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CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Tea party on the Delaware.
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Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews down in Washington again. Leading off tonight: The little state that could. Will Delaware, the first state to sign the Constitution, be the one to make or break the conservatives' chances of taking over the U.S. Senate this year? Tonight, we get the results of the big tea party challenge of Christine O'Donnell to possibly win the Republican nomination for Senate over Mike Castle. If she does, it will be the eighth time in this political season that a far-right-of-center candidate beat out the favorite for a GOP Senate nomination. Are conservatives now ready to dump anyone who's even willing to talk to Democrats? We'll look at all the big races in seven states tonight and the District of Columbia and what's at stake at the top of the show.
Also, there's a great political battle brewing over taxes, as usual. My question. Catch this. Who wins if Congress fails to stop the tax hike set for everyone this January? If nothing gets done, who wins then? Who wins if the tax cuts are extended for all of us? Think about it. Who wins in November? We'll get into that one tonight.
And Harry Reid exchanges tweets with Lady Gaga on allowing gays to serve openly in the U.S. military. Reid now says he will try to get a vote this week on ending "Don't ask, don't tell." Could this be about the election?
And "Let Me Finish" tonight with why not—well, why don't we just get rid of "Don't ask, don't tell," period?
And before we get any further, we're going to be back at midnight tonight—that's 9:00 o'clock on the West Coast—midnight tonight with a special primary night edition of HARDBALL to give you the full returns from Delaware, New Hampshire, D.C., and everywhere else in the country that's voting today. But that biggest on, of course, from Delaware, which will decide, many people think, whether the Republicans have a really good chance or very slight chance of winning the Senate this year.
We start with primary night. With us, NBC News's Chuck Todd. He's chief White House correspondent and chief political director for NBC News. Chuck, you're my guy. Tell me, who's going to win tonight in Delaware?
Christine—I'm just kidding!
MATTHEWS: Nobody knows, right? I mean, I don't—it's very hard to
Christine O'Donnell was way back in the pack, way beyond previous cases like Rand Paul and Nikki Haley. Nobody was ever further back. She gets the big kiss of whatever from Sarah Palin. Now she's gunning for knocking off a guy that the Biden family was afraid to take on in Delaware, Mike Castle. What's happened?
CHUCK TODD, NBC POLITICAL DIR./WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, look, if you want to find the trend here when it comes to these tea party-endorsed candidates upending the establishment, Delaware is certainly ripe for it, right? It's a small state. It's a closed primary. What do I mean by that? It means independents can't show up and pick a Republican ballot, only registered Republicans. So there's—there's number two.
A long-time incumbent, even though he's running for the U.S. Senate for the first time, Mike Castle has held office in Delaware, a very small state—held office in Delaware pretty much every year continuously, almost (INAUDIBLE) four-year period, since 1966. So the ingredients are all there for this to—what—to sort of history to repeat itself in what we saw in Alaska, in an odd way, what we saw in Utah—sure, that was a convention process, but in many ways, so few Republicans are going in Delaware, it's like a large convention process of what's going on there...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: ... -and even of what happened in Kentucky with Rand Paul. So all the ingredients are there, except this difference. Number one is that Mike Castle went after O'Donnell, hit her hard. Now, granted, only in the last three weeks, but he hit her hard ever since he saw what happened to Lisa Murkowski.
TODD: And two, a lot of mainstream conservatives that have been supportive of the tea party movement, outside of Palin and Jim DeMint, have discredited O'Donnell.
MATTHEWS: You know, I'm looking at her face now. I'm looking at—looks to be the new look of the conservative right. It's in often cases female, very camera-ready, in the sense of very good on television, very good on the radio, very articulate in the sense of being able to make a big, hard-line push seem very nice and acceptable and important, all the talents that matter to American politics today. And the old establishment candidates seem a little tired. Mike Castle looks tired.
TODD: Right.
MATTHEWS: Is that going to matter, just the telegenic factor, just the ability to get on there with a big smile and say, Look, I'm today, he's yesterday?
TODD: I think when you're trying to tell Delaware Republicans, Vote change, do you vote the guy that you've been voting for in Republican primaries every year since, I think, in his case, since 1980, when he ran...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: ... statewide as lieutenant governor, or the new gal? You know, so sure, I think just on simply—she looks more like change as far as a Delaware Republican or conservative.
But you know, there's another tension going on here, Chris, and that is this tension that you're seeing playing out, frankly, inside the Senate Republican caucus, which is how important is control, getting those 51 Republican senators...
MATTHEWS: Yes. Yes.
TODD: ... that puts Mitch McConnell in control, versus purity? The -
Jim DeMint has said he wants 30 Marco Rubios, rather than having a majority...
TODD: ... that is made up of a Charlie Crist or an Arlen Specter and...
MATTHEWS: Let's take a look at Rush Limbaugh now because I think Rush Limbaugh cuts to the heart of that argument. And this is among conservatives in the country. If you're a liberal, watch this because right now, the action ideologically in this country's on the right.
TODD: Yes.
MATTHEWS: The Democratic Party is what it's been, center left. Barack Obama may be a tad to the left of the regular Democratic Party, but not more than a tad. And the Republican Party, though, is in play. It's in flux. It's the way the Democratic Party was back in the '60s. This is where the action is ideologically. It's being yanked to the far right.
Here's Rush Limbaugh doing some of the yanking today on radio.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I have no brief for Christine O'Donnell, but I'm just going to tell you, a Senate full of Mike Castles is not going to get us anywhere. It's going to get a bunch of Republicans their chairmanships on the committee, but it's not going to do anything to reverse Obamaism, not one thing. It's not going to—if that's—if that's our majority, with a bunch of Mike Castles there, we're in trouble.
MATTHEWS: Well, there you have it. The walrus under water has spoken. But there he is making his point. Jonathan Martin is here right now. Jonathan, this question. You're from Politico, right?
JONATHAN MARTIN, POLITICO.COM: Yes, sir.
MATTHEWS: Jonathan, you're the hottest ticket in town, Politico. So tell me this.
MARTIN: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Is this the mood of the country? Are conservatives ready to maybe risk a seat to get the right person?
MARTIN: Well, you assume that the average grass roots conservative in Delaware is thinking about, Well, if I vote for her over Castle, is that going to somehow imperil our possibilities to pick up the Senate. I don't think that's how most voters there think. That's a little bit too tactical...
MATTHEWS: OK, is it more fun to vote for O'Donnell or more fun to vote for Castle?
MARTIN: Tactical, I think.
MATTHEWS: What's more fun?
MARTIN: If you're a conservative in the grass roots in Delaware, probably her.
MATTHEWS: More fun. That's my question. If you go into that voting booth—and the liberals can figure this out as well as independents and conservatives—what's more fun, to go into the voting booth and really kick butt and really give it some oomph and some juice and know that you made a difference, or say, yes, we'll keep it going the way it's been for the last 30 years, we'll vote for Castle? That's the way I've been voting. I mean, nothing's going to...
MARTIN: Well, Chris, keep in mind...
MATTHEWS: No, I'm dead serious. Chuck, you're an expert on politics. Do you think voters like to go in there, put some juice in that voting machine, or they just want to approve?
TODD: Primary voters...
MATTHEWS: Approve things.
TODD: They just don't vote on electability. It's happened, you know...
MARTIN: Right.
TODD: ... you know—you know, there's...
TODD: Frankly, more times than not, a primary voter is motivated by their ideology, by their principles.
MARTIN: Right.
MATTHEWS: Has the Republican Party, in its main—meaning the excited part of the party, not the old breed party, but the new breed of hot ticket, hot tea party types—they're voting to me the way the old liberals used to vote. They used to have a phrase called NDC. It meant "New Democratic coalition." But it also meant "November doesn't count." Are Republicans voting like Democrats used to vote, November doesn't count?
MARTIN: Well, or as Goldwaterism. You know, it's...
MATTHEWS: In your heart, you know she's right.
MARTIN: Right. Exactly. And I think you're seeing some of that because your conservatives in a place like Delaware, or even nationally, they want somebody that's going to toe the party line, that's going to be...
MATTHEWS: The new party line.
MARTIN: ... pure, and purity—and purity here trumps all. But keep in mind, though, Chuck, Delaware is a very unique place. Castle has a solid brand there.
TODD: Right.
MARTIN: This is not the...
