michele bachmann s lies and distortions are, are really dangerous this gets into the water stream and becomes a talking point and people are misled about the realities of our budget and government spending. this is like the flip side of the kind of the official republican attempt to pull the party slowly back toward reality. this is a sentiment that settles down at the bottom this is what happens when you read the comment section of too many right-wing blogs, so beware of that. don t ever read the comment section of any wing blog. you know, she probably is getting more air time on msnbc at this point than on fox. we did play the fact that bill o reilly shouted her out yesterday, karen, i thought was actually a welcome change. that someone was saying, you can t, he was speaking i think more to michele bachmann s comments regarding the number of private chefs or dog walkers the president has. at least someone is saying hey, this is shawl ball, you shouldn t be playing this game.
slate t . joining us now from denver, is salon.com contributor and author, david sarota. thank you for being on the program. what is going on in the square state? this seems to be a relatively striking shift in a relatively very, very short amount of time. to what do you owe this? i know we talk about the fact that democrats control the state house and the legislature. but let s talk about the demographics, the grassroots shift, the people of colorado who are fomenting this change. well, look, you ve got a big influx of new voters in this state. the state s population continues to grow. and that has of course added to the shift in colorado. there s also a growing latino population, we re now have about 20% of the state is latino. and latinos tend to vote at least right now in a progressive kind of way. and so those shifts and then
magazine clips are limited to 15 rounds, universal background checks are mandatory and the checks will be paid for by gun purchasers. i think it s a coincidence, but an incredibly tragic and sad coincidence that we have to process all of this in a single day. needless to say republicans weren t happy about the gun safety measures, but with democrats in control of both chambers, they were powerless to stop them. to prove that point, the legislature s top republican, stood in front of a doctored new york flag to lament that his flag was becoming a bastion of progressivism. he may want to get his hands on a california flag. this afternoon, the governor will sign a civil unions into law six years after a ballot initiative in the state that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. what s going on in the square state? part of colorado s story of change comes from the state house where democrats control both the governor s office and bomb chambers of the legitimate
hear. and the fact that he s going to see the dead sea skrocrolls, replicas of the second temple, these are all very much planned. he brought out some of the slogans of 2008. we must be the change we seek. and these ideas, it was really interesting. because that is no longer the president we see. he is mired in washington dysfunction. the message of hope and change and believing that progress is possible is something that s now being trotted out on the international stage. there s two dynamics at play here in israel. number one, bibi is in a politically very different situation domestically than he was at the beginning of the obama presidency. i would imagine, i would be curious to hear other folks weigh in on this. that s changing the dynamic a little bit from his perspective. that being said, i think president obama has also understood, and you saw clinton do this, secretary clinton did this, every single trip she ever
frankenfish. fish that are a cross between three species bred to grow faster. yummy. it could end up on your plate in the near future. as you might expect there is some serious opposition out there to eating dinner that s been engineered by scientists. abc s jim avila has more. reporter: behind padlocked gates and barbed wire fences in panama grows what could be a landmark change in what we eat. shades of jurassic park where movie scientists played with dinosaur dna. here actual scientists grow a dna altered salmon, producing the first bio-engineered meat on track for human consumption. critics call the process creepy and label it frankenfish. when you move the dna from a species into another species, you create a life form that you can g a pateet a pa tent for it. reporter: abc news is the