teresa kumar. maria, let me start with you. the religious right has always had power. now with big money, do you expect they will be even more powerful? i think the fact that they re organizing and realizing they have to get a lock step strategy, that s one of the reasons they recently met over 26 conservative groups met to talk about how to you elevate social conservatism and make sure everybody s on message. but let s not forget what happened with romney. romney when he was governor his wife contributed to planned parenthood. she was pro choice. and the moment that came out, the evangelicals backed a i wa i. it will be interesting to see how they themselves start splitting up. when the gop came out with a rebranding strategy, you had a swath of evangelicals saying they should support gay marriage. it will be an interesting fight in between them. you re right.
take more than one penny out of every dollar if their home budget or business budget and the federal government should be required to do the same thing. congressman connie mack on message. thank you so much from florida s 14th district. we appreciate your time this afternoon, sir. thank you, craig. south african icon, global icon, nelson mandela in the hospital on this saturday afternoon. we will bring you the very latest on his condition. first, though, high times in the evergreen state. what washington s decision to let people light up will mean now that the feds say they re not budging one bit on enforcement. [ male announcer ] when it comes to the financial obstacles military families face, we understand. at usaa, we know military life is different. we ve been there. that s why every bit of financial advice we offer is geared specifically to current and former military members and their families. [ laughs ]
street who were there to prote the revolution until it continues are sending a message not only must you amend this constitutional declaration, you must renounce all these super powers you have assumed for yourself. one of the interesting things, and ayman hit on it, is watching the military s role in all ofthis, the military now taking a center role again aling with these egyptians in the street is that move designed purely to intimidate? let me express something very simply p the muslim brotherhood and the military are on the same side. egypt is like a triangle. one is the military, one the islamists and the third and the most important for the people on the street is the revolution. the mill tanls and the brotherhood are on the same side. in the presidential elections, it was machiavellian genius to allow mohammed morsi to become present. they voted for him he only got 25% in the first round. they voted for hime other candi.
has been discussed at a republican party. you would think. right? but what do we hear from both sides? there s rhetoric on both sides that is not helpful in this process. i think as we move forward as a party, we need to recognize that we need to do a better job of explaining why it is that we believe less government is better and more individual responsibility and freedom for the individual is better. and if we do that, we will get the young vote, the women vote, the hispanic vote, the minority vote, you name it. we ll get it if we can explain it. if we continue to use the rhetoric that we ve been using and not explaining it s the message. i believe it has a lot to do with the message and looking the american people in the eye and telling them what the problem is and how we think we can fix it. i know that you follow the former governor, mr. crist, i know you follow him on twitter. he of course announced during a visit to the white house he is now a proud card-carrying membe
it does seem at least that the sentiment may be shifting from, you know, two or three weeks ago absolutely, no way, not going to go over the cliff, and now you have a lot of folks who are starting to say, hey, you know what, we might go over the cliff. absolutely. there s several leading democrats who are sort of pushing the white house to do just that. now, the white house s line is we don t want that. the president has spent this time in the past two weeks meeting with constituents, stake holders and this. he s heard from business leaders, big-level ceos and small business leaders that they want certainty and not to have to go through this again and again. i think that is the message the white house wants to put out there and regardless of whether they come to, like, a full agreement on the taxes or where whether they push it off, i think the white house is trying to be consistent and hold the line and make republicans come to them. noam, one of your latest articles, the headline