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>> john: good evening, i'm john fugelsang, coming up in just over an hour president obama will deliver his fifth state of the union address to a politically polarized audience outside capitol hill and their polarized representatives and senators under the capitol dome. now current tv will be covering the speech in its entirety, and i'll be back to break it down with panel include current's cenk uygur and. michael shure. tonight the president is expected to focus on policies to create more jobs, heal the ailing economy and rebuild the middle class. he's expected to call for compromise, and talk about searching for common ground, with republicans who deny the possibility of either. so long as mr. obama's in office. >> another litany of left-wing proposals with plenty of red meat for the president's base. >> john: because everyone thinks

obama is left wing except people on the left wing. house speaker john boehner was even more dismissive. he told reporters today that the house republicans won't pass any part of the president's agenda this year except for immigration, and told mr. obama to stay out of it. and boehner also said the president lacked quote the courage to take on his heart on long-term spending, and that when it comes to cutting the deficit, and i quote, i don't think he has the guts to do it. mr. president, many economies believe that spending cuts are holding them back. boehner and his followers are not ready to compromise. 70% of voters say they would support a path of citizenship including the majority of

republicans. but that number drops to 59% when president obama's name is added. with more on what to expect tonight. let's go to david shuster live in washington, d.c. good evening. >> john, good evening to you. >> john: great to have you. what sorts of specifics should we expect from the president tonight. >> he'll focus on the new initiatives, manufacturing, infrastructure, education and clean energy. the president has made it clear and you can see this in some of what he has said to other reporters in build-up that none of the new initiatives are going to cost a dime. nonetheless there is every education that there be recommendation for the president on manufacturing to give more tax credit to spark more manufacturing in the united states as opposed to those who attempt to move it overseas. infrastructure roads bridges

and tunnels and free up the money quicker. and on education look for a continuation that the president may portray clean education, but they're looking for more of a continuation of existing plans tax incentives, credits to companies who are creating things like solar energy. >> john: we have super environmentists coming to discuss those proposals but this president seems to be getting two bits of advice from his supporters and detractors. go big and don't spend any money. is it possible to do those thing at once. >> you can go big politically without going big in policy. that's the way it appears this speech is shaping up. you're going to hear a more muscular in your "in you face" approach. the president feels he has not gained anything by gestures of

bipartisanship. so this plan around the president will make it clear if in fact, there are major spending cuts, if the sequester goes forward march 1st this is so the responsibility of the republicans in striking a compromise and the president will frame everything tonight that we want to build up the middle class. so the middle class out not from the top down. the political side will be framed the democrats are fighting for the middle class. the republicans are not. >> john: the president has two big foreign policies issues he needs to tackle tonight including one we just learned about this morning. can you fill us in on what to expect? >> you can expect some reference to north korea, but don't look for anything new or anything that is going to upset the apple cart as far as the administration believes that as far as north korea is concerned there is sufficient pressure to contain the north korea from the japanese and particularly the chinese in the region. don't look for any new policy

from the president on that. afghanistan, this is the president's battle to the pentagon, he's going to pull troops out of afghanistan at a faster pace than his military advisers suggested. he's looking to cut the force in half by 2013. that is quicker than the pentagon officials said they thought would be prudent. >> john: wow, a visit 13-year war. the president is expected to call for compromise and reach common ground but isn't he using congress as a background while talking beyond them and asking voters to pressure congressmen into giving what he wants? isn't that how they perceive it and how will that go over with them. >> every speech that the president gives in the state of the union there is talk of compromise. but this time around the president will view it as much more partisan and aggressive. the progressives will like his style, his approach of blaming republicans for the continued washington gridlock, for not being able to get things done

for the economy and threatening the middle class if these spending cuts go into the ditch. the president will make it very clear that he wants to use the bully pulpit of tonight to get around the pundit and press corp and get to the american people about who he believes is holding up the middle class. >> john: it will be interesting to see how this plays out this evening, and days to come. david shuster, thank you for your reporting and we'll see you later this evening. let's go to our panel and i'm thrilled that they're all here. jeff madric, economist and senior fellow at roosevelt institute, and alexis mcgill johnson and sam seder.

