republicans don t help themselves when in virginia they re doing this vaginal probe. in virginia, they re doing a personhood amendment. people think they re absolutely freaking nuts. they do. and david, i know we still have you here. i think at 10:00 a.m. this morning, nancy pelosi was holding a hearing, officially called women s health, a rejoinder to the hearing held by darrell issa last week, which was an all-male panel. we look at the optics of this, and not just how this works inside the republican party, but among voters in general. you know, what do you make of it? i think the governor s right. which governor? governor pataki. i think that governor pataki s right. if republicans can find a way to talk about this in a role of government way, which is it s either religious liberty or this is what happens when government makes health care decisions, which, by the way, is what s kind of now hurting republicans in virginia, with this measure they ve passed that s so controv
other issues and see this very close balance on the court? oh, i don t really think it does make her does not affect her per se. i think other things may, but this does not. she would not change the balance, she would just simply be replacing one of the four in what have been 5-4 decisions. the new york times which is not exactly a hostile newspaper to elaiena kagan, had an editorl today saying she had the least explicit legal record of nominee in a long time and she really has to be very specific in her answers. where do you think that balancing line comes in the way she handles her responses as we hear from her later today and tomorrow and the rest of the week? i suspect what the editorial meant was that she hasn t been an appellate court judge and in fact the entire court is comprised of appellate court