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Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Friday.

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Semiskilled work on the roads and it made everybody happy because the roads were wider and faster and there and hadnt been there before. the bridges were safer. the tunnels were wider. something happened to the republican party where you cant negotiate creation of jobs anymore. i mean, president reagan was able to do it with tipp on the highway bill. somethings changed. i dont know what it is about jobs and the republic ans. >> well, the republicans dont think the government can do anything anym...

The 47%. the rhetoric is not necessarily the main issue here, but when its accompanied by the sort of policy decision that the house republic ans made this week in departing town with giving themselves a vacation without looking out for the unemployed and what has been a historic amount of joblessness. i think that is why the welfare queen rhetoric gets another look. >> yeah, you know, the "national journal" story caught my eye about the rhetoric. let me quote something out of the story. "the we...

Hearing. >> right. and i mean, you remember during the campaign we had newt gingrich talking about this being the food stamp president. >> right. >> with all the kind of connotations that had. now we actually see some time later we actually are having policies that, you know, if this farm bill the republicans in the house have been working on, if they could convince the democrats in the senate to go along with it, would throw many, many more people off of food stamps and have already cut back in...

But rather than helping struggling americans, republicans have been attacking them for months. >> standing in line at a grocery store behind people with a food stamp card. the food stamp card pulled out and provided, he looks at the king crab legs and looks at his ground meat. >> he need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence. but our people want jobs. they dont want a safety net as a way of life. >> dont want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able bod...

Shes eligible for $330 a month in the aid of children program. she got the idea from two women in her neighborhood who had already done that very thing. >> its a vicious old talking point. and its back. joining me now is dana milbank. dana, the cover of this story shows a woman driving a fancy car and wearing expensive clothes. why is this demonization of the poor back? >> im not sure it ever really left, reverend, and i think, however, the republicans have left themselves in a very vulnerable p...

Look at the fact that its been a rough year for gun laws, for gun reform in this country, 52% of americans said in december 2013 that gun laws should be more strict. 56% said yes. so support has actually gone down since newtown. is america really willing to just accept these school shootings as the new normal? >> look, i think youre exactly right. we dont know everything about this story. theres always the dangerous of rushing to legislation as the solution. with that said, you asked me earlier ...

Get on with it. >> finish my point. it shows you how desperate conservatives and republicans are for stars that theyll even take someone who mccain calls a wackobird and give him the crown, at least for a couple days. >> david, just to be fair to rab rand paul, hes an antidote to someone as inauthentic and totally fabricated as moitt romn romney. you cant say his value to them is because theyre desperate. he also does have a level of authenticity. lets be honest, doesnt he? >> you know, i wont g...

Just as republicans lost a second consecutive presidential election. what is your assessment of where the gop has gone wrong? >> i dont know that its where weve gone wrong, martin. the gops having a fight. i mean, were having a bit of a revolution in the party. were trying to figure out our way. and, look, we got our butts handed to us in november. we did lose. we lost around the country. many republicans like myself fell victim to redistricting, but fair is fair, we lost and there are a lot of ...