Thursday, March 14, 2013
Hour 1
Segment 1
Cenk hosting today.  Videos of the clown Conservatives from CPAC.  Marco Rubio claimed they don’t need new ideas, the idea is America.  Rand Paul offered ways the Party can have further reach.  Pat Toomey claimed that the American people agree with them.  Video of Louie Gohmert claiming that we would’ve won Vietnam, but Washington wouldn’t let it happen.  Tom Cotton claimed that we’re not fighting too many wars and that we can afford the wars we’re fighting.  Grover Norquist compared Repubs that vote for tax increases are like rat head in a bottle of Coke, it damages the brand.  Al Cardenas told the crowd that they need to go harder on the Conservative line.  Rand Paul did point out that bailing out banks is not a Conservative thing to do.  The Chairman of the Nat’l Org for Marriage used Chief Roberts’ adoption situation to claim that adoption is a serviceable 2nd best option.  Videos of TYT’s Lauren Windsor interviewing Daniel Ellsberg about President Obama’s similarities to John Yoo and reasons he could be, but won’t be impeached.

Segment 2
New poll out on religion shows that the group of religiously unaffiliated has grown from 8% to 20% since 1990.  This number equals the number of evangelicals, so Cenk thinks they should unite and gain more political power.  Hugo Chavez’ successor has a theory that Chavez is already talking to Jesus about the new Pope, and it shows that its finally South America’s time.  Rep Kris Crawford in SC said that even though portions of the ACA help Americans, its good politics to vote against the Black guy in the White House.

Segment 3
It will cost U.S. employers $1 billion if their states opt out of the Medicare expansion portion of ObamaCare, so these Republican governors that railed against it are rethinking their position of not picking it up.  In the Judiciary Cmte of the Senate, Sen Cruz got under Sen Feinstein’s skin with a smug question about the Constitution.  A lobbyist for gun groups said that they shouldn’t worry about gun control laws, since they will be able to weaken them once the “CT Effect” has passed.  Video of the NRA President disagreeing that the lobbyist should apologize for his comments.