MATTHEWS: OK. If he's so frickin' solid...
MARTIN: This is not the Murkowski name!
MATTHEWS: ... why is he going to dirtball? Here he is with a robocall using her former campaign manager...
MARTIN: He's a moderate!
MATTHEWS: OK. Right.
MARTIN: In a primary, a closed primary!
MATTHEWS: OK. This isn't exactly establishment behavior, is it?
Although it's like Crocker Jarmon (ph) in the movie decided to go negative. Here he is, showing an ad from—the voice of Christine O'Donnell's former campaign manager. Let's listen. It's running on the radio—actually, on the telephone today. Let's listen.
KRISTIN MURRAY, O'DONNELL CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Hi. This is Kristin Murray. In 2008, I was the campaign manager for Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell. I got into politics because I believe in conservative values and wanted to make a difference. But I was shocked to learn that Christine O'Donnell is no conservative. You see, this is her third Senate race in five years. As O'Donnell's manager, I found out that she was living on campaign donations, using them for rent and personal expenses while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt.
MATTHEWS: Take that, Chuck Todd! I mean, really...
TODD: ... Alan Keyes...
MATTHEWS: Tell me how that works.
TODD: Well, he basically kept running for office and pulled—and actually pulled a salary, I believe, the last time because...
MARTIN: From campaign funds, yes.
TODD: ... the FEC...
MARTIN: Yes.
TODD: It is legal to actually pay yourself a salary of the job you're running for, if you're running for the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate in those new campaign finance rules.
But look, the fact that—you know, there's another big picture thing going on here, and we may see the Democrats go through this if Republicans win control of both the House and Senate this year, which is, when a party loses, they have an ideological fight and the base always wins in the short term. The question is, does it work in the long-term?
MATTHEWS: OK, look, I've seen the Republican Party, a battle over the old breed and the hot tickets, new ones (ph), and I look at what's happening—we're going to get to this in the next segment.
MARTIN: Right.
MATTHEWS: But what a roll they're on. Nevada, they knocked out Sue Lowden and they put in Sharron Angle. In Alaska, they brought in Joe Miller out of nowhere. And in Kentucky, they brought in Rand Paul.
MARTIN: Utah...
MATTHEWS: In Utah...
MARTIN: Right.
MATTHEWS: ... they got this guy Mike Lee.
MARTIN: Right.
MATTHEWS: In Colorado, they got Ken Buck.
MARTIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: In Florida, you got Rubio. In Pennsylvania, they've got Toomey. Now, Toomey's sort of an old breed tea party guy, but the fact is, in every case, they've bumped the establishment candidate. This is a party in rapid transition. This is a party that's not the old party of Jerry Ford and Dick Nixon and even Reagan. It's a new kind of party.
MARTIN: Right. And Chris, what you just rattled off is precisely why Mike Castle...
MATTHEWS: (INAUDIBLE) Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck party!
MARTIN: But what you just rattled off explains exactly why Castle's airing that call that you just played because he saw what happened with Murkowski, with Bob Bennett...
MARTIN: ... with KBH in Texas, all these folks who said, It's not going to happen to me. That's why the past two weeks...
MATTHEWS: OK, I'm looking at...
MATTHEWS: He says he doesn't like to get dirty or rough, but he's gotten it. Here he is, Nate Silver, one of our experts, projecting the Republicans have the strongest chance of taking over the Senate if Castle wins in Delaware, the more moderate guy, and Ayotte wins tonight up in New Hampshire at 30 percent. He says if they both lose, it's a lot rougher to win.
Chuck, your thinking? I think they can still win...
MARTIN: New Hampshire and...
MATTHEWS: ... and net 10 if they pull off some upsets like in California and certainly in Wisconsin, places like that. Your thoughts.
TODD: Well, look, here—my last four Senate seats of the—there are 13 Democratic Senate seats in play. The last four to flip, in my mind, are Connecticut, West Virginia, California and Nevada, OK? And if you pull Delaware out of the equation, that means Republicans have to win two of those four that I identified, West Virginia, Connecticut, Nevada and California. And they all are, frankly, are a tad uphill in one form or another.
MATTHEWS: Well, I just gave them two circles.
TODD: And so—I agree. I think they can get to there. They can get there. It's just a little bit harder if you pull Delaware out of the equation.
MATTHEWS: So many people I know—look, I'll tell you a fact that we're not including here right in this conversation. We'll do it in the next segment. So many progressives I know are despondent. They don't think Barack Obama has been pluperfect the way they thought he should be. I think they're setting way too high a standard, but that's my view. Their view is he's not reaching their goals.
That will be a question of how that turnout occurs. If only the red-hot right votes, look out, everybody. That includes Boxer, that includes Patty Murray, that includes the governor of West Virginia. They could all go if the only people voting are the red-hot right and everybody else stays home or goes to the movies or sits home in the rain.
Chuck Todd, thank you, Jonathan Martin.
TODD: All right, guys.
MATTHEWS: We got to get your car faster next time.
MATTHEWS: Coming up: No country for old Republicans.
MARTIN: Thanks for having me, guys.
MATTHEWS: We're already working that side (INAUDIBLE) The far right is on the rise, and when a candidate like Mike Castle is no longer safe in a state like Delaware, you want to know just what's going on with the Republican Party these days. Something big-time is going—Democratic Party is still uneasy about the president. The Republican Party is in open rebellion.
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MATTHEWS: Well, talk about little old Delaware tonight, it's the big spotlight. But now look at what's going on in other Senate race in another Northeastern state, Connecticut. Linda McMahon is now just 6 points, a half a dozen points shy of Democrat Richard Blumenthal in the latest Quinnipiac poll, and that is a first rate poll. Look, at that, 51-45. It is getting real close. She's got the money. She may get the women's vote. That's it. This could be a real big surprise. And he had that problem with his war record. He got that wrong.
Let's get this -- 4 in 10 people who support McMahon say they're doing so mainly because they're against Blumenthal. I think it has to do with his talking about his war record inaccurately. That's a big hurdle for Blumenthal to overcome. They don't trust him. If I were him, I'd straighten things out as fast as possible, say you didn't serve in Vietnam, you were wrong to suggest to anybody that you did. It was a dishonor to the people who served to even suggest you did. Just fix it, Mr. Blumenthal. That's what I'd do.
HARDBALL returns after this.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. If Mike Castle loses to Christine O'Donnell tonight in the big state of Delaware, he'll become the eighth Republican casualty of the party's right wing. Why are we seeing a trend of conservative voters rejecting Republican experts or establishment people for the Senate and taking people from nowhere? And what are the consequences for the Republican Party to build their house with these people from nowhere?
Matthew Dowd, a real pro, is now a "National"—God, the boy can write! -- "National Journal" columnist and a former strategist for the Bush-Cheney (INAUDIBLE) you were writing all those speeches -- 2004 campaign. And Sam Stein's the White House correspondent for Huffingtonpost.
Well, I can't resist the chance to start with a real Republican. Matt Dowd, you know, this used to be what the Democrats did, tear themselves apart. The old phrase was "NDC," "November doesn't count," just have a great time in the primaries. Doesn't matter who wins, as long as it's fun. Your party seems to be doing that right now. Maybe it'll work.
MATTHEW DODD, "NATIONAL JOURNAL": Well, I don't know if many Republicans would consider me a real Republican since I've broken in many ways with different Republicans on it. But I mean, I think what this is a reflection of is the frustration and anger that exists out there in America. And broadly, it's frustration, but in the Republican primary, it's intense anger. And who's suffering in that is anybody that represents the establishment or Washington in that mix. It's not necessarily an incumbent thing. Among Republicans, it's who represents the establishment or who represents Washington. And it's intense, it's hot and it's passionate, and it doesn't matter what's going to happen in November. Whoever represents that is in the way.
MATTHEWS: What is the smell of Washington that they don't like? Give me it in the cruddiest terms. If you're a tea partier and you think of Washington or smell it in your brain, what is it that you smell and don't like? What is it that's Washington that's bad?
DODD: And I don't think it has—it's not fully what—Barack Obama and his policies. I think it began in the last few years of Bush, where there was all the things that was spending. I think it is they think Washington is disconnected from people's lives. They think Washington spends money without regard for what's going on.
