reconstructi reconstruction, ed brooks. i would have thought he would have been his homework a little more. ben, the students were not hostile. they were challenging but respectful. does he gets points for showing up and maybe is this the beginning part of a learning process that might eventually pay dividends? well, i got to tell you, there were some republicans who think that a little bit of outreach and messaging is enough to increase their share of the african-american vote and increase their share of the latino vote. look, if these sorts of lectures that are heavy on ideology and hevy on revisionist history were effective, newt gingrich would be president right now. the republican party is desperately looking for a new leader and a new public face, and i think despite what some republican leaders would like, senator paul has stepped into that role over the past several weeks and it traps them in a number of distractions that distract from the core message and the future of whe
huey long versus richard russell and strom thurman and ed brooks. this is just not the team to upset, but a very famous 18th century figure. sam houston is the only statue that is holding a gun. that s texas for you. for all your senate madness, go to first read on nbc politics.com. round two at the supreme court. today s case has bigger implications for millions of same-sex couples nationwide. we will break it down next and former cia director david petraeus with the career-ending scandal. here s the politics run down for msnbc.
they have to figure out the votes. they have to figure out the policies to appeal to people. stylistically they re not afraid. paul ryan gave a speech about poverty. when is the last time a republican gave a speech about poverty? however, we did go back. the last time you could find a responder to the state of the union that actually went on to the presidency, bill clinton responded to ronald reagan s 85 state of the union. we asked beginning today eight african-americans will have served in the u.s. senate. how many were elected by popular vote, just three. ed brooks, carolyn moseley braun and barack obama. she keeps you guessing. and barack obama. e, carolyn mosn and barack obama. - - you know, that could be a question of blood flow.
making trips out of state a lot more. so they believe the etch-a-sketch that s important he s going to erase all this right wing stuff he s done the last year or so to win the nomination and go back and reset, to use his aide s guy, fernstrom, reset back to moderation. what s the name of place in jamaica plain, doyle s? yes, doyle s we hang out at, yes. i went to doyle s back in the day when mitt romney was on the rise, and the sense there that you got was he s to the right of bill weld, okay, but not that much. right. bill weld was a really moderate. somewhere around scott brown. yeah, okay, and that was thes sense, and that was how republicans a little to the left of scott brown. that was how republicans were going to rise in massachusetts by being moderate republicans in a democratic like ed brooks. in a democratic state. they weren t talking about mitt romney as a red state, white
it s really simple. he got the endorsement after telling the union point blank that he didn t support getting rid of collect i have bargaining for insurance purposes. then he got elected and today he voted for the walker plan. don t take my work for it. take it from the teacher who ed brooks actually made the promise to. generalmy fi jenny fish is part of the team that interviewed brooks for the union during the campaign. so jeanny, did he just flat-out look you in the rights and said i will not take away checkive bargaining rights and today he voted to take away collective bargaining rights? that s correct. when we interviewed, one of the questions of many was whether he would oppose stripping up of our bargaining rie ining rights, sp for insurance in which he stated he did oppose that.