borderline states. it frees them from the vote in a state where west virginia, for instance, you ll have whoever the democratic unit is for any race would be tied to the radical decisions of the obama white house. but i also think there might be a second calculation here quickly that s worth pointing out. tied in with rules reform and the senate. and basically this. obama s epa administrator is facing the potential of filibuster of republicans in the senate. obama also nominated three judges for the appeals court. also facing potential filibuster for republicans in the senate. it s the epa administrator who would have to impose all these new rules obama would be imposing. if there s litigation it will go to the d.c. circuit court of appeals. he s picking a fight over rules reform that could get in place in epa administrator that imposed the rules and judges who would upholded rules in court. all the while worrying about what the dial testing in the state i love this. i mean, the
do. paired with the speech of the brandenburg gate today. as soon as next week we should expect a page her presidential address announcing new policy on the issue of climate change. none of these new policy efforts will require any money from congress or any legislative action from congress. this is the president acting on his own. the president, we are told will be acting directly despite what he was telling everybody privately about his worries about the dial testing. how does president obama weigh the strategy here? and are there lessons from how previous presidents have dealt with strategic dilemmas like this, that may be informing what he is about to do? joining me now is steve kornacki. he s a senior writer at salon. thanks for being here. happy to be here. are there historical parallels for other presidents consideration decisions like this? i think the biggest thing to keep in mind is, it s the second term, not the first term. there are political calculations here because
apparently what he intends to do. paired with the speech of the brandenburg gate today. as soon as next week we should expect a page her presidential address announcing new policy on the issue of climate change. none of these new policy efforts will require any money from congress or any legislative action from congress. this is the president acting on his own. the president, we are told will be acting directly despite what he was telling everybody privately about his worries about the dial testing. how does president obama weigh the strategy here? and are there lessons from how previous presidents have dealt with strategic dilemmas like this, that may be informing what he is about to do? joining me now is steve kornacki. he s a senior writer at salon. thanks for being here. happy to be here. are there historical parallels for other presidents consideration decisions like this? i think the biggest thing to keep in mind is, it s the second term, not the first term. there are polit
the issue of climate change. none of these new policy efforts will require any money from congress or any legislative action from congress. this is the president acting on his own. the president, we are told will be acting directly despite what he was telling everybody privately about his worries about the dial testing. how does president obama weigh the strategy here? and are there lessons from how previous presidents have dealt with strategic dilemmas like this, that may be informing what he is about to do? joining me now is steve kornacki. he s a senior writer at salon. thanks for being here. happy to be here. are there historical parallels for other presidents consideration decisions like this? i think the biggest thing to keep in mind is, it s the second term, not the first term. there are political calculations here because he s the head of the democratic party many the party, there s a certain amount of any political decision he makes, any policy decision he makes will a
political pain involved. saying that dial testing of his state of the union speech showed that the favorability ratings plummeted when he vowed to act on climate change if congress refused to do so. interesting that dial testing would show people not liking the idea of the president saying he would act on this if congress didn t. but even more interesting that president obama is telling his donors that at fund-raisers when he s explaining to them what s going to happen in the second term. behind closed doors, president obama acknowledging that acting alone on this issue because congress won t carries with it a certain amount of political risk. acting alone even with that acknowledged political risk. one that s on his mind that he s talking about in unscripted moments, even with that, it is apparently what he intends to do. paired with the speech of the brandenburg gate today. as soon as next week we should expect a page her presidential address announcing new policy on