the rachel maddow show, transcript 09/29/10 - health care appliances

Host: Good evening, Rachel.
Host: Good evening, Keith.
Thank you very much for doing so.
Thank you for staying with us for an hour at home.
Tonight we start with what they say will never be possible.
They say there is only one way to solve the wedge problem.
If you are a democratic politician, you basically just need to accept it if you have an opponent of a cultural warrior.
They can earn points with their foundation because they are super
Abortion, Super
Gay and others, but as a liberal, you, as a Democrat, cannot raise these questions from the other side. Sorry.
You can't do that. Don‘t bother.
You can launch a campaign against reproductive rights.
Republicans have created an art form from it in recent years, but you can't run for reproductive rights.
This is impossible.
This is the solution to the cultural war in the last decade or so: you can launch the campaign you want for a wide variety of civil libertarian issues.
You can oppose homosexuality.
You can launch a campaign against religious freedom for anyone who is not your Christian brand.
You can launch a campaign against reproductive rights.
But you can't run for these things.
This is common wisdom.
They said it couldn't be done. They are wrong.
If you are a Democrat, you can actually attack your opponent as an extremist on these issues.
In fact, you can nail them to the wall. (
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OB/GYN Safa BUYERS: as a doctor, I am trying to protect the health of women.
That's what I did.
That's why I was disturbed by Ken Barker.
Ken Barker will ban common forms of birth control.
Ken Barker wants abortion to be illegal, even in cases of rape and incest.
But it should be a woman's decision, not a politician's.
As far as I'm concerned, Ken Buck is too extreme for Colorado. (END VIDEO CLIP)
Tai Chi for Colorado.
This is an advertisement being broadcast by Colorado Democratic Senator Michael Bennett.
His opponent, Ken Barker, is one of at least five Republican Senate candidates, and we know they want the government to make abortion illegal, even in cases where a woman is pregnant for rape or incest.
The federal government should monitor every pregnancy for every American woman across the country to ensure that it ends in a way that the federal government likes.
No matter what the woman, herself or her doctor thinks is the best.
Even if she was raped, Ken Barker wanted the federal government to force the rape victim to give birth to the child of the rapist.
Memo to Democrats: If your opponent has this extreme view, throw away the conventional wisdom.
On this basis, you can compete with someone.
They said it couldn't be done. It can be done. (
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Narrator: Ken Barker wants to make common forms of birth control illegal.
Woman: this is ridiculous.
Unidentified women: I can't believe that Ken Barker wanted to restrict women from getting birth control in 2010.
Narrator: Ken Barker also wants to make a normal fertility treatment illegal.
Unidentified women: this has gone deep into people's private lives.
Unidentified woman: Who is he to make this choice?
Unidentified woman: Ken Buck does not belong to my family planning.
Woman: women's rights should not be reversed.
Narrator: The content of this advertisement is the responsibility of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. (END VIDEO CLIP)
They said it was impossible. It can be done.
Attention from Democrats.
Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle is also a member of the caucus of "The government should force women to give birth to rapists", whose opponent is Democrat Harry Reid, compete with Sharron Angle on that exact question. (
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Narrator: What do you call a candidate, who says the development of things, the timing of the Second Amendment remedy may come, and this is an armed response to our government?
Who said that teenagers should be forced to rape victims to have children today?
What do you call that candidate? Extreme. Sharron Angle.
Tai chi end(END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: I want you to see another ad here, another one.
It came from the great state of Illinois.
It's Democrat Dan Seals chasing Republican rival Robert Dold on the same issue.
Look at this. (
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Narrator: So, who is Dan Seals playing? “The Sun-
The Times says the seals have a strong business and policy background.
The newspaper said he was very impressive when he was independent.
Seals understand what it takes for small businesses to develop and create jobs.
Who is Robert Dold behind the scenes?
Dold was recommended by the Illinois Federation of rights to life, which opposes abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.
Tea Party
They're great, said Dold.
This is Robert Dold behind the scenes.
Who's behind you?
The content of the advertisement is the responsibility of the Democratic Congressional election committee. (END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: this is the most politically prominent thing about this particular ad, and what this example means for Democrats in this year's election.
The Republican candidate who was hit in that ad, Robert Dold, didn't actually have a strong reaction.
Dan Hells is hitting his selection record.
They are attacking him because he has been a very counter
Abortion organization
He's not even an.
Abortion candidate, but the Democrat in the campaign tried to make him pay the price for connecting with the super anti-abortionabortion group.
