0 patience? do you think? would you run with obama care, or shy away from it in your upcoming election? i won t shy away from it. i think it s the right thing to do. and i feel that in my heart. because i know that there s an extension to it, medicaid expansion, for example, where governor rick scott, our current governor, came out and said he was for it for about 30 seconds. and didn t lift a finger to get it done. and as a result, ed, in my florida, about 1 million of my fellow floridans are not getting health care as a result of that lack of effort by the governor in the legislature. and what does that mean? that means people who are sick aren t getting health care, and so they get sicker. or they die. it s absolutely unconscionable to me that somebody who is supposed to be a public servant and try to help people didn t do more to get it done. are you confident, if you re governor if you were to set up a state exchange, that it would be a successful as kentucky, rhode island,
the world that work this way. where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bank rolling whoever they want, however they want, and in some cases undisclosed. and what it means is, ordinary americans are shut out of the process. so if you re wondering who this would help, let s just look at it this way. mccutcheon was partnered with the rnc and senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, has joined the suit as an outside party. let s go to the rapid response panel tonight. brad wood house, ruth conna and mitch caesar joins us, chairman of the broward county democratic party in florida. ruth, start with you tonight. what does this mean for the future of our democracy, that rich guys, rich men and women, can just write the check and bankroll any kind of campaign they want to drive their personal agenda and overwhelm the people. your thoughts.
and you know, mitch caesar, i think ohio, i think florida, i think these very important states, you know when it comes to the general election. how dangerous is this? well, i think it s very dangerous. people are very angry. and those states especially. their swing states. but they re angry everywhere. what people have to remember is elections have consequences. and when you elect a president, they appoint a supreme court, and these decisions, as might occur from today s arguments, will have repercussions beyond this president s term and probably for a generation. what this sets up potentially, negatively, and already the election was swiss cheese, and, in fact, that s the argument republicans use to throw it out, interestingly, throwing out the watergate reforms, you could have some billionaire basically go up and adopt a congressman. that s what this is. adopt a congressman plan. so where before perhaps a safe conservative republican district may require being in a room with 20
0 continuing resolution, single vote, to the floor. he won t do it. because he knows he would be a loser, huge. now, what s interesting about this is that the right wing is now trying to encourage these truckers who are coming on thursday to washington, d.c., the very people they have done nothing for, a group called truckers, ride for the constitution, is planning this three-day protest in washington, d.c. it s part of a plan to shut down america and restore our constitutional republic. question number one, how many of them will be armed? probably most of them. the this friday, 3,000 truckers plan to slow down the d.c. beltway by driving 55 miles per hour in all of the lanes and the truckers are now saying if the cops give them any guff or a hard time, they are going to lock the brakes up, and cause a three-lane roadblock. these are angry americans. they re upset about corruption and they really hate this guy, president obama. that s what this is all about. they also have plans to a
heads understand that they re basically acquiescing and literally giving up any chance to win a presidential cycle again. in florida, we have seen that happen. marco rubio is out front. he took heat from the extreme elements of the tea party. he backed down. he is kind of awol on the issue. i think that in florida, that they are our growing trend. they are changing demographic, changing from a red state to a purple and may be in the future a blue. they re out of bounds with young people. there s just absolutely no question about it. this take in from the poor, suppressing the vote, going to voting rights, the war on women, florida, i don t think, looks very good for the republicans at all. scott is trying to put lipstick on that pig. he can t do it. verge, ruth and mitch caesar, great to have you on the ed show. thank you so much. up next on the prep pretenders. better at checking out figures than facts.