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Whole, columnist clinton yates, host of nprs tell me more michelle martin, and dwayne wickham. michelle, let me start off, general reaction to the presidents speech. some people thought he may give a more personal speech, talk about what this day means to him. we didnt hear that so much. >> with all due respect, i dont think it was about him. i dont think the day was about him. i think he had the grace to recognize that. i think the sound bite you picked was absolutely the right one. >> thank yo...

0 think we all leave with heavy hearts, note that so many came before us to get us here at this moment and now its our opportunity to keep the dream alive. as dr. king would say, let freedom ring. >> let it ring. free at last. now were going to throw it to lee and john berming aren. >> with this faith we will be able to huz out of the mountahe. this is the national lead. from every mountainside, let freedom ring. half a century after he let the historic march, would dr. king say his dream ha...

Today a mainstream breakthrough on our broken senate. theres a "usa today" editorial today. the most mainstream of mainstream newspapers has run a blistering op-ed calling for democrats to solve the filibuster problem once and for all. columnist dwayne wickham blasts the complicity of the democratic majority describing how senate democrats have in his words eight more votes than they need to stop republicans from using the filibuster to effectively block the will of the majority. mr. wickham goe...

Barack obama into the presidency and padded democratic majorities in the house and senate last year has been largely derailed by the senates republican minority which has kept a broad array of legislation from coming to a vote. more than outrageous, this legislative tyranny holds hostage our democracy to the whims of a political party on the losing end of an election cycle. the voters who gave democrats control of congress and the white house expect results not inaction. they expect congress to ...