Now, that's what Republicans have been doing to Democrats.
Democrats could have been doing this to Republicans, but in most cases they wouldn't, because they were too nervous about the basis on which abortion was done on such issues.
But Dan Seals shows how to do that, and has his Republican opponents pay the price for this year's rights extremism, bringing the Republican and right-wing national dynamics this year, bring Home the vitality of the country and make the answer to a Republican who really doesn't want to be responsible for it.
They say the wedge problem can only go in one direction, and they only work for conservatives. They are wrong.
Democrats can go both ways if they want.
The current Republican congressional candidates are so extreme about abortion that Democrats can really run freely on abortion rights, from coast to coast, if they want.
And, no, it may not be wise to do so everywhere in every region.
But in the year when Republicans are more extreme on this issue than ever before, what ads have we just shown?
That's how it feels to hit Republicans where they are soft targets.
This is how it is to use the issue of cultural warfare to deal with Republicans and to use their own extremism across the country to deal with them.
Another traditional wisdom that Democrats seem to collectively follow this year is that Democrats cannot run on their own records.
Democrats cannot move forward as they have achieved in Washington over the past two years.
This is impossible.
Republicans say the elections should be a referendum on President Obama.
There was anger at President Obama and Democrats.
So now that the Republicans say we should do that, I think so too.
In general, Democrats seem to have accepted the attitude of Republicans towards these elections, not against them, and put their own framework on things.
That's why you see Democrats all over the country doing everything they can to avoid recognizing that their region is part of the country and that they are part of the party.
They're part of a party, and the president is actually --
He's been doing something.
Democrats, they say you can't put it on the record.
They said it couldn't be done. It can be done.
The White House is now trying to lead by example.
I guess the White House is trying to encourage Democrats by showing how to use democratic achievements.
That's why President Obama and Vice President Biden are in all these campaigns.
They are talking about what they and the Democratic Congress have done in the last two years: health care reform, Wall Street reform, student loan reform.
Now, the White House is modeling what they want other Democrats to do --
At least it looks like this.
But not many Democrats did.
As far as we know, two Democrats are doing this.
Today, we found at least two Democratic ads across the country, and we can determine where the Democratic Party is against the Republican Party, "Vote for me, because Democrats, what did our Democrats do in Washington in the last two years.
"We found two examples: one in the House and one in the Senate.
In the Senate, Patty Murray, a Democratic senator from Washington, insists Democrats have passed Wall Street reforms. (
Start Video Editing)SEN. PATTY MURRAY (D)
This is Patty Murray.
I sponsored this advertisement.
Big banks and Wall Street do not want financial reforms.
They do not want to be held accountable.
They want tough new rules to be scrapped.
Unidentified male: So, yes, this is a repeal?
Dino Rossi®I think we should do that.
The repeal of Wall Street reform?
I think we should do that.
Narrator: Dino chose his Wall Street contributor to protect our savings.
Rossi took the money from the big bank and then refused the taxpayer.
Dino Rossi is not on our side. (END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: We Democrats have gone through Wall Street reforms, and the ads say Republicans want to abolish it.
The Democrats did the right thing for me to vote.
The Republican wants to delay time for all the wrong reasons.
This is a Democrat who runs on democratic achievements.
Democratic congressman Mike Ross of Arkansas did so in the house. (
Start Video Editing)REP. MIKE ROSS (D)
Arkansas: These are brave men and women who protect America's security.
No matter what we think about this war, it is our job to make sure that we keep our promise to those who have sacrificed so much for us.
That's why I voted to take care of our soldiers in battle and expand g. I.
It is the biggest investment in veterans health care in 77 years.
I am Mike Ross and I am in favor of this message as our army and veterans deserve our support and respect. (END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: every Democrat in the country who voted for it can run on this issue.
Every Democrat trying to run for any federal office in the country is likely to run on the issue.
Any Democrat running for any seat, anywhere, dog catcher, state party, Congress, Senator, Governor
Any Democrat can make this an achievement for the Democratic Party.
Our Democrats led the expansion of G. I. bill.
Our Democratic Party has approved historic funding from the Veterans Administration. Vote for me.
These are two good examples of democratic achievement. We found two—two.
There may be more things, but it took us a whole day to look for them without finding them.
We would love to hear from them if you know more.
You can tell us through our blog, MaddowBlog. MSNBC. com.
More than a month before this year's election.
This year's wind is definitely aimed at the Democratic Party.
There is no doubt.
