little sun must shine. so even in that bad year for republicans, they did have some bright spots. that year, 1970, a gentleman, bill young was first elected to the house of representatives from florida. although he did not know it at the time, bill young would go on to hold that seat in florida for 42 years. congressman bill young, first elected in 1970, he went on to become the longest continually serving republican member of congress ever in the history of the country. he was serving in his 22nd term when he died last friday at the age of 82. this week, thousand of people gathered in largo, florida, for congressman bill young s funeral. the house canceled their scheduled business yesterday afternoon for his funeral so members could attend. more than 100 members of congress did attend the funeral. they all flew done to florida. and no disrespect to congressman
that optimizes raw data to help safely discover and maximize resources in extreme conditions. our current situation seems rather extreme. why can t we maximize our. ready. brilliant. let s get out of here. warp speed. it is a rule in american politics whatever party the president is in, the other party tend to do better in the midterm elections. so say it is 1970, before watergate. the president was obviously a republican, richard nixon. and in the midterm elections that year, 1970, the president s party, the republican party, got crushed. democrats took 12 seats from republicans in the house that year. republicans also lost a ton of governorships. in 1970. gop is set back in major states. just a bad year for the republicans that year. but into every rain storm, a
support pro-choice republicans? is there any resistance in the republican party nationwide? i d say there is enormous disaffection in the rank and file. of course, a lot of republicans started planned parenthoods around the country. that was the first thing they were concerned somehow the national republican party in congress was trying to defund planned parenthood. then they went after birth control. they kept going. i think rank and file is very discouraged. we think of ted cruz as being an outlier, but the truth is, he is leading the republican party. it s incredible. we talk about these antics to close down the government. which he took part in. totally unsuccessfully, disrupting our economy, losing tax payer money. and yet the republican party, the republican congress voted right with him. do you see this could not become a litmus test issue
bush. when they were in charge, government grew a lot. it also grew under clinton, but what s awkward now is that under president obama, the socialist government bogeyman, during his time in office, government has shrunk. the size of the government now is the lowest its been since 1966. 2.7 million employees. government under president obama is shrinking and the republican presidents like george w. bush, government grew. one of the ways the government grew under bush is that after 9/11, republicans supported a plan to combine 22 agencies into one new giant mega federal agency, smaller only than the va and defense department. it was and remains the mammoth department of homeland security. because it has the word, homeland, it is the creepiest of all. the department of homeland security hadn t been around that long. it s only had three leaders since it opened for business in 2003. nominated to be the fourth leader is jay johnson. the top lawyer for the defense department in president oba
this has been a hard week for the kickoff of the republican party s outreach to african-americans in north carolina. republican party s presidential candidate may have won north carolina in 2012, but no thanks to the black vote. african-americans in north carolina voted 96% for president obama. that was up from the 95% of black voters who supported him in the previous election. one in five residents of north carolina is african-american. they have not seen much to appeal to them from the republican party. this was a really unfortunate week to pick for republicans to try to change black voters s minds. this was the week the republican governor of the state went to court to defend the new law restricting voting rights in the state. a law called the worst voter