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In today's busy life schedule, man has lost his self-time.
People don't have time for themselves and even to care about their body. Everyone is so busy running after work and money that they don't even feel how critical is fresh air for them. In this fast life, people have forgotten the importance of nature in their life. They wake up in the morning and the first thing they pick up is the newspaper – just worrying about what's happening around. Imagine how stressed life is! People travel to offices or any work place via closed air conditioned vehicles or open auto-rickshaws/buses. There is no intake of fresh natural air in between. The greenery around us has just become a source of visual beauty and decoration.
Researchers have found that during the past three decades, the life span of human is decreasing and people are having health issues at a very early age. Ninety five percent of population has acidity problem. Even school going children are suffering from digestive problems these days. One out of five people has blood pressure problem, unbalanced cholesterol and other mineral and vitamin deficiencies. We all know that foods and vegetables that we eat today are harvested using fertilizers. We cannot get all that purity of old times in our food at this time. Therefore, it becomes necessary for us to make our body strong enough to kill the germs inside and fight with external pollution for having a healthy metabolism.
Morning Walk Does Help!
Morning walk is one basic activity that people should regularly go for. Since the early morning air is free from all pollutants and fresh, people should try to get as much of morning air. They should walk in fresh and pollution free air in the morning. It is not only good for fighting against acidity and digestion problems, but also provides Vitamin D. The only source of vitamin D is sunlight. If people walk under direct sunlight in the morning, they can get the purest form of vitamin D that is absorbed through skin. It is also said that fresh air provides us with the purest form of oxygen we breathe in and that helps in building necessary fluids and hormones inside our body. Thus, morning walk also helps in releasing toxins from the body, thereby cleaning and purifying it.
Come out of your closet and take a look at the beautiful nature. Feel the freshness outside your air-conditioned room or car. This freshness can be felt in the morning at the time of sunrise, when there is no hustle bustle of traffic. It will help you sharpen your memory and you will feel that your brain is more active and your heart is healthier. Start walking in the morning and you will feel that you are active whole day long.


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As expected, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will name Rep. Tim Scott to fill Jim DeMint's Senate seat today, reports The New York Times. Scott made history in 2010 as the first Black Republican elected to Congress from South Carolina in more than a century
Scott will also become the only Black in the Senate. That accomplishment would allegedly be "a considerable boost to a party often criticized for its lack of diversity." adds MSNBC.
Scott is a Tea Party favorite who suggested last year that the President should be impeached if he raises the debt ceiling. Scott is stridently anti-gay and opposes a woman's right to choose, the labor movement and other progressive causes. Scott opposes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
The former state representative also supported the GOP-dominated state legislature's proposal to slash the state's entire HIV/AIDS budget, including funding to the critical AIDS Drug Assistance Program. South Carolina has the 8th highest HIV rate in the nation. New seroconversions in the Carolinas are disproportionately black and young black gay/bisexual men. With friends like these ...
Scott was named to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee two weeks ago. Scott represents the 1st District along the state's southern coast. If appointed he would become the first Black Republican senator since Massachusetts' Sen. Edward Brooke retired in the late 1970s. To date, only six Blacks have ever served in the Senate. The last Black senator was Illinois' Roland Burris.
Scott is a bachelor and has never been married. South Carolina's other anti-gay senator, Lindsey Graham, is also a bachelor. Interesting.
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August 7th, 2012
Lupe Fiasco: Time will heal rift with Pete Rock
Lupe Fiasco doesn't shy away from the contentious on the first track off his new album.
The lyrics to "Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)" run the gamut from Native American poverty to Catholic Church child abuse to the causes of the Iraq War, but one of the track's biggest controversies came not from the words but the beat.
As hip-hop heads are well aware, Lupe co-opted one of the most iconic hip-hop melodies of all time for the track: the beat from Pete Rock and CL Smooth's "They Reminisce Over You."
My God, it's been some dust up, too. And now Lupe tells CNN that time is probably the only thing that will mend the relationship between him and Soul Brother No. 1.
Read what Lupe had to tell CNN about the new album, "Food and Liquor 2"
Here's the Cliff's Notes to rehash what's been reported: Lupe's people reached out to Pete about using the track. There was a misunderstanding. Pete heard the track and was ticked. He tweeted something ugly. Lupe got ticked. The two talked and supposedly settled the beef. Then Pete sent out another tweet suggesting the two would collaborate on the song, which was already finished. Lupe went on a radio show and cried "foul," literally.
Pete's original composition sampled a four-second sax riff off Tom Scott's cover of the Jefferson Airplane song "Today" (which you can hear here if you fast forward to 1:38). He laid the loop over a drum sample from James Brown's "Say It Loud."
The song was written in honor of Troy "Trouble T. Roy" Dixon of Heavy D & the Boyz, a close friend of Pete and CL Smooth's who died after an accidental fall in 1990.
Producers Simonsayz and B-Side, who flipped the track for Lupe, re-created the beat with actual musicians instead of samples, Lupe said.
"It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing," he told CNN. "All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation.
"I tried to honor it. Of course, there was homage being paid, but certain logistics of the record didn't go through as (Pete) wanted, and then his backlash, and then my explanation, and then there was supposed to be a public kind of mending of the situation on his behalf, which didn't occur."
He still has mad respect for the "Soul Survivor" producer, but he says that after all the back and forth, the two need time and space.
"I'll just wait this one out, see what happens," Lupe said. "Let time reconcile this, time and distance. I still big him up. Shout to Pete Rock, shout to CL Smooth in everything I do because at the end of the day, it is his record.
In other news, Lupe also spoke about the future of some of his other projects.
All City-Chess Club, a superband made up of Lupe and seven other rappers, will be a mixtape-only outfit, he said, and he's unsure what the future will hold for Child Rebel Soldiers, his venture with Kanye West and Pharrell Williams.
To quote Lupe on CRS, "Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh."
As for the rumored studio collaboration between him and Skateboard P, he says it's a coin toss.
"That's in the incubator because we definitely talk about it. It definitely came up, but it's kind of like 50-50, but definitely a good strong 50 on the yes side - weak 50 no, a strong 50 yes," he said.
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The BMW 3-Series is a car that epitomises the phrase "all things to all people". It's consistently one of the 10 best-selling cars in the UK - and it's easy to see why.
It's big enough for four people and luggage, yet small enough to park easily. You could belt down to Cannes in one tomorrow, but it's just as at home pootling to Sainsbury's on a Saturday morning. But the 3-Series has always offered an extra dimension that distinguishes it from the competition, that bit about it being "The Ultimate Driving Machine". Spot the difference design
If you're looking at the pictures and struggling to spot the changes between this new car and the one that went before it, we wouldn't blame you.
You will spot them on the road though. The front of the car, in particular, has a much lower bonnet, helping to emphasise the sporting nature of this saloon - while BMW's design signatures are all present and correct: rear wheel drive proportions, the "hofmeister kink" of the rear window, that twin kidney grille and the pair of rounded projectors within each light. The lamp units themselves now flow into the grille – emphasising the low, wide nature of the front. With the "corona rings" of the daytime running lights lit up, it looks great - immediately recognisable as a BMW, striking without being too aggressive.
Underwhelming in appearance, but brilliant to use
Stepping inside is initially disappointing though. BMW's recent interiors have struggled to achieve the fine details and perceived quality of Audi and the new 3-Series is no different. The architecture is relatively simple, BMW's ultra-clear 4-gauge instrument cluster is great, but that centre screen looks like it ought to fold away (it doesn't).
Some of the trim feels cheap; the (optional) leather on the seats is of a far cheaper grade than the leather on the similarly priced Citroen DS5. And there's evidence of cost cutting - gone are the last generation car's pop-out dashboard cupholders which are an expensive engineering solution to a beverage-based problem.
