poll-driven, number-crunching empirical number verifiers, whether up and down. so why is it the poll numbers that are steadily sinking aren t impressing the republicans with the fact that the american public just doesn t like what they re doing. oh, i think a lot of them are paying attention to it. in fact, we saw during the shutdown a lot of the centrist republicans were actually coming out and saying in public that they would be for a clean cr. opening up the government again with no strings attached. but you hear you know, the continual rain of quotations from the right-wingers. i have one here, michael eric, that i want to read, speaking of senator cruz. quote, never in the history of the world has any measure been brought here so insidiously designed as to prevent business recovery to enslave workers and to prevent any possibility of employers providing work for the people. i mean, that kind of over the
party, seems to me to defy lonlic, along the lines of just plain politics. if you just look at the numbers, look at demographics. clearly, the latino voting population votes overwhelmingly for the democratic party. but to think that suggests that there is no room or no space on the conservative end of the political spectrum for hundreds of thousands if not millions of latinos in this country doesn t seem to make sense. and they re unwilling, it seems, to check their messages of hate. too many stories over the last 18 months, not just around immigration reform oh, but about race, around gender. where we see republican political leaders, you know, making comments that are just you know, they re just sort of retrograde, racist, sexist type comments. and we have seen them push for some policies that match that kind of rhetoric. and i think, you know, the american people, millennials, people of color, just have little to know tolerance for that. well, you mentioned something earlier abo
understand any time you have someone switch from being a republican to a democrat, you have to think with what s the democratic party looking like and why aren t our political options more broadly construed and more nuanced than that. but it seems to me that someone like this judge here is making an important decision but also a calculated decision that is just in response to what we have seen on the right. it s not just the government shutdown. it s not just the war against women. it s not just the fact that the demographics of this country are changing and at least one political party doesn t want to acknowledge it. it s also that nasty rhetoric that i think americans are just totally they re done with it. what we want is government to work. we want government to function. and it seems right now that the republican party is dysfunctional. well, do you think let s flip the script a bit. we re always talk about the way republicans can exploit a vote-rich population through natura
joining me now is our rapid response panel, ruth con i have, eugene robinson of washington post and dr. o donnell. gene, is it fair to compare iraq and katrina to obama care? no. of course not. and you said it best. iraq, people died. katrina, people died. obama care, people are going to live. otherwise, might have died. it s it is unconscionable. i do my live internet chat on tuesdays and i did it today and somebody came at me with this c conspiracy theory this is to set up a single payer and i suggested the caller and his family try a bit less caffeine and fox news. if the republicans keep, if you will, chipping away at obama care, do they really have a hope they ll be able to repeal the law? that doesn t seem to be a good strategy. but do you think they re trying to erode public confidence and therefore discourage people from enrolling in the program?