of the senate, is going to be one of the key stories that shape our political future, so i i think it s pathetic. they look like they re losing. and then the i do think that this has a direct link to paul ryan and right now, the question i m asking myself, maybe ed you can chime in on this, is paul ryan who i thought was a good choice for the national conversation, is paul ryan a bad choice or just a choice that s being handled badly? i think a little of both, mika. i think given where they had to go and again, i go back to my point, they didn t have to activate the base, the base was coming out to vote against barack obama, i think they made a bad choice. i think paul ryan will do very well at the convention because he s smart, he gives a good speech, looks like everybody s next door neighbor, he comes across as not a threatening guy. he ll give a good speech and there will be a little chance for them to redeem themselves.
this issue is so damaging to the party. one other thing with respect to all those people who pushed todd akin to get out, what i thought was hilariously stupid on his behalf he put out a tweet saying the liberal media is trying to push me out of the way. you have sean hannity, mitt romney, trying to get out of the race, and he blames the liberal media. the term misspoke at this point. ban the term. repeating what he said. this guy should be out of the race. he s a disaster. wisconsin instead of wyoming. it s not when you have this insane statement about contraception. tina, that s on us, though. when congressman akin or anyone else in public life says that s not what i meant to say. yeah. we in the media should say, well, what is it exactly that you did mean to say. we never do that. but the thing that still mistifies me, the party that part of the brand is conservatism and it s as we said earlier, conservatism is very
and i bet you there s not a football fan around this table or watching that didn t have great respect for joe paterno. but this is really it s amazing how things turn to quickly when we found out what was going on behind the scenes. can you think of anything else that could have been done, though? i mean would you would a lesser punishment have been bet. no, i would have given the death penalty. i would have given the death penalty. i say it, and i said it before all of this came out, as a guy who loves penn state. i m an alabama guy, but i ve always loved penn state. they ve always they re a class program. that s the word, class. you would have said notre dame, stanford, penn state one of the institutions that seemed to have pittsburgh in perspective, both good on the field and off the field. that s the irony. it was all done in the name of protecting the school which what they did in some ways destroyed it for a decade. it s beyond ironic, it is tragic. destroyed.
possible. if you slash the government, you don t need to tax, but if you want to pay for government services, you have to tax. i don t know if it was you or saxby chambliss on last week, saxby and the gang of six, the numbers, will you just give people numbers? for instance, the number you ve given i ve quoted over and over again. median income in america declining since 1973 for males. that tells you so much. in america, either you or saxby told me, that we basically tax revenues 14% of gdp, spending s 24%. that s the gap. it s math. you ve got to close the gap. it s not ideology. it is simple math. arithmetic. it is. and that s what we ve got to do, have some charts, look at what the choices are. this is why i know it s boring, we should make this stuff boring again. i say math. i can t agree with you more. alabama guy says math. four letters.
alabama guy has the ball. he s on the ground. the lsu guy still has his right arm not on the ball and they give lsu the ball. if it s even close they go to the receiver. it was horrible. but i gotta say this, know. alabama as they did last year had the best 57 players on their team of any football team. and i never blame the kids for any loss really. for a team this good you blame the coaches. on the offensive side as well because you knew what plays they were going to run. it s bill simmons mom test. if your mom is saying why is the coach doing that. susan was watching the game. she s not a beg football. she was like please don t run the ball up the middle on second and nine. wow. and they would go here comes the ball lsu.