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His cabinet. But that happened today to president barack obama. Republicans in the senate decided to do something unprecedented to him. And to thereby set an entirely new precedent for how the presidency itself is treated in our country. When they said today that even though they could not muster a majority of votes on their side, they would maneuver anyway as a minority to block president barack obama from appointing his chosen secretary of defense. This has never happened before. To anyone ever. I mean, we have had cabinet nominees not make it through the Senate Confirmation process before. ...

So far, republicans in the house of representatives have refused to move forward. I will not negotiate over Congress Responsibility to pay the bills that have already been racked up. Voting for the treasury to pay americas bills is not a concession to me. I dont know how i can be more clear about this. Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions. No one gets to hurt our economy and millions of innocent people just because there are a couple laws you do not like. It has not been done in the past. Were not going to start doing it n...

A lot of Carnival Cruises. She said they were always able to get access. We had a friend that would get Text Messages but there was no service. If people could have talked to their families, that could have helped so much. People that first night were crying and stuff. Because you talk to your families, youre scared, you dont really know whats going on. So youre scared. And then you cant talk to your family for the next two days or something. I think i dont know. So some of the pretty emotion. All right. Carolyn oden thank you for joining us tonight here on ed show. The carnival triumph has do...

The bait. Im the guy that likes to do the fishing. Im the guy that likes to do the stories that nobody else is doing. But this one time tonight, im going to start with a story that i just dont think a lot of liberals in this country are terribly concerned with. But lets not be disfocused for a moment. I want to start tonight with a couple of numbers. The first number is nine. House republicans will form the ninth Congressional Committee to investigate the september 12th attacks in benghazi. Here go your tax dollars, folks. Today House Speaker john boehner selected South Carolina conservative r...

There are now more than 30 million american citizens who cannot get coverage. President obama has made health care the signature issue of his presidency. And sometimes the daytoday battles in washington make it hard to see through the fog, but his fight is literally changing history. Gallup has tracked the rate of uninsured americans since 2008. Last month 13. 4 of dulls didnt have health insurance. Thats down from 18 in september. Meaning the number of people without insurance has steadily fallen since the Health Care Law went into effect. In fact, the polls showed we currently have the lowes...