David: What I don't find as funny, to transition, though, is the constant barrage of attacks
that we're seeing from your newly elected heroic Tea Party House majority in attacking
working Americans and American residents and women. Working people, as we see, are on the
attack. Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, he wants to eliminate all collective bargaining.
We are seeing significant protests in Wisconsin. The guy, honestly, he deserves to be protested
right out of office. Absolutely. Attacks on working class people.
And all of this, don't be confused, this is all at its core, at its root, whatever you
want to call it, an attack on Democrats. And the reason why is that as we know, unions
overwhelmingly support and fund Democratic candidates. And if you are going to take unions
out of the picture, out of the debate in Wisconsin, you are certainly going to affect their ability
to fund who? Scott Walker's possible opponents. So don't be confused that this is anything
other than an attack on Democrats and an attack on labor and working people.
Constant attacks on health care, OK? One after another, attempts to repeal a health care
law that we know is not going to be repealed in the Senate, and even if by some miracle
from the point of view of Republicans, it were, Barack Obama has already said he will
veto it.
And attacks on women. Redefining rape. Changing the rape victim to a "rape accuser". Going
after Planned Parenthood, which provides millions of women with family planning services, basic
health and medical care, Pap smears, diabetes screening, breast cancer screening. This is
a concerted attack, Louis, on both working people and women, and really, the ones who
are being hit the hardest are working women, who need to avail themselves of all of these
different services and groups.
Louis: Right, but... and why is this the focus instead of our economy, our debt crisis?
David: We're going to get to the budget, we're going to get to that. Why is... I don't know
why it's the focus. Is it the focus because Republicans are bad people? No, I don't really
think so, some of our audience will say that it is, I don't really believe that.
Louis: Do they feel that this is their calling? Do they feel that people put them in office
to deal with these issues?
David: Their funders, the special interests, put them in office based on a lot of these
social issues and other issues, absolutely. And...
Louis: So they're not reflecting the will of their constituents at all.
David: Absolutely not. Since when-- you know, every time we talk about democracy and the
democratic process, I get emails from people saying, "This is a Constitutional Republic.
Stop talking about democracy." Listen, the way in which we are electing candidates, call
it whatever you want, the idea is that the will of the people is represented. Forget
emailing me and filling up our voicemailbox saying everything I'm saying is wrong because
this is a Constitutional Republic and the Founding Fathers originally wanted A, B, or
C.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying that those things are irrelevant, what I'm saying
is the idea is that the will of the people is represented. And the will of the people
has shown time and time again that health care is something a majority of Americans
believe the government should provide. Time and time again, we have seen that the will
of the people is not being represented. So you're right, Louis, what is being represented?
Special interests are being represented. The funders of these candidates are being represented.
And the reality is that the people trying to put, just as an example, Planned Parenthood
out of business, they don't seem at all concerned about what would happen to almost 2 million
low-income women who get family planning help and medical care at their clinics each year.
It just doesn't come up. There is not even a vague contingency plan, what happens to
those women? Well, some Republicans and some conservatives will be happy because those
women would not have access to a legal and safe abortion. Would it save a life? No, it
wouldn't, not in all cases, because we know, number one, that the life of the mother herself
can be in danger, and number two, women who are determined to get an abortion are going
to get an abortion. We've seen that time after time. Do they not care about those 2 million
women?
Louis: I guess they don't.
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