don t feel it. they don t even know how to put their finger on it sometimes. you know, what it is about him that doesn t win them over. whereas i think santorum has had more success with that, though what happened yesterday wasn t a good example of that. for sure. all right. lois? please read my piece today on santorum s electability in the daily beast. please read. any reply? there you go. phil? i m going to make a plug for a little local grass roots group called we the people. di a forum last night and it is run by jennifer horn and fred barnes and congressman steve king and i did a panel on it. it s a great group. we the people.com. support them. a great group. he came to new hampshire? trying to keep the process in cement. there it is. beth? i m going to plug our national journal forum saturday. rick santorum is coming. it s at 9:30. you don t need a ticket. just come. i m plugging the final debate, 9:00 a.m. right here, sc edition of
years. those aren t ancient history, that is actually more recent history. bill: we all look forward to the explanations on that. with the tea party in 2012 what is the status of the organization? do you sense that they are still together, that they are growing or have they ebbed in terms of attention and support? well the tea party has been a funny organization because it s never really ever been an organization. it really has been from the bottom up, and has been a grass roots group. to me a lot of times the tea party movement was open mike night. everybody got to show up. a lot of the reason it was popular was if you go to a republican meeting, or a democratic meeting nobody cares about your opinion. if you go to a tea party peteing everybody is equal, everybody gets to participate in direct democracy. i think that s what was popular about the tea party movement. it s also a flaw in the sense that we are sometimes not as organized as we could be. bill: we ll see how that plays
texas? in whose best interest has the state of texas been run while perry was governor? fair to say that rick perry is truly a special interest governor. that s who he s serving, it s not we the people of texas. you can trace it. look at the hpv vaccine, he passed an order that would mandate an hpv vaccine for all 6th grade girls in texas, and he did it for $6,000 campaign check from the drug company, merk. the lobbyist turned around, worked for rick perry at one time, and then got the trans-texas corridor rights granted to his former employer. the revolving door is clear on a bunch of issues, not just on the trans-texas corridor, that just is one that started our grass roots group. he s got more corporate welfare
in whose best interest has the state of texas been run while perry was governor? fair to say that rick perry is truly a special interest governor. that s who he s serving, it s not we the people of texas. you can trace it. look at the hpv vaccine, he passed an order that would mandate an hpv vaccine for all 6th grade girls in texas, and he did it for $6,000 campaign check from the drug company, merk. the lobbyist turned around, worked for rick perry at one time, and then got the trans-texas corridor rights granted to his former employer. the revolving door is clear on a bunch of issues, not just on the trans-texas corridor, that just is one that started our grass roots group. he s got more corporate welfare slush funds than i can counted.
and now for our con job of the day, we ve got a great example of republicans pretending to speak for the people, while actually doing the bidding of the rich. you re going to love this one. last year former minnesota senator norm coleman helped found a right-wing think tank. they claimed to be a grass-roots group whose primary roles is to put center-right ideas into acby engaging the hearts and minds of the american people. great roots, democratic participation, the american people, that all sounds pretty good, right? the american people voicing their opinions, of course, would be terrific. you know how many people contributed to american action network? 11. not 11,000, not 1100, just 11.