Ed, I'm very worried that King's attack on Muslims is just being drummed up by the republicans as a distraction so they can continue to take down unions and tax paying citizen's rights, sell off state lands and power plants, and destroy public education while everyone is going to be watching the circus. So please keep up your work because we need you and the rest of the msnbc team to hold the focus where it belongs. dw

Questions to Tea Party

How much money are they getting from the Republican Party? How many of them are receiving social security, medicare or medicade? Do they have some guarantee that they would be taken care of.when cuts are made to "entitlements"?

Ed, years ago Gngrich invited great deal of time lecturing college students about social security, and how they should not invest, how they should demand changes so they should handle their own retirement investment dollars rather than deductions from paycheck for social security. Considerl this, these are some of those students now hold positions on wall street, and voted into or hired to political positions behaving just as Gingrich, unethical, non compassionate, selfish, no integrity, etc. I say do not take his run or pretense to run for the Presidency lightly. Unfortunately they have been educated/guided to be selfish and narrow minded. The Me, Me mindset Also during that time, I remember on late night tv, Gingrich spoke of starting a fund for credit cards to be issued to republicans. Maybe it seems rediculour but, follow the money, follow the money. Maybe that's where some of the $14.5 million raised by Gingrich is going, to supplment membership of Republican and Tea Party members?

Ed, Keep focus on message, 'WHERE ARE THE JOBS THAT IS TO BE CREATED DUE TO REAPPROVAL OF THE BUSH TAX CUTS. The Governors, Mayors of state and local goverment - where are the jobs!!!! What are they doing to create jobs.

Thank you Ed for your compassion, leadership and strong voice for 'we the people'.

CRandolph

What about this breaking news - That Walker is going to force a "nuclear option" vote without the 14 tonight?

This whole Republican shameless behavior is absolutely disgusting.

I pray that the people of Wisconsin vote each and every one of these republicans out of office post haste.

The bill has passed the Senate and is awaiting very quick passage through the Assembly, which will probably call a session early tomorrow without Democrats to pass the bill and have it on the desk of Gov. Walker before lunch.  This is a travesty for Wisconsin.  My "representative" in Wisconsin, Alberta Darling, has just voted herself out of office.  I'll be driving up to her office in Madison, offering to move her out.  We already have 20-25% of the vote for a recall.  By the end of this weekend, I wouldn't be surprised to see people mobbing the people who are with the clipboards recalling Alberta Darling who can't wait to sign or people in cars chasing down people with clipboards.  If the last weekend was any indication, this illegal action by Alberta Darling has just cost her seat on the Senate.  She might as well save-face right now and resign while she still has the chance before people in her district give her the boot.

I think this is where we could use our president!! Our nation is under attack by elected officials all in the name of destroying the middle class! Collective Bargaining is what made this a great state (Wisconsin) and has helped form others around this nation...IT IS ABOUT FREEDOM!! Why should a Governor tell it citizens how to work? I am willing to move out of this state and quite my job as a state worker if he (walker) lives on my 2010 salary!

Robert Marion La Follette, Sr is spinning!!!!!!

If public employees will no longer have collective bargaining, does that now mean they now have the right to strike and force collective bargaining?

What I believe the republicans in Wisconsin have done is nothing but a fascist move to take over a democratic government. Governor Walker is trying to get absolute power. He is the one who should be recalled.

Where is President Obama??? Can he really sit back and do nothing?

I wonder if Scott Walker is not the least bit worried about his unfavorable ratings and being re-elected because he is most likely assured of a job with the Koch brothers once his term ends!

We need to start a "People's Party!"

I can't believe what the state Republicans did tonight. They should all be thrown in jail....along with our crooked Gov. Keep those recall petitions going, and boot them all out.

