Partisan gun slinger, ted cruz, is out there today defining who is and who isnt an american. Remember Michele Bachmann asking the press on this show to conduct a persontoperson investigation of who in the congress is antiamerican . Cruz is worse. The same senator that nominated the defense secretary was taking money from north korea now decrees what part of this country are in and which parts are out. Which parts are american and which parts arent. This is mccarthyism at large. Disagree with this guy and be prepared for the accusations. We are witnessing the greatest challenge to progressives and reasonable conservatives. Its an indictment against the great majority of americans. To compromise he says is bad. To oppose his brand of right wing politics is to stand accused by him of being unamerican. Cruz returned to his supporters this weekend where he got shouts of approval saturday night from his most fervent backers. Here he is drawing the line between him and his following senators.
President , the Affordable Care act, and all things obama. For that the course is now set. A huge fight over the budget heading into the week before christmas. Another Government Shutdown looming early in the new year. Finally another debt ceiling the month after that. Expect this fight against obama to barrel all the way until 2016. For his enemies, the demolition of this president remains their most exciting quest. They call it the cause. Its battle flag is the stars and bars. The notion somehow those who back cruz and lee are the real americans. To take it back from the other. Minorities and liberals and others who to them constitute the enemy. Be warned. With every fresh defeat, this crowd becomes more frustrated and angry. This made the they who are the true superamericans assume their votes should count more than those lesser folk they think are lesser who voted for the president. How else do you describe a group that was outnumbered at the polls that call themselves the American
That these regulations were known by the president in july of 2010. Back then estimates were between 40 to 67 of customers. This does not involve the great majority of americans who get their insurance at work. Republicans are already using this to renew their repeatedly failed calls to repeal the law. If the president knew that these letters were coming and still indicated that you could keep your Health Care Plan if you liked it, now, that raises some serious questions about the sales job of obama care. Today on the hill, medicare chief marilyn tavenner. These individuals in a small group or individual market had no protections. They had no guarantees of coverage and they were still being charged somewhere between 20 or more of premium increases year over year. There were Health Care Plans is that a true statement . It is a true statement, plans were grandfathered in. Thank you for that answer. So if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor too . Is that a true statement . I th
Cruz is worse. The same senator that nominated the defense secretary was taking money from north korea now decrees what part of this country are in and which parts are out. Which parts are american and which parts arent. This is mccarthyism at large. Disagree with this guy and be prepared for the accusations. We are witnessing the greatest challenge to progressives and reasonable conservatives. Its an indictment against the great majority of americans. To compromise he says is bad. To oppose his brand of right wing politics is to stand accused by him of being unamerican. Cruz returned to his supporters this weekend where he got shouts of approval saturday night from his most fervent backers. Here he is drawing the line between him and his following senators. All the people represented in washington. Having spent the past month up in d. C. , it is really great to be back in america. Howard fineman of the Huffington Post and david corn of mother jones. Both are msnbc political analysts.
These glitches, people are signing up. They are registering. Were interested in providing this very valuable commodity to americans who so clearly want to buy Affordable Health insurance. To be clear many staterun exchanges are doing fine. So far california has processed 95,000 applications. In new york over 150,000 people have signed up. Washington state enrolled 35,000 americans and expansion of med kate cade, which will provide health care to millions of poor and uninsured americans continues, even in red states like kentucky and swing states like ohio. A reminder for progress i was who may be in a panic watching the glitchy, which is to say dreadful rollout. Obama cares problems dont discredit liberalism. Believe it or not, the existence of great websites is sort of incidental to the operation of a social interest system. Joining me howard fineman, anchor of bbc world news America Katty Kay and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and nbc news analyst former pennsylvania gov