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This morning, we're keeping the preview shorter than usual due to some technical difficulties. Rest assured, we'll have more on the blog about this week's news over the course of the weekend. For now, let's just get down to the important stuff -- what's on today's edition of "MHP"!
Today, we'll preview next week's Republican National Convention with topics ranging from how we determine who is fit for office, the early-voting controversy in Ohio, and the role of Florida Senator Marco Rubio at that convention. We'll also mark the seventh anniversary of Hurrican Katrina, and the destruction it inflicted upon Melissa's adopted hometown of New Orleans. Don't miss a special video feature about the new, Katrina-ravaged home Melissa has begun to restore!
Our guests include:
- Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian.
- Jonathan Capehart, opinion writer for the Washington Post, and an MSNBC contributor.
- Emily Douglas, senior editor at The Nation.
- Alicia Menendez, host at HuffPost Live, and co-host of "Power Play" on SiriusXM Cristina Radio.
- Israel Ortega, editor of the Heritage Foundation's Spanish-language publication, Libertad.
- Buddy Roemer, former Louisiana governor and 2012 presidential candidate, and current chair of TheReformProject.org.
- Manuel Roig-Franzia, political features writer for the Washington Post and author of "The Rise of Marco Rubio."
- Angela Zimmann, Democratic candidate for Congress in Ohio's 5th District.
As always, folks -- be sure to interact with us during the show here in the comments of this post, on Facebook, and on Twitter, using the hashtag #nerdland. We look forward to having you join us at 10am ET on msnbc!
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Re: Romney's latest Birther comment
Romney knew exactly what he was doing..Please see Youtube video: "Obama Treasonous", Romney has never defended the President's Rightful existence.
Allowing these comments simply adds to the already violent nature of these people and is completely irresponsible of a representitive of the American People, never mind a Presidential candidate! Shame on him!!!
I don't think that right-wing republican voters believe the argument that President Obama has bad policies. I think they are aware of the strategy that Mitch McConnell layed out at the beginning of Obama's presidency and are supportive of it. I wonder if there might even be right-wing citizens that have been writing letters to their leadership to assure them not to worry about the damage they are doing to the country as long as they do what they can to get that ... Obama ... out of their Whitehouse.
Is there anyone with the wherewithal that is looking into this, that is doing the research that would either confirm or disprove my suspicions?
I understand that this thinking might venture into 'conspiracy' territory, but wouldn't you think that right-wingers talk so much about conspiracies because of a "we conspire against you, so why wouldn't you conspire against us" mentality.
Do you not think that there is a 'voter supression' conspiracy??
Jonathan Capehart suggests that the failures surrounding Hurricane Katrina were not so much Republican failures as American failures. But his formulation misses the greater point — that the Republican Party has become an American failure.
50 million of our fellow citizens voted for George W Bush in 2000, and 62 million did so again in 2004. Prominent among their motives for doing so was an explicitly anti-government ideology. Using a metaphor that has come to have grotesque associations, those voters wanted to drown the federal government in a bathtub, and they were happy enough to begin with FEMA.
Nor were those votes aggregated uniformly across all of America’s byways. They came to the Republican Party most particularly via the “Southern Strategy.” Originally a strategy of slavery and plantations, becoming one of secession and civil war, and then evolving into a regime of domestic terrorism and Jim Crow, the Southern Strategy has not shed its birthright. And without it, the Republican Party could have no national power.
To the extent that Capehart is right, that all Americans share responsibility for Katrina, we must also say that all Americans shared responsibility for the Civil War. And that is true, but some Americans were on the right side of that war, and some were not.
Very good show this week, nice to see Mr Roemer there, pro-life republican who can keep a civil discussion. Many good points and views and sharp analysis from Melissa as usual!
I don't tweet or anything like that, but I wanted you to know that I saw your program this morning and the section about Hurricane Katrina struck me. I'm a westerner. I've never even been near New Orleans, but I share your frustration with the federal response. I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but Jackson Browne has a very powerful song about Katrina. It's called "Where Were You?" I highly recommend you give it a listen. Blessed be.
The show was great today.
Just wanted to say Jonathan Capehart need to go thru a de-program after being on Morning Joe so much,it seems he can't help himself to try to falsely equalize the 2 parties. Also,comparing Marco Rubio to Obama, c'mon already.