executive order that will be a big deal for federal contractors, but it s also a big political issue. it s a very big political issue and winning political issue for president obama and democrats, and they know it. they are spending in addition to the merits, spending so much energy and attention on this issue. women are a majority of the voters. there is a gender gap that hugely favors democrats and in particular, single women, if you can get them motivated to go out to vote and single women are particularly responsive to lilly ledbetter type arguments about enequal treatment. if you get them motivated, they break democratic. it s a triple win. the pushback from the republicans has been from a conservative think tank aei which said in the white house and executive branch women are only paid 88 cents to the dollar on men and the pushback again from the white house is that
everybody. it s just not true. you know, you can make policy arguments, libertarian arguments, ayn rand type arguments, and we ll see how well things work a year from now. but he s out there with rhetoric that is just has no basis in reality. and for his side, it doesn t matter. well, i think you re all right. i have no idea of his religious beliefs, but his political beliefs are clear. challenging everything in america saying i m rallying against the people back in texas. it s interesting you point out the fact he doesn t see himself as a u.s. senator but a texas senator. thank you. by the way, the right wing of texas. thank you both. is the roman candle about to burn itself out? or more like the flesh eating virus that s going to take over the gop? looks as if it s going to take a civil war in the republican party to get the answer. i think that s begun.
pre-existing condition. when he says he s fighting for the texans, a lot of the texans he s fighting against. people who are benefitting or will benefit from obama care. but yet he goes on as he said last week, premiums across the country are going up for everybody. it s just not true. you know, you can make policy arguments, libertarian arguments, ayn rand type arguments, and we ll see how well things work a year from now. but he s out there with rhetoric that is just has no basis in reality. and for his side, it doesn t matter. well, i think you re all right. i have no idea of his religious beliefs, but his political beliefs are clear. challenging everything in america saying i m rallying against the people back in texas. it s interesting you point out the fact he doesn t see himself as a u.s. senator but a texas senator. thank you. by the way, the right wing of
doing this, and it was practical to arrest him, i think that would be preferable. do i think it is illegal or constitutionally a problem that they did it this way? no i really don t. i agree you can come up with these type arguments that, you know, next they re going to decide, chris, you gave obama a hard time on tv last night and they re going to take you out. but, you know, i don t think that is a i don t think that is a credible analogy. one thing i do think is very important here is that what i understand at least is this was an explicit presidential directive. i do think given the issues tied to taking any kind of action like this toward an american citizen it s important that the u.s. president signs a document, makes a finding. a finding. thank you so much. governor, thank you. i think you were saying the same thing. thank you so much for joining us. josh marshall you want transparency. when we return let me finish with the subject of our big show