states are solutions looking for problems that don t exist, so he was using his own and joking, alex, about his birth certificate to mock the whole nonproblem that these republicans and state legislators are trying to solve. let s take a look down south. your articles about mcallister is dealing with a scandal, showing the married lawmaker kissing a staffer. there is one calling for him to step down. what you have learned about this? the governor has called for him to step down as has the state republican chairman out there, so big names taking that step. this is not surprising. mcallister, he doesn t have a whole lot of friends. so the republican party s inclination is to say let s be rid of this guy and move on so
so it s not like not having health insurance and removing the affordable care act fixes the problem. no, it s going to be slow and cumbersome. i think had the president said that from the very beginning, the american people would have embraced themselves for these challenges. this is an amendment to the social contract that we have with one another. it s not going to happen overnight to see this come to fruition. bill, you have a different take on this fix because you say it s more of a solution to a nonproblem and it might not be such a bad thing. explain that. well, to what igor was saying before, the law is designed to get to to entice people out of junk plans into comprehensive plans. what obama said yesterday does not force people or force insurers to stay in the substandard plans, it gives a little bit of flexibility to expand the grandfather clause. but the insurers don t have to renew those plans. the state regulators don t have to allow insurers to do that. a lot of insu
the case of voting in any federal election. requiring proof of that is the objection, the contention here. i m not sure that we should be trying to go around existing law and finding out ways to say, you don t have to prove it. we ll take you on your word. if it is hard for someone to prove, let s make it easier. let s fix the problem that way so that both sides are satisfied. say, okay, we don t want to put a single group out of order here and force then to do something that everyone else doesn t. let s make it easier for them to prove. that s an interesting perspective on it. we have a solution for a nonproblem. the state in this case is unable to produce one instance of a noncitizen attempting to register to vote by the federal post card form. if there is no problem, why are we trying to solve a nonproblem? well, because the gop needs to suppress votes. maybe not about obama, but about seeing the demographic trends are not moving in the direction
world news tonight and for major broadcasts. if that s something that was being hidden, that s an issue. i don t think it was. i don t think she cared. she s a good journalist. i think this is a nonproblem, a nonissue and it s time to move on. be transparent about it. yes, but a nonissue. a total nonissue. it s a red herring. let s stick with what s real which is the candidates. it s a nonissue if it s, of course, skewed against republicans. either way, it s a non anybody s gravy boat is a nonissue. just put it out there, be transparent. why do you think journalists should hide their political affiliations and family connections? i don t know about hiding family connections. i think they should be transparent about where they come from. well, then it is an issue. i don t think they need to say who they vote for. i don t think they need to give their political histories. i think they re professionals capable of doing what they ought to be doing, which is analysis
struck by lightening than to pretend to be another voter. how is it not anything but partisan politics? you are right, the premise that there s massive voter fraud that we did not notice is absurd on its face. in the face of this nonproblem, we have seen a wave of laws that are making it harder for people to vote. you have a driver s license and i have one, but a lot of people do not. that has been going on for the last year and a half, it s been a lot of partisanship but we are seeing the courting says, wait a minute, this is not constitutional and it s illegal, so there s a push back going on. and the department of justice, govern rendell, because we are talking about pennsylvania here, what is your how the in i think there are what is your thought, there are eight states that have passed