I pray Ed does go after the slimeball Scott Fitzgerald. He is the epitomy of a man with no morals. His whole family is on the state payroll. He and his equally morally depraved brother got Walker to appoint their 68 year old father as head of the state patrol, even though he couldn't even win an election to be a county sheriff! The situation is Wisconsin is a corrupt joke. I can't wait until the recalls start happening. The arrogance of the Republicans will come home to roost.

who was the lone repubican who voted against the latest move by the the senate to strip the rts of the unions today. He or she should get props for standing up to the govenor

Ed Schultz has risen to the task at hand in getting the message to America's workers. After many years of anti union legislation and treaties by both republicans and democrats, Ed has exposed the repblicans for what they are. He has also "called out " democrats that take Labor support for granted. As a 42 year union member ( postal workers ) many times democratic candidates would say the right things, then vote for NAFTA, WTO and GAT. Ed has clearly held the democrats feet to the fire to stand with organized Labor. Good job Ed God bless you.

Take the country back! Get rid of these filthy pigs who are determined to destroy the middle class.

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Big Eddie,

Rove might intend to provoke Recall Vote ballots, since there are NO paper ballots where it is 'Touch the TV' voting and Rove rigged the computer programs for false results in the so-called 'electronic' voting equipment.

The evidence of Rove's fraud computer programs rap-sheet is here:

TIP to Wisconsin ELECTIONS people: See Oregon -- All absentee ballots, All the time.

Absentee ballots are PAPER ballots and a PAPER trail which you can REcount if questioned.

BONUS benefit of mail-in absentee ballots: MORE Voters -- 10 - 20 percent INCREASED PARTICIPATION because people can mail them in from home and people don't have to take time off work or off schedule, in order to ONLY vote on one day.

Big Eddie -- TV news like yours should SAY that Gov. Walker LOOKS LIKE liar Joe McCarthy, the historic dark-image SHAME of Wisconsin RIGHTWING EXTREMISTS.

It is creep weird that Gov. Walker stares his eyes like he's on some mind-altering drug when he's talking into the camera, and there is an UNnatural (not normal) absence of blink reflex like ordinary people do to moisten the eyes while talking -- he has a creepy stare like a psychopath.

TV massmedia should be reminding people that McCarthyism came from Wisconsin Republicans.

TV massmedia should be saying out loud words like 'DICTATOR' and 'Fascism' which are accurate descriptions for what we all are seeing.

You go, Big Eddie

If anyone doubts this isn't an organized, concentrated political and economical takeover by 16 Republican governed states, their corporate bosses and the greater Republican party to remove our government and replace it with an Orwellian, fascist regime called the Corporate States of America, then they have their heads in the sand. THIS IS PART OF AN AGREESIVE AND MUCH BIGGER PLAN PEOPLE......WAKE UP!!!!!

They are already well on their way to accomplishing just that AND they will use every dirty trick, tactic and their MONEY to finish us off. Our votes don't and won't count as in my opinion that angle has already been covered via corruption and payoffs.

The rest of us will continue to be intimidated, bullied, villified and demeaned into submission via the vast right wing media, power of money, including the potential use of law enforcement officials and the military if we dare to contest them. Walker, Wisconsin and 15 other Republican states are only a peek of what is to come.

The misery, poverty and devastatation of hard working people in this country will continue to rise as their power increases. We will be forced to watch them sell off our country to foreign corporations, cry for the sick, helpless and elderly who will die on our streets, beg for contaminated food and water and in dreams of nostalgia for what we have lost.......equality, justice, humanity....hope for a better life.......freedom..............our country.

Our gratitude to you Ed, Comcast and MSNBC, you are all we have left. Through you we cling to a spark of hope and your fervent words of encouragement.

fox news lies .com......... vote blue chicago local 134 i.b.e.w this is war on all workers....... this is part of the gop plan .....go blue

Was Karl Rove in Madison the night that the state Assembly passed the union-busting bill? There have been a few hints from people who saw him here, but it is huge if he's the one who came in and personally orchestrated this draconian move.