it's frustrating. >> we should remember that erick erickson is the same person who tweeted a link tosale coat hanger retailer after the restrictive abortion law passed in texas. so i think abbey is right. he wants to be inflammatory, and the other aspect of this is, as soon as wendy davis burst onto the scene, there was a lot of commentary about how beautiful she is, and that was taken as a negative, like this woman can't be serious and powerful and this beautiful, and there was an attempt to say she had plastic surgery, and his abortion barbie comment goes to that, that you can't be attractive and powerful and smart. >> thank god we have both of you to disprove that. thank you, we'll have you back soon. >> coming up, an overseas terror plot is foiled. a live report from richard engle in the field in just a moment. asional have constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues... with three strains of good bacteria. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. when she's happy, she writes

voted to repeal obamacare for the forty of time want to shock meanwhile caleb how a blogger for erick erickson's red state dot com blog is sick with liver failure and struggling to pay his medical bills however he's found help from an unlikely place progressive bloggers the daily koz has teamed up with red state to. raise money for caleb's medical bills together they raised over twenty five grand way over their original goal so do you guys think that erick erickson is about to become an obamacare convert i don't think he'll become a convert i think it could be managed a little bit better i think what's happened is that we're seeing a lot of people realizing there was more in this than they were aware of initially i cannot say that universal health care is not a bad is a bad thing under the precepts that they should have tried to do piece by piece what's happened is that businesses have become overwhelmed with what the amount of costs are going to be the hours they can employ people and then we're looking at these exchanges and there are so many so many dynamics going on at the same time that i t

red state blogger erick erickson tweeted this. i guess they're right about defunding obama care.omney says they're wrong. now, new ads, urging them to sign on to lee's letter. heritage foundation president, former senator jim demint, he's going on the road to push his idea of repeaing the law this way. something i spoke to him about yesterday. >> i think ted cruz and mike lee, rubio, others, are doing exactly the right thing to go out and tell the country that we need your help to stop this law. this is maybe our last chance to stop it because millions of people are going to be signed up. >> a warning for 2016, quote, my guess is everyone of the contenders would be better than whoever the democrats put up. but there will only be one or perhaps two who actually could win the election in november. think it through. stay smart. he said, only get behind one or two. as the republican party continues to struggle with its identity, will the first in the nation primary state take romney's advice? our gaggle. former republican governor from maryland. stephanie shrock. and senior congressi

this is erick erickson sort of prominent national conservative.eek, romney won kentucky by 23 points, i think it was only 22. anyway, yet kentucky said it is a toss-up. why shouldn't mcconnell require like he made jim bunning do? >> he has sided up to rand paul that mitch mcconnell cut ads for in the 2010 senate race. i read a story about this last month. going throughout and talking about earmarks that he has gotten for kentucky years ago. he is going out there and stood in front of, i believe it was a park they had built and got 35 million in federal money to get this. talking about how much he could bring back to kentucky and that's hard now because the tea party wing isn't that interested in that stuff. but still trying to do that. so, i think on the one hand this is where maybe some difficulty. i agree it's an uphill climb and probably his primary opponent and him having some difficulty. he wants to run as this guy but also want to run a guy that will shut down all kind of government spending. >> interesting what rand paul actually does. he s

making her bid official today, but senate republican leader mitch mcconnell was eviscerated by erick erickson'se red state publication, which questioned whether the republican party needed to waste a safe seat on mcconnell, who is in a dead heat in his own senate race. even republican voters can't gre agree on their party's direction. according to a recent pew poll, 54% of gop voters think that gop leaders should move in a more conservative direction, and 40% in a more moderate direction, and just 5% saying, hey, it's good the way it is. but even with all the battles in the gop, it remains true that you can't beat somebody with nobody, so democrats will also need to be sure that they've got some somebodies on the ballot. all right, mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, these are folks who are leaders in the party and they're getting primaried. what's happening with republicans? >> well, with mcconnell's case, he is the republican leader, and he's not fielding the to senator lee's request to immediately say, sure, we'll shut the government down. so he's in a box. now, he's going to privately talk to

erick erickson of red state yesterday started a deal that made some -- it has gone viral, defining hers the abortion barbie. so that's the tool on the right. on the left, if you look at her record, this wasn't her first filibuster. in 1911 in the texas senate, she filibustered against an enormous cut in public education, $5 billion in public education. she was one of the leaders in the fight for the state equal pay bill. the state version of the lilly ledbetter act would have made it easier for women in texas to follow the pattern of the federal law. it passed. she helped lead that effort. rick perry vetoed it. she was part of providing money and help to get rape kits. there was a big backlog in texas. she was one of the leaders in pushing for -- against cronyism in state government to audit rick perry's sort of enterprise business subsidy funds, fight for homeowner's insurance. a lot of these typical democrat democrats -- proposals. she has a broad, broad record but this effort to define her as a one-issue candidate exclusively about abortion is really the fight of the day right now.

see, erick erickson at red state and these guys. >> erick likes me, says it publicly. hugged me.you know what, i let them -- you know what, i feel sorry for them. i let them scream and yell because it makes them feel -- >> i happen to like you. >> oh, god. don't say that. james carville, get the hell out. andy serwer, thank you, margaret carlson, thank you as well. who are the smartest kids in the world? we've got author amanda ripley. she is great. she followed students in three foreign countries for a fuel year to answer that question. so many of my friends have been e-mailing me saying you've got to hear what she has to say. it's fascinating. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ i've got something for you too. (announcer) fancy feast delights with cheddar. a meal that is sure to delight your cheese lover. now available in the classic form she loves. fancy feast. the best ingredient is love. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [ male announcer ] ...office space. yes, we're loving this communal seating. it's great. [ male announcer ] the

. >> bill: wasn't it erick erickson she ripped a new one? >> that's right.traged there were so many female breadwinners. she really kind of said you know -- >> bill: she's tough and she's good. i think she would be a big success at 9:00. who knows. stay tuned. find out more if you follow mediamatters.org. jeremy, always good to see you. thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: what do you say? 33 minutes now after the hour. it's friday, august 9. good to see you today. and again, want to quick comment before we move on about what's happening next week. and remember most importantly, we -- this is going to be a little change on the television side of things, okay. but let's not forget, we're a radio show. even when we're on tv, we are a radio show. and that's what we do. and that's who we are. that's why we are so proud and happy to be on your local progressive talk radio station this early in the morning to start the line-up on progressive stations all across the country and nothing changes on that. nothing ch

. >> mika introduced this segment by reading erick erickson's piece about you on red state.ve we reached a point in your business, the business of politics, where a certain percentage of senators and members of congress paid more attention now to bloggers and tweeters than they do to the voters and to the larger interests of the country? >> well, mike, that may be the case. i think the number one thing they don't pay attention to is the u.s. constitution. and the u numerated powers enlisted in there in the 10th amendment. that's what they're not paying attention to. i'm going to introduce the enumerated powers act today. there's not one democrat on there. all it says is when you're going to pass a bill, justify it by relating to the constitution where you get the power to do that. because we wouldn't be $17 trillion in debt if we actually followed the constitution. what our founders set as a very limited government. so we wouldn't be there. we are in a mess. i call it the kindergarten in washington because we really lack leadership and what we have is selfish desires for pol