think back to our wildly popular cyprus minute. >> the first quarter of 2013 showed the largest number of job cuts in a year. americans are looking for any advantage. >> and let's be honest, this is all you were really waiting for. go ahead. roll that new open. >> now you're official. >> look at you. pictures and everything. >> okay, folks, mark your calendars. set the alarm. we are just 578 days to the mid-term elections. it seems pretty far off considering my yet to be born son will be a year old before election day. that's never stopped a politician from getting an early start. president obama is already kicking off his first fund-raisers of his first second material. last night the president helped

raise more than $3 million. that doesn't include this morning's fund-raisers which were also in california. he has 20 more already on the calendar. all that fundraising means the inevitable start of the campaign ad season. i know you're all excited. the rnc is posting videos the president's fundraising blitz. >> we should ask the very wealthiest americans to pay a little bit more. pay a little bit more. pay a little bit more. pay a little bit more. pay a little bit more. pay a little bit more. pay a little bit more. pay a little bit more. pay a little bit more. pay a little bit more. >> catchy. >> they have to get that down on wax. >> what computer are you in? rins priebus says it is

hypocrisy at its finest for. speaking of the budget, the president's unveiling his on wednesday. the white house says the goal is not to balance the budget which is currently running $16 trillion in debt. instead, the plan will put the country on a path to more deficit reduction. even a perfectly balanced budget doesn't mean the economy is in shape and in recovery. that is the argument our friend matt miller lays out in his new piece in the "washington post." always nice to have you. we'll start with your article which focuses on california as an example of larger budget problems. do tell. >> well, first, i have to say, the idea that reince priebus is saying the president is a hypocrite for raising money from the rich. he is being much more courageous than the republicans are. the republican fundraising machine is like an out and out kickback. >> it is about self-interests.

they cut taxes on the top and then just get a little rebate in campaign contributions. obama is asking for money to fund campaigns, which is the way our system still works today. and he is doing it with people whose taxes he has raised. that takes a little more courage. >> i agree. tell us about your article. >> i just had to get that off my chest. >> nice, nice, good. >> just cut into your open time. >> california, there is this whole mean now, at least from some of the east coast intelligentsia that california is fixed because jerry brown raised taxes on the top and it looks like on paper at least we're headed toward a balanced budget in california. but a balanced budget has nothing to do with the health of a society or the renewal of california or the country. and in california, for example, it used to have the best schools in the country a generation ago. now it comes in something like 41st in the nation in math. its kids are on a par with greece in math.

or portugal. port gat, lall 53, a lithuania are doing better than the kids in california now. and when it come to hispanic kids in california, the latino population which is the future of california, they're doing even worse. so the mere fact that you've got the books headed toward balance doesn't mean you're making the investments in education, teachers, in improving stuff for the future that is essential for a society to thrive. >> speaking of those investments in the future. there have been two narratives about the sequester. one coming from the republicans saying it is no big deal. one coming from the democrats saying, this actually really is hurting people. sam stein at the "huffington post" compiled a list of 100 sequester stories from across the country. some that the democrats may want to focus on are food pantry is closed, meals on wheels cut. fewer head start positions. medicare patients turned away. housing services cut. the republicans want to focus on thing that seem more trivial. of course, the white house tour

is being canceled. we've all heard about that. less camping. >> what? >> armband concert canceled. horse help reduced and cruise passengers inconvenienced. what do you think the american people ultimately are going to get out of this whole debate? are they going on feel these cuts or will these become real to them in. >> i think some people will get hurt. when you've got budget cuts, there are always people any time you reduce something from the status quo. some people will get hurt. i do think the president was on tough ground trying to say the sky would fall for a 5% cut or a 7% cut. in budgets that have grown in the last 3 or 4%. the bigger picture is still all horse help in nevada aside. i'm kind of curious about. >> i need to look into that more. >> the bigger picture, the whole sequester is cutting parts of the budget that are only like 1/6 or 1/7 of total spending.

