party writ large, and in th conference tim miller and aspen saying have a great, night that is al in on this tuesday night, alex wagner starts right now, wit alicia menendez in for alex. good evening, alicia good evening to you chris, goo evening to you all at home, i really cement, endless - christmas eve is really th coldest night on capitol in th state capital, by the time the temperature went down,
know, behind closed doors, that he did all of these years with other lawmakers who are still still have a voice there? yeah. christi. throughout his 40-plus decade career, biden very much was a fiscal hawk during his time in the senate. he voted for the tax cuts. bill clinton s welfare reform. used to tout a balanced budget which would have made it really important to deficit spend which is what he did with the first big stimulus bill. so, his trajectory very much nears the trajectory party writ large which is the shift towards being more okay with deficit spending. and really trying to show voters that big government is good for them. and so that s what he s trying to do. he s trying to still keep this proposal very big. even as he s forgetting with republicans. as daniella said, they only went down $500 billion in their
it was an anchor around the neck for candidates up and down the ticket. happy to say for the first time in the history of the party, there was a very healthy debate in those platform sessions on doma, the defense of marriage act, making sure that it wasn t supported in the platform. there is also debate about having civil unions. it failed. however, that said, there was a really healthy debate. elections have consequences. we, the party writ large, the republican party writ large, is looking in many after-action reviews on where do we go. safe to say we re already seeing with state parties, i m a member of the state party in the district of columbia. our platform actually endorses same sex marriage. so you re going to see this in different states but it s going to take a lot of work. it won t happen in a few months. this is part of a broader growth project not only with log cabin republicans but many other ancillary groups within the republican party and the guidance that i would provi