that they are against. i hear it on the radio. they don t believe this is the right way to balance the budget. on the other hand, is what you pointed out, how they are are chipping away at the infrastructure of the voting block. they are chipping away of the social networking, the door to door, the boots on the ground. this is really the only thing the democrats really have when it comes to getting the vote out and fighting against this money that s being thrown into wisconsin. i think it s fair to say that scott walker is a very challenged candidate. he s a very challenged when it comes to his credibility and some of the things that have unfolded under his leadership. i think the republicans are sitting if we can keep this guy in office, just think what we can do with good guys. think what we can do when we have really good candidates that aren t in trouble, that aren t under investigation. i think the republicans and the corporate intrastructure is
as reported in the washington post even before the vote yesterday, congressman franks conceded in an interview that his anti-abortion measure would probably fail, but he said, i think we re doing the right thing by forcing democrats to vote against it. we know it will fail but we like making democrats vote on abortion any way. it just feels good. it passes the time. jobs, jobs, j jobs. when republicans took over the house, h.r. 3 was an anti-abortion bill. last year with republicans newly in charge, the house held more votes on abortion bill than it had in a decade. this year, this jobs, jobs, jobs election year, republicans are introduced five new, five more anti-abortion bills on top of what they did last year. what is it that you were saying about bull puckey? why don t they pick up the bills and pass them and help the american people instead of
unions ready to help fund ads and knock on doors and get out the vote. democrats greatest allies live in ohio. in wisconsin, it s been a very different story. in wisconsin, the new republican governor there and the new republican legislature didn t include the law enforcement and firefighters unions that had supported scott walker in the 2010 elections. they carved those union rights of those workers out. that was nice for them. it has the effect of splitting the opposition in terms of people who liked union rights in the state of wisconsin. in wisconsin the push back to try to save union rights included huge protests, huge protests mostly at the capital in madison and also all over the state. they went on for a very, very long time. also in wisconsin, the minority democrats in the senate fought back as hard as they could. they fled the state to deny the republicans a quorum.
against. i hear it time and time again, i hear it on the radio. they don t believe this is the right way to balance the budget. on the other hand, is what you pointed out, how they are are chipping away at the infrastructure of the voting block. they are chipping away at the infrastructure of the social networking, the door-to-door, the boots on the ground. this is really the only thing the democrats really have when it comes to getting the vote out and fighting against this money that s being thrown into wisconsin. rachel, i think it s fair to say that scott walker is a very challenged candidate. he s a very challenged when it comes to his credibility and some of the things that have unfolded under his leadership. i think the republicans are sitting there thinking, if we can keep this guy in office, just think what we can do with good guys. think what we can do when we have really good candidates that aren t in trouble, that aren t under investigation. i think the republicans and the
just a few hours after the big rousing jobs, jobs, jobs speech, republicans went to the house floor to work on what they work on, which is another anti-abortion bill. one they put on an expedited fast track to make sure they could bring it to the floor. the bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass the that did not happen. the bill failed. don t let this make you think that republicans are giving up their laser like focus on jobs by which i mean abortion. ahead of yesterday s big anti-abortion vote, that bill sponsor told the hill newspaper that republicans might could maybe bring the bill up again later under regular rules this time so it would only need a simple majority to pass. he said yesterday s defeat was all part of republicans master plan to keep the whole focus of the congress on jobs by, which i mean abortion.