i think what s happened is over an extended period of time, the republican party has driven itself into a cul-de-sac that does not allow it to keep pace with the way the country s changing. they ve gotten trapped into appealing for more and more votes from a smaller and smaller group of people, and what the result of that is is the purest kind of identity politics, white identity politics, and more than that, segmented by education. essentially, the republican party right now is about arousing whites who have not been a college, and doing it around a set of issues. you talked about confederal flags and monuments and immigration. all of these things. i remember covering the republican party in the mid 1990 s when bob dole was running for the republican nomination. he ran against pat buchanan. and everyone was wondering are
knows because they have a distant relative here or come in an outdated lottery system. the rules need to be reigned in. they deprive americans with a high school degree or less of a good job. that is not a uniquely republican concern. in the mid 1990 president bill clinton called for a stop to the abuse of immigration laws for much the same reason. bill: meanwhile the president has been focusing his efforts on illegal immigration. you know that. we went out to find out how the american people feel about this travel ban. should it be reinstated? should they try again after being blocked by the federal court? the answer and debate to follow next. shannon: a little boy forced from his home thought he would miss his third birthday until some police officers stepped in. happy birthday to you, happy birthday, happy birthday to you
and i ll agree with ben. should ignore them. a fill in tax as gas does, as it will, drop back to $3 a gallon and throw some taxes on that and use that to pay for bridges and highways. another regressive tax. and you re saying that california, new jersey, new york, state tax on gas is 50 cents and add 18 1/2 cents. you re not for a swap out with the payroll tax. first of all, the payroll tax cut we have is costing us $10 billion dollars a month. money we ve got to pay back and we re borrowing this money and social security is already bank result. it s nuts, crazy. charleses to that point, i rose to these, so you re getting a tax break by them not raising the federal gas tax, hadn t gone up since the mid 1990 s and potholes not
reason, a.c.l.u., filed suit and suddenly the government withdrew the contract on these grounds and gave it to someone else. and because, because they said that catholics could not refer people for contraception and would not refer them and abortion. and so this was the only thing required to help these women, to save these women, and so, there we are. they have this double shot now, the universities and this. paul: dan, can i put you ve followed this usual for years. yes, i have and the catholic bishops and the church and the state. let me play the devil s advocate here for a second. a spokesman for hhs after this decision to demote the bishops over the human traffic funding said, you know, since the mid 1990 s the cat athletics groups, 880 million dollars from the federal government, nearly a billion dollar. paul: wow. over that period the
reason, a.c.l.u., filed suit and suddenly the government withdrew the contract on these grounds and gave it to someone else. and because, because they said that catholics could not refer people for contraception and would not refer them and abortion. and so this was the only thing required to help these women, to save these women, and so, there we are. they have this double shot now, the universities and this. paul: dan, can i put you ve followed this usual for years. yes, i have and the catholic bishops and the church and the state. let me play the devil s advocate here for a second. a spokesman for hhs after this decision to demote the bishops over the human traffic funding said, you know, since the mid 1990 s the cat athletics groups, 880 million dollars from the federal government, nearly a billion dollar. paul: wow. over that period the