does he have a point? i think what the american people voted for just last week was a change in policies, not so much personalities or people, but a change in policies. they wanted to make sure their health care protection was in place and if they have a preexisting condition, they would be able to get insurance. they wanted to make sure their prescription drug prices did not go so high they couldn t afford something that gives them health and or life. they wanted the middle class working people wanted to make sure social security and medicare were assures and they had a policy focused on them. jobs, education, retraining. when you look at it from a personality standpoint, i don t think that s how the american public look at it. they look at it, who is going to help me and build our economy and make my family s life better. that s the way they look at it
we look good going into november and we re going to look forward to holding the leadership going. you don t retire if that s your narrative. the narrative is quite honestly very different from that. paul ryan knows it. the leadership knows it. how paul ryan plays a role in shaping the next six or seven months for this party to try the save the house becomes important. i don t know if the incentive is really there at this point. another thing that struck me is that relationship between the speaker and the president. what we have seen with trump and ryan is different than when bill clinton was president with tom foley. very different now. there s not alignment here. not full alignment. you can just tell from a personality standpoint, a value stands point that speaker ryan has struggled with this relationship for understandable reasons. not to mention some of the
who has literally written chapters in our nation s history when it comes to civil rights and when it comes to justice and equal opportunity. so look, the reality is that both sides probably need to cool off here a little bit, and the reality is, is that donald trump won this election, so therefore, he is legitimate. now, we can disagree very strongly about how he got to the presidency in terms of all the things that he said from a policy standpoint, but also from a personality standpoint. and if i can go back for a second to what my friend on the other side of the aisle said about the onus not being on the democrats. the onus is on all americans here to come together. and the onus is on for all americans to stop this partisan rhetoric, on the republican side but also on the democratic side, to come together. the reality is, yes, politically, it is that republicans own washington, d.c., right now, but the last time i looked at the constitution, the congress is a co-equal branch of gover
the end of her presidential campaign. she took rick perry to task requiring girls to get the hpv vaccine. then she did this. i ll tell you this, i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn t know who she was before the debate. this is the very real concern. and people have to draw their own conclusions. that was bachmann on the today show recounting what some stranger actually said to her. now, we have no reason to doubt someone says this to mrs. bachmann, but it s incredibly irresponsible for her to repeat this as part of her argument against the hpv vaccine and then throw up her hands and say, make of it what you will. keeping them honest, the cdc says there s no evidence that the hpv vaccine has any link
latest misstep the beginning of the end of her presidential campaign? by most accounts, bachmann did well in the republican debate taking rick perry to task on his order to girls to get the hpv vaccine, suggesting he was catering to pharmaceutical maker, merck. then she did this. i ll tell you this, i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn t know who she was before the debate. this is the very real concern. and people have to draw their own conclusions. that was bachmann on the today show recounting what some unnamed stranger said to her. now, we have no reason to doubt someone says this to mrs. bachmann, but it s incredibly irresponsible for her to repeat this as part of her argument against the hpv vac