obamacare. i think they need to be equally concerned about socialized education through obama core. obama core, that s the first time i ve heard of that. i ve got a feeling we re going to be using it again. cynthia dunbar former member of the texas state education, thank you for joining us. take a look at this video. no match for mother nature and that storm is set to ruin thanksgiving for a lot of people traveling over the river and through the woods to grandmother s house. details straight ahead. these ladies aren t letting a little cold blast bother them. why they re wearing bikinis to a football. game.
0 seemingly can t even begin the enrollment process and are now crunched with a deadline. you have more obamacare delays. the next bombshell will probably be thursday. they ll talk about a push-back to 2013. they are going to be pushing the enrollment to three weeks after the election. i think the next thing coming down the pike is who is going to pay for this medicaid expansion. when you see the cleveland clinic is beginning to lay people off, they re going to start laying people off as a direct result of the affordable care act because they have to find some way to make up for loss of $100 million. while all that is happening, the president is out fund-raising for democrats. one other thing to your point about the fact that the spanish language component of the not-so affordable care act is not up and won t be until the end of the month is the fact that there are 50 million latinos in this country. they think that 10 million of those could sign up. remember, they just need 7 mill
the crummy plastic cup costs 26 cents. it s double the cost of the coffee. thanks for figuring that out, ted. steve: next time take your own cup. 25 minutes after the top of the hour. classroom controversy flairing up in denton, texas. students learning from a book with a skewed view on american history. here is how this book defines the second amendment. quote, the people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia. so you can only have guns in a state militia? joining us right now, a former member of the texas state board of education, cynthia dunbar, welcome. good morning. steve: they got that pretty wrong, didn t they? absolutely. i have to say, i m always shocked when people are shocked as though this is one example of bad textbook or bad curriculum in a sea of really good. this is a per vasesive battle that we fight all the time where they pervert the constitution, the bill of rights, the
0 the word republicans because this is a name that has been hijacked by a segment of the republican party, the tea party element. you have never seen in the history of the united states the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president. steve: if they re using language like that, they obviously have the obviously somebody has gotten their attention, and that somebody is ted cruz. essentially what he s going to try to do tomorrow will be ted cruz s alamo. he essentially will filibuster the bill that passed the house that defunds obamacare and that all republicans want. it s clearly a political strategy, but here s the thing. mitch mcconnell has already said i support the house bill that defunds obamacare but i m not going to vote to block it. so, in other words, ted cruz and mike lee right now kind of are out there by themselves. elisabeth: listen to that hr-pblg. no rational republican wants to. i m not even sure the irrational repu
majority of our school kids, correct? yes. all right. so this happened in 2010 and now it s being made into this documentary. is this going to be a fair and balanced approach to what really happened? well, let s hope. my only concern is that the liberal progressive try to cry foul when they say there s indoctrination to the conservative viewpoint. the reality is when we discuss certain topics such as origin of life, it s impossible to scrub ideology or faith from the discussion. ok. so the filmmaker is a guy named scott thurman. here s his quote. they re really the gatekeepers speaking of you on the board and really have a lot more influence on textbooks than curriculum but this group is terribly important, much more than the public realizing. cynthia, what does it take to get on this board to make these kinds of decisions? well, we are an elected body and we run for office. we actually have districts that are twice the size of a congressional district so approximately 1.