0 the confederate flag proper, that s the mississippi state flag, which includes part of the confederate flag in its iconography, so that s also a source of confusion. but that question that had been an open question for the past week or so, about whether or not it s okay now to support southern secession and be a neoconfederate in today s republican party, with the freedomworks endorsement, it s clear that that s been answered. and the answer to that question is, yeah, it s okay. it s no problem. it s no impediment whatsoever to your upward assent in republican politics, wrap yourself in the confederate battle flag. they re fine with it. so now it seems clear that conservative republican senator, thad cochran, after 35 years in the senate, he will have a primary challenger. and yeah, sure, the guy s got this confederate thing going on, but it is only republican primary voters in mississippi who are going to be making a decision in this contest. and the confederate guy, we know, has de
more individuals that find out that the benefits are actually there, and they re telling their neighbors and their friends, this is really going to be bad for mitch mcconnell. sir, it could insulate him, though, and i should have said successfully primaried by matt bevins, because we know that the tea party is dead set against obama care. so if it starts working and people in kentucky reap some benefits early on, don t you think that mitch mcconnell can change his spin and know that there is a compromise that he was able to provide with getting the government back up and running, acquiescing over the obama care situation and maybe in the long run it could protect him? well, i think he s going to try that. it might help him a little bit to survive his primary race, but it s not going to help him in the general election. i mean mitch mcconnell has been spinning his entire career, he ought to be in an amusement park he spins so much. but ultimately the facts are catching up with hill
get blow-back or could the fact that obama care is actually doing well in kentucky insulate him from a party attack? well, he actually already has been primaried. a mat named matt bevins is running against him so he already has a tea party opponent and a pretty strong one. mitch mcconnell has been lying to the people of kentucky for the last four years about the affordable care act and those lies are catching up to him now because people are beginning to understand exactly the benefits of the affordable care act and it is not what mitch mcconnell has been representing over the last few years. we ve already had almost 400 businesses representing 67,000 people sign up or begin the application process in kentucky. we ve had almost half of our uninsured, 280,000 people have visited the website. we ve got a 20,000 individuals who are now enrolled in insurance policies through it. so we re having a wonderful experience. and the more businesses and the
0 every day to make sure that what needs to be done is being done. kicking folks in the put. nbc white house correspondent peter alexander joins me now. peter, we just heard that kathleen sebelius saying that the president was not aware of the website s problems early on. we know today she ll be in that 2:00 meeting as private health insurance ceos come to the white house. basically this is a come to jesus meeting of the who was the project leader that let this go live then? that s one of the questions a lot of people are asking. we now know the president didn t know about this, about the problems until after october 1st. the question is whether hhs basically said, yes, let s go ahead with this thing, we ve got to get it online right now. but that meeting taking place this afternoon with health insurance executives and some of the president s closest advisers, dennis mcdonough, his chief of staff, will be one of them there today it s going to be very significant. obviously these he
0 they re closer to ground and closer to the people who will be hurt. but they re also really afraid of what this will do to their brand, because voters will blame them. i think you re starting to hear a lot more panic on the republican side about these daredevil anihilists who are trod do this. congresswoman, let me go to you on this so-called potential civil war in the republican party joan is talking about, because she is right. scott walker, the republican governor of wisconsin, he says, quote, i have some real concerns about potentially doing something that would have a negative impact on the economy. i think there are other ways to pursue this. and even paul ryan said a shutdown is a bad way to try to repeal obama care. listen to ryan. with the government shutdown so to speak, we re talking about discretionary spending, just government agency budgets. but it doesn t affect entitles. obama care is an entitlement. rather than swinging for the fences and trying to take this enti