They think Republicans and Democrats, regardless if they get along publicly, cut deals and it's "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine." They're only interested in rising on the ladder. They're only interested in what they can get out of Washington. They're only interested in power for power's sake. They're not interested in designing and having a government that reflects where they are in their lives. I think that's what it is. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or Republican. If you—if they feel you represent that, then they don't like you.
MATTHEWS: This is an ancient, almost primordial feeling, the middle class in any country feels. Robert Reich once taught me it's called "the rot at the top," which he just described brilliantly, the rot - the sense that the big shots in Washington are selling you out, wasting your money that you paid in tax money, and the mob at the gate, whatever that means to you, illegal immigration, whatever it means, minorities, whatever it means, Welfare cheats, whatever it means to you, the mob at the gate and the rot at the top, and you're stuck in the middle. And that's where a lot of voters feel right now, obviously.
STEIN: Well, yes. Look at these...
STEIN: I'm sorry.
But look at these Republican primaries. If you look soberly at each of the candidates that were defeated, these were conservative candidates. These were not people who were necessarily that far out...
MATTHEWS: But they did things wrong.
STEIN: They did things wrong. But they also had the...
MATTHEWS: Well, here they are. Let's read them now.
Here are the Republican Senate candidates who were either toppled by Tea Party candidates or driven out of the party. Trey Grayson, the guy that couldn't lose in Kentucky, the best friend of Mitch McConnell, lost to Rand Paul, who couldn't win, but did.
Florida's Charlie Crist, a very popular governor, driven out of the party by Rubio. Utah's Senator Bob Bennett, how can you get more conservative than him, knocked off in his reelection by Tea Partiers. Alaska Senator Murkowski out of nowhere defeated by a guy named Joe Miller. Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter, who had never lost a race, blown away by Pat Toomey, forced to quit the party and become a Democrat.
Sue Lowden, who was a very attractive candidate in so many ways, should have won that nomination, blown away by Sharron Angle of the far right. Jane Norton the Colorado primary to Ken Buck.
I'm looking at these people that, if were doing a morning line on this, you would say everyone was going to win. They were all going to win.
STEIN: Yes. And like you hinted, each of them in one way or another a flaw. And a lot of times, it was just simply that they were the pick of the establishment, and whether it was the NRSC, or whether it was Mitch McConnell with Trey Grayson. In other cases, like with Bob Bennett, there was a specific vote where he was deemed not...
MATTHEWS: Because he paired off with Ron Wyden.
STEIN: With Ron Wyden. And with Murkowski, there was hints that she may supported...
MATTHEWS: OK. Here's Mitch McConnell. Let's give him full time here. Here's—this morning with Savannah Guthrie on the morning show, she asked—On "MORNING JOE"—asked Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell if Republicans are rejecting his picks for office. Let's listen.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, NBC WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Seven of the establishment Republican picks, candidates you got behind in primaries, have gone down to defeat, including in your home state of Kentucky.
So do you feel like the Republican Party is rebuking your and the establishment picks?
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MINORITY LEADER: Well, look, the primaries—the voters in the primaries get to decide who the nominees are. There was one state, Utah, where the primary voters didn't get a chance to decide. It was done by convention.
But, you know, those things sort themselves out and we'll get behind the nominees of the party. The real elections are not in the primaries or the convention, the real election's in November. And, as I said, I'm optimistic I'm going to be the leader of a larger group than I am right now.
MATTHEWS: Boy, Matt, there's a pol, if there ever was one. What a smart pol, a survivor, if there ever was one.
Mitch McConnell has had his head buried in a gopher hole for a year-and-a-half. He's coming out just in time to take the plaudits for winning the Senate, if he does. If he doesn't, he will say he did his best, and he will probably get a laurel wreath for that, but he didn't want these candidates, did he?
DOWD: No, he wanted candidates that were sort of part of the mainstream, part of this that sort of—honestly, that were going to be get along, get along. They would abdicate to his leadership. They would do what he wanted.
I think the guy on Election Day, regardless of the way it turns out, who should have a real fear about some of these guys coming to the Senate and who they represent, if Marco Rubio wins, if Joe Miller wins, if other folks win around the country, is Mitch McConnell, because these guys are not going there in order to get along and go along.
And they are not going to—you think they have disagreements with the Democrats. They're going to show real disagreements with the Senate—future Senate minority—majority leader if he wins.
MATTHEWS: Are these voters—and I think voters are great—and I think democracy has been spectacular for this country for 200-plus years. And it always amazes me how people are really smart.
Are they electing people to bark at the moon, I mean, really to come to come back to Washington and just go—and just bark at the moon and make weird noses at their other members, don't meet anybody else, don't shake hands with anybody in the establishment, don't get a house in Washington, maybe stay in a hotel, but really keep away from the people, because they're evil and dirty? Do they want them to do that?
STEIN: There's not going to be the collegiality, although that has dissipated greatly.
MATTHEWS: Do they want them to join the Senate or to just show up and then...
STEIN: No, they don't. They want them to show up and represent their interests. They like term limits. Rand Paul today said something very important. He said he was going to veto or help filibuster—not veto—help filibuster any budget that wasn't balanced.
We have Joe Miller...
MATTHEWS: Balanced?
STEIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: So, they're going to cut $1.6 trillion out of the debt?
STEIN: I don't know how they're going to do it.
They have Joe Miller, who says he wants to get rid of Social Security. You have a bunch of these people who want to get rid of the Department of Education. These are not people who want to work within the Republican tent. They want to change government as you know it. And it's going to create, as Matt notes, real problems in the GOP.
We talked about "Star Wars" bar scene, a fight scene out of "Star Wars." That's what it's going to be.
MATTHEWS: Matt?
DOWD: Well, let me—Chris, I just want to say one thing. There's a huge obviously distrust of the federal government. It's not just Tea Partiers. It's broadly in the country.
Anybody that presents a federal government solution to a problem is automatically suspect and is toxic.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
DOWD: Barack Obama has created his own problems by presenting many federal government solutions to the problems.
This is not going away. Whether these Tea Party folks win or not, there's a huge segment out in the country, a majority, who does not trust the federal government to deal with problems anymore.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's been the progressives' failure, not to be able to sell what they have been doing, because the Democratic Party, like it, love it, or hate it, is the party of government.
It's got to make the case for a progressive, successful, effective government that meets the needs of the people at a reasonable price in terms of taxes, or it will be rejected. In this term, it looks like it's getting rejected.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Matt Dowd.
Thank, Sam Stein.
But it is the challenge of progressives. Conservatives win when people lose faith in government.
STEIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: That's been their main case from day one.
Up next: We know Republicans love to demonize Nancy Pelosi, but a new ad from her opponent in San Francisco may be going a bit far. He's got her as the Wicked Witch from "The Wizard of Oz." Of course, this fellow is not going to win. Republicans have been fielding candidates for years in San Francisco. They get about—well, 10 percent.
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now to the "Sideshow."
First: making a splash. Nancy Pelosi's Republican challenger, such as he is, John Dennis, is all but assured losing this November. But that doesn't mean he isn't willing to get down in the mud. Check out his new Web ad.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello, my pretty. I will save you from those evil Republicans. And here are my monkeys to make you pay for it all.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get back, everyone.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, I'm melting.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you for saving us. Who are you?
JOHN DENNIS ®, CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE: I'm John Dennis. I'm running for Congress. I believe in following the Constitution and I believe in reducing debt. And I believe it's time to throw a little water on politicians who say one thing and do another, like Nancy Pelosi.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're home, Toto. We're home.
MATTHEWS: Wow.
Well, Dennis says to look out for more parodies from him like that. "A Few Good Men" is one of them and "James Bond" in the coming months, whatever those are going to be like.
By the way, Pelosi's last Republican opponent won a grand total of 10 percent of the vote.
Next: back-to-school politics. Remember when Florida Republican Chairman Jim Greer whacked at President Obama for giving a speech to Texas schoolkids? He accused the president of—quote—"using taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda."
Well, one year later, it appears Mr. Greer has had an epiphany.
Here's what he put out ahead of the president's today to a Philadelphia school—quote—"In the year since I issued a prepared statement regarding President Obama speaking to the nation's schoolchildren, I have learned a great deal about the party I so deeply loved and served. Unfortunately, I found that many within the GOP have racist views, and I apologize to the president for my opposition to his speech last year and my efforts to placate the extremists who dominate our party today."
