nancy pelosi on the democratsic side. if they go back to campaign we saw both of them trying to go and get their tattoo on the story. let's listen first to nancy pelosi. >> nothing less is at stake than the choice to going back to the exact agenda of the bush administration or moving america forward. >> that was her interview with my colleague. she was making the point which democrats love to make that this is about the bush administration. we're going to relitigate that now we'll go to john boehner and the way he decided to describe what the issues are. >> the house finds themselveses in a state of emergency. the intuition does not have a break. and seems incapable of acting on the level of it. there's no accountsbility. there's no cons questions. >> i find it interesting neither one of them is being as honest as they could be about exactly what the situation is. but let's start with the nnsy pelosi part. the republicans have decided they can use as a battering ram to help get republicans effected. is it working? >> they

and jim marshal is a long way from nancy pelosi. jim marshall doesn't support nancy pelosi. he voted the same as republican leader 65% of the time. >> by the way, that ad was from georgia democratic congressman jim marshall. let's bring in our company. democratic strategist and editor of the daily voice, keith boykin, anna recox, and joined by former republican congresswoman susan molinari. do you think part of what's going on here, what we're seeing what look looks a takeover of the house, has to do with nancy pelosi? >> i don't think that's the issue here. the issue's about jobs and the economy. the american people are not going to go to the polls and think, i would vote for a republican -- a democratic candidate except nancy pelosi. so let me vote for republican instead. >> have they sort of been successful, have republicans been successful in demonizing her as part of what's wrong with the system that's entrenched in washington? >> i think that's part of what they are trying to do. i don't flow if it's successful in reaching people beyond their base. great for mobilizing

i expect nancy pelosi will continue to be speaker. it is going to be tough, democrats are closing fast. democrats are doing well. there are lots of opinions, but i'm confident that nancy pelosi and the democrats most importantly, will be in the majority in the house. >> will you at least agree al the real power is in the house? >> i agree you on that. >> >> sean: nancy pelosi, it is interesting mr. speaker, if you look at numbers and the ad that are being run in this election cycle, no democrats running on health care, stimulus, cap and tax. if anything they are running away from pelosi and obama. what does that tell us? >> members of congress, like anybody else they want to make excuses for their leaders. they don't want to tell why their leaders are on tv in a negative way. it is self-preservation. that's the only way they have to go. >> sean: al, let me ask you this -- wait. hang on, relax. >> he's been in ohio on west coast, apparently a lot of people like to see him. >> sean: here's a simple question: if democrats are so proud of

i expect nancy pelosi will continue to be speaker. it is going to be tough, democrats are closing fast. democrats are doing well. there are lots of opinions, but i'm confident that nancy pelosi and the democrats most importantly, will be in the majority in the house. >> will you at least agree al the real power is in the house? >> i agree you on that. >> >> sean: nancy pelosi, it is interesting mr. speaker, if you look at numbers and the ad that are being run in this election cycle, no democrats running on health care, stimulus, cap and tax. if anything they are running away from pelosi and obama. what does that tell us? >> members of congress, like anybody else they want to make excuses for their leaders. they don't want to tell why their leaders are on tv in a negative way. it is self-preservation. that's the only way they have to go. >> sean: al, let me ask you this -- wait. hang on, relax. >> he's been in ohio on west coast, apparently a lot of people like to see him. >> sean: here's a simple question: if democrats are so proud of

but true to form, nancy pelosi is having none of it. don't you worry that maybe you could end up instead of being one of the most famous speakers in history to be just a footnote? >> i'm not a footnote. i'm the first woman speaker of the house and have passeded the most comprehensive health insurance reform. i didn't come here about me. i came here about policy and the issues. i wouldn't... are you saying would i rather not have passed the health care bill so i could keep this office? never! never! >> osgood: next, e equals einstein. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol® to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.com. take action. take advil®. since our beginning, we've been there for clients through good times and bad, when our clients' needs changed we changed to meet them. through the years, when some lost their way, we led the way with new ideas for the financial challenges we knew would lie ahead. this rock has never stood still. and there's one thing

