Civil War in the GOP/The Politics of Public Option

Could the tea party activists be the undoing of any Republican surge?
While seeming to breathe new life into the party, they're also waging war on some party-picked candidates. On the first half of Portside, Burt Cohen analyzes this turn of events with Lawrence Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance and the University of Minnesota.
And on part two, Burt delves into the politics of the public option discussion with Newsweek reporter Robert Parry, the investigative journalist who uncovered Oliver North's role in the Iran-Contra scandal.

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