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Based in new orleans. Now live floor coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O lord our god, we are grateful for your marvelous works and power. Keep us from becoming weary in doing what is right, as you remind us about a harvest of blessing is certain. Give strength to our lawmakers and bless them with your peace. We praise you that you are the strength of our lives and we need not fear for the future. As you guid guide our senators h your wisdom create in them a hunger and thirst for righteou righteousness preparing them to be filled with your divine nourishment. Lord, thank you for not withholding blessings from those who walk upright. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United ....
Also reacting today, House Speaker paul ryan to Donald Trumps upset victory saying that the president elect turned politics on its head and thats actually a good thing. Listen. When i say seven out of ten americans dont like the direction the countrys going, they just vote pinniped i think what donald trump just pulled off is an enormous political feat. He heard the voices that other people werent hearing. And he just earned a mandate. And we now just have that unified republican government. We have live team fox coverage, Jennifer Griffin is outside the new yorker hotel, thats where Hillary Clinton was. We begin with carl cameron who is live outside trump tower in new york. So carl, a lot of us are wondering how a businessmans approach and how he will approach con ....
Centuries. Today well look at what happens now. Youll hear from the trump team and from Hillary Clinton herself, and well look at the effect this election has on markets, on foreign policy, on health care here at home. As our nation looks to heal its scars and mend its fractures, earning a bruising political process and as always, looks to move forward so lets get to it. Announcer now Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox news deck. First from the fox news deck on this new day in america, millions were not happy. The media would not listen. Hard working people in americas heartland and beyond wanted more out of our nation and more for their lives. The analysts and pundits did not seem to notice so Many Americans were sick of the system all of the politicians and their broken promises. Still pollsters did not hear the ....
Supervision of democracy because majority rule is the essence of the american project. There are, however, two things wrong with this formulation. First, it is utterly unrealistic and simple minded to think that there is a majority support for or majority interest in or even majority awareness of even a tiny fraction of what modern governments do in dishing out advantages to economic factions. Does anyone really think that when the nashville City Government dispenses favors for the taxi and limo cartels, it is acting on a will of the majority of the citys residents . Can anyone actually believe that a majority of louisianans give a tinkers dam about who sells caskets or arranges flowers . We know because he said so clearly and often that lincoln took his political bearings from the declaration of independence. Which brings me back again to 1854 to the kansas nebraska act and to lincolns noble recoil from the idea of popular sover ....
Champion of liberty award from the Goldwater Institute among many, many others. . 1986, the wall street journal called him perhaps the most powerful journalist in america and the Chicago Tribune has dubbed him americas leading poet of baseball. For me, three things stand out above and beyond his innumerable intellectual contributions and accolades. First is his television fame. I refer here not to fox news or his incredible run on the abc sunday talk show this week, although i must say i learned a lot about how to think like a lawyer from watching him on that show on sundays in the 1980s and 90s even though he, like Abraham Lincoln, never attended law school. But more important than that. Mr. Will is such a household name that like Mickey Mantle and joe dimagg ....