would you disagree that those facets of the law might be good? they might be good, yes, i do perhaps. the acts have fallen on this country and it s all bad. it s ridiculous. no such thing as a free lunch. i agree completely. it s not easy. you try to pass health care reform. as annie pointed out, part of the difficulty is who is going to defend and articulate and explain? is only the president can do that. he has this thing on his plate called syria. how does he switch gears? this has been going on for a while and i do agree. he landed at jfk. we agree about the sign up deals. the controls with the president said it will. he won t need style points. the scariest number in the poll that flashed up a while ago, no
good morning. it s 8:00 on the east coast and 5:00 on the west coast. keep the windows open and don t go to work. your boss will understand, right? that said, mark halprin and in washington, annie lawry. good to have ow board this morning. let s get to the news, shall we? president obama will deliver remarks from the rose garden, mag the five-year anniversary of the financial crisis. he is expected to highlight gapes in housing and jobs while the economy is still recovering for the great recession. former u.s. treasury secretary larry summers has with drawn his name for consideration for the federal reserve. we will continue in a second, but he feels that the white house left him out hangi ining
having an enemies list harkens back to a dark page in our past. and the arrogance of power that we ve seen from those involved in this instant is deeply, deeply disconcerting. annie is a reporter covering this. the parallels, you know, some of them are fair given what we re looking at here. yeah. absolutely. and it s worse knowing that the i.g. report coming out today. this is very, have vanilla, plain, bad behavior. the same thing we ve seen before with other government departments, but it s kind of piling on, right? and i think there s a real sense that congress at this point could do something to irs funding. or, you know, they have enormous latitude and kind of punishing the irs and changing the rules of the road given that there s so much concern over it. and i think it s probably worse pointing out that this would play pretty well with voters. people already don t like the irs.
could be bipartisan. i think he s going to walk a careful line in selecting somebody who is not going to alienate his own party. but also going to leave these options open to him because they re going to be important in the future. i hear the democrats, annie, have been pouring money into his race. and democrats that hardly ever give money. that s so yeah, absolutely. he has a fairly unique ability to raise money across party lines. and he s already proven this. and that s going to be something very important going forward. and herein lies one of the great ironies of my party. there are a lot of people in my party that see it as a weakness, that chris christie can get votes from people in the other party and money from people in the other party. silly me, i thought it was the idea. you steal votes from your enemy, you steal money from your enemy. you want all the votes, you want all the money and you want
neighborhood, it becomes much more politically dangerous. absolutely. and another place where you re seeing this is yesterday, a national federation of states said that local governments are going to lay off maybe 500,000 public employees. and we re talking police officers and teachers and firefighters. and, you know, it s again because of congressional inaction. so, you know, joblessness is so spread throughout the economy and is such a present problem and like you mentioned, with five job seekers looking for every job and in states like michigan and nevada, something like 10 or 20 job seekers looking for every job, it s hard to describe these people as lazy, spoiled, you know, people on the dole. annie lawry, reporter for the washington independent, thank you so much for joining us tonight. thank you for having me. wouldn t it be nice if president obama appointed medicine to head the new financial bureau of protection that was actually interested in protecting finances? lik