Rachel's rant: We are not going to do that

We are not going to have a Supreme Court that will overturn Roe vs. Wade. There will be no more Antonin Scalias or Samuel Alitos added to this court.

We are not going to repeal health reform. Nobody is going to kill medicare, or make old people in this generation or any other generation fight it out on the open market to try to get themselves health insurance. We are not going to do that.

We are not going to give the 20 percent tax cut to millionaires and billionaires and expect programs like food stamps and kids health insurance to cover the cost of that tax cut.

We're not going to make you clear it with your boss if you want to get birth control under the insurance plan that you're on.

We are not going to redefine rape. We're not going to amend the U.S. Constitution to stop gay people from getting married.

We're not going to double Guantanamo.

We're not eliminating the Department of Energy or the Department of Education or Housing at the federal level.

We're not going to spend $2 trillion on the military that the military doesn't want.

We're not scaling back on student loans because the country's new plan is that you should borrow money from your parents.

We're not vetoing the Dream Act. We are not self deporting. We are not letting Detroit go bankrupt. We are not starting a trade war with China on Inauguration Day in January.

We're not going to have as a president, a man who once led a mob of friends to run down a scared gay kid to hold him down and forcibly cut his hair off with a pair of scissors while that kid cried and screamed for help. And there was no apology, not ever.

We're not going to have a Secretary of State John Bolton. We're not bringing Dick Cheney back. We're not going to have a foreign policy shop stocked with architects of the Iraq War. We're not going to do it.

We had the chance to do that if we wanted to do that as a country. And we said no. Last night. Loudly.

Rachel Maddow, 11/7/2012