in november the nlrb found that walmart had illegally harassed and fired employees who protested the company s low pay and abuse of labor practices. in april it allowed college athletes to form unions and if those three seats hadn t been filled the board would have been powerless to act. for now those decisions stand, but as ian will millhouser writes, if republicans control the senate they will be able to block anyone obama nominates to any senate-confirmed job and obama will be powerless to do anything about it. and if an anti-union president controls the white house they will be able to effectively invalidate labor protections that have existed since the franklin roosevelt administration. coming up, the pitch forks are out and the torches aflame. michael scherer and howard feinman join me to discuss boehner s new lawsuit and the gop s march toward impeachment. that s next. it doesn t operate out of basements or back alleys.
culture and take back our country. you gene, i think i remember the phrase, block by block. right, right. let s change the neighborhoods the other direction. i thought he was pretty direct. a lot of republicans thought that was their death knell, talking like that. and now here they are in 2014 going right back at it. is it in the interest of the establishment to sharpen up their pitch forks and go after it again? the answer is no, it s not. but there is a faction, as howard said, that is energetic, that is throwing in a lot of money, that is going to be a factor in the republican party that has been pulling the party to the right and keeping the party from moving into modern times. and i think it s, you know, this fight is going to continue. yeah, you wonder about any large crowd. the certain percentage of the
discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units. my friends, we must take back our cities and take back our culture and take back our country. you gene, i think i remember the phrase, block by block. right, right. let s change the neighborhoods the other direction. i thought he was pretty direct. a lot of republicans thought that was their death knell, talking like that. and now here they are in 2014 going right back at it. is it in the interest of the establishment to sharpen up their pitch forks and go after it again? the answer is no, it s not. but there is a faction, as howard said, that is energetic, that is throwing in a lot of money, that is going to be a factor in the republican party that has been pulling the party to the right and keeping the party from moving into modern times. and i think it s, you know, this fight is going to continue. yeah, you wonder about any
this is an incident of perhaps negligence or human error. unbelievable. we have pointed out the challenge of the divers facing trying to locate 274 people still missing. as i understand it, geoff, the third officer was at the helm, and not the captain. the captain was not on the bridge at the time? yes, the captain was not on the bridge. now, there are reports going around in korea that when the captain escaped to shore, one of the first things that he did was to pull out the money in his wallet and make sure it was dried off, so there is anger here in korea particularly among the parents and the relatives of the survivors who are really raising their pitch forks and believe that this was simply preventable accident and that these should not have happened. and so this story has gone downhill in the past several days. thank you, geoff, for the update and we appreciate the details from seoul. and now the breaking news
so what is the tea party doing? dying down or growing stronger? joining us three tea party members. kelly of the tea party patriots. sal rousseau the tea party express and nora of the richmond tea party. lori, what s the story? there are no rallies today. what should we read into that? well, i think it s the tea party has taken their hats and pitch forks and torches and tossed them in the corner for a while and they put on a business suit like i have right now. we are getting stronger, i think. we are a little bit under the radar right now because we are engaging in the political process itself. we are looking at candidates, vetting them, getting them elected. we re looking in to maybe a board of supervisor s meeting or a senate hearing. those are the kind of activities that the tea party is up to right now. okay, kelly out in seattle, washington, tea party growing out there. and is there there are no festivities or anything today? yeah, actually, tea party patriots has house p