But stick with it, because sometimes appearances can be deceptive. It might not titillate you on a test drive, but the reality is that this interior really works. Its ergonomic layout is beyond criticism - all the controls falling perfectly to hand. The clarity of information is superb - BMW doesn't do gimmicks - it does things like light the instruments up orange at night because, as a colour, it's less tiring for your eyes to recalibrate between the road and the orange of the dials than if they were – say – blue.
The iDrive controller falls perfectly to hand - allowing you to control it while your elbow wrests on the centre armrest – and the weighting and logic of its turn-and-push control is perfectly judged. It's a cliché, but we reckon if Apple designed interior controls for cars… well, you can fill in the rest. It's just a pity the plastics and metals aren't up to Cupertino's standards.
iDrive – an object lesson in in-car tech
When it launched the last 5-Series in 2003, BMW revolutionised the HMI (human machine interface) in cars, with iDrive. A rotary controller that you turned, nudged back and forth and pressed to control functions such as nav, radio and climate on a central screen, it was widely derided in reviews. But customers who lived with it got used to it, and grew to love it and in the intervening nine years, BMW has refined this system to include shortcut keys for the major functions you regularly want to use. It's the latest version of iDrive we find in the new 3-Series.
In our test car, it was controlling BMW's most advanced (professional) navigation system, optional DAB radio and had extended "connected drive" functions – which included on board internet (just a £95 option), BMW Assist and a host of web-based enhancements.
To cut to the chase, if you're buying a new 3-Series then we'd recommend forgoing eating for a few months in order to afford the two-grand professional navigation package. Why? It's the most well-resolved system we've used in any car. We'll just let that sentence sink in.
Moving around the system with that rotary controller makes you never want to use another touchscreen in a car again. Why? Well, first, you're not reaching your arm up away from its natural resting position to poke (often at the wrong bit of) a screen. Secondly, we reckon it's safer as you need to take your eyes off the road for less time. Yet it's faster to programme and select things with this system too. And the controller – how it moves and the feedback it gives your hand – is a joy to use. The speed of response of the system is impressive too - once it's gone through an initial, fairly slow, boot-up process when you first start the car.
The daddy of centre screens?
It's not the size of the central screen, so much as the classy graphics that match the rest of the interior fonts and colours that impress. The fact the Nav's map is super-clear and viewable in three different orientations, and the fact that the on-board Internet allows you to do things like look at your destination in photos via Google Streetview that matter.
There's brilliantly integrated real-time traffic information and updates too, something that saved us about three hours sat stationary on the M1 when it got closed, by diverting us off before RDS traffic or the matrix boards caught on to what had happened.
Besides warning of issues on the route and offering diverts, the map itself lights up the roads closest to your current location in green, orange or red – so if you're just mooching around locally you'll be able to see if you're heading towards trouble.
Opt for this, the pricier of the two navigation options and you get BMW's black-panel display too – the lower half of the instrument cluster is a TFT screen that's seamlessly merged with the analogue dials above it. The TFT display re-organises itself on the fly to show the turn-by-turn navigation functions, vehicle information and economy driving tips.
Allied to this you get Bluetooth connectivity for your phone and music, various on-board diagnostics, and BMW assist which might literally save your life in a crash by sending you the ambulance automatically should it detect the airbags being deployed.
The Ultimate Economy Machine
It might wear the self-appointed tag of the ultimate driving machine, but the 320s ought to be called the ultimate economy machine, based on our results. Our average mpg over 1200 miles of driving was 62.3mpg. Which for a car that can crack 0-60 in less than eight seconds and has such effortless performance on the road, is nothing short of remarkable.
No small credit goes to the brilliantly set up Eco-Pro driving mode. The car defaults to this setting every time you start it up but you've the option to put the car into comfort and sport modes too.
Where other systems frustrate with their nannying nature or by completely smothering the throttle response, following Eco-Pro allows you that rare double-act of being able to make swift progress while achieving amazing economy. What you will notice is the right half of that lower cluster display advising you to change gear, drop the car into neutral at the lights to let the auto-stop-start kick in, accelerate less fiercely and to stop driving so fast.
Which sounds like the car being big brother, although it's worth saying, you can opt to have each of these switched on or off. Yet - and we'd love to know what BMW has done to it - you need the visual dashboard cues, because otherwise you'd never believe that the engine will pull from around 900rpm. Change up at 1500 rpm and in most cars you'll find the engine bogging down, bad vibration coming into the cabin and you end up changing back down a gear. But not here. You can row the car around, never exceeding 2000rpm and all is well. All of which means you can expect over 700 miles from one tank of diesel.
Flick it into sport mode though and it picks up its skirts and charges past slower traffic with ease. And because it's rear wheel drive, it handles sharply and, compared to most modern cars, steers with a beautiful precise quality and weighting. Even the ride's good – better than the last two generations of 3-Series certainly – although our car's anemic-looking 16-inch wheels helped here. Spec your new 3-Series with the admittedly much prettier 18- or 19-inch wheels and you may want to erase that last sentence.
Look at or sit in a new BMW 3-Series and you might dismiss this car as a great example of how slow progress is in the car industry. But appearances can be deceptive. Because to drive and live with the 3-Series is remarkable. Not only is this 3-Series on a par with its predecessors as a great car to drive but it is also startlingly economical to the point where it might make you think twice about going hybrid or even electric.
Coupled with this is a suite of interior technologies – yes, some of which are optional – which right now, we think are peerless. Well integrated, easy to operate, saving you time and beautiful to look at - one day, all in-car technology will work this well.
Only in its slightly underwhelming interior design and inability to make you feel truly special does the 3-Series get marked down. Yet over the lifetime of car, these things tend to pail into insignificance. What matters is a car's ability to fit into your life, work well and get you to where you're going comfortably, reliably and enjoyable.
The 3-Series, will - for the majority of people - do that with bells on. We can give it no greater complement than to say that when faced with a trip from Leeds to London and back in a day, every other test car has been left in the station car park, but when we had the 3-Series, we drove and arrived back feeling fresh, relaxed, with a smile on our face and with half a tank of diesel still left in the tank.
The 3-Series might not be all the car you ever want, but it is all the car you'll ever need and - by some way - tops the class.


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Even though the maples are still green on the mountain, football is in the air. The Monticello Buckaroos and the San Juan Broncos begin the 2014 season on August 22 with a game against each other in Monticello, the 66th all time meeting between the two schools.
Monticello will be led by new head coach Art Adair, in his first season as a head coach after working the junior high ranks for many years.
The Broncos are led by longtime coach Monty Lee, in his 12th season as Bronco head coach and winner of three state championships.
Sportshorts interviewed both.
First, Coach Adair.
Q: What makes this year's team different than all other teams that you have coached?
It's Varsity Football.
Q: What specific strategies will you use to build a solid team?
Assistant coaches are key in any program as well as in teaching fundamentals and position football.
Our main strategy will be to keep it simple and not out-play ourselves.
Q: How are you going to score points this season?
By crossing the goal line.
Q: How do you feel about this year's team at this stage versus last year's team?
Being my first varsity squad, I feel good. We have a great bunch of kids that are determined to do the best they can.
Q: How good is this year's team?
It's hard to say. We won't know until we hit the field. We will be as good as we want to be.
Q: Who will be your leaders?
We will rely on our seniors, but everyone on the team will have to step up and play key roles if we are to have success this season.
From our starters to our freshman, everyone will have an opportunity to lead on and off the field at one point this season.
Q: How do you try to build chemistry and team character?
We have great team chemistry from freshmen to seniors. This comes from not placing any one person above the rest.
Our kids have really bonded through the summer in different activities and fundraising. Even kids who aren't playing this year have been around at events and hung out with team.
The coaches have to lead by example in this area as well. We preach involvement in the program, whether you're the water boy, cheering in the stands or the guy running for six, we all are a part of this program.
Q: What speeds that up or slows it down?
I think just keeping things positive, no matter what. If it's a great play or a play that falls apart, find the positives and build on them.
You can't let players put down other players for a missed block or tackle. Those teaching moments have to come from the coaches. Nothing tears a team apart faster than players judging each other.