thank you for being here tonight tonight. >> thank you. >> john: jeff, i want to hear from you the dueling talking points that we have a spending problem, no, we don't, we have a revenue problem. really, which one is the bigger problem for the economy, and is there any hope for any sort of compromise? >> i think the big problem for the economy is that both sides have adopted austerity economics. the country has its head in the sand just like europe has had its head in the sand. we should learn a lesson from this them obama bought into the austerity economics. he dug himself a hole, and oh some how he has to temper that. we should not be cutting spending. we really don't have to raise revenues. this sequestration could slow the economy down enough to threaten recession. i don't think it is. the real irony one last point the economy is on the road to serious improvement. these guys, especially the republicans, but to some degree the democrats are setting us

back. they're withdrawing money from the economy when we need it before we start. debts is down. the federal deficit is 5% of gdp. it used to be 10%. and debt compared to consumer income is way down at 1994 levels. we're ready to have a strong economy and bring unemployment down. the talk of sequestration and fiscal cliffs, austerity will hurt us badly. >> john: i want to ask you a quick followup before we bring others in. we heard about the cries that the stimulus was not big enough and we need to spend more. and austerity punishes the middle class for the sins of the upper class that the middle class was not even privy to. do you think the president has bought into what his opponents say, or has he always believed

it. >> i think he's more moderate than i would like to see him. i think his instinct is towards this austerity. he bailed out of the position as soon as he appointed a budget balancing legislation led by two conservatives. a conservative democrat and very conservative republican alan simpson. he stopped talking about jobs since 2011. a little hiatus here a there were. he started talking thank goodness for jobs when the election started to approach. what are his instincts? he may well believe the issues. it's not an issue for four or five years and longer. >> john: in fairness 2011 was when he pitched the johns program, and our republican friends killed that and never let it breathe. i want to bring alexis and sam. how important is tonight's

address for the president's term and the entire second term in general? >> it's critical going into the next two years right moving to the midterms. i think his audience right now is not just the american people. he's going right down, if we are to believe david's notion that he's going to be aggressive in his rhetoric and tone, it's to go down the base of congress and dare them to be as obstructionist as they have been. if he sets that tone along with the big policy ideas i think it will be a very good win for him. >> john: i have to bring sam seder in on this one. we all admire the tone he laid out in his inaugural address but let's look at the appointments, the policies versus the rhetoric. what do you expect for tonight and what do you hope for? >> well, i don't know how critical the speech will be in terms of what policies will be implemented but the speech will be good to find out what the president and administration

thinks that essentially americans want. you know, last year at this time the president was talking about a second financial fraud committee. it turned out to be prettye pretty anemic and by all accounts a failure in many respects. but it was an indication that they heard that there was problems that people were starting to have a problem with the fact that there was no real prosecution. and so i will be somewhat relieved if we hear more of this talk about investment as opposed to deficit cutting. i don't think it's something that we should be bragging about, that we cut the deficit at a faster rate than we have in 70 years. that's a problem. but be that as it may if he's able to move past this, and say we have to turn the corner and we have a rhetorical milestone which i think it will be important as we go down. >> john: it does seem like we're

in the golden age of having moderate improvements that we're calling reform, probably a little too enthusiastically. jeff, let me bring this to you. the washington post poll that we saw a few minutes ago suggests that the president would do better if he didn't personally push for the policies that he supports. they like obama-care and what's in it. they don't like the obama part. >> my view his compromise from the beginning has been the problem. he compromises to get so reasonable point of view but on policies that just aren't going to work. why should the public believe him? look at how long it took us to get unemployment. it was a disaster not to have mortgage relief right away. where were those old economists? remarkable. the second stimulus, afraid to brag about his first stimulus, my gosh. if we don't have obama's objective should be to get the

right policies. not to worry about what they sound like. the right policies will work, and then you bring the people along. >> john: we only have a minute left. i want to go a democratic strategist before we go to break. it is fair, alexis, barack obama is like the kid who gives the bully his lunch money hoping that it will make the bully like him more? >> i think that's who he is, to jeff's point. he is a moderate center democrat. he always has. he's very pragmatic. he created pragmatism as an idealology. i think his compromises has created a huge challenge. i think if he's able to talk about things like infrastructure in a real, meaningful way, we have the lights going out at the super bowl. we have lights going out during a snowstorm. i think if he can bring these issues back, he'll bring the people back along with him. >> john: i still blame beyonce

for the super bowl. jeff madrick economist and senior fell low at the roosevelt institute, thank you for coming on the program alexis and sam will stay with us. cheap is good. and sushi, good. but cheap sushi, not so good. it's like that super-low rate on not enough car insurance. pretty sketchy.