Well, Greer's break with Republicans may have been helped by the fact he's facing charges of fraud and money-laundering from his tenure as state Republican chairman down in Florida.
Well, finally, you think Rahm Emanuel's a shoo-in for the mayor of Chicago? Well, think again. While Rahm has yet to announce formally, former Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun is set next week to announce officially that she's running. This can't-be-missed reelection fight, this is going to be one heck of a fight in Chicago set for February 22.
Up next: Who wins the big political battle over taxes? I think taxes is going to be knocking at the door of voters as they go in that booth. Democrats say Republicans are holding the middle class hostage, so rich people can get tax cuts. Republicans say the Democrats are waging class warfare. They're probably both right.
The debate is straight ahead. You're watching HARDBALL, only on
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Stocks finishing little changed, as pockets of strength offset by pockets of weakness, the Dow Jones industrial average slipping 17 points, the S&P 500 down just a fraction, and the Nasdaq, though, with a four-point game.
Shares in major retailers spiking today on steadily rebounding sales. August sales rose four-tenths-of-a-percent. That was more than expected and the biggest increase in five months. Best Buy was a standout today, surging 6 percent on better-than-expected profits and an improved outlook.
Cisco shares also finishing higher after announcing it will begin paying a dividend of between 1 percent and 2 percent. That will start in 2011. But industrials were under some pressure today on slowing demand for steel and a sector downgrade from Goldman Sachs.
Boeing took a hit on a report that the WTO will rule that it received about $24 billion in illegal tax breaks from the U.S. government.
That's it from CNBC, first in business worldwide—now back to HARDBALL and that sharp tie with Mr. Matthews.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
MCCONNELL: I'm not going to answer all these hypotheticals. I'm going to tell you what I think we ought to be fighting for in the Senate is a permanent extension of the current tax rates.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. That was Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell earlier today on morning rundown—"DAILY RUNDOWN." I love that show, by the way. I was on my track today, actually my run—my—what do you call that thing?
FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: An iPod?
MATTHEWS: My—my—the thing you run on.
PALMIERI: A treadmill?
MATTHEWS: My treadmill.
On the tax fight, all or nothing or something in between, and which side has more to gain and more to lose before the midterm? This is exciting because it affects everybody watching right now who is working, your taxes.
Let's bring in Democratic strategist Jennifer Palmieri, who is with the Center For American Progress, and Republican strategist Ron Christie, who worked for the Bush administration.
Let me ask you both, doesn't everybody want a tax cut?
PALMIERI: Is this to me?
MATTHEWS: Doesn't everybody want a tax cut? You don't want to answer this question.
PALMIERI: No, I do.
MATTHEWS: I mean, personally, personally want a tax cut.
PALMIERI: The polling actually is interesting on this in that a majority of people don't support extending the Bush tax cuts.
MATTHEWS: But for themselves, they do.
PALMIERI: No, they don't. When you say should we extend the Bush tax cuts, 52 percent of Americans say no. I think it's because that they think those tax cuts all go to rich people.
But then when you say should you extend them for rich people or should you extend them for only the middle class, they pick only the middle class. And I think what's great about what John Boehner has done is, he has clarified the difference between the Democrats...
MATTHEWS: By saying he would sign that bill.
RON CHRISTIE, FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT BUSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: Let me just try something by you. I tried it by Ron before we went on the air.
If nothing happens, we all know everybody's taxes go up in January, right? Who wins then? If we go to the voting booth and everybody walks in the voting booth and nothing has been happening, and therefore everybody's taxes who is watching now are going up in January because they couldn't get bill passed, who wins in that case? Who wins then, Democrats or Republicans?
PALMIERI: It's not going to happen in a vacuum. There will be a floor fight. There will be a debate. And I think if they can't get a bill passed, what the Democrats will say is, this is what the election is about. It's about making this decision.
MATTHEWS: But won't people blame the Democrats because they're in power?
PALMIERI: I think if you—if you—and, again, Mr. Boehner helped us make this case. If you're able to say, I wanted to vote for tax cuts, to extend tax cuts for the middle class, they wanted to give $700 billion in more tax cuts to rich people, and I wanted to stop that, and we're going to come back and fix it next year.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's the polling. Democratic polling under Stan Greenberg is making her case. It does say that people are willing to fight this fight that the rich shouldn't get the tax cut.
The Democrats believe this. I hear Nancy Pelosi believes it in her gut and she's going to fight like heck on this. You say?
CHRISTIE: It's a mistake.
To answer your first question, I can't think of anybody across this country who wouldn't want a tax cut. People who are working very hard, people who have very limited resources, people want a tax cut.
CHRISTIE: But the class warfare distinction, I think the Democrats are making a mistake. If the Democrats do absolutely nothing between now and the November election, and everybody's taxes go up, the Republicans do well. The Republicans can go back and say, see, we told you.
MATTHEWS: I would say most Americans, like 90 percent or 95 percent, don't know anybody, never shaken hands with, never talked to anybody who makes over a quarter-million a year.
CHRISTIE: Oh, I believe that.
MATTHEWS: There are counties in Pennsylvania that don't -- $100,000 is almost—maybe one person makes that kind of money.
CHRISTIE: This is politics, rather than it is sound economic policy.
The problem is we have had an administration that has spent almost a trillion dollars on a stimulus bill saying, we're going to get out of the ditch by using Keynesian economics to try to perpetuate the government...
MATTHEWS: OK. Let's not get into that Keynesian economics.
Let's talk taxes here. If the bill gets passed, and the tax cut goes through, and the middle class, the $250,000 people and below get their tax cut, who wins? No, and I want an honest answer.
CHRISTIE: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Dems or Republicans, if they get the tax cut through, if they keep the tax cut for the middle class.
CHRISTIE: If it's $250,000 and below, I think the Democrats win, because the Democrats can say, we are fighting for working families...
MATTHEWS: If the tax cut—let me give you another one.
I think you agree on that, right?
PALMIERI: I do, actually.
MATTHEWS: Clearly, if the Democrats—suppose it goes out somewhere in the middle and ends up the only bill they can get passed is a one- or two-year extension of tax cuts for everybody. Who wins then, politically?
CHRISTIE: I think the Democrats win that. I think the Democrats can say, see, President Obama's trying to meet the Republicans halfway. You know, we can't raise taxes in a bad economic time. I think it makes it a lot easier for them.
MATTHEWS: So, if anything passes, the Democrat wins. If nothing passes, the Republicans win.
CHRISTIE: I think that's it.
JENNIFER PALMIERI, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: And the one thing that
MATTHEWS: Do you agree with that?
PALMIERI: Yes, I do. I do. I do agree with that.
MATTHEW: So, now, we know the game. The Republicans will do everything they can to delay this and prevent to vote.
PALMIERI: The bill had a two-year extension or permanent extension, or something like that.
CHRISTIE: That's right.
MATTHEWS: But they're willing to take the loss because if nothing gets passed, they win.
PALMIERI: They think that they win. But I think that the one thing
MATTHEWS: You think they win if nothing gets passed?
PALMIERI: Because we're going to have a fight about it. And the thing is—
MATTHEWS: OK. Here's the president. Let's listen to President Obama on this issue because I think it's tricky, but most people follow common sense. If Democrats are in power and they don't get their tax cut, they blame Democrats. If Democrats are in power and they do get their tax cut, they thank Democrats a little bit.
Let's listen to the president.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We could get that done this week. But we're still in this wrestling match with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell about the last 2 percent to 3 percent where we'd be giving $100,000 for people making $1 million or more.
MATTHEWS: Can the president of the United States turn these guys into target practice?
CHRISTIE: No.
MATTHEWS: Can he make John Boehner and Mitch McConnell the ugliest men in America? Can he do this?
CHRISTIE: No, look—
PALMIERI: You've got to define—
CHRISTIE: Let me phrase it this way: John Boehner's a friend of mine. I love the guy. I'm positive that most people in this country don't know who John Boehner is.
MATTHEWS: But we know he smokes.
CHRISTIE: Who cares? Who cares? Look, the important thing here is that this doesn't look presidential. You have the president of the United States out there saying John Boehner and McConnell. You are the president of the United States. You have the bully platform. You have the pulpit.
MATTHEWS: You make your point well. Isn't that the problem for the president of the United States, who is the president, that don't blame me, I'm running the country.
