republican party that repeatedly says no. it s a message meant to cut through the noise and reach the gop people. it s a party swallowed up by the tea party. but don t take my word for it. take speaker boehner s. i m not going to into enter into this dissension between the tea party and the republicans. because it s a distinction you re going to have a hard time finding. by the speaker s own admission, there s no distinction between the tea party and the republicans. president obama is also ripping apart a related myth, that he simply needs to reach out more. cozy up to the gop. maybe attend more dc cocktail parties. it s a myth pushed by the right wing and the mainstream media alike. one of the big corn serns with the president s tenure so far has been his inability to persuade congress to give him a break. he s not somebody who s willing to listen to opposing views. a truism of sorts that you and your staff are too insular, that you don t socialize enough. it s
party candidate has been connected to the neo-confederate movement. and in states across the country, conservative lawmakers and sheriffs are arguing that they can just nullify federal laws that they don t like. isn t this the same party that keeps calling the president lawless? republicans like to claim they re a law and order party, but now it s only the laws they agree with. joining me now are dana millbank and margie omara. thanks for come on the program tonight. we reached out to the congressman for a statement he said the civil rights act is the law of the land. the country is stronger because of the act in 1964.
certainly different than his statement yesterday, isn t it? yeah, i think his advisers got to him quickly. he s facing a primary challenge from someone who likes to dress up as a vampire at night. and when you re trying to run to the right of dracula you re going to run into problems like this, and that s what happened. he s got to be absolutely to the furthest extreme of the conservative base there. and so he gets himself to this sort of trouble even in more of a clumsy way than rand paul did earlier. i don t think anybody seriously questions the legitimacy of the civil rights act any more than we question the legitimacy of the constitution itself. but i i think when you re involved in a republican primary, all bets are off. you know, margie, the congressman questioned the constitutionality of the civil rights act, but he had no problem invoking civil rights leaders in his fight to repeal obama care.
high profits. and all companies would keep $45 billion of tax breaks. and all this paid for by gutting the safety net. and actually raising taxes on the middle class. under ryan s budget, middle class families with kids would pay $2,000 more in taxes. it s an ideology that ensures billionaires won t pay their fair share. and top republicans love it. listen to them this past weekend. we haven t talked about fundamental tax reform. and i ll tell you the most important tax reform, we should abolish the irs. just imagine what you would be out there doing if you didn t have to go write that check next week to the irs and pay those hefty taxes. we need to paz a tax policy that stops punishing productivity. . and tax day is always a reminder of how government has grown too large and too intrusive. republican after republican complaining about hefty taxes. but check out where they were at a summit sponsored by the conservative americans for prosperity. it s a group backed b
0 the political ramifications for 2014 and if they can get this website thing fixed and out of the way and have the numbers come in higher than everyone thinks, i think that will go a hell of a long way in getting this done. i think that sounds right. because there s only a certain portion of this that is sort of website hangover, and then there are the trend lines. and margie, i am on record on this. i think this law is working, because it is expanding coverage to people who were previously uninsured through medicare as door number one and through these exchanges on private and state and federal. doors number two, three, however much you want to count. look, i want to be fair about the facts out there, not everyone agrees with that. and look at the numbers in this new cnn poll, where you see democrats, some democrats, turning on the law. you have about half of republicans saying the aca is the president s biggest failure. no surprise. but a quarter of democrats are saying the same t