and it is health care where we're spending orders of magnitude more than any other nation on health care. if we're serious, somehow that's where we have to get our house in order. if we're going to save the money we need to in the long term. >> picking up on your point about the sky falling, don't you think it is pretty odd that the situation we're in, we started with a debate over whether these cuts were a good thing. and now we're having this national debate over whether they are a thing. because in the republican narrative, which has worked on a lot of the press, it seems, the idea that in a couple of weeks, the sky is not completely fallen has been taken as an interpretation of the notion that we don't need all these government programs. so did the republicans sort of pull a neat trick here? do you think this will continue to be an empirical debate about what's happening versus a policy debate about how we want to use the government to deal with the

economy? >> well, our congratulations on your ascent to "the cycle." it's fantastic. >> it's a descent. >> look, i think you're right, ari, the fact that the sky isn't falling lets the republicans have that point for now. but i think the republicans have won the bigger debate in that we're still talking about budgets, fiscal sanity and near term stuff about spending cuts when the real problem is the lack of jobs in the country. the deficits and the debt are a serious problem. but they're not a problem in the next two or three years. joblessness is the huge problem. and there's no gofrgs that. obama tries to talk about it. but because the republicans control the house, there is no stimulus or affirmative measures likely to get through. maybe there's a chance when the president puts his budget down to try to reframe this more in the near term toward jobs. but for now they're losing that

battle. >> matt, just so we're clear, ari was a lawyer with a serious practice. some would say that his career is in free fall going from that to this. that's for another segment. the president is giving back 5% of his salary. which in the grand scheme of his bank account is not that much. is this a purely symbolic move that doesn't really mean anything? is this him embodying what he believes in? do you think the gop will do the same thing? or will they find a way to mock it? >> i think it is both. like the old saturday night live where it is a dessert topping and a floor wax. i think the president's move is symbolic because it is not a big deal for him personally. it is also some exercise of leadership. i do notice that it looks like the whole cabinet is kind of following suit. so i guess there will be a craze for everybody to clip 5% off their salary.

this may even spread to cable hosts at some point. >> no, it won't. >> maybe radio show hosts. maybe that? washington show columnists? >> in public radio, you could be get much lower. >> so matt, let's start from the beginning. the sequester was a strategic misstep for the president. unemployment is still uncomfortably high. income and equality is widening and the president is still insisting that spending more money and raising taxes on millionaires is going to solve a lot of our fiscal problems. now this week he's asking banks to issue more home loans to risky borrowers. people with risky credit because the first housing collapse was so much fun. the problem is voters' trust in obama is rapidly diminishing on economic issues. the polling shows it. recent polling shows that he has really lost the advantage to the gop on the issue of the economy. so voters aren't behind him on these issues.

there is no incentive for republicans to rubber stamp some of these economic policies. there is even little incentive for moderate democrats. so my question is, is he leading democrats to the lawsuit isser in 2014? >> that was a very depressing framing of the question. >> i think what you describe is why we're stuck in this gridlock. as you said, his numbers are sagging. and because the republicans have the ability to hold up anything he wants to do, he kind of carries the blame and remains stuck on the hook for an economy that is stagnant, even though he doesn't have a chance to even implement his ideas. so it is very, it is very tough, this is what makes me pine for a parliamentary system. at least when the president wins, he would get to enact what

he wants to do and voters can decide four years later what they think of the results. when you win election, it is the beginning of another set of endless battles. you have no chance to implement the general that you want to do. it is a big problem. >> you can't get anything done with divided congress. next, new fallout in the rutgers basketball scandal. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? i just stick the bar in the dryer like this, and it freshens my laundry for me so i don't have to think. wait. what was the question? [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? [ man ] stick it and forget it.

