figured it out. he wasn t ready. marco s not ready. and they re throwing him out there because they re going, oh, you know, we did poorly with hispanics so let s put marco out there. he s not ready yet. that doesn t mean he won t be ready. he s a great-looking guy. he s articulate. he s just i see some parallels, but i don t see all of them. from florida. spring training has started. and they d be looking at a marco rubio and saying he s talented, move him up to aaa and then to majors. in fairness, barack obama had his first national speech, he knocked it out of his park. he nailed it. hold on a second. barack obama was a state senator. marco rubio was speaker of the house of, like, the fourth largest state in america, okay? so if we want to compare state legislative careers, marco had more experience. he s still not ready to be president of the united states. and republicans that are pushing
america are wonderful people that you are hanging around with here today. would you leave us the hell alone? go after the nut jobs. go after the murderers because i don t know any. joy, let s talk about this. when you lead in with ted nugent and ann coulter doesn t get much better. always so much to talk about. insofar as we need to come together to get anything enacted. it does seem like the republican party or those in the conservative wing of the republican party have dug their heels in in a firm fashion. right. gin that, what did you make of the president s, we ll call it, push on the assault weapons ban yesterday? no, you know what, i think it s important theme atically because everyone understands the ar-15 is now the weapon of choice of mass murderers, and i think that symbolically a lot of people who want gun control say, you know, you have to get at those guns. how can you not? if you talk to democrats on the hill, i think people mostly will tell you that the mos
reform. after the bipartisan agreement on the senate to a pathway to citizenship that was endorsed by marco rubio of all people, the onus is really on what the house of representatives will do. house speaker john boehner, he had three occasions. he declined to endorse a pathway to citizenship overtly. that doesn t mean he won t support it in the future, but he just sort of said, look, we need to set in the house to come together and work their will with legislation. what i can tell you is there s a bipartisan group in the house of representatives that is trying to craft literal legislation as we speak. what s the difference from that from what the senate was doing last week? well, the senate sort of had a framework of where they wanted to go. the house will have little legislation that will he they feel will be acceptable to both sides that perhaps would contain a pathway to citizenship. the main thing here is eric
the question is were you right or wrong. that s a pretty straight forward question. i would like to answer and then you are free to elaborate. i am not going to give you a yes or no answer. joe, first of all, let me ask you this. the white house didn t jump to his defense after that stuff. why not? who didn t? the white house. the white house didn t jump to his defense. the white house has a sense that he has a good chance to be confirmed and everybody know that is the hearings will be contentious. no doubt there will be a lot of consengz and a lot of bad blood between this senator and colleagues and many who question his stance with regard to iran and how strong he would be and also with regard to israel. expect contention. that doesn t mean he won t be
it s an indepth look at the power of the nra. the nra versus america. the writer concluding the nra wins because americans lose focus because by november 2014, most of us won t be thinking about the victims of newtown. most of us won t be thinking about guns at all. is that accurate? is the public s attention likely to fade while the nr a s focus remains laser like? this is true that gun control advocates always lose to the nra because they have more attention. what we are seeing now is different. the president put the issue on the front pages so much that i m sure we will have a long debate about background checks and high capacity magazines in particular. the address is on february 12th and he will bring it up jen then. newtown has a different dynamic and this is not like shootings in the past. people are not forgetting this. it appears that people will have a vote in congress.