house speaker nancy pelosi. there are some dems out there campaigning in the political fight of their life. they're breaking with her a bit. here is a couple of those ads. >> georgia is a long way from san francisco. jim marshal is a long way from nancy pelosi. jim marshall doesn't support nancy pelosi. >> i heard my constituents and they don't want a liberal running the house. they want a conservative. i'm going to vote for the one that allows me to represent my constituents. >> shannon: they laid it out there. pelosi is running the show for now. >> they sound like republicans. it's true across the country. nancy pelosi's popularity in districts like her own district, but very few others. if you look at midwest and south, she is not popular. this is one of the only ways they can save their seat. >> shannon: somehow the house remains in democrat control, how much trouble are the guys in with her? >> pelosi looks at this and says every man for himselves. do what you have to do to win. she has a thick skin. he may

if nancy pelosi loses them 40 or 50 seats you could walk through the deepest confidence as nancy pelosi and not get your ankles wet. >> neil: man, i love that guy! thank you, john. have a great weekend. >> thank you. >> neil: very good writer, by the way. meanwhile, lawmakers addicted to spending unaware of step one in alcoholics anonymous. don imus knows what it is. he's been there and now he is here. then the president scrapping the idea of bringing a business guy to the economics team. it has charlie gasporino asking if ceo is just not in his d.n.a. [ manager ] you know... i've been looking at the numbers, and i think our campus is spending too much money on printing. i'd like to put you in charge of cutting costs. calm down. i know that it is not your job. what i'm saying... excuse me? alright, fine. no, you don't have to do it. ok? [ male announcer ] notre dame knows it's better for xerox to control its printing costs. so they can focus on winning on and off the field. [ manager ] are you sure i can't talk -- ok, no, i get it. [ male announcer ] with xerox, you're ready for real bu

speaker nancy pelosi, mayor gavin newsom. the mayor said some mighty nice things about me, but i tell you -- this would not have happened without the speaker and the mayor. i had been navy secretary about 10 minutes when the speaker called and said, "can we do something about treasure island?" i went up and talked to her, and and i talked to the mayor, and it was a group effort, a team effort, and we stood on the work that other people have done, and a couple of those folks are here today. mayor willie brown, and my predecessor as secretary of the navy, both of whom were here when this process started, and both of whom live the groundwork for what we are able to do here today, so thank you. united states navy in association with treasure island began 70 years ago, right after the completion of world expo, 1939-1940. the navy took this over, and from these shores, tens of thousands of sailors and marines left the fight in the pacific in world war ii, and a lot of those sailors and marines who left from here, this was the last

nancy pelosi has taken it to a new level. if you want to create jobs the quickest way is to provide more funding for food stamps and have unemploymentens for those who have lost their jobs. it is the biggest bang for the buck when you do food stamps and unemployment insurance. is that how we create jobs now in america? >> i want to thank speaker pelosi for being so -- >> sean: you're starting in. >> no. look she has been honest, give her a break. as a san francisco liberal she had the courage to stand up and say, i believe in food stamps. i think food stamps are the right way to jobs. i think every american who watches this debate can ask themselves the congress newt gingrich was speaker of which cut taxes, balanced the bunt, reformed welfare, medicare, was that the right way to create jobs? during those four years we not only payoff 405 billion dollars in federal debt. but we created millions of jobs. 2/3 of the people on welfare either went to work or went to school. or, is the pelosi congress with its job-killing, which ba

doing everything they can who say this is something who voted with nancy pelosi. if you don't like nancy pelosi, then you don't like earl pomeroy or fill in the bank. she is hurting the candidates. >> reminds me of what they tied tried to do to tip o'neal in 1992 during the reagan years. finally, joe biden today when he hits new hampshire after a stop rally in florida that will be joe biden's 100th campaign stop. >> yep. >> he is the energizer bunny of this democratic campaign, isn't he? >> the surrogate in chief. this is the thing with joe biden and it's not necessarily true with barack obama at this point. joe biden can go into some places rural culturally conservative places that barack obama might not be able to, including joe biden's hometown of scranton where he was a few weeks ago. >> that takes us, thanks. see you later. >>> that takes us beautifully to battleground, pennsylvania, where jbtd is known as the third senator because of all of his years in neighboring delaware. senate candidates there, pat toomey and joe sestak making last-minute pitches near p

