and it is hard not to see some dots and seeing dots is hard now to connect them because have you not only the matter where a lot of these voting rights laws are enacting. a lot of the more tightened ones. stricter ones are happening in battle ground states. pennsylvania where you are. ohio, wisconsin has a voter id law that a people are challenging. and it looks like there s an effort to place the thumb on the scale. you couple that with a lot of what has been talked about with defunding unions, those kinds ever laws where people aren t getting the right to collective bargaining. unions do what? register people to vote. there s also a crack down on third party organizations, league of women voters, naacp, anyone doing active voter registration drives, has to overcome a second hurdle and make sure that their organization is set up strictly for social program. there are a lot of interesting things happening. hard not to see it when you take the big picture of you here.
that mark mckenyon. joan walsh, your thinking? is it along those lines? yes it is very much so, chris. he s been called a perfectly lubricated weather vein by our friend john huntman. his friend. but i think it goes further than that. i think it is very cowardly not to distance himself from donald trump. i think it is a sign he want it leave no wing nut behind. he doesn t feel that the base loves him enough, that he can just count on turning them out in november. they ve been a little bit tepid. so he want it rely on the trump magic and trump name. and i think, you know, after yesterday, i will never forget the sight of mitt romney decomplaining next to the big trump sign behind him. like a wholly owned sub sudden areary. so it is cowardly but also brings this this birther nonsense, no matter what they try it say, he validate trump s birther nonsense and keeps it part of the conversation. trump is loving every minute of it. and romney needs it stand up to
we re back, amid escalating violence in syria where dozens of children were brutally killed. the out and other countries expelled sir ran diplomats in a move to pressure the syrian regime but at home mitt romney condemned the administration for leaning on diplomacy. in a statement yesterday romney said quote president obama s lack of leadership resulted in a policy of paralysis that watched assad slaughter 10,000 individuals. we use increase pressure on russia to cease selling arms to the syrian government and to end its obstruction at the united nations and we should work with the partners to arm the opposition to they can defend themselves. i want it start with major eaton thon matter. is this president not this president, this president wannabe, mitt romney, is he surround by the same people who
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