the policy they re aiming for is bad, you have to sort of admire the fact that they have just stuck to their guns. i mean, this is just two dozen members of congress who are basically attempting to rewrite health care for the whole country and the here is it s like a union strike. it s like an organizing drive, right? the sheer intensity of their solidarity, the fact that they are banded together has granted them this leverage and the only reason the threat their threat to vote no carries the weight it does is because they ve done it before. we ve watched them do this. they basically chased john boehner back to his house in ohio by doing this to him over and over and so they have a tremendous amount of leverage and that s why it s a high stakes dramatic moment procedurally. david frum tweeted the republicans could use a community organizer. they basically have one, the house freedom caucus but they re just organizing only rich
it s like an organizing drive, right? the sheer intensity of their solidarity, the fact that they are banded together has granted them this leverage and the only reason the threat their threat to vote no carries the weight it does is because they ve done it before. we ve watched them do this. they basically chased john boehner back to his house in ohio by doing this to him over and over and so they have a tremendous amount of leverage and that s why it s a high stakes dramatic moment procedurally. david frum tweeted the republicans could use a community organizer. they basically have one, the house freedom caucus but they re just organizing only rich people. quickly, mckay, what do you think ends up coming of this belated bromance between paul ryan and donald trump who inexplicably walked away from his anew jackson populism to throw in with the establisent. do you think that winds up falling apar i think it s possible though i don t know if it will be
sure. are union mines safer than non-union mines? mines where the mine operator allow their workers to have a voice in safety and freely exercise that, i think are safer mines. okay. if they are safer mines why wasn t this a union shop? and did massey fight against any kind of organization in the past? absolutely. in fact, that s the other big problem we have in mine safety. it s the way the labor laws are enforced in this country. it is illegal to threaten workers during an organizing drive. the companies do it all the time. i like to liken it toward a bank robbery. imagine, if you will, someone s caught coming out of the bank and they just robbed it and the penalty was they had to give the money back and write a letter they d never do it again. it wouldn t be safe to go in the bank in this country. that s the way the labor laws are enforced in organizing drives. mr. kane, there are 29 families tonight who don t have a loved one with them. if the congress doesn t move on t