Q: Tell us about your coaching assignments this year?
Josh Keyes: Offensive Coordinator
Cole Young: Defensive Coordinator
Clayton Black: Defensive Backs, Wide Receivers, Strength and Special Teams
Kyle Curtis: Running Backs, Linebackers, and Special Teams
Thomas Wigginton: Line Coach
Q: Must-see game this year?
I think every game is a must-see if you're a football fan. Win or lose, you never know what's going to happen in a game. We will be tested, but no matter what, we will keep improving and building.
Coach Lee
Q: What makes this year's team different than all other teams that you have coached?
Not really sure how to answer that? Each year brings new challenges and new identities with the incoming seniors. I think answering the following questions might help give attention to this question.
Q: What specific strategies will you use to build a solid team?
A stronger focus on game speed practices and a philosophy of coach-to-perfection, get it right before moving on.
Q: How are you going to score points this season?
Lessen the number of plays, and perfect what we have scripted. Use both sides of the ball and special teams to complement each other more.
Q: How do you feel about this year's team at this stage versus last year's team?
We have never had so many kids at conditioning camp, in the weight room, and talking football. It is way exciting.
Q: How good is this year's team?
Like most years, we hope and expect to be playing on the last day of the season. These kids have great potential and each have a great love for the game. So let's hope they can find their identity, and we can hold on.
Q: Who will be your leaders?
As the season progresses, I am looking for the senior class as a whole to step up and "challenge each of the kids to do as I do, not what I say".
Q: How do you try to build chemistry and team character?
Emphasize that this is a just game, and the lessons we learn: hard work, dedication, commitment, sacrifice, and loyalty, will last a lifetime, and you will be remembered for the footprints you leave for other Broncos to follow. How do you want to be remembered?
Q: What speeds that up or slows it down?
A total RESPECT for the game.
Q: Tell us about coaching assignments this year?
Ryan Nielson will direct the defense with the help of Rick Eldredge; I and Shane Shumway will work on the offense. Tad Barton will be in charge of team preparation (scouting, film, etc.), and the other coaching staff will be spread out amongst the other levels and positions.
Q: Must see game this year?
All of 'em.


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It is now very close to the end of 2012 which means a brand new year is starting soon.
Something I've found very helpful to do is to take some time and celebrate two important things in every 12 month period of your life.
The first thing you should celebrate from the last 12 months is the many successes you will have enjoyed: By successes, I mean anything that you did or experienced in the last 12 months that made you feel good about yourself.
These successes can be big and small. (Both are important to acknowledge.)
A good way to celebrate these successes is to write them down.
In the last 12 months I have enjoyed a lot of successes. Here are just a few of them...
* I have had hundreds of people from all around the world have contact me and tell me how they have enjoyed my weekly marketing columns in the Herald. (A big thank you to everyone who took the time to share their feedback. I really appreciate it.)
* I got a brand new computer that is twice as good as my previous one.
* I've met some lovely people as a result of getting into cycling.
As you can see, the successes you celebrate on your list don't have to be big things. They can just be things you did or experienced that made you feel good about yourself.
The second thing you should celebrate from the last 12 months are the various 'Learning Lessons' you will have experienced.
Learning lessons are what I call the experiences that you didn't like or enjoy that much.
At the beginning of 2012 I began rediscovering the pleasures of cycling as a fun way to get fit. About six weeks after getting started I made a foolish mistake and rode down a steep and winding hill three times faster than was appropriate.
The result was messy as I lost control on a sharp bend and hit a roadside bank at just over 65 kilometres an hour. I wrote off my bike and did some rather painful damage to my own body at the same time. (3 broken ribs, a fractured scapula, a fractured clavicle and various assorted lacerations and bruises.)
I spent a few days in hospital and was sent home with a huge amount of painkillers and other drugs to help me mend my badly damaged and very sore body. I was fully recovered in just over 8 weeks' and I'm very grateful I didn't kill myself or have far more serious injuries coming off a bicycle at that speed.
When I think about my experience I learned some valuable learning lessons.
I learned the critical importance of having good health. The 8 weeks I spent with my broken bones mending were both painful and frustrating. So I now don't take foolish physical risks that could potentially injure me. And I also take time every week to eat well and do some regular exercise.
I also learned the value of having a good database of people who liked my ideas and that I was in regular contact with. I found that I could still use this database to do business even though I was injured and confined to my home for quite some time.
I highly recommend you take time to celebrate some successes and learning experiences in your own life as well.
'The more you praise and celebrate your life; the more there is in life to celebrate.' - Oprah Winfrey
Action Exercise:
Write down 20 or more successes, big and small, you've had in 2012. (This is a great way to end the year on a high note.)
Write down at least three learning lessons you've gained in 2012 that did not go as well as you wanted them to. (This allows you to learn something positive and helpful from any 'less than desirable experiences' you've had during this time.)


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It happens every year like clockwork: I make too many plans, have too many houseguests, go out to too many late dinners and taste too many wines, trying to write too many stories leading into the holiday season. Every year, during exactly this week as the deadlines are stacking up, I get sick. The pressure in the eardrums. The pinch in the neck. And then...nothing. It's like being underwater, except that I'm just stuck in my own sinuses. I can't breathe, I can't taste, I can't smell. Gotta love fall.
Friends sent advice: how about a hot toddy? What about sherry? (Seems to work for W. Blake Gray.) Try orange juice and zinc! Or green juice. Or green tea. White tea. Google '101 Cookbooks turmeric tea'—that stuff, my friends say, works miracles.
I like slicing up some fresh ginger and steeping it in a teapot—something about the heat seems to penetrate the corners of my brain that are foggy. Turmeric sounds like a smart addition, except for the fact that it might taste a little funny.
Do you have a drinking routine when you catch a cold? What's your remedy?
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Friday, January 23, 2009
That Time of Year To Cleanup Your Geocaches
Today I was at the outer ridge of my territory and had noticed a couple of caches that I was either told the velcro was worn or the host was recently hit by a car and I should check them out, that sort of stuff. So on my lunch hour I validated that two of them were indeed in place and people are just not finding them, one was several yards from where it should be and put back in place and one was just gone. Not sure if it was moved or taken, though it was in a very non-muggle area.
I replaced the missing cache and then topped it all off by stopping by my geocache hotel and filled what I could back up with swag. Love that dollar store. I guess I am going to have to go through my other 94 caches to see who needs what. It might take a while but if I can provide quality geocaches to the finders. I did my job right.
How is your caches?
3 comments:
- Unknown said...
Good article. I agree with the commitment to maintain. It is helpful when cachers let you know when things need attention, particularly when you have lots of caches out.
- January 24, 2009 at 9:56 AM
I certainly admire your commitment. My goal is to try to look at my caches 2-3 times during their accessible time of the year. I have nothing even close to the number of caches you do and perhaps that won't be possible when I do.
I wish all cache hiders were dedicated to cache maintenance. Perhaps we wouldn't then run across the "baggy in the tree stump" scenario.
- January 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- P.J. said...
Holy smokes you have a lot of hides!
I have nine and I'm looking forward to going out for a full day of maintenance in the spring. I'm going to start putting some things together to put in the caches and clean 'em out etc. One of the people I cache with takes one day every spring to go and perform all the fixings on their caches. I'm going to do the same I think.
Good article.
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Guests: Eugene Robinson, Brian Bilbray, Jim Moran, Chaka Fattah, Bill Richardson, Frank Gaffney
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight, the battle over taxes. The old trick of politics is to pay for government without getting too many voters mad at you. The Republicans are determined to have nobody mad at them. Their real purpose is to protect the tax cuts of those at the very top brackets. But how do you keep giving tax cuts while complaining about the fact that government is spending more than it's taking in—in fact, a trillion-and-a-half dollars a year more than it's collecting?