So, this is the idea, though-
You know, bad economy, the first mid-term after the new president took office, oh God, we're going to lose, we better not try
This is also a challenge for the Democratic Party.
Will Democrats really win?
There are some good examples of Democrats trying to win this year, wrapping this year's Republican extremism around the neck of Republicans who don't want to answer the question for election voters.
Democrats run ahead of what Democrats have already achieved, while selling the merits of these democratic achievements. It can be done.
They said no. It can be done.
We 've found several examples where Democrats used the best things Democrats can get in this year's election to fight Republicans on turf where Republicans don't want to keep fighting.
We found only a few examples.
In the last 34 days of the election, have these examples now been copied?
Have they been copied?
Why haven't they had more yet?
We have some answers tonight.
It will be a very interesting performance. (
Business break)
MADDOW: Democrats can do it in a tough political environment, and they can do it a bit poorly.
Next, I will have a few minutes to get an explanation from a Democratic congressman who is in charge of getting Democrats elected to the House this year.
Please keep an eye on this conversation. (
Business break)
MADDOW: the organization responsible for the Democratic Party's election to the US House is the Democratic Congressional election committee, DCCC.
They don't have an enviable job this year.
It was a tough election for Democrats, not only because of the economic downturn, not only because it was the first midterm election for this administration, but also --
As many people have pointed out
Democrats beat Republicans so much in 06 and 08 that now there are a lot of Democratic lawmakers representing fairly conservative house constituencies across the country, and areas that don't really do business are represented by capitalized "D" Democrats --
At least on paper, more conservative areas than Democratic representation are sustainable.
So, the Democrats who are responsible for getting their people elected, they are not easy this year.
Someone explained it to me. (
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Renacci tried to avoid paying taxes.
Renacci is trying to impose a new 23% national sales tax on almost all items you buy.
Narrator: Nunnelee is running for Congress and signing up to support a 23% national sales tax on cars, groceries, appliances and even toys.
Narrator: Benishek supports a new 23% national sales tax on almost all items we buy --
Clothes, groceries, even gasoline.
Narrator: Andy Harris supports a tax plan that will impose a 23% sales tax on almost all the items you buy, while cutting taxes for the rich. (End Video Clip)MADDOW: Twenty-
3% sales tax (ph)?
On a very smooth surface level, right here, right, this very meta-level meaning.
You know, if you don't
If you don't think too much about it.
The idea is to make Democrats look like they're fighting against the tax because the Republicans are tax collectors.
Our level is very high in this regard.
On the other hand, does anyone know what these ads are about?
The ads are about Republicans who signed a fair tax promise to replace the income tax system with a huge sales tax.
It's a quirky, far-right economic plan, and yes, some Republicans say it's a good idea for this quirky, far-right economic plan to replace income tax with sales tax and impose a huge sales tax. OK.
Have you heard of it before? Really? Have you?
It is one thing to refuse to violate your faith.
You know, this is another thing.
I want to hear what each other thinks.
I 'd like to hear the key points and political points of their conversation. liners. Tax bad!
So, I'm going to invent a problem from the whole fabric that doesn't have any national translations, and this issue doesn't resonate with anything anyone reads on news, blogs, what you see on a cable TV, or hear from your neighbors while trimming your lawn, never shows up on any other ad.
I will choose a question that has nothing to do with everything that is happening in this country that I know and try to make you a voter and believe that everything you doubt about me is true, maybe everything about another person is real?
Maybe we can mix up the differences on purpose?
Another most effective and cost-effective response might be to laugh at this and wait until I have no money in this campaign and cover me with a blanket, "Would you like to talk about taxes?
Let's talk about taxes, Democrats. ”This idea—
I don't understand the strategy.
Now joining us is the person most likely to explain this to me, member Chris Van Holen, director of the Democratic campaign committee of the house.
He's the one responsible for bringing the Democratic Party back to power.
Elected to the house. Mr.
Van Hallen, thank you very much for your time tonight. REP.
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
Chair: Rachel, it's good to be with you.
MADDOW: I pieced together all these different DCCC ads about the part of Republicans as tax payers.
I have to say that this strategy is meaningless to me.
Well, Rachel, as you know, we have ads all over the country.
We have more than 50 games and there will be different advertisements, some about Social Security and health insurance, some are making sure that we are calling on Republicans to refuse to end the tax incentives that support the transfer of our work overseas to multinationals.
Some people have something to do with this issue, where Republicans basically say they want to cut taxes for those at the top.
In other words, they don't want income tax.
