Israel, what it stands for, this swimming is very popular in the galilee, part of a ritual of growing up kind of thing. it may be that this is innocent, and that the facts as they ve been presented create a misleading ill presentation. i go back to, though, the question of what was upsetting to eric cantor. if the reporting s right. what was upsetting to him about it? if it was something that was acceptable? then, i don t see why he would be upset. he s obviously one of the most prom innocent jewish-american politicians, probably the most prominent republican jewish politician in washington. and he knows the country well. if he was upset, the question s begged, why was eric cantor upset? well, one way to put this is that, just a couple of days before, as i opened this segment, john and mark, and this country just went through a terribly negative experience, the inability of our legislators, especially the young tea party types like these guys, on the right, who come to congress, refusing to make any kind of deal or negotiate anything.
Globe. i don t think it would come down to a biden/hillary thing. you recall in 2008 how deferential biden was to hillary. if hillary wants it, my guts says biden wouldn t go for it. thank you very much. i like the thinking there. thank you, glenn, thank you, evan thomas. the book is called obama s last stand. when we return, let me finish with what you get if you vote for romney. you re watching hardball, the place for politics.
i don t have any problems conflating, because it s the same thing. let me go to steve. if you say a person s a person, under the law, after conception, you can t have an abortion in any circumstance. that would be murder. once you get to this step of personhood, you are getting right into the common law notion of what a murder. right. and i think the personhood amendment is not something most would support. or think is a very good idea. i do think todd raises a legitimate point by saying that when todd akin talks about a legitimate rape, that s sort of a different thing, he s a nut for a different reason. i do think that what it does here is, it opens up a conversation about paul ryan s views on reproductive rights and issues that affect women, that mitt romney and paul ryan didn t want to have. the point you are making, chris, which is absolutely right, prior to yesterday and prior to today when the romney campaign clarified, paul ryan and todd
Segment, john and mark, and this country just went through a terribly negative experience, the inability of our legislators, especially the young tea party types like these guys, on the right, who come to congress, refusing to make any kind of deal or negotiate anything. instead of dealing with the debt ceiling crisis, instead of protecting the good will and the good faith and credit of the united states currency, they let that thing drag on and on to the point where it did embarrass us with a downgrade. and then, within days later, they are over there taking their clothes off and running around. they didn t go out for a swim with swim trunks, they went out to dinner and that took them into the sea of galilee. that might suggest inappropriate, not so much to the holy land, but to our national circumstances that week. well, yeah, chris. they had been doing something that a lot of people felt holding the country hostage during that period of time, around the debt ceiling debacle. and i think this would be true
Things, chris. one is, obviously, one of the reasons that cantor is upset because for some religious people, christian and jewish alike, that the sea of galilee has a certain religious significance and importance to them, where jesus was to have walked on the water, for congressmen to go splashing around, is disrepresdisrespectf. joe scarborough, who has a lot of connections in the south, says this kind of thing will be passed around from pastor to pastor and will have a real affect. i think at a broader level, you ve got a bunch of freshman congressmen who came into the republican party in 2010 who have this stance, which is that they were not part of washington. not part of typical washington. they were going to change the capitol in some fundamental way and this kind of thing, fooling around, drunken junkets overseas, doing this kind of frivolous stuff, it kind of cuts against that image of seriousness.