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>> john: welcome back to "viewpoint." now it's time for the thing of the day. tonight's thing is the no-brainer bill of the day the violence against women act. the senate finally passed a renewal of the violins against women act. every senate democrat and 23 republicans voted the support of the bill while 22 republicans all of them male opposed it. i guess they don't care about bowls. the bill now moves to the republican-controlled house the same republican-controlled house that rejected renewing the violence against women act last year. after the tragedy in newtown it was widely believed that the

country had reached a tipping point. that it was finally time for meaningful gun reform. now less than two months from that horrific event the definition of meaningful has already been watered down. as senator by senator on both sides of the aisle has come out against an assault weapons ban. it appears more likely that the best sane gun control supporters can hope for is a legislation mandating an universal background check. what more can president obama say about gun control in tonight's speech that he hadn't already said powerfully with tons of supporters behind him. >> i think he'll say the same things and there have been a lot of victims of gun violence. and frankly, i don't think they could have been given a better

gift than republicans inviting ted nugent. this is a guy who has been investigated by the secret service for threatening the president months ago. >> john: that's the most likable things the guy has done. >> indeed. the idea that this guy is going to be the face of the opposition to gun control i don't think could be any better constructed by the gun control advocate. ted nugent by may do far more than anybody. >> after a memory illness check. >> john: they keep saying we can't have a national background--we can't have a national database on gun owners. that would violate privacy. let's have a database on the mentally ill which is as crazy as it sound. it seems like crazy has been

turned on its head. let me ask you alexis. you're a democrat. are we dealing with a society where a ban does not have a ghost of a chance to pass in the senate. >> no, the nra is very powerful, very strategic and they have a lot of gun owners that live in districts. they are as squared as you particularly look at the states in the northwest and the rest of the country. and they're not taking up this issue at all. >> the thing is, though, the data shows that the nra is not that powerful. i think more to the extent that the nra has power there is this miss that they're floating on from the 2000 election when al gore lost tennessee. >> john: they're powered by nevada. isn't that guiding where this is going to go? >> i mean, harry reid did not get the nra endorsement.

i guess you want can get any endorsement you want to get and be perceived by a constituents. there are nra members who support this gun control. >> john: exactly. >> there is a lot of money being thrown around. this is very wealthy. sometimes people can project strength because they spend a lot of money in washington. but they don't necessarily have that strength back in the district. >> john: let me talk about the background check legislation, is this a chance for democrats to claim victory on something here in this package while also letting the nra give the illusion of compromise on something. they fight it and fight it, and then give it up in the end. they talk about meaningful reform until the next ten massacres happen. am i being cynical on this? >> i think it's a loophole that we need to close. it's silly that it's even out there, right? the gun show loophole is something that we need to deal with. the real challenge and one

thing that i'm sure the president is not going to talk about is handguns. we're bringing this debate around criminal background checks, around mental illness and assault weapons and high magazine capacity when the real challenge and many of the victims who will be representing represented by families tonight are affected by and gun violence. >> john: while gun control reform struggles immigration reform is starting to look like a great big bipartisan success story. why is that? we'll talk about that next.

>> john: here is something that nobody was saying a few months ago. this is going to be a really good night for immigrants. the president in his state of the union address is expected to

talk about a path to citizenship in the address and even the tea party's response is supposed to make nice with the foreign born. after republicans found out they could not win elections without latino votesing is mysteriously changed in the immigration debate and it changed quickly five undocumented immigrants have been invited to the speech, including one who was invited by first lady himself. talk about change himself. joining us now is cesar vargas, director of the dream action coalition, a group that has been working on pathways to citizenship for latino youth. welcome to the show. have you ever imagined a night like this where five undocumented workers are invited to the state of the union address with cameras and everything? >> actually, yes. when we were working during the elections on the ground, we were really seeing the latino community galvanized and acting and feeling empowered. it's great but now it's about

translating that, it's not just about cameras but action and hopefully we'll get legislative action soon. >> john: that's the hope. do you think we'll have that laid out tonight? >> absolutely. we're seeing not only democrats speaking about it, but republicans and the tea party really coming on board. we're actually seeing a goodbye partisan approach. of course it's about immigration for all families, the lgbt and equal opportunity for so many. it's not just dreamers as people have been saying but it's about families. >> john: we have been hearing about our republican friends and the tea parties embracing our undocumented brothers and sisters. we're hearing about some republicans in districts who don't have a lot of latino voters not really being too passionate about this issue. is this the wedge that the democraticdemocrats been trying to drive through the republican party for a decade where the class thing didn't work, the 47% didn't do