Instead, they want to raise sales taxes for others.
So, every time you go to the store to buy something, you have to pay taxes, and at the same time, they lower people's tax rates in very, very high places.
This is obviously unfair. Now, you—
I heard what you had to say under your leadership. in here.
What I'm trying to say is that in the elections of 2006 and 2008, you said that the Democratic Party won a lot of seats in these areas, and this advertisement was used in these areas, because it removes some of the nonsense that Republicans are talking about, they say only Democrats want to raise taxes.
Obviously, this sentence is-
No, Republicans want to raise taxes.
It's just that they want to raise taxes in ways that hurt the middle class.
This is the way to raise taxes, hurting people to go to the store to buy goods, not where Democrats say, you know, you should do that based on your income.
If you have a higher income, you should pay more. So, that—
Again, this is-
This is also the kind of advertisement played in previous years.
MADDOW: You know, I can't say if this will work in individual areas.
From a national point of view, I find it strange that there are a lot of people in the Democratic Party now paying attention to the transmission of information across the country, and Republicans want to take 98% of the country's middle class tax cuts as hostages, so they can give extra tax cuts to the rich.
Republicans want to spend $250,000 on additional tax cuts, or no one will get them.
A bit, Republicans are looking for rich people in these tax people.
About taxation.
To be frank, the way this message appears in an advertisement is-
Republicans want to raise taxes.
It just seems to confuse the differences between Republicans and Democrats, rather than pushing for a national message that might resonate with the coast.
You know, under the Obama administration, we saw a series of tax cuts for the middle class in the United States.
In other words, as part of the entire recovery bill, about one
The third is tax relief for 95% of American workers.
We have also seen tax breaks for small businesses.
As you said, it's Republicans who are saying, you know, if you give tax cuts to the top, we only allow 98% of the American people to enjoy tax breaks, although it broke the deficit of $700 billion.
By the way, so-
They say they will help large Washington law firms known as "small businesses", KKRs in the world, and big leveraged buyout companies.
Republicans are trying to fool these people into believing they are small businesses.
These other ads that have been broadcast in the past have once again shown that some of these Republican candidates have said, "Let's cut taxes on top people, we will make up for this by raising taxes on all the other items you purchase "-
As we all know, the national sales tax is a very backward form of taxation.
So, in these games, it's not clear where the other person is.
On a particular issue, but we know where they stand on that issue because they sign a specific commitment or form.
Again, we are talking about several advertisements in the whole advertising field, many of which are about social security issues and medical insurance issues, the issue of making sure we don't ship American jobs overseas, compared to some votes from Republicans who don't support our veterans in health care, what we do for veterans.
So, you have a bunch of ads and I would say that people are looking at each of these areas and what they think is most effective in a certain area. I think so-
I think it's not a national information strategy, it's a local information strategy for a region because it's causing all the confusion.
Rachel, let me say, look, country.
The information of the country is clear.
The national message is this: Republicans want to bring us back to an economic policy that benefits a small number of special interest groups at the expense of consumers, taxpayers and workers.
They wanted to take us back to the days before we passed Wall Street reform, when the people on Wall Street gave orders that others had paid for their mistakes.
They want to bring us back to an era where they're going to give tax cuts to those Washington lobby companies who want to keep those tax terms, very abnormal tax terms, this rewards multinationals to ship American jobs overseas.
In other words, they put the profits of overseas companies above the interests of American workers and consumers.
So the overall framework is: Republicans want to go back to economic policies that have been supporting very narrow, special interests for the last eight years, whether they are health insurance companies, big oil companies, or Wall Street companies, at the expense of others.
These are the ads you see all over the country.
This is just an example of your choice to deal with this fair tax idea, and this is an example --
Republicans say, "Hey, let's move the tax burden to the middle class and give the top people a break.
"MADDOW: To be honest, the way it behaves on the ground is an exception to the country message you just posted, but, you know, understanding the multiple ways in which different Democrats deal with these issues is part of understanding what Democrats are doing this year.
Thank you for helping us understand this, Congressman Van Holen. Thank you.
Nice to be with you, Rachel. Thanks.
Congressman Chris Van Hollen, who heads the Democratic election committee of the house.
Of course, he is also a Democrat from the great Maryland state. All right.
Arianna Huffington will be here this hour.
My crazy conspiracy theory about crazy Carl Palladino seems to start to blossom.