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calling for more firings at rutgers university is growing larger and loird. more than two cosmetic faculty members are now demanding he resign over his handling of the situation. meanwhile more than 50 want an explanation from him. just yesterday, coach mike ross was fired after this video showing him hitting, shoveling and hurdling basketballs and homophobic slurs to his players during practice went viral. the university had the video for months. four months ago in total. at first, only suspended the coach for three games and fined him about $50,000. so is the cover-up as bad as the crime? should the president and athletic director go too? let's spin. this has been getting a lot of attention. a lot of people comparing to it other sports. toure, you played tennis growing up. they say love means nothing to a tennis player. is that true in. >> that's true. >> is this bigger than basketball in. >> absolutely i think it is

bigger than basketball. to have a bigger picture, i am reminded of my main coach growing up when i played tennis very seriously throughout my youth. i loved him dearly. i've written about him. he is an amazing man and an amazing part of my life. he was a yeller, a name caller, he would sometimes demean us, talking about small children. never put his hands on anybody as mike rice did. but it is he was part, my coach was part of that culture of being a paternalistic militaristic like a general coach that existed a lot more in that time than you see embodied in a bobby knight or a mike ditka. and i think for the most part that has gone away. see more coaches like phil jackson and bill belichick who understand mutual respect gets you farther than fearful and i think this guy did not get the memo that that era has died and it is over and will get you fired for doing that. and i don't think he fully

understands that yelling at people does not make them perform better. demeeng them, using gay slurs, kicking them does not make them perform better. i think that building up an athlete's self-esteem makes them perform better. >> toure, all your talk of plut you'll respect is just contributing to the wussification of america's men. let's hear a real man, eric bowling, make the case. >> we're in the midst of political correctness crushing our ability to teach kids, to discipline kids, to disagree with people, one another or kids. our culture is in decline. but this is an example of our culture in free fall. i'm saying because he got fired. not because of what he did. it is time to toughen up. i talk about the wuffification of men. >> it speaks for itself. apparently he wasn't disturbed either by the physical violence toward the players or i think, i mean, one of the more troubling things here the slurs that were

used, in particular, homophobic slurs. when you see this sort of behavior, which was apparently accepted at the university for a while you start to understand with we still have such a problem with homophobia at the professional sports level and at the college sports level as well. we don't have a single openly gay nba player, nfl player, hockey, baseball, zero. and there has been some, there have been some efforts made in that direction to have more acceptance. just to have straight men be full human beings. when we see these fake macho men from a previous generation criticizing us for wanting to be full human beings and not just john wayne caricatures and stereo types, that is disgusting. >> i agree completely.

i will say, not to make this all about me but i will say, this is not just reserved for men. and boys, and it is not just now. i didn't grow up in sports but did i ballet and awful, awful, telling impressionable 12-year-old that's they're fat. there was at lot of physical and emotional and mental abuse there. so it is not just in organized sports. but i will say that mike lupica had an interesting piece. he wrote, what code needed to be cracked here for the athletic director before he took all these findings to the president of the school? these people are as bad at trying to save face and other parts of their anatomy as rice was coaching basketball. making the argument that the accountability needs to be above

the coach. the a.d., the president maybe even needs to be fired. he even suggested that chris christie being the governor of a state where rutgers is essentially the university of new jersey. might want to sort of get more involved and call for some investigations. i like that idea. you cannot just blame one guy. this is a culture. these are people who knew it was happening and let it happen for too long. >> it goes back to what we were talking about the other day with the way these college sports programs are bigger than schools within which they reside. you can't have a functioning democracy with j. edgar hoover. a small group of people sometime have way too much power. even regardless of performance. it is about partly sunny in the end of they have too much power. >> this was not a winning team or waning coach will. >> that's where we all stand. if you have an opinion on this, let us know.

do you think the president and athletic director at rutgers university should also get the axe? here's one view we got. robert said the a.d. for sure. don't tell me he never watched practice for three years. then if he did not, he wasn't doing his job. so like us on facebook. let us know where you stand on this important debate. up next, the market may be flying high. are we headed for a fall? an economic guru david stockman in the guest spot next. ♪ ♪ no two people have the same financial goals. pnc works with you to understand yours and help plan for your retirement. visit a branch or call now for your personal retirement review.

