0 conservative alamo. instead, it would be a little bighorn. cruz bids to become a custer for our time, an actual shutdown of the government the only realistic outcome of his strategy would work for conservatives only if voters blamed it on obama s intransigence. so americans would need to side with the distrusted faction of a disdained institution which is pursuing a budgetary maneuver that even republican lawmakers regard as desperate, desperate, doomed. wow. what a day this is. joining us now are two msnbc political analysts dave corn of mother jones and sam stein with the huffington post. sam, what probably brought this to a head? what finally got people like gerson and krauthammer and others i assume out there over the prairie to say we d better be careful here. if cruz gets control of the opposition here of the republican party, we may be in trouble. i think it was the sheer overtness of it. it wasn t as if he was trying to set the stage for a government shutdown. he was sort
for the first congressional district. since he wouldn t be able to hold any in-person campaign events, nodine says he would focus on social media. the race will be a special election to fill the seat of joe bonner, who plans to resign in august. an election date has not yet been set. finally, the latest from our sideshow regular, the inimitable republican louis gohmert of texas. this time it s nothing to do with president obama s birth certificate or the muslim brotherhood infiltrating the administration. yesterday think progress asked the congressman a question on the nondiscrimination nation act which would prevent employers from firing someone simply because they re gay. here is gohmert s reaction. quote, who wants to go talking about sexual orientation when they re working? good grief. apparently he s only talking there about gay people. because i put this to you, what straight person fails to mention occasionally his or her spouse at work? nobody. coming up, will republicans
0 where he was going. and powerless at home. absolutely. and as powerful as he was in his work life in the mob life, he had to deal with the same things that everybody has to deal with, the wife, the children s troubles. et cetera. james, i love the scene when the daughter, meadow, he s in the kitchen, the daughter comes in and walks past him like he s not even there, like the kids are quite good at that when they want to do that. you aren t there. and he couldn t do a thing about it. remember something about this show. i think one of the master strokes of the sopranos was that he went into analysis. what did the analysis do? it is the precise equivalent of the shakespearean soliloquy. it allows us to listen to his thoughts. that i thought was the most brilliant thing of all the brilliant things that david chase did. when he sat down in front of his analyst and began to talk, we were literally listening to the equivalent of a shakespearean soliloquy. was it all chase who ca
the race will be a special election to fill the seat of joe bonner, who plans to resign in august. an election date has not yet been set. finally, the latest from our sideshow regular, the inimitable republican louis gohmert of texas. this time it s nothing to do with president obama s birth certificate or the muslim brotherhood infiltrating the administration. yesterday think progress asked the congressman a question on the nondiscrimination nation act which would prevent employers from firing someone simply because they re gay. here is gohmert s reaction. quote, who wants to go talking about sexual orientation when they re working? good grief. apparently he s only talking there about gay people. because i put this to you, what straight person fails to mention occasionally his or her spouse at work? nobody. coming up, will republicans go along with immigration reform if border security is strengthened and will marco rubio s presidential ambitions
experience, and the fortitude to serve as your u.s. congress man for the first congressional district. since he wouldn t be able to hold any in-person campaign events, nodine says he would focus on social media. the race will be a special election to fill the seat of joe bonner who plans to resign in august. an election date has not yet been set. finally, the latest from our sideshow regular, the innim mittable louis gohmert of texas. this time it s nothing to do with president obama s birth certificate or the muslim brotherhood infiltrating the administration. yesterday a reporter asked the congressman for his opinion on the employment nondiscrimination act which would prevent employers from firing someone simply because they re gay. here is gohmert s reaction. quote, who wants to go talking about sexual orientation when they re working? good grief. apparently he s only talking there about gay people. because i put this to you, what straight person fails to mention occasionally hi