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people which is the subtitle of your book. i love that. its actually the title of a chapter in my book. lets not sue each other over that. but i was also thinking about that phrase, the parties versus the people. i was thinking it embodies maybe a deeper truth within that. thats that the parties arent the people. the people are the people. the constitution of course recognizes the people and not the parties. as we well know. i dont even think thats a technical issue and in some ways i ...

antagonisms. theres something so fro foundly disturbing about this system from the vantage point of our not -- not just that they cant sit together, but they keep us from sitting together. i just wanted the two of you to comment. >> interestingly enough that division that you talk about, you may remember a number of years ago when it was a much hotter issue than it has been since about creating a minority majority district. i was teaching at harvard at the time and there was a meeting,...

terrorists, west bank expansion. they had a few things in common. but it wasnt what you have today with the parties marching in lockstep on almost everything. doesnt matter whether its a stimulus package or a supreme court nomination. all the democrats are on one side. all the republicans are on the other side. actually, if you can bottle this, its an amazing thing thats been worked here because by some magic, you could have this group of people to be either party. so you have white, b...

>> that loss and victory in wisconsin was only the begin. republicans across the country used the victory as a rallying cry against unions nationwide. florida governor rick scott had this to stay about his own anti-labor laws. >> governor walker had a win last night. were doing the right thing here here. >> mitt romney even claimed it proves union members will vote for him in the fall telling private donors today the union members will support us. we wouldnt have scott walker winning w...

>> thank you very much. im at the age where my memory is not so good anymore. but i do believe that all nine of my books have been invited by barnes & noble to speak. i am very grateful for that. i hope everyone supports brick and mortar bookstores. they are very important places. okay? better? okay. this one? should i start again? all right. thank you for coming. yes, so thank you everyone for coming on this lovely night. thank you to my publisher, viking books and my friends there he...

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which are completely untrue -- and im not saying he is the only person. lots of people. >> including on the other side. >> including the other side, although most of the money is on one side. the people who are funding it are never going to be held responsible for it. its a terrible situation. our politics, if we cant keep money out of politics, and you cant, then at least we should have some transparency and accountability for that money. we have lost that thanks to the supreme court ...

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and i would guess that when the case comes up and its moving up through gloor courts the gay rights litigants are going to be siding justice scalias descent of effectively and collectively reading the decision as having undermined the exclusion of gay couples for marriage and using the foot site, too that whoever writes the majority opinion that is in favor of same-sex marriages when deciding the case. justice kennedy is about the importance of the dignity and respect for gay and lesbi...