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The streets here. Two cops were injured. Well have all the latest details on that ahead. But, first, this morning, we start in the United States senate with the headline isnt that senators passed a funding bill last night to keep the government open for business, the headline is how they passed it. Everything they went on behind the scenes all through yesterday and late into the night to make that vote ohappen. If the story before this weekend was all about Elizabeth Warren then a similar character ended up taking center stage yesterday. Cruz and his ally, utahs mike lee that blew up a deal late friday night and forced the senate into a rare weekend session. Something most other republicans are upset about, too. But this morning, Many Republican senators seem much more upsaid at cruz over his theatrics which they say, ....
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Politics. so many americans are that we forget there are actually people and i mention people in both parties for our republican friends out there who go into politics to try and do the right thing. my favorite line on politics which i share whenever i can is from the philosopher mike sandell. when politics goes well, we know a good in common that we cannot know alone. when you look at people in the congress now, people like elizabeth warren, people like sharon brown and al franklin and sheldon white all progressive senators, i think they are fighting in the tradition of henry waxman and jay rockefeller and george miller. they are fighting under much different circumstances. in many ways they are fighting under much more difficult circumstances. the republican party was far last tilted to the right than it is to today. one of the republicans i ....
i could go on like this and i m perfectly happy to do so. i think jim underscored something that s actually very helpful for us. which is why did barack obama give this speech in osuwatame, kansas. and he gave this speech, i think, because he wanted to redefine what was the central issue in american life. and i think in the first six months of 2011, president obama really went along with the narrative that jim offered for the country and really seemed to accept that the fiscal problems facing the country were the most important, and it was a battle in which he did not do particularly well in public opinion. and i think he didn t do particularly well because i don t think that was ever at the center of barack obama s presidency. solving our fiscal problems was a part of a larger objective. and so i think by giving that speech, president obama really challenged the very definition of what is at the center of american politics. and therefore i also disagree with matt that ....
our nation is a budget deficit, whereas the party of reality understands that the biggest problem facing our nation is the growing concentration of wealth that has afflicted us for almost 40 years. the party of evasion tries to argue that tries to protect the very wealthy by saying that elderly people who need health care in an increasingly expensive medical system are the source of our problems. the party of reality argues that the budget deficit has to be seen in the context of this economic inequality and the difficulties middle-class americans are facing in a new world economy that has added literally 2 billion people to the global labor force. i could go on like this and i m perfectly happy to do so. i think jim underscored something that s actually very helpful for us. which is why did barack obama give this speech in osawatomie, kansas. and he gave this speech, i think, because he wanted to redefine what was the central issue in american life. and i think in th ....