CHRISTIE: Right.
MATTHEWS: I've got a Democratic Party running the Congress. Blame this guy from Ohio that smokes and plays golf.
PALMIERI: Right. But first of all, it happens to be true, that they are the ones that are standing in the way of him doing what he wants.
CHRISTIE: No, it's not.
MATTHEWS: But he said he'll vote for it. He said on Sunday that he'll vote for the bill if that was the only choice.
PALMIERI: His problem with the midterms for the Democrats have been that it is just a referendum on the economy and what the White House is trying to do and I think it's smart to do, is to make it a choice. It is not—because that is what voters make it. They are making a choice between Obama's direction or John Boehner's and the Republican's direction. And I think what they're doing is the only way you can say—
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me ask you about (INAUDIBLE). The Tea Party throughout there, it's been almost an insurrection now for a year and it's been very effective. They've won we talked about throughout the program tonight, they've won seven big races, knocking out establishment figures. People that could be beaten, Specter, Charlie Crist, Bob Bennett—
CHRISTIE: Jane Norton.
MATTHEWS: -- Murkowski, incumbents and challengers—knocked them all out. Their focus is against government, against taxes. Are they going drive the Republican thinking on this to the point where it's the number one issue, we've got to get tax cuts?
CHRISTIE: Yes, absolutely. Look, Republicans got fired because we spent too much, we forgot what we came from. We became just like Democrats. The Tea Party from around this country are sick and tired of the conventional wisdom that Washington knows best. We're going to tell you what money you can keep and what not. And this is, we're looking at an insurrection.
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you. Jennifer Palmieri, thank you. And, Ron Christie, always the hot hand.
Up next: what Senator Harry Reid doing with the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy? Well, he wants a vote. But can he get 60? That's what it takes to get—to knock the filibuster.
And what happens inside the military if it does—if they do get rid of "don't ask, don't tell"? We're going to talk about those questions. The politics and reality of getting rid of "don't ask, don't tell" and having open service for people regardless of their sexual orientation in the military—which looks to be the future. The question is when is it coming and how are people going to handle it?
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Hot news just in. Yesterday, we told you about how Republican candidate for governor, California Meg Whitman ripped a scab off of a fight between Jerry Brown and Bill Clinton going back to 1992. Well, today, former President Bill Clinton endorsed Jerry Brown. It's a big thing to do that in the race, saying they put their fight behind them years ago. For his part, Brown called Clinton's endorsement and his presidency accomplishment-rich.
We'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
It is an awful week, we can get by Lady Gaga—Senator Harry Reid tweets a military policy into one second, but tonight, we can, Lady Gaga who dominated this year's Video Music Awards sent this tweet and photo. It reads, "Gay veterans were my VMA dates. Repeal 'don't ask, don't tell.' Call Harry Reid to schedule vote."
Well, Senator Reid scheduled a vote. He's bringing the matter to
the floor as part of Defense Authorization Bill and re-tweeted this today
in reply to Lady Gaga. "There is a vote on DADT—that's 'don't ask,
don't tell'—next week. Anyone qualified to serve this country should be allowed to do."
Katherine Miller decided to leave West Point because she no longer wanted to serve under "don't ask, don't tell." She was one of Lady Gaga's dates, if you will, to the music awards.
Matthew Alexander served 18 years in the Air Force as an adviser—he's an adviser on O.T. votevets.org. And he's the author of "How to Break a Terrorist."
Let me ask you both—Katherine first—let's assume that this is going to come to a vote. It may not get the 60 this time. It may get—the courts may rule on this. It may take a year. It may take a little longer than that.
What do you think will be the difference when we have open service? What would be different? How would it be different, Katherine, do you believe?
KATHERINE MILLER, FMR. WEST POINT CADET: Actually, I think we're overestimating the differences that repealing "don ask, don't tell" is going to entail. I think it's going to be a smooth transition. The military's more than prepared to make this transition, and I've been exceedingly proud of them. You know, for being able to make a difference, desegregation and the integration of women. So, really, I think we're overestimating the differences it's going to take.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me ask—let me ask—who's our other guest?
I'm sorry. Matthew Alexander.
Matthew, what do you think will be the difference?
MATTHEW ALEXANDER, FMR. SENIOR MILITARY INTERROGATOR: I think moral will actually improve because we have members serving in the military today who aren't allowed to disclose their sexuality. I have a good friend, won a Silver Star in Afghanistan, and he got out of the military because of this policy—not even because he was forced out, but because he felt it created an atmosphere that wasn't conducive to him continuing to serve. And so, we lose good people because of it and we're all the worse for that.
MATTHEWS: Well, but you're all for it, but let me get back to Katherine.
Why are people against open service? Why are people in the military resisting? Why is it going to be so hard for Harry Reid to get 60 votes this week to stop a filibuster? Who's resisting this because the public seems to be for it? Who's fighting it?
MILLER: You know, it's a really small minority. I feel like this
minority though of, in my case, cadets, but soldiers at large and, you
know, some of our general officers, they are very vocal about their
homophobia and, you know, they are scared of making this transition. And -
MATTHEWS: Why are they scared? Try to figure it out.
MILLER: I mean, I think that's a difficult question. Mainly because there's a big generational gap between, you know, the general officer corps and our young rising leaders, our second lieutenants, because homosexuality is something—is a fairly new concept to these people. So, I think the generational gap is causing a lot of fear and discomfort at the higher levels.
MATTHEWS: Matthew, why are people against it? Why are we arguing this thing? Because young people, I know that all the numbers, in fact, the country is pretty much overwhelmingly for open service now. But yet, I predict they are not going to get 60 votes.
So, I'm telling you why I'm bringing this up, there is a cultural resistance. Jim Webb, the senator from Virginia. There are people in the Democratic Party. Certainly, John McCain in the Republican Party, with a lot of military background, they don't want this.
ALEXANDER: Well, it's a political issue it's why. It's not reflected by the people in the military, especially the younger generations of people in the military and it's definitely not reflected by the public who acknowledges that we already have homosexuals serving in the military, who are performing admirably. They are already serving side by side. They are already sleeping in the same tents.
Logistics of it that people use as an excuse are not even valid because homosexuals are already serving in the military and we are already performing our missions without them being able to serve openly. But allowing them to serve openly will give everybody equal chance to serve this country based on their competency, not based on their sexuality.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me ask but a couple things that might trouble some people. You can call it homophobia, but it's part of the debate there. Some people argue that we separate the sexes in the barracks for good reason. They go out on leave, whatever they mix among the genders and they have whatever sex they enjoy or whatever, they certainly have romance and attraction. But the way they separate people who are attracted to each other is they put them in different barracks.
Do you have to make any kind of adjustments once you have open service for gay focus, gay people as well?
Your thoughts, Katherine. Just leave the military conduct requirements exactly the way they are.
MILLER: Oh, I mean, absolutely. I think we have Uniform Code of Military Justice and we have regulations already in place to regulate conduct. And if there's a problem, we're going to address it. It's—under no circumstances is it OK for, you know, a senior to be in a relationship with a subordinate or, you know, two roommates.
MATTHEWS: So, fraternization rules would just have to be strictly enforced, you're saying? Like, for example, you have a drill instructor that they may obviously have an attraction to somebody in the ranks and that everybody knows about, that would cause a lot of problems, obviously. But you say you can deal with that in terms of just discipline. There's to be no camaraderie, no fraternization, period, between the ranks?
MILLER: Right. Adhere to existing military policy that we have, you know, already regulating these behaviors. If it's unacceptable behavior for heterosexuals and it's also unacceptable for homosexuals. We're not asking for special treatment. We're asking for equality on this.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
And, Matthew, you don't see any problem. Because I hear these arguments made—I was an adviser to Peace Corps. We didn't have these issues, obviously. But the fact is, there are people who argue you can't have the same barracks, people who are attracted to each other.
Do you see any requirements for changing the rules to make that obviously a more disciplined situation than it has to be right now?
ALEXANDER: No, I don't, Chris. You know, I have been a criminal investigator for the military for almost eight years and we quit investigating homosexual conduct years ago because we realized it doesn't affect unit morale. You know, it's based to on—we have a Uniform Code of Military Justice and our investigations and our corrective action should be based on conduct, misconduct, and not on someone's sexuality.
