exactly. i m studying the 1995 shutdown, not coming up with surprises, but if you look closely, it was the end of the gingrich congress as far as pushing through radical legislation. president clinton came out of what had been a discouraging low-level support from the public before it and went up to getting public support. hey, professor, good to be with you. the shutdown is a bummer for a lot of people. as a shutdown expert, i suppose this is like christmas for you, at least intellectually. what i want to ask you is a little broader, beyond the anti-deficiency act. people don t know this. this is krystal s one of her favorite federal laws. true story. no, it s not. she loves that part of the federal code. but beyond all of that, how we manage shutdowns, talk to us about the legitimacy of a shutdown or other threats in the
no backing down, no blinking, and never, even if it means shutting down the government, never surrender. 10 what do we do about it? especially when both political parties have gerrymandered to get an edge? well, we could learn from blue and red states like california, arizona, and montana that set up nonpartisan independent redistricting commissions to create new rules of the road. see, that would take the power away from incumbents and give it back to us, the people. we have seven years until the next census. so it s not enough to be mad at congress today. we have to change the rules in the years ahead. and speaking of other states, i have a confession of my own. since it s all the rage in the gop, i wanted to get in on the action. you think ari is in seattle on assignment? but little do you know i ve gerrymandered him right out of town. no nonpartisan independent redistricting commission in new york. at least not yet. so i will see you in 2014, buddy. yeah. okay. that does it for
would have 900,000 more jobs by the end of next year. 900,000? that sounds to me like a deal most people hearing my voice would take. now, there is also the obsession with trying to stop obama care, or to double down as ted cruz is doubling down today to defund obama care. let me show you what cruise had to say. i think congress ought to stand together and defund obama care in its entirety. we can successfully defund obama care on september 30th. we ve launched a national petition, don tfund it.com. that s how we re going to win the fight on defunding obama care. they want to defund obama care which provides insurance health care for so many americans that didn t have it. they want to continue sequestration that costs jobs, as you just quoted what it would mean in terms of net jobs.
focused on attacking president obama. i m not for secession, but i understand why people might be. why not just ask show us the certificate. you re a birther. you re a birther, that s what you are. it s not been my number one issue, but i ve been following it, and i ve been saying why are all these people that just asked to see it, why are they crucified and beaten up and smeared and besmirched the way they are? four more years of obama will end america, the country we love as we know it. we ve seen this ugliness go from the airwaves to the halls of congress. and we ve seen lawmakers on the right refuse to denounce this kind of talk. so what would a radio shake-up mean for the president s vision? and could the extremism fever break as a result of this? joining me now is joy reid, managing editor of thegrio.com,
i think it s an epic failing for limbaugh. but in a certain way it s bad for the gop. limbaugh is a reflection of their extremism. he is kind of like the id of the conservative movement. he has been rejected culturally, now being rejected in the market. and i think it port tends a political rejection. he has been a really important figure going all the way back to 1994 when he was largely credited with helping to bring in the gingrich congress, which was referred to as the limbaugh congress. and you ll remember, on the day that president obama was inaugurated, he was kind of the architect of the republican strategy for these past years, saying i hope he fails. so this is this is a defeat for limbaugh. it s a victory for progressives in the sense that it s a victory for everybody who believes in civil discourse. you know, joy, some of it i think is just people being turned off by how venomous some of it is. i mean, when you listen to the president s recent speech on race, listen to