bridge represents both a painful beginning and hopeful continueum continuum. andrew young wasn t among those who walked across this bridge and was beaten that sunday march 7th 1965 but he was on the other side helping to coordinate the hundreds of people who it turned out. today reverend andrew young is 82. and he says pushing for voting rights with this small alabama city as a backdrop helped move a nation both spiritually and politically after the 1964 civil rights act. even though lyndon johnson had been the master of the senate and the majority leader and had more ious than almost anybody in the history of the congress it was hard for him to go right back five months later, for another civil rights bill. but when we left the white house, and i asked dr. king well what do you think, i thought he was being flippant.
so there is a continueum there. it didn t start with mitch mcconnell. it was bill kristol who leads on the right who that, don t compromise on health care. other thing, keep in mind, bill clinton is the ambassador to the undecided white vote. to simplify slightly. and everybody in the country, especially the undecided voters, hate the gridlock in washington them want cooperation. bill clinton kind of gave the blessing of the hope of cooperation and breaking the gridlock. here s another great line of the speech to get that point. let s watch. when congressman ryan looked into that tv camera and attacked president obama s medicare savings as, quote, the biggest, coldest power play, i didn t know whether to laugh or cry. because that $716 billion is exactly to the dollar the same
of opening statements that will be live when things get going. well, another high-profile trial is winding down. attorneys for amanda knox will make their final arguments. they are hoping to overturn her murder conviction. knox is expected to speak as well. prosecutors claim that knox slit her roommate s throat during wild sex. libyan fighters say that they have seized the port of sirte today. moammar gadhafi controls most of the city. this is one of the areas not under the control of libya s new leadership. washington dodges a government shutdown. lawmakers have a deal in hand to pay the federal government s bills through mid-november. a final vote expected next week when the house returns from break. the spending bill is upheld because they could not agree on funding for fema. president obama is pitching his new jobs bill in denver at a hollywood fund-raiser last night he refinded republicans that they were in charge in the run-up to the economy s big meltdown. we
now, that s obviously for part zan appeal. it may actually be what she believes, which would indicate a certain attachment from reality and perhaps the scary thing is that such detachment has gotten her pretty far in politics and may serve her very well in places like iowa. indeed. bob, here s what really disturbs me about this. i than some people s eyes glaze over when you talk about evolution, but it seems to exist this kind of position seems to exist on a continueum for me. you deny evolution and global warming. then you are talking about birtherism, and then you are claiming when you cut taxes, you actually raise revenues. it s this sort of, you know, disdain for reality that disturbs me, i guess. well, ron, i think that s absolutely right. it s a flat earth ideology that goes across the board. on economics right now you re seeing boehner and company try to argue that the way to help a faltering economy is to take demand out of it so that people buy less, companies produce