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Line up were ready to take some questions. Hi, my name is sean, and im from the university of san diego. So speaking about incentives for Congress People to take the long view, take the hard vote, what do you think in your opinion is the best solution to incentivizing individual Congress People to take the long view . Well, first of all, nobodys going to do something that deliberately and intentionally causes their loss. That wou defy the laws of nature. So im from kansas so if i went up and i said wheat programs are bad for this country, im going to vote against them my constituents would think i was nuts. Okay. Because im sent there to represent their views, their perspectives on as much as i can. But im also sent up this to use my own up there to use my own judgment with as well. And, you know, my judgment is that philosophically these jobs were not meant to be permanent ....
They cost us republicans three senate seats. We were poised to win nevada delaware and colorado where the incumbents delaware wasnt an incumbent, but mike cassell was running and hes tremendously popular, the tea party came in, the people did not participate in the primaries to the degree they should have, and the tea party nominated unelectable nominees in all three states and handed the democrats three seats they would not have otherwise had. In 2012 they handed the democrats three more with scary candidates. In 2010 it was the candidate who ran her Campaign First televised ad saying, i am not a witch. Thats a really, really jaunty catchy kind of political platform to run on. And then the other guy in 2012 was talking about legitimate rape, another political position i would recommend any of you thinking of being candidates you should avoid being in favor of that kind of thing. Add it all up if we had those we republicans this t ....
People who lived and worked downtown became frustrated with the tent city. Waste, garbage and People Living in the plaza caused many to question tactics being used. You have tan opportunity to do your protests within reasonable hours. You just cant live in the space. And city official as agreed. The mayor and Oakland Police department have promised to pro test free speech rights. But anything beyond that will not be tolerate ootd city of oakland, Oakland Police dont condone criminal acts. Public outcry led to an investigation into the department and policies. Iraq war veteran suffered a fractured skull and was hospitalized after being hit. Today he returned to where it started and denounced police force. I want to pressure them to make changes. Police have been clear, theyll not allow tents to go up, and theyre ready to r ....
prepared for the most part for something like this to happen. it is devastating 1200 firefighters are in the area fighting that fire. they say they have it about 5 percent contained. do things they re watching, the wind which seems pretty, but it has been whipping up and also, there is a lot of fuel to the fire. as you are headed that way if you are going to mount lassen or something, it is a pretty small community, are there other communities that feel threatened tonight? for the most part, there are small pockets of rural areas and from the devastation we saw, country roads with five or six phones here or there, seven homes destroyed and what they re hoping to do is break the fire and not let it destroy any more. a republican congressman from missouri has touched off a political firestorm about his comments about rape. tom aitken is running for the u.s. senate but even his own party has turned against him. missouri congressman todd aitken is apologizing for ....