the table and we need to quit trying to play politics with this and get it done. let me ask you a question on the social front. john mccain the other day, and i think i read him clearly on one of the sunday shows with chris wallace, he said basically read him this way, abortion rights shouldn t be a partisan issue. do you think that s an issue that should stay on the table, your party is pro choice, one is pro life, to use the shorthand. is that something that should cease being partisan debate? i think he s sort of saying it shouldn t be a partisan issue. it may be a personal/political issue. i think the republican party has a real problem with women. if you look at the next congress, there will not be one committee in the house of representatives that will be led by a woman. if you look at just the violence against women act, this has never been a controversial provision. how dare the house of representatives sit on that legislation? it passed the senate with a bipartisan numbe
thank you. michael o hanlon and jonathan landay. elections have consequences, i say it all the time. and the democrats are feeling emboldened. they want to see taxes go up on the rich. they want to protect programs like medicare and medicaid. will they give president obama room to negotiate some kind of deal that gets through this hell coming january 1st. they say they won, the other side lost, they re going to fight. plus democrats are moving to end the so-called silent filibuster which republicans have used to quietly say if you don t have 60 votes, you ain t going nowhere. this is the big question, if they re successful, it s possible, it s possible the democrats will be able to get some things done. we ll talk about that in a minute. they re going to be just like jimmy stewart finally. they re going to force them to actually filibuster like they did in mr. smith goes to washington. anytime they really want to shut down the senate. and the democrats considered least likely t
the social front. john mccain the other day, and i think i read him clearly on one of the sunday shows with chris wallace, he said basically read him this way, abortion rights shouldn t be a partisan issue. do you think that s an issue that should stay on the table, your party is pro choice, one is pro life, to use the shorthand. is that something that should cease being partisan debate? i think he s sort of saying it shouldn t be a partisan issue. it may be a personal/political issue. i think the republican party has a real problem with women. if you look at the next congress, there will not be one committee in the house of representatives that will be led by a woman. if you look at just the violence against women act, this has never been a controversial provision. how dare the house of representatives sit on that legislation? it passed the senate with a bipartisan number. it sits in the house languishing. you know, violence against women is a real problem in this country. that le
required her to do. it wasn t all her fault so the senate gave her a second chance. this is a much smaller issue and, therefore, i think the senate should also give a second chance even if people think susan rice made a mistake here. isn t it interesting they re accusing her of flacking for the administration which is what condi rice did big time when she made the case for war which was totally overblown. absolutely. the irony this is full of ironies. one of the ironies is the security problems that occurred in benghazi was because of the overthrow of the dictator gadhafi. who was one of the main american promoters of that? it was john mccain. and that s one of the ironies that s lost in all this. because gadhafi was our help he was helpful against al qaeda. this is really black spy, white spy. this is crazy stuff. thank you. michael o hanlon and jonathan landay. elections have consequences and the democrats are feeling emboldened.
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