now, that s obviously for part zan appeal. it may actually be what she believes, which would indicate a certain attachment from reality and perhaps the scary thing is that such detachment has gotten her pretty far in politics and may serve her very well in places like iowa. indeed. bob, here s what really disturbs me about this. i than some people s eyes glaze over when you talk about evolution, but it seems to exist this kind of position seems to exist on a continueum for me. you deny evolution and global warming. then you are talking about birtherism, and then you are claiming when you cut taxes, you actually raise revenues. it s this sort of, you know, disdain for reality that disturbs me, i guess. well, ron, i think that s absolutely right. it s a flat earth ideology that goes across the board. on economics right now you re seeing boehner and company try to argue that the way to help a faltering economy is to take demand out of it so that people buy less, companies produce
necessary. why won t republicans even consider making the wealthy pay a little bet more? and why are some people in the fbi could it be the fbi are protected him and are now terrified he ll turn on them? final, as they say dying is easy, comedy is hard. rick perry found out just how hard last night. check out the side show. we begin with libya, though. as he said, the house today rejected a measure with 70 democrats voting no. the house would only go so far. refusing to defund u.s. operations in libya. only 236 democrats voted in favor of that measure. ohio congressman dennis kucinich joins us now from capitol hill. welcome, congressman. sdmroog hi, ron. it s good to be with you. good to have you. well, sir, why did you and 69 other house democrats break with the president on libya? well, first of all, it s not
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of humanitarianism, they might as well do it. here s the speaker job boehner today on the house floor. have a listen. at the outset we have some very straight forward questions of the president. why isn t removing qadhafi part of this mission? what if he doesn t leave? who are the rebels that were there helping to fight? how long is this going to last? at what cost? what does success look like? that are questions that the administration could not and would not answer. perfectly reasonable questions, i suppose. do you think that john boehner would be asking those of a president named bush, for instance? no. you know, ron, i was just listening to that, and i m sure all our viewers were doing the same saying why didn t john boehner or virtually any republican ask any of those
was threatening an insurrection. that calls for analysis and not just reaching for the military response. the fact that we went based on threats as opposed to anything that was definable that actually happened, that s a big problem, because here we reacted in libya based on threats, and, yet, what was going on in yemen, in bahrain, and in other places where there is real harm done to civilians, we didn t do anything. you have to see what is the real deal here in libya? is it about america s interest? i don t know. they don t have any capability of attacking us. the war powers, there has to be a threat to the united states. that s why, ron, it was so important for congress to get involved, to have the administration begin to answer questions, and they ve been no