and in steps, a culture warrior. big intrusive house member by the name of bob brechtel. he introduced a bill called the abortion available information for decision bill and this awkwardly titled bill calls for extreme restrictions on abortion. mandates that doctors inform the pregnant woman that she has a right to view an active ultrasound. also requires doctors to tell women lots and lots of things, most of which are not supported by the preponderance of medicine about fetal pain, when and where a fetus feels pain. it requires all this information be delivered 24 hours before abortion. in other words, there s a 24 hour waiting period foray borings. so big intrusive bills introduced in the very republican legislature in wyoming. this sort of thing is happening in a lot of states now. but in wyoming, there is a conservative rejoinder, an actual conservative rejoinder to this big intrusive government bill. there is a volley from the other
the name of bob brechtel. he introduced a bill called the abortion available information for decision bill and this awkwardly titled bill calls for extreme restrictions on abortion. mandates that doctors inform the pregnant woman that she has a right to view an active ultrasound. also requires doctors to tell women lots and lots of things, most of which are not supported by the preponderance of medicine about fetal pain, when and where a fetus feels pain. it requires all this information be delivered 24 hours before abortion. in other words, there s a 24 hour waiting period foray borings. so big intrusive bills introduced in the very republican legislature in wyoming. this sort of thing is happening in a lot of states now. but in wyoming, there is a conservative rejoinder, an actual conservative rejoinder to this big intrusive government bill. there is a volley from the other side of the republican party, as in hey, you guys, actually, we
party, it is like oh, my god. the republican party should be wrecked now after what they did with bank deregulation. they caused, basically caused the financial crisis in 2008. and here they are back again promising to do more of the same, more deregulation. a party that can recover from a disaster like that, you know, i wouldn t count on the split in the party being the thing that takes them down. oh, i never count on anything when it comes to them. i do think it is the most interesting question, and an open question in u.s. politics. thomas frank, harpers magazine, author of the wrecking crew which is great. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. sure thing. we are going to test that hypothesis that we were talking about in a moment. because the vast ma joirt of self proclaimed small government loving republicans frankly support the government s right to monitor every pregnancy in the united states. really, really, really big
i ve always had a cord yal, i think respectful relationship with him. a number of cordial conversations. it was all good. then this happened. do you believe that private business people should be able to decide whether they want to serve black people or gays or any other minority group? with regard to racism, i don t believe in any racism. i don t think we should have any government racism, institutional form of racism. in terms of legal remedies for persistent discrimination, though, if there was a private business say in louisville, somewhere in your home state, that wanted to not serve black patrons, wanted to not serve gay patrons or somebody else, do you think that they had a legal right to do so, to put up a blacks not served here sign? well, the interesting thing is, you know, you look back to the 1950s and 1960s, and the
former senator simpson, because of his key rule on the oh god, please don t cut social security commission, pretty much everything he says in public is closely scrutinized, because people want to figure out what he is going to do to this reveered institution, the thing most americans feel very strongly about protecting. to that end, last night on the show, we delved into the mystery of his recent comments concerning a mysterious green weenie. this on sunday is what mr. simpson had to say about said green weenie. waiting for the politician to get up and say there s only one way to do this, you dig into the big four, medicare, medicaid, social security, and defense. and anybody giving you anything different than that, you want to walk out the door, stick your finger down your throat and give them the green weenie. so goodness, that s quite a get the green weenie. that s terrible. in the army, we used to say that. when he said stick your