it, is the immigration dividing the g.o.p.? >> i actually don't think it will died divide the g.o.p. the reality is every 30 seconds a latino in this country turns 18. there is growing new power among the latino demographic. that's huge. i think that people are going to recognize that they may resist t but i think there are more people who are more sophisticated about that. the other story is that it's a power of the organizing from the outside is a lesson that a lot of us on the left could have used in terms of putting these issues front and center. the change happened quickly because people like cesar vargas vargas, gabby and jose were out there fighting on these same terms. to me it's the best story about tonight, that we're actually having this conversation. >> john: do you agree with them? >> i agree with the latter, but in terms of it being a wedge? it is a wedge. when you look at the republicans and the percentage of latinos

that represent them in the house, most of them have below the median average. for any republican who has national aspiration, maybe who is a senator this becomes an important issue. for those who are in house districts which are solidly red solidly anti-immigrant, home moabhomophobia is consistent, there are issues that are paramount. this is going to be a wedge, a series of issues that will split the republican party the congress people and anybody who has national aspirations. >> john: we saw them come out and support the essence and substance the dream act without endorseing the dream act. cesar do you think there will be anything promoted tonight by people who aren't helped by the dream act?

anything for the parents who brought the kids here, not just the kids? do you think we'll hear about that tonight? >> we'll hear from the president, but what i do see that is really talked about in a way that is very abstract, the reality we really want to emphasize that, the president's deportation policies have been breaking families apart. we encounter countless children who are pretty much torn apart with their families being arrested on the way to school. we're going to see this discussion to the extent of what is going to happen, whether they're going to have path so citizenship or not. it will be a big fight coming up in the coming months. >> john: let's not forget marco rubio was the guy less than a year ago agreeing with mitt romney on self deportation.

alexis, is it the realization that there is no way to get the white house or is this real humanity. >> i think they're being political, strategic. and this is where i think it's going to be hard to unpack. when you have folks like mike huckabee and other people on other networks who are coming out in full support around a path to citizenship however how defined that is, it does a lot in terms of signaling to the republican base that this is not the issue to be fighting on. it's not cool to be anti-immigrant, and we have to push in another direction. >> john: it's remarkable that this president can send guards to the border, the number of

deportations, and be that popular with the latinos. thank you for joining us. the next we'll talk about in the show is climb climate change. which way will the wind blow tonight. we'll talk about that next. the chill of peppermint. the rich dark chocolate. york peppermint pattie get the sensation.

>> john: thethe u.s. economy may be the centerpiece of president obama's state of the union address tonight but the thing is as david leonhardt wrote recently, the economy won't function very well in a world full of droughts, hurricanes and heatwaves. president obama acknowledged as much last month in his inaugural address but also framed the climate crisis in a moral arab. >> obama: we will respond to the threat of climate change knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. with. >> john: but the question is will the president's policies

and appointments match his res rick? joining us is bill mckibben environmentalist founder of 350.org . great thanks for your time tonight. >> great to be here. >> john: what will he talk about tonight. >> the real litmus test for the environmental movement is whether or not he's willing to turn down this keystone pipeline, willing to say here's some carbon we're going to leave in the ground. the oil industry is leaning on him very hard. the petroleum institute said the day after the election that he had an implicit promise that keystone will be built. we'll find out but there are a lot of citizen who is will have their say this week, not just the president here in washington. >> john: i agree with you, bill, but more and more citizens i talk to seem to think that keystone is a done deal. is there any chance the president might still block the pipeline? or does it look like he's going

to give in to the oil industry on this one? >> we'll find out. we'll have the largest climate rally on sunday. we're expecting upwards of 20,000 people on the mall. they'll mostly be there because they're upset and outraged about the keystone pipeline. there will be a giant human pipeline snaking its way around the washington movement. monument. this is the pitch. it's the purest test. we can't just keep bringing online new sources of carbon and pretend that we're fighting global warming. the atmosphere is already too full of carbon. the temperatures are too high. last summer the arctic melted. we broke one of the most physical features on earth. talk is nice, but we're talking math and physics. >> john: in terms of policy what would you like to hear and what do you expect to hear? i expect a carbon tax is too much to hope for. what do you think is realistic

