be have this bill be taken hostage. this is a ransom. this is blackmail. you don t get a bill unless wall street gets its taxpayer coverage. because of that opposition, speaker boehner has delayed a vote, while he tries to scrounge around for some votes. at the center of this fight, a deregulation measure that would let big banks place risky bets and put taxpayers on the hook for another bail-out if those bets went wrong. today senator warren, who first issued a call to arms, was back at it again. this fight isn t about conservatives or liberals. it s not about democrats or republicans. it s about money. if big companies can deploy their armies of lobbyists and lawyers to get congress to vote for special deals that benefit themselves, then we will simply
issue that we are talking about here just seemed kind of stale for political purposes. yes, they gin people up in certain ways. but it s hard to imagine that this is going to create some kind of enormous backlash that s going to change the fundamentals o polit. we will see. we know democrats will use it and how republican also use it. the supreme court is a very hot issue with each political base in presidential races. and i think hobby lobby is going to take its place among other cases like citizens united and others in this really hot supreme court issue in the republican and democratic conventions in 16. the issue isn t over. i mean and the legal fight isn t even over. the little sisters of the poor this case was not resolved. i wouldn t want to be up against the little sisters of the poor. even if i were totally right. terrible for up against the little sisters for the poor. it was not presented to them. the administration carved out this so-called accommodation of little s
issue that we are talking about here just seemed kind of stale for political purposes. yes, they gin people up in certain ways. but it s hard to imagine that this is going to create some kind of enormous backlash that s going to change the fundamentals of our politics right now. we will see. we know democrats will use it and how republican also use it. the supreme court is a very hot issue with each political base in presidential races. and i think hobby lobby is going to take its place among other cases like citizens united and others in this really hot supreme court issue in the republican and democratic conventions in 16. the issue isn t over. i mean and the legal fight isn t even over. the little sisters of the poor this case was not resolved. i wouldn t want to be up against the little sisters of the poor. even if i were totally right. terrible for up against the little sisters for the poor. it was not presented to them. the administration carved out this so-called accommo
that doesn t look like democracy to me. or at least not the kind that we want. richard, you have spent much of your career in international politics, looking at the rest of the world, and some of that is about democracization movements. and if we think about the iran green movement and the way in which twitter s avatar has turned green or the arab spring in cairo, do you think we re being a little too u.s. in our focus, and that in fact, twitter does have the capacity to do this big movement building? that is the point, isn t it? we look at twitter on any other media platform, we can t look at it holistically and say one thing about it. it s different for every context. when you talk about the reactionary movement based on what is happening in black twitter, maybe it isn t, what s the reaction, it s what is being said originally. it s not a problem with the reaction, it s what s being said. the person saying that is not used to the reaction. because they have not been in the public
the university of america. i think what would be really interesting about doing that is it forces us to really think about the fact that we are all going to fail at this. so i think one thing that intersectionalty lets us do is, these are hard conversations to have. and one thing i liked about the chait and ta-nehisi, them having their argument, it really felt like two citizens arguing about something that mattered. and they were having a good fight about it. and that fight isn t always pretty, but they took each other seriously, and they also misunderstood each other, and there were crossing lines of understanding, but that s what happens. but when you bring an intersectionalty, straight women might not not always get sexuality. affluent women might not always get class. you talked about black communities. one reason we have a hard time thinking about progress at this particular moment is because we have a hard time understanding that black politics and politics in this country in g