And we are very, very bad when coloring. It‘s all ahead. (
Business break)
MADDOW: one of the reasons why everyone is trying to clear the boundaries between the White House and the Liberal party, looking at it so weird, the relationship between the Obama administration and the left progressive Democrats is because if you want
The Democratic Front has such a clearly better place to paint them.
Today, for example, you can find one at the conservative Heritage Foundation. (
Start Video Editing)SEN. BEN NELSON (D)
Today, it seems to me that, given our fragile economy, raising anyone's taxes is moving in the wrong direction.
I am in favor of extending all the tax cuts that are about to expire. (END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: that's Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, who decided it would be a good idea to go to the Heritage Foundation today and talk about how much he supports the Republican tax program.
Ben Nelson is not even ready to re-
Election this year
He's just, you know, random trips to the Heritage Foundation during a very difficult election year to see what he can do to help his party --
I mean, the other side.
The same is true of Senator Mary landriu of the state of Luis Anna.
Mary Landry is also a Democrat.
She's not ready.
Own elections this year.
But she is happy to run on the Republican side against the Obama administration's ban on offshore drilling.
In fact, she blocked confirmation from the presidential candidate's leadership Management and Budget office due to drilling problems, which is good news for her hometown Republican colleague Sen.
David Witte, he's not just a guy with a prostitute problem.
He is also the man who ran for re-election this year in Luiz Anna.
Of course, he fully agreed with Mary landriu's decision to postpone the president's head of budget as retaliation for the suspension of offshore oil drilling.
So Mary Landrio, again a Democrat, did not run for re-election this year, and somehow I found time and energy to provide political cover for the Republican senators who are about to be re-elected this year, and stop the White House from getting the budget director at the same time.
Where are the liberals I can shout?
There are also some Democrats who are preparing for re-election this year. they choose to defend their records and stand up for the Democrats. the Democrats have decided to take the Republicans. Sort of.
Or at least run for how many votes they cast against John Boehner.
You think I'm kidding. (
Start Video Editing)REP. BOBBY BRIGHT (D-AL)
I am the most independent member of Congress.
I am trying to bring people together and create good things for our country.
I'm Bobby Bright.
I approve this advertisement. (END VIDEO CLIP)
Did you find out at the end?
Democratic congressman showed you a picture of himself, next to a photo of John Boehner bragging about his frequency of voting with Republican leaders in a huge yellow letter.
Time 80%.
This is the campaign message for Democratic congressman Bobby Billett, "Vote for me.
I'm basically a Republican.
"This is another ad for Democratic lawmakers trying to keep their seats this year. (
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Announcer: When President Obama and Nancy Pelosi pressed Chet Edwards, Chet stood up and voted against them and voted against their trillions of dollars in health care billsand-trade.
Chet voted to the conservative Chamber of Commerce for 67% of the time. (END VIDEO CLIP)
What, no photos of Nancy Pelosi turning into Saddam Hussein?
Congressman Edward Edwards ran for the Democratic Party for re-election.
As Sam Stein pointed out on the show last night, just two years ago, Nancy Pelosi had named Chet Edwards as President Obama's potential vice presidential running mate.
Now, Chet Edwards is running for re-election as a Democrat against how evil the Democrats are and how bad their leaders are.
So, if you want to have a little bit, you know, "Who's excited?
Who is disappointed?
Who will feel resentful?
How do you feel?
"If you want to talk about this, the struggle between the government and the left is good.
But Democrats, whose Conservatives are fighting the democratic election war with all their might, are actually trying to get more Republicans elected this year.
So why is the battle line not there?
Now joining us is Arianna Huffing ton, co-founder and editor. in-
The chief of the huafton Post, author of the new book, The Third World America.
"Arianna, it's nice to have you here.
Ali Anna Huffington, co-founder and editorIN-
Huffington Post President: nice to be here, Rachel.
MADDOW: Democrats seem to have no problem with conservative Democrats fighting their own party. Why is that?
Huffington: because (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
A bit of a hope that one day, one of them could become 60 votes on some compromise legislation, so he could not afford to really accept it.
That's another thing, too, that progressives and the middle class may need to face the fact that the president is not so interested in them.
He would rather hang out with Larry Summers or flirt with Olympia Snow or play war games with Gen late at night. Petraeus.
There are also some, plus he is damaging his main narrative.
Remember, he set up the deficit committee before he set up the Employment Committee.
What we are talking about here is not an edge issue.
We are talking about the central issue of the Democratic Party, that is, employment and the protection of the middle class and the working people.
So when you do that, when you go against your campaign promise and allow offshore oil drilling before the BP disaster, you don't draw a line on the sand.
