ease restrictions on so-called junk insurance plans as a way to disrupt the law. and that didn t work. so today party leadership outlined a new strategy for 2014. according to a party memo from house majority leader eric cantor, the plan is to introduce legislation to, quote, strengthen security requirements of the website including a law to require the government to publicly disclose every time personal information is compromised. cms put out a response to cantor telling him if you re looking for smoke, keep looking. quote, today there have been no successful security attack on healthcare.gov and no person or group has maliciously accessed personally identifiable information from the site. meanwhile, there are signs the battle will soon shift to the local level including ad blitzes and legal challenges. which begs the question is the republican party signaling a retreat or just a different kind of assault when it comes to health care? the most important issue of 2014. joy reid is an m
overwhelming public support. a new gallup poll shows three-quarters of americans support raising the minimum wage. 57% of republicans and 64% of independents according to a recent poll. a campaign was launched for a higher wage in 2014. according to the new york times, they see it as a wedge issue that they hope will replace candidates in a difficult position but also as tool and puts republicans on the wrong side of an important value issue when it comes to fairness. the current democratic bill in congress, the fair minimum wage act, would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2016. a raise that would increase the pay for an estimated 27.8 million workers. this is an issue that obviously democrats is a good political issue but also a really important bottom line issue for millions and millions of americans.
to be, there s great relationships in the senate. our problem in the senate is leadership of the senate, not members of the senate. unpopular senate minority leader mitch mcconnell up for re-election in 2014. according to a poll, only 17% will vote for mitch mcconnell, no matter who runs against him. 34% will vote against mcconnell, no matter who runs against him, and 44% will wait to see who his opponent is. if mcconnell survives a republican primary challenge, his general election opponent will likely be, we hope, actress and activist ashley judd. we, of course, being the political media who would love to see a movie star run for anything. according to former kentucky political reporter howard fineman, ashley judd has told advisers she will announce her candidacy in early may.
the senate is not nearly as dysfunctional as it is made out to be, there s great relationships in the senate. our problem in the senate is leadership of the senate, not members of the senate. unpopular senate minority leader mitch mcconnell up for re-election in 2014. according to a poll, only 17% will vote for mitch mcconnell, no matter who runs against him. 34% will vote against mcconnell, no matter who runs against him, and 44% will wait to see who his opponent is. if mcconnell survives a republican primary challenge, his general election opponent will likely be, we hope, actress and activist ashley judd. we, of course, being the political media who would love to see a movie star run for anything. according to former kentucky political reporter howard fineman, ashley judd has told
would support any decision he made if he wanted me to go back or if he wanted to suspect my resignation which i carried with me. the president accepted your resignation? correct. you do not want to miss hannity tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. because retired general mccrystal will join the program for the entire hour. afghanistan s president car design will visit washington next week as president obama considers options on ending the longest war sources telling fox news the top u.s. commander is reportedly laid out three different plans for the pentagon. national security correspondent has the details on that. fox has learned that the white house is not considering any option that would leave more than 10,000 american troops in afghanistan beyond 2014. according to a senior administration official, despite