when they feel threatened without requiring them to first attempt a retreat. listen. and until we can overturn stand your ground, we risk other trayvon martins and what we must do is stand up and deal with a civil rights investigation and the end of stand your ground at the same time. reporter: also speaking at convention, attorney general eric holder that criticized stand your ground as laws that sensely expand the concept of self-defense and dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. the nra responded with this statement. quote, the attorney general fails to understand that self-defense is not a concept. its fundamental human right. that nra statement criticizes the obama administration for ceasing on tragedies to
from broderick crawford in 1942. for like your 40th birthday? you can go now. because you know who we have now to replace you and talking sensely about politics? our old friend mike allen down there in washington for politico. blessed good friday to you and the vicker! ah! listen, john boehner, in between smoking a pack of cigarettes and a glass of merlot wine is hailing the gop efforts to stop president obama s agenda and he writes in part i retreat in williamsburg house wps came together as a team. we listened to each other and adopted a new strategy for the coming year has put the republicans on offense and democrats on defense. mike, what does this mean? that some of them are going to act like they are not mentally ill or what? i would not leap to conclusions! yeah, this is a self-high five
may represent a significant minority is all it takes they are willing to work 24/7 and put all of rare sources and money on issue after issue after issue and generally inclined majorities don t care the day in politics. always the focussed minorities make this the single issue on which their political behavior will rise and fall and why the politics are where they are. let me expand on that and take it back to gene. a reason for that. the focus minorities have are strategies in addition to having money and political clout. gene, my question to you is we have said this three straight months. 85%, 90% of americans favor background checks and looks like backed checks are imperiled. where is the strategy behind the white house expressions of strategy. it s all over the map.
americans support gay marriage today and the problem for the party in a nutshell. you ll notice one of the most interesting things that happened in the last campaign was when barack obama decided to come out in favor of gay marriage something the white house struggled a long time when he did it the republican response to it was almost nothing. mitt romney did not hammer the issue. it was not an issue that the republican party seized on. they backed away so some signs they recognized the issue is not the comparison he drew which is important to remember is the issue of immigration. clear to republican strategists this cycle would hurt them and did not stop the candidates from kind of self-emulating on that topic. same thing could be true with gay marriage in 2016. it s worth noting this is a sign, to some extent, of the evangelical movement realizing politics is not the means by which they achieve their desired ends. this is a movement that put
records for a vote a rama, what we call these extensive 13-hour-long debates, more than 100 amendments that were considered. but it s working the will of the senate, frankly. and it also, one of the things that s key we focus on is some of the amendments that did or didn t pass because they are going to be used in some of these elections in 2014 in terms of the keystone pipeline, for example. that amendment did pass. bill, anna brings up a significant point, a lot of folks who have been talking about this idea that the lion s share of what we saw unfold last night over on c-span, a lot of that was designed for campaign ads a lot was just for campaign commercials what does that say about the budget process? it is actually moving forward because the democrats have finally said they do support raising tax, only on the wealthy americans but esensely, what s changed, they didn t pass a budget for four years, any budget threat they passed would have included a tax increase and felt vul