of relief from the white house. chance to turn the page. incredible respect in the administration and even amongst republicans. that is a good pick, burwell, because a lot of talk about if sebelius stepped down, did they want a confirmation fight. sylvia burwell solves that problem as much as anyone can. so there is alikeness about it. and also you saw in the president today more spring in his step, more passion than we ve seen i wouldn t say in a long time, but certainly not totally usual. and i think this has been a good week for him politically, it s shrewd step for the white house. ezra, you have a headline that says kathleen sebelius is
very little good will up on capitol hill, whether it s on the right or on the left. and there s not a whole lot of good will for holder in the public. usually you have to have one of those who hang on and he doesn t have any of it. i think that is a big problem. very little good will for the president or for holder? right or left, too. you have huffington post and folks from the conservative side of things, too. barometer for an attorney general. from janet reno, ashcroft. has become a distraction for the president s agenda. not as a confirmation fight for the fight has been. working in the white house, if and when he has to replace an attorney general, that s going to be armageddon and an enormous distraction, frankly bigger than this e. i don t think the attorney general has particularly handled the press aspect of his job well. but i don t think it s in the president s interest to lose him. going to give you the last word here. i think that, you know, even i agree with
very little good will up on capitol hill, whether it s on the right or on the left. and there s not a whole lot of good will for holder in the public. usually you have to have one of those who hang on and he doesn t have any of it. i think that is a big problem. very little good will for the president or for holder? for holder. right or left, too you have huffington post and folks from the conservative side of things, too. barometer for an attorney general. from janet reno, ashcroft. has become a distraction for the president s agenda. not as a confirmation fight for the fight has been. working in the white house, if and when he has to replace an attorney general, that s going to be armageddon and an enormous distraction, frankly bigger than this one. i don t think the attorney general has particularly handled the press aspect of his job well. but i don t think it s in the president s interest to lose him. going to give you the last word here. i think that, you know, even
in texas and south carolina is president obama s pick for labor secretary. one republican is already promising a confirmation fight. tom perez is labor secretary he heads the justice department civil rights division. louisiana senator david vittert said today he will block the nomination because of how the department enforce its state s voting rights laws. he he claims the feds were more interested in registering welfare recipients than removing ineligible voters from the roles. white house says he is enormously qualified be labor secretary. a week after judge shot down plans to control sugary soda sizes. today the mayor announced a proposal that would require stores to keep all toe tobacco products out of sight. it s reportedly an attempt to cut underaged smoking and tobacco use. business owners would have to keep all of it in a drawer or something or under the counter, behind a curtain. no other city or state has such law although canada
confirmation fight. i think the issue of trance pardonsy. i think in a way they have created this problem for themselves because they did not lift the veil for the people on the committee on how to use drones. we were wrong and we need to be transparent about it to people we trust in the congress. we are going to start to see, ron white a democrat from arkansas who joined it. what happens in a second administration is the high water mark is right now the coalition on the left and on the right it begins to fray. having dinner with republicans for the first time in a couple of years.