missouri senate candidate todd akin has become the democrats favorite opponent, even in states where he s not on the ticket. in congressional races in washington state, in california, arizona, new york, democrats have featured akin and his controversial views on rape and abortion in ads attacking their opponent. there are some things you have to draw a line as just too extreme, like ann marie burkle and what actually constitutes rape. buerkle co-sponsored a bill with congressman todd akin that would redefine rape to mean only forcible rape. i m joined by anna palmer, who s just written about this new strategy. anna, good morning. good morning. one of the things we talked about when akin first made these remarks is whether they would have legs. it is interesting to me that we re seeing them now. is there any indication that it s working? right now we re really just starting to see kind of the tip of the iceberg in a lot of other
MSNBCW Jansing And Co October 9, 2012
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need. what we need is the passage of the president s jobs bill and teachers and firefighters and police officers back to work. and what we re seeing right now in this country is a contraction of public sector workers, where most of the jobs losses are coming from. christopher the policy the private sector adding jobs, but the manufacturing sector growing like never before. and if you don t recall, when nancy pelosi was speaker of the house, we did pass a 26 billion dollar bill to help with state workers, with firemen, with teachers, the whole nine yards and we still have high unemployment rate with state workers. angela, let me add to what you re talking about, chris, i know you re listening in. ann marie burkle of new york, we saw mcelway speak, said the president needs to stop juggling down on policies that hurt business. and what do you expect the president will do, chris, in the coming months? listen, i think the president needs to continue to push congress to pass this
quote, what was expected. with millions of americans facing what even vice-president biden calls a depression, it s clear president obama is simply out of touch with the difficulties facing middle class families. in his weekly radio address, the president did not mention the jobs numbers and instead, folks saying on the side of the transportation, student loan bills. for months i ve been calling on congress to save half the money we re no longer spending on war and nation building at home. and work to be done building roads and bridges and wireless networks and hundreds of thousands of construction workers ready to do it. the same thing is true for us. and the bill i m about to sign is vital for millions of students and their families. and the republican response, representative ann marie burkle honed in on two key targets, and the meager jobs outlook and the president s health care law. the court s decision and