that's flying conservative democrat. >> whose preserving his presidency as best he can by doing -- >> he is not a -- not a progressive. >> i'm not sure what he is. >> he's bill clinton again. right? by the way -- >> run eliot spitzer? sanford up there? >> great. >> that would actually be a funny poll for people. say, listen, of all the politicians you like who have been knocked out by their bizarre sexual behavior, who you would like to have back? >> i would say mark sanford. >> i want to get imogene in. eliot spitzer and mark, we're in
>> you, too. >> i've been there. how do you change their minds? i've seen it. seen it in my in-box. it's scary. >> you are also getting a motivated part ever base. yes, i think it's possible. look at dick cheney to the left of barack obama on this issue. by the way, ken, former rnc chair. republicans made it happen in new york. not just republican votes on the senate floor. behind the scenes and republican money. there is absolutely a shift going on and time to did a -- >> there is no congressmen who are pro-choice and fiscally conservative. >> you think -- >> i would argue -- i have yet to find a fiscally conservative congressman who's fiscally conservative. >> ron paul. >> well done. >> i think -- playing a trivia game. a pleasure. a good conversation. thank you all. imogene, always a pleasure, tim thank you and congratulations on the book. i believe that you're starting a conversation that needs to be
skin in the game again instead of being rewarded to take what you call asynchronous risks with our money and they get rewarded if had this it goes right and we get the bailout if it he goes wrong, until they get more skin in the game, a real opportunity to change that after this collapse and it never happened, i, for one, am very disappointed about the way the compensation system on wall street works now or doesn't work. >> all right. listen, money and power is the book, william cohan is the author that's he looks like that's what he sounds like, what he has to say. mr. cohan, an absolute pleasure. imogene, nice to sigh, good luck with your royal wedding coverage. good tough back in full force. mr. carney, mr. uighur proving a more or less libertarian-type free marketeer and a pro-grace sive like yourself agree on perhaps more than you would disagree on, i will argue. we will find that out over time. i don't want to jump to conclusionsville great day you guys. coming up, mideastern crisis and guess who can fix it? yes, justin bieber, apparently, on the scene. [ female announcer ] in the past 10 years
>> sean: how would you feel if you are an person -- >> i see nobody dealing with the deficit here in the u.s.! >> sean: you are missing my point. >> they were begging for you guys to deal with the deficit. the deficit hasn't been dealt with here. the congress is [ unintelligible ] >> sean: imogene you are missing my point. hang on, take a breath. once the entitle s become unsustainable and you have addicted people to hand-outs and it is bankrupt the people get violent. >> we are not bankrupt. it is a few students. i don't think it has gone that far in america at all. i can't see -- you think there's going to be riots in the streets? >> sean: i think when we have to cutback and raise retirement age and means tests and steal people's social security, when welfare is