MATTHEWS: OK. Well, we are going to have this argument for a while because it looks like it's not going to pass right now. The courts are getting into this. I think it's getting close to an unstoppable force to bring an end to open service.
But thanks so much and congratulations, Katherine. It's great to have you on the show. It is an honor to have you on. Well, you've been through a lot and great spokesman for this issue. Matthew Alexander as well. Thank you both for coming on.
When we return, I'm going to have some thoughts about why it's time to end "don't ask, don't tell."
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with a question of open service in the U.S. military.
I think "don't ask, don't tell" was probably destined to be an intermediate solution in the debate between those who support it and those who opposed open service. The premise was that a gay person would agree to a strange compact on joining the military services. A gay person would be allowed to serve as other Americans do, but only if he or she didn't say they were gay—if they didn't declare their sexual orientation in some other direct way.
The problem, as has been explained on this show, is that this "don't ask, don't tell" rule didn't apply to straight soldiers. They could come back from a weekend pass full of romantic exploits, sharing them for all to hear. The gay soldier or sailor would have to keep quiet on what he or she did over the weekend. To do otherwise would be to violate the compact, "don't tell" has meant just that, don't tell.
My hunch, having never served in the military myself, is that soldiers learn not to ask gay soldiers questions about their lives for the simple reason that it would require them to tell, which is grounds for discharge. So the U.S. Senate's on the verge of dumping "don't ask, don't tell." Open service is very much in prospect, primarily because the American public has changed its mind on this matter. Never has it changed its mind so quickly so dramatically.
The social acceptability of anti-gay bias is rapidly diminishing, just as it did in the years after World War II towards Catholics and also for Jewish people, and sadly, only gradually, for African-Americans. Military service was one reason prejudice began to die. It's hard to deny a person full acceptance when you know firsthand how they have given for our country.
Here today, we have a case of a group of Americans ready to fight for their country, openly and with full pride in who they are. As I said, the American people have changed—have never changed their minds so quickly. Perhaps the reasons are not so different from the reasons why war time in the 1940s saw such a shift in national attitudes. Perhaps one powerful reason for the acceptance of gay fighting men and women is the obvious desire of so many gay people today wanting to serve their country in uniform at a time when such service is extremely perilous.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to R.S. 42:375, the Governor may issue executive orders which prohibit or regulate the filling of any new or existing vacancies in positions of employment in the executive branch of state government (hereafter "hiring freeze");
WHEREAS, R.S. 39:84 provides authority to the Governor to regulate and control personnel transactions;
WHEREAS, to limit or control the growth in government positions and to prepare for the budget challenges in the ensuing years, prudent fiscal management practices dictate that the best interests of the citizens of the State of Louisiana will be served by the implementation of a hiring freeze in the executive branch of state government to achieve at least a state general fund dollar savings of $20 million;
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SECTION 1: No vacancy in an existing or new position of employment within the executive branch of state government that exists on or occurs after the effective date of this order shall be filled which would in any manner, decrease, or in the case of Non-T.O. FTEs increase, the number of such frozen positions within the department, budget unit, agency, and/or office, within the executive branch of state government below the number frozen determined as provided in Paragraph B of this section. This includes Appropriated Table of Organization Full-Time Equivalent positions (T.O. FTEs), Other Compensation positions (Non-T.O. FTEs), Other Charges positions (Non-T.O. FTEs), job appointments (Non-T.O. FTEs), and restricted appointments (Non-T.O. FTEs).
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B. The Commissioner of Administration is hereby authorized to and shall establish, on a continuing basis, the number of FTEs, hereafter referred to as "positions", to be frozen for each such department, agency, and/or budget unit specified in Paragraph A of this Section together with the expenditure of funds appropriated for such positions.
C. After the effective date of this Order, employee transfers, promotions, re-allocations, and the creation of any new positions of employment within the executive branch of state government shall not, in any manner, decrease, or in the case of Non-T.O. FTEs increase, the number of such frozen positions within the department, budget unit, agency, and/or office, within the executive branch of state government below the number frozen determined as provided in this Section unless otherwise adjusted by the Commissioner of Administration.
SECTION 2: No later than July 26, 2010, in order to implement the freeze provided in Section 1, the head of each Unit listed in Section 1 of this Order shall submit to the Commissioner of Administration (hereafter "Commissioner") a mid-year budget adjustment plan, on the BA-7 form and questionnaire, which reflects the Unit's proposed allocation of the position freeze ordered in Section 1 of this Order (hereafter "mid-year budget adjustment plan"), and a rationale or explanation of the mid-year budget adjustment plan.
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SECTION 6: The Order is effective July 1, 2010 and shall remain in effect through June 30, 2011 or until amended, modified, terminated, or rescinded by the Governor, or terminated by operation of law.
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Bobby Jindal
Jay Dardenne
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Mitiamo celebrates A-grade netball premiership
Mitiamo won its first A-grade title since 2005 with a stunning upset of YCW in the Loddon Valley Netball Association grand final at Inglewood on Saturday.
The Superoos led from start to finish in the 47-39 triumph, which exacted some revenge for three grand final losses to the Eagles from 2008 to 2010.
For YCW it was a heartbreaking season finale for the second year in a row.
In 2011, the Eagles' only loss for the season came in the grand final, while Saturday's game was only YCW's second defeat this year.
But for the victors there were jubilant celebrations after netting the club's first A-grade flag since 2005.
Mitiamo coach Jen Morrison said the premiership was made more special because it was unexpected.
"It was big, we have such a young side with a couple of kids up out of the under-17s from last year, so we actually – at the start of the year – thought it was going to be a rebuilding year," Morrison said.
"So to actually come away with the win it's just awesome."
The Superoos set up the victory by jumping out of the blocks in the opening term, scoring six unanswered goals before YCW settled.
Miti dominated through the mid-court, with best on court Amelia Ludeman in centre, wing defence Tamara Grant and wing attack Sarah Ludeman feeding in-form goalers Laura Spence and Stella Calder.
The Superoos led by eight goals late in the term, before YCW playing-coach Christie Griffiths made it 15-9 by quarter-time.
Playing in wing attack, Griffiths' link up play with centre Jessica Moroni and wing defence Bree Bentley was a major reason why the Eagles worked their way back into the match in the second quarter.
YCW goal attack Jamie Lee Clohesy started the quarter brilliantly and shooter Cara Bastian worked her way into the game as the Eagles reduced the deficit to 25-22 at half-time.
YCW scored the opening two goals of the second half and the heat was on.
However, league best and fairest Spence showed her class to keep Mitiamo ahead 34-30 at the last change.
It looked as though a thrilling final term was in store for the big crowd, but Mitiamo proved far too good when the game was on the line.
YCW had the first centre pass, but Mitiamo scored the first three goals to open a matchwinning lead.
Mitiamo had complete control across the court and held a 10-goal advantage before the Eagles scored the last two goals of the game and the season.
Morrison said the fast start helped her team's self-belief it could beat YCW – which it had drawn with and lost to in two previous clashes this year.
"We've had terrible first quarters all year, so to come out like that… we did it last week against Pyramid (Hill) and it was our aim to do it again and not play catch up netball for once and it paid off," she said.
Disappointed to go down in another grand final, Griffiths said her team wasn't able to recover from Mitiamo's lightning start.
"Unfortunately, they just wanted it more today.
"We started off slow and just couldn't make it back into the contest," she said.
"We just weren't good enough, but we'll come back next year – third time lucky."
In Saturday's other grand finals, YCW defeated Mitiamo 46-38 in the B-grade final, with the Eagles' Alex Lacy named best on court.
In the C-grade decider Bears-Lagoon Serpentine, which was third at the end of the home-and-away series, scored a 37-34 victory against YCW, which finished on top after 18 rounds.
Bears' goalkeeper Tania Twigg was named best-on-court in the grand final.
Mitiamo's A-grade coach Jen Morrison was best on court in the C-reserve decider, which the Superoos won 43-40 against Inglewood.
Pyramid Hill's 17-and-under team was too strong for Marong, 51-43.
Zoe Kennedy was best for the red, whie and blue.
YCW thrashed Mitiamo 50-29 in the 15-under final, with goaler Stephanie Donnellon named best on court to cap a fine season with the Eagles.