with nancy pelosi. nancy pelosi can count on him. what about us? the national republican congressional committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> to think that the republicans are trying to maybe tap into the fact that people are unhappy with some of those votes, like health care. i think the economy. i mean, there's, no matter where you're going to go you're going to find a lot of unemployment. it's a heavy manufacturing area. we've lost a lot of those blue collar jobs over the last 10, 20 years. if you go to ashland, worcester, if you go to canton, you're going to find that same unemployed people, need jobs. i think that especially this year they're trying to find that candidate who is going to help them get a job and turn this economy around. >> i've been retired since 2005 but my company, the hoover company, has left canton. and 15 years ago, they started going to texas. ten -- excuse me. to mexico. >> so from 2005 to now, there are young people working there, husbands and wive

go along with nancy pelosi -- they're out there saying "i didn't go along with nancy pelosi." >> that's their record. we don't have -- sometimes washington gets used to a rubber-stamp congress which was the very homogeneous congress of the republicans. we are very diverse in opinion, gender, generation, geography, philosophy and the rest -- house democratic caucus -- and some members did not vote for some the bills and that's their record and that's what they go out and say. i just want them to win. they know their districts. they are great communicators. very eloquent communicators to their own constituents. and they are the ones who will be the independent representatives. i say to them, "your job description and your title are one and the same. representative." so they run on who they are. they don't run on -- and what this is about, again, just takes it to the middle class. it's not about me, it's about the middle class. they know that. that's what unites us. >> woodruff: even if they're implying criticism of you in a campaign? >> they took a different vote, so that's a disagreement

bobby bright voted with nancy pelosi, and taken $25,000 from her. firsts -- maybe bobby bright should be the first to go. the national republican national committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> bobby bright is a democrat in alabama where nancy pelosi essentially is a four-letter word. >> bobby bright one of the to democrat whose have come out in really a pretty intense and rather crude way distanced himself from the speaker. but, look, i actually asked her when they came back for the month and a half in the summer, home, ads like this were running all over the country, using her as the boogieman about that. she didn't let me finish my sentence. she says sternly this is not about me, this is about the country, about the party. >> let's listen to nancy pelosi saying, what? rung ads about me? no way. >> this has nothing to do with me. it is about our fight for the american people. i think that is the contrast that will be drawn. the republicans are there for the special interest, the special interests are pouring tens of milli

i was down in the carolinas, and they were definitely sort of demonizing and vulcanizing nancy pelosi. there was even a dunk tank. >> he was normally a likable guy, spratt, easily collectible, but not this year. >> he has done a lot for the district in the 28 years that he has been there. tying him to nancy pelosi, a senior member of the democrats who voted for cap and trade and the economic stimulus, that is not favorable for democrats, especially in rural, republican- leaning districts. >> he was so energized out of maryland that we have people dropping like flies, 36 people dropping due to heat exhaustion, and according to politico, he is going to be hitting the road every day between now and the midterms, either in person or via the computer, but it looks like he has got a big itinerary, massachusetts, nevada, pennsylvania, oregon, and others. he just wrapped up in philadelphia today with vice president joe biden there. philadelphia still remains favorable. we are going to be seeing them hitting the campaign trail. tomorrow, he is going to a state where he can help the candidates.

i think it is bigger than nancy pelosi. a lot of house democrats trying save themselves saying i won't vote for pelosi for speaker again. if it is a democrat majority it is going to be the enabler for an obama white house. voters are saying we don't care about senior we don't want the democratic agenda as it current operating to keep going. interesting, two of the endangered barons, frank and -- >> paul: barney frank of massachusetts and kanjorski are in danger. >> not only the history of the financial crisis but for -- these are the two architects in the house of the financial services reform. >> paul: that was supposed to be popular. >> it was supposed to be. it is now a political failure with a policy failure. voters figured out this does not end bailouts. those two guys are not getting credit for. >> in kanjorski's district it is 60% registered democrat. a poll last week said 60% of the voters think it is time for him to be retired. there's that as well. they feel these guys have been around too long. >> paul: let's tur

