argument. language, however, matters. and when you hyphenate yourselves as americans, what you don t focus on is the fact that we re people, we re human, we re american. the left uses the hyphenation to separate you. and if nothing else, fight back at the language itself and take it for what it really is, intellectually to your point. carol? what bothers me about it is that jesse jackson that said we would henceforth be african-americans. he moved us from blacks. that s why i rejected it. you re agreeing with that. sean, i look forward to the time and day when whether it is black american or african-american, we completely get away from hyphenated americans. if we are going to be we are americans period. we are going to make the transition the way we need to. and america come to this revolution of our constitutional boundaries and come together as a country moving forward, we have to start seeing ourselves as americans. owe don t go to french and see black french or brown ita
permanent political class in washington, d.c. in all of the agencies as well as this administration. this is just another example, but i wanted to caution people, don t focus on that. i m glad they are investigating it. it s part of the distraction politics so we don t focus on the targeting which should be the real issue. neil: absolutely. by the way, these kinds of videos a lot of government agencies, dating back to the gsa have done the the same thing. if they are so busy doing that, or some of them are, you can understand why a few rogue agents can do stuff. we are led to believe certainly more than a rogue agents. it s up to 80 or 90 by last counted. where is it going? it s turning out they are not rogue. not at all. where this is all going relative to the irs is exposing their own little private big brother to the
we will remain focus. again, we have to lift up the american people. there s a lot of people hurting and you know it. they want to know that they are getting jobs, infrastructure is being improved, children are going to have good school. they are able to send them to college and get health care. those are the things that they are most concerned about. now, there s been no one attacked more than attorney eric holder. and listen to what he said to nbc s pete williams about the attacks from the right. large parts of the criticism that you get in washington, d.c., is partisan in nature. it s gotcha in nature and i m 4 1/2 years into this job with pretty thick skin so that stuff i don t focus on. is your skin getting thicker? i m probably in the guinness book of world records for thickest skin at this point. but to be clear, you re not stepping down now? no, i have no intention of doing so now. his skin is getting thicker and he s not stepping down,
basically, like republicans denying science, you know have democrats denying math and talking about more tax increases and plays into a type that helps republicans. let me phrase that differently. each party that its reason to exist. if we didn t have the democratic party, we wouldn t have social security, medicare and medicaid. the republican party is into debt reduction, law & order in the old days, defense. democrats really don t focus on that. that s not the reason they get elected. nobody runs for office as a democrat saying i want to run for office to reduce the national debt. they have to share things. i think they can work together. the republican party has to do enforcement and say, we will make sure no more people will come hopping across the border next week. wilt stop. everybody will get papered, all on the books, straight up. no more this game of who can get
what is it that the republican party has done that has made that party so attractive to white working class voters? it s funny. because ironically, our former colleague, pat buchanan, who made me think more about this in a couple of different way webs pat wrote this memo called dividing democrat in 1971. he advised nixon, don t focus on what unites republicans, focus on things that divide democrats. essentially his message was, make the white working class think the government is all about black people and make black people think that the democratic party has abandoned has basically still all about white people and is not moving fast enough. now this wouldn t have worked if there wasn t already tension and if white working class people weren t already worried that government doing more for minorities than for them. so pat stoked that racial fear and resentment. the genius of regan was couching