The Republicans, once the party that championed fiscal responsibility, see no contradiction in all this. It's out to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and to continue to purposely confuse us by suggesting the Democrats want to eliminate the Bush tax (SIC) for everyone, when in fact, the Democrats are quite clear in saying they want to eliminate them only for the top 2 or 3 percent of taxpayers.
Plus, first Charlie Rangel and now Maxine Waters are in trouble with the House Ethics Committee. Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who are speaking anonymously, are raising questions whether black lawmakers face more scrutiny than white lawmakers.
And Pelosi versus the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says next summer's drawdown in Afghanistan will be fairly limited. The Speaker of the House is making it clear she expects to see a much faster withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. We're going to debate why we're in Afghanistan and whether we're doing any good there.
Also, momentum may be growing among Republicans to deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants. It looks like they want to make an issue of this for the fall campaign.
And Sarah Palin once again says, Talk to the hand, which in her case has a handy note written on it for use in TV interviews. Can this go on?
Let's start with the debate over tax cuts. U.S. congressman Jim Moran's a Democrat from Virginia and Congressman Brian Bilbray's a Republican from California.
Congressman Bilbray, you first. Are you for—where are you on these Bush tax cuts, which are set to terminate for everyone this January?
REP. BRIAN BILBRAY ®, CALIFORNIA: Well, Chris, I wasn't there when they were passed, but the fact is, I think it's the worst time to be talking about kicking in a new tax increase anywhere along the board. And you know that. It's a—basically, the biggest problem here is the fact that we can't take—continue to think that we're going to take money out of the economy and keep the economy strong.
And I'm kind of I'm interesting because I've been listening for 10 years people saying that all the tax cuts of Bush were only for the wealthy. And now I'm starting to hear that, Oh, we're only—there was some of it or a large portion that might have been for the middle class and we won't touch that part. It seems inconsistent with what I've been hearing for the last 10 years, and you got to admit that.
MATTHEWS: So you want to have—keep all the Bush tax cuts for the next 10 years, as you have for the last 10 years.
BILBRAY: I think we darn well maintain it right now. And I don't think we have a right to ask the voters or the public to pay more taxes when we've already proven that we're mismanaging what we've got across the board. We ought to go back to the—what we did in the late '90s, and that's say, Look, let's rein in our expenditure, our spending problem is the real problem, and allow the economy to grow past and beyond the debt, like we did in the late '90s.
MATTHEWS: Yes, everybody says that. Everybody says that, Congressman. We have a $1.4 trillion, $1.7 trillion range of debt—deficit this year right now, and nobody's talking about cutting out a deficit—government spending by $1.4 trillion. I mean, everybody says, Let's get rid of spending. You don't have a program to get rid of a trillion-and-a-half dollars in spending, do you?
BILBRAY: We actually got this started back in the '90s by saying we set a standard that we're going to hit the threshold. I mean, you start off with little things like, why are we giving away surplus government funds to local governments or different non-profits instead of spending it and putting it on the market?
BILBRAY: Ninety-eight billion—I mean, a billion dollars just in un
funds that are being given away in inappropriate funds that even the president talked about this last week.
MATTHEWS: OK. All right. Well...
MATTHEWS: Next time—I'm waiting for somebody to give me—well, actually, Paul—Paul Ryan's giving me a list, but it's hard to come up with a list of actual spending cuts because nobody likes to be identified with those.
Congressman Moran...
MATTHEWS: Well, that's true. I mean, it seems to be (ph) for tax cuts...
BILBRAY: Well, start with...
MATTHEWS: This doesn't take a lot of guts to be for tax cuts for everybody, is it?
BILBRAY: How about—how about...
MATTHEWS: Admit it's easy. Admit it's easy, sir, to be for tax cuts.
BILBRAY: Actually...
MATTHEWS: It's easy.
BILBRAY: It is—it is easy to do that. It's tough to be for saying, No pay raises for the federal government through the next year. Let's start with that. Let's just start by saying—look, everybody's hurting, and those of us from the federal government are going to lead off on...
MATTHEWS: Well, that's popular! Screw the bureaucrats! Everybody loves to do that.
BILBRAY: Well, no, it's also...
MATTHEWS: The easiest politics in America is to say, I'm going to let the deficit stay real big. And by the way, I'm going to make it a little bigger by cutting taxes.
BILBRAY: No, you're not—what you're doing is going to say the spending and the size of the federal government is the problem. We're trying to spend our way out of this problem.
BILBRAY: And that's how we got into the problem!
MATTHEWS: One last question. Do you believe that we actually increase government revenues when we cut taxes?
BILBRAY: Absolutely because when it—when it stimulates the economy and...
BILBRAY: Clinton proved—wait a minute. Clinton proved...
MATTHEWS: Well, then let's cut taxes...
BILBRAY: ... it worked when he cut...
MATTHEWS: ... down to 1 percent.
BILBRAY: ... when he cut taxes...
MATTHEWS: Let's get it down to 1 percent! Let's get it down to 1 percent, we'll balance the budget in five minutes, by your theory.
BILBRAY: Look at California. We raised taxes, and look what we've done.
MATTHEWS: OK. All right.
BILBRAY: I mean, Chris, we're driving companies out...
MATTHEWS: No, by your theory, the—why don't we just keep lowering taxes, sir, until we get them down to zero because by your theory, every time we lower taxes, we get more revenue coming in the door. This is like the loaves and the fishes!
BILBRAY: No, no, no, no! There's obviously...
MATTHEWS: This is the New Testament.
BILBRAY: ... a balance, Chris. Look, I was a mayor. I was the chairman of a county.
BILBRAY: There's a balance there. The problem is...
MATTHEWS: This is popular.
BILBRAY: ... we're out of proportion.
MATTHEWS: I know everything you're saying. The voters out there, on the Republican side especially, are saying, Thank God for Congressman Bilbray...
BILBRAY: No, no!
MATTHEWS: ... because he's going to cut our taxes. And just don't tell me it's courageous.
BILBRAY: Chris, it's independents. Listen to the independents!
MATTHEWS: All right.
BILBRAY: They're the people that are saying, Look...
BILBRAY: ... they want a moderate approach here, but the attitude that we've reached since—is that—spend, spend, spend. They didn't like Bush spending.
MATTHEWS: I know.
BILBRAY: They didn't like the Republican spending. And now you expect them to like the Democrats spending more?
MATTHEWS: No, it's just that...
BILBRAY: They're not going to do it! The independents are...
MATTHEWS: Your party used to be "pay as you go." Your party used to be balanced budge, pay as you—the Jerry Ford party, the Bob Dole, the Bob Taft party was, if you're going to spend a dollar, you're going to raise a dollar. And you would always be honest about that. Now you say, magically, just keep cutting taxes, and somehow the government will balance its books magically, when nothing else in American economic life works that way.
BILBRAY: Well, first of all, Chris, there's nothing magic for those of us have been in local government. The fact is, when the private sector has the funds...
BILBRAY: ... they generate the revenue...
MATTHEWS: OK, let me get balance in our timing here. Congressman Moran, you just heard the argument, cutting taxes increases receipts. Somehow, the government increases the amount of money it collects by lowering taxes. Just keep doing it, he says, it works.
REP. JIM MORAN (D), VIRGINIA: Well, it's not the first time we've heard that argument. We've been hearing it for decades. The fact is, we need to do both. George H.W. Bush, the 41st president, did it the right way. He raised revenue and he cut spending. And then Bill Clinton followed on his lead with a balanced budget and created a surplus. Taxes went up. In fact, 39.6 percent for the highest level. But 23 million jobs were created. And it was the most after-tax revenue ever generated during that eight-year period by the most wealthy people in the country.
The fact is that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts generated 13 percent more revenue that came back to us, so 87 percent was unpaid for. It's $2.3 trillion that has been added to our deficit. It's the principal cause of the deficit. Taxes...
MATTHEWS: This is the Bush tax cuts.
MORAN: Is the Bush tax cuts, George W. Bush tax cuts. And what we need to do now is to do what Clinton and his father did to get us back into balance. Today we have 14.8 percent of GDP...
