republican. mark kirk of illinois becoming the second republican senator to take that stand. a social moderate he made a dramatic return to capitol hill after spending a year recovering from a stroke. that helped prompt this powerfu climbed the capital steps in january, i promised myself that i would return to the senate with an open mind and greater respect for others. same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. our time on this earth is limited. i know that better than most. life comes down to who you love, and who loves you back. government has no place in the middle. last month senator rob portman of ohio, another social conservative, announced his support for same-sex marriage, saying he was swayed on the issue by his gay son. 48 of 55 democratic senators have endorsed same-sex marriage. ari, do you think more republicans are going to follow these other two republican senators lead? only slowly, wolf.
obama on the stage there in january of 09. it has to rate way up there with everything that happened to me, inspite of the fact that i can go back through the voting right marches, and the same when my wife was shot into the car when we were trying to defend a young retarted man who could not ride a bike and they accused him of committing a rape and stealing and driving a car. a young man came up to me and said you don t know me, but said i m in law school because of you and something you did. those are precious moments, but i think i have to say it s hardly anything that could surpass standing on the capital steps and looking across the mall and seeing the lincoln
votes and picked up 33 house seats. in 1994 building on that experience, we got 350 candidates to come and to be part of a contract with for america to stand on the capital steps. we offered a positive program and we had the largest one party increase in american history, 9 million additional americans voted and we kept our word and every item in the contract is voted in the first 93 days. [ cheers and applause ] there is a core question both in the primaries and in the general election. it s a simple question if you are comfortable with the way america is decaying, we don t have to change much. we can just manages the decay. if you think that is a terrible thing to do to your children and grandchildren, it s a terrible
texas. the last time they did one of these in 2015 it got really ugly. this group of mostly kids stood on the capital steps and recited the pledge of allegiance and sang the national anthem and held a press conference about what they were doing there at the state legislature that day and in 2015 that texas state capital muslim day there was a group of screaming protesters who showed up not just to denounce these muslims being at the state capital but to disrupt what they were doing. we reported on it at the time. these guys showed up with signs that said go home and take obama with you. i am the infidel allah warned you about. radical islam is the new nazi. i serve a risen savior jesus christ, mohammed is dead. mohammed is dead is one of the things these protesters chanted at these muslim school kids who were there at the state capital that day for their civics lesson in texas. again, this happened at the
my theory, congressman wiener was out of underwear. and so he sent a picture of his favorite briefs to hanes of seattle for a quick shipment. clearly he was excited about the whole transaction. or maybe, just maybe he was flirting with this girl and sent a crotch shot and hit the wrong key on his blackberry. but that s too farfetched. it is much better to act like you are hiding something, which is how wiener looked today on the capital steps. watch and squirm, watch and squirmers. if i was giving a speech to 45,000 people, and someone in the back of the room threw a pie or yelled out an insult, would i spend the next two hours responding to that? no. i would get back i would get back this is not that situation. i would get back do you want to do the briefing? do you want to do the briefing, sir? from your twitter account a nude photograph was sent to a college student.