father or mother to see. but the new york times has been showing pictures like this over the past couple of days. i m glad they have. the hell that is going on in syria continues. and i wonder where all those voices are today that were saying that we had a moral responsibility as a nation to go in to libya. where are they today? do we not have a moral responsibility to stop assad from continuing to kill? and by the way, i m not a big interventionist. and i kept saying we can t just go into libya for moral reasons. why aren t we going into syria when syria is killing children, killing grandmothers, shelling cities. i mean the death toll from what assad is doing in syria is much higher than what gadhafi did
tax. what steve said is revealing, i think. this began under a republican president. it was carried out by a democratic president. and, you know, as president bush said, it is really fascinating. if you re it issing there and you have all the experts in the world telling you the world is going to end, you re going to abandon your ideology. there is that. there is that. and by the way, we talk about edmond burke. yep. not enough. i didn t support the bailout, the bank bailouts. it was a burkian thing of george w. bush to do to say i m going to put my world view to the side and do what i have to do right now to make sure people can get money out of the atms. although, on the auto bailouts, dig chenai dick clany
let s take a look at the morning papers. it is expected to be released in october, senator marco rubio reveals he was first baptized as a mormon at the age of 8 before converting to the catholic church a few years later. and washington rubio is said he attends daily mass. all right. financial times, new poll out of russia shows prime minist steis putin is poised to win the russian presidential election next month. it shows putin taking up to 66% of the vote. the next closest challenger tops out at 15%. it s very interesting the way they conduct those polls. yeah. they open the door and they put a gun in their face and they go we have a couple questions to ask you. speak into the gun. that s not that funny. academy awards are this weekend. sunday s parade magazine offers 45 unique facts about the show. which leads us to a very unique, so unique, with us now
meetchum is saying if this is our year, who is the our? that was the republican party going in a new direction, influenced by the tea party, talking about what you were just discussing which is dealing with the debt and government spending. it was also about bucking the establishment in washington including the republican leadership. and for rick santorum to make the case that he s so principled on issues like the bailout, if he was that principled about national education reform, no small matter. i mean this wasn t a technical vote. this wasn t an amendment. this was a big effort by the president of the united states. i mean people will argue with him about whether it was worth compromising principles about. i think romney did leap all over that yesterday. to say, you know, that notion of how many times did he compromise his principles? and that s an area, by the way, as we know that romney s challenged as well. exactly. he is challenged as well