to hope for this evening? >> here is the thing. there are things the president can't do because he needs cross congress to come along. and no one thinks that john boehner is going to come true the house of representatives. there are things that he can do under his own power, and luckily there are many. there is this carbon rule that will prevent smoke blown out of the top of power plants. he could block keystone and it's in the national best interest. >> john: if he blocks keystone we'll hear hour republican friends scream jobs, jobs, jobs, even though they're short-term jobs if the keystone pipeline goes through. how can president obama act on climate change out those accuse

accusing him of jobs and economy economy. >> he can't do anything without the republicans accusing him of something. if that is his goal, then he might well go home. um, but he can definitely explain to people that jobs are what we will get when we make the big turn towards renewable energy. look we've got a lot of solar panels to put on a lot of houses. we've got a lot of insulation to put in a lot of walls. no one is going to send their house off to china to get insulated. that's work to be done here by millions of american workers if we're serious about this. >> john: what lesson do you think president obama learned from the first term about enacting any kind of climate change rules? >> i think he learned there was no point in trying to persuade the republicans to go along

because they're not going to. their party has been more or less bought by the same forces that more or less cowed the democratic party. he's going to have to rally his party to do some things. more importantly he'll have to help rally the activist movement that is really coming alive around america. this is all of a sudden a really big push. right now as of yesterday almost out of nowhere we have 252 college campuses with active fossil fuel di veestive movements. the nation last week said this was the largest student movement in the last few decades. we have a huge rally coming to washington on sunday. we've got a movement that wasn't there before. if the president takes advantage of it, if he provides leadership. if he works with it and does things like keystone then he'll find a wind at his back as he tries to accomplish more. >> john: i'm very excited about your rally this weekend.

it's called ford on climate. it's in washington, d.c. this sunday and people can learn more about it by going to your site www.350.org . i want to thank many americans thanking you in the real work you've done and the real leadership. >> thank you. >> john: just a reminder to stay tuned after "viewpoint" for current's state of the union coverage. michael shure, cheng cenk uygur and myself will bring you the greatest state of the union reaction of all time. it all starts here at 9:00 p.m. right here on current tv. but first we'll look at one more thing in tonight's speech, including a little item called afghanistan. that's up next.

>> john: welcome back to current. we're a little shot offering nothing but speculation. a lot of chart online today about tonight's state of the union address, mary lowry says someone should bring charles manson to the state of the union address so ted nugent has a playmate. that's a little unfair. ted will have lots of people to talk to tonight. for example all those gun victims might want to have a word with him. plus i don't think they'll hang out because manson has a much better taste in music. in you have a comment for the show, tweet us at view point ctv or john fugelsang or use the #"viewpoint"." remember the war in afghanistan? right now there are still 66,000 american troops fighting in afghanistan representing two-thirds of the total

coalition forces. in his state of the union president obama will announce that 34,000 of those troops will be home by the end of the year. staying on pace to hand over security to afghan troops by the end of 2014. let's bring back alexis mcgill johnson and sam seder. alexis. massive troop withdraw from afghanistan. good news or just a reminder of what we do it will still be a bloody mess. >> it's a bloody mess, and why do we need troops when we have drones. >> john: sam, what do you have to say to that one? that's the most common sense answer that scares me. >> the fact of the matter we have not done really anything in afghanistan in terms of further any security goals for years. if the president ran on expanding afghanistan, and people gave him a pass on that from the left because we wanted iraq done we should be taking out all of our troops from afghanistan. it does not necessarily mean

that i appreciate the stealth war that we're waging, but-- >> john: you mean the new normal? >> indeed. sadly the fact that we had 65,000 troops in afghanistan is also the new normal. i do a daily show and it never comes up. it's okay, we have 60,000 troops. >> it's like the afghan war is a reality show that nobody watches, everybody hates it. it costs way too much, and it's renewed every single year. do you think president obama's legacy on afghanistan will be the guy who tried really hard to find a resolution and instead brought the troops home, or do we hope for something more positive. >> i think history is going to be dictated on what happens after the troops leave not on the president's surge. >> john: sam? >> i think the legacy is president obama is going to be having codified and sort of established this method of warfare that is stealth and not terribly in with the consent of