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he voted with nancy pelosi 95% of the time and it's really fascinating because skelton, head of the defense committee is very conservative guy, pro defense, pro iraq, pro afghanistan. >> paul: brought the b-2, everybody believes to the air force base, the bomber. >> and running against a formidable candidate. and bill clinton came out there to campaign for him and sarah palin to campaign for her. his problem is, he's in a district that voted in 2008 for john mccain. obama's-- >> by 60%. >> by 60% and obama's approval rating in that state is 36% so he may lose having voted with pelosi, and this is a perfect story of what the democrats did. they you know, forced guys like skelton to vote with them on obama care, stimulus, and cap and trade, and now, they are paying the price. just as they were warned for the entire past year. >> heartsler is a former teacher and business woman,first time candidate so she has that freshness, too, which is a real contrast with somebody who's been in the house for 34 years. kim, what about john spratt, the budget committee in south carolina, republicans say for

the secretary of the navy was there with nancy pelosi. i have to tell you, this has been the most amazing six most g six weeks i have had since being elected in local office. i mentioned doyle drive. we had our first, since being mayor, with nancy pelosi and the secretary of the navy, we signed an agreement with the navy. it is a public-public-private partnership. and number of those individuals are here today. 8000 housing units. 32% of them below market value. 500 rooms and hotel. the most sustainable brain development in the country. we have been talking about it for 20 years. we are now delivering on it. we are a few months away from finalizing the eir but the deal is signed. trust me, this deal was dead a couple of years ago. it was going nowhere. these guys started to panic, for good reason. now it is real, it is happening. 2000 construction jobs every year. you can extrapolate that out over the 10-year construction phase. that is a big deal to this city. hunters point, arguably, even bigger. 700,000 square feet of new retail. 10,00

you guys have to mic up nancy pelosi. republicans will never take back congress if they see the nancy pelosi i saw last night at the game. >> john gould fought for this first place in line. >> a good time. three innings better than none. >> not exacy the sentiment of giants mascot lucille. if the team gets anymore pumped up, it might explode just like they did last night. >> there's people across the wa we saw and screaming at me right now. they'rgonna see the game for free for a few innings. if you want to get inside and pay, the price jumped up to pretty much wt the tickets were going for yesterday, about 400 to 500 bucks to stand there and watch 'em. live, rry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> we're getting lots of pictures from giants fans. barbara showing her husband and son enjoying a moment from last night's game. (cheers and applause) >> house speaker pelosi mit like it here as well. walnut creek after a three-run homer in last night's game. nate ellis sent it powered by youtube.com. >> a new car recall. is yours among th

they don't want their member of congress to be voting for nancy pelosi for speaker. the deck is stacked against them. are they going to lose the house. i don't know. >> yes, they are. >> don't be so fast because there is a principles that has held in every election and that is people like their member. incumbents -- >> not this year. not this year. >> well, we have had some incumbents knocked off in the primaries but in general they tend to like, especially somebody who has been there awhile. >> but the health care vote has changed all of that. if you look at any of the polls and any of the reporting on this in the past six months the health care debate was a changer. and for people like senator blanch lincoln who voted for it, people who voted for are thinking they don't want to did it against because of that vote. >> what she said about what happened in the primary with blanch lincoln, when people said she was not going to win it. anything can happen. this is a very volatile election cycle. >> and we are going to go to the next topic, on my way out, i want to say n

i have stood up to leadership and i am not nancy pelosi or barack obama. people know what i stand for. i always coached based on my conscience and constituents and country. the things i have voted for are similar to the things i supported and voted for in the legislature and i campaigned on in the last election. i am proud of my voting record and i hold it up. >> since the republicans were in the majority during the time i was in the senate, she voted with us 92% of the time. she has voted 97% of the time with nancy pelosi. the bills have done nothing for southern nevada. whether it is bailouts or health care. that is an agenda dictated by the democratic leadership and being voted for by my opponent. >> do you have a question? >> i thought i had another response. yes. in the 2005 legislature, i offered an amendment to increase the property tax rebate for seniors from $500 to $1,000. it passed with bipartisan support but you voted no. you also during that session sponsored a bill to give tax cuts to banks. during a time when banks were running wild and maki

