it s sort of interesting that mitt romney is back to defending romney care which he was running away from readily during the campaign. but, of course, if you have everybody pulling in the same direction, things work out a lot better. it s no coincidence that the states that are having the most problem with obama care are those with the republican governors who are refuse to go participate and dumping everybody on to the federally run program, which is not going as well. it s interesting to know, this is the very same stage back in 2006 when mitt romney was joined by a beaming ted kennedy. it was obviously visible, the bipartisan support. but dana, there were some differences that mitt romney alluded to in his statement, beyond just the bipartisan support. i mean, they did ease out the health care law there, and it was much smaller group of people that had to sign up for the exchanges. how do you think president obama will parallel that? i know we talked to kristen about this earlier.
insurance. we rank 49th in bhild well being and we boast one of the worse income inequality gasp in the nation. being governor of a state with this much poverty and inequality ought to give you a special sense of urgency but you don t seem to give a damn. what you do care about is reaching higher office and why not. your term limited in louisiana and the white house will have an opening in four years. so for you, it s onto the next one, right in the looks like you re 2016 machine is raring to go. head of the republican governors association, check. chastising the defeated governor romney for his gifts comments, check. calling on republicans to stop being the stupid party of dumbed down conservatism and encouraging them to reach out to a broader base. check. not bad for the national stage, bobby. but what about your own backyard? those louisianians without health insurance could benefit from the medicaid expansion that
bloudiest war in american history, and yet the troops overwhelmingly supported lincoln and did so because they had come to regard mr. lincoln with sentiments of ven ration and love. to them he was really father abraham. by supporting him, the soldiers understood they were voting to prolong the war but they voted because this was a president whose cause, their own cause was embodied. when i read that about the soldiers i thought that s like black voters with president obama. and white voters including me, as well. i think what happened in this election is we saw the difference of someone who we believe and someone we don t believe. mitt romney we just did not believe. he simply was lying to us. when president obama spoke and when he speaks we know his intentions are good. we know his vision is right for this country. when he gave the victory speech and said these are these united states of america, we believed that. we genuinely believed that. believing that is critical to the prese
welcome back. i m melissa harris-perry. christmas came about two months early this year. a skinny black san tan claus made his list, checked them twice and flew all across the land, sprinkling gifts among all the black, latino, young voters who showed them their appreciation. that is the bedtime mitt romney is telling himself on those sleepless nights when he lies awake still trying to make sense of why he s not the president. the former governor got caught on tape again. speaking to a group of wealthy like-minded people again. telling us what he really thinks about the half of the country whose votes he couldn t win again. what the president, president s campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinaire financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote.
i m proud of our generation and our culture because we did lead the way. it feels like there is some sense to which republicans are sort of beginning to get this demographic shift. our own governor bobby jindal did week sort of distance himself from mitt romney and these recent comments. let s listen to the governor and i want to get your response to this. we have got to stop dividing the american voters. we need 100% of the voters. not 53%. absolutely reject that notion that description. that s absolutely wrong. that is not i don t think that that represents where we are as a party and where we re going as a party. you know, we live in the south. there s our governor saying, oh, we got to do better. but the doing better that is to be substantive, not just we ve got to say nice things to urban youth. the irony is that once again, the rhetoric doesn t match the policy of the person that s speaking.