decisionmaking process which is we can t alienate anybody on the right, in the base or we ll have problems at the polls. terrified of having mitt romney plant a flag in the ground and say this is wrong. offered this opportunity time and time again whether it s sandra or donald and he s proven to be i hate to say it a coward in going out to say he has some core and integrity. whether he s offered choi eed opportunities like there before november, hopefully he will take the baton and run with it. following that george w. bush commandment of don t get fooled again into renouncing anybody. alex wagner and ally me ali mel thanks for joining me. now the republicans say there is there is a war on women. unborn women. and they went to war with the democrats about it in the house of representatives today. crystal ball and michele goldberg will join me on that
parenthood which was the basis that komen for the curioused to end their partnership with planned parenthood. behind all of those actions was an assault on planned parenthood orchestrated by a group called americans united for life who have stated that their purpose this year and one of their main priorities is to attack planned parenthood. they ve been very successful. they re like alex in a way behind the war on women. they draft model legislation and they ve been very successful at getting planned parenthood partially and completely defunded in state as cross the country. just in 2011 alone they had nine states that passed legislation defunding planned parenthood so with this law, as well, there is an attack on planned parenthood coming along with it where they re trying to taint planned parenthood as performing gender-specific abortions. michelle goldberg, thank you very much for educating me very quickly this morning on this bill. as soon as i read your piece i knew what i thoug
yeah, this is a classic case of you think you have an idea that makes sense and now you want to write a law about it. it turns out it s next to impossible to do it in a way where the law doesn t end up being just crazy. i mean this thing is, michelle, the more you in effect made me read this thing today the crazier it read. krystal, this is the best they can do this joining battle. what they have denied is a war on women. lord knows they re not about to go out and fight for paycheck equity or anything crazy like that so this was the best they could do. there s another element to it, as well, harken back to when this new congress was first sworn in. one of their first actions was to threaten to shut down the federal government over funding for planned parenthood. remember that they wanted to defund it and almost went to the mat over that when that didn t work out then they launched this bogus congressional investigation into planned
this law what you re really doing is criminalizing abortions and potentially throwing women in jail for exercising their constitutional right and the same thing with doctors potentially throwing doctors in jail and there s also an issue where some of the evidence that they relied on was saying that asian-american women may be more likely to abort fetuses based on gender so you re also throwing a racial element into this that s scary as well. michele, on these stunt votes as often as they can the party that s supposed to suffer for voting looks for a way to vote for it and i remember several of these things going through when i was working in the congress so i began the day wondering why do the democrats just vote for it? everybody is opposed to gender based abortion and then i read an article by michele goldberg which made me understand exactly why you should vote against this. i just want to point out that you write that the essential provision of the bill i who
both stunts trying to make their points. he will be on thin ice. showing up as we were going on the air. portrait unveiling. so that didn t get on any of the network cable live. we wanted to make sure we would have this event without it being shut down. little things can matter when it s close. big things have small beginnings. obama i think recognizes he s in the white house because of president bush. i ll always be grateful for that. romney economics didn t work then and it won t work now. it did not work. obama s still kind of running against george w. bush. how divisive of a figure is george w. bush. me haf yourself. the months before i took the oval office were a chaotic time. what would george did? it did not work. it now starts and ends with george w. fool me once shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you. > fool me once, shame on shame on you. fool me you can t get fooled again. i can never get enough of can t get fooled