the constitutional process, to look at capacity, look at leadership and where we want to go. nothing is harmed by a process that is constitutional, approved within the constitution, and begins the process. you know, there has been no temperate attitude on the part of this president from the beginning. there has been no change in direction. what happened yesterday with this talk and continuing the same policy in afghanistan for the last 16 years with no involvement by congress about how large that footprint should be in afghanistan or any war effort, i think we continue that same pattern. but as you ll see tonight, an opportunity to rise above it is afforded to it. i don t think he ll take advantage of it. raul grijalva, good to see you, thanks for your time. thank you. explainer in chief. vice president mike pence making the rounds this morning to champion the president s new plan for afghanistan. the president made a commitment that we re going to
arrival of the iphone, the android, the kindle have set the stage for the rise of populist politicians around the globe and the 2016 election of donald trump? the nation s explainer-in-chief, thomas friedman, new york times foreign affairs columnist who gave us the world is flat. he has a new bestseller thank you for being late, an optimist s guide in the age what s the significance of you listening to brandy carlisle and talking about hurricanes? my book is about the world being reshaped by three giant accelerations in what i call the market, mother nature and law. the market is digital globalization. if you put it on a graph, it looks like a hockey stick. mother nature is climate change and population.
one of the things one of the mistakes democrats have made in the course of this law is not communicating well enough what its benefits might be. and you saw president obama even today struggling to or starting to try to, with the explainer-in-chief, quote, unquote, what this health care law would do. and by letting cruz go unanswered on the senate floor, giving republicans another opportunity to explain to people why they think this law is a good idea, without actually answering those criticisms. casey, i was looking today at what needs to happen in order to keep the government funded, keep the government going. it seems to me like it s kind of a choose your own adventure book, where you get to the end of each little individual mini chapter, right, and you ve got a choice to make, a decision to make, something needs to happen at the end of each one of those chapters. and in about 99 out of 100 cases, we end up with a government shut down. there is this one very narrow path of all
his allies, people like mike lee, some expected republicans jumping up there. that presumably gives senator cruz a little time to rest. we re also now seeing some democratic senators get up and address what they see as the substantive positives of obamacare and why he s wrong. every time that happens, does that essentially elongate what s going on here, because it gives him a chance to rest his feet? in some ways it gives him a chance to rest his feet. but we ve heard that, you know, he was going to plan to be on the floor for potentially up to 20 hours. they ve not given us a commitment one way or the other. so i think what you might be seeing is democrats kind of coming up and trying to take a little bit of the limelight away. one of the things one of the mistakes democrats have made in the course of this law is not communicating well enough what its benefits might be. and you saw president obama even today struggling to or starting to try to, with the explainer-in-chief, quote
what s in your wallet? alec jr? it was a gift. it s time now for the big three. today s topics, advantage obama? explainer-in-chief. and this week s must-reads. my big 3 panel, hogan giddily. former senior adviser to the hillary clinton for president campaign, doug hadway. president of hadway communications. real clear politics reporter erin mcpike. hogan, i ll begin with you. as i want to read something from an article in this weekend s politico which quotes, the romney campaign while pleasantly surprised by obama s lackluster prime time performance says the post convention bounce they hoped for fell well short of expect tass and privately lament state by state polling numbers most glaringly in ohio are