veterans board is shut down altogether. that is gone. last night on the fox news channel, republican members of congress explained how they feel so far about what they have done this week. this is about the happiest i ve seen members in a long time. republican members of congress, the happiest they have been in a long time. at fox news channel, particularly on their website, they have not been calling this a shutdown at all, they have been calling it a slimdown, like, it s awesome, like, i lost five pounds the week before prom. congresswoman marsha blackburn explained yesterday that the shutdown was not just worthy being happy about, it was probably good for us. people are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed. look on the bright side, kid just getting turfed out of preschool. you didn t need preschool. what are you, a communist? it s good for the country. bathed in a conservative media who says this is all no big
clumsily. and this issue is only going to get bigger between now and the election. supreme court having heard argument tons the papers, please, law today is going to rule on it before the election. democrats say if the court lets the law stand, they will bring up a bill in congress to overturn it legislatively and make republicans vote on it. republicans boycotted a senate one, where it s just republic excuse me, just democrat chuck schumer and democrat dick durbin, and a guy trying to hold up dick durbin s visual aid, but that s it, because nobody else showed up. during that hearing, arizona s senate state president, who got recalled from office, and replaced by a more mainstream republican, he yelled at chuck schumer i can just play it. here he is, yelling at chuck schumer. we have a national crisis, and yet everyone wants to ignore that. the cost of the damage, the crime, and we can go through this, and if i had the time, chairman, or were allowed the time, i could give you a
hyperbole. in order to really understand whether or not this is as big a deal as everybody says, i think it s worth breaking it down, which i m sorry to say i m now going to do by standing up. okay, behold. modern u.s. political shockers, a chart. all right. this is a representative sample, what we re going to build here, is sort of a representative sample of large scale american large scale shocks in american politics that have happened over the past 30 years. 30 years ago, in 1994, the loser excuse me, 20 years ago. 1994, the house speaker was tom foley. tom foley, who was an incumbent, who was very important. he was speaker of the house. he was not, actually, turfed out by his own party. it was a general election defeat. also, it was not a blowout. he lost his seat in a race that wasn t that close, but it was a really big surprise. everybody knew the republicans in 1994 were going to do great,
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again, that s russell pierce, having been turfed out of office for having made arizona essentially a national pariah, for having shepherded this legislation through to passage, this papers, please, law. russell pierce speaking there in the senate, talking about the national crisis that justifies this law. for the record, this national crisis he s talking about, this national crisis we have on illegal immigration, turns out is not so much really a crisis right now. literally, in terms of the numbers, the wall street journal reporting this week on a new study showing net migration from mexico to the united states has dropped down to zero. but having taken the position that there is a huge crisis, a crisis so dire that it necessitates radical policies like arizona s, to be a model for the nation, mitt romney as the republican nominee now has some problems. tactically, there s no way he can win the the election with numbers among latino voters that