to stand up to the president. >> and nancy pelosi. >> when president obama and nancy pelosi pressured chet edwards, chet stood up to them and voted no against their trillion dollar health care bill. >> and voted against nancy pelosi's energy tax on -- >> i'm trying to bring people together to make good things happen for our country. >> in the last one you have a congressman who's a democrat, an ad in his district showing him next to john boehner, the republican leader, saying, look, i voted 80% of the time with john boehner. is this the way you're going to keep the majority? >> well, here's the thing, we're proud of the fact that we have an ideologically diverse caucus. we have a whole range of >> but they're talking about the speaker. >> no, what they're doing is they're talking about independents on certain issues. issues where they stood with the speaker and the president, and the issues where they opposed the speaker and the president. that's their job. as opposed to on the other side where you have this ideological purity test, and it's being moved even further to the right by th

alabama's bobby bright wants nancy pelosi voted out as speaker. mississippi's gene taylor now says he actually voted for john mccain, not barack obama. and in tennessee, roy heron insists he's no liberal democrat, either. >> my opponent wants to run against-- i told him he ought to man up and run against a country boy from dresden, tennessee. >> reporter: so far, no luck, and next tuesday, this district could have its first republican congressman in more than a century. part of a republican wave rippling across the south. mark strassmann, cbs news, jackson, tennessee. >> couric: in a hand full of hotly competitive races, tea partiers are running as third party candidates, and sharyl attkisson reports, democrats are doing what they can to help them, hoping they'll siphon votes away from the republican. >> reporter: never, perhaps, have there been stranger political bedfellows. in nevada, a pro-harry reid group-- the senate's lead democrat-- promotes a little- known tea party candidate running against read. illinois democrat alexi giannoulias is run

pelosi. >> i don't work for nancy pelosi or harry reid. >> reporter: but it is still uphill for democrats. independents were the key to the republican takeover of congress in '94 and the democratic takeover in '06. right now they're leaning heavily republican. >> if republicans are going to get a majority that's where it's going to occur. >> nobody's saying we're going to pick up see the. people are saying let's just hold down as many democrats as we can. >> reporter: and in this climate, less bad seems to be about the best democrats can hope for. katie. >> couric: all right, jeff greenfield, jeff, thanks. and still ahead here on the cbs evening news, everybody in the world has a story. steve hartman way bag lady who is making a small fortune. but uppings in, fallen heroes. they were friends in life. now their families find peace knowing they're together again. >> couric: all too often, american deaths in iraq and afghanistan get reported simply as numbers. but as we know, they're so much more than that. each and every casualty is a unique individual with a family and a story. today, an e

sincerely and best wishes, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house. thank you. [applause] >> we're now moving on to the next category. thank you again, nicole, for being here and for that wonderful letter from our speaker. our next category is a category of media. we have two very accomplished honorees tonight and we have great presenter, who's with us tonight as well. >> thank you. please welcome carlos feliz. [applause] our first honoree tonight is maria mejia. she is the managing editor of he will mens her row, the most important -- of el mensajero newspaper. she has covered news for the latino community in the bay area. the newspaper has received several awards and nominations from national and local organizations. please welcome maria mejia. [applause] >> thank you, maria. our next honoree could not be here. on his behalf we have his daughter, bianca gutierrez, who as agreed to be here tonight to accept the award on his behalf. [applause] thank you very much for being with us here tonight, bianca. [applause] thank you, carlos. our next presenter, it's quite

you guys have to mic up nancy pelosi. republicans will never take back congress if they see the nancy pelosi i saw last night at the game. >> john gould fought for this first place in line. >> a good time. three innings better than none. >> not exactly the sentiment of giants mascot lucille. if the team gets anymore pumped up, it might explode just like they did last night. >> there's people across the way we saw and screaming at me right now. they're gonna see the game for free for a few innings. if you want to get inside and pay, the price jumped up to pretty much what the tickets were going for yesterday, about 400 to 500 bucks to stand there and watch 'em. live, terry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> we're getting lots of pictures from giants fans. barbara showing her husband and son enjoying a moment from last night's game. (cheers and applause) >> house speaker pelosi might like it here as well. walnut creek after a three-run homer in last night's game. nate ellis sent it powered by youtube.com. >> a new car recall. is you