MATTHEWS: Why do you think the Clinton administration ended up with a surplus, when Ronald Reagan, as much as he's beloved these days, did not end up with a surplus? He had a deficit every single year and growing. Why do you say that this program of cutting taxes somehow yields a balanced budget or brings back fiscal sanity somehow? Congressman Bilbray?
BILBRAY: Chris, because Democrats and Republicans...
MATTHEWS: And when does it happen?
BILBRAY: Wait a minute. Wait. Democrats and Republicans, Clinton and the Republicans, finally got spending under control to the point to where the economy could catch up. That's why it worked. There was one time that you saw a Democratic president and a Republican Congress finally -- and it's (INAUDIBLE) Let's face it, it was a tough time, but we finally wrestled down the expansion of expenditures. Right now, we're going just the opposite and...
MATTHEWS: Who was the last Republican...
MATTHEWS: Who was the last Republican president to balance the budget, now that you're the party of fiscal responsibility? When's the last Republican president? You had a Republican president under Bush, George W., you had it under Reagan. You had at least half control of the Congress. When's the last time a responsibility president has yielded a balanced budget?
BILBRAY: You...
MATTHEWS: Or a surplus?
BILBRAY: You had a Republican...
MATTHEWS: Just give me a year.
BILBRAY: ... Congress that allowed a Democrat to do it, and that's a bipartisan kind of effort. We may—no, Bush...
MORAN: It was actually Dwight Eisenhower.
BILBRAY: Bush went over the top after the war and used the war as an excuse to do domestic spending. And the Republicans made that mistake, but it doesn't mean that the Democrats have any reason to do the other. And that's why the independents are up-raising (SIC). That's why this issue is going to be a real...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BILBRAY: ... the top issue. And independents are deciding this, Chris. It's not Democrat/Republican partisanship...
BILBRAY: ... it's nonpartisan are really mad about this.
MORAN: You can identify cuts that total less than 1 percent of the budget and a small fraction of the deficit. We're going to have to take a comprehensive approach. And the first thing we need do is to get revenue back into a normal range. Normally, it's 20 to 21 percent. And that's basically what we're spending, 20.6 percent. But today, with the stimulus, it's more than that. But generally, that's about what it comes to.
You can't balance the budget, you can't treat your grandchildren fairly when you're only bringing in less than 15 percent of GDP and you're spending over 20 percent. It's almost criminal what the Republican Party is willing to steal from their grandchildren and our grandchildren.
MORAN: ... just because it's politically popular, Brian.
BILBRAY: Let's go back to always (ph) spending. Let's start by going back to a baseline that's defensible. Let's talk about, take what's left of the stimulus and not spend it. Let's take what's left of TARP and not spend it.
BILBRAY: Let's prove to the American people that we're willing to take the tough decisions!
MORAN: Talk to Governor Schwarzenegger, who still has billions of dollars that are unspent but are designated...
BILBRAY: And it's not helping California!
MORAN: ... for road projects and infrastructure projects.
MATTHEWS: Let's take a look at one of your leaders. Here's one of your leaders, the majority whip—or actually, minority whip, Eric Cantor of Virginia. Here he is on MSNBC with Savannah Guthrie on "The Daily Rundown" this morning. Let's listen.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, HOST: Will you just simply acknowledge that passing these tax cuts worsens the budget deficit problem? I mean, you can't deny that, right?
REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA), MINORITY WHIP: Savannah, let's look at it through the prism of the working families who are seeking jobs and the small business people who are creating them. It's not—it's not a tax cut they're looking for. They don't want a tax hike!
GUTHRIE: I was just wondering if you had—if you had any dispute with the notion that it does exacerbate the deficit picture.
CANTOR: Well, I—what I—what I said in the beginning is if you have less revenues coming into the federal government and more expenditures, what does that add up to? Certainly, you're going to dig the hole deeper.
MATTHEWS: Well, there he is, Congressman Bilbray, your leader. Your whip is now admitting that if you cut taxes, you're increasing the deficit. He just said it. Do you want me to repeat it? That's your leader. Why would he say something like that that runs against your orthodoxy?
BILBRAY: The fact is, look, Chris, you can't...
MATTHEWS: Well, the fact is he just said that. Why did he just say that cutting taxes at this point is going to yield a lower revenue, and therefore a bigger deficit?
BILBRAY: Because we're not talking about...
MATTHEWS: He just said a contradiction...
BILBRAY: ... cutting...
MATTHEWS: ... of what you just said.
BILBRAY: We're not even talking about cutting taxes! We're talking about not allowing an increase (INAUDIBLE)
MATTHEWS: Continuing the Bush tax cuts is what we're talking about.
And that's what he was talking about.
BILBRAY: And that is maintaining the status quo...
MATTHEWS: Are you in disagreement...
BILBRAY: ... of what (INAUDIBLE)
MATTHEWS: ... with Eric Cantor? Just tell me you disagree with him, we'll be on the same page.
BILBRAY: I am in disagreement...
BILBRAY: ... with anybody that thinks that we can get ourselves out of the mess by raising more taxes on the American people!
BILBRAY: We got—look, the federal government...
MATTHEWS: OK, well, thank you. This is an interesting debate, and I think the American people ought to be paying attention to it. The Republican philosophy is supply-side, the belief that if you cut the tax rates, somehow, the overall amount of revenue will come up. Somehow, we'll begin to balance the budget. That's an argument that you can argue and argue and argue, and we'll always be looking for evidence of that. Congressman...
MORAN: And we know what works, and we know that hasn't worked.
MATTHEWS: OK, thank you...
BILBRAY: It worked in the '90s with...
MORAN: ... children and grandchildren.
BILBRAY: ... the Republicans and Democrats working together. Yes, we saw bipartisanship...
BILBRAY: ... in the late '90s.
MATTHEWS: It's also very good to look at history and which presidents have been successful. Harry Truman and Bill Clinton I think are the ones that have balanced the budgets.
BILBRAY: And they had...
MATTHEWS: Thank you...
BILBRAY: ... a Republican Congress to help them, that makes it possible.
MATTHEWS: Well, Harry didn't. Anyway, thank you, Congressman Jim Moran and Congressman Brian Bilbray.
Up next: Coming distractions. Democrats could be facing not one but two ethics trials this fall as Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the veteran from California, and Congressman Charlie Rangel, the chairman of Ways and Means Committee, are both facing serious charges of ethics violations. This is just what Democrats didn't need going into this tough election year.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Democrats promised to drain the swamp in Congress when they gained control back in 2006. Now the party faces two ethics trials for veteran House members. Is this a problem for the mid-term elections? Well, obviously, it is.
Democratic congressman Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania's a member of the Appropriations Committee and he also chairs the Congressional Urban Congress.
Congressman Fattah, thank you for joining us. This is a tricky topic, and I don't know anybody who wants to talk about it, least of all a lot of people who know Charlie Rangel and now these other members of Congress. Nobody likes ethics issues, I don't think.
But here's the president—and I know you must have been stunned by this. Here's President Obama, a member of Charlie Rangel's party, on CBS "Morning News" this Friday. Let's listen.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think Charlie Rangel served a very long time and served his constituents very well, but these allegations are very troubling. And you know, he's somebody who's at the end of his career, 80 years old. I'm sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity, and my hope is that it happens.
MATTHEWS: Wow. "My hope is that it happens." He's telling him to leave! Now, maybe he's saying something out of school, Congressman, he's not supposed to say. He sounds like he's saying that part of the deal for Rangel to avoid prosecution or any other ethics kind of punishment or sanction is to accept retirement, as well as a reprimand. What's the president talking about, saying that Charlie Rangel, chairman of Ways and Means—he's got to go?