the public and in view of the public. >> john: exactly. white house speech writers i'm sure were working fur usely to alter's tonight's speech to suddenly include north korea's nuclear test. do you think this is red meat to the g.o.p.? every time they talk about things that will help the middle class, the democrats stand and applaud. it's tough talk on kim jung-il a's son fredo. >> i think to invoke china and china has been our foil for a number of years, and the way we talk about and the deficit. i think it would be interesting for him to talk about ways that china and the united states can come together and kind of grow around common enemies. >> john: i think you're right. can the president use these

nuclear tests to his advantage in the speech. >> well, yes he has to respond to it. north korea has been that way since the axis of evil. you're strong on defense as if north korea represents any type of legitimate threat to us any ways. >> john: exactly. >> be that as it may. >> john: let's talk about people who are also not a threat, marco rubio and rand paul. thethe new tradition of the tea party response. i thought they were both tea party guys and they're both giving responses is good news to democrats? >> yes, because we have a house divided is much better. >> are they divided? marco rubio was the tea party senator. now the tea party response, of course last year when michelle bachmann was talking to the wrong camera wearing makeup like that guy from the cure.

do the republicans get two responses for the same party? >> my point is that moderate republicans, and i think marco rubio, even though he claims tea party credit essentials, he's moving to the moderate stage it has been a huge challenge for them in terms of getting under control and producing legislation. i think it's a house divided. >> i'm going to confuse you more. i don't think there is a tea party. there are just republicans and they're just basically playing to the same base. rubio will try to do it by saying hey i still believe what you believe. it's just that i can sell sanity back to the country. rand paul is going full in and saying, i'm not going to try to sell sanity. that ship has sailed for hey. i'm going for the base. this is 2016. there are two different flavors on the spectrum of vanilla.

>> john: it was the paul family that was outraged because of the republican spending and now it's turned to this. and you have to give bernie saunders a few minutes. we only have a minute left. what is one thing that president obama won't discuss tonight that you really wish he would? sam, i'll start with you. >> i would like to see the president say let's get rid of the cap on social security and end this debate right now. let's raise social security benefits because we have a lot of seniors who are retiring with destroyed 401ks and to the extent that we have social security, this is it. that it need to be bigger. we don't have tucks with index type of inflation. but we need to expand with the need that seniors have. >> john: if they get more they'll spend more and it will circulate in the economy.

>> indeed. >> john: alexis. >> i would like to see the president affirm the pain that young people are going through in urban areas right now. >> john: alexis mcgill johnson, executive director of american values institute, and sam seder ring of fire. thank you for being with me tonight. a certainly commentary on ted nugent is coming up next.

>> john: finally we end tonight's show as we do every night, with this evening's f-bomb. one of the most fun things after a state of the union address is to take a look at who got to go. it's not an easy ticket, and one has to be invited. michelle obama's guest included wounded warriors, educators business people, law enforcement, and a 102-year-old woman who waited online for hours in florida to vote last fall. those admirable dignitaryies, however, barely registered with the american media compared to texas representative stephen stock manman's guest an admitted draft-dodger who once called hillary clinton a c-word, and had a visit from the secret service after publicly threatening the life of the preys, the name of said patriot?

ted nugent. ted's on the board of nra and when he's not throwing around the n-word in interviews or adopting underage girls he's sleeping with to avoid mann act violations, he likes to have canned trophy hunts with his vast collection of firearms. i happen to love ted nugent. not his music, of course, no, i'm a fan of comedy. i've got a special place in my heart for the texas republican sucking up to a guy who wrote the song "jail bait," a song that made ted the hank williams of sat tore rape ballads. now some outraged liberals tried to ruin it all by the protesting that a guy who threatened to assassinate the president would be invited to which i say liberals get a clue. what better spokesman for the nra's cause than a draft-dodging

pedophile who can only display his mash cho prowess by killing defenseless animals. ted nugent is not going to kill the president. he runs away from anything that can fight back. what progressives don't understand is that every time ted nugent opens his mouth hundreds of americans release they don't want guys like that to have easy access to weapons. ted defecated all over himself to avoid fighting. he represents the idea that the worst of our citizens can embolden the best of our citizens just by opening their big stupid mouth. no matter how eloquent president obama's words might be, they won't pass new gun laws as much as ted nugent's dumb words. and no matter what we all win.

that's "viewpoint" for tonight. don't go anywhere, the coverage of the state of the union coverage will be here. we'll be here in a few minutes.

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