nancy pelosi was right. we are seeing our democracy corrupted and corroded right now with these corporations being able to take a race that was not competitive, where a republican was raising no money and no grass roots support, suddenly dumping a million dollars into their coffers and nobody knows if it was one billionaire funding it because they want more oil permits. we need to pass the fair elections now act. that would combine public financing with obama-style people donations. a candidate would get a chunk of money from the government and any small dollar donations would be matched four-to-one. it would save hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate welfare costs. host: where does the money for the progressive change committee campaign come from? guest: from people like you, thank you for joining. we have raised over $2 million this past cycle. over 160,000 contributions. the average contribution tends to be in the $10 to $20 range. we are thankful for that support. that allows us to be independent.

have had a hand in helping nancy pelosi retain her job as house speaker. sworn enemies politically. real irony. >> one of the weird things this political ason. thank you very much, brian todd. >>> he tomorrowed a senate veteran in pennsylvania and bucked the democratic party establishment. i will ask congressman and senate candidate joe sestak why the president and his formal rival are embracing him and whether he thinks that is a plus. >>> too many medevac helicopters supposed to save lives have been costing lives. we are going to tell you what is being done to try to make them safer. back in the 80's, it was really tough for me and my family. i was living on welfare and supporting a family of four. after i got the job at walmart, things started changing immediately. then i wrote a letter to the food stamp office. "thank you very much, i don't need your help any more." you know now, i can actually say i bought my home. i knew that the more i dedicated... the harder i worked, the more it was going to benefit my family. this my son, mario and he now works a

to stand up to the president. >> and nancy pelosi. >> when president obama and nancy pelosi pressured chet edwards, chet stood up to them and voted no against their trillion dollar health care bill. >> and voted against nancy pelosi's energy tax on -- >> empty member of congress, try to -- bring things together in the country. >> in the last one you have a congressman who's a democrat, an ad in his district showing him next to john boehner, the republican leader, saying, look, i voted 80% of the time with john boehner. is this the way you're going to keep the majority? >> well, here's the thing, we're proud of the fact that we have an ideologically diverse caucus. we have a whole range of different political viewers. what they're talking about is their independence on certain issues. issues where they stood with the speaker and the president, and the issues where they opposed the speaker and the president. that's their job. as opposed to on the other side where you have in ideological purity test and it's being moved farther right by the tea party candidates. which are moving the repu

sincerely and best wishes, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house. thank you. [applause] >> we're now moving on to the next category. thank you again, nicole, for being here and for that wonderful letter from our speaker. our next category is a category of media. we have two very accomplished honorees tonight and we have great presenter, who's with us tonight as well. >> thank you. please welcome carlos feliz. [applause] our first honoree tonight is maria mejia. she is the managing editor of he will mens her row, the most important -- of el mensajero newspaper. she has covered news for the latino community in the bay area. the newspaper has received several awards and nominations from national and local organizations. please welcome maria mejia. [applause] >> thank you, maria. our next honoree could not be here. on his behalf we have his daughter, bianca gutierrez, who as agreed to be here tonight to accept the award on his behalf. [applause] thank you very much for being with us here tonight, bianca. [applause] thank you, carlos.

to nancy pelosi, thank you yet again. what a remarkable effort. you deserve an enormous amount of credit. we thank you. we are proud of you. this is a big deal. on top of

then made a joke saying that nancy pelosi, harry reid weren't listening to people. he said one of the first rules in politics is that you should listen instead of talk. he said they were talking loud and saying nothing, referring to an old james brown song, then made a clip about obama and his telepromter. it's called victory 2010, the sprint to the finish. up next, sarah palin is going to be speaking at this event as well and we're going to carry her speech live and you know when michael steele speaks, as i said to you before when i introduced him, it's always interesting. he's probably going to say something continue verse yal and tick people off. and sarah palin as well no doubt. and she will -- i think she'll probably make a reference to writing something on her hand. standing by is our national correspondent, jessica yellin. jessica, what did he say? there we go. stand by. stand by. there's sarah palin taking the stage now and that's what that thunderous aploplause is for. they're calling this the victory 2010 speech to the finish. probably going to do some tha