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Where the last lieutenant governor to stick around was a guy who compared people who received public assistance to stray animals. his name was andre bower. he managed to full two full terms. the next lieutenant governor in south carolina serve for a year then quit in a financial scandal. that guy got replaced by the state senator who you see in the middle here, masquerading as a federal general with slaves. he announced that he wont run for re-election. instead he will apply for the job of presi...

0 where we made highly enriched uranium, those plants were consuming 6% of our nations total electrical output in order to make uranium. wow. but, again, we already had tens of thousands of nuclear weapons stockpiled. how many were we ever planning on using? 50 years ago this week, 50 years ago tomorrow, the new president, the elected vice president who had been elevated to the highest office in the land by the assassination of president john f. kennedy just seven weeks earlier, lyndon b. johnso...

0 when president johnson in the war on poverty made sure every old person in the country had health insurance with medicare and when he greatly increased the amount of money people got from social security. just the size of the check you received as a social security recipient. doing things like that, duh, had a huge impact on the number of elderly people in america who were poor. and its not hard to see. right now if you look at the official poverty rate for old people in this country, just for...

0 our massive, expensive uranium production. >> telling congress he will put the output of uranium by 25%. this is the first cutback since invention of the atomic bomb in 1945. he doesnt say specifically that this will cut down on weapons, but he applied it. >> that was part of the nbc news post state of the union roundup the night of the speech. the same kind of roundtable that we do now. that was 50 years ago this week when lbj gave his first state of the union as president and looking back at...

Youre even worse than that. >> we should be giving people cash who basically are going to blow it on drugs. >> senator hatch proposed an amendment to the jobs bill earlier this month, to force anyone getting unemployment benefits to submit to a drug test. because, you know, land of the free and all that. now pee in this cup. andre bower of south carolina, compared people on assistance earlier this year to stray animals. >> my grandmother was not a highly educated woman but she told me as a sma...

Amendment to the jobs bill earlier this month, to force anyone getting unemployment benefits to submit to a drug test. because, you know, land of the free and all that. now pee in this cup. andre bower of south carolina, compared people on assistance earlier this year to stray animals. >> my grandmother was not a highly educated woman but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. you know why? because of they breed. youre facilitating the problem. if you give an animal or per...

kentucky/south carolina game that started at 9:00. >> at the time, senator bunning was seen as a lone obstructor, a hard-heart renegade choosing draconian principle over the well-being of the american people. >> sir, we wanted to ask you -- >> excuse me, this is a senator-only elevator. >> can i come on the elevator. >> no, you may not. >> will you tell us why youre blocking the vote? >> i already did, i explained it. >> what is the issue? >> excuse me, ive got to go to the floor. >> s...

renegade choosing draconian principle over the well-being of the american people. pulled this stunt. tonight, with the country and news media looking the other way at the disaster in the gulf of mexico and the militarys chain of commands, tonight theyre all jim bunning. everybody republican in the united states senate plus benne nelson is jim bunning. for eight weeks senate democrats sought passage of a bill to reauthorize several expired stimulus programs. the bill included relief to ...

Shuttle. >> sure. if by that you mean president obama is looking ahead to the future while george w. bush is stuck in the 1800s. if bush was a progressive he didnt do a very good job did he, huh? he didnt do a good job to keep it a secret as well. its not progressive to only help out your buddies in top 2%? its not progressive to push a constitutional amendment to restrict who can get married? and its definitely not progressive to throw away trillions of dollars just to settle old scores with sa...

Immigration problems? the d.c.-based "washington examiner" takes a page from the drugsters playbook with this headline. "obama disses white guys." senators from both parties got after goldman sachs executives today at a grilling session on capitol hill. i think it was a lot of hot air, myself. ill tell you about that in a moment. right now we are joined by joan walsh, editor and chief of salon.com. and also heidi harris, radio talk show host out of las vegas. all right. lets talk about illeg...