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we are in the middle of unprecedented growth and profit in our financial sector. a little less than four years removed from the financial crisis. the s&p has pushed through the 1,500 barrier into record setting territory. our next guest says wall street and the federal reserve have combined to create new financial

bubbles and we are on the cusp of watching them pop. a closer look reveal that median household income is dropping. full time middle class joks are disappearing, and this kind of erosion, he claim, is going to lead to an era of further austerity and even more crippling political conflict. is that really possible? in the guest spot, david stockman who served as ronald reagan's budget director. he is author of the great deformation, the corruption of capitalism in america. i wanted to start with a quote that talks about the last financial crisis. we can talk about how you would have approached that and sort of move on for the future from there. you said, had this attack been allowed to run its course, hundreds of billions in long term debt and equity capital would have been wiped out including huge amounts of stock owned by insiders. such a result would have been truly constructive. it would have been been planted in a biting 1930s style lesson

about the deadly dangers of leveraged speculation. so should we have done nothing in response to the last financial crisis and just sort of let people suffer and let the market forces work themselves out? >> yes. the financial crisis was entirely in the canyons of wall street. there was no risk of a great depression, 2.0. that was a cover story for bailing out goldman sachs, morgan stanley. the data shows it wasn't remotely possible. morgan stanley, goldman sachs, the rest of wall street had speculated massivery on the bubble finance that the greenspan fed and produced with the interest rates. our financial system was way overleveraged. it was funding itself on hot money that came and went on an overnight basis. and so therefore, the system needed a cleansing. it needed discipline. and we could have let the two of

those firms fail. it wouldn't have spread to the main street banks. they weren't engaged in this kind of lenked speculation themselves didn't own the toxic assets. there was never a risk that the atms would go dark or pay rolls wouldn't be met. all of this i describe in shorthand as a coup detat by wall street. and it led them running around the third floor of the treasury department propping up wall street when the taxpayers of america never should have been thrown in harm's way. >> i read through your new york times piece and i would like to quote. you wrote the modern state is paralyzed and broke. the periodically lavishes the top 1% with speculative wind falls. you blame giant social insurance blankets promoting homeownership, subsidizing medical care know barreling out

wall street. you say that obama's policies are hopelessly glib and even paul ryan doesn't say how bad things are. so obviously, you're an optimist. why should i even get up in the morning? are any of these fixable? even if i agree with you about the genesis, are any of these fixable? >> i think not. the budget is a doomsday machine. the deficit is now so big, far bigger over the next ten years than washington is telling you. it is not in a glide path to improvement. he is on a banana peel. the next ten years will not bring $7 trillion of new debtor deficits but probably $15 or 20 trillion. there will be a plasticive crisis because the system is paralyzed. the two parties have been in a competitive effort teeth give away taxes and deplete the revenue base. that's the republicans. or defend every dime of spending. and therefore, our system is now

straddled over this huge gap. when i talk about social insurance, i'll saying, why in the world cannot we means test social security? because there are millions of affluent retirees that have large asset bases or large bank accounts or pensions or annuity that's shouldn't be getting money that we can't afford out of a social security program and system that's broke any way. there is no money in that trust fund. it is just confessy. that is just one of the many myths and illusioneds that keeps congress fighting over large issues and allows us as i say, this machine, doomsday machine to roll on forward of. >> david, i don't know if you know this but you have something of a reputation for speaking truth to power. >> don't hold back. >> that was true when you were under reagan and true for decades since. i'm wondering if you can tell us about how your latest campaign,

if you will, is being received. i mean, you are someone with pretty strong conservative credentials, though by no means, predictable on xheg policy. and part of your flew book is arguing that we have this corrosive financialization and over securitization of products that creates a froth, an excessive risk in the marketplace, not doing what we think of. secondly, you're talking about separating the commercial and high risk investing in the banks and the deposit insurance marketplace in a way that is evocative of what a lot of aggressives have been calling for. so the short conclusion would be asking you, are you a republican and conservative friends hearing you out or not? >> actually, what i'm saying is being denounced by all of the advocates of the status quo, they say wall street is in the pink of health and this bubble

