this doesn t have any chance, we re not going to take this seriously, beware. north colorado seems like a long shot. if it did come to fruition, though, it would be the least populated state in the country and among the reddest. next the republican nominee for virginia s lieutenant governor has been a sideshow regular these past couple of weeks. bishop e.w. jackson has a history of controversial comments, to say the least. comparing planned parenthood to the kkk, calling gay people icky. this week, comments from his 2008 book that took the cake. the subject, yoga. the purpose of such meditation is to empty one s self. satan is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it. that s why people serve satan without ever knowing it or deciding to. that didn t sit so well with a founder of a yoga franchise in washington who responded, we have over 30,000 students in the d.c. area. thousands of them are practicing with us every day. they re very kind. they don t have a de
just moments ago white house press secretary jay carney finished the administration s pushback on the latest controversy regarding benghazi. the question of its involvement in crafting the initial post-attack talking points. here s a sample. all of this information was provided months ago to members of congress. a fact that we made clear to all of you at the time. during the confirmation process for john brennan as director of the cia. joining us now eleanor holmes norton, washington, d.c. s, representative in the congress. welcome, ma am. thank you. you sat on wednesday s benghazi hearing. you ve heard today s reports on the talking points. have you heard anything at all this week that makes you believe the administration, the president, has been involved in some kind of major cover-up? they got nowhere near the administration. they got near the military who made the decision. there should be a second plane
should republicans should be able to win with the right kind of message. they didn t win it. a, quote, liberal won it according to stuart stevens. what does that tell you? can the real hard core right wing win a statewide election with a guy like cuccinelli? that will be the test. that will be the test. and they may be up against terry mcauliffe, the democrat who represents everything about the clinton/obama democratic party that the people in south side virginia can t stand, that they don t like. let s see he s a classic northern virginia guy. he works in washington. he s a bedroom community guy. which is fair enough, but they don t like it. and i think howard is exactly right. this is going to be a real dynamic test for the gop on the national level, not just for virginia, but how guess who else is going to
back to hardball. now to the sideshow. vice president joe biden made a surprise visit at the grand opening of washington, d.c. s, new costco this morning, and he reminds shoppers about the fiscal cliff while he s at it. in all honesty, i didn t have my own card. jill wouldn t let me have one. i went to get my wife s card, and she said, no, no, no, you get your own. all the people you meet in here today and you see, these are hard-working folks who don t need to see their taxes go up. that s one way to create opening day buzz, although it looks like watching this scene everybody was more interested in watching the vice president do his own shopping there. also, why are people receiving this fund-raising e-mail from bill clinton? quote, i ve enjoyed it so much whenever we ve brought one of hillary s strongest supporters to new york to spend a day with me, i m happy to tell you that i ve asked to do it again. this is not the launch of a 2016 campaign. secretary clinton s 2008 cam
kerry still was in the senate so there s still players in washington. you re looking at mitt romney, he didn t carry new hampshire, massachusetts, or california, his home states. there is no such thing as a romney republican anymore. they re a dwindling tribe. he doesn t have any power. he s coming today, obama looked good because he was showing a reaching out, the winner sticking out his hand and shows a spirit ofsh bipartisanship he trying to create through the gridlock. matt, are they still stunned? i watch this from 7:00 in the morning until i go to bed at midnight. i thought the election was much more pro-obama in the results than i expect. won a strong victory, a solid manda mandate. are they stunned by that? yeah, in some respects they are and trying to grapple with what happened and how their expectations got so high and how they felt stu stevens right now think tonight we re trying to figure that out. are they still going to the tea leaves? what happened here? there