there steams to be no way to close it. the state department office tasked with closing it is no longer operational. congress has been totally uncooperative. you have these men who are striking, who have not been eating, there s an op-ed in the new york times that everybody should read. it s not only stomach-churning in terms of the suffering that is happening. but this is happening under the watch of the united states government. i ll read a shord part from detainee. he writes, i ve been detained at gitmo for 11 years and three months, i have never been charged with any crime. i have never received a trial. there are so many of us on hunger strike now that there aren t enough qualified medical staff members to carry out the forced feedings, nothing is happening at regular intervals, they are feeding people around the clock just to keep up. i think when most of us think of gitmo these days, we think of the trial of khalid sheikh mohammed, the alleged leader of the 9/11 attack. i was
let s turn tonight to california senator, barbara boxer. senator, great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. when do you do election reform? well, i think when there s not an election going on and people are paying attention. i want to thank you for doing this. this has been a story that we have spent countless hours on, leading up to the election. but how do you see the federal government setting standards? what does the l.i.n.e. act do for states like ohio and florida, where there have been problems? well, first, thank you for all the work you ve done on this. i ll tell you, my heart sank when i saw those lines, because i thought back to the 04 election in ohio. and i don t know if you know this, but i actually stalled thç electoral college vote, because i was so incensed when i learned that in minority precincts in ohio, people waited for 12 hours to vote and many gave up. it was pouring down rain. this is really disen chancement.
massachusetts in maryland. yes. that s true. but insurance programs, costs, all of those things are different, thomas. they are not the same. the cost of living, the cost of health insurance in south carolina is not the same as the cost in the northeast part of the country. so every governor looks at these situations and these economies within the context of their own environment and contrary to what the chairman just said, what thç government gives, the government will take away with all of the tax hikes that got the $3,000 tax cut will be spending a whole lot more in health care costs as you look at paying for the cost of medicaid increase, the .9%
on camera, calling barack obama a socialist hinter, right? at the time this was happening, we theorized on this show about what exactly was going on on thç republican side of politics. and we christened a sort of new law of political science. i hereby submit that the longer it s clear that liberals or democrats are going to win an election, the longer it s clear that liberals or democrats are winning an argument, the more likely it becomes that someone is going to get called a commie, socialist, commie pinko, five-year planner! ever since that knight in 2008, that rule has kind of held. any time liberals or democrats are on the win siding of an argument, it is only a matter of time before somebody gets called a commie. like last march, during the height of the scott walker union-busting thing up in wisconsin, most of the public polling showed that the people were, in policy terms, with the democrats on that issue.
religious liberty will be protected and a law that requires free preventive care will not discriminate against women. can we all agree that the president basically solved the problem today? he brought together people who care about women s rights, and rightfully so, but he also brought back the more conservative catholics who were concerned about a move against the church s basic authority over its own principles. he didn t necessarily fix thç policy of it because there are still real concerns about the institutions having to subsidize their insurance policies, but he defused the politics of it. there will still be conservative catholics who probably weren t going to be with the president in the first place who will still be up in arms about this. the liberal catholics. the liberal catholics got the fig leaf they wanted. fig leaf?