I'm not talking about absolute purity.
I mean, there needs to be a big tent on both sides.
However, when it comes to the core issues of employment and environmental protection, he is not so clear.
MADDOW: But even in your answer, that is, about how the government is dealing with these things, that's where I'm attracted, that is, do you know?
It's not enough for the president.
The center is not enough.
But the people on the right side of the Democratic Party basically don't pay an election price for what they do.
I mean, what happened to Ben Nelson because of what he did?
What did Mary Landry do? There‘s no -
Those who even decided to compete with these people in the primary election were mostly condemned by mainstream liberals.
Huffington: Look, I think it's the wrong frame because I don't think it's a left-versus-right or left-versus-moderate.
I think that when we present it in this way, whether you are conservative or liberal, we will be marginalized in favor of the fundamental, fundamental position of the country.
Like a country without a middle class.
The United States is the third world country.
It's not good for anyone, you know.
This is not even good for very rich people.
We will protect their children from armed guards behind gates.
Not good for anyone.
He just showed it.
Okay, you know, the person on the left wants a job bill. Oh, my god.
What an extreme edge position. Or the jobs -
The left does not want to extend Bush's tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans who have gained most of their wealth creation since 1979.
So I don't think we need to think of these things as left.
Because I think these positions are very important to the interests of the United States.
Why do the media always call Ben Nelson a moderate?
What is his gentleness?
Want to destroy the middle class and think you can actually control the deficit without growing the economy? MADDOW: Right.
Okay, you look at Ben Nelson's record, you look at what he personally got from the stimulus, you think about what can be done in terms of the economic stimulus to this country, what do we really need, what it can do for employment, he has no reasonable economic reason to try to narrow down the stimulus plan.
He just likes the idea that it gets smaller.
Who is blamed for this?
President Obama
Huffington: Yes. But then -but then -
This is the question of Ben Nelson.
HUFFINGTON: But, in order to answer your question again, why didn't he accept Ben Nelson and why didn't the president --MADDOW: Yes.
Huffington: Remember, he also failed to adopt the bigger stimulus plan proposed by Christina Romer. MADDOW: Right.
Huffington: British Prime Minister Lloyd George says you can't cross the divide twice, and that's what he does with estimates.
Now, the other side uses this as an example of the government not working --MADDOW: Yes.
Huffington: Not an inadequate solution from the government.
MADDOW: do you think there will be consequences for Republicans in the near future? excuse me -
For Democrats who are too right?
So far, for those who do so, there are very few consequences.
Huffington: depending on the situation in November, there may be election consequences because I think the candidate really misunderstood the poll.
I really don't think the public is angry because the government is too big.
I think the public is angry because the government is completely incapable of defending the public's interests.
MADDOW: Arianna Huffington of Huffington Post with a new book, Third World America, it's a pleasure to have you here.
Thank you, Rachel. Thank you.
Thank you for coming, Arianna.
Nice to meet you.
So, given his habit of forwarding rather vicious racist emails
The Mail, his "Yes, well, I'm in the construction industry" defended his racist tendencies, and his campaign mail smells like crap, now, the amazing secret life of his campaign team, and I'm getting more and more convinced that New York Republican governor candidate Carl Palladino, could be a performance artist because it's not really happening, is it? Oh, but it is. That‘s next. (
Business break)(
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Carl Palladino®New York governor candidate: if we learn something tonight, it's that New York is as crazy as hell, and we won't accept it anymore. (
Cheers and applause)(END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: it was Carl Palladino's victory speech on the night of the Republican nomination in New York for the country's most bizarre governor campaign.
Sir, despite winning.
Paladino is mad at something and he wants you to share it, enjoy it and swim in anger until you get goody.
Do you think he wants you to leave his lawn? Not crazy Carl.
He wants to vent his anger on your lawn.
It's a lawn sign, "Carl, I'm crazy too.
Very, very angry. Before Mr.
Palladino was nominated by the Republican Party in New York.
A lot of people are angry with Carl Paladino about his super racist.
Habit of mail forwarding
It's not just the place where the president and first lady are ps for pimps and prostitutes.
This is also the reason why the chimpanzee danced the river and was labeled "evidence of discovery of Africa in Ireland.
"This is not the last Mr garbage.
Palladino will distribute it.
After his nomination, his campaign sent out an email, and again, the email we had smelled like crap and sent to 200,000 New Yorkers.
He's going to clean things up, okay?