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Sacha Baron Cohen's new film is entirely scripted—and with all of his Ali G characters completely mined, features an entirely new character—yet it still bears some of the tried-and-true hallmarks of his earlier work. Once more Cohen plays a guy with a thick foreign accent, whose myopic, blithely ignorant behavior is meant to satirize our own secret prejudices—in this case, a wealthy Middle Eastern despot who arrives in America ("The birthplace of AIDS!" as he exclaims) and, despite condemnations from NATO, President Obama, and Hillary Clinton, is allowed to indulge himself in all of our finest things. Like Megan Fox, for example, who plays herself as an extreme version of those celebrities who gladly turn up at the birthday parties of unscrupulous foreign dignitaries, literally whoring herself out in exchange for some jewelry.
Outside of the encounter with Fox, and other than a quick glimpse of Ben Kingsley and a cameo from John C. Reilly making a clunky 9/11 joke that probably sounded a lot more stinging on the page, this early glimpse doesn't really get into the world surrounding Cohen's character much, ignoring Cohen's dual role as a goatherder and leaving out love interest Anna Faris completely. Instead it's all about the Kardashian gags that should ensure the film's comic freshness well into 2013, plus plenty of Cohen spouting made-up Arabic gibberish, which will sound extra hilarious (and maybe spark all kinds of fun racist incidents) when it's being imitated ad nauseam by every college guy who sees this.


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COROT directly sees 'Sun-quakes' in other stars for the first time
Sounding the Sun through a technique similar to seismology has opened a new era for understanding the Sun's interior. The COROT satellite has now applied this technique to three stars, directly probing the interiors of stars beyond the Sun for the first time.
When global oscillations of the Sun were discovered, scientists realised they opened a window to the Sun's interior. Like the propagation of seismic waves on Earth providing information about our planet's interior, sound waves travel throughout the Sun carrying information about what is happening below the surface.
These oscillations can also be observed on other stars. They can be detected through the variation in the light emitted by the star as the surface wobbles – the technique used by COROT. This reveals the internal structure of the star, and the way energy is transported from the core to the surface.
"Other techniques to estimate stellar oscillations have been used from the ground, but they are limited in what they can do," said Malcolm Fridlund, ESA Project Scientist for COROT at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), in the Netherlands, and co-author of the results.
"Adverse weather conditions, plus the fact that you cannot observe stars during daytime, oblige ground astronomers to interrupt their observations," he continued. "Now, the key to detecting such small stellar oscillations from big distances is not only the sensitivity of an instrument, but also the opportunity of observing the star without interruption: any interruption produces noise in the data that can cover a signal completely. Therefore, to be certain, we must approach the question with the right instruments and from space."
The three stars probed by COROT – known as HD49933, HD181420 and HD181906 – are similar to the Sun. They are not exactly in our stellar neighbourhood, but rather far away, so their brightness doesn't blind COROT's instruments.
"The fact that COROT succeeded in probing the interior of Sun-like stars with direct measurements for the first time is a huge leap in understanding stars in general", added Fridlund. "In addition, this will help us to understand, by comparison, our own Sun even better."
Note for editors
The ESA/NASA mission SOHO, observing the Sun since 1995, has paved the way for stellar seismology, which is the approach now extended by COROT to the probing of other stars.
The results appear in the 24 October issue of the scientific journal Science, in the paper 'CoRoT measures solar-like oscillations and granulation in stars,' by E. Michel et al.
COROT is a mission led by the French Space Agency (CNES), with contributions from ESA, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Brazil. It was launched in December 2006 carrying a 27 cm-diameter telescope designed to detect tiny changes the brightness of nearby stars. The mission's main objectives are to search for exoplanets and to study stellar interiors.
For more information
Malcolm Fridlund, ESA COROT Project Scientist
Email: Malcolm.Fridlund @ esa.int


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Graduate Center James Gallery Moves from Visual to Verbal in New Spring Series
"Writing in the Dark," a series of readings, talks and videos by poets, novelists, critics and anthropologists, kicks off the Amie and Tony James Gallery's spring project, which opens the gallery for conversation, screenings and performance. Beginning February 12 and running through April 23, Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch have organized three events based on their Interdisciplinary Transcriptions, a 1,036-page anthology of interviews, photos, lectures, collages, drawings, diaries, scholarly articles, blogs and other writings. The James Gallery is located on the first floor of the Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets).
"In the spirit of exploration and experiment that inspired our recent series of artist projects, collectively titled People 'Weekly', this spring we will host a variety of performance events that use the James Gallery as an interactive social space," said Linda Norden, the gallery's director. "Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch's 'Writing in the Dark' grew from their interest in 'transcriptions,' or the appropriations and translations of work from one medium to another. Cotner and Fitch have reconfigured the text-based entries they assembled for their on-line journal and invited key contributors to enact their transcriptions especially for the James Gallery."
"Writing in the Dark":
February 12, 7:30 p.m.
Lee Ann Brown will read poems written in the dark at movie screenings, music concerts and other events. Elaine Equi will present pieces from "Cinema Tarot," a poetic project she began by photographing images on her TV screen. Richard Kostelanetz will discuss his film Epiphanies, which he describes as "a large collection of single-sentence stories" And Dennis Tedlock will translate Mayan hieroglyphs contained in 2000 Years of Mayan Literature.
February 19, 7:30 p.m.
Bruce Andrews will relive his 2006 confrontation with Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly, playing an "Outrage of the Week" video segment. Wayne Koestenbaum will offer a medley of poems and prose. Wendy Steiner will introduce her opera The Loathly Lady, based on Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale." And Reva Wolf will discuss theft and appropriation in the work of Ted Berrigan.
April 23, 7:30 p.m.
David Antin, returning to New York from San Diego, will improvise a talk-poem (a home grown medium in which he has worked for more than three decades). Charles Bernstein will read pieces from a forthcoming book of criticism. And Lynne Tillman will present old, middle and new work, mixing reflections on art with a story or two.
Other spring events include:
Cultural Power: Art
March 3, 7:00 p.m.
Peggy Ahwesh & Eileen Myles in Conversation
The James Gallery collaborates with the Center for the Humanities' Great Issues Forum to present filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh and poet & novelist Eileen Myles in an intimate discussion about art and power. Ahwesh's many experimental films and videos include The Third Body, The Star Eaters and Martina's Playhouse. She is Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College. Myles's books include the novel Cool for You and the poems Sorry, Tree. Her collection of essays on art, poetry and queer issues, The Importance of Being Iceland, is forthcoming from MIT/Semiotexte.
A new series of "Walk-By Movies," visible (and audible!) from the street only. The "walk-by" film series on view beginning in March attempts an urban variation on the drive-in theater, allows a rethinking of the problem of screening films in a gallery context, and exploits the extended hours available to a gallery visible from the street.
An encore screening with Thomas Torres Cordova of his film, Everybody Loves the Sunshine.
The presentation of Ed Ruscha's film, Premium, and a conversation with writer/performer and longtime Ed Ruscha friend Mason Williams, whose 1964 story How to Derive the Maximum Enjoyment from Crackers was the basis for Ruscha's photo novel, Crackers, and the subsequent 1972, 16 mm film, Premium.
Interdisciplinary Transcriptions, was published as an issue of Intervalles, an electronic review put out by the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée at the Université de Liège, Belgium. It can be viewed online at http://www.cipa.ulg.ac.be/intervalles4/contentsinter4.php.
The Graduate Center is the doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY). An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs, as well as a number of master's programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world's leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to twenty-nine interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, the Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City's intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. Further information on the Graduate Center and its programs can be found at www.gc.cuny.edu.
Submitted on: FEB 1, 2009
Category: James Gallery | Press Room


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama did some cherry-picking Tuesday night in defense of his record on jobs and laid out a conditional path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that may be less onerous than he made it sound.
A look at some of the claims in his State of the Union speech, a glance at the Republican counterargument and how they fit with the facts:
OBAMA: "After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over 6 million new jobs."
THE FACTS: That's in the ballpark, as far as it goes. But Obama starts his count not when he took office, but from the point in his first term when job losses were the highest. In doing so, he ignores the 5 million or so jobs that were lost on his watch, up to that point.
Private sector jobs have grown by 6.1 million since February 2010. But since he became president, the gain is a more modest 1.9 million.
And when losses in public sector employment are added to the mix, his overall jobs record is a gain of 1.2 million.
