contraception. the horror. pushing yet more anti-abortion legislation, including their latest bill, which is a beautiful reverse toe loop triple axel hypocritical message disaster of actually raising taxes in order to make access to abortion more difficult. now, in washington it is not only nothing new right now, republican politics are so old school it's like a time machine, right down to today's headlines about newt gingrich still wanting people to think he's running for president and the way he thinks he's going to get that is by being really super anti-gay. for washington republicans "e.r." and "touched by an angel" just aired their pilot episodes. for washington republicans robin williams is still best known for "mork & mindy." this big shift that is happening in republican politics is happening not in washington. it is happening in the states. this is footage from the michigan state capitol last night, where thousands of people protested and several were arrested. they were protesting the package of bills just signed by michigan's republican governor, rick snider, who was vying with wisconsin governor scott walker for the dick cheney prize as the republican who does the most good for democratic politics, as