the way we respond to and understand that work, work is embedded in a bunch of culture assumptions that just weren t the province of the romney campaign. the romney campaign just tried to cynically deploy a narrow definition of work to score a cheap political point. they pretended to misunderstand. they took us all for stupid. why did we show that clip? to show they themselves do not hue to that nor row definition when they pretended to be outraged last week. in fact, they employ a double standard that almost enk in our entire political establishment does. a double standard that allowed welfare reform to pass in the first place. embedded was the assumption that these women were lazy. they had no dignity because they were not working and because they were poor being a stay at home mom had no dignity. joining us now is connie shultz.
home mom had no dignity. joining us now is connie shultz. it s great pleasure to see you. it s wonderful to be back in touch with you, chris. congratulations, by the way on the great reporting you did on this. thank you very much. it was largely my staff. i can t take that much credit. aren t you a generous person. congratulations to all of you. my first question is how we move this conversation somewhere substantive. you ve written incredibly eloquently and emp th pathetica working women when we say outside the home or inside trying to make ends meet and the
most women, most mothers i ve met who need help from the government want jobs. they want to be able to take care of their families on their own. they are proud women. that s the thing that seems to be completely missing from this discussion with mitt romney. he is talking about them, it makes me think of my mom. my mom raised her daughters this way. he said, don t marry him until you see how he treats the waitress. how we treat the people we re allowed to mistreat is the measure of who we are as human beings. i ve been thinking about my mom in the last few days as i listens to mitt romney talk. that s a profound way to think about society. i m not sure we re passing the waiter test. as a society. connie schultz, pulitzer prize winning syndicated columnist. just an amazing voice. you should be reading her column, absolutely. thanks so much for joining us tonight. thank you, chris. if you re a fan of this show, first of all, thank you for watching, it is much appreciated. also stay
states senate rejected an attempt to end oil industrial subsidie subsidies. it s a true mystery that when deficit scare monogoring rule the way and when nobody likes the oil companies, the democrats have a president in the white house they weren t tiebl pluck this low hanging fruit. i describe this as caper that night because it didn t make sense. oil subsidies aren t good policies. lots of conservatives won t defend them. they re not needed to keep the oil industry live and tlair not popular with the public. something like 74% of americans favor doing away with them. yet, the oil industry is powerful and so they got their way. they got to keep their subsidies. at the risk of sounding like a broken record, i humbly come before you cable news watchers of america to report that in the united states senate once again, republicans have filibustered a piece of legislation that s both good policy and also wildly popular. breaking news, the senate voting right now on the buffet ru
subsidies. in a time when deficit scare mongering rules the beltway and fiscal propty is flavor of the month, when nobody likes the oil companies the republic chance have a majority in the senate and a president in the white house, they weren t able to pluck this imminently low hanging fruit. describe this as a caper that night because it didn t make sense. oil subsidies aren t good policy. conservatives won t defend them anymore. they re not needed to keep the oil industry alive and they re sure as heck not popular with the public. something like 74% of americans favor doing away with them. yet, the oil industry is powerful and so they got their way. they got to keep their subsidies. at the risk of sounding like a broken record, i humbly come before you tonight cable news watchers of america to report that in the united states senate once again, republicans have filibustered a piece of legislation that is both good policy and also wildly popular. breaking news, the senate