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War, he's acknowledging there is a need for a compromise. he's not saying the unions have to get absolutely everything back. in fact, what i think he would do is he would call a special session of the legislature to divide what was called act 10 and a half, that public employees like me have to give more but they give their collective bargaining rights back. so that would be a compromise that moderate republicans could vote for. so the question would be not only passing it in the state senate, but i liked how you talked about the state assembly. are there just enough moderate republicans in th...

Trying out strategies for stopping them. so there is a sort of microcosm aspect of what's going on in wisconsin that makes it worthy of national attention. also, in wisconsin, and i don't think this can be overstated, this is a very human fight. and there are all of these fantastic characters in wisconsin state politics. and i don't just mean fantastic at the audacious end of the scale. consider dale schultz. he is an amazing wisconsin character of a totally different kind. dale schultz is a republican. he has been either in the state senate or the state assembly since the 1980s. but being a r...

Two actual women who serve in congress who support mitt romney, and that was neat. women, look. but it did not help, because both of those women were among the almost all republicans who voted against the lilly ledbetter fair pay act in kronk. and that brings us to today. so there is another equal pay for women bill in the news. it's called the paycheck fairness act, and it's kind of companion legislation. it's kind of the other half of what was passed in the ledbetter act. among other things, companies who pay women less than men for the same work would have to justify why it is that they are...

Lowest in the country. that's 10% of the future work force of america because of the size of the state and the birthrate. so stuff like that really matters to the rest of us. and if texas, which is going to be a majority hispanic state within the next decade or so, if texas can't get a grip on these problems, then it goes in places that it's not good for us to be going as a country. >> how do you have a republican party that seems to repulse most latino voters now, and you have a one-party republican state in texas and you have texas about to become majority latino. how do those three things c...

And among latinos even worse. now they have a new voter i.d. law that makes it even more difficult for poorer people to get in and vote. it's a law in which your gun license counts as a voter i.d. but not your university i.d. card. it's just the way they're going there. what can i say? >> it's one thing to try to not be outnumbered. if you are, make sure the people who outnumber you can't say anything about it. gail collins, author of the new book "as texas goes." i should note, ohio native. >> yes. nobody says don't mess with ohio though. >> thank you, gail. it's the funniest political book o...