Tonight's guests:
- Ladd Everitt, Director of Communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, which is running newspaper ads in Washington D.C. and North Dakota asking voters to call Senator Heitkamp about gun control legislation
- Bill Burton, former White House deputy press secretary for the Obama administration and co-founder of Priorities USA PAC
And here's executive producer Bill Wolff with a preview of what's coming. (Roll tape):
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The NFL has given the NIH a $30million research grant in addition to providing health care for the players. The NFL gets it ...
The small increase in cost to businesses the ACA would bring would be more than offset by the increase in productivity of a crew that wasn't spending its waking hours looking for work somewhere else.
Wendys food handlers and Wal-Mart clerks who got flu vaccinations that didn't cost them out of their own pockets wouldn't be spreading the contagion to coworkers and would miss fewer days reducing the overall number of employees a company would have to hire.
Any organization that doesn't support the people it relies on to support it...
It is pretty basic business - maintain your plant property (infrastructure) and provide adequate food, housing, medical care and education and training for your livestock. Not doing these things is a long walk on a short pier.
Should we stay in Afghanistan ? Well I must say, being so close to nuclear Pakistan and nuclear India whom just can not seem to find a middle ground, I would at least get as far away as the calculated safe radiation ballast radius.
If there is such a thing.
Rachel--
Regarding the drone policy, former Obama staffer Bill Burton is echoing Obama's talking points about the drone warfare (that Romney was an incompetent debater and therefore the subject wasn't broached) and you let him. The reason Mitt Romney and Obama didn't debate the drones is that both had pledged to use them. It's the same reason voters didn't hear a debate about NDAA's indefinite military detention provision--the candidates agreed with each other, so there's nothing to debate. Ditto re-authorizing FISA. Ditto not prosecuting the banks in on the LIBOR manipulation.
When both major presidential candidates agree on the evisceration of fourth amendment rights, winking at the illegal behavior of the TBTF banks, and the tactical use of advanced weapons in a way that violates international law, isn't it time for the Fourth Estate to step in and ask some hard questions? I'm pretty sure you could find a decent plurality of Americans who might find some of these practices abhorrent.