race get out of the first couple of states, goes south, there s some craziness, but by the time they go up to the midwest, illinois, ohio, wisconsin, all these midwestern states, they mow down the crazies and it s always weed them out. always a mainstream candidate that wins the republican nomination. the question is, though, is there a at which that can trickle down? when you look at what s produced in the senate races and the house races, it feels to me like it s getting worse, not better. allen west, it s not like he s a fringe member of congress. he s a pretty mainstream conservative. i would say the same thing on the left. if you look at the number of conservative democrats, four years a, there were 55 southern democrats after the last election, there are 25. there might be 15 after the next election. you ll have a hyper liberal and conservative congress. do you agree, i ve always believed and i saw this firsthand. i don t like to talk about it.
their party, have functional families, unlikely to see the scandal that we ve seen from past presidential candidates and past presidents. it does ply in the face of everything else we re seeing in politics today. which is dysfunction from top to bottom. part of it is, i do think you have to be sane, have tons of self-control and self-discipline to make it through this nasty process. it stands in sharp contrast to the congress that we re producing, which is getting exponentially more dysfunctional and will be worse next year. it puts the period at the end of the sentence in terms much your column for politico. i believe the title was crazy never wins. what about six months ago, made a lot of people on the far right angry. jim, we see this time and time again. when everybody was talking about how perry or palin or cain or newt were going to win. talked about my dad. every four years. i can t believe people forget this. every four years the republican
that s the bizarre conundrum of health care. if we don t do this through insurance and preventive care and lower cost settings, we end up paying for it in higher costs, emergency room care at a later stage when care is more expensive. it s a sensible idea. it s something that the congress has, if the supreme court s precedence means anything, has ample authority to do it. the affordable care act will be upheld. governor, thank you so much. great to see you. we re going to be up in boston. i hear you re coming. i hope i get to see you. we hope to see you. it s april 20th and it s sort of surprising. fenway is actually celebrating the 100th anniversary of their park by allowing a aaa ball team to play. stop it. mike, can why don t they have a professional team playing? mike, you be nice. thank you for having me. i see my time is up.
thank you. thank you very much i. bill, what happens? what do you think the impact is. you talk about hysteria earlier regarding the trayvon case. what happens if health care reform is overturned by the supreme court? is it really the end of the world as we know it as your editorial page says? will people be jumping from tall buildings and dogs and cats sleeping together or will we just figure out another funding mechanism? well, figuring out another funding mechanism assumes that you have a functional congress. at the moment we don t. it s a little bit the end of health care for the foreseeable future i m afraid. politically, i don t know exactly how it plays out. you can argue that it s better for obama if the supreme court throws it out and romney isn t campaigning for the next several months on repeal, repeal, repeal. basically, i think being ruled
about. they found despite the commentary about poison politics, this congress this year right now actually is one of the more polite in history. really? which group of lawmakers was less civil? it appears to be a tie between the 79th congress in 1946 and the 104th congress in 1995. a former president was spotted in a washington, d.c. gym earlier this week. former president george w. bush stopping by for a quick one-hour work out and posing for a couple of pictures with the staff vial those are the things we thought you should know vial [ male an cer ] this is coach parker. whose non-stop day starts with back pain. and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach.