office where he can make his political and policy chops and we expect great things in the future. do you have doubt this is just the start for him. no, but if his values reflect the values of his family, i m afraid during the bush years, $600 billion was made by the oil industry and now that he s land commissioner down there, you know, i think he s not going to be doing a whole lot for the clean energy folks and that s going to be problematic for us. people are going to be watching that very closely. meantime, governors race set, texas, majority state, what do you think, aisha, is wendy davis a real threat here, though? i think wendy davis has a real shot. first of all, she s running against a guy hanging out with ted nugent. she needs to win 60% of women to have a shot and i think she can do that. that s been her issue, isn t it? chip, this is someone who came to national recognition when she
on issues like gay marriage. he s awful on the drug war and on medical marijuana and he s no good on spending. i don t see him going very far with the libertarian contingent which is going to determine who the republican nominee is in 2016. aisha, before these latest allegations, mitt romney came to governor christie s defense in the george washington bridge scandal. he told the washington post, i think chris has handled this in a very effective way. a member of his administration did something that he was unaware of and that he found reprehensible. he faced the american people for two hours, took their questions. he dismissed people who were responsible. he took personal responsibility. that is what a leader does. do you think that this can be seen as a blessing from a mainstream republican while so many of them have been at odds with chris christie? let me tell you what, i m a jersey girl, too, originally from south jersey. and if i were someone who was sitting there trying to
at delaware valley charter high school. the victims were both shot in the arm and both suspects are students at that school. octomom will head back to court in february. she was released after pleading not guilty to three counts of welfare fraud. suleman was accused of failing to report $30,000 in earnings while applying for federal assistance. house republicans could be taking a new run at the affordable care act. so let s go straight to our brain trust to talk about that. bring in aisha moody mills, bob franken and nick gillespie. thank you all for being here with us today. aisha, let s begin with you. house speaker john boehner is planning to unveil a new plan to replace obamacare. the hill reports, an alternate to obamacare will be one of the big issues the house gop will
majority rule, then eventually it will move into legislation and if it moves into legislation, and all you need is majority to get something passed in the senate, there is no need to go bipartisan. we should play, there is one democrat who was against these rule changes, a veteran democrat from michigan, carl levin, retiring in 2014, this was his warning as his fellow democrats were changing the rules, he was saying no, this is what he said in november. if it can be changed on judges or on other nominees, this precedent is going to be used, i fear, to change the rules on consideration of legislation and down the road, we don t know how far down the road, we never know that in a democracy, but down the road, the hard won protections and benefits for our people s health and welfare will be lost. so, aisha, he s saying he s saying let s say it is
house. they re going to get pushback from it. also, if all three parties if one party controlled all three chambers, the leaders control what gets on the floor as a practical matter, so the rules become less important. it still is interesting too to look back at the presidency, the first two years with democratic control of the house, with super majority of the senate for part of the time, whatever you think of the legislation that came out of it, they got a lot of important legislation through. and the story now for the past three plus years has been absolute paralysis, divided government with this kind of partisan polarization. it is just not fun to cover. anyway, i want to thank lynn sweet, chicago sun-times, rachel bade, josh barro, aisha moody mills. a different kind of american institution ripe for big change. that s next. [ male announcer ] playing in the nfl is tough.