REP. CHAKA FATTAH (D), PENNSYLVANIA: Well, I think when you take texts out of context, you can—you create a dilemma. If the question is why is Charlie Rangel demanding that he have his day to clear his good name, and you then take the president's answer, which is that he is towards the end of his career, he wants to leave with dignity and have his good name, that's an absolute reasoning for Charlie Rangel to demand, as he has, that he has an opportunity to refute what he says are allegations that have no merit. So you have to put the president's statement in context in order to understand it.
And what Charlie Rangel has done, as every American citizen, as you know, has a right to, is to say, If you have allegations, bring them forward. I will take my opportunity to answer them.
FATTAH: He could have taken a reprimand, right, which one of the weakest of all punishments, and went on back to his normal work. But he said, No, I have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and I want to clear my good name. And so therefore, bring your allegations in September. I will answer them. He's put forth a 32-page response in detail, which somehow the press has not focused a lot of attention on. But I think that what Charlie Rangel is doing there is what every citizen has a right to do, which is to answer allegations that one might have brought against them.
MATTHEWS: So the president in those words was not telling him to retire?
FATTAH: Absolutely not. What he said, if you follow it, is that he wants to be able to one day retire with his good name, and he hopes that he will have the opportunity to do so, which means he hopes that when...
FATTAH: ... these allegations are heard, when he sees the response, he hopes that Charlie Rangel's good name will be intact.
And I'll tell you what. I bet you that Charlie Rangel's good name will be intact when this matter comes to a conclusion.
MATTHEWS: Well, that would be good, but I do think you're stretching the point, because the president said his career is at its end. That's pretty cold language.
FATTAH: Well, that's not what he said. What he said was that he's towards the end of his career. He's 80. He's served for 40 years. He wants to leave with his good name intact. He hopes that he will have the opportunity to do that.
Well, how do you get to having your good name intact? You get there because...
FATTAH: ... allegations were made.
FATTAH: Rangel asked the Ethics Committee—wait a minute—the first member of Congress in the history of the Congress, he asked the Ethics Committee to investigate...
FATTAH: ... investigate them, so he could clear his good name. And he's now taken the step necessary to do that, which is to have a hearing.
MATTHEWS: Well, I hate to do biblical analysis. I have been accused of looking up to the president pretty highly, but I think we're doing biblical analysis here, because the president actually said, "He's somebody who is at the end of his career," not near or nearing it, but at the end. That seemed to be pretty cold language.
Let me ask you about the problem in the Democratic Party. You're a senior member of the Democratic Congress. You're getting a lot of seniority up there on the Hill. Is this going to be a problem in holding the House to have this problem?
Then Maxine Waters, I don't know where that one came from out of nowhere last week, all of a sudden, another senior member of the Black Caucus getting brought before charges, charges brought up against her involving a conflict of interest claim here. You know, they are different kinds of cases, but these are major figures in our lives for, what, 20, 30 years.
I mean, the Republicans must be loving this.
FATTAH: Well, look, they—look...
MATTHEWS: This is the swamp, as far as they're concerned, probably.
FATTAH: Well, look, if the Republicans want to love it, God bless them.
Let me just tell you, in the same week, right, you had a criminal
investigation taking place with a U.S. senator, another senator
cooperating, turning over 1,200 pages—no coverage. You had $8 billion -
$9 billion.
MATTHEWS: Which Senator was that? I'm sorry. Which senator?
FATTAH: This was Senator Corbin (ph) turning over 1,200 pages in the incident investigation on the same day as the Charlie Rangel mess. No attention.
But we had the Pentagon admit that they lost $9 billion of cash in Iraq in $1 million (INAUDIBLE) over the course of the Iraq reconstruction - - no mention of that, because this is another distraction.
First of all, I served six years on the Ethics Committee. Complaints come. You review them. If there is a prima facie case, you make out the statement of alleged allegations. The member gets a chance to answer.
Maxine Waters says she wants an opportunity to answer.
FATTAH: I don't know why we would have jumped from the conclusion that members should take an allegation, admit it to it whole cloth, without a chance to rebut it. And members should take that opportunity.
And I believe that when people look at the Rangel response, look at the Waters response, you will see that this is not as clear-cut as some of the loose language on TV suggesting that they're wrongdoing.
Well, let me take a look. Here's a Politico report today. It's from a member of the Black Caucus, one of the members, one of the members—one of the members—let me just read this report.
"'There's a dual standard," somebody is charging on the Black Caucus and the members, "One of the most—one of the—one—one for most members and one for African-Americans,' said a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, speaking on condition of anonymity."
What do you make of that charge?
FATTAH: I don't buy it.
MATTHEWS: Dual standard.
FATTAH: I don't buy it. I know the members of the Ethics Committee, each of them. I think they're doing their job.
And I think that, you know, they have went through the two-year investigation that Rangel asked for, looking at all manners of allegations. They come forth with essentially three, even though it's 13 different particulars.
And when you dig into them, there's no there there. There's not a dollar that he's alleged by anyone to have taken, no personal benefit. There's a question about the use of stationary, whether it should have been personal or office. I mean, there are some details that the hearing will bring out.
But I don't believe that members, rather than...
MATTHEWS: Well, there was a charge of—there was a charge of tax evasion—avoidance.
FATTAH: Absolutely not.
MATTHEWS: Wasn't there—what about the Dominican property? I thought that was.
FATTAH: Absolutely—absolutely—no, what Charlie Rangel—there was a news article two-plus years ago. Rangel hired a forensic accountant, went through all of his tax records for 20 years, found that there were some payments were due on a Dominican Republic—paid them, paid the penalty, and then requested the House Ethics Committee to look into any and all charges.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FATTAH: This—so, the committee never even started their investigation until all taxes were paid.
MATTHEWS: Is this good for the Democratic Party to have an open hearing? We will be covering it live, probably, here on MSNBC. If we have ethics hearings in public, with the charges being faced, with Charlie Rangel being—facing those charges, that will be live television. You think that is a good thing for the party?
FATTAH: I think sweeping things under the rugs is bad for our country.
I think having American citizens, even if they happen to be members of Congress, actually stand up and say, look, if you have an allegation, let's air it in public, has to be good for our democracy. To the contrary of all of this nonsense that somehow we're going to be harmed....
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you.
FATTAH: ... members of Congress need a chance to deal with the cynicism that would created if there was a backroom deal.
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you, U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania. Thank you, sir, for joining us tonight.
FATTAH: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Up next: Sarah Palin's below-the-belt hit on President Obama, what story—that story in where it belongs, coming up in the "Sideshow."
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now to the "Sideshow."
Talk about hitting below the belt. On FOX yesterday, Sarah Palin kicked President Obama on illegal immigration. Here she goes.
SARAH PALIN ®, FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR: Jan Brewer has the cojones that our president does not have to look out for all Americans, not just Arizonans, but all Americans, in this desire of ours to secure our borders and allow legal immigration to help build this country, as was the purpose of immigration laws.
If our own president will not enforce a federal law, more power to Jan Brewer and 44 other states who are in line to help support Jan Brewer in state laws, state efforts to do what our president won't do.
MATTHEWS: Well, is this—that she would use a Spanish word, cojones, to knock immigrants from Mexico, is that some kind of double insult?
By the way, I haven't heard Ms. Palin say that she supports a checkable worker I.D. check card to stop illegal hiring by businesses in this country. If she is serious about it, she would say so. Until then, she should be careful about kicking our president.
Next: the perils of multitasking. Last week, Republican Congressman Dan Lungren of California, a popular guest on this program, was pulled over for exceeding the speed limit while doing a radio interview.
Take a listen.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are talking specifically this morning about the passage of the international Megan's Law. Can you tell folks about it?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you hang up the phone, sir?
REP. DAN LUNGREN ®, CALIFORNIA: I have to get off the phone just a moment here.
Can I call you back in just a second? I'm sorry. I'm talking with a police officer here, sir.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh. Yes.
Let me ask you this. Were you driving hands-free?
LUNGREN: Yes. I have got it sitting here on my lap.
MATTHEWS: So, the phone was sitting in his lap.