Maybe starting with your mailbox, when he sends you a week later, you will still smell the smell of rubbish and send out your "sports pictorial ".
Today, we learned from the New York Times that,
Palardino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo, did not pay nearly $53,000 in federal taxes.
His campaign chairman, Nancy Naples, resigned from a job in the local government after claiming to transfer $1 billion to an investment manager.
Another adviser, John Haggerty, was accused of stealing $1 million from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's re-election campaign last year.
There is also an assistant, Russ Thompson, who is a regular
Palladino's driver went to jail for the accident. and-
He put into running while dunking.
You now understand why every new thing we have about Carl Paladino, my theory, my crazy paper about him is becoming more and more convincing.
For some time, I have always believed that Carl Palladino will pull a Phoenix that can walk here.
It's an embarrassing, scary, wonderful, performing art as a gimmick for political movement, dramatizing to all of us who are not afraid of attention, and there's nothing too crazy about it in conservative politics this year. Not anymore.
The New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro brought this story to us today. Mr.
Nice to meet you, Barbaro.
Thank you for coming.
New York Times reporter michael barbaro: Nice to meet you.
MADDOW: the story about this seems interesting in itself.
Candidate, you call him. and-run, Mr.
When you contact the driver of Palladino, he is very hostile to you.
BARBARO: Well, he's not happy when asked about a drunk person --
But I won't drive either.
We had a brief and unpleasant conversation and he cursed several times.
The story that he threatened me might be like this.
There was no such feeling in the conversation, but he was not satisfied with it.
This is someone who, like many people on the Paladino campaign team, has no traditional resume at all.
That's why Paladino's candidacy looks so real and allows it to really connect with people in a heartfelt way.
But there is a lot of luggage there, it doesn't look like other sports when the light hits it, it raises a lot of questions and I think it will provide a lot of ammunition to his opponent Andrew Como.
MADDOW: I think these new allegations are particularly concerning --
These new revelations about the assistants are
The immediate appeal from Paladino is that he will clean up Albany and have both --
It's not just the tax issue, but the allegations they encounter in pursuing political goals about the theft of funds.
This seems to be a direct contradiction with his information.
The substance of the allegations about the aide is stealing money from Michael Bloomberg?
BARBARO: this is a Republican aide to Mayor Bloomberg's last re-election campaign.
The money was put into a fund.
It should be used at police polling stations to ensure all goes well on Election Day.
Lost $1 million.
Some of them were traced to the house where the assistant was purchased.
He bought his father's house.
But what's interesting is that you raised a false question.
Many of these Tea Party candidates have a subtle genius, because their entire architecture and framework are beyond consideration (ph).
We are not institutions, we are not elites.
So they can withstand a lot of gaps on armor that I think the traditional campaign might not be able to withstand.
MADDOW: Is there a problem with Mr.
Paladino fits the office in character.
I joked that he looked angry and could come out in danger at any time.
But I think he's almost cultivating that impression.
"Yes, it's hard for me to predict.
I have a baseball bat with me at any time. ”The E-
The emails he forwarded were more than just these racist things, and there were some very, very core pornographic content that I think a lot of people thought was almost offensive (ph)
When you really
When you see the picture he forwarded.
Is this probably also cultivated from your coverage of the campaign?
Does this seem to be part of the campaign message?
Or is that who he is?
I think it is authentic.
I think Carl Paladino is an ordinary person who can't suppress his anger.
Tonight, there was an incident with a journalist who had a screaming match with one of my colleagues in the New York Post.
"From what I have seen, this is the real Carl Palladino.
I mean, it's very surreal to talk to him on the phone as a political journalist.
Being with him is different from being with other candidates because he is just not elegant.
This is the guy, a businessman from Buffalo.
I don't think that part is cultivated.
I think the reason it's not being nurtured is that it turns out to be dangerous as well, and that could be the reason why his campaign failed.
I mean, when the camera is off and the phone camera is on video, have a screaming match with the reporter --
I don't think that's what anyone wants their candidate to do.
Not to mention their governor.
New York Times reporter Michael Mauro thanked the story for helping us explain it.
I really appreciate it.
Nice to talk to you.
Nice to talk to you.
MADDOW: Lawrence, speaking with Lawrence O'Donnell about the "last word", interviewed David Akselrod, senior White House adviser, as the White House declared in the 2010 campaign.
Next in this show, the tree of freedom must be refreshed with crayons.
Cai shu time is coming.
Very lively tonight. Stay tuned.