is the greatest thing that happened and you'd better get on board before it is too late. where the stock market is today, we were at literally, 4750 days ago in march 2000. then we had the big collapse and the dot com people got fried. then they reinflated it to the same level today. then the big collapse of housing and credit and wall street as we've been about. people got fried again for $7 trillion. the households of america. now we're back to the same point again. american main street economy hasn't recovered. but they're telling to you get on because they're looking to shear the sheep one more time. >> toward the end of your book, i think it is page 710, your solutions which are very interesting. the one that i liked the most, replace the warfare state with genuine national defense. the idea is so great and sticky,

i don't need a whole page of a full screen. i can bust out one sentence. you want to reduce the military budget two-thirds. a foreign policy about nonintervention. but a plasticive nuclear retaliation to anybody who dares challenge us. is this a realistic idea? because of course we know how much americans love their military, being the toughest country in the world. and also, don't you think it might motivate future presidents then to want to declare war to justify going back to that bigger budget? >> well, look, what i'm saying is that we have a massive defense war making capability in a world where there is no earthly reason for it. we have no industrial state enemies. the cold war ended 20 years ago. the soviet union spends more time stealing from each other than threatening their neighbors. there is no one else that requires that we have this massive navy. that we have this massive land force. 1.5 million men under arms.

the short answer is i go back to the eisenhower minimum. his budget in today's dollars in 1960 when he left office and warned about the military industrial complex, and their ability to take over spending and to unduey influence the government, that was $400 million in today's dollars. we could go back to that from the $650 billion we're at today. that's where clinton left it when he exited office in 2000. i don't think we were under any threat from anybody in the world that back. kind of massive war machine, conventional war machine, could have done anything about. and that's just one reason why we're broke. it's not some right wing, wing nut notion of debt is bad. it is true. and part of arraign is things like the military industrial complex that is basically building weapons and if you saiding fighting capacity that there is no earthly reason to

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is this fair play in a competitive economy? or is the equivalent of an athlete injecting. he takes it legally. his recent piece on the drug is called the new stimulus package. will, you talked to a bunch of folks who caution that adderall is a very potent stimulant. significant abuse potential. very adverse effects. you you talked about the case of a person who ultimately committed suicide. but you say it is okay for people like to you take on it a regular, daily basis. clear up the mixed messaging that we get about adderall. >> that's right. there is a the love mixed messaging. it can be dangerous like any prescription drug if you take it without the supervision of a doctor. i certainly wouldn't rep anyone doing that. i think a lot of the hype that we're hearing is part of the media back lash. and it is not really supported by the evidence.

adderall is not as dangerous as methamphetamine or cocaine. although it is classified along with those by the dea as a schedule 2 drug. what i wanted to look into, is it more like caffeine in terms of its dangers and risks and side effects? it is more dangerous than a cup of coffee, certainly. but it is not the demon drug that you sometimes hear it portrayed as being. >> i have to push back against that notion. a the loe of scientists say the effects of ritalin are roughly the same as cocaine. it has the same impact on the body. a very similar impact on the mind will are you really saying that it is not that different than cocaine when a lot of scientists are saying it is pretty much the same thing? >> here's the difference. when i take concerta, a long acting form of ritalin. i take it every morning. it is a control release. i get a little throughout the day. i never feel high. it doesn't feel dangerous. i feel like myself, just more focus asked more able to do the task that's i'm supposed to be

doing. if you crush it up and snort it, that's probably going to be a bad idea. i would not recommend it to anyone. but when people are taking it in small doses, and in a responsible way, it probably is not the same as people taking methamphetamine to get all strung out. >> do you think that there is an evolving cultural shift, it seem like people in the younger generation who want to use these drugs to perform mentally. they seem to think or feel that this is more acceptable, to use it for ambitious activities than slackers are using recreational drugs. do you think there's any foundation for that distinction? >> that is a good question. i wouldn't recommend that anyone take those drugs without prescription. that said, i think there is a difference. if you look at the harmful effects of adderall and other

