Programming notes

*** Thursday’s “Daily Rundown” line-up: USA Today’s Susan Page and the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza with more on today’s Ohio outlook… NBC’s Richard Engel with the latest on Syria… Pew’s Andrew Kohut on how polarized our politics really are today compared to just 25 years ago… More 2012 headlines with NBC News Radio’s Bob Costantini, former DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney and Republican pollster Linda DiVall.

*** Thursday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up: MSNBC’s Chris Jansing interviews Pentagon spokesman George Little,  Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut, Hotline Editor Reid Wilson, NBCLatino’s Raul Reyes, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, former Bush EPA head Christine Todd Witman, and the AFL-CIO’s Arlene Holt Baker.

*** Thursday’s “MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts” line-up: MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts talks to Democratic strategist Jen Psaki, conservative commentator J.P. Freire, msnbc political analyst Richard Wolffe, Mesa AZ Mayor Scott Smith (R), DCCC Chairman Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), MD Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), and New York Magazine’s Jason Zengerle on  SCOTUS clerks who never tell..

*** Thursday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” line-up: Alex Wagner’s guests include Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Josh Tyrangiel, The Nation’s Ari Melber, Demos’s Heather McGhee, NY Daily News Columnist S.E. Cupp, VICE’s Suroosh Alvia, and HBO “41” filmmaker Jeffrey Roth.

*** Thursday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviews the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, NETWORK Exec. Director Sister Simone Campbell, and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT). The program will also cover President Obama’s speech from Cleveland.

*** Thursday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: MSNBC’s Tamron Hall will have complete coverage and analysis of Obama’s and Romney’s dueling speeches in Ohio today. Joining Tamron: the Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut, Zachary Karabell, and Time contributor Jose Antonio Vargas.

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This is very simple. The american people are the job creators. A business is not a business unless it has demand for product. Throwing more money to business in tax cuts paid for by people wont create a single job because the demand still doesnt exist. Its not rocket science, just facts. The GOP want to run on stimulating business that cant create jobs without demand, obama wants to run on stimulating the people to create demand for jobs by using " rebuild america and infrastructure" but the GOP have stopped this in every way possible when they themselves used it to spur demand and put money into the pockets of americans to create demand. Its not the president fillibustering every job measure. Congress has to take responsibility on this, the GOP congress because they have been the side that has stopped any job creation. This is fact. Its so simple. IF PEOPLE DONT HAVE JOBS TO CREATE DEMAND, BUSINESS CANT HIRE! We must create demand by rebuilding our nations crumbling infrastructure to put money back into the economy to create demand for products for companies to hire. The GOP have ownership of holding this recovery up so they can regain power and give more tax breaks to wealthy that cant create jobs without demand. Just think about it. Dont hold the prez responsdible for what the GOP have or havent done to help this country. Facts are facts..People can spin this anyway they want but its just simple economics. The GOP plan is to make americans pay more to private business and make it harder to get out of debt by pushing lower wages and making people be at the mercy of insurance industry.

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Reply#1 - Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:12 PM EDT

I could not have said it better. Good job Bob!!!

    #1.1 - Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:16 AM EDT
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    Oboooma may say that the unemployment roll is getting smaller because more people are getting employed here in America which in turn will make the economy better, but in reality he will not tell the American people the truth that the real rise in employment is in foreign counties that have American companies that can get very cheap labor and make bigger profits for the CEOs, so in reality the American job market is still down the tubes.

      Reply#2 - Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:33 PM EDT

      I've got news for you Republicon idolaters, there isn't any benevolent god called the free market which will give everyone exactly what they deserve if we only work hard and get out of its way. Most of the history of this nation is one of Republicon gangsters destroying the economy with 17th century ideology, and then having Democrats fix your disasters while you do everything in your power to sabotage our efforts so you can get back in power and steal more of the wealth of the middle class. You are worse than deadbeats, you are insane robbers.

      You claim to be Christians while claiming that anything and everything you achieve in life is the result of your own efforts. How did you earn the good genes which gave you health and a brain capable of making the decisions which aided any accomplishments you may have achieved? How did you earn being born into a good family living in a neighborhood where you didn’t have to live in fear? How did you earn access to a good school with few discipline problems when you were growing up? What did you do to insure you would not be abused and traumatized as a child? What did you do to ensure you would not be treated like dirt simply because of your race or ethnic origin? Did you build the national infrastructure which in large part makes your economic activities possible? In most cases you haven’t even helped to pay for it since it was already in place when you were born. Do you think you would have done just as well if you had been born with MS in a bad neighborhood where you were afraid to go to school and had abusive poor parents? Do you honestly believe you would have done as well if you had been born in Bangladesh? Do you really believe your government and fellow citizens played no part in your success? If you claim to be a Christian, do you believe G*D played no part in your success? Even if you are not a Christian do you really believe that your government and fellow citizens played no part in your success? If so you are about to learn that pride really does come before your fall.

      Government has to level the playing field because without this the economic game is inherently unfair. If you sat down to a game of monopoly with me and I started out owning Boardwalk and Park place with two hotels on each, $2000 and three tokens to move, while you started with one token, Waterworks and $500, would you think that was fair? Who do you think would win such a game? Don’t you think I would just get richer while you got poorer, until you were destroyed and I owned everything on the board? You are like a bunch of vampire familiars hoping your wealthy masters bit you and elevate you to their ranks, when all they will do is suck you dry. You conspire with them in your own destruction and the destruction of our nation.

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      Reply#3 - Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:14 AM EDT
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