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Thing just about tore the state apart. but loyalty and home state favoritism have strategic limits as well. consider the republican national committee. right now, if you want to go to the republican national committee website, you go to the internet machine, type in rnc.org, and it repopulates to this. stop obama's union bosses. the entire republican national committee website has been overlaid with pro-scott walker, pro-republican thing from the day that walker caved on this fight, republicans in wisconsin have essentially lost this thing. but at the republican national committee, not only is...

Woefully late to the game, coming out with a tv commercial that was rather wimpish in its own right, three, four, five weeks after the fact i think undermined the effort there. something as big as this where you have the dnc and white house mobilizing, unions and activists from around the country in a way that galvanizes this debate, to define this debate early on to me was an opening that was missed. and i think now the governor finds himself in the untenable situation of having to deal with a lot of extra noise. the polling and all the other stuff, that makes it much harder for him to have t...

The first stage is to consolidate power. it is not just to hoard the power, it is then to auction off the states. because these guys really don't believe in the governments that they are running. this is an old story. if you look at what's going on in wisconsin, why are they so desperate to tie the hands of unions? why are 16 states facing similar battles? unions are the final line of defense against privatization of the public sector. unions are the ones who fight privatization of school system, of the water system, of the power system. that's where the money is. you have to keep our eye on t...

So far on this show, we have done one, precisely one, cell phone text poll question thingy. last week we did one on a lark, mostly out of jealousy that the other shows do them and we never had. but it sort of went spectacularly. we are going to try it one more time. get out cell phones, get ready to weigh in on what's more embarrassing? first, consider alan simpson, former republican senator, co-chair of the president's fiscal commission nicknamed the cat food commission because of the commission's proposed cuts to social security. in that cat food commission co-chair capacity, mr. alan simpso...

Is a serious, serious player. he is a guy who's been around the budgets, who has had to deal with these issues and like his democratic counter part brings a lot of weight to the debate and the discussion, and really kind of moves the agenda forward on something that i think everybody in this country is looking to move forward on, and that's bipartisan ship, or more importantly, consensus on what's the best thing to do. alan simpson is the guy to help us do that. >> i think enema man, snoopy snoop changes the character. >> it is a good move by the president. >> all right. fair enough. let me as...