adhd conditions, there can be risks for people with heart conditions, if you take it in the wrong way or irresponsibly it can be habit forming. but it is really different than something like alcohol where kids are bingeing and the safety risking are immense, people are dying all the time because of alcohol abuse. we haven't seen that so far with adderall. >> are you sure you work for slate and you're not related -- just checking. ? >> i would be paid better if i was. >> you mentioned another drug which i'm probably going to bump you are the pronunciation. provigil. it seem to be catching on in the tech communities. and it got me thinking, is there outside of the side effects and the physical ills, is there an ethical issue here about using what they call by over hacks? using these mind enhancing

drugs. is it like performance enhancing drugs in sports? >> yeah. there are all kinds of ethical issues. i think the thing to keep in mind is that these drugs, so provigil is an alertness drug prescribed for people with narcolepsy. adderall and ritalin are for people with adhd. they're not wonder drugs. they won't make you 20 i.q. points smart he. they'll allow to you stay up and keep working on something when you otherwise might give up or get distracted or go to sleep. >> will, thank you very much. some sad news to rt ro. legendary film critic roger ebert has died. he was chicago sun time film critic for 46 years. he had been fighting cancer and recently posted in his blog, he was taking leave of presence. roger ebert was 70 years old. we'll be right back. the barrel? the carful? how about...by the bowlful? campbell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's.

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today governor connecticut, sweeping restrictions that expand the state assault weapons ban, require universal background collection and outlaws the sale of high capacity magazines over ten rounds. similar to the ones used at the sandy hook shooting. among those in attendance, family members of the 26 students and faculty killed that day. some of those families are now sharing their feelings and memories with "people" magazine. >> that's the jacket that i bought for him in the fall. i used to call him jack london when he wore it. he just looked like an outdoorsy guy with the brown cordoroy.

and the fur collar. he loved that jacket. he just loved it. and i think it is because of the lining. it is kind of this faux fur and it is really cozy. and at the same time, i think he liked the way he looked in the jacket. that was one of the items that the state trooper who was assigned to us was so incredibly dedicated in tracking down. he was able to retrieve that for us. that meant a huge amount. still does. i'll always cherish that jacket. it is the things you hole on to when you have nothing left. >> parents and siblings are trying to find ways to push forward with faces of 6-year-olds emblazoned on blankets, necklaces, posters, they're websites and facebook pages, urging people to change for the we are. to improve their communities or simply remember their stories, come to them in the words of "people" magazine. it hits news stands nationwide.

joining us, liz, this is really important stuff from you guys. i came very close to crying, at this and hearing people say how they had to tell their children that their siblings were gone. siblings talking about missing their siblings who were gone. newtown wants to move on but they are permanently changed. but they don't want to forget. how are they dealing with all that? >> many of the families spoke to us because they wanted to tell the world about their children. they wanted to talk about their children's beautiful hearts, their kindness, what wonderful people that they were. they wanted the world to know that they want good to come out of what happened. they want there to be change them want people to remember their children. >> liz, let's take a listen to a

little more of the families in their own words. >> ann marie murphy, mrs. murphy, a wonderful, wonderful woman. her patience and kindness with dylan was extraordinary. to know that she was trying to protect him and -- and was with him at the end. has provided some comfort. because, to know that he wasn't alone and that even in those last moments, that he was with someone who truly loved him and cared for him. and that she was still looking after him. >> i can't manning what they're going through in just practical day to day ways. how are these families coping? >> these are incredibly strong, brave people. the couple whom you just saw,

