to contradicted that interpretation of what happened on the ground. that s the critical point politically right now. does that go anywhere? maybe only if the president nominates susan rice because clearly republicans want to litigate this in the broader pout of whether the government led by president mislead their foreign policy record. i think there s something else going on. i believe that senator mccain senator graham, what they re ultimately really concerned about is how the united states wants to use its power in the middle east now this this post-afghanistan/iraq world. what they have a real problem is is the idea of a light american footprint in this part of the world when there s still terror elements out there. a footprint that doesn t have its act completely together with regard to protection of any kind of u.s. installation. was there a breakdown in communication or asset allocation between the defense department, state department,
religious institutions, of all the things that we old dear. i ll just say, i was i was made uncomfortable by the column. a lot of republicans were energized by it and thought, this is part of our comeback. no, no, it s horrible. just say, you know, we only lost because the other side sucks. that s what you can break it down to. any republican embracing this is sticking their head in the sand. again, ross, maybe he has good points. maybe he and bill bennett, you you know, bill bennett talked about this in in 93 but never said we republicans are losing because we re definie ining dev i did down. even if you think that analysa analysis is correct, you ve got to say here s what your party is looking at. it sounded discorded with what he usually does. i ll just say that one of the demographic points that some smart republicans have been making recently is that the
in this. some republicans passed on buying the right technology and in part because if you don t have the white house there s a senate committee, house committee, presidential campaigns. they did not have the money to make the investment in leadership early and and paid a huge price for it and there s still a chance they won t be able to catch up in two years or four years unless they get better organization than they have now. michael len, thank you very much. have a great week. may yojor shake-up in the b fighting irish stunning upsets to the top two teams in the nation. this is huge. and all the weekend s nfl action with nbc s mike fluoro. we ll be right back. into their work,
realistic look at their party. they need to rethink policies. i talked to labrador who is a very smart congressman, very conservative, tea party backed, who believes that a lot of this is just nonsense and they ve got to really take another look at what where they re going. he s interested in tax increases if the revenue is matched, you know, with he said he would have voted for he would have raised his hand in that debate with the 10-1 offer early on in the primary season. you ve got to get those spending cuts locked in. that s what they re talking about. you guys were talking about the way they re negotiating. they re negotiating something that at least even if it s postponed, is locked in. that s where the republican haass party has to go. right. and by the way, if society is breaking down and it s costing republicans, why are 60% of the governors in america republican? why is it that the majority of state senators in america are republican? why is it that the majority of stat
try to get there. whether that s in december or whether that s in the spring. you know, the notion as mark suggested that we might there might be a t.a.r.p. like environment where we do go over the cliff, the cliff, whatever that means, exactly, but we don t hit the first set of deadlines. something doesn t pass the first time, but then eventually some of the members of both sides are brought to heal by the prospect of the real not just the pending doom but doom actually present in their laps for a second. that seems like a possible scenario to me. i do think there still is, despite all sharp rhetoric, i still think on the republican side, which is so critical, this notion of the other thing you heard throughout all of the commentary for the last week and over the weekend is that the implications of the election still are is sinking in. republicans still you see with this continued criticism of romney s comments and so on. that s still setting? all right. you mentioned be