analysis of what happened to you all. well, the house majority leader has step down. he will serve until the end of july. eric cantor with a major loss, a surprise to everybody in washington it seemed. as you take a look at the numbers, he uses to dave brat, but he loses big and take a look at the map of his district. you can look around right an the suburbs of richmond, that red went to brat and that is a total surprise and it was for the cantor campaign. it wasn t a surprise for conservatives, who say this is a long time coming, and it s an anti-establishment vote. let s bring in our panel. george will, charles lane, and steve hayes. okay, george, your thoughts on this. i m startled by mr. cantor saying all politics is local. very little of our politics
know, it wasn t a good day for civil rights proponents, but it wasn t a surprise. i didn t think this was a case that civil rights opponents were likely to win. the decision is a complex one and that there s no one majority opinion with the rationale and so the opinion that s written by justice kennedy is an opinion not the opinion of the court. and what s remarkable about this decision, perhaps more than anything else first of all, this is not a case that s really technically about affirmative action. and i think all the justices are pretty clear about that. although affirmative action actually diversity more accurately is what it s all about. but what is really interesting about this decision is this
potter, and ted shop. and ted, your reaction to today s decision from the high court? my reaction was that, you know, it wasn t a good day for civil rights proponents, but it wasn t a surprise. i didn t think this was a case that civil rights opponents were likely to win. the decision is a complex one and that there s no one majority opinion with the rationale and so the opinion that s written by justice kennedy is an opinion not the opinion of the court. and what s remarkable about this decision, perhaps more than anything else first of all, this is not a case that s really technically about affirmative action. and i think all the justices are pretty clear about that.
my reaction was that, you know, it wasn t a good day for civil rights proponents, but it wasn t a surprise. i didn t think this was a case that civil rights opponents were likely to win. the decision is a complex one and that there s no one majority opinion with the rationale and so the opinion that s written by justice kennedy is an opinion not the opinion of the court. and what s remarkable about this decision, perhaps more than anything else first of all, this is not a case that s really technically about affirmative action. and i think all the justices are pretty clear about that. although affirmative action actually diversity more accurately is what it s all about. but what is really interesting about this decision is this face-off between chief justice roberts and justice sotomayor. and that face-off to me is it
times ahead for the bush children. my dad became president. was a huge thrill. it wasn t a surprise, really. h it s not as if he wasn t qualified to be president. i don t know. it kind of fit with who he was. but for us, our dad was just the same. i will saydo it wasn t all t much fun because the intensity isme ratcheted up.ot all of us are so protective of our dad. there is perception and there is reality. there s a newweek article when he was running for president and on the cover it said, the wimp factor. i thought to myself, that s oddr here is a guy who served his country as a young pilot, there was probably an expectation that this ivy league guy would go toi wall street, but he went to west texas and built a business. a true family guy, which is rare in washington. here is a guy who literally watched his daughter die. takes a lot of courage to keep s family together after that. here is a guy who just by virtue of the way he lived his life has