this is cat nip for the media. i think in part because it involves something everybody hates which is traffic. actually i d say the local traffic reporter in new york city, she monitors the george washington bridge every day. and she reminds me, people don t notice when traffic is flow will smoothly but they always notice when traffic is snarled up, when they re stuck in an accident. that s true across the country. that s why this story resonates. i also think that there s something about this that reveals something about politician. we all sort of assume that politicians act this way, they re petty, vindictive. here are the e-mails to prove anytime this case. that s people are paying attention to this today. this is kind of thing you might see go on in politics. but truth be told, i can t actually remember a government official doing something like this. no. someone said today i read a tweet may have been you, somebody said this is worse than nixon and watergate. when you actual
they re petty, vindictive. here are the e-mails to prove anytime this case. that people are paying attention to this today. this is the kind of thing you might see go on in politics. but truth be told, i can t actually remember a government official doing something like this. no. someone said today i read a tweet may have been you, somebody said this is worse than nixon and watergate. when you actually think about this, it s pretty well out there. i m not sure i d go that far. here s what the argument was. the argument was that in terms of the actual crime, to actually shut down effectively traffic around the busiest bridge in america, putting all those people at risk, putting people expecting emergency services, that is pretty damn serious. so i didn t think the analogy was as ridiculous as you all do. here s the thing. it s not as big of a crime perhaps. but what it does speak to isn t it? if it turns out people what if it turns out that this 91-year-old woman who die
smoothly but they always notice when traffic is snarled up, across the country it is true. that is why this story resonates. i also think that there s something about this that reveals something about politician. we all sort of assume that politicians act this way, they re petty, vindictive. here are the e-mails to prove anytime this case. that people are paying attention to this today. this is the kind of thing you might see go on in politics. but truth be told, i can t actually remember a government official doing something like this. no. someone said today i read a tweet may have been you, somebody said this is worse than nixon and watergate. when you actually think about this, it s pretty well out there. i m not sure i d go that far. here s what the argument was. the argument was that in terms of the actual crime, to actually shut down effectively traffic around the busiest bridge in america, putting all those people at risk, putting people expecting emergency services,
but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don t keep. maybe they intend to keep some of them. maybe they don t. politifact.com tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he s kept 37% of those promises. he s working on 23% of them. he s broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn t kept. some of those broken promises can be blamed on congress. they are stalled because your lawmakers won t do a thing about them. i have spent the last few months blaming congress for things, but it s not congress who is going to stand in the way of romney s ridiculous promise. it s the state of the u.s. economy. 12 million jobs over four years, that s what romney is promising. that s 3 million jobs a year or an average of 250,000 jobs per month every month for an entire presidency. i