Cacophony in washington and the point scoring. Our allies, recently, the impasse and governments and the difficulty we have passing a budget. It does cause some concern. President obama himself is pretty popular in asia. He is considered a president who gets the region. There are, however, concerns frankly, his toughness. What was devastating was the serious crisis. When the white house put down a redline. The philippines looking at a theing chinese navy, american president drawing a redline and walking away from it is a very unnerving thing. It is something president obama is going to have to compensate for. His popularity will help him, but likely, some of the dysfunction raises questions abroad about our competence. Republicansing the and democrats have to work on. On his way heading to asia shortly, a number of republican lawmakers already there. The special delegation is visiting the Prime Minister there. A quote from paul ryan in the wall street journal, he writes, howant to unde
Post your comments there. You could also send us an email. Text of the First Amendment we went to hear how you interpret it. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Oer abridging the freedom of speech, or the press ginsburg had a discussion at the National Press club. Lets take a listen to what they had to say. They focused on what the founders meant when they talked about freedom. [video clip] theres a point that Justice Scalia made. He said the First Amendment has protection against constraint. Government constraint. Our expression of First Amendment is quite different from the expression in the declaration of rights of man. You mentioned this First Amendment is saying hands off government. It does not say everyone shall have the right to speak freely. That is with the declaration of the rights of man says. Not at all. The says Congress Shall make no laws. About freedom of speech or press. It instructed to governmen
Mr. Fortenberry people may not agree with us, but the vast majority of americans do agree that the government should not be entangled in this. In other words, taxpayer money should not be going for the provision of abortion. Thats one bit of good news. The second bit of good news is, i think, again, those of us who have been here a little while, who have been in these trenches trying to beg and plead for an increase of awareness as to what the consequences of abortion are, young people are recognizing that, again, theres got to be a better way. Theyve lived with this through their generation. Theyve seen the scars, seen the wounds, seen the effects on society and theyre coming forward and saying Women Deserve better. Cant we be loving enough, cant we be big enough to do Something Different here . And i think thats a great sign of encouragement for two reasons. One is projecting forward, maybe we can reshape society. But also heal the wounds that have already occurred. Because they are
Issues. It is about health care and medicare and then it is about the very broken tax system. Back in the summer of 2011 we were dealing with the debt ceiling. It is clear those were going to be the issues. I started pushing very hard for bipartisan approaches on both medicare and to deal with tax reform. I still think we have to deal with those issues. Are you seeing any movement in that direction . I am. I have been talking to senators on both issues. I think there is a sense there is a time to get on with it. Are you concerned there is going to be any impact to your communitys actions because of the impending cuts from the sequestered . Is there anything specific on Energy Environment policy that you think is going to be hurt more so than others because of these cutbacks a number of areas concern me. First we have to get our folks back into work. I am concerned our sequester is going to hurt our ability to do these large landscape project. Last week i was at hanford which is the mos
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