Book American Gridlock the sources, character and impact of the politicalrican gridlock o. Why are we so polarized . Guest theres a variety of reasons. S. One is that we reas have a a sociological phenomenon going on where people move to where they agree with each other and they stay there. If you live in downtown baltimore, your africanamerican and around people that agree with you and if you are in Rural America you have people that agree with you also said the theory is that you move to areas where if you can there are people you agree with and if you dont, you keep your mouth shut or begin to be like the people around you. Redistricting is drawing the lines around postings and those things and its a partisan phenomenon except in the states where we have the commissions to do it so the redistricting for the state legislature as well as the house of representatives predates districts that are safe at any margin. They are only 21 seats in the house right now that are estimated to be c
Are defined principally because their illness is of the brain as opposed to other parts of the bodies i want to get that message out there but i know that another policy but as you point out is either a going to sit on the shelf if anyone is lucky enough to have it sold. I wanted to be a compelling narrative and there has to be certain appeal for everyone to dig through the book and read the whole book so i didnt want it just to be a policy book. I knew that the real story is the one even i didnt want to tell which is even though i was the champion of mental parody, i was also a consumer of Mental Health services that i didnt want anyone to know about because i was worried that it would ruin my credibility as the champion of Mental Health. So come even while im trying to get Mental Health coverage and intense but either way we had in the federal Employee Health benefits plan, i was trying to keep quiet the fact that i had to give into these go into the settings for my own treatment of
Uniform. Once again, happy veterans day. Especially my dad in baltimore, maryland. Happy veterans day, dad. That does it for way too way early. Morning joe starts right now. Bob schieffer is the kind of guy who knows how to take care of business. He interviewed president obama sunday morning yesterday morning, didnt beat around the bush, didnt waste any time. Went right to it. This is face the nation. All the president s in modern history who have been successful, lbj, fdr, Ronald Reagan, teddy roosevelt, bill clinton they all seem to have a zest for politics. I dont have a sense that you have the same feeling they did. It makes me do you like politicians . Do you like politics . No. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you. I enjoyed it. All right then. Good morning it is tuesday, november 11th, veterans day. Welcome to morning joe. With us on the set we have Mike Barnacle and msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. And willie an
unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly two ye years. our economy added another 222,000 jobs in the private sector. that s the 12th straight month of private sector job growth. so our economy has now added 1.5 million private sector jobs over the last year. that sounds pretty good, right? what did the republicans say? not good enough. texas congressman jeb haserling put out the following statement quote, the real question is why is it taking so long and why is the recovery so weak? so he s not having it. and guess what? it turns out it s all obama s fault. now here comes the twisty twist. it turns out eric cantor decided to go the other way and say it is good news and it s all because of the republicans. he saw it as an encouraging sign saying republicans are responding to voters calls in the last election to be change the dull chur in washington. to put it simply, less government spending equals more private sector jobs. that s funny because the gop spend
and the suspected oregon would-be mass bomber, we re learning more about him and his plans for killing as many people as possible during portland s annual christmas tree lighting ceremony. checking top stories now, police along the ohio/michigan border are looking for three children identified in an amber alert. police say the father of the 5, 7 and 9-year-old boys gave them to a woman he met online, so she could deliver them to their mother. they ve been missing since friday. the detroit news reports the father was hospitalized after a suicide attempt. he told police he didn t want the boys in the house when he tried to take his life. if you have seen tanner, alexander or andrew skelton you re asked to contact the local police agency. we have descriptions of the children on our web page cnn.com. pakistan civil aviation authority is raising the death toll from that plane crash in karachi yesterday, in addition to the eight russian nationals on board who were killed, now