they are now talking to anne marie murphy's children. they're close. they have her i.d. that her children gave to them. she told us their families are forever linked. they say that they get strength from the outpouring of love that from the things people say to them. they said that they were grateful for the love that they feel, as jenny hubbard said to me, she's the mother of catherine hubbard, we can't forget that humanity is good. thr them to say that after what they've gone through, it's just astounding to us. they're really courageous people. >> yeah, liz, on that same note, you talked to some first responders like sergeant david calgrin who was saying for him he's had to focus on the fact that they got a lot of kids out safely. for him, he says that's a healing trigger. how are the survivors managing to help heal the community? >> well, one thing that dave

said, you know, david, the sergeant was one of the first four people there that day. he decided to talk to us because we wanted to talk about healing. he talked about finding a new normal. that what they've lived through is something -- there are really no words for him to convey what he saw. he said those who have been in war zones would understand. but he said he focuses on the children that he got out that day. he says it helps him when people come up to him on the street and say, thank you for helping my son and daughter get out of school that day. what they've lived through, what they've experienced is something that's so unlike anything i think that we can even imagine. that they -- i think every day is -- it's still new for them as one of the parents told us, it's getting harder actually. but they're open to talking about it, to telling the world about their children. and they all want good to come out of this. >> liz, in terms of telling the world, some people in these

families have been speaking out. some were talking to "people" magazine for the first time. when you look at grief as usually such a private act for people, what did you see about the way that this particular community is grieving more publicly? >> there are certainly families that are grieving privately, and for them, talking at this time wasn't the right thing. but some did want to talk. i think because they feel compelled. as daniel bardon's far, mark, said to us, he said, we have no choice. we have to speak out. there has to be change in this country. they want the world to know about their children. >> liz mcneil, great work. thank you very much for that. as we take a break, a reminder of the lives lost on that day. ♪ hallelujah ♪ hallelujah ♪ hallelujah

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last week virginia attorney general and presumptive republican gubernatorial nominee ken cuccinelli filed an appeal to keep virginia's sodomy laws on the books. yes, the same sodomy laws that were clearly ruled unconstitutional ten years ago by that bashtion of progressive social change, the supreme court. not to get too graphic, but i want you to understand, the

republican nominee for governor in virginia, a rapidly changing moderate state, has just come out against oral sex and anal sex, not just the gay kind, the married consenting adult variety as well. cuccinel cuccinelli's nickname is the cucc. i'll pause for a moment while you fill in the inappropriate jokes. in case you're not familiar with the cucc, allow me to give you the brief rundown of his greatest hiltgreat est hits. he wrote a recently published book. democrats liked the book so much that they, the democratic governor's association, actually gave out free copies of it and held public readings of excerpts from it. as attorney swrergeneral the cu took on such important issues as banning public universities from including sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination policies, launching what the "washington post" called an anti-climate science crusade against a uva professor and covering the bare breast over

the goddess of bravery and military strength who's been included on virginia's seal without controversy since 1776. that's 1776, before the internet. the cucc is like todd akin on abortion except less apologetic. and wayne lapierre on guns except -- no, actually, he's exactly like wayne lapierre on guns. they're already freaking out about the impact his retrograde policies could have on the state's business climate. you know, though, as i'm thinking this through, this all just seems a little too neat. a little too perfect. really? in a year when republicans are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as a party with ideas and values from at least the late 20th century, and a year where the virginia gubernatorial is basically the only race in country worth watching, this guy, the man with the suggestive nickname who wants government out of your health care and into your bedroom, becomes the face of the republican party? he almost had me.

what was it that "w" said again? >> fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. if you fool me, we can't get fooled again. >> exactly. i'm not falling for it. the cucc has not to be a democratic plan. george soros must have put him up to this. a brilliant scheme to hand the virginia governor's mansion back to the dems. send terrified businesspeople into the arms of the democratic party. and utterly annihilate what's left of the republican brand. machiavellian to be sure, but quite clever. they could have gotten away with it, too, if not for this business about telling married people what to do in their sex life. that was a bridge too far. no actual candidate would support that. come on, democrats. next thing you know, you'll have us believe that a gop congressman would insult all the latinos in the country by calling them wetbacks or the gop would compare gay people to pedophiles,