We came back from recess for a while. (
Business break)
Coloring books when I was a kid included drawing a fire truck or unicorn and doing crossword games.
Maybe if I feel ambitious, complete a connectionthe-
To venture with my brother David, we gave up the whole business.
It looks like I was born a few generations too early because today's color books are better because they allow the possibility of abuse by the federal government and should be deleted.
Part of the story ahead(
Business break)
MADDOW: Remember when President Obama spoke to the kids at school early last year?
He gave him an inspiring speech to "work hard and stay at school" and the right wing was frightened and said it was a socialist spiritual control conspiracy-instilling.
Whenever a helicopter flies out of date, they can hear them through the filler.
They're totally crazy.
This year, when the president started againof-the-
I think the response is much more moderate, largely because the Republican official is the most fanatical about education, socialist spiritual control, and everything this year, of course, he may go to jail for something completely unrelated.
But it made him very sorry.
Jim Greer, Republican President of Florida
But more specific indications are that the right might have overcome any concerns it once instilled in American school students.
Have you read the new Tea Party coloring book? It‘s for kids.
It has a lot of neat, just plain old American stuff.
There is an American flag crossword game inside.
Patriotic songs have lyrics.
There is a map of America.
A word searches for phrases and words such as "constitution", "White House", "cap and trade.
I found "cap and trade" particularly difficult to find in word search.
It is vertical, backward.
It's backwards.
Almost cheating.
On the far right. hand side.
I am in trouble in this regard.
Tea Party coloring also invites you to play creative and draw a tea party logo and a tea party flyer in case you are coloredbook-
Older children, who want to attend a tea party rally, may object to cap and trade and may write backwards on the far right.
Or, if you're a person of colorbook-
Older children want to organize a tea party rally and make flyers for it. I don‘t know.
But most of the book is big pictures, with explanatory subtitles for the kids, just like the presidential seal and the picture of the Statue of Liberty on this page.
It begins with the government of the people, the people and the people ".
The aim of the US government is to serve and protect the American people and to work with other governments from all over the world.
"The whole government is paid by taxes deducted from our wages by American workers.
Businesses also pay taxes to the government.
When the government is not doing well, we may hold a tea party, fire or replace the people who run the government.
Now, color it.
This is the first chapter.
It soon became very intense.
There is another chapter, "let the government take responsibility.
The tea party wants all Americans to have a good life.
In order to help all people create and maintain a better life, the government must maintain a limited role and the government must follow and abide by the United States. S. Constitution.
"Sometimes people get frustrated because the federal government is wasting money and don't record how the taxes we pay are used. ” Color it in. Color it in. OK.
Now, health care, "provides good health care for all Americans.
The tea party wants all Americans to have good health care options and wants everyone to be able to afford it.
"It's not all that, children. Ask Dick Armey.
I think what "everyone can get" should be a communist plot.
Anyway, where am I? "The government --
Running health care can really help people in a different way, but this is not the only option.
People cannot be asked to buy health care from the government.
That's what the color book says.
I told you that it quickly became very strong for a color book.
This is a very exciting part, "What is tax? What is a tax?
Taxes are a sum of money that our government requires. “ from? Yes.
"All people will pay and it will support our country with this money.
"All government departments and all politicians are paid by our taxes and they should use our taxes to help guide our country, protecting our country from people around the world does not like us.
Taxes can also be a burden.
When taxes are too high, high taxes take away work and freedom.
We held a Tea Party in 1773, which led us to avoid high taxes.
Today, we held another tea party, which saved us from high taxes.
"Ask mom and dad what this means.
Ask grandma and grandpa what this means.
Ask your friend what it means.
Do you want to have a tea party yourself?
"This is just a section on what is tax?
Wait until you reach the section "no more tax.
This is a color book.
This is the section "no more tax. ”Under Mt. Rushmore -
I was wondering what those guys would think "no more tax ".
"No more taxes.
The Tea Party will help ensure that the government and politicians will not bring too much tax and burden to the people.
"The purpose of our people's government, people's government and people's government is to serve American, American citizens and businesses.
If the government becomes a burden or tries to control citizens beyond reason, we have the tea party movement.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Tea Party color book shocked the revolutionary enthusiasm of the American people. tax -anti-tax five-year-old at a time.
Wait, Timi, it says no more taxes.
You color it.
That's what it is for us tonight.
We will see you tomorrow night.
In the meantime, there's a lot more to add to what you see on the show tonight.
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Now, it's time to "last word" with Lawrence O'Donnell. Mr.
Good evening, O'Donnell.
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