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Oval office he's sitting in. >> despite the total devastation in some areas of the country, there has been no looting. when our media asks why is there no looting in japan? you have to ask yourself, why? why is that question being asked? wouldn't the question, shouldn't it be, good people are good to each other in a time of crisis. when has that puzzled us? that is the question. it says a lot not about japan but us. there is still a culture in japan of respect for your fellow man, respect for property. in japan the question isn't why don't i take stuff from my neighbors. the question is, why w...

To the best of our ability. when i was growing up, i remember america wanted to be the best. i remember john f. kennedy talking about america being the best. that we took pride in making stuff. we took pride in being the best and bouncing back and caring about our fellow man. we are so good but sometimes we get stupid. and i just don't have any other word for it tonight. i think it is flat out stupid for the united states congress not to pivot and put full attention on preparing this country for something that happened in japan. it could happen here. and you know what? the pictures are so deva...

All worth it. i know that there are a lot of americans out there that say, eddie, we got a lot of stuff happening in our country and this has really grabbed the news. you know what? i think it's grabbed the news in a positive way if i may go so far as to say that because it gives us a chance as americans to realize just how good we can be, how good we have been, and the challenge that is in front of us. we need to do everything we possibly can to help the people of japan and we need to do everything we possibly can to ready our nuclear plants, to have state assistance fortified for preparednes...

Realize that we are not prepared to the best of our ability. when i was growing up, i remember america wanted to be the best. i remember john f. kennedy talking about america being the best. that we took pride in making stuff. we took pride in being the best and bouncing back and caring about our fellow man. we are so good but sometimes we get stupid. and i just don't have any other word for it tonight. i think it is flat out stupid for the united states congress not to pivot and put full attention on preparing this country for something that happened in japan. it could happen here. and you kn...

Of the republican party and they're in the ascendency right now and their ideology has taken flight at times of any larger rational interests and they are on a kind of jihad and particularly in the face of this earthquake, this tsunami, and the atomic meltdowns in japan to consider cutting this stuff is insane in my opinion. >> christian parenti, thanks for joining us tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you. wisconsin, ohio, michigan, new jersey, and every state in the united states where wage earners are fighting a battalion, they didn't ask for it and they certainly didn't tonight, do we care...