they are different than you and me. that s my great gatsby conclusion, the dow is recovering from yesterday, s&p climbing .37%. nasdaq.69%. frankly, fits, it s an easy conclusion to reach. because two months ago we introduced the great gatsby here on mad money like he would be anywhere else. guess what? it s killing the s&p, killing, i ll give you an almost double return for that venerablet index, extraordinary out performance that says a tonne about this market and perhaps where it s going. first, the backtrack. we know that for all the back and forth drag about how strong ore weak the consumer is, most people in this country, they are still hurting. boo! they struggle to buy home, they don t have the credit score to get a home. they worry about jobs. we don t have big commercial real estate programs going on. small business the principle generator of new hiring, nowhere. these people have a hard time getting loans to start businesses because their credit ratings aren
holder s off the cuff offensive. legal export alan dershowitz is about to join us on the irs and holder scandals. and president obama s chief promise of obamacare, if you like the plan, you can keep it. guess what, you might not be able to keep it with estimates as many as 35 million of your fellow americans. all those stories and more coming up in the kudlow report beginning right now. first up tonight, at least two more congressional hears on the irs conservative target scandals are on the books for next week. we are still learning how connected the irs was with the front office when the controversy began. it turns out, the former irs commissioner doug schulman went to the white house at least 157 times during the obama administration. is more than twice as much as any other obama cabinet member. now, take a listen to his explanation at a house oversight committee hearing last week. what would be some of the reasons you might be at the white house? the easter egg roll
a good one. the economy is improving, and stocks continue to rally. the spending cut sequester is working as pro growth. republicans get it. and here s another one, according to one prominent insider. get this. ben bernanke may be reappointed fed chairman, after all. all those stories and more coming up on the kudlow report, starting right now. trying to divert attention from all his washington scandals, president obama again joined chris christie on the jersey shore today, seven months after hurricane sandy wreaked havoc on the region. but it won t work, mr. president. here s a note to my fellow conservatives. still bitter over christie working with the president to save new jersey just days before the november election. all right. here s my point. if governor christie wins big in new jersey, as i believe he will, he s going to cut taxes by 10%, he s going to pinch union benefits even more. he s a pro-growth republican in a blue state. that can give the gop a much-needed
trying to expedite a way to you still don t know that this was political? excuse me? you still don t know that this was political some. i defer to the inspector general. i ll tell you this, mr. shulman your predecessor said he wasn t sure if it was partisan and that requires the listener to be as stupid as the speaker. south carolina congressman grilling former commissioner doug schulman why he could not explain the agency s motivation in targeting conservative groups conservative groups i should say. it was an interesting moment, judy n front of congress this week. are the media taking it seriously? i think the media are taking it seriously, because this is part of a trifecta of scandals and one of the three legs involves us and that s why. however, i think we have to i have to point out that just because she took the fifth amendment, that does not mean that she s guilty of anything. and i realize ta people a lot
0 fundamental questions about what this justice department is up to are raised by this kind of a search warrant, not only against james rosen but also against the ap. and the fact that eric holder doesn t remember how many of these warrants he signed, how many he turned back, for modification as he called them, but that the president continues to maintain confidence in him, raises a lot of questions. well, rick, we re also getting word that guy assigned to sort of investigate these issues within the justice department, is the head of the justice department, eric holder is going to be investigating himself. what s been the reaction to that in the media? well, the whole story has been kind of poo-poo it from the beginning. this is not the obama administration going after leakers. they re going after leakers who make the obama administration look bad. you cannot compare the fact of james rosen and say david sanger at the new york times. david sanger has been getting intel from someo