OBAMA: "We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas."
THE FACTS: Not so fast.
That's expected to happen in 12 more years.
Under a deal the Obama administration reached with automakers in 2011, vehicles will have a corporate average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, twice the 27 miles per gallon, on average, that cars and trucks get today. Automobile manufacturers won't start making changes to achieve the new fuel economy standards until model year 2017. Not all cars will double their gas mileage, since the standard is based on an average of a manufacturers' fleet.
OBAMA: "Already the Affordable Care Act is helping to reduce the growth of health care costs."
THE FACTS: The jury is still out on whether Obama's health care overhaul will reduce the growth of health care costs. It's true that cost increases have eased, but many experts say that's due to the sluggish economy, not to the health care law, whose main provisions are not yet fully in effect.
Growth in costs will spike upwards in 2014, as the law's big coverage expansion gets under way. After that, the government's nonpartisan experts project that health care spending will return to the pattern of the last few decades, growing more rapidly than the economy, which poses problems for government programs and workplace health plans alike.
OBAMA: "Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship — a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally."
THE FACTS: The seemingly stern admonition that illegal immigrants must go to the back of the line, often heard from the president, doesn't appear to have much practical effect except in the most obvious sense. Everyone who joins a line, whether for a movie, a coffee or citizenship, starts at the back of that particular line. It's not clear he is saying anything more than that illegal immigrants won't get to cut in line for citizenship once they've obtained provisional legal status.
Like those living abroad who have applied to come to the U.S. legally, illegal immigrants who qualify for Obama's proposed path to citizenship will surely face long waits to be processed. But during that time, they are already in the U.S. and will get to stay, work and travel in the country under their new status as provisional immigrants, while those outside the U.S. simply have to wait.
OBAMA: "Study after study shows that the sooner a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road. ... And for poor kids who need help the most, this lack of access to preschool education can shadow them for the rest of their lives. ... Every dollar we invest in high-quality early education can save more than $7 later on — by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing violent crime."
THE FACTS: Dozens of studies have shown Head Start graduates are more likely to complete high school than their at-risk peers who don't participate in the program. But a study last year by the Department of Health and Human Services that found big vocabulary and social development gains for at-risk students in pre-kindergarten programs also found those effects largely faded by the time pupils reached third grade. The report didn't explain why the kids saw a drop-off in performance or predict how they would fare as they aged.
OBAMA: "I urge this Congress to pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago. But if Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will. I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy."
THE FACTS: Obama failed to get a global warming bill through Congress when both Houses were controlled by Democrats in 2010. With Republicans in control of the House, the chances of a bill to limit the gases blamed for global warming and to create a market for businesses to trade pollution credits are close to zero. The Obama administration has already acted to control greenhouse gases through existing law. It has boosted fuel-efficiency standards and proposed rules to control heat-trapping emissions from new power plants. And while there are still other ways to address climate change without Congress, it's questionable regulation alone can achieve the reductions needed to start curbing global warming.
FLORIDA SEN. MARCO RUBIO, in the Republican response: "The real cause of our debt is that our government has been spending $1 trillion more than it takes in every year. That's why we need a balanced-budget amendment."
THE FACTS: That statement may reflect the math behind recent debt, but it doesn't get directly to the cause — the worst recession since the Depression and its after-effects. The deficit is not only caused by spending, but by reduced tax revenues. And during the recession, revenues from both individual and corporate taxes fell markedly.
The steep increases in debt and the measures that should be taken to ease the burden are central to the debate in Washington. But there is no serious move afoot to amend the Constitution to prohibit deficit spending.
The ability to take on debt has been used by governments worldwide and through U.S. history to shelter people from the ravages of a down economy, wage war and achieve many other ends. An effort to amend the Constitution for any purpose faces daunting odds; this would be no exception. Most state constitutions demand a balanced budget, but states lack some big obligations of the federal government, including national defense. And Washington's ability to go deeper into debt provides states with at least a minimal safety net in times of high unemployment.
RUBIO: "Obamacare was supposed to help middle-class Americans afford health insurance. But now, some people are losing the health insurance they were happy with. And because Obamacare created expensive requirements for companies with more than 50 employees, now many of these businesses aren't hiring. Not only that, they're being forced to lay people off and switch from full-time employees to part-time workers."
THE FACTS: Rubio's assertion repeats longstanding Republican charges about Obama's health care law, but so far such drastic consequences have not been the norm. It's true that the health care law adds new requirements for employers and insurers, but the government's nonpartisan analysts say the Affordable Care Act has had a minimal impact on health care costs up to now. That will change when millions of uninsured people start getting health insurance next year, but most experts expect employer coverage to remain the mainstay for workers and their families. Some large employers with many low-wage workers have been experimenting with limited hours, but it's unclear what their final decisions will be.
Associated Press writers Tom Raum, Dina Cappiello, Andrew Taylor, Christopher S. Rugaber, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Alicia A. Caldwell and Philip Elliott contributed to this report.
EDITOR'S NOTE _ An occasional look at political claims that take shortcuts with the facts or don't tell the full story.


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This frame grab provided by Coca Cola, shows a moment in the Super Bowl 2013 Coca Cola campaign. You don't have to be a football player to be a part of the action on Super Bowl Sunday. Coca-Cola is asking people to vote for an online match between three groups competing for a Coke on Game Day. (AP Photo/Coca Cola)
Advertisers are finding new ways to get viewers into the game during Super Bowl XLVII, which airs on CBS on Sunday. Here are 5 campaigns that enlist viewer help in one form or another.
1. Coca-Cola created an online game that pits a troupe of showgirls, biker-style "badlanders" and cowboys against each other in a race to find a Coke in the desert. Viewers are encouraged to vote for their favorite group and set up obstacles that delay other groups on CokeChase.com. Obstacles include a traffic light or getting a pizza delivered, which both waste time. Coca-Cola's online game is alluded to in a Super Bowl ad and the winning group — which has the most "for" votes and the least "obstacle" votes will be announced after the Big Game. Coke will also give the first 50,000 people who vote a free Coke.
2. For its halftime intro spot, Pepsi, the sponsor of the Super Bowl halftime show, created a collage of 1,000 user-submitted photos that are stitched together to create a 30-second video that looks like one person jumping to the tune of Beyonce's "Countdown." The spot introduces the pop star's halftime show.
3. Toyota invited people to submit photos of themselves on Instagram or Twitter between Jan. 2 to Jan. 12 with the hashtag (hash)wishgranted. The photos were entered into a contest to win a spot on Toyota's Super Bowl ad. The ad stars Kaley Cuoco from CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" granting wishes. A photo of the winner, Ryan Koch of Fitchburg, Wis., will be featured in the ad.
4. Ford Motor Co. enlisted late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon to choose road trip stories submitted via Twitter with the hashtag (hash)steerthescript for its Lincoln Super Bowl ad. The story line of the Lincoln ad was developed from 6,117 Tweets and stars rapper Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons and Wil Wheaton, who acted in "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
5. Audi let viewers choose one of three possible endings for its Game Day spot by voting online on Jan. 25 for 24 hours. The ad shows a boy who gets enough confidence from driving his father's Audi to the prom to kiss his dream girl, even though he is then decked by her boyfriend. Audi allowed people to vote for one of three potential endings for the ad.
In one possible ending, the boy drives home alone in triumphant. Another ending shows him palling around with friends. The third shows the boy going home and finding a prom picture of his parents in which his dad has a similar black eye.
The first ending, called "Worth it," won. Audi, which declined to say how many people voted, said "Worth It," was by far the most popular, getting more than half of the total views and the most "thumbs up" out of all three versions.


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I had to interface with zlib so I downloaded a thing called gzstream from http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/
The problem is that when I try to reset the EOF flags on an igzstream object like so
the EOF flag is cleared but any subsequent calls on operator>>() don't work.Code:is.clear(); is.seekg(0, ios::beg);
I looked through the code and the derived igzstream class does not seem to be overloading any of the flags from its parent class. And I'm guessing this should not be an issue (or I'm most probably wrong). I'd appreciate it if anyone can point out how to fix this.


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November 11, 2008
Sgt. Tyler Trowbridge, Baldwin City, sits in an ornate bathtub in a palace once occupied by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Trowbridge is back in the States, but wonders if his service overseas is finished.
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