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Last night saying people like me are want stand between us and auschwitz. glenn beck has been admonished for worse invocations of the holocaust. in a senate hearing this week rand paul found himself invoking slavery. he was not comparing something to slavery. he wasnt using slavery for emphatic rhetorical effect. he said that people like you and me believe in slavery. believe in slavery was his phrase. heres why rand paul believes we believe in slavery. >> with regard to the idea of whether or n...

Problem at guantanamo bay? according to republican senator imoff its obesitobesity. here he is on fox today. >> should we allow gitmo detainees to get visits? >> no, no, we shouldnt, brian. you know the biggest problem at gitmo is right now? obesity. theyre eaten better than ever before, better medical care, legal counsel. i mean, you ow, you got to draw the line somewhere. lets draw it here. >> so whats he suggesting? no visits for terrorists. theres a political safe position. rand paul goes ...

No congress gal congress conjugal visits for terrorists? theres a political safe position. rand paul goes off the deep end. this is what the tea party candidate said you believe in universal health care, you believe in slavery, too. >> with regard to the idea of whether or not you have a right to a health care, you have to realize what that implies. its not an abstraction. im a physician. that means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. you believe in slavery. it means that yo...

Good at it. when you get home, that sense of purpose and belonging isnt there. and its almost a world that they understand is in afghanistan and many go back for that reason. >> would you go back? >> i dont know, i dont know. >> why? >> its something where i have to really think about what is it that that i can really show, if i can really connect the brutal realities on the ground with the public consciousness at home, then i think its worth showing and its very important that people see this. ...

Police and fire pensions are breaking some cities, mayors are dieing to get those renegotiated. but in almost every negotiations in the last ten years there have been renegotiations for pensions. what were talking about here is an attempt to break whats left of the union movement and throw it into this left/right divide without any willingness to look at the history of this country in terms of what unions do, in terms of the contributions they make to families, to job security, and to what theyv...

Stake. >> i think people should be careful about, you know, being too loose in terms of talking about a government shutdown because this has -- this is not an abstraction. you know, people dont get their social security checks. they dont get their veterans payments. basic functions shut down, and that also would have a adverse effect on our economic recovery. >> reporter: from what the president said, this is something that really would impact all americans. think back to 1995, if you had any ki...

Lets not use a machete. if we do that, there should be no reason at all for the government to shut down. i think people should be careful about being too loose in terms of talking about a government shutdown, because this has -- this is not an abstraction. people dont get their social security checks, they dont get their veterans payments, basic functions shut down. and it -- that also would have an adverse effect on our economic recovery. it would be destabilizing. >> now, as if this werent pre...

Reason for a government shutdown. i think people should be careful about being too loose in terms of talking about a government shutdown because this is not an abstraction. people dont get their social security checks. they dont get their veterans payments. you know, basic functions shut down, and that also would have a adverse effect on our economic recovery. it would be destabilizing at a time i think everybody is hopeful we can start growing this economy quicker. so im looking forward to havi...

Careful about being too loose in terms of talking about a government shutdown, because this is not an abstraction. people dont get their social security check, they dont get their veterans payments, basic functions are shut down. and that also would have a -- an adverse effect on our economic recovery, it would be destabilizing when i think everybody is hopeful we can start growing this economy quicker. so im looking forward to having a conversation, but the key here is for people to be practica...

Everybody will talk about it, nobody will read it because it is too long. the dissent is at a level of abstraction up here. the majority report is granular down here. they dont fundamentally disagree. the dissent is trying to not place blame the way the majority report does. i want to go back to what gretchen said, which is the fed. it was the fed, and this is clear in the majority report as the primary regulator of the entire banking system that is ultimately responsible. are the culpable parti...