the rationale for this and it better be a good reason. if you don t have a good reason, we re going to strike it down. what we ve said is that same-sex couples are a group, a class that deserves heightened scrutiny that the supreme court needs to ask the state why it s doing it and if the state doesn t have a good reason, it should be struck down. that s the core principle, as applied to this case. now, what the court may decide if it doesn t apply in this case, it probably can t apply in any case. there s no good reason for it. that s, if i were on the court, that would probably be the view that i put forward. but i m not a judge, i m the president. so, the basic principle is, let s treat everybody fairly. let s treat everybody equal. and i think that the brief that s been presented accurately
cuts, it seems to me he s going to feel it s incumbent on him to rectify it as far as he can. otherwise he s being derelict in his duty as president. he can t let an aircraft carrier rust to pieces or something like that. he is going to have to fix it up. i would say, john, your client has an interesting analysis in today s washington post. neither side, i mean, the white house has sort of been offered some more power in terms of determining how bad or where these cuts hit. and they don t want to take that power. the white house doesn t want the sequester to be easier to live with. the point of these poorly constructed spending cuts in the white house s view is that they re hard to live with and that forces both sides to compromise. i think what we re seeing here is that both sides would rather go ahead than we would immediately. the republicans it serves the purpose, look, we re doing something. we came to washington it cut
role in the mormon church. he already has that, right? you could imagine him in an institutional role, but never idelogically public space for him. i could see him coming back as treasury secretary. i mean, kerry, everybody wrote kerry off in 2004 and secretary of state. odd thing about romney. almost al gore, kerry, when you lose as president the routine is to go on the late show and come back in a comedy format. and i guess for some reason romney went with this incredibly boring interview on fox. what is funny, just the suggestion of mitt romney in a comedy format is enough to make everybody on this set chuckle. it is hard to be a leader when you can t even get a table at a restaurant. we don t have time to play the sound, but chris wallace said they waited in line for a table. i can see him clutching the cheesecake factory pager. that was the thing you always liked about him. it s enduearing.
resolution to continue the operation of the government and can you not sign that? that could be the next sort of inflection point. i wonder, john, there s a lot of talk about the entitlement programs. the president mentioned them today at the press conference. i thought this was really interesting. politico quotes a senior gop congressman who says this notion that republicans are eager to reform entitlements, folks, democrats have it all wrong. republicans would love to avoid the issue politically, it is the third rail of american politics. still, goes on to cite a survey of tea partiers. 85% of whom do not believe their social security or medicare i think that s another reason why people prefer the sequester. you don t have to touch entitlements. touch defense and everything else. intitemments leave it alone. this will go on all summer and get through the continuing resolution thing and the real debate will come when the debt
down the government and finally here we re doing it. for obama, i think it s a political plus here. you just saw this morning. john boehner looking like an angry man standing outside the white house. says one sentence, i m out of here. obama comes down, i m a reasonable man and i m open to any suggestions but these guys won t talk to me. i think the white house is winning on this and they won on the fiscal cliff, let s keep it running for a while. it really tanks the economy, but that s not a serious danger. only a quarter of a percent of gdp. or that the public goes crazy and says that you re the president. that s where the republicans are hoping but it will take a week or two. weeks. it s unclear when the public will weigh in with its sort of opinion on this, right? the president says it is not now, it may not be next week, it may not be the following week, it may not even be this month, but at some point. and the white house in some ways, i think the president came out last mond