Today, in a made-for-the-Internet stunt, Lungren's Democratic challenger, Dr. Ami Bera, headed over to the congressman's district office out in California to deliver, what else, a hands-free headset, a Bluetooth.
Nice gimmick and about the right attitude, I would say, not too judgmental.
Now for the "Big Number."
Remember billionaire Florida senator candidate Jeff Greene? He's the one who couldn't tell me whether he voted for Ronald Reagan or not in '80 or '84. Well, while he doesn't have much a political record or memory, it turns out he's earned quite the record as an employer, a tough one.
According to "The St. Petersburg Times," since 2003, how many captains has he had for his luxury yacht these past seven years? Well, at least 22. That's about three a year. By the way, captain number 21 quit after just a couple of hours. Jeff Greene has gone through at least 22 captains for his luxury yacht—tonight's incredible "Big Number."
Up next, there's growing momentum among Republicans to end birthright citizenship, citizenship for any person born in the U.S. Some conservatives say illegal immigrants are abusing it, coming here just to have kids. Will debate it straight ahead.
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Related to the controversy surrounding Arizona's tough new immigration law is this issue of birthright citizenship. Children born to illegal immigrants in the U.S. become American citizens, like anyone else.
Yesterday, Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona questioned that reading of the law. Here he is on CBS' "Face the Nation."
SEN. JON KYL (R-AZ), MINORITY WHIP: There is a constitutional provision in the 14th Amendment that has been interpreted to provide that, if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen no matter what.
The question is, if both parents are here illegally, should there be a reward for their illegal behavior?
And what I suggested—my colleague Lindsey Graham from South Carolina suggested that we pursue that. And what I suggested to him was that we should hold some hearings and hear first from the constitutional experts to at least tell us what the state of the law on that proposition is.
MATTHEWS: Well, joining us right now is New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
Mr.—Governor Richardson, it's great to have you on.
You have a personal life that sort of reflects this reality.
MATTHEWS: You want to tell us how you got to be—Bill Richardson got to be an American?
GOV. BILL RICHARDSON (D), NEW MEXICO: Well, Chris, my mother is Mexican. My father was an American. I was raised in Mexico. I'm part of the American dream.
I was born in Pasadena, California. But this is an issue that really is emblematic of what we are as Americans. This 14th Amendment was a civil rights measure for elected officials guaranteeing equal protection under the law.
I mean, it—it shows how far and how badly this immigration debate is going, when we're questioning the 14th Amendment, which was basically put in at the time to protect those with African heritage. It was already federal law. Supporters of the constitutional amendment wanted to make sure that those with African heritage were protected equally under the law.
Now, in this immigration debate, this anti-immigration rhetoric, they're raising the possible of ending this amendment. I don't take it seriously, but it's part of a very strong anti-immigrant sentiment.
MATTHEWS: You know, Lindsey Graham, who is not anti-immigrant—he's been pretty positive over the years and sticking his neck out, in fact, as a Republican pushing for immigration reform—but let's listen to the language he used to talk about this issue. I think it's pretty cold language, but he used it. Here he is on FOX last week.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM ®, SOUTH CAROLINA: I may introduce a constitutional amendment that changes the rules if you have a child here. Birthright citizenship I think is a mistake, that we should change our Constitution and say if you come here illegally and you have a child, that child's automatically not a citizen.
People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It's called "drop and leave." To have a child in America, they cross the border, they go to the emergency room, have a child, and that child's automatically an American citizen. That shouldn't be the case. That attracts people here for all the wrong reasons.
MATTHEWS: Well, I don't know what you think of that language. What do you think of that, drop a baby here? What do you think of that, a pretty cold way of saying something, of...
RICHARDSON: Well, and I agree with you.
Lindsey Graham, Senator Graham, and Senator Kyl, too, recognize the problem that we have with undocumented workers. We do need comprehensive immigration reform.
But I'm, frankly, surprised that he's saying this, because this is a provision, 14th Amendment, child born in America is an American. And I don't think this effort will get very far.
But it's part of an anti-immigrant sentiment that...
RICHARDSON: ... I believe is very bad, unless we have comprehensive immigration reform, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Well, it seems to me there's a number of these cases this gets to. First of all, if you're here on a student visa, two students from abroad, and they have a baby here, well, it is an American, darn it. That's a fact.
If you're here on a tourist visa and you have a kid here, that's an American. That's a fact. If you're here on a green card, you're here, a legal—a resident, if you're not a citizen, that's a baby—that's an American baby. These are all facts.
I guess he's getting at something which is sort of weak underbelly of the law where somebody would come here just to create a baby here in the United States for that only purpose. Come in, have the baby, get out again. So you can say the baby is an American.
What do you think of that case? Should that still be the law?
Still honoring the 14th Amendment?
RICHARDSON: Yes, we should honor the 14th Amendment. The reality is that immigrants come in to America, undocumented workers, to improve their economic situation, to get jobs. They're fleeing desperate situations in Mexico and Central America where there's no future. And those immigrants many times become a strong part of our economy.
And the reality is, Chris, that, you know, this was done for a very good reason, to protect those from African heritage --
MATTHEWS: I know.
RICHARDSON: -- that many felt were going to be denied this ability to be Americans.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about the politics of this, because
clearly, this is another example. If I were Hispanic, if I were Latino, I
think I'd hear some ethnic anger at me. If I heard it somebody was talking
even like Lindsey Graham who's normally quite a decent guy. In fact, he is a decent guy—talking like this.
Does this strike at the heart of people—well, you—did you take it personal? Did you say, "Wait a minute, this guy is getting a little ethnic here"?
RICHARDSON: Well, it does. I mean, it gets personal. And a lot of this Arizona law, for a lot of Hispanics, gets personal because, obviously, there's going to be racial profiling.
Who are you going to go after? Somebody that looks like me, somebody that looks Latino. You're not going after a blond like Lindsey Graham who's a good man and who I like.
But the problem here is that failure to act on a comprehensive bill, the Congress failing to act—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RICHARDSON: -- is causing all this hysteria—all the state that take actions on their own and these unfortunate comments.
MATTHEWS: I wonder if they're serious, that's my question. I wonder if anybody is going to go to three quarters of the states to try to amend the Constitution over a few thousand cases a year that are incidental like this.
Anyway, thank you, Governor. It's great to have you on. I'm a big fan of Bill Richardson. Thanks for coming on the show.
RICHARDSON: Thanks.
MATTHEWS: Up next: President Obama announces combat operations in Iraq will end at the end this month. It's happening. We're leaving Iraq.
And what about Afghanistan? What are we fighting for over there? And how much longer will that war last, that American war? This is going be hot coming up here.
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MATTHEWS: Former half-term Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, blames the media—who else—for her upside down approval rating among independents. Palin says, "If I believed everything I read or heard in the media, I wouldn't like me either." She's 25 percent favorable, 39 percent unfavorable among independents in the latest NBC/"Wall Street Journal" poll. And somehow, it's somebody else's fault in this case.
HARDBALL will be right back.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Defense Secretary Robert Gates appear to be at odds over what next summer's deadline for withdrawal in Afghanistan actually means. Secretary Gates cautions that we'll see a limited withdrawal next year. Here he is.
ROBERT GATES, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: I think we need to reemphasize the message that we are not leaving Afghanistan in July of 2011. And if the Taliban are waiting for the 19th month, I welcome that because we will be there in the 19th month and we will be there with a lot of troops. My personal opinion is that drawdowns early on will be of fairly limited numbers.
MATTHEWS: We are not leaving Afghanistan.
And here's Speaker Pelosi saying what she said when she said about the question of the very question of how many troops are leaving. Here she is.
REP. NANCY PELOSI (D), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Well, I hope it is more than that. I know it's not going to be "turn out the lights and let's all go home" on one day. But I do think the American people expect it to be somewhere between that and a few thousand troops.
MATTHEWS: So, the difference there between not leaving Afghanistan and only leaving a few thousand troops.
So, what is the July 2011 withdrawal deadline really mean, and is the president's counterinsurgency strategy working over there?
Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning "Washington Post" columnist and MSNBC political analyst, of course. And Frank Gaffney is the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy.
Frank, I'm curious about how you read these things. I know you're tough and you're hawkish, and that's why you're here. Fair enough.
But what is the administration—is it hawkish or dovish on Afghanistan? Is it leaving, or is it staying?
FRANK GAFFNEY, CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY: I think you have to ask the administration. I'll give you my sense, which I think actually is the sense of the Taliban, which is perhaps the most worrying, and that is we are leaving. We are leaving, if not exactly, you know, a year from now, then shortly thereafter. And we are leaving it in the hands, at least in part, of at least some of the Taliban.
And that, I think, is going to augur very badly for our interest, for the friends that we've tried to cultivate there, and most especially, for the prospect that the president reiterated again in his speech today to the disabled veterans, namely, that we're not going to simply allow it to slide back into a safe haven—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
GAFFNEY: -- for the sort of terrorism we saw before.
MATTHEWS: Well, Frank says we're leaving. He doesn't like it, but he thinks that's the message. What's your reading on Pelosi and Gates?
EUGENE ROBINSON, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALSYT: We have extremely mixed messages here. And it's not just Speaker Pelosi who is reflecting, I think, if not a consensus, the views of a growing number of her members in the House and a number of senators as well, versus Secretary Gates.
You also get mixed messages within the executive branch, within the administration. You go over to the White House and you get a sense that: don't worry. We were serious when we talked about July 2011. You know, this was not some sort—some sort of charade.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ROBINSON: You hear Gates. You hear Mullen. And you watch what's happening on the ground, and you get—you get a different sense.
MATTHEWS: Well, let's—here's the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mullen. Here he is talking about our presence in Afghanistan, giving another hawkish push to this. Here he is.
ADM. MIKE MULLEN, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS: We left Afghanistan in the late in the late '80s. We left Pakistan in the late '80s. And we find ourselves back there now. And certainly, the questions that are out there from the citizens in those countries are, are we going to stay this time or not? And I believe that we've got to stay.
MATTHEWS: Well, there you are, Frank. That must make you feel good. He says we've got to stay.
You know, it reminds me a lot of the last days of Jack Kennedy's presidency before he was assassinated. He was giving a lot of different messages. Some people read his determination to withdraw some troops as a sign we were pulling out. Others read it as a sign he was just getting Diem and the other generals over there later to get tougher by saying, if you don't fight, we're going to pull out of here.
Is there any ambiguity here on purpose? Or did you just think it's
what do you think is going on, Frank? What is the message purpose here?
GAFFNEY: I think what's going on is that you have people in senior positions responsible not only for the lives of our military personnel but also for the success of the strategy upon which President Obama has embarked saying, we can't leave. We mustn't give the signal that I fear is being sent.
GAFFNEY: And I think, on the other hand, you've got a lot of political folks, particularly, who think it's imperative that we leave. And in the middle, you have this signal being sent to the Taliban that I fear is unmistakable to them: we're going down.
MATTHEWS: Well, here's the president. I guess he's the one they're most listening to, here is talking about what our mission is over there. I agree, we can't send one message to the Taliban: we're staying forever. And we're telling the liberals from the Bay Area we're getting out. I mean, somebody is hearing everything. In fact, they're all hearing everything.
Here he is, the president on why we're there. Let's listen.
OBAMA: And if Afghanistan were to be engulfed by an even wider insurgency, al Qaeda and its terrorist affiliates would have even more space to plan their next attack. And as president of the United States, I refuse to let that happen.
OBAMA: We will continue to face huge challenges in Afghanistan. But it's important that the American people know that we are making progress and we are focused on goals that are clear and achievable.
MATTHEWS: Tough question to you: Would he give the same speech to the Bay Area Democratic club?
ROBINSON: You know, I think he would.
MATTHEWS: Would he? That's a hawkish speech to the veterans.
ROBINSON: You know, he said from the beginning and throughout the campaign, Afghanistan was the right war, Iraq was the wrong war.
MATTHEWS: So, you think he's a hawk on Afghanistan.
ROBINSON: You know, I think—I think basically he is. I think he doesn't—and he has said publicly, he doesn't intend to be drawn into some sort of open-ended, protracted occupation, but here's the question. I think Speaker Pelosi actually was onto the right question. Nobody thinks we're going to turn out the lights, but do we have a light footprint left in Afghanistan?
MATTHEWS: Are we going to be weaker each week than the week before militarily? Weaker each week and therefore, the Taliban sees us getting weaker and weaker and they decide, "We got a little, let's take a break. We'll be ready to strike in six months when they're really weaker." I would do that if I were Taliban.
ROBINSON: What do you mean by weaker or stronger? You could—you could pursue a counterterrorism strategy—
MATTHEWS: Right, that's more limited.
ROBINSON: -- with a lot fewer troops.
MATTHEWS: That's not fighting the Taliban. How do we fight the Taliban?
Frank, what's your—what do you think we should be doing? I'm going to give you a chance to make your case. What should we do as opposed to what the president seems to be doing?
GAFFNEY: Well, I think we got to do a couple of things, Chris. One is, I think we have to stop saying we're going to negotiate with the Taliban, albeit the moderate Taliban. I don't think there is such a thing as moderate Taliban.
The signal that is sending on the one hand to the Afghan government and to the Pakistanis is, you guys are going to be left high and dry unless you carve this thing up, which as we saw the last time as Mike Mullen said, we bail out of this theater, meant that the Pakistanis helped install and prop up the Taliban. I think that's a terrible mistake.
At the same time, we're seeing the Pakistanis playing this double game. I think they have to be held accountable for that. One option for increasing pressure on them is I think enhancing our relationship with India. But most especially, we need to be saying to the Afghan people, we're not bailing out on you.
GAFFNEY: We don't intend to relinquish your fate to the same miserable people who imposed Sharia on you the last time.
MATTHEWS: You made your case. Thanks, Frank—Frank Gaffney, for coming on.
Thank you, Eugene Robinson.
This is the one. This may be the toughest.
When we return, the same people who lied to us about the war in Iraq are at it again, this time about President Obama and what he wants do with that Bush tax cuts. Get ready for some more B.S. from the same crowd.
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MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with a verbal trick of purposely confusing two different things.
Remember how the country got sold on the war in Iraq because we had to get even with those who attacked us on 9/11, that the Iraq war was some kind of payback? That's how it was sold certainly. Remember how you felt? That was the line.
Remember how bad 9/11 was? Let's go to war with Iraq. We'll show 'em.
So, we went to war with Iraq in 2003, even though no Iraqis had attack us on 9/11, because polls showed a huge chunk of Americans believed that Iraqis were on those planes that hit New York and the Pentagon—
Iraqis. They believed it because the propaganda machine kept spewing it out. That was the brilliant big lie that sold enough Americans to get us into war, conflating 9/11 with Iraq.
Now they're at it again. President Obama wants to end the Bush tax cuts for people in the very top income levels, the few percent who make over $200,000 as individuals or $250,000 in joint returns. But Republicans are saying that Obama wants to end the tax cuts for everyone—largest tax increase in history they boom again and again as they list the size of the whole Bush tax cut.
It was Sarah Palin's line this weekend. She had the number written on her hand of how much the tax cuts are worth over 10 years if you keep them or cut them for everyone.
So, listen to the Republicans push the line that the Democrats want to eliminate Bush tax cuts for everyone. Listen as they continue to cite the amount of money involved, not for the top 2 or 3 percent—which are the cuts President Obama is talking about eliminating, but for the 100 percent of us.
There's one reason why they're doing this and only one. The only reason someone would purposely confuse the truth is because the simple truth doesn't serve their purpose.
So, remember, when you hear the same people who pushed the Iraq war on behalf of George Bush push to need to keep the Bush tax cuts, what they're really doing is